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asciilifeform: it's good for one's health, to build desktop.
mircea_popescu: who, dbp ? i thought he moved to rural ok to pursue a doctor in divinity thesis.
asciilifeform: we have a shipments/logistics expert in the house, don't we
asciilifeform: these -- are ready to rock
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: issue the pet a rk3328 ?
mircea_popescu: what am i going to do!
ben_vulpes: not just true for real estate!
BingoBoingo: There is a point at which continuing to burn more time on the real estate thing yields diminishing returns. And when the days start getting longer, negative returns.
mod6: what are the rental terms? 1yr contract?
asciilifeform: but if this is all that fits in the budget, then so be it
asciilifeform: i was hoping he'd find something that can hold a crew of 2, at least on occasion
phf: that's the cyberpunk future we've always wanted. 2sqm room (with bathroom) and a fat fiber line
asciilifeform: does this place come with a net pipe ?
asciilifeform: i think my dorm room at uni was bigger
BingoBoingo: And that's as big as they come before the carve out "bedrooms"
asciilifeform: and srsly that's a japanese-sized flat
asciilifeform: which chix is that in the coat ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Also the sink placement
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: with the exception of the stove, this looks ~exactly like asciilifeform's hotel room
phf: i added a link on patch pages to "split hunks", which allows to render any patch the way mp-wp genesis is being rendered, e.g. http://btcbase.org/patches/genesis?inlinep=false
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: ty for the ack
lobbesbot: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: !Q later tell asciilifeform http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/lor9x/?raw=true Update on certain cats
a111: Logged on 2018-06-06 13:18 mircea_popescu: danielpbarron, you're still doing the eulora computer thing ?
asciilifeform: collimate the beam simply by selecting with long, thin lead tube.
asciilifeform: no need to decap, strip layers with acids, etc. potentially, just take 3d tomograph.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-11 16:40 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aaa the radar thing. funny story with these, the old-world version of this was the gamma-radiograph. in su they used them to evaluate cured cement prior to finishing a block of flat. aaand sometimes they'd forget the sr-90 brick inside the wall, and roast several generations of tenants
asciilifeform: given as an ic is a relatively (vs e.g. steel beams, or cement) 'soft' material, you would not need the capsule-of-doom from http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-11#1812331 ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( where a raster-scanning mechanical 'pinhole' is used, and the distance of source/detector from sample, is varied )
asciilifeform: given as they dun refract -- would need to use something like minksy's confocal method.
asciilifeform: imho it's a promising (and afaik 100% unexplored, in re chip reversing) method, and , bonus, nondestructive (i.e. inspect and then ~use~ device)
asciilifeform: speaking, upstack, of microscopy, did we ever do the 'why not gamma inspection, like for steel beams' thread ?
asciilifeform: ( somewhat unsurprisingly, d00d in q never returned with the promised docs )
asciilifeform: the schematics whisperer d00d suggested that it also has the uart brought out on hidden pins ; i have a test adapter cable due in this wk that will test this theory ☟︎
asciilifeform: ( re 'usb-c' -- it's an interesting item, worx as both usb and power in/out, the thing charges by being connected to mains brick through either of the 2 )
asciilifeform: also the 16GB onboard ssd is rather tight, for serious work i'd mount /home on a sd card.
asciilifeform: right, i was speaking of the minimal unit.
mircea_popescu: right. that. what.
asciilifeform: ( and yes it will take an FG on the usb jack like any other box )
asciilifeform: lesser evil is prolly the camera
asciilifeform: speaking of which, it's still an open q, what to do re rng on c101pa
asciilifeform: this prolly is obvious, but if one gets a hold of 1 example of the router/etc in question, you have the priv
asciilifeform: lotsa these sitting there 'green', waiting for their magic day.
mircea_popescu: the difference though, is rather academic.
mircea_popescu: or that.
mircea_popescu: actually, he's hard at work with trictoscopes and things to make you a computer.
BreakingRae: I'm sure it won't be the last time I apologise to him for it too
mircea_popescu: good thing you read pms.
mircea_popescu: did you ever apologize to alf for being such an orc, btw ?
