asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu has point, he has 9000x moar painless workflow re photos
asciilifeform: right, and lotsa good photoreportage , i suspect it helps that mircea_popescu can plug camera almost straight to bl0g w/out sweating
asciilifeform back in '07 sewed his php wp with 'fascism' , it can only write to db, not to disk directly ; so was never able to use the bitmap processing , www uploader, related, features
asciilifeform unsurprisingly found 0 record of anyone having ever done this for any purpose whatsoever .
asciilifeform: thinking again today about this , and dug, found in fact that toshiba & coupla others offer ~single~ cell led<->photovoltaic pieces. and that could prolly connect these in series for the desired effect...
asciilifeform: at any rate that's merely 1 example .
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i fucking hate laces tho
asciilifeform: dun think it was in these ; but since i can't recall exactly where , could be wrong
asciilifeform goes to look, but -- as usual -- comes up empty
asciilifeform: diana_coman: pretty sure this line was in log
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i even went and looked among the 'audiophile' idjits -- y'know, the folx who attach rubidium clocks to their cd players 'for cleaner wave', buy holy water, operate factory in texas where 9v batteries (yes) still made with 1940 tech (why, cannot say, but 'for Troo Authentic sound' somewhere...) -- nodice
asciilifeform: it's imho a fucktonne moar obvious than some of the shit sold for similar purpose (e.g. piezo transformers, work a++ but entirely unsuitable, cuz, again, oscillator)
asciilifeform: ( to take trivial example : at one time i designed a 'fg 2' that uses scintillator crystal . background radiation is moar than enuff to make this go. however also need a reverse-biased large surface diode for detecting pulses. these need a clean (i.e. not from oscillating converter) ~60 volt. then thought : 'this is simple, all would need is 20 x 3v photocells in series, in epoxy. surely someone sells this !! guess wat. )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if only it were only mircea_popescu who regularly discovers this...
asciilifeform wonders whether motorcyclists all buy 'pret a porter' or there is in fact tailor somewhere who works these
asciilifeform: this makes sense. tailored, as in , fella with measuring tape, measures.
asciilifeform: in related sads, those boots i got in ro, finally fell apart, from daily abuse
asciilifeform in ar saw such abundance of leather briefcases, coats, etc. at the flea markets, such that will prolly never see again, and all imho mighty fine, and for pennies. i still regret not buying any.
asciilifeform: there are ( were ? ) people who knew how to leather .
asciilifeform: lobbes: often enuff, pieces that only ~hours~ old, evaporate
asciilifeform: or, to reformulate, they 'all pedos' for same reason theatrical puppets have string loops
asciilifeform suspects that 'pedo is the new faggotry' in the 19th c brit sense , i.e. 'want to be toady of hitler? gotta give him some primo kompromat for you'
asciilifeform: in the early days, iirc mircea_popescu scoffed that 'spending fat dough to fly steel sheets' but they're in fact the magick ingredient that gets the internals through orc customs .
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the off-the-shelf selection for these is annoyingly limited (and expensive) imho
asciilifeform for next go-around , perhaps will get sheet metal bending machine and may as well make the 1u cages from sheets also.
asciilifeform: it's how traditional pc chassis gets its mb legs. so imho oughta suffice.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: update : turns out the particular iron dun weld very well. i'ma use pneumatic riveter like normal people, with these.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: thing will run on a conventional atx (1u) ps , incidentally.
asciilifeform: 'climacs' seems to be one of those 'cursed' items where errybody who touches it ends up lost to madness
asciilifeform: was gabriel_laddel the last 1 of these alive ?
asciilifeform: trinque: do you know, perchance, whatever happened to the 'climacs' people ?
asciilifeform: re emacs scriptolade -- really gotta keep it clean, for, if nuffin else -- the fact that it uses a 1970s style lisp where 'stop-the-world gc' is in use , not really meant for heaviweight programmatism
asciilifeform: the logotron kit takes list of known bots (past, present) in config , already, for the www displayer
asciilifeform: trinque: per mircea_popescu's spec, it aint a bug. ( and to switch it off, imho The Right Thing is simply to look against list of bots )
asciilifeform: trinque: aa, so you jettisoned some scriptolade, rather than emacs per se. i misread.
asciilifeform: meanwhile: BingoBoingo : 1st crate of rk's is here.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did anyone ever find out where esthlos went ?
asciilifeform: ( would need at least the comment knob tho, as i understand it is presently missing )
asciilifeform: spyked: 'I still haven't genesized The Tar Pit; by the way, is there anyone else out there interested in using it?' << me. i'ma be moving my www and quite interested in all approaches to de-php-izing . and you have imho a++ visual coat on yours.
asciilifeform: ( the only stone-dead link, is mikec )
asciilifeform: spyked: errybody else on the list, is actively alive.
