asciilifeform: 'Two Secret Service agents suspected of being under the influence while striking a White House security barricade drove through an active bomb investigation and directly beside the suspicious package, according to current and former government officials familiar with the incident.'

asciilifeform: the other Rs that can be measured without removal are correct

asciilifeform: and this is one part. 'won't eat whole egg to see how rotten'

asciilifeform: and theirs... from mars ?

asciilifeform: except that my R is light-blue and japanese

asciilifeform: mine look quite like this

asciilifeform: so long as they don't float off the pads - no problem

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: placing is usually fairly exact, but they tend to float during reflow a bit

asciilifeform: also sent to vendor

asciilifeform: under enough magnification to show that marking is correct

asciilifeform: on the flip side, all the folks who laughed at me for slowly grunting to build own p&p fab, can begin to consider stopping laughing now...

asciilifeform: funnily, if it were a digital device (e.g., the mainboard) it'd have probably worked

asciilifeform: wondered what was the catch - turns out, this.

asciilifeform: no one can offer this particular good for the advertised price.

asciilifeform: now mostly pissed at self for falling for this nonsense

asciilifeform: but now find it very hard to believe that it will work to spec, before

asciilifeform: And was going to order another, much larger, device made at your shop,

asciilifeform: And now I don't have them.

asciilifeform: 'I will ship them back, but I needed working sample units -this week-.

asciilifeform: on to prevent any future issues. If you are able to provide us a test procedure, we will be happy to use that to verify the boards before sending them back to you.'

asciilifeform: I will have our reels of 470 Ohm resistors verified first thing in the morning. I'd like to send you a return label in the morning to send the boards back, so that we can review the work on the boards and verify and replace any parts which are not testing at their required values. Additionally, this step would help us to determine what has gone wrong in the assembly and why your components are not operating within specificati

asciilifeform: 'That is very strange indeed. All of the house parts we currently carry are supplied by Digikey and Mouser, and are name-brand parts. At this moment, we only stock and only order parts from US vendors who are authorized vendors for the components we purchase. (This is why our BoM tool will often list parts as unavailable, even if they can be found at non-US or non-authorized dealers.)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: filesystem specifically for blockchain storage << i spoke of this, right here in #b-a

asciilifeform: on the thing itself

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is at least one part where all four instances differ by a factor of ~2 from the marked value.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: again, there is no detectable trace of a mistake in their procedure or in the physical board

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: nah through 'orbitz'

asciilifeform: decimation: aha lol sure. these are going in my butterfly collection.

asciilifeform also chumped, out of 75 bux. did not really expect the thing to work

asciilifeform: and the motherfuckers knew that, of course.

asciilifeform: but it isn't happening in time for c3