asciilifeform: trinque: or so he said

asciilifeform: he wanted in, wat.

asciilifeform: verytru

asciilifeform: it wouldn't hurt to get illicit cheapo cn knockoff cpld either.

asciilifeform: as i did for, e.g., FG.

asciilifeform: gotta find how to make do with ordinary ones.

asciilifeform: actually the 8266 episode taught me to eschew 'magic, rare' ic

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: now only own 2 hands ?!

asciilifeform: iirc ben_vulpes still herds 'human compilers' , knows

asciilifeform: tru

asciilifeform: they gotta get in the format 'by next tues' etc

asciilifeform: i only ordered bois

asciilifeform: which this

asciilifeform: 'get sample party of 8266 by next tues' etc

asciilifeform: could then, work

asciilifeform: aah

asciilifeform: cn rando will happily take yer money and sit pretty and 'sorry, no result today, lets try tomorrow '

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hiring a hireling for a l1wot work is recipe for evaporatiing money and no moar imho

asciilifeform: what do we need 80211 for anyway.

asciilifeform: without 802.11

asciilifeform: alternatively we bake adhoc , simpler radio, from 25c microcontroller.

asciilifeform: ah yea.

asciilifeform: ( now i recall, he found the 1$ pcb people for me earlier. but that was as good as it got then )

asciilifeform: hey wasn't mats chinese..?

asciilifeform: who can navigate.

asciilifeform: gotta have, i suspect, a real, live cn fella in wot.

asciilifeform: i dun actually know whether this has any hope of working.

asciilifeform: nao if mircea_popescu knows how to get to the ~right~ chinos...

asciilifeform: K

asciilifeform: even in qty 10

asciilifeform: i did, but must be doing it wrong, they only offer a) the pcb 2) chip, but for >= price the pcb sells at.

asciilifeform: maybe in another 3y..

asciilifeform: i'd personally buy, say, 5k @ 25c ea.

asciilifeform: upstack : if anybody knows where to get esp8266 , or knows who knows, etc.., plz write in ☟︎

asciilifeform: instead of anal oracle from yest. thrd

asciilifeform: only 1, installed in arse

asciilifeform: ( deflated like toy )

asciilifeform: recall the $billion balloon of all-seeing sauron from 2014

asciilifeform: depends. inca balloon may cost dearly, dearer than asciilifeform's head

asciilifeform: ( and must also ask, if they are already here, why wait for baloon, wai not my head )

asciilifeform: the obvious pill is to not get into the position of where olympic skeet shooters are following you around the world..

asciilifeform: ( other obvious recipe for headache for balloon hunter - bouquet'em , with 5x redundancy. now he needs a machine-gun )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: city squirrel is stupid tho

asciilifeform: 1player makes baloon, other - shoots

asciilifeform: at any rate this'd make great sport

asciilifeform: squirrels sit put

asciilifeform: incidentally i am picturing mircea_popescu's balloon hunt scene literally in my head, and wonder, suppose balooonist puts asymmmetric fin on. so goes up - spiraling. now aim.

asciilifeform: almost as good as the old austrian 18th c thing

asciilifeform: these are neat, it was recced to me for squirrel control

asciilifeform: sorta how launching anything worx. it's slow.

asciilifeform: but yes you can kill anything, e.g. icbm, if you know which 'street to sit across '

asciilifeform: balloon is 60km vertical easily

asciilifeform: ( death ray!!1!! )

asciilifeform: i want

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where do i buy this rifle, that works for 20km

asciilifeform: ( and before anyone asks, NO i am not interested in paying moar per raw chip than the pcbs cost now. which is 1 $ )

asciilifeform: phf: drop'em from the illicit chopper. 'may as well hang for sheep as for lamb'

asciilifeform: and 0 dice

asciilifeform: btw asciilifeform is STILL, 3y !! after the original thread, looking for a supplier of RAW esp8266

asciilifeform: this yes.

asciilifeform: say asciilifeform scatters these about. ends up... talking to self

asciilifeform: one gotcha is that the immediate practical ( vs 'fleet in being' ) value of such a thing is ~0.

asciilifeform: ( and similar life... )

asciilifeform: cheaper than solar, incidentally. and less conspicuous.

asciilifeform: and 59yrs of ping pong easily.

asciilifeform: they dun care about heat, frost.

asciilifeform: it was what i got those lithium sulfide cells for. got prototype, veerry threadbare

asciilifeform: aha, we discussed this

asciilifeform: triangulate ~that~.

asciilifeform: ( prolly dun even need whole sec )

asciilifeform: 86.. lol

asciilifeform: i thought about very basic 'tmsr cicada' - for 84,399 seconds of the day, box listens for rsa-signed packet; 1 second - transmits latest known

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: even had gold.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall the hypohetical pcb businesscard asciilifeform drew

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: upstack, imho 'pirate radio' ( for tmsr , not rando pseudomusic ) is fertile green field. plenty of idle spectrum for confiscation from its supposed 'owners'. and if done correctly ( see saddam jammer thread ) -- ungassable.

asciilifeform: i'll point out that the al in cd is not exposed to atmosphere.

asciilifeform: this yes.

asciilifeform: if reprint and throw out paper.

asciilifeform: may as well scan then, neh

asciilifeform: all them bookz, are old.

asciilifeform: one catch : ain't nobody printing b00kz worth reading, nao

asciilifeform: tru!!

asciilifeform: but obvious limits.

asciilifeform: i got filters here

asciilifeform: oohyea

asciilifeform: now where to get nanoleaf al...

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gotta try this. i do want one.

asciilifeform: pages will fuse

asciilifeform: not perma, see above

asciilifeform: ( not 4evah either, al oxidizes at stp. just -- slowly )

asciilifeform: meh then, that's the 1 megafeature

asciilifeform: but this book would be great, easily hold enough charge to nuke unwary thief

asciilifeform: sorta why it worx as a cap

asciilifeform: this one is mylarized. still pain, because static.

asciilifeform: mega-pain to separate'em

asciilifeform: it nicely illustrates the down side

asciilifeform: except it ain't a book, it's a 1980s capacitor from su

asciilifeform: oh hey i got 1 here

asciilifeform: sounds nasty