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BingoBoingo: Now is floating bag *really* a problem? Or a warning
mircea_popescu: this might well be a problem. will require some research.
mircea_popescu: well what, you're not taking them on a fucking cruise. coupla hundred knots offshore.
mircea_popescu: and a coupla kgs of plastic WAY cheaper than 10kg chain + 50kg brick
shinohai: Would cause a mess of algae!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't want to feed the fishes too much at a time.
shinohai: Should I assemble a ship and crew?
mircea_popescu: sea dumping in plastic wrapping ensures they dissolve over time, sort-of like a slow release pill for the ocean.
mircea_popescu: build vacupack units, keep them fed with biomaterial (plastic, schmucks), dump the results at sea. a 100tdw ship should be able to carry 1mn of the shitheads at a time. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-08 03:37 mod6: Mr. Popescu, Lords, and General Assembly: Today, I'd like to take a moment to observe and congratulate The Most Serene Republic on it's Third Independence Day!
a111: Logged on 2017-11-06 16:55 shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-06#1733204 Got you a native packed and ready to go: http://btcinfo.sdf.org/uploads/chinagirl.webm
a111: Logged on 2017-11-08 03:37 mod6: Mr. Popescu, Lords, and General Assembly: Today, I'd like to take a moment to observe and congratulate The Most Serene Republic on it's Third Independence Day!
BingoBoingo: And the motivation: ""Taylor's political silence appeared to be a rejection of her peers' support of the inclusive Democrat platform," Herning wrote. "Taylor's silence is not innocent, it is calculated. And if that is not true, she needs to state her beliefs out loud for the world... in America 2017, silence in the face of injustice means support for the oppressor.""
BingoBoingo: "Taylor's lyrics in "Look What You Made Me Do" seem to play to the same subtle, quiet white support of a racial hierarchy. Many on the alt-right see the song as part of a "re-awakening," in line with Trump's rise. At one point in the accompanying music video, Taylor lords over an army of models from a podium, akin to what Hitler had in Nazi Germany. The similarities are uncanny and unsettling."
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> stationary gens have quite large radiator. << That internal resistance is a bitch
mod6: Mr. Popescu, Lords, and General Assembly: Today, I'd like to take a moment to observe and congratulate The Most Serene Republic on it's Third Independence Day! ☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: (nansen was a grandiosely misfortunate norwegian that eminently didn't get to the north pole TWICE, nearly died each time)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re 'fram, ursul polar' -- the ancient ЗИЛ-like fridge in 'museum of communist konsoomer' is a 'fram' ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 23:16 mircea_popescu: and most of the weight of the 30kg generator that needs a fuckming crane to move comfortably is the fucking engine, which guess what, i already have.
asciilifeform: ('ultrawideband' people demoed some quite impressive items, e.g. a 500 picowatt thing that was picked up 200km away, etc )
asciilifeform: ( model it, say, as an ensemble of '9000' stations, where if any half dozen of which successfully read other end, you have a link )
asciilifeform: so imho it isn't necessarily the case that your station even has to give a shit re atmosphere.
mircea_popescu: acts as a cheap filter.
mircea_popescu: basically a sort of DDR stick on the ground.
mircea_popescu: ok, still measurable. have a km of cable coiled in between plastic foils, buried superficially, there's your mega array.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 21:37 shinohai: https://www.antena3.ro/actualitate/social/o-organizatie-anarhista-prezenta-la-protestele-de-duminica-441087.html <<< Is my Romanian really that terrible, or are they calling a meme an "anarchist organization" ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-07#1733697 << to begin with, they're calling a few hundred people "a manifestation". ro press entirely divorced with any sort of recognizable reality for many years now. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 20:29 asciilifeform: ( i wouldn't put it past'em to 'technical glitch' and turn off bbc for a few min. to get you to up your wattage, say )
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 20:09 asciilifeform: a budget-model pyongyang, could say.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 20:05 asciilifeform: ( which will last maybe 40 min. when actual war, but nobody seems to give a shit. )
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-07#1733587 << this is a funny application of the 7 wonders of socialism. dja know that bit ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: fwiw there is already a wifi set in ~every isp-issued kit in usa. which is basically a sdr
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-07#1733562 << this is a doubtful proposition, as the enemy is basically "idiots", and much like nature having much more energy to burn than you do, idiots are much more affixed to their idiotarian ideology than you will ever be to yours. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-07#1733558 << this is a maintenance nightmare. the fundamental reason girls get married off is that it's much more efficient to maintain a station that works rather than to maintain a station that doesn't work. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 19:02 apeloyee: to a reasonable value, but there's probably no escape from "keep moving"
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 19:00 asciilifeform: ( iirc mircea_popescu has a 800kW diesel )
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-07#1733522 << had, in ag. and yes it was readily roadable, took basically a semi tractor head to move. ☝︎
asciilifeform: other thing re 'hybrids' that asciilifeform never understood, is why to have a rotary engine at all !
