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mod6: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-11#1849711 << >> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-12#1849730 << Looks good to me, just say when and will get BB the funds for an order. ☝︎☝︎
asciilifeform: the asic folx did get a certain amt of lift from self-mining and the rising usd exch figure
asciilifeform: can't currently think of how else.
asciilifeform: could be, friedcat et al had 4 daughters to put as collateral.
asciilifeform: in '90s ru derps were able to borrow from newly-baked banks. at 20%. backed with soldering iron and wife.
asciilifeform: is what i'd think
mircea_popescu: i doubt anyone'd have thought their promises solvent.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 1mn in cash + some unknown amount of promisolade to sumbody, neh
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/the-analysis-of-a-failure-asicminer/ << more detail on same topic.
mircea_popescu: anyway, whatever that discussion -- the point is that a bunch of tards with some modicum of chinerse connection turned <1mn into actual baked chips cca 2012.
mircea_popescu: they fucked up the financial side, after managing to be the 1-in-100 that didn't fuck up the operational side.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/of-mice-and-men-revisited/#selection-35.0-41.334 is probably the controlling story, but basically, six or so years ago there was one single "success" in a cloud of utter inept idiots.
mircea_popescu: ok, so the thing that meanwhile "became" bitmain through "incorporating" in the sense of ditching the "forum investors" and any possible claims they may have was, before that move, the first and only ever "investment success" of tardstalk, made the "asicminer". "ceo" was one "freidcat"
lobbesbot: mod6: Sent 44 minutes ago: <asciilifeform> plox to log into your unit and put it through any necessary tests
asciilifeform: i would not propose it as the 1st to bake, tho. but there it is.
asciilifeform: ( was made this way quite deliberately )
asciilifeform: with 0 changes to the coad
asciilifeform: btw if mircea_popescu or somebody else here discovers that asic ( ~actual~ asic, not metallization-fpga ) can nao be baked for a coupla coin, asciilifeform will not cry; quite opposite.
mircea_popescu: let me dig through teh archives, might as well.
asciilifeform: the sort of thing you wouldn't tolerate in even tire nipples
asciilifeform: i also remember a very spotty performance in the orig asics, where ~random selection of subcores actually ran, and no attempt was made to 'package the defective transistors in separate bag for your convenience sir'
asciilifeform does not know for certain, was not fully tuned in then
mircea_popescu: the fpga-sanded-off was usg's own fraud division "butterfly labls", with the mafia dorks.
asciilifeform: yes but it was paid for iirc with this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, the first actually successful thing.
asciilifeform: these then financed baking of actual asic
mircea_popescu: i didn't judge it more than "one of the schmucks is fucking some local baillif's daughter" or such ; they never looked like anything more than high six figures were ever available to them.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-04 15:36 mircea_popescu: i dunno what the fuck you think juniper is ; but as a factual matter juniper is the result of exactly this conversation among dumber people ~15 years ago.
mircea_popescu: back in the original "asic" days, the first "company" that made it, consisted entirely of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-04#1847453 fellows -- not particularly bright, but with chinese presence. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: Ah, 17th anniversary of 9/11 passes and the most interesting news in the world is Samsung quietly removed a defective USB ssd from market without recalling it
asciilifeform: seems like tall order for monerozcashodium-of-the-day
asciilifeform: problem with asic is that you gotta bake & liquidate 50-100k units, to break even, as i currently understand
asciilifeform: i suppose from that pov asic could +ev
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im sure like the shovel merchants of 1848, they sell for cash sufficient.
mircea_popescu: ye olde http://trilema.com/2018/le-salaire-de-lidiotie/#selection-165.280-165.733 thing.
asciilifeform: for all i know, the chinese asic bakers will cry last.
asciilifeform: not like shitcoin nets aint expendable, tho
mircea_popescu: the infallible mark of the imbecile, whereby he'll create a "math proof world" wherein the fact he can't lean math won't enslave him to they who can.
asciilifeform: the idjits who bothered, nao get to sit and cry and mebbe learn sumthing
asciilifeform: the js shitcoin miner thing is lulzy, as we speak it is falling victim to the freshly baked asics for 'asic-resistant' liquishit
mircea_popescu: in other words, the alphabet nonsense is certified to never do anything [to break out of the gulag] whereas the shitcoin nonsense just fucking might. unlikely as all hell, nevertheless unlikely's too dangerous a danger!
mircea_popescu: "but that's ok". why ? "because it's useless, or in proper terminology, http://trilema.com/2015/the-squares-and-the-holes/#selection-343.264-343.462 "
mircea_popescu: for all the derpage about "attack sites using your computer to mine shitcoins" in the usg.fakenews media, google's been using well over half of everyone's cpu an' ram for the past i dunno, decade ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: so yeah, between the "googleapis", the "google fgonts", "google advertising" and "analytics" and 2-3 other culprits, google gets half dozen+ cookies loaded into your browser PER "3rd party" page.
