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asciilifeform: 'better' in the sense that 1) it easily beats the controlled-air-puff dispenser i was using previously, which is almost unusably inaccurate and,
asciilifeform: but - golden toilet.
asciilifeform: and yes all of this could theoretically be bought.
decimation: so you are going to build a 'better' glue squirter
asciilifeform: but quite difficult to achieve given the tolerances of a cheap desktop non-cnc lathe.
assbot: Logged on 23-07-2014 03:10:06; asciilifeform: state of the art, it turns out, is 'auger valve' - think: small archimedes screw.
asciilifeform: at chinese factories, they go through astounding quantities of such needles when dispensing glue - hence cheap.
decimation: no the auger valve you wrote about a few months ago
asciilifeform: that's the single solitary part that's actually readily available off the shelf, a dime a dozen.
decimation: yep. what about the little micro-screw-needle
asciilifeform: more or less obvious from the link, no ?
asciilifeform: (only the pieces with the red flow diagram depicted)
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: approximately the gadget pictured here: http://www.dispensetips.com/pages/piston.html
asciilifeform just emerged from ~4 hrs of lathe work, does in fact appreciate the difficulty of apparently simple things. but the extant computing stack - is still a pile of shit.
asciilifeform: the only thing intrinsically necessary is a compact way to tell the photomask printer what to do...
decimation: but much of that stuff is redundant
decimation: I guess I'm thinking "must recreate xilinux crapware, mentor graphics crapware, & various glue code"
asciilifeform: when you strip away the crapolade.
asciilifeform: very few of these things feel 'impressive' after you learn just how intrinsically simple all of our tech stack is
decimation: I remember when beos was a thing, raging fast, low latency. too bad it petered out
asciilifeform: decimation: netlist << nope. the actual masks, ready for tapeout.
asciilifeform: decimation: does the vlsi design exist (presumably in vhdl) << afaik it was lisp from day 1 (mit cadr was hand-drawn, after that - 'ourobourus'-like tail-eating iterative design...)
TheNewDeal: ;;later tell ThickAsThieves any response on that foia yet?
decimation: it would be interesting if some rich prince 'rescued' the symbolics assets just for shits
asciilifeform: decimation: i asked dan schmidt whether he'd sell it - he answered that he won't, it's in some kind of eternal legal limbo (sub-licensed somewhere, or the like.)
asciilifeform: decimation: vlsi design software << yes, it was. and they actually... used it.
BingoBoingo: Not ignoring so much as distracted, and the Google is a thing
TheNewDeal: Just rapid-fired like 20 questions. Feel free to ignore them
TheNewDeal: Is that the year mt gox switched over from Magic the Gathering cards ;)
BingoBoingo: Well, really it was probably the first year
TheNewDeal: So it did cross 1:1 and 10:1 in 2011. I'd say that's an up year
TheNewDeal: Wasn't sure if it went 10 / 1 in the same year, or if that was the next.
decimation: as I recall it was the summer of 2011
BingoBoingo: And interesting question, right before it dropped to 0.7
TheNewDeal: when did the btc / usd ratio go > 1 ?
BingoBoingo: I mean last fall was the anomalie in that it has a rally whereas 2011 and 2012... stagnation...
TheNewDeal: And bitcoin years are like the hypothetical dog years
peterl: my tea leaves are saying RALLY!!!
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Maybe we measure time differently...
mircea_popescu: this is why it's ta :D
mircea_popescu: peterl there's a latency. heavy no bets came in this week, perhaps not balanced oyut yet
peterl: so to get yes on brk-a bet, at this point btc would have to get over 666 usd, that doesn't seem that high yet bitbet is favoring no
mircea_popescu: this is perhaps the only point of technical analysis with any merit.