mircea_popescu: i'd like a car like that, insteadof the "planet saving" bullshit.
asciilifeform: this would be a spiffy thing, welders et al would buy.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo may have the exact recipe, this is a thing welders, cement people, etc. actually do. << Called a "power take off" Standard issue on tractors. Special order on trucks.
ben_vulpes still a fan of the wrightspeed/volt model of onboard generation and electric drivetrain
ben_vulpes: not intractable, just more complicated than bolting a muxer to the driveshaft.
mircea_popescu: no you don't, you have a truck alternator on a shitty nissan.
mircea_popescu: basically a slightly overgrown common alternator, like fit for a truck, but put on car and hurr durr we have hybrids
mircea_popescu: and most of the weight of the 30kg generator that needs a fuckming crane to move comfortably is the fucking engine, which guess what, i already have. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: for one thing, inductive load is generally 3x the rated draw. 3kw is not a fucking ac unit for instance.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo may have the exact recipe, this is a thing welders, cement people, etc. actually do.
asciilifeform: well yes convertible, there's a clutch
mircea_popescu: that's not what i want. i want a washingmachine dynamo i can put in the back of the truck and take to middle of nowhere for tailgate party with megawatt power available.
mircea_popescu: i don't want that crap. i want a unit the size of washing machine.
mircea_popescu: that thing is like 1.5mn and the size of a room
asciilifeform: or rather, a modern non-orc incarnation
mircea_popescu: yes but i mean, on sale as a product.
mircea_popescu: i want an unit which lifts up the bridge, plugs into the car as if it were a wheel, and then simply converts.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 19:00 apeloyee: and where you get 100kW on a moving object
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 18:48 asciilifeform: reason is so that each station can be physically indistinguishable, from outside the door, from, e.g., a defective lift motor that arcs a bit
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-07#1733491 << for the record, these were a lot more common in soviet union than in present days. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i suppose at this juncture a moderately interesting item would be to run some for loops and see.
mircea_popescu: but otherwhise there's no excuse available to the chuchka that "washing is too hard and besides rubbing against a tree trunk is a close approximation"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-07#1733438 << let them learn how to fucking use technological civilisation, get a deedbot account and fucking charge like sane people. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 17:27 apeloyee: ......p_n are independent and uniformly distributed, then the probability of tuple of these being chosen is the same (by definition of independence), and because CRT gives a bijection, all outputs are equally likely. did I repeat myself enough?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not so, because the gap's a cone not a rectangle
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-07#1733418 << no, actually : should generate new prime by adding a byte to the extant number that failed on a PROBABILITY based index. ie, adding to offset 0 much less probable than adding to offset 4090 ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 16:41 asciilifeform: but as i currently understand, my q reduces to 'find The Formula For Primes' (tm)(r), a millenium-long headache for mathematical folx , to this day unsolved.
shinohai: Nah, kekistan is a 4chan meme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/kekistan
shinohai: https://www.antena3.ro/actualitate/social/o-organizatie-anarhista-prezenta-la-protestele-de-duminica-441087.html <<< Is my Romanian really that terrible, or are they calling a meme an "anarchist organization" ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: not only is 'turn off bbc/nasdaq/ntp to Help Nail A Terrorist' an unremarkable proposition in comparison, but prolly has existing, fully-robotic infrastructure ready to roll.
asciilifeform: it's a regular thing.
