asciilifeform: iirc the breaking point for me was screen rotation, if i can't get 90degree displays i throw card out
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: reportedly 10yr vintage cards can be set up without binturd. ( asciilifeform not tried yet. )☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc we had a thread re this ; the gnarl is roughly similar to xilinx reversing ( they switch chip revisions erry quarter or so, by the time a card is ~acceptably reversed , it is long out of print )
asciilifeform: iirc i tried even this, some yrs back, got a box that bombs randomly erry hr or so
asciilifeform: ( tho theoretically, crapple has departed far enuff from posix that it perhaps is ripe for a cygwin-like item . but i dun much care for rescuing crapple drowners, either )
asciilifeform: right, but cygwin has no use outside of winblowz.
asciilifeform: even got x running, and entirely unmodified emacs, browsers, etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is, and worx surprisingly well, asciilifeform used it extensively many yrs ago
asciilifeform: phf: i in particular won't sign winblowz patches out of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-27#1830228 principle. but if d00d wants to -- he can, his own v branch, i have nfi why he wants to , but it'll sit there, for archaeologists.☝︎
asciilifeform: so the 'poor->stupid' circuit dun engage
asciilifeform: dunno, cuz printing press is kind to him ?
asciilifeform: i suspect 'bio failure' is pretty abstract concept to fella who wakes up and counts the porches etc
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-19#1836413 << lulzy fella, e.g. most recently 'Marketing/branding is something that, unfortunately, the folks in ye olde #trilema utterly fail to comprehend, if quite intentionally so, but the result is the same : they collectively couldn’t market, brand, or sell their way out of a paper bag and childishly mock any attempts to improve on that score. Such is the bed they’ve made for themselves.' ( ht☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: ( the ones here, moar like bee sting than anyffing )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: or are your jellyfish australian-style 'kill in 5min' variety
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: delaware also infested with same, dun stop anybody from packing beach like rush hour train
asciilifeform: !Q later tell PeterL get the hell off heathen kolhoz 'blogspot' already
asciilifeform: it is already too late for 'everybody can rebuild from logs', naturally. but if this had been the design, could answer 'does have bug or not' mechanically.
asciilifeform: fwiw i never grasped why deedbot permits !!rate out of chan. but possibly trinque & mircea_popescu explained this at some point, i simply could not find in l0gz.☟︎
asciilifeform: PeterL: if he actually issued the uncommented ratings , then psychiatric q for shinohai . if not -- bugological q for trinque . is all i got.
asciilifeform: ( i am at a loss re why anybody would do this, but whoknows )☟︎
asciilifeform: ( and nominal wait in panama was only 1h )
asciilifeform: admittedly the <1900 gets 'cattle car class'.
asciilifeform: ( and asciilifeform's only complaint was the plane that stood on runway for 20 extra minutes because some orc derp couldn't fit his ~box of cakes~ into overhead bin )
asciilifeform: copa, through panama as it always goes
asciilifeform got round trip from dc and 5d hotel for <1900 in apr
asciilifeform: lol Mocky where are you flying from..? alaska ?!
asciilifeform: ( naturally the leather eventually gives , and frags go in the shooter's face. but until then , you get a coupla shots, can be enuff )
asciilifeform: i saw in museum an example, old iron pipe rightly wrapped in leather.
asciilifeform: periodically, uppity folx who need to bake something that shoots, in a hurry (e.g. filipino rebels ) rediscover the korean trick.☟︎
asciilifeform: ( was not in reality wholly of leather, but wood reinforced with same )
asciilifeform: funnily enuff i associate korea with art of medieval gunnery -- motherland of the infamous 'leather cannon', as deadly to artillerist as to enemy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik korea if ever existed as nation, it was in 1300s. (today there's the usg colony and the open air injun reservation)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: sufficiently cowardly idjit can shoot himself with brick.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: trick is to warm it up 1st.
asciilifeform pictures BingoBoingo eating dulce de leche in the style asciilifeform's father ate it in su army -- puncture with bayonet and drink, drink, in 'trumpeter's pose' , all 500g at a time
asciilifeform: no different from 'what does it mean to work on lathe' . if aluminum -- means one thing, if machining pyrophorics (e.g. plutonium) -- very other.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: conceivably not all works call for the ffa degree of fascism, where asciilifeform insists on being able to say exactly how many bytes are required after a O(1) look at the inputs, and to say exactly in what order they will be accessed etc
asciilifeform: aha, there is no limit to pipe 'length', it specifies a flow, rather than a datum.
asciilifeform: url has no biznis weighing a megabyte.
