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asciilifeform: i think at 1 time i had moar dead than living in that links bar lol
mircea_popescu: is that guy still alive ?
asciilifeform: iirc i switched a couple of'em to archived copy
BingoBoingo: The links also only last so long as the linked stays on. Proper butterfly collection needs pinned under glass.
asciilifeform: my www's links bar used to be this 'museum', but cleaned it up a bit last yr
mircea_popescu: i suspect you're paying way the fuck too much attention.
asciilifeform: 'cannot rightfully apprehend the confusion of ideas that would lead to such...' (tm)(r)(babbage)
asciilifeform: 'if I wanted to influence your RNG I would attack it at the von neumann fair toss algorithm, by ensuring that I have control over pairs of outputs somehow.' << didjaknow!111
BingoBoingo: Just because it is micro doesn't mean the maintenance needs are micro too!
asciilifeform: hey, micro excavator better investment imho than 'cheese grater mac'
mircea_popescu: "high level ideas" tm
asciilifeform: ( who at one time wrote to asciilifeform erry week, re also 'ideas' , until finally burned out )
a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 12:26 mircea_popescu: ely neurotic self inspection, of which "transgenderism" of the alice/leah flavour is very strictly a subset, not to mention plainer nonsense of the kind displayed by eg. richard kulisz (see http://trilema.com/2016/full-loper-os-blogroll-review/#selection-847.0-851.1) or for that matter "lesswrong". between psychotic and neurotic, the beta boi is forever floating on this sea of delusional "you are special and perfect the way y
asciilifeform: i'm satisfied, fwiw, that d00d was ordinary crackpot, rather than professional appendage ( tho given the calibre of 'pro appendages' these days... )
asciilifeform: 'I could never write serial uart code. maybe there are algorithm errors in the protocol that I don't know about or miss. I'd just use a tested library. I always have really high-level conceptual ideas, I often get lost in the minutiae.'
asciilifeform: meanwhile, strictly for entomological aficionados, cont. of hungarian thrd : http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/YsGWy/?raw=true ☝︎
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/06/charges-dropped-against-members-of-us-dissident-group-that-refused-to-plea-out/ << Qntra -- Charges Dropped Against Members Of US Dissident Group That Refused To Plea Out
asciilifeform: already in those days they were making most of the mac sales in lappy tho
asciilifeform: was massive tower thing
mircea_popescu: wait, this was a LAPTOP ?!
asciilifeform: iirc story was, they were unable to practically laptopize it , and as result gave up and went x86
asciilifeform: iirc crapple's g5 actually ate that 250, sustained
mircea_popescu: ps max. sustained maybe 200 tbh
asciilifeform: was their last, afaik, box , prior to the switch to intel arch
asciilifeform: iirc trinque found 1 in a surplus auction somewhere, booted it up
asciilifeform: i suspect bureaucrats, eating kickbacks, keep alive crapple's comp div. e.g. uni of md decade ago actually bought coupla hundred of those g5 crapples (similar price), they sat around and nao sit in the surplus shop, 50bux ea., no one wants
mircea_popescu: that kinda thing
mircea_popescu: i dunno, 1-2 "creative" agencies in ny, might prefer paying 35k in office furniture than 10k/year extra salary
mircea_popescu: among the upper middle class / lower upper class the fashion is nao "frugality" (codeword)
asciilifeform: ( betcha he'll eagerly buy this box, and post... )
asciilifeform: whole thing quite reminiscent of pete dushenski's plastic mercedes
asciilifeform: upstack, apparently the 5k lcd dun come with the 999 leg. ( and won't mount to standard leg w/out a 200 $ adapter ( or, i suppose, illicit 'drm circumventing' electric drill... ) )
mircea_popescu: first step to only works on thu
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: not only, but they put in 'tiered pricing'
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> meanwhile, in asciilifeform's locale, price of tapwater has gone up ~2x. << There's a Pantsuit movement which advocated deliquent water payers need to be subsidized by relable water payers. Seems like your locale made it policy.
asciilifeform: prolly. they'll remember fountain soda for 1 kopeika / glass, like asciilifeform does.
mircea_popescu: and odds are, once this new sovok is dead, people will stop remembering the insanely iiritating if entirely inconsequential idiocies of the office drones & bureaucrats
asciilifeform: this is pre-terminal sovok, terminal is when 'tapwater worx on tuesdays and fridays'
mircea_popescu: such terminal sovok
asciilifeform: ( this, in 1 quarter )
asciilifeform: 'only terrorists believe in inflation'!111
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in asciilifeform's locale, price of tapwater has gone up ~2x.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, figuring inflation, that 34k is worth less today than the ~2k i paid for (14 in!!! vga crt in the early 90s
mircea_popescu: i thogjt it bought russia.
asciilifeform: when various folx who 'i won't microshit, basta' were willing to shell out 5-6k (1990s! usd) for various irons
asciilifeform: seems as if the ipnoje thing did not pan out, and what remains of crapple, is attempting a return to 1990s
asciilifeform: even crapple hall audience, consisting of hand-picked flunkies who bought costly tickets, jeered
mircea_popescu: anually together works.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The box swap sounds like a deal, would you like the colocation invoiced annually on both boxes or would you like the test box invoiced quarterly or monthly instead?
asciilifeform: ( ~those~ -- if someone wants to colo, we'll colo, but i cannot justify to spend piz coin on such atrocity )
asciilifeform: last i saw, apu1 was the only really usable x86 'small' box of which can mount several in one 1u
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: plox to put some meat cycles into market survey then
BingoBoingo: But... they do beat rockchip in potential diskiness, will need to shop a bit on this.
asciilifeform: they're soldered-down 2core + 4GB ram thing.
