asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-26#1844870 << reportedly in gulag and likewise modern ru prisons, there is this pasttime, where folx describe to one another the delicious dishes they may supposedly have once eaten.☝︎
asciilifeform: i suspect that not errything comes in canned states, and reality, even in gulag, is slightly moar complicated than the picture suggested by mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: 'and they transported him for life!'(tm)(r)('sweeney todd')
asciilifeform: hey asciilifeform was indeed shipped !111
asciilifeform: upstack, re zeks -- mircea_popescu is entirely right, a zek is not simply d00d with 'wrong passport', but pauper with no means of support outside of the gulag ( where he knows how to cut wood, or wash gold nuggets, or whatever, for a bowl of cabbage swill. ) speaking first-hand here. zek is simply folx who are not needed for anyffing anywhere.
asciilifeform: sed -rn "/\# Kitty Sex Sprite/{:a;N;/\#End Animations for Kitty's Body during Footjobs/{/.*/p;d};ba}" Kitty_Animations.rpy > xfer-anim.rpy << ahahahahawaaat
asciilifeform: ( anyone who wonders why 'programmer' worldwide has roughly same reputation as 'untouchable latrine cleaner in calcutta' -- wonder no longer )
asciilifeform: '...I know enough to know I'm nowhere near as knowledgeable as someone who seriously studies the tools but I'm trying to get results fast so I skip the real learning use google and find code that suits my needs then memorize and apply it as best I can...' << homo perlicus , as described by naggum & elsewhere☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i see the angle of 'if you aint a zek what do you care what the locals think' but 8y is a long time to be stuck inside a border, anywhere. ( and yes i get it, mircea_popescu travels by u-boat and dun need passports. but this is high pilotage. )☟︎
asciilifeform: it may seem odd that sheep herders would have warm feeling for wolf, but i can see it. 'colleague.'
asciilifeform: like chechens, hah. ( phunphakt, general dudayev banned the cult su cartoon 'ну погоди' in his kingdom in '90s, because 'insults our national animal' i shit thee not )
asciilifeform: something larger could handily power receive-24hrs-transmit-1s-day sort of affair.
asciilifeform: it was actually the chinese garden lights that led me to theory of 'pv powered node'. they have miniscule photocells, too, barely the size of half playing card.
asciilifeform: actually they pull half amp or so. and stay lit for most of the night, typically even in winter.
asciilifeform: i dun know of a 4y battery that costs <5bux.
asciilifeform: fwiw i have photocell+li-poly battery garden lights, they've been going for 4y nao. 5bux/ea.
asciilifeform: you wouldn't replace photocell, but simply emplace new box when one dies.
asciilifeform: who's gonna trek into the jungle to change battery.
asciilifeform: two dozen of ~those~, could handily cover whole globe.
asciilifeform: relay can ~transmit~ in, e.g., hourly, bursts -- but must ~receive~ somewhere close to 100% of the time
asciilifeform: photocell sorta scales, but for half amp at 5v you're already talking about something the size of a4 paper , and that's in broad daylight strictly
asciilifeform: as plain p2p radio, 8266 is sorta marginal (i got ~100 metres in open air, 150 is pushing it) but is still interesting from pov of 'bridge gaps by connecting to open wifi in orcistani city'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, Mocky , et al : here's a lol : given as there is finite range of Q (minq .. maxq from initial board) and finite range of quantities (1 .. totalcount) , it is possible to enumerate all possible mixes, in a space-for-time trade, to speed up exhaustive search
