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asciilifeform: tbh i'm not especially hot an' bothered about a license-built-from-usa mips.
mircea_popescu: don't tell me ivan a ivanov is not a real name either!
mircea_popescu: the entirety of us economy consists not of principals but of agents. why would anyone hire a full servcie broker to churn their holdings ? because they get paid on commission!
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform wrote a mips in school and i bet phf also did )
mircea_popescu: cuz they work on a comission.
mircea_popescu: you're too focused on what's here evidently a minor add-on.
mircea_popescu: a, you think ?
mircea_popescu: aite, a second.
mircea_popescu: thenh negotiation can begin : we leave off wiping the us ; they leave off the nda, it's a give and take process.
mircea_popescu: nothing beats 1.5m from hips to floor wanting to see director. certainly not a letter.
asciilifeform: actually you can't go 5km in washington region without seeing it on a shelf, surprisingly
asciilifeform: presently i'm not convinced that 'baikal' cpu exists -- experience suggests that it's an elbrus, a small handful of physical items for ru army and a large stack of imaginary bezzle cpus which actually turned into swiss gold and florida mansions for various scum instead of into cpu
mircea_popescu: anyway, to repurpose an ustardism, "in a world starved of whorish talent, it is hard to lose money hiring sophomores from moscow u."
mircea_popescu: phf` go to moscow, incorporate, hire a coupla hookers at the moscow uni, pref 2nd/3rd year, send one to baikal once you're done fucking them ?
asciilifeform: looks like we have a man for this job...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik you can't incorporate in ru w/out a resident
mircea_popescu: here's a thought : incorporate in moscow, hire a coupla call girls, pay their salary and send them to find you pieces.
phf`: asciilifeform: not a friend, a ru reverser that i've spoken to, presumably he accepts hardware from all givers https://zeptobars.com
mircea_popescu: a right
mircea_popescu: there's a reason alf hates interruptions.
mircea_popescu: a woman that'd make a great wife STILL HAS TO spend more than a few weeks on one man to achieve that potential.
gabriel_laddel_p: rocket explosion + failure of a PATRIOT missile to hit its target, resulting in 28 deaths.
asciilifeform: float arithmetic is a 20th c mistake
gabriel_laddel_p: I was hanging out with aerospace ppl, one of whom works on computer aircraft software -- gave him the function in question and told him it had a floating point error, asked what it was
asciilifeform: incidentally iirc phf` had a phriend with access to subj
gabriel_laddel_p: "send $ to a phone #!"
mircea_popescu: is there an english equivalent to the ancient romanian "an idiot throws a stone overboard and ten philosophers can't fish it back out" ?
gabriel_laddel_p: I can't imagine this would take more than 5 days + a bunch of coffee.
mircea_popescu: "eight." "eight what ?" "eight million. when i was a kid i figured you had to get eight million together to be considered a legitimate rich guy. so i got busy".
gabriel_laddel_p: trinque: no, a complete list of hardware items + review
gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform: I have a partial list of hardware related items from the logs.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: you're missing a couplea zeros
mircea_popescu: it might provide fine support for alf to transition from the phase of "i can't write a trilema" to the phase of "there it is, read it
asciilifeform: 'hmm was that 1 matrox in '98 any good? or was it a hercules..'
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: this would take a rather long time. and i'm not convinced that the result would be very interesting
gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform: this pattern where hardware is named in-channel and then you comment on it is highly inefficient. How much would you charge (USD, via paypal/venmo) to iterate through a-zA-Z, 0-9, #\! thru #\) and name each and every item of computer hardware related to it you possibly can + give a review. Then to encrypt the resulting text file to a
mircea_popescu: miught make a fine offering for the eventual tmsr isp, just as soon as anyone gets off their intellectual arse and actually starts living life instead of dreaming it.
asciilifeform: it uses conductive, rather than convective, cooling, however, could be problem in a hot dc
asciilifeform: you can fit iirc 8 of'em in a traditional 1u
mircea_popescu: anyway, as far as "headless whatever" item is concerned trinque it seems to me something you can rack is a better choice than something you gotta keep around the house / out of dog's mouth etc.
mircea_popescu: this is probably a good thing.
asciilifeform: but relates, because 'make isolating nic for x86' is not a solvable problem, it is a gabriel_laddelism -- for one thing, such a device is already available, it is called usb nic. but is hog-slow, for fundamental reasons (polled i/o)
asciilifeform: how to architect fpga box is separate conversation, and iirc mircea_popescu had a pretty good handle on it.
trinque: and what of teenagers being expendable and this being a vastly undertapped resource?
mircea_popescu: no, have motherboard design where the "dma" is a specified bank, and the cpu ram is a different bank ; and let it call whichever it specifically wants.
trinque: I dunno what strategic sense it makes to as yet have no mechanical way to stamp out a full trb node
mircea_popescu: so tmsr computing wishlist goes a) ram insulating motherboard ; b) fully open nic to fuckgoats standards.
asciilifeform: trinque: right. apu2 has a fritzed cpu however.
asciilifeform: trinque: one nice thing is that the apu1 had 3 pci-m holes. so if a proper nic existed, you could potentially install it.
mircea_popescu: if the idea is "this stove is not intended to work as a gun" then you can't justify buying lens clearing fluid for the stove's scope.
trinque: it's less a bedroom and more pissing off the balcony
asciilifeform: a certain qty of them -- remains in stock, in various places.
mircea_popescu: soldered a raspi inside a pizza carton, sold as "nofucks" or somesuch
asciilifeform: and this in a box the size of, approx, vhs tape.
asciilifeform: plus a proper (rs232 signal level) serial port.
mircea_popescu: still, apu1 with pre-checked gentoo install as a commodity router/webserver is sound approach.