BingoBoingo: Right. While $600 to $400 this years was what... one, two months? It Bitcoin the falls are long and labored, but the rallies...
mircea_popescu: someone stands to make a cool mn or somethign.
mircea_popescu: if that yeses out... o boy.
assbot: BitBet - 1BTC >= $10,000 USD :: 75 B (9%) on Yes, 755.29 B (91%) on No | closing in 1 month 3 weeks | weight: 15`525 (100`000 to 1)
BingoBoingo: Fuck, there's still time for http://bitbet.us/bet/635/1btc-10-000-usd/ to get interesting which could really drive up the Berkshire pot
mircea_popescu: that's the thing, by now the action there is fabulous
mircea_popescu: now this im sure
decimation: if the scenario that peterl proposes comes remotely true, I suspect it will get love
BingoBoingo: The berkshire bet coul break 10k btc easily if BTC hits $700 in three months
decimation: really the bet is brillant pr. media idiots love far-off artificial deadlines with artificial drama
mircea_popescu: esp if there's an upset
mircea_popescu: a bet that was at 3k 6months out could conceivably end up in the 5-6 figures.
peterl: I suppose the billion dollar bet could hit yes if btc/usd price and amount bet each go up ~30x
mircea_popescu: day of the good q's
decimation: that was my question. the follow-up question being: does the vlsi design exist (presumably in vhdl)?
ben_vulpes: <decimation> what intrigued me was the mention of the vlsi design software that was written in lisp << me too. has the source been lost?
cazalla: lol paypal increasing charge back period from 45 days to 180
thestringpuller: the b-h will 99% likely resolve yes too
thestringpuller: if the billion dollar bet resolves yes
thestringpuller: damn that would be a phenomenon of sorts
peterl: is it more likely that 2 million bitcoins will be bet on that bet or that the price of bitcoin will rise 1000x?
assbot: BitBet - Billion dollar bet? :: 1.01 B (15%) on Yes, 5.72 B (85%) on No | closing in 5 months 1 week| weight: 96`757 (100`000 to 1)
assbot: BitBet - Alibaba shares above 115 before November 25th :: 0.08 B (47%) on Yes, 0.09 B (53%) on No | closing in 1 month 3 weeks | weight: 92`819 (100`000 to 1)
mircea_popescu: a nm thought it
mircea_popescu: don't even have to do anywthing ?
mircea_popescu: they're suspending these people now for what they SAY ?!
assbot: ESPN Suspends Bill Simmons Three Weeks Over Goodell Criticism
BingoBoingo: Oh there's a media outlet worse than Vox.com >> http://deadspin.com/espn-suspends-bill-simmons-three-weeks-over-goodell-cri-1638842937/+aleksanderchan
decimation: what intrigued me was the mention of the vlsi design software that was written in lisp
decimation: asciilifeform: I watched the Kalman Reti smbx video, got a flavor of the unqiueness of symbolics hardware
BingoBoingo: Time to go short on corn prices http://www.bnd.com/2014/09/24/3418932/local-corn-growers-expect-best.html
mod6: oh, and RagnarDanneskjol, if you see that P2P pool changes its name to something else, let me know. thanks!
atcbot: [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 0 TH/s
atcbot: [P2P Hashrate]: 1.39 TH/s
atcbot: >> No data returned from CoinMiner.net << [PityThePool Hashrate]: 0.00 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 0 TH/s [P2P Hashrate]: 1.39 TH/s
mircea_popescu: basically tardstalk is by now goons trolling goons.
fluffypony: where is the "fluffypony - a legend's legend?" forum post
mircea_popescu: dude all these ephemereal legends nobody heard of, nobody'll hear of.
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fluffypony: xmj: not yet, it's on the list
xmj: ever found a minion to create+submit a port for it that we could commit?
mircea_popescu: i thought she was banned.
fluffypony: and literally all we did was roll a couple of extra checkpoints just in case, and asked exchanges to suspend deposits / withdrawals on the presumption of fireworks
fluffypony: I was TOLD there would be fireworks
assbot: The Monero Free For All Thread
mircea_popescu: ;;isitdown trilema.com
mircea_popescu: ;;isdown trilema.com
mod6: RagnarDanneskjol: yeah, I noticed that. I'll work on it.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2014 14:10:58; mircea_popescu: hey fluffypony do you plan to eventually sell the monero idea here once it reaches some sort of maturity or do you just plan to wait indefinitely for b-a to figure it out ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2014#823434 < that. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: so technically spewaking i'm all out.
fluffypony: oh shit I didn't even see that
assbot: The Truth About Monero's Risto Pietila (rpietila XMR)
fluffypony: where's that from
mircea_popescu: "Fluffypony, mircea popescu's asslicking troll buddy, watch out for these disinformation merchants also"
assbot: What the Fuck is a Hashlet? | Bingo Blog
BingoBoingo: So the Virtual girlfriend <hashlet> fanboys found my post http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/08/29/what-the-fuck-is-a-hashlet/#comment-35912