asciilifeform: it felt great

asciilifeform: 'libretto' keyboard was even smaller than the 'eeepc' one, but i could type on it blind

asciilifeform: ordered one back in the day, never came. a year later they gave the money back.

asciilifeform: damn thing is a piece of garbage

asciilifeform: bought 'eeepc' to replace dead 'libretto', regretted.

asciilifeform: same size/shape/weight as half a brick.

asciilifeform: the 'real' librettos had 'pentium I'

asciilifeform: that was later.

asciilifeform: transmeta?

asciilifeform: you can feel it blindfolded.

asciilifeform: but what a difference in quality

asciilifeform: same size & shape as modern 'netbooks'

asciilifeform: toshiba 'libretto' laptop, circa 1997

asciilifeform: good example from (relatively) recent times

asciilifeform: rare bird, this.

asciilifeform: my apt. has a 1970s (possibly earlier) american fridge

asciilifeform: the soviet 'ZIL' fridge that my folks & i left behind in '92 is almost certainly still running, somewhere.

asciilifeform: it's more like, an analog scope with a display with response time measured in ms is a sad joke.

asciilifeform: that, for instance.

asciilifeform: esp. in exchange for the turd that passes for the typical lcd.

asciilifeform: many people have 'pro'-grade crts that they see no reason to part with.

asciilifeform: quite a few people.

asciilifeform: of pig-headed idiocy.

asciilifeform: so this is how the u.s. tv industry died.

asciilifeform: mass of the tv tube goes up roughly with the cube of length

asciilifeform: (of known charge, that is, 1 electron)

asciilifeform: given as deflection, in a particular magnetic field, is proportional to velocity.

asciilifeform: to make shorter (lighter) tubes.

asciilifeform: you need relativistic electrons to get the wide deflection angle

asciilifeform: because they taught SR to engineers

asciilifeform: the first crt tv sets that weren't 'pieces of furniture' were japanese. why?

asciilifeform: nubbins`: it had practical applications long before gps.

asciilifeform: and how this was imposed from above by bureaucrats.

asciilifeform: linked piece describes how the high-end mills are made deliberately difficult to modify (a la 'drm')

asciilifeform: less than thermal background, when seen at the receiver.

asciilifeform: (at least, the public signal doesn't)

asciilifeform: gps includes no authentication

asciilifeform: iran and the stolen airplane.

asciilifeform: Vexual: if an undergrad student sees fit.

asciilifeform: looks like even crapware artists publish teasers now.

asciilifeform: in other news, https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5hhDm18Juhw/Usac6x0EOoI/AAAAAAAAOEc/tvUHZvNIYFo/s1800/Screen%2520Shot%25202014-01-03%2520at%25206.54.11%2520PM.png

asciilifeform: plus now we know that you can ddos a machine shop from 10km away.

asciilifeform: gps spoofers on the market in 3... 2... 1...

asciilifeform: http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/dmg-mori-gildemeister-maho-cnc/mori-ellison-gyroscope-unlocking-273841/ ☟︎

asciilifeform: bubbles.

asciilifeform: there is a reason molding (esp. of clear material) is done under vacuum.

asciilifeform: rather than clear in the usual sense

asciilifeform: nubbins`: afaik you can '3d print' acrylic, but it looks like the windows found in public toilets.

asciilifeform: diametric is our acrylic man

asciilifeform: clear acrylic.

asciilifeform: if you read the 'amazon' reviews for these items, they're almost all from 'grow-op' folks.

asciilifeform: almost anything that goes with a laser cutter (ventilation hardware, compressors, pumps)

asciilifeform: hah. though i'm probably on all of the relevant lists, if only because virtually every one of the tools is traditionally bought by weed growers

asciilifeform: anyone who has bought electronic parts (or manufactured anything) knows this.

asciilifeform: the unit cost of the first batch is perceptibly greater than it ought to be, because of economics of scale.

asciilifeform: Vexual: nothing prevents you from using cardano as a flash drive

asciilifeform: (for anyone who doesn't know, mircea is the organizational/financial sourcerer in this project, i only designed the damn thing)

asciilifeform: for details regarding how, ask mircea, i believe he has a simple mechanism in mind.

asciilifeform: nubbins`: plan is that we sell for btc only.

asciilifeform: where, if certain things are written to it, and the trigger is pulled, others will appear as well.

asciilifeform: considering that it appears, for all intents and purposes, as a usb flash disk.

asciilifeform: i'm hard-pressed to imagine how one could fail to figure out the use of the device

asciilifeform: share your thought?

asciilifeform: Vexual: what do you mean?

asciilifeform: my expectation is that some of the first batch of cardanos will be distributed as 'review' units

asciilifeform: ask him

asciilifeform: not sure how he picked who to give them to

asciilifeform: i gave away a few shirts to various people, and so did mircea

asciilifeform: so, officially, none

asciilifeform: Vexual: we aren't taking orders quite yet

asciilifeform: actually the costliest component on that board, not counting the board itself (as published in mircea's statement)

asciilifeform: the five boards pictured here will be reflowed a second time, with the shield anchors on.

asciilifeform: unlike similar shields found in many gizmos (cell phone, wireless card, etc) this one can be removed safely and many times (within reasonable limit)

asciilifeform: http://9727e9d160d99ffc550b-e91bafb404d116e05b8f50150b1b07c8.r4.cf3.rackcdn.com/UK_LAE_BMIS-203_PI_D.jpg

asciilifeform: as you can probably tell, shield is missing.

asciilifeform: (bottom comment)

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1427&cpage=1#comment-9020

asciilifeform: idk, my schoolbook had a fairly nice b&w shot

asciilifeform: rosie f.?

asciilifeform: not a job requirement, as such

asciilifeform: (although every crystallographer worthy of note seems to be a beautiful woman...)

asciilifeform: and 'isn't sexy'

asciilifeform: x-ray crystallography is cheaper and more accurate, but can't be parcelled out to a thousand lamers.

asciilifeform: thinking that 'curecoin' will turn into a useful and honest operation is like imagining that a meth lab in rural montana will turn into Alex Shulgin's house of fun.

asciilifeform: no, plain old protein modeling

asciilifeform: as someone who was actually paid to (attempt) protein folding, it is especially funny to me.

asciilifeform: it's just another scamcoin bundled with a 'promise' to give the proceeds to somebody appetizing.

asciilifeform: the author did not succeed in (and probably did not even try) creating a workfunction that carries out 'useful work' of any kind.

asciilifeform: not 'could,' - is.

asciilifeform: smells like a typical american 'charity', packaged as a scamcoin.

asciilifeform: just another pre-mining scam, with an especially egregious bait

asciilifeform: looked at curecoin. doesn't seem like its work function is directly related to protein folding at all.

asciilifeform: SlaveCoin.

asciilifeform: use your imagination.

asciilifeform: well, in the sense of enriching the author.

asciilifeform: it would quite possibly make money.

asciilifeform: just, picture an altcoin with an actual useful feature.

asciilifeform: and i suppose the whole point of hypodermics is to shoot smack.

asciilifeform: world is still waiting for the first altcoin with a point.

asciilifeform: 'cold boot' method is at least a decade old.