mircea_popescu: opens it ~through a dom call!!!~ to hide it from the usual filters.
mircea_popescu: xmlhttp.open("GET", "https://www.googleapis.com/webfonts/v1/webfonts?key=AIzaSyCz-kpy86ft7U0Dh1LYkhTxrr_QPK27s1I&", true); fine example as any
mircea_popescu: look at eg https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_google_fonts.asp for an idea of how this works.
mircea_popescu: i get >10k failed attempts to load "fonts.google.com" a day for instance.
asciilifeform: ( and dun bother to tell where they expanded to, naturally )
mircea_popescu: i'm confident article lists all current google ranges, but as it says, they might have secret ones etc. really what it does is shoot in the head the orcish habit of importing pantsuitism.
asciilifeform: i've experimented with lan-side rubbish filtration, but found it to be a headache, sumthing always slips through
mircea_popescu: incidentally, usg.cloudflare got apparently mandated to involve usg.alphabet, they now import it
mircea_popescu: it's likle... redundant triangulation, the bs they got. ☟︎
asciilifeform: ok this makes sense.
mircea_popescu: which is what the article was about ; "privacy" "online" isn't worth two shits when every single page loads google.ajaxapi googlefonts googleanalytics etc.
asciilifeform: ( then finally cured the db headaches, and stopped )
asciilifeform: at one time i had a 'nuke anyffing that behaves like bot' on dulap
mircea_popescu: truthfully, it was originally attempt to control firefox hopeless idiocy ; but the research into that yielded more generally useful "how to truly escape panopticon"
mircea_popescu: nah, it was to cut down on bullshit webpages doing cross-site loads.
asciilifeform: i thought it was to cut down on bw burned on ~incoming~ bots
mircea_popescu: well no, but i mean... what's the server ever connect to google for ?
mircea_popescu: trilema never had google analytics in the modern period.
asciilifeform: i thought it was for server
mircea_popescu: well yes, what's it to do on a server ?
asciilifeform: aah this was only on console ?
mircea_popescu: but that's on the terminal ; what's it do to with the server ?
asciilifeform: so this might account for the dip
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu recently finally gave the control shot into the head of google bot
asciilifeform: where 'search engines' are largely spambots talking to selves
asciilifeform: this fits with the earlier mircea_popescu hypothesis yes
mircea_popescu: my conclusion is that ~100.0% of the people who could possibly read trilema discovered it already.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mostly, swamped by direct traffic.
mircea_popescu: but they don't figure as even 1:2k in general.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the numbers aren't absolute 0. there's reddit and facebook and the logs and your site and everything in there, the full list is >2k separate domains
asciilifeform: or these excluded
mircea_popescu: meaning that ~nobody finds trilema via the web, ie, everyone who can read it already knows it.
asciilifeform: ha i suppose this means ~nobody's been reading mine either
mircea_popescu: and in other "the web has failed, utterly" lulz : trilema's "Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines)" managed for the first time in history an epic 0.0% this month. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: but hey, at least doing things & trying things.
asciilifeform: exactly this, mircea_popescu
a111: Logged on 2018-09-11 05:33 mircea_popescu: let's look at the matter : the actual manuscript has been maintained online by the british museum for half a decade by now. more. out of all these "creative" kanzures, exactly ZERO actually transcribed it and published on their own fucking worthless "online presence".
asciilifeform: ditto the rk
mircea_popescu: meaning we're, well, you're the first & only to even try this thing ?
mircea_popescu: the idea being that they're made for consumer market, and no luser complains because no luser seriously uses them or somesuch ?
asciilifeform: plant per se imho ok, i've yet to see a thermal sad on a rk cpu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these sad stix run hot.
mircea_popescu: so in the end the idea is, plant ran too hot, ssd contacts lost contact ?
asciilifeform: mod6: plox to credit diana_coman with phree day of rk service, and yerself -- 8d
asciilifeform: i'd like to get'em purchased and sailing to BingoBoingostan asap.
asciilifeform: mod6: at your earliest convenience plox to comment re the proposed replacement drives. ☟︎
asciilifeform: and ty BingoBoingo for the skilled hands.
asciilifeform: in the coming days BingoBoingo will obtain a blower to give added airflow to the pilot plant , oughta extend the life of the remaining sadsamsungs until we get the replacements in.
asciilifeform: when both of you ping me back with green light signal, i'ma zero the old sticks and have BingoBoingo mail'em to asciilifeformistan for the vivisection table
lobbesbot: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: !Q later tell mod6 plox to log into your unit and put it through any necessary tests
lobbesbot: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: !Q later tell diana_coman plox to log into your unit and put it through any necessary tests
asciilifeform: update : diana_coman's disk set to copy in parallel with mod6's
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: This is what it looks like when you throw 8 of them in Amazon cart. http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/xlJ9O/?raw=true
asciilifeform: lol , is what asciilifeform thought !