BingoBoingo: For a while big mediterranean cables were snipped similarly to likely same effect
a111: Logged on 2017-07-04 03:09 asciilifeform: in other unsurprises, 'Corrupt data that accidentally flowed out of a NASDAQ systems test caused the share prices...'
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ( i wouldn't put it past'em to 'technical glitch' and turn off bbc for a few min. to get you to up your wattage, say ) << They do it to comcast
asciilifeform: ( i wouldn't put it past'em to 'technical glitch' and turn off bbc for a few min. to get you to up your wattage, say ) ☟︎
asciilifeform: q is what is the best that can be done with simply a radio.
asciilifeform: it's a thing until it isn't
apeloyee: no externals plox << opportunistic use is a thing
apeloyee: can add a phase offset so that they are in-phase at receiver. N stations, more than N times SNR increase, but opens to attacks based on partial knowledge
apeloyee: if you needed 1W before, add a relay half-way, need 0.25W for you and relay nao. generally private relay should be a lot closer to sender. needless to say relay must re-modulate.
apeloyee: re above, at least have a hidden relay in Flyshit Forest
apeloyee: more: set up a site, bemoaning "radio intruders" on $band, stream from several nearby radios on it. the recipient can then improve SNR by subtracting whatever interference (from your POV), or estimate atmospheric conditions
asciilifeform: a budget-model pyongyang, could say. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-08-30 20:08 mircea_popescu: and the shower has a pair of buttons : if you increase the hot water debit, this drops pressure for the hot pump, which kicks in, dropping pressure for the main pump, which kicks in. and vice-versa.
asciilifeform: ( which will last maybe 40 min. when actual war, but nobody seems to give a shit. ) ☟︎
asciilifeform: e.g. ru horizon radar , eats what, half a MHz of sw, and betcha they have a massive garbage bin to put the complaints from 50 years into.
asciilifeform: q is, wat do for people who dun have a pyongyang.
asciilifeform: observe, the problem dun exist if you already have your own pyongyang and can happily put a megawatt station there and invite whoever objects, to pound sand up his arse ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: personally i'd be satisfied with a 'it costs all the king's horses and all the king's men' item.
apeloyee: hogging sw spectrum will be a simple way to make new enemy. << can reach a mutially beneficial agreement. the more transmitters, the more channel capacity, until the distortion is above noise.
asciilifeform: what happens is that 5-6 pensioners notice 'noise' and get in their trucks and df for usg for free, for a month, if it takes a month
apeloyee: via a phat pipe.
asciilifeform: quite likely 1 on 3 sides, each a few km from house, suffices.
asciilifeform: what, i gotta kill every old d00d with a discone on his roof now ?
asciilifeform: plus a good number are in orbit, so narrow down where to look quite effectively.
asciilifeform: incidentally the problem as originally stated, 'communicate across planet with a few watt, reliably, unjammably, and as close to undetectably as possible' was obsession of usg in 1940s-50s; and was declared 'solved enough' when satellite was built.
asciilifeform: it's a limited resource and whatever crowned idiots sit on whatever thrones, will claim it
asciilifeform: existing gestapo aside, consider also future enemy. because even when the empires of today are forgotten, hogging sw spectrum will be a simple way to make new enemy.
asciilifeform: because per orlov 'collapse never happens for everyone, it only happens for a particular you, one at a time'
apeloyee: most of the processing is local << if a known вредитель, that means siege. otherwise they need to exchange ~approx as much data as can be fit in spectrum. obv can't reuse the very same spectrum. hence lasers/sound/cables. can be sabotaged. them low noise receiver must cost quite some $$$.
asciilifeform: upstack : a 1w transmitter , under right conditions, can be heard across atlantic. tricky bit is how to extend this to belownoisefloor; and how to make in 'wrong' conditions.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform has nfi why he's been standing in line for years, to be gassed. evidently it is a scarce and rationed thing, like everything else in usa.