asciilifeform: you work the device by simply passing it from hand to hand.
asciilifeform: in other quasi-noose, here's a simple electric rng suitable for very low bit-rate application ( e.g. walletrons for sig nonce ) : small mercury tilt switch, gates clock signal to counter, and a flipflop. when the latter toggles, the counter value is forwarded to a register; every 2 shots end up vonneumanned and xor'd into the output reg.
asciilifeform: in those days, asciilifeform naively -- and silently -- imagined that as soon as btc began to be worth palpable moneys, the 'big kidz' quietly hired d00dz with long, long beards, to write ada node
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sadly i wasn't alive for c1, missed out on the freakshow
asciilifeform: 'science' in the 'stage magic for kidz' sense
asciilifeform: solar eclipses, meritwashing mediocrities with lookup tables ever since aztec priests 'helped' quetzalcoatl spit back out the sun he swallowed
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can-do, but gotta testfire 1st.
asciilifeform: and that's just the gox where you can get said info in advance of actually sinking in any shitcoinz
asciilifeform: e.g. you get eggog if you offer to sell more than a handful
asciilifeform revved up a bigbloxforq node a la pete_dushenski , 'i'ma cash in my shitcoin', discovers that various goxes (e.g. 'shapeshift') dun really wanna buy so much
asciilifeform: goat will go to the soup pot still thinking of man as simply a vertical goat, 'and if the cards had fallen differently, it'd be him under the knife' etc
asciilifeform: there's a few interesting divergences from the protocol as commonly understood, in the actual clients ( esp prb ). for instance the capacity to backtrack orphan chains longer than a dozen or so is ~untested for eons
asciilifeform: ( the spendability condition is enforced by the miner cabal, promisetronically )
asciilifeform: it ain't 'to black hole', it's an 'anyonecanspend'
asciilifeform: this is not accurate picture of shitness tho
asciilifeform: i still can't quite figure out why sram costs what it does
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i ain't putting it into production yet. just sits there on hdd, lol.
asciilifeform: ( believe or not -- nobody makes sram simms/dimms )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have a draft design for the sticks already.
asciilifeform: ( why to do this ? just as in other cases of 'i can't believe it's not X!', dram is not actually random-access -- all currently sold drams only achieve their rated speed in 'burst mode'; and from that it follows that they are only ever read to fill a cache line; and from this, trivial timing leak etc. and the joys of 'rowhammer', bonus. )☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform not wholly off subject, was looking into what using sram for main memory would cost. turns out -- surprise? -- approx same as what dram cost in mid-90s
asciilifeform: different sort of failure, is all. pyramid of cheops , whatever else it is, is not a broken reactor. it's a perfectly 'working' pyramid.
asciilifeform: dun think they were shooting for one.
asciilifeform: ain't that rather like observing that the stasi never made a breakthrough in audio tape tech ?
asciilifeform: for education's sake : what would 'success' of same, look like ?
asciilifeform: but then, naturally, several flights down the human material quality latter , agents take smoke breaks still, but not to smoke tobacco, but pot, and not while tapping wires, but while writing code, tc
asciilifeform: of course happens. hence the push for 'tap all lines all the time, petabyte of liquishit lives in db warehouse the size of nyc' etc -- cheaper than trying to make a corps of agents who won't smoke break while tapping
asciilifeform picture kgb d00d putting down cut wire in tap box to take smoke break☟︎
asciilifeform: in other lulz, http://archive.is/948EL >> '...the government knew that the firms were on the edge of massive profitability and that they were in fact not insolvent. ...They did it to steal the profits from the company -- which means they stole the shareholder's property to fund other things - including Obamacare.'