BingoBoingo: Ah, yeah the APU one with the msata slots
asciilifeform: interesting, but slightly underpowered for the $
BingoBoingo: Right, the SPU is however interesting.
asciilifeform: as for rk, asciilifeform is quite reluctant to expand the rk plant presently, as we lack a 100%-useful rk gnat
asciilifeform: ideally Right Thing will be if we can a) lease out large boxen b) set up, in reasonably near term, the shared host scheme described upstack.
asciilifeform: the small-boxen cluster thing is potentially useful, but somewhat fiddly in re: construction time
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: think also re what else we ought to have ( spare rk ? disks? etc )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm thinking to get piz 2 of the same item also.
asciilifeform: ( last i saw, the folx from whom i bought prev set, still alive )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if dun care, the 1ps type is slightly cheaprr
mircea_popescu: again, the idea is to give these to pizarro, in exchange of current boxes.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I am inclined towards more 1U boxes or the APUs
mircea_popescu shall be around today/tomorro/thurs anyway
asciilifeform: ideally you want that type with the 2 slide-out ps
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've begun the search. will send you spec prior to buying
mircea_popescu: if you wanna invoice me for this by thurs it's all ok, but if not, will pay upon return.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, sounds like The Right Thing
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: start thinkin' about what we want in the 2 remaining cargo slots.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i'm ok for a coupla boxes. so the idea here is, buy copies of smg items, so that smg items become colo for smg and the new ones go to pizarro for itsef
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: can't in good conscience pick a date before i get the irons bought an' tested, but i suspect before end of (north hemisphere) summer, likely
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Do you have a clearer idea of when your next trip down to the land of Dairy, Pizza, and girl-looking girls is going to take place?
mircea_popescu: seems to be the experuience so far, at any erate.
BingoBoingo: If we have boxes in the rack, someone will want them for something
a111: Logged on 2019-06-04 13:19 mircea_popescu: i was thinking copies of extant, so as to give them to pizarro in exchange, see ? this way i don't have to move hdds
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-04#1917036 << I am very amenable to this and getting more boxes in the rack ☝︎
asciilifeform: simulated box loses in speed, but wins back in versatility, if done ~properly~ (rather than like lulazon et al)
asciilifeform: picture being able to download yer 'machine', run locally, modify, reupload, etc.
asciilifeform: iirc asciilifeform's old favourite hoster (going on 12y!) uses also a handwritten emu of some type. but no one knows precisely what. ☝︎
asciilifeform: 1 seekrit bonus of 'mips cluster' would be to get folx geared up for sane irons, when the time comes.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-04 17:24 asciilifeform: ''Under certain conditions it allows unprivileged users running under qemu VMs to affect the host Linux kernel in a problematic manner...'
asciilifeform: problem is in how the heathens approached the problem, with the reliance on intelisms , heavy turdware, etc. ☝︎
asciilifeform: it aint ~intrinsically~ retarded, imho, to buy/sell cpu by the litre.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-19 03:54 asciilifeform: (iirc we had a thread where i described how corporate ameritards, if given a problem like phuctor, would happily soak up a few $mil and megawatt of iron)
asciilifeform: the customers'd get the standard image, as they do on rk, and can then do whatever, pay per MB of disk and per cpu cycle.
asciilifeform: the rk gentoo is half a GB iirc (incl. gcc toolchain)
mircea_popescu: "customers" right ? who knows what they come up with
asciilifeform: depends what means 'modern linux'. e.g. asciilifeform's trb 'buildroot' weighed under 5MB.
asciilifeform: would be a mighty useful thing, tho, 'drop coin in this-here slot and get root on a mips cuntoo'
asciilifeform: previously i considered the contemplated method impractical (in re amt of sweat req'd to construct) but from the weight of the heathen example, it begins to seem tractable.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the problem approached, is how to house 9000 heathens on 1 machine. the currently used shared hosting system presumes certain amount of literacy (and cooperation) from the tenants, it is simple unix accts thing.
asciilifeform: the only iron in this emulator is the cpu and a 16550 uart.
asciilifeform: orig was found in shithub but damned if i link to shithub.
asciilifeform: http://loper-os.org/pub/heathen-mips.tar.gz << for thread-completeness. (most of the ball is a sample linux disk, the sores itself is ~50kB) ☟︎
asciilifeform: ( the heathens use intelism 'virtualizations' for it, wins a bit of speed but at cost of 9000 nobus )
asciilifeform: this is sorta like what the heathen vps people do, but in principle could be a clean coupla-kB tmsr item w/out buggy multi-100MB turd.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-04 13:17 mircea_popescu: diana_coman, so should i release the monthly then ?