BreakingRae: Hey Spyked, I'd love to see your notes on what we discussed if you'll show me. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: go ahead, tell him.
mircea_popescu: true. but there's some merit in trying some combinations of fiddy bux solutions before springing the 3k
asciilifeform: this is the classic case for polarizer, want only the diffuse light, not the orthogonal reflected
mircea_popescu: but ~color~ might actually do it too. metal is not uniformly reflective across spectrum
mircea_popescu: but have you tried colored light ?
asciilifeform: ( all the au-plated junk )
asciilifeform: not the problem. glare from the contacts on pcb. same reason pcb is such a bitch to photograph -- needs good low light sensor, if you simply up the lamp, you nuke exposure
mircea_popescu: you're talking mms, nice large 3x, 5x, 8x glass is inexpensive.
mircea_popescu: in truth tho... something like a boomed magnifying glass may suffice here neh ?
asciilifeform: can't really solder under those.
asciilifeform: https://spectraservices.com/SP-S6D-BS.html << the type used in electronics work.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo, seperation << it's separation you know. << ty fxd
mircea_popescu: holy hell, you can actually buy them direct! http://omaxmicroscope.com/omax-40x-2500x-led-digital-trinocular-lab-compound-microscope-with-5mp-camera-and-mechanical-stage.html
mircea_popescu: maybe something by omax. afaik they were the standard budget item
mircea_popescu: there is that.
asciilifeform: what i really oughta get, is a proper trinocular microscope. camera is great but can't really solder under camera.
mircea_popescu: i suspect problem may be rathere the operator than the performance of the hardware!
mircea_popescu: you can count the animal's tail hairs. the whole thing is a coupla mm in length.
asciilifeform: and ^ this is after scaling down from the ridiculous (4000x3000 or something close) orig res
asciilifeform: pnojeism killed the soapbox
asciilifeform: i'd quite like to buy a standalone cam with equiv perfomance. but ( aside from kg brick of 'slr' ) they dun make them.
asciilifeform: granted it all goes straight to crapple.
asciilifeform: ( which happily snarfs in, e.g., whole page of a4 text, legibly. ye olde minox nervously smokes in the corner )
asciilifeform: speaking here of the 6th ipnoje.
mircea_popescu: i've seen the sort of pixelated bs the iphone spits out.
asciilifeform: combination of the sensor and the stabilizer .
asciilifeform: despite the latter's fingernail lens
asciilifeform: sadly enuff it loses to 3+ y.o. pnoje , somehow
asciilifeform has that very same 'soapbox'
a111: Logged on 2018-04-19 01:58 mircea_popescu: in unrelated news : i can't recommend the dsc-rx100 quite warmly enough. it's a splendid sony compact with zeiss lenses that's easily the best camera i ever saw.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-06 13:15 mircea_popescu: im not gonna have her take nudies on her current shitstack.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-06#1820853 << incidentally, the c101pa has a camera of some kind. ☝︎
asciilifeform: su did not have this problem.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, incidentally, part and parcel of the decay, all these eminently preventable diseases on marked rise in the us.
mircea_popescu: so go to the hospital, its treatable.
asciilifeform: douchebag: are you on a mission in the taiga and there is no doctor or wat
douchebag: in addition to that I've been vomiting since I woke up
douchebag: It's red/black/blue at the center and redness surrounding the area
mircea_popescu: do you have the typical "coffee on blotter paper" erithrema, or what
asciilifeform: douchebag: bitten by tick just nao ?
asciilifeform: interestingly, mb doesn't take up all of the space inside the case, there is room for maybe half a playing card's worth of iron (sadly not FG's worth..) inside
douchebag: I think I have lymes disease
asciilifeform: for mass production, will still need to open up the boxen to do the write-unprotect magic (lift battery plug, boot on mains current, reflash, put back) but that's it.
asciilifeform: the soldering, ditto. strictly to make 'unbrickable' test unit for the bootloader attempts.
asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/c101pa_dbg.jpg << it's in there.
mircea_popescu: all the microscopy only needed for first debug unit though, rite ?
a111: Logged on 2018-06-06 13:18 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: c101pa? currently stuck on 'how the fuck to build even google's orig bootloader , out of the fragmentarily pseudo-opensrc pieces', before can even consider backporting their init to coreboot
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-06#1820855 << briefly returning upstack, once i find the uart pins and solder (under microscope, it will be a 1st class bitch) i can try starting with stock rk3399 loader, and welding on the c101pa peripherals init (which i've dug out of google's shitpile) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: it's kinda lulzy for me to re-read what i was saying pre-bitcoin, and discover it's... not changed.
mircea_popescu: and perhaps http://trilema.com/2011/bun-si-mie-ce-imi-iese-la-faza-asta/ too.