asciilifeform: which shows which locations on the mainboard are RAMs and therefore should be used for target practice
asciilifeform: funnily, the instrument (a 'rigol ds1102d') has a 'declassification guide' chapter in manual
asciilifeform: (yes, i know, they're almost certainly in the $10K american gizmo that my unit is a chinese copy of.)
asciilifeform: surely somebody makes solid-state relays that don't attenuate 100Mhz.
asciilifeform: so, got me first digital scope. a bit pissed that it has... moving parts. (fan, and, more outrageously, relays!)
asciilifeform: benkay: i thought that's what btc 'testnet' was for.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you recall, i found you in the first place because of a letter from mpoepr. she was never anything other than impeccably polite to me.
asciilifeform: hdbuck: what prevents anyone from having whatever in btc?
asciilifeform: for some reason i thought that the slow cooling of the 5k background hum was already 'smoking gun.'
asciilifeform: even though he will not turn the cranks by hand.
asciilifeform: a master machinist eats very well even today.
asciilifeform: the result was, apparently, in the words of those living then, 'production of scrap metal at very high speeds.'
asciilifeform: historical note. when CNC machining was new, various business folks had delusions that they could be rid of the need to hire machinists.
asciilifeform: very few of the grads know anything but the most surface treatment of why the sim works the way it does
asciilifeform: e.g. electrical engineering, at today's universities, largely consists of learning to crank CAD and sims like SPICE.
asciilifeform: people far from engineering would be astounded at how much of every widget is already designed 'automatically,' for any reasonable sense of the word.
asciilifeform: grunts who are actually sent out in the field are usually more muscular-looking.
asciilifeform: they're probably 'desk flyers', though
asciilifeform: they look like ordinary 'office plankton'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's so special about those?
asciilifeform: any cargo is hazardous if the fellow with the remote control (usg) would rather that it not reach destination.
asciilifeform: who has a link (crackpot or otherwise) to the 'fifty reserved seats' thing?
asciilifeform: never knew a pro clown either, perhaps to my detriment
asciilifeform: (i personally don't know anyone who does this particular thing, so i can only guess)
asciilifeform: just the theory, there might be folks who haven't the courage, but different matter when in the wolf suit.
asciilifeform: i sorta wonder if the animal costumes are an anonymity thing
asciilifeform: although some of his proposals are popular in russia. e.g., re-conquest of the baltics to use as nuke waste storage.
asciilifeform: fellow's a pro clown, for those who didn't know.
asciilifeform: damn it, i leave for just one day to hang out with humans in person, and miss all this good shit.
asciilifeform: old, old world. nobody switched off the 20th c.
asciilifeform: to them, cake is this special confection that emerges from the fuhrer's arse.
asciilifeform: well, most of the folks at the table never smelled actual cake
asciilifeform: and woe be unto any who won't delight in the chocolate flavour.
asciilifeform: nah, the way it works is, he 'shits cake', and everybody eats at gunpoint.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for the notion to form that any one of those paragraphs is something he can << past presidents have signed nearly identical proclamations, and they were enforced.
