asciilifeform: (as in simulated annealing)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was it you who had a piece about 'temperature' ?

asciilifeform: 20a of what?

asciilifeform: all that space, wasted

asciilifeform: my mind always boggles when i visit somebody's gigantic house and there's no heavy, oily strange in the basement

asciilifeform: yeah that's where it ought to go. at any rate, probably not happening in a 30m^2 flat.

asciilifeform: (and i'd probably fall through my floor...)

asciilifeform: takes up a good bit of space though.

asciilifeform: stack of old tires, pour 'quickcrete'.

asciilifeform: that's actually pretty close to the traditional recipe:

asciilifeform: long exposure times, little tolerance for vibration.

asciilifeform: needs a heavy table

asciilifeform: holography specifically

asciilifeform: right

asciilifeform: 1 of these days i too will purchase an enormous stone plinth. always wanted one, holography table

asciilifeform: i imagine it would. in japan they like the 'click' of the wood though.

asciilifeform: all i personally have is a very thoroughly weathered (from abuse as a student) magnetic board.

asciilifeform: (nitpick - traditional stones aren't glass - seashell and slate.)

asciilifeform: (the stones, traditionally, are glass and very slippery. so surface gotta be level.)

asciilifeform: it's surprisingly hard to find a breed of wood that comes in the requisite monolithic piece and never - ever - warps.

asciilifeform: yes. there's some of those in the linked shop

asciilifeform: more like 1k. i think it was old (100+ yrs.) and refinished at least once, after ww2 if i recall.

asciilifeform: my brother. he didn't pay 100k though

asciilifeform: i actually know someone who owns a board like that.

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: http://shop.gogameguru.com/kaya-go-board-86/

asciilifeform: haha neat

asciilifeform: as a matter of fact i do.

asciilifeform: (i once took a great interest in the subject of head-mounted displays)

asciilifeform: there were, if i recall, others.

asciilifeform: (ok not quite. but close - http://www.kopin.com/offerings/products/ruggedized-display-products#sxga-lbc)

asciilifeform: just not at 'human' prices.

asciilifeform: kopin corp. had microdisplays with ~1600x1200 in fingernail sized element, for ages

asciilifeform: the 'hard part' of this kind of display is - driving it

asciilifeform: transistors have packed to far greater densities, far earlier

asciilifeform: this is only 2x the density of the 'nexus 10' widget i read djvus with.

asciilifeform: now we need 24 in of that.

asciilifeform: (gonna guess: a head-mounted lcd)

asciilifeform: diametric: ?

asciilifeform: puzzle for us all?

asciilifeform: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/16/us-usa-new-york-collapse-idUSBREA2F0IU20140316

asciilifeform: but ianafi (i am not a fire inspector)...

asciilifeform: given how it was an almost surgical demolition job of most of a block, probably a basement leak

asciilifeform: http://www.trbimg.com/img-53211025/turbine/la-apphoto-aptopix-nyc-explosion2-jpg-20140312/600

asciilifeform: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/businesses-closed-week-explosion-article-1.1729672

asciilifeform: speaking of which,

asciilifeform: this is quite like the one i saw.

asciilifeform: http://forbiddenhillcrest.tumblr.com/post/4322296903/the-sewer-robots-of-pulaski-county

asciilifeform: ok found it:

asciilifeform: ?

asciilifeform: your heart, liver, corneas have a valuation. ask the chinese. anybody paid yet/

asciilifeform: i saw a much simpler (cable-driven) version of this being used right here on my street.

asciilifeform: etc

asciilifeform: http://www.inspector-systems.com/makro_plus.html

asciilifeform: http://www.oobject.com/category/super-sewer-robots/

asciilifeform looks for and fails to find the old article on robotic rats used to run wire through sewer pipes

asciilifeform: (i know of no real life 'gas modem' but folks have proposed using gas, water, even sewer pipes for 'last mile' ip so be careful what you wish for)

asciilifeform: i had a dream as a kid where me modem (old at&t 'paragon' fished from a skip) was a gas modem, and i forgot to turn off the gas

asciilifeform: everyone with a net connection, including Pashtuns using steam modems with ip-over-dead-goat have, at this point, 'had bad experience with startups.'

asciilifeform: ninjashogun walks into 'alcoholics anonymous' with a jug of moonshine. 'perhaps people here may benefit from a bit more experience with this!'

asciilifeform: but then come the 'ideas'

asciilifeform: i, personally, have nothing against paupers who live in $100, or even $10 ditches, and cannot finance anything

asciilifeform: it tends to end up unplugged and in a parts bin

asciilifeform: household example would be a smoke alarm that goes off every time you overcook a potato

asciilifeform: than nothing at all

asciilifeform: in safety engineering, there is a concept where precautions that annoy people and get in the way of work tend to make construction workers, oil prospectors, etc. worse off

asciilifeform: decimation: that's the most charitable explanation.

asciilifeform: ninjashogun: i am sad to say that you appear to have learned nothing from our conversation.

asciilifeform: http://thewhet.net/2012/shall-be-delivered

asciilifeform: obligatory:

asciilifeform: just as diamonds, pistols, nukes, are lost and stolen

asciilifeform: certainly

asciilifeform: (drop overboard)

asciilifeform: 19th c. codebooks came with anchors.

asciilifeform: zeroize key is as old as time.

asciilifeform: so the effort would be wasted.

asciilifeform: likewise, if i applied some magical seal (assume one exists) the buyer is unable to dissect his unit without losing it

asciilifeform: as discussed in mp's essay

asciilifeform: the only seal that is worth anything at all is a custom, preferably invisible one (e.g. perfume, specks of dust) applied by the owner.

asciilifeform: decimation: owner is free to apply his own seals.

asciilifeform: benkay is correct.

asciilifeform: in my earlier conversation with ninjashogun, i tried to explain the concept of only solving technical problems that can be solved -well-.

asciilifeform: benkay: it wouldn't, clearly. this is lunacy.

asciilifeform: 'steering wheel spike' is a thought experiment, not a business plan.

asciilifeform: ;;google project eldest son

asciilifeform: before you laugh, the americans actually did this to the vietnamese on a few occasions

asciilifeform: let's say that you own a pistol. it gets stolen and replaced without your knowledge for one that: shoots backwards.

asciilifeform: decimation: correct. i'm glad somebody gets this

asciilifeform: in the event of loss

asciilifeform: it is absolutely crucial that a cardano owner fully understand the gravity of his situation

asciilifeform: that is approximately what i said, yes.

asciilifeform: and answered something like, 'if you mean a $300 small laptop, we don't know how to make one that isn't a piece of shit.'

asciilifeform: ninjashogun: steve jobs was famously asked, some time in '07, why he won't sell a 'netbook'

asciilifeform: ninjashogun: care to explain?

asciilifeform: hi ninjashogun

asciilifeform: always neglected is the question of wtf means 'earned.' i.e. the fellow who faithfully sits through traffic and warms a chair for 8hr/day moving paper from one pile to another, in the popular imagination, 'earns' something.

asciilifeform: fingers have will of their own.

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: perhaps if cray were alive, you could buy 'fpga' the size of a billboard...

asciilifeform: (x86-64)