asciilifeform: 'reality winner' affair

asciilifeform: yes!

asciilifeform: incl. at least 1 fella who hit the famous ddr-sdram wall.

asciilifeform: in other noose, lotta frustrated fpga aficionados live in #bolix.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ok worx

asciilifeform: heya mod6

asciilifeform: also lol re the attempted theft of the name 'trb'/'the real bitcoin' ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/5TW5M << 'we read #trilema and won't say it and ergo We Thought Of It All Ourselves '

asciilifeform: sorship only further lowers your future reputation.'

asciilifeform: meanwhile, at the monkey circus, https://archive.is/RiGV4 >> 'Going to be lolz epic when all the SegWit transactions are double-spent, i.e. stolen by miners on The Real Bitcoin (the legacy Satoshi blockchain).' 'Go ahead and continue voting to close and censor this question. It will not change the embarrassment that you will have when it comes true and all the losses that people sustain because you blocked timely disclosure. Your cen

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-03#1693208 << indeed ships. ☝︎

asciilifeform: !~later tell mircea_popescu http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/ABRKj/?raw=true

asciilifeform: supposing that one day i find another d00d who has the pinout...

asciilifeform: which is a fine trade.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: current d00d offers to trade for a qty of raw 'ivory's

asciilifeform: never showed

asciilifeform: last d00d who 'i will fly out for it!' was adlai

asciilifeform: for many years

asciilifeform: lol i might have found a buyer for ye olde 3620

asciilifeform: phf: nm i since found the l0gz item

asciilifeform: ( and not even 640, but 64k, i will point out, is plenty )

asciilifeform: good student project.

asciilifeform: 16bit 'p' will prolly have to be asmed by hand.

asciilifeform: because it's a crippled horror

asciilifeform: so gcc pointedly never targeted it.

asciilifeform: it is about quite different instr set, and arch ( incl. the use of segments )

asciilifeform: but '16 bit' x86 is not just about bitness

asciilifeform: if someone were to write one.

asciilifeform: can !

asciilifeform: dos box cum laser is still imho 'state of art' re airgaptrons.

asciilifeform: ( afaik there is not a 16bit gnat/djgpp. but 32bit with prot.mode extender oughta work ok )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re rsa, i'm looking forward to msdos ffa test.

asciilifeform: 'Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”' didjaknow!

asciilifeform: !#s sanity dogma

asciilifeform: where was that trilema...

asciilifeform: ( on all 14 )

asciilifeform: predictable shift.

asciilifeform: 'The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”' lol!!

asciilifeform: aka 'bay aryans'

asciilifeform: tho it ain't so much 'lisp crowd' as much as californirasts.

asciilifeform: very very visible

asciilifeform: i'd estimate roughly 386 equiv

asciilifeform: not particularly

asciilifeform: phf ^ is he one of yours ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: https://symbolics.lisp.engineer/goals << in other lulz. ☟︎☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-03#1693130 << poor buggerz, chinese hotel must've unplugged.. ☝︎

asciilifeform: lol i think we did this one!

asciilifeform: remains mystery.

asciilifeform goes to see why

asciilifeform: lol asciilifeform kicked from #bolix, without even saying word

asciilifeform: ( and that was the EASIEST bit. the console protocol, for instance, is still undocumented; and last time asciilifeform gave a shit, he did not - and still does not - have test equipment fast enough to sample the 200+MHz analogue waveform accurately )

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-02#1692922 << i let this slip by somehow. afaik this is STILL unsolved in the open lit. ( 'this' being 'fpga glue for ssd replacement of st506 drive' ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: now THIS is very much a thing

asciilifeform: ( imho hard to picture how the 'still had shit' could sit there yet- unpilfered by that point )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if this was so ( and iirc it was how u. eco painted it , and for some reason i balked ) then yes

asciilifeform: ( collectors, i say, are to bolix as phylloxera is to wine. )

asciilifeform: liek bolix after the whisperers are done burning through the last ivory's mtbf yea

asciilifeform: i thought constantinopol was 'all pasture inside' at that point..?

asciilifeform: turks had own 'second source'.

asciilifeform: i meant the specific ones denied to the rebelling son. ( rather than 'any' )

asciilifeform: the turks somehow did just fine 'organizing church and state' without them bookz

asciilifeform: dunno that the market reflected this notion

asciilifeform: this yea

asciilifeform: but strictly that.

asciilifeform: the former is helpful in propagating the artifact where it may eventually fall into the hands of the latter

asciilifeform: also i'll note, there are 2 types of copy, the basic 'soviet' type ( where you life everything incl. dec's 'when you care enough to steal the very best' easter egg inscription ) and the kind where you actually get the ~concept~ out

asciilifeform: on my planet , it is ~impossible to hire even ordinary winblowz reversing for anything like sane moneys.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is as always quite eager to lowball the market value of anyone not himself

asciilifeform: unlike silicon.

asciilifeform: quite mistaken comparison. classical texts were copyable with bare hands.

asciilifeform: not a single 1 of these folx show any symptom whatsoever of having a microscopic part of the most elementary clue re what is involved.

asciilifeform: go an' replace the 'ivory'.

asciilifeform: the hdd is the easy bit.

asciilifeform: that's already largely spent.

asciilifeform: we're talking about a nonrenewable resource.

asciilifeform: collectors, in my experience, are wholly http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-23#1631728 . ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( is why the rembrandtists buy'em by the dozen, $100,000's worth )

asciilifeform: and d00d himself points out re low mtbf. which is sadly tru for ancient box for which ~no replacement parts exist.

asciilifeform: there was no pretense of isolation in lispm.

asciilifeform: as opposed to unix etc abstraction

asciilifeform: whoever has the console, has full r/w to whole box

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: know also, these weren't in any sense whatsoever multiuser.

asciilifeform: phf: yes but over x11 in your house, not over half a planet

asciilifeform: even 200msec of lag makes x11 pipe pretty useless in practice in asciilifeform's experience

asciilifeform: ( no lispm ever built in the classical period had anything like the address space to make it bitcoin-capable, for instance )

asciilifeform: it ain't terribly useful as a headless deployment thing, tho, really shines as dev tool

asciilifeform: iirc phf has a working 400

asciilifeform: but not impossible in principle

asciilifeform: so promises to be expensive hoster.

asciilifeform: thing eats maybe a full kW/hr

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: neato - what kind ?

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-23#1631510 in particular. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-23#1631499 << see also... ☝︎

asciilifeform: and rembrandts them on, to next idiot, for 100x price, 'to the moon!'

asciilifeform: but 'black archaeology' imbecile gets to feel warm an' speshul.

asciilifeform: NOT ONE even full instruction set doc.

asciilifeform: NOT ONE fully working emulator

asciilifeform: and who knows how many idiots like this, for how many years, and guess what, NOT ONE electron micrograph published

asciilifeform: i will illustrate my comment 'they are grave robbers, not archaeologists'. take, for instance, https://www.instagram.com/p/BUXulHRgjEZ/?taken-by=tr1nitr0n ( it dun show on archive.is, i have nfi why . ) pictured is derp buys 4 (! and where?!) smbx ivory cpu

asciilifeform: and studiously avoided ever writing to asciilifeform , though will claim to have, and even to have met him in meat ( i know quite well that i have met none, and never saw any such mail )