asciilifeform not up to date re subj

asciilifeform: trinque: i suspect that drone detail is considered 'cushy' , and reserved for necro-sexual trans-species black whatevers-in-wheelchair etc

asciilifeform: ( they are not considered usg.speshul )

asciilifeform: revisiting upstack, to the barrels -- i suspect that the reason why nobody bothers with this procedure in usa, is that barrels are sold openly

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: same reason why salt is poured on icy road in winter.

asciilifeform: ( i added pb to 'pb-free' rubbish , to properly melt with ordinary irons . but same principle worx elsewhere, universally )

asciilifeform: worx a+++

asciilifeform: aha, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1871

asciilifeform: i suspect that it is even possible to cheat, lower melting temp of the pb with (surprisingly cheap) gallium

asciilifeform: certainly worth experiment

asciilifeform: if pb on fe behaves anyffing like eutectic pb/sn/ag solder over cu -- it dun alloy, but 'cold welds', some will remain.

asciilifeform: it'll prolly remain in the rifling grooves tho

asciilifeform: desoldering iron with suction hose.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: depending on how generous museum was with the pb, could be headache, say they filled entire barrel.

asciilifeform: ro kalash certainly did

asciilifeform: i.e. the clean rod

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most vintage small arms come with 'perfect rod' already , neh

asciilifeform: trinque: jrotc is pre-enlistment army school, neh ? and they drill with ceremonial rifle ?! ☟︎

asciilifeform: all you need is induction heater, afaik, and oil bath

asciilifeform: they did this in su also. i still dunget why can't restore these to proper function -- yes melting out pb will destroy the temper on the barrel, but can go and re-anneal it

asciilifeform: trinque: was museum piece or wat

asciilifeform: i think the same people had a mutilated PPSH also

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it wasn't 'demilitarized' in the 'this is nao a hammer' sense, it fired (semi)

asciilifeform: ( but at least they kept the barrel, still ye olde 45-acp )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: phunphakt -- i saw 'tommy' sold in shop in usa. but on closer look, turned out, it was a cruel mockery, they tore out insides and replaced with deliberately incompatible firing mechanism, so as to fire from closed bolt , per usg diktat

asciilifeform: who was 'they'

asciilifeform: i picture her as gigantic guinea pig..

asciilifeform: tho i suspect he is closer to converging onto ocelot

asciilifeform: possibly next-to-last, iirc BingoBoingo not found ocelot yet

asciilifeform: ohai mircea_popescu et al

asciilifeform: mod6: lol i have buncha martian keys also, but with handprinted paper faces

asciilifeform: i'ma do them exactly like-so, from nao on

asciilifeform: mod6: d00d was not 'thrown out' of the door, he could not bring himself to walk in to begin with

asciilifeform: 'i won't read logs, so i'll remora in chan' d00d, ever turned into a person.

asciilifeform: come to think of it, i dun recall ~one~ instance where a

asciilifeform: that was plenty of time, imho, to say something meaningful

asciilifeform: !!down elsker

asciilifeform: elsker: who might you be ?

asciilifeform: elsker: hello ?

asciilifeform: !!up elsker

asciilifeform: the current crock of shit soup 'html' is ~fractally wrong~ however -- if you strip away any particular piece of idjicy from it, you get nowhere. whole thing must die.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a la http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-20#1842981 ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'yeah i totally want to transmit a MB of <><<>><<><><<<<><><><>>>< for erry 10 of text'

asciilifeform: but instead we get 'html5' nonsense

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: right, this is what i got

asciilifeform: i have one of these even nao. ( nao how to put it in a www-able form... )

asciilifeform: aa so not static pic ? moar doable

asciilifeform: is there something mircea_popescu knows about 3space that i dun know...

asciilifeform: outers get in the way of inners ?

asciilifeform: if you wanted to display , somehow, legibly, a ~full~ welltris well -- this is not only not solved problem on 386, but not really imho solvable, on 2d screen

asciilifeform: i fiddled with 'cube' for a bit, so far pretty ugly. might post later.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cuz it's a discontinuous function.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: rotateable, sure, but not transparent-and-somehow-usefully-opaque

asciilifeform: Mocky: really it wants to be a ~cube~ , x:Na, y:Nb, z:|Qa-Qb|, 1 if solution, 0 if not. but there isn't a satisfying way to draw this. so stuck with lolcat.gif

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re the gif -- it isn't a full table by any means, only illustration of the arithmetical oddities at work

asciilifeform: *undigested

asciilifeform: but it does seem to consist of undigester matter.

asciilifeform: i actually have nfi, it could be that this is exactly what mircea_popescu asked .

asciilifeform: but possibly shows interesting pattern to folx with 'third eye'

asciilifeform: Mocky: there sadly cannot be a 'full' lolcat, all possible ones are finite slices

asciilifeform: viewport (i.e. 1..Na x 1..Nb ) is 256x256.

asciilifeform: 1024 frames.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu , Mocky , et al ^

asciilifeform: meanwhile, http://www.loper-os.org/pub/abs_qa-minus-qb.gif << warning: 5 MB !

asciilifeform looks, so far not impressed, it's verbatim chunk lifting

asciilifeform: holyfuq a 2nd log summary thing

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wasn't that the d00d who 'knew too much' re kennedy ?

asciilifeform: congrats lobbes !

asciilifeform: so what gives. could, theoretically, have rare earths.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i seem to recall nao that brazil is rich in monazite

asciilifeform: just not the main ml url

asciilifeform: pretty weird tho, e.g. http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2018-August/000308.html loads!

asciilifeform: but cannot load http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev

asciilifeform: i get same

asciilifeform: i have not been able to load the ml even once since supposedly fixed

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-27#1845042 << i can't connect, fullstop. currently even on diff isp, and same hang as before ☝︎

asciilifeform: afaik south a -- dun have much in the way of either ( aside from possibly cu, but i suspect the latter has run through )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: metals & lanthanides

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i suspect the mineral base aint there

asciilifeform bbl,meat

asciilifeform: mod6: it's in the pipe for this wk

asciilifeform: (but notenuff tmp space to fire werker on whole db atm)

asciilifeform: we're even still eating mats's key collection

asciilifeform: funnily enuff not connected ! ( search idx adds 5% or so mass to db )

asciilifeform: ( in the sad midwest arsescape , often not even it )

asciilifeform: it's typically the only lang offered in amerischool

asciilifeform: but errybody already knew spanish!111

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought mpbootcamp began with ro

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the firecracker story ? usenet folklore, yknow, with the 'she killed our medic, the bitch, so we took flare gun...' one

asciilifeform: i think i'ma stay on this here beach instead, lol, pretty good weather for these few wks in a yr

asciilifeform: uggh

asciilifeform: the 'trade my fishwife for your hanbot' folx ?

asciilifeform: !!seen danielpbarron

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: his summaries updated coupla day ago , loox like

asciilifeform: neato.

asciilifeform: aa

asciilifeform: ha they feed'em rats dun they.

asciilifeform: but how did they end up in... herpetarium