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kakobrekla: they are supposed
to be quite durable
tho, 10khrs +
☟︎ kakobrekla: dunno, i havent
tested
that particular one myself.
kakobrekla: early production gz34
tubes from mullard blackburn facotry go for 500
to 1k
assbot: Logged on 03-04-2014 22:18:37; asciilifeform:
this was actually a serious leap in vacuum
tube
tech -
they didn't need
to be pumped, or made of glass
punkman: asciilifeform: who's
the arsonist?
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 00:52:56; asciilifeform:
the pub is really
the property of
the freeloaders, or local chieftain, whoever;
the 'owner' is simply a clown kept around for entertainment value and while he brings over friends
to spend usd
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 00:51:50; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article (or perhaps a
thread here? but can't seem
to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps a pub somewhere in
thailand, or cambodia, etc.
the locals - drink for free. he fancies
that if he begins
to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in
the back of his head he knows what will happen
to his sorry arse if he were
to do so.
☟︎ shinohai: I
tried
the Chinese
tubes, but seems
they don't like
the slightest amount of overheating.
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 14:03:35; asciilifeform: i, for one, only have a mechanical vacuum pump. it clatters, spits oil. would have looked at home in edison's house. i know
that i will not be making so much as a
triode valve with
this pump.
punkman: yes and
the derps buy it from
the one ru factory and rebrand it 50 different ways
assbot: Refugees Welcome |
This is
the international website of
the berlin-based project ‘Flüchtlinge Willkommen’ ... (
http://bit.ly/1NacZJZ )
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 13:32:07; mircea_popescu:
the pissants have come
to expect
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2013 00:07:12; asciilifeform: when i read
these pitches, i can't help but recall: "...Filtration System A Marvel
to Behold! It Removes Eighty Percent of Human Solid Waste!"
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 11:05:45; kakobrekla: Soviet vaccum
tubes <
there is a whole industry dedicated
to making fake ones.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 10:10:54; punkman:
there's a few soviet factories
that still make decent lenses by
the way
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 08:40:37; cazalla: or is it
the norm for secular jews
to maintain
their foreskin?
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 06:22:52; mircea_popescu: "despite
the objections from Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia." << romania ignored
the soviets
throughout, decided
to make its own.
they... sucked.
mircea_popescu: see alf,
the crumbling of
the empire starts in
the craddle.
mircea_popescu: Nowadays, I believe, bed-wetting in such circumstances is
taken for granted. It is a normal reaction in children who have been removed from
their homes
to a strange place. In
those days, however, it was looked on as a disgusting crime which
the child committed on purpose and for which
the proper cure was a beating."
mircea_popescu: "Soon after I arrived at Crossgates (not immediately, but after a week or
two, just when I seemed
to be settling into routine of school life) I began wetting my bed. I was now aged eight, so
that
this was a reversion
to a habit which I must have grown out of at least four years earlier.
mircea_popescu: certainly a better novelist
than literary critic / sociophilosopher / w/e he fancied himself.
funkenstein_: as I haven't reread any
Tolstoy in German or Russian, I must withhold comment
funkenstein_: from punkman's link "The good
thing about business is
that you don’t have
to know any higher math. It may be an advantage not
to know it. [CM: Yes, it is. If you know it, you feel
the need
to use it.] "
shinohai: The scene from
that movies where
they stay with
the older Jewish couple is probably one of
the funniest goddamned
things I have ever seen.
davout: i invited
the guy over and
told him
that he'd be fine (unless he's a jew of course)
shinohai: Hue, I wish I had been
there. "Yeah. Aren't you guys based in Mom's basement?"
shinohai: I like
that
though, "Aren't yu guys based in russia or something"?
davout: they apparently want
to admit
that "my crowd is behind
the XT DDoS"
davout: fluffypony: i've recently joined #bitcoinxt for
that purpose
fluffypony: shinohai: I know, I sometimes read
that blog post when I've feeling down and I need
to laugh at something
fluffypony: What's in a name?
that which we call a Foundation
fluffypony: which is code for "decentralised and secure, but only in
the weakest possible sense of
the phrase"
fluffypony: what's
that phrase Vitalik is so fond of
shinohai: Because
the last "young genius" we got out of Ethereum was so
talented, especially in
the field of security.
shinohai: lol I was discussing w/ someone
the other day hw he is going for
that Gavin look in
that article.
shinohai: Without espeak,
trolling others would be far less fun.
davout: said every single serious bitcoin professional at least a few
times a year
davout: kakobrekla: what reddit says, might be
true, my
transactions are going
through fine
though
kakobrekla: if im seeing
this right, network is still being spammed ?
davout: oh god, i'm attratcting
teh french
shinohai: Got
to run
that
through espeak just once.
kakobrekla: the chinese on
the other hand, go as 'low' as faking
the current
tube production lines.
punkman: kakobrekla: Soviet vaccum
tubes <
there is a whole industry dedicated
to making fake ones. <<
they even bother
to make fake capacitors
kakobrekla: i suspekt
there is more fake ones
than real one on
the market
shinohai: ik kakobrekla sometimes Chinese vendors
try
to sell fake Sovtek's xD
kakobrekla: Soviet vaccum
tubes <
there is a whole industry dedicated
to making fake ones.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: merits–thereby distorting
their aesthetic and ethical understanding–is a great evil, as is every untruth."
mircea_popescu: ve, he has once again re-read
the entire works of Shakespeare, including
the historical plays, and I have felt with an even greater force,
the same feelings–this
time, however, not of bewilderment, but of firm, indubitable conviction
that
the unquestionable glory of a great genius which Shakespeare enjoys, and which compels writers of our
time
to imitate him and readers and spectators
to discover in him non-existent
mircea_popescu: "Tolstoy begins by saying
that
throughout life Shakespeare has aroused in him "an irresistible repulsion and
tedium". Conscious
that
the opinion of
the civilized world is against him, he has made one attempt after another on Shakespeare's works, reading and re-reading
them in Russian, English and German; but "I invariably underwent
the same feelings; repulsion, weariness and bewilderment". Now, at
the age of seventy-fi
mircea_popescu: pretty much owned optics 100 years ago, moreso
than
the us or china own computing.
shinohai loves Soviet vaccum
tubes in his guitar amp.
punkman: there's a few soviet factories
that still make decent lenses by
the way
☟︎ punkman: you can't really get anything but "cheapest" from china
these days
mircea_popescu: obviously cheapest
that can be had
today is worse
than most expensive
that could be had 30 years ago.
punkman: I have not measured other
than casual use of
them
punkman: mircea_popescu: certainly modern lenses did get better, but
the cheap chinese lenses on ebay are rarely better
than cheap vintage glass
mircea_popescu: it went nowhere. but i guess if
the govt gets involved it'll be a great success.