asciilifeform: ( who -- other than gullible orcs -- remained unaware of this ? )
asciilifeform: usg ate the swiss long ago, now in the process of milking the brand.
asciilifeform: the 1 clue i have, is that time when megatonnes of chinese cargo were held up . and there was expectation of shortages, or at least some sort of visible splash in usa konsoomer sector. and there was 0 (in as far as naked eye.)
asciilifeform: i don't have access to anything resembling a reality-based version of either figure.
asciilifeform: it all adds up, plastic pumpkins or britney records
asciilifeform: hands, feedstock, transport ullage, fuel
asciilifeform: iirc somebody sells a plush ebola also
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-11#1642176 << 'International Baptist Missions is an integral ministry of Tri-City Baptist Church. We support missionaries in India, Singapore, Kenya, Romania, Poland, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Mexico, as well as several Restricted Access Nations.'☝︎
asciilifeform: ( and car-sized radiator for hot end. )
asciilifeform: you can't even ~get~ a peltier in anything like the size you would want for a room ac. would need hundred of'em.
asciilifeform: ( if all ac used peltier junction, this would be quite trivial. unfortunately peltier is not actually +ev in comparison with mechanical compressor. )
asciilifeform: as determined by the actual leakage of the room walls.
asciilifeform: mod6: if you want to talk to a ttl-usb serial dongle, you gotta match one of the classical baud rates, or you get rubbish (and not the desired rubbish, either, but patterned rubbish -- or nothing at all)☟︎
asciilifeform: mod6: you could, but be mindful of the crystal
asciilifeform: a good chunk of the pain in this kind of work is the ~total lack of anything like the customary debugger. ( that, and the constraints of the medium - the very palpable differences between fpga and actual asic, but even in the latter there are physical delays )
asciilifeform: and will give you a little ability to debug (i hesitate to use the word)
asciilifeform: mod6: build yourself a copy of 'verilator'
asciilifeform: best to think of it as 'in iron', rather than 'in verilog', other ways to specify the same circuit, get you same result.
asciilifeform: (e.g., what is an inferred latch, and why do you virtually never want one.)
asciilifeform: i recommend to study very carefully the diagrams that give examples of what gates particular snippets actually get synthed into, and why
asciilifeform: especially given as it is not quite so, and various sections have 'triggers' (particular signals that cause them to 'happen')
asciilifeform: again i'll reminds, hard part for n00bs is not 'verilog' but rather the basic idea of 'program where all lines execute at once'
asciilifeform: mod6: it's an ok b00k. there is not, afaik, a 'great' one
asciilifeform: unless your environment is quite peculiar ( massively overheaded cage, or a satellite, or a pile of blankets?? ) typical ssd maxes out at 40c or so
asciilifeform: i've yet to meet one that seriously warms
