asciilifeform: ben_vulpes ?

asciilifeform: ah hm

asciilifeform: i thought ^this ~was~ the visualizer

asciilifeform: http://wot.deedbot.org <<

asciilifeform: trinque's , i think

asciilifeform: aaah

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: which place

asciilifeform: http://physicsopenlab.org/2016/02/19/sipm-as-gamma-scintillation-detector << spectra and moar.

asciilifeform: https://srs.fbk.eu/sites/srs.fbk.eu/files/styles/adaptive/public/sipm_lyso_22mm_0.jpg << subj epoxied to photodiode.

asciilifeform: http://www.ultreo.com/images/scintillators1.jpg << subj.

asciilifeform: ( believe it or not, pieces of LYSO are commercially available and sold in massive qty, they are used in cosmic ray telescopy )

asciilifeform: can you do http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-04#1636960 by 1) taking 2 of these 2) letting'em 'fuck', i.e. mating open ends of the crystals together, and seeing if same output. ☝︎

asciilifeform: so now the mega-question is the obvious one:

asciilifeform: thing fluoresces at 428nm peak.

asciilifeform: incl. not needing a gamma source ( Lu-175, stable, is ~97.4% abundant, remainder is mostly Lu-176, 3.8e10 yr. halflife, ~1.2MeV gamma )

asciilifeform: in other noose... LYSO ( cerium-doped lutetium yttrium orthosilicate ) scintillator is apparently just the thing for rng.

asciilifeform: this always seemed surreal to asciilifeform -- like paying to be sat in jail

asciilifeform: just got a drink, was all.

asciilifeform: but only once, and did not notice the 'culture'

asciilifeform: phf: i've been there

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-09-21#1281330 << last thread iirc ☝︎

asciilifeform: they have these in dc also.

asciilifeform: !~later tell mircea_popescu noticed that 'wot' link on trilema www is still ye olde mike_c wot

asciilifeform: its only serious plus was the bigger lcd.

asciilifeform: doppler: i have all of the 'alphasmart' boxes, from 1st to last, the 'palm' one indeed took sd cards (two, no less, even) and had infrared diode.

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: and if you want one, you gotta hunt on 'ebay' etc. for years.

asciilifeform: it is imho interesting (and this is, yes, not the 1st or 2nd thread re subj) that the niche of 'comp that runs on batteries for month' is a niche wholly unfilled by 'modern' crapolade

asciilifeform: 'alphasmart' had a terrible keyboard, similar to late '90s crapple. it was originally made for schoolchildren. but it remains cult classic among certain folx.

asciilifeform: and in fact most '80s-early '90s portables had unspeakably great (by today's standards) keyboards.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-06-30#1181883 << that one was a (small) real comp tho, phf ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( to get text ~out~, you plug it in, and it emulates a keyboard, 'types' )

asciilifeform: no network, no removable disks

asciilifeform: plain ascii text entry thing, that runs for months off a set of 'aa' batteries

asciilifeform: there are several of these, aha

asciilifeform: ^ cult classic gadget

asciilifeform: !~google alphasmart

asciilifeform: hm.

asciilifeform: !#s alphasmart

asciilifeform: because Not A Computer

asciilifeform: those are great

asciilifeform: ... demonstratively, loudly show off 'see me write!111' ?

asciilifeform: gotta wonder, why would anybody drag a typewriter to a cafe

asciilifeform: ( the FUCKGOATS schematics you get in the parcel, came out of it )

asciilifeform: and it runs.

asciilifeform: but i got one for 25bux in scrap shop.

asciilifeform: phf: i also remember when colour laser was, not so long ago

asciilifeform: nobody makes a tractor inkjet any more

asciilifeform: there ain't a replacement.

asciilifeform: ^^

asciilifeform: ( go and make a ~scroll~ with laser printer. )

asciilifeform: laser dun replace'em

asciilifeform: never really obsoleted, imho

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: and the paper.

asciilifeform: i still got the dotmatrix printers tho

asciilifeform scrapped his years ago

asciilifeform: nuts.

asciilifeform: as in, mechanical, underwood?

asciilifeform: typewriter?!

asciilifeform: ( adacore's was terrible, bulky, winblowz-fallback-containing, and overall unpleasant )

asciilifeform: not unrelatedly, asciilifeform now has a working mmap glue for ada.

asciilifeform: ( and the idiot made this ~impossible to do cleanly for most of'em )

asciilifeform: pretty sure you still gotta destroy the object somehow

asciilifeform: was to subsume boost etc into the standard

asciilifeform: kinda the point of cpp11

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: it's mostly used for clean loops etc

asciilifeform: always seemed quite possible to asciilifeform after finding out re newfangled 2000s cpp

asciilifeform: neato

asciilifeform: aaaah

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: remind me what this was for ?

asciilifeform: in yet-other lulz, http://archive.is/EuCL6 >> 'A three-month old baby was summoned to the US embassy in London for an interview after his grandfather mistakenly identified him as a terrorist.'

asciilifeform: in other lulzies, https://russian.rt.com/russia/article/379638-organizator-terakt-metro-peterburg << purported arrest film of train snackbar d00d

asciilifeform: probably

asciilifeform: Adamjee Lukmanjee & Sons (Pvt) Ltd. << 'Our history as Adamjee Lukmanjee and Sons Ltd can be traced back to the mid 19th century when our founder, Adamjee Lukmanjee set sail on a pioneering voyage from the Gulf of Kutch (Gujarat, India) into an unknown future in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)....'

asciilifeform: 'arabs hate us and piss on our charity' 'let's bulldoze syria' 'koreans piss on us and the horse we rode in on' 'let's bulldoze korea'

asciilifeform: sorta why these folx busy themselves with eternal work of manufacturing ever-sadder charitycases

asciilifeform: pretty obvious item imho.

asciilifeform: http://cyber.eserver.org/unabom.txt << text. grep 'power process'.

asciilifeform: ^ 'unabomber'(tm) d00d had a very cogent discussion of this principle, with the coffee grinding and meaningless lives, and wheel dog.

asciilifeform: !#s kaczynski

asciilifeform: hm, none of these are it

asciilifeform: !#s power process

asciilifeform: http://ortopediacanina.com/1286-thickbox_default/ruedas-delanteras-para-silla-de-ruedas.jpg << apparently standard equipment...

asciilifeform: but i can picture it

asciilifeform: dun think so

asciilifeform: waiwat

asciilifeform: male office plankton is a similarly abject creature

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: which is why i suspect that it ain't about the tools.

asciilifeform: asciilifeform's pet for instance has a full complement of power equipment. and cooks daily.

asciilifeform: how does working with a power tool preclude 'contribute with hands, be a thing of this world' etc ?

asciilifeform: flour, yes

asciilifeform: i thought that one was about the private auto. but it could be about 10,001 things, equally.

asciilifeform: 'devil makes work for idle hands' being the engl. proverb

asciilifeform: my current understanding is that mircea_popescu subscribes to this philosophy re women?

asciilifeform: recall the thread re ru army where folx paint the snow -- white, and the grass -- green ?

asciilifeform: won't run off.

asciilifeform: won't stab you in the back!