asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: diametric ? last i knew, he had too many childrenz, went to the same bottom of the sea as those folx tend to go to
asciilifeform: who do we have in this weight category aside from mircea_popescu ?
asciilifeform: if memory serves, the survival record for n00bz that drift so quickly to the 'how do i pay rent from this' phase, is poor
asciilifeform: d00d seems to have ~some~ spare time, neh
asciilifeform: douchebag: with the sheer abundance of unsolved boojums, even in past few wks of log, it boggles my mind why you do not pick one up and make it yer own
asciilifeform: douchebag: personally i'm not fixated on knowing how you pulled the particular trick
asciilifeform: douchebag: re works -- what do you know how to do ?
asciilifeform: ( tho ordinary fpga is moar susceptible to classical pills )
asciilifeform: i find it interesting that google's approach to building cr50 ( 'hardcopy fpga' ) is actually ~moar~ diddleable, via this method, than if they had shipped ordinary fpga
asciilifeform: ( so that they can -- lol -- sell moar non-ecc ram ... )
asciilifeform: recall ancient thread re semiconductor houses buying up hulls of sunken ww1 ships , cathedral roofs, etc
asciilifeform: ( for folx who slept through kindergarten -- garden variety alpha is 5Mev and above , strictly on acct of mass )
asciilifeform: ( the ~internal~ solder balls, which replaced ye olde gold whiskers for die to package linkage , that is )
asciilifeform: most real-world 'single event' seems to originate from alpha-emitting crapola in the chip solder balls, rather than the proverbial 'cosmic ray'
asciilifeform: on account of smaller capacitance of the circuit
asciilifeform: interestingly (and possibly surprisingly to the uninitiated) sram is actually ~moar~ sensitive to particle than dram
asciilifeform: aside from golden toilet satellite gear makers, it seems to be the fpga folks who most concern with 'single event upset' ( term of art for this item ) , as a flipped bit in fpga config , even down on earth, routinely translates into magicsmokerelease
asciilifeform: the only open documentation seems to be from semiconductor houses , there's some material from altera co, i did not bother to link ( who wants pdf ) , can prolly dredge it up again if somebody really wants
asciilifeform: ( tho with every shot there is a probability of, e.g., catastrophic latchup, short circuit , magic smoke )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 3MEv is , if the satellite folx are to be believed, squarely above the boundary where enuff energy is transferred to flip bit , but not so much as to thermonuke the semiconductor
asciilifeform: funnily enuff, open market item in ameristan.
asciilifeform: the former is a pretty blunt knife tho.
asciilifeform: hey if can get same result with a 100 $ co-60 capsule, as with 100k$ accelerator, it's a win
asciilifeform: even better if it can be aimed without latching up power supply, etc. circuitry.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you dun need nm addressing, or much of any addressing, tho, random flippage of sram would handily suffice for just about any defritzing job
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ha. hence why i said 'yes 1m, if buying usg'
asciilifeform: enemy didn't set out to make impossible wall; simply tall enuff that the headache far exceeds what anybody's willing to bother with. and to date seems to have succeeded.
asciilifeform: problem is in other direction, very very little actually interacts with half mm of si slice
asciilifeform: in other archaeology: re particle glitching : apparently even hard (100kV+) xray does ~nuffin to current-day asics , needs -- ideally -- fast neutrons (good luck finding this in jungle conditions) or at the very least hard gamma (co-60 , possibly eu-152)
asciilifeform: phf: aaaactually you can test the snake with the selfsame cbook, plug 1 end into usbc and other into the usb3 jack . in dev mode shell you will get the ttys , and can connect
asciilifeform: i suspect that he didnt swing that way
asciilifeform: there was episode where he exposed a (very fuckable) mindreading chix, on account of being the only referee who wasn't fucking her
asciilifeform: 'how did it get into arse?!' 'sleight of hand!'
asciilifeform: how d00d managed to avoid impregnating anyffing in 1900s -- is indeed good q. ( perhaps -- magic!111 )
asciilifeform: tho perhaps even confession won't suffice, sorta how conan doyle believed to the end of his days that houdini was genuinely powerful shaman, rather than stage artist
asciilifeform: i suppose this one'll only get properly settled if/when douchebag confesses☟︎
asciilifeform: and not 1 of'em asked where the promised coin is, why she's getting a fiver instead of two bitcents ?
