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asciilifeform: this might be kindergarten item , but :

asciilifeform: to what did you attach the black crocodile ?

asciilifeform: ( there are no sinusoids to be had on that board )

asciilifeform: you're seeing mains hum !!

asciilifeform: mod6: your ground is loose

asciilifeform: they're why a misbauded FG is nogood as an rng

asciilifeform: ( output has peridic component !! -- the start/stop bits )

asciilifeform: try displaying clock and output in parallel

asciilifeform: aah

asciilifeform: ( not, as you can already guess, contiguously -- but when there's a byte ready )

asciilifeform: what do you hope to see on the scope, mod6 ? thing puts out 115200,8,1,noparity

asciilifeform: all signals on the board (other than the 2 coming from rngs ) are in that clock domain

asciilifeform: mod6: put the trigger on clock (CLK) pin

asciilifeform: ( you want logic analyzer, or at the very minumum : storage scope , for this , not much periodic wave to be had on FG )

asciilifeform: mod6: hm?

asciilifeform: for some reason atlases only ever shrug in bad megab00x by ru emigre chix, tho. and not in actual reality.

asciilifeform: they eat carrion, yes.

asciilifeform: and it also isn't clear to me why -- even when the corpse really Musted Die -- maggots are somehow 'respectable'

asciilifeform: how 'respectable' when most of'em are still l1/l2 of su wot.

asciilifeform: *principal

asciilifeform: ( ru still has crown-as-principle-economic-agent megastate, for instance )

asciilifeform: not clear, at least to asciilifeform's naked eye, that they 'got out', or that the box even has an out-hole

asciilifeform: su -- flunked

asciilifeform: they passed the exam tho.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2014-01-26#461120 << see also thread ☝︎

asciilifeform: the larger point also good one -- any problem ( short of perhaps asteroid ) starts small and spends good chunk of its life cycle in curable phase

asciilifeform: from this pov.. worked.

asciilifeform: ( spoiler : didn't work )

asciilifeform: incidentally ivan iv did try this exact thing

asciilifeform: i.e. followed the pitchforks-vs-landsknecht dynamic pictured above

asciilifeform: i suppose mircea_popescu is posting from parallel universe where 1917 didn't happen

asciilifeform: unless yer rounding up ~defenseless gypos etc , 500kilocorpse is called 'civil war' and it doesn't come with a guarantee of win

asciilifeform: when you have stampedes in the capital, you ( ruler/civ1player ) Have A Problem ; just as d00d with tumour that is large enough to be palpable, has problem

asciilifeform: the ecuador war ?

asciilifeform: one tricky bit, afaik, is that the proverbial sacks of gold do not 'levantar el pueblo' under any circumstances at all; instead they immediately grow legs and walk, walk away to a faraway place and never again seen

asciilifeform: ottomans also

asciilifeform: picture if the ameritourism were to evaporate in cr. how long before it peronizes.

asciilifeform: do perons appear in empty vacuum tho

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: lol, ukrs

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didja ever determine why in cr 'naive', but in ar 'militant idiotic' ? is the idiocy-ray emitter in antarctica, or wat

asciilifeform: i'd suppose that mircea_popescu is there for the good weather, not for the company of tree-dwellers

asciilifeform: ( why it remains - i have nfi; perhaps intel exec gurlz to holdthefort etc )

asciilifeform: plant moved to asia. what's left is jerbsprogram

asciilifeform: looks like mircea_popescu's intel is a little out of date..

asciilifeform: 'On the heels of last year’s closure of chip manufacturer Intel‘s assembly plant in Costa Rica, the company announced Monday that it’s opening a new Client Computing Group (CCG) in Costa Rica. The new unit will be responsible mostly for developing tablets and PCs.' (2015)

asciilifeform: 'See how the Intel® She Will Connect program is helping women change their lives.' << didjaknow!!

asciilifeform: 'More than 60 percent of K-12 teachers in Costa Rica have participated in this program since the program started in 2000...'

asciilifeform: ( for aficionados : whole thing, http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/corporate-responsibility/intel-in-costa-rica.html )

asciilifeform: lulzy, 'hold the winblowz fort in the turd world' item

asciilifeform: 'The Intel® Teach Program helps teachers integrate technology into their classrooms to enhance student learning. In Costa Rica, the Intel Teach Program is coordinated in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Education, was implemented by the Omar Dengo Foundation, and now is executed by CECC-SICA.'

asciilifeform: lol united fruit

asciilifeform: possibly even with the attendant boojum waiting in the wings.

asciilifeform: sounds like 50s cuba

asciilifeform: still doesn't explain why university. who attends it ? anyone publishes in it ? how does the setup work.

asciilifeform: aaah so it's one of those 'rich because that's where money goes to sit on the beach' places.

asciilifeform: incidentally -- what does cr export ?

asciilifeform: ( ever look at usa from airplane ..? )

asciilifeform: so not high bar.

asciilifeform: half of'em are nearly empty, but for corn field and rocket base

asciilifeform: from where comes the dough ? usg parked a printing press down there ?

asciilifeform: i had nfi there were 500mn usd in all of cr, not merely the obscure ( i had nfi it existed...) ucr

asciilifeform: usd?

asciilifeform: phf: tensor!111

asciilifeform: paper-gold is mixed into the market valuation of all-gold, paper-bitcoin (though it only works on bottom half of bell curve...) into price of actual-bitcoin, but art forgers are hunted like terrorists, Because Reasons.

asciilifeform: re 'patek' etc, see also http://btcbase.org/log/2015-08-22#1248284 . ☝︎

asciilifeform: it is tempting to think of inflation as a scalar, but it isn't a scalar.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-02#1664526 << gotta ask, why not -- by same logic -- derive inflation rate from usd-btc ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: they feel like houses on home planet ( proper height of ceiling, the correct 100+ y.o. 'old sofa' smell, steam heat, etc )

asciilifeform: phf: i've been inside a bunch of these, but only on embassy expo day

asciilifeform: in other noose, obummer buys 8.1m $ mega-house.

asciilifeform: aah

asciilifeform: every single one i ever tried, worked poorly or not at all with multiple-vertical-outs

asciilifeform: trinque: which radeon did you have ?

asciilifeform: 'it sits on my front bus and can do whatever it wants and has 400 cores that run fuckknkwswhat, but at least the util for loading up (some) of the cores with liquishit, is open source!!'

asciilifeform: the blobuline nics ditto

asciilifeform: it blows my mind that folx consider these somehow 'open'.

asciilifeform: and it's shit blobware, too, vertical screens dun work with acceleration

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-02#1664501 << blobware != open ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-02#1664455 << lol : fireworks shop ☝︎

asciilifeform: otherwise swallow the liquishit from vendor.

asciilifeform: if you want a crypto-capable box, ditch the nvidia (and the intel)

asciilifeform: there is no opendrivered gpu worth half a shit

asciilifeform: ( at least on no iron asciilifeform ever tried )

asciilifeform: noveau afaik never worked.

asciilifeform: which bootloader?

asciilifeform: and which kernel