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Vexual: u want a big battery and a duty case?
asciilifeform: if a decent laptop could be had for 6k now, i'd gladly pony up.
asciilifeform: that thing was the size of a vhs tape. perfect size.
nubbins`: although the laptop before this one drank a full beer
asciilifeform: all 'conveniently' croked a month or two after warranty.
asciilifeform: plus a dead 'thinkpad', with same.
nubbins`: asciilifeform: this one still runs like a champ
Vexual: 5 year old macbook is a nice machine
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
nubbins`: had a line of netbook-size machines with transmeta cpus
asciilifeform: same size/shape/weight as half a brick.
nubbins`: started with a T
asciilifeform: but what a difference in quality
nubbins`: i felt like a million bucks after doing some light mods to my press
nubbins`: it's at the point now where one is pleased to see a well-built, serviceable piece of equipment
nubbins`: my folks have a 40+ year old washing machine
asciilifeform: my apt. has a 1970s (possibly earlier) american fridge
nubbins`: my relatives have a frigidaire refrigerator that's 70 years old. still works.
asciilifeform: it's more like, an analog scope with a display with response time measured in ms is a sad joke.
nubbins`: pretty sure there's a joke about Zenith in there somewhere
asciilifeform: quite a few people.
asciilifeform: given as deflection, in a particular magnetic field, is proportional to velocity.
Vexual: a gps sat needs an atomic clock to provide the accuracy for the reciever to exprapolate an accurate aproximation, a cd player just needs to know the wavelength
Vexual: sounds a lot like a cd player with better lenses
asciilifeform: linked piece describes how the high-end mills are made deliberately difficult to modify (a la 'drm')
Vexual: if they own the machine, surely they can create a different gps out
Vexual: if usmil saw fit they can spoof from the sats over a small area, alowing a moved usesful factory to continue
asciilifeform: plus now we know that you can ddos a machine shop from 10km away.
truffles: houston we have a fail
nubbins`: ah, im actually gonna be turning in soon. i have a rare early rise tomorrow :)
truffles: i should prob play before i get the later half of a buzz marathon
asciilifeform: there is a reason molding (esp. of clear material) is done under vacuum.
Vexual: can you print a form for blow moulding?
diametric: theres are a few optically correct filaments
nubbins`: diametric: regarding contracts, find one you like the format of and use that as a guide
asciilifeform: almost anything that goes with a laser cutter (ventilation hardware, compressors, pumps)
nubbins`: i'll print a single t-shirt of any design for $70 :)
nubbins`: i'm just trying to get a feel for how much they cost. i don't think 0.333 btc is still the intended sale price at the current exchange rate :D
asciilifeform: Vexual: nothing prevents you from using cardano as a flash drive
Vexual: so no plan for my third cousin to sccess her iphoto library with a cardano yet then?
asciilifeform: for details regarding how, ask mircea, i believe he has a simple mechanism in mind.
nubbins`: i know a while back, 3 units for 1 btc was floated... is there a usd price point in mind?
diametric: i have determined i have no clue how to write a contract.
asciilifeform: considering that it appears, for all intents and purposes, as a usb flash disk.
nubbins`: vexual, i think generally those who can't figure out the device as it exists probably don't have a pressing need for one, either :)
asciilifeform: i gave away a few shirts to various people, and so did mircea
asciilifeform: the five boards pictured here will be reflowed a second time, with the shield anchors on.
nubbins`: now there's a motto
KRS1: but couldnt figure out a way to model the data
KRS1: i would then be able to see correlations using time as a function
KRS1: Jurov: I could not find a way to correlate jd data with gcp data.
nubbins`: that's just a wet dream
mircea_popescu: actully that bloomberg guy is uniquely non-retarded for his field. just a shitty title, otherwise the comments he makes are like B+
asciilifeform: idk, my schoolbook had a fairly nice b&w shot
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform f=franklin ? she always looked like a tranny to me.
asciilifeform: not a job requirement, as such
asciilifeform: (although every crystallographer worthy of note seems to be a beautiful woman...)
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.
Duffer1: you mean attempt integrating folding as a pow for a coin?
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: smells like a typical american 'charity', packaged as a scamcoin.
diametric: The presence of a viable alternative is reason enough
KRS1: i really would like to see curecoin be a success..the author would certainly deserve a nobel prize
KRS1: I had fun with a few altcoins, even doge.
KRS1: point is..whats better than making money as getting high to a heroin user
asciilifeform: world is still waiting for the first altcoin with a point.
diametric: I pretty much ignored coinye but now with the threat of a lawsuit I almost feel like its going to gain some value
ThickAsThieves: "Well strap on a bomb vest and call me a terrorist, this place has it all! "
mike_c: i heard a report that kanye is suing the "makers of bitcoin". i don't know why it still astounds me how stupid journalists are.
Namworld: 1 BTC and a lot of trouble
Namworld: randomcloud not around? Have we found a 4th tournament participant?
BingoBoingo: truffles: A bit of one
asciilifeform: 'cold boot' method is at least a decade old.
asciilifeform: the20year: try it yourself. 'canned dust blower' is the 'freon' in question. a few $ per bottle.
deadweasel: lulzy, "I'm going to throw money at a problem until it disappears". Good luck buddy, enjoy the yellow tint from your skull windows.
KRS1: moving localized currencies like this should turn the u.s. into a tribual type society if my education serves me correctly.
bitmyass: money is a fucking joke
BingoBoingo: bitmyass: Just calm your bid and wait a decade or two. Impatient motherfucker.
IveBeenBit: bitmyass, the trick is to place a giant market order to buy on the exchange. That usually drives the price up.
randomcloud: I feel like such a noob, oh well
BingoBoingo: It should offer you a block of text. Decrypt it and then ;;gpg everify
BingoBoingo: randomcloud: Open a window with Gribble and try ;;gpg eauth
randomcloud: I set it up like a month ago.
BingoBoingo: Even if I think they are safe for a longer period of time.
BingoBoingo: I used to like Bitcoinsports.eu, but here's the narrative of how they went scam http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/01/05/a-descent-into-scam-bitcoinsports-eu/
randomcloud: Nah. I'm going to bed in a half hour. Tomorrow would be better.
BingoBoingo: I hear playing handegg does a better job at that.
BingoBoingo: Suck a dick then you Oklahomo
BingoBoingo: I have not won a game yet tonight and the better part of a fifth of vodka is in any challenger's favor.
BingoBoingo: randomcloud: assbot is a bot
BingoBoingo: If we can find a fourth player I will further sweeten the pot with an additional 0.2 BTC with 0.1 BTC going to first place and 0.05 BTC going to each second and third places on top of what MP established
randomcloud: You ever have that extremely annoying feeling when you feel a sneeze coming on but it's not powerful enough to trigger a sneeze, just make the inside of your nose itch like hell?
Namworld: Maybe he's a good player. Better not ask him to.
BingoBoingo: Since this is a round robin who is the 4th player. That seems unsettled.
Vexual: and a visualiseer with live odds
BingoBoingo: assbot needs a chess clock
BingoBoingo: Namworld is taking an awful lot of time to move while having a meterial advantage