asciilifeform: which is to say -- purely theoretically, in much the same way that my arse has a nonzero chance of falling through the chair, through the floor, and down into china

asciilifeform: i will admit, that i many times sat down to do this.

asciilifeform: something that comes down the wire. precisely what, i do not yet know.

asciilifeform reads on, in sidebar, 'Dec 13: For your Bitcoin payments, remember that we need the Coinbase transaction ID in order to track your deposit. We encourage you to write down that ID to avoid delays in your Bitcoin payment processing. Thanks for your comprehension.'

asciilifeform: davout: there can be >1. in fact, if we're ever down to 1, it is trouble.

asciilifeform: davout: see the mitm point further down in the thread. a ~simulated~ yottahash is just as good for the purpose.

asciilifeform: current trb, by default, nails down the early (300k?) blox

asciilifeform: the thing sits down, in the end, using 71 out of the 72 macrocells in xc9572xl.

asciilifeform: but to nail it down in such a way that it is immediately obvious to all visitors to my www.

asciilifeform: i need to nail down the existence of the current cpld config prior to crate leaving.

asciilifeform: auto loan is one of the whales on which the elephants stand, right down there with real estate racket.

asciilifeform: there's an outfit called 'thrustmaster', well-known name in game controllers, that made a princely joystick in 1990s, 'f-22'. it was used in 'adult' simulators, the kind where one studies for exams, where you literally can hang upside down in gigantic barrel, etc. and guess what, there is no way to make it work with win7+ short of replacing entire internal guts.

asciilifeform: ditto if you came in to work as reverser and the question sheet asks 'what does 'SHL RAX, 1' do ??'c and you write down some nonsense

asciilifeform: nobody cares how quickly you 'helloworld', but if instead you write down 'why should i have to do this, i expected to see a fat offer!!!' the interviewer learns something quite important. ☟︎

asciilifeform: how about 'burns house down'

asciilifeform: It’s an almost tenfold increase on 2014, when just 948 domains were taken down.

asciilifeform: because the only reasonably rigid 'nail' to nail it down with is blockhash

asciilifeform: hey - it's doubling down, or wagner+cyanide

asciilifeform once sat down to put it in and then found that he cannot even delete one tx from the pool !

asciilifeform: i always assumed that it is a thing folks do when they come of age and build 'the' machine they will work their working years on, to sit down and burn away the shitfonts, among other

asciilifeform: 'As more people with less commitment to quality and much less attention to detail got involved in writing it, its educational value diminished, too. It is like going to a library full of books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these cheaper books is an in ☟︎☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: jurov: 'e-cig' does not (unless broke down and battery on fire...) emit smoke, it sputters out propylene glycol (theatrical smoke)

asciilifeform: i deeply dun get it, what is so greatly sane about snarfing down the transubstantiation, trinities, etc. crapolade ?

asciilifeform: each d00d sits down at the blinkenlights panel and starts playing with knobs, and notices that they are mostly not connected to anything; and the ones that are, if he starts twiddling, Nice Polite Folx show up and gently tell him that he must stop, or There Will Be Problems.