trinque: thing is, this recipe shall work provided a particular kernel config for particular box
asciilifeform: and presoldered sage header. (doesn't come with a sage box, however, unlike 'gizmo1')
asciilifeform: 'gizmo2' is a slightly moar 'human' box, it has hdmi port even
trinque: worthwhile I think to define a noob-box of some standard which can be yet purchased.
asciilifeform: trinque: apu2 will run a node. so would a slightly cheaper intel box, and with - turns out - same amount of 'nsa inside'.
trinque: apu2 will sit down a node, run their weechat or w/e
trinque: but this may not be a problem for noobs, worth arguing
asciilifeform: ( there isn't, i will add, a 'lowest common denominator' solution for those. )
trinque: this thing shits down a userland fs, kernel, lilo, and so long / thanks for teh fish
trinque: what I'd oppose is say, "and what if folks want to use it as a router, or NAS, or hair-net"
a111: Logged on 2017-05-11 17:27 asciilifeform: incidentally this'd be a good adjunct to pete_dushenski et al's 'peers' patch : see FROM WHOM a fresh node got each block.
trinque: at any rate totally willing to hear a list of modules you see everyone should have.
asciilifeform: plenty of 'meta' modules (i.e. not iron-specific) without which it is questionable that you have a usable box. for instance, TUN.
asciilifeform: trinque: i'm particularly curious re how you trimmed modules. many crapolade modules don't give any obvious indication that they are useless, there is no mechanism for generating a list of 'THESE we actually need, because of the installed iron, and these -- not' ☟︎
asciilifeform: (). In addition to the handling of hotkey/function key strokes, all key-scancode information [2] is written into a logfile in a world-readable path (C:\Users\Public\MicTray.log)...'
asciilifeform: 'Conexant's MicTray64.exe is installed with the Conexant audio driver package and registered as a Microsoft Scheduled Task to run after each user login. The program monitors all keystrokes made by the user to capture and react to functions such as microphone mute/unmute keys/hotkeys. Monitoring of keystrokes is added by implementing a low-level keyboard input hook [1] function that is installed by calling SetwindowsHookEx
asciilifeform: you end up with either massive hog kernel 'with everything', or with a thing married to particular iron
trinque: didn't use an old vintage, but nothing prevents it. do you have a preference?
asciilifeform: trinque: what didja use for a kernel ?
asciilifeform: incidentally this'd be a good adjunct to pete_dushenski et al's 'peers' patch : see FROM WHOM a fresh node got each block. ☟︎
trinque a little sad to find the thing's neutered, but the updated infectious genbootstrap will work as well on the other, or any other device with kernel module tweaking
asciilifeform: it syncs when hits a fellow trb by accident and that's mostly it.
asciilifeform: also ftr imho 'sync in the wild' is a waste of time, it simply doesn't work, 'wild' contains ~no nodes that actually serve old blox on request.
trinque: imagine a train for your blocks and you've got it.
mircea_popescu: seems to me he's ~ a modernist reflection of the pre ww2 court system. blaming him for having a postwar reinterpretation of a rabbiniucal court seems rather strange.
mircea_popescu: well, what's the alternative, "of a good man - i am fond twice, of a bad man - not even once" ?
mircea_popescu: he's, basically, a jew.
phf`: i think that my initial dissatisfaction with socialism was partially due to chomsky: a flat graph of equal weights with nodes all alike
phf`: i appreciate chomsky, he gave me a useful analytical tool of considering social and economic dynamic systems in terms of dependency graphs (which doesn't necessarily preclude lizard hitler, but allows for wider range of topologies that includes lizard hitler along all others)
mircea_popescu: a la brin say.
mircea_popescu: now, to sum this up -- it's not that i'm a huge chomski fan or anything ; but it is that if the scaffolding were build up in stanford square and the guillotine ready, i'd have serious problem signing off on chomski ; and some obscure dudes in the sciences depts.
mircea_popescu: now, obviously any bureaucracy aka club of the intellectually lazy will secrete insulating cocoon around such a fellow, in the shape of "oh, he's the delegated weirdsayer".
phf`: i suspect americans know of chomsky because he's got a funny name. like zizhek or solzhenitcin. if you can pronounce it correctly you're probably also into opera and appreciating wine
mircea_popescu: well apparently by your theory not anyone with half a mil.
asciilifeform: other thing - going to usa isn't hard; even visa isn't hard ; ~anyone can buy 'green card' for half a mil $ or what was it.
mircea_popescu: in fact, my interest in computers at the time was comparable with your interest in machine guns today. a little bit of history and occasionally maybe have one in the house.
mircea_popescu: i was still mp before bitcoin, just a) you had no way to summon the interest and b) i had no interest to you know, maintain an irc connection like the link with the chest of the covenant.
mircea_popescu: dude, bitcoin is a life changing event for everyone else.
mircea_popescu: let me point out that a) i visited, when i felt like ; b) they gave me a 10 year visa back in 2000. i was one of the i dunno, maybe dozen romanians with one, at the time ? c) they fucking held the embassy open while my driver was going 100 on the wrong way in bucharest because i met some friends and got to drinking and we lost track of time and we were late. eventually got a police escort to do it under color of law at least, ☟︎
asciilifeform: you can represent this as a choice, but it is disingenuous and i gotta go change gas mask canister
mircea_popescu: and if i felt like doing a phd with whoevere the fuck, i'd have that, also.
mircea_popescu: dude, that is a matter of MY choice.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-10 16:34 asciilifeform: right. i dun mean the physical box, mircea_popescu . i meant 'in my head, i dun have a trilema' to say.
mircea_popescu: a tribunal made of alf and working on alf principle as above, would hang alf for... http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-10#1654187 ☝︎