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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what, and pass
the chance
to scramble madly for a week ?
BingoBoingo: Prolly ought
to start ordering Rhubidium clocks for next downtime
dub: 99% of people who sell
themselves as experts at
this are probably
trying
to use 'ping'
dub: you're missing
the point, make your dudes prove
the
test suite
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i recall reading about
that, why
teh russians couldn't make good crts. quantum effects.
BingoBoingo: I've long imagined a wrist portable watch with RTG (RTG also heats crystal) I'm resigned
to knowing such a device probably wouldn't have
the power
to offer man readable
time without an unacceptable risk of wrist cancer
nubbins`: threads mean you can
twist 'em off, doesn't it?
dub: had an identical problem brought
to me after months of hand wringing by systems
teams, 30 minutes later
they had data
to smack vendor with who later admitted
to hidden NIC revisions and supplied new driver
nubbins`: england is closer
to bc, but i uh
benkay: hey nubbins` what's with
these
threaded beers you can't
twist
the
tops off of in bc?
dub: these problems almost always compounded by failure closer
to
the chair
BingoBoingo: I didn't know it was /this/ bad. I almost would rather believe
this is for people building plasma rifles on
the down low.
BingoBoingo: I kind of wonder what
the ruse it, seems like an overly strong emphasis on CD player much as
the headshops emphasize
their glass pipes are for
tobacco
benkay: <mircea_popescu> how about
the entire fucking ocean floor is a mesh network of bacteria guys // okay
dub: mircea_popescu: back
to your wire, validate your instrumentation first.
BingoBoingo: This Dontesk Republic is basically just like a standard Hollywood sequel
to
Transndstria i.e. moar explosions
mircea_popescu: bazalt.ru << click on
this, get added
to some list or
teh other.
mircea_popescu: BORODAI, Aleksandr (a.k.a. BORODAI, Alexander); DOB 25 Jul 1972; nationality Russia (individual) [UKRAINE]. <<< aww, no prime minister of donetsk republic ?
tsk
tsk
assbot: Drug-resistant bacteria: Sewage-treatment plants described as giant 'mixing vessels' after scientists discover mutated microbes in British river - Environment -
The Independent
mircea_popescu: lmao. so let me get
this straight, if putin v2.0 decides
to visit
the us,
they'll know ?
mircea_popescu: In addition,
the following individuals have been added
to OFAC's SDN List: BESEDA, Sergey
BingoBoingo: It happens because
the idiots buying miners are
the same idiots who ever bought miners
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there was some design
to make
them stable-er
than cesium and get rid of
the cs standard entirely.
assbot: Turning a rubidium standard into a proper
tool
mircea_popescu: btw, did
they ever make
that rubidium superclock
thing ?
mircea_popescu: it's equalizing over
time. hey asciilifeform ! i just got some entropy!
BigBitz: silicon/ASICs have a
tendncy
to be better
than 'shit;
BigBitz: clocks have a
tendancy
to be 'shit'
BigBitz: or it would be your machine badly
timing
the latency.
BigBitz: could just be
the ASIC on
the Switchports.
mircea_popescu: same exact model netcards. same firmware on
the netcards.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider how eminently used e coli are in
the intestines of every mammal.
mircea_popescu: "the point about women not wanting
to be used can only be appreciated by rapists". DOING IT WRONG
mircea_popescu: can anyone explain
to me why would latency be ever so slightly more going one way
through a wire
than coming
the oher way ? same identical endpoints.
mircea_popescu: anyway. someone "like us" as
the author fills
that symbol does not belong above ground anyway.
mircea_popescu: i dunno asciilifeform, i hear a lot of "please use me hard master" from some of
the higher order "nature's computers".
mircea_popescu: for all of 2011-2013 i've been strictly ignoring alts, and look at all
the
time it's saved me!
mircea_popescu: how about
the entire fucking ocean floor is a mesh network of bacteria guys
mircea_popescu: decimation
the better application seems self-building, self repairing connectivity.
decimation: if only you could harness bacteria
to grow onto circuit-board
test points...
assbot: Map of coins:
the history of cryptocurrencies from bitcoin
to dogecoin and more
mircea_popescu: "For instance, hundreds of
thousands of bacteria can form daisy-chained "wires" an inch or so long, and
tap seawater oxygen for energy. Such filaments can hold soil
together and conduct electricity about as well as standard copper wire." << wow.
assbot: Map of coins:
the history of cryptocurrencies from bitcoin
to dogecoin and more
mircea_popescu: actually
this may be a good
thing
to do for a blogger : make
the altcoin history chart.
BingoBoingo: If I remember right CoiledCoin was
the one Luke killed
BingoBoingo: In between namecoin and
the Scrypt pre-mined anscestors of LTC
there were a lot of other forgettable alts, many mergemined.
pankkake: namecoin was
there before, and litecoin isn't
the first scyrpt before
mircea_popescu: pankkake we're not going
to go into solidcoin and all
that ?
pankkake: don't listen
to litecoiners history rewriting
mircea_popescu: dub no, just because people are a) poor and b) cluieless, in
that order
dub: well yeah, because
teh sha ones have been eliminated (see above)
mircea_popescu: all
the various altcoins of any description are scrypt.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the argument against merge mining atc has more
to do with
the value of having an actual sha competitor for bitcoin, which may well be very instructive