asciilifeform: btw seekrit : 100% of tecan internals are rebranded 'cavro', if you get a hold of the orig. documents from the latter, you have ~all of it.

asciilifeform: 'Buttons representing each of the 27 slide positions occupy most of the space on this panel. Clicking on a button will open the slide editor. ' << cringe. even here, guiolade

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wouldja believe, it was also this toy with a sprint to jump on...

asciilifeform: if your fluid's triple point is close to room temp, can do exotic, e.g. vapourize it and condence on a cold pin point

asciilifeform: kanzure: if it's veeery small, use a saw resonator, there's your valve, 100Mhz easy

asciilifeform: i have a similar story, but from adulthood and with severl $k of parts that 'hey these all defective, thefuq' and at the end an overvolted ps that had nuked'em all one by one by one..

asciilifeform: would load config from a cf card, and little round knob for setting which of 8 .bit files it'd use on boot

asciilifeform: i had a xilinx board (shaped like pc mobo, with pci even ) that had this feature

asciilifeform: ideally box will write own config rom. ( have a bank of'em , with mechanical selector, for when you make mistake )

asciilifeform: re the archs -- lattice ice is analogous to children's toy 'lego' where you get 9,000 identical bricks; xilinx ( and altera, and the 'adult' lattice fpga on fancy dev boards ) are analogous to... i guess the 'erector' toy, where there are a certain number of fungible pieces, but also ~a~ motor, ~a~ heavy iron base, a quantity of gears, etc. ☟︎

asciilifeform: spyked: it does not seem to be disastrously bad, surprisingly. but i have yet to try it with a large design. ( also helps that the chip is small, a truly elephantine circuit will never be entered )

asciilifeform: ( and are the reason why xilinx has not been satisfactorily reversed a la ice, and not likely to be before going out of print )

asciilifeform: ( this is a rough measure, because not all LUTs are created equal, naturally, xilinx has somewhat different ones in the cpld series vs 'spartans', and lattice has yet different, and altera -- yet different, etc )

asciilifeform: ( though last i saw it was a straight conversion from the ttl schematic, and not especially compact, might need one of the larger chips )

asciilifeform: ( connect as a hypercube, or on a crossbar, or whichever. )

asciilifeform: where , you know, you gotta devote an entire comp to running a 20GB closed warez, and it does ?????.

asciilifeform: you can get ANYTHING you want on a xilinx board, phf

asciilifeform: phf: that looks like a xilinx

asciilifeform: ( 'buspirate', or whateverthehellduino with olimex's supplied proggy, and a few others, will work )

asciilifeform: there are jtag pins but they are unpopulated, and you'll have to tweezer a resistor off to get the thing to use the ice's internal eeprom instead of the external 2Mb spi rom, if you want to use those

asciilifeform: olimex's ice board dun have a built-in programmator.

asciilifeform: ( can use their olimexduino thing + 10pin cable, or if you have a similar already )

asciilifeform: spyked: you'll also want something to use as a programmator

asciilifeform: from skull of voltaire as a boy.

asciilifeform: al of money. Apple CEO Tim Cook told his employees that the company is donating $1 million to the SPLC and would match employee contributions two to one. Cook also placed an SPLC donation button in its iTunes store. The company is additionally providing a $1 million donation to the Anti-Defamation League.'

asciilifeform: 'Richard Cohen, president and chief executive officer of the SPLC, was given $346,218 in base compensation in 2015 ..... The SPLC, which claims to boast a staff of 75 lawyers who practice in the area of children's rights, economic justice, immigrant justice, LGBT rights, and criminal justice reform, reported spending only $61,000 on legal services in 2015. Following recent violence in Charlottesville, Va., the group raised a great de

asciilifeform: ank accounts. It is a huge red flag and would have been completely unacceptable to any wealthy, responsible, experienced board member who was committed to a charitable mission who I ever worked with."'

asciilifeform: '"I've never known a US-based nonprofit dealing in human rights or social services to have any foreign bank accounts," said Amy Sterling Casil, CEO of Pacific Human Capital, a California-based nonprofit consulting firm. "My impression based on prior interactions is that they have a small, modestly paid staff, and were regarded by most in the industry as frugal and reliable. I am stunned to learn of transfers of millions to offshore b

asciilifeform: ' The SHA-3 version of Keccak being proposed appears to provide essentially the same level of security guarantees as SHA-2, its predecessor. If we are going to develop a next generation hash, there certainly should be standardized versions that provide a higher security level than the older hash functions! NIST, in the original call for submissions, specifically asked for four versions in each submission, with at least two that would

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's an ada keccak published decade ago that was not, at first glance, defective in any obvious way, and is a few pgs. but asciilifeform has not yet formally audited.

asciilifeform: in particular, to work out what the minimal ( with engineering margin, a la miller-rabin ) number of lubypackets would be.

asciilifeform: also error-tolerant, by virtue of lubyism, you can afford to lose a few packets, how many depends on what you have left over.

asciilifeform: now you feed S to blumblumshub prng, and generate your soliton distribution. this consists of a series of lists, each of the form {Qa, Qb, ... Qc} where Q_ are indices of the parcels

asciilifeform: now you fire up yer fuckgoat and get a blumblumshub seed, S, S <= R.

asciilifeform: P could be a MB, TB, whichever.

asciilifeform: say yer signing a payload, P bytes, P > R .

asciilifeform: i'm starting to think that mircea_popescu's su-era ro was a very unlike beast from su per se

asciilifeform: i dun think 300 buys a doghouse there, within 3 hrs of anywhere.

asciilifeform: ( d00d wasn't a monkey, had an actual skill, even, a db massageur and imho a good one )

asciilifeform: ... or maybe not even. i met people who get 20 here in ye olde swamp and still have a flat to himself, rather than barrack

asciilifeform: shinohai: i had a somewhat nonstandard 'bootcamp' tour.

asciilifeform: and without even a bot...

asciilifeform: ( summary: partizan boy going barmy; column is advancing, but he stops to shoot a hitler poster in the mud. each bullet he imagines unbombs a house, underds buncha prisoners 'from' gasenwagen, armies disassemble, etc, time unwinds. )

asciilifeform: y'mean there's still a hole b/w there and mircea_popescu's eulora kitchen ?! big enough for ants ?

asciilifeform: when usg does this to halfwit dissenters, it's a schizo diagnosis and a one way ticket to padded room

asciilifeform: fraud ( or murder, watever ) under usg krysha is a-ok, who's about to punish it

asciilifeform: also bonus, i expect they are working to kick the dog, hoping for a mcveigh