asciilifeform: i.e. 6 boxen, or 24 cpu (4 per), however you like to cut it.
asciilifeform: understand, 600 usgbux buys whole ( minus power supply ) rc pilot plant ! incl disk !!
asciilifeform: for all i know, lockheed, or harris, or ibm, etc, ship one. i was speaking strictly of boxes priced to sell, not usg circus props.
asciilifeform: one would have to be a complete idiot to buy 2 of the linked golden toilets ( supposing they were in fact for sale, which they dun appear to be, tho vendor site still alive and claiming )
asciilifeform: ( for < 2x of that figure, you get a dulap-class box, with 32 cpu, 256G ram, raid card, etc )
asciilifeform: ( how did asciilifeform find out ? happened to walk by a door of a shitbux, there was an actual printed mea culpa affixed to the door ! )
asciilifeform: the related phunphakt, is that 1) shitbux is publicly traded 2) incident made ~no visible ding on the price
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: didja catch the related lul, where all of 'starbucks' ( amer. burned/ersatz coffee chain ) was 'voluntarily' closed for entire day, to atone for some clerk somewhere having thrown out black bum
asciilifeform: who thought this was a good idea, and why, i will leave as exercise for readers.
asciilifeform: musltronic static elf does seem to contain ~something~ that varies; looks to be the right size for timestamp turd. definitely on the conveyor.☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: sorta how asciilifeform even came to musl to begin with.
asciilifeform: ( iirc mircea_popescu had a piece where 'barbarian cloinks with his hammer...' )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or those misfortunate roman mosaics, etc
asciilifeform: ( swallowed whole and largely undigested stone inside whale )
asciilifeform: well 'msdos' was ms- in same way as bsd is crapple, aha.
asciilifeform: ( nor was 'dynamic linking' a thing at all )
asciilifeform: ( recall good ol' msdos dayz, back when 'reproducible bin for same src' was something you got from ANY and EVERY compiler, and wtf, how to even conceive of having this problem )
