asciilifeform: and yes, sorted (and price-graded)

asciilifeform: they're laser-cut

asciilifeform: this was a pretty serious puzzler, incidentally, for a long time i could not get the deterministic mode to work, and thought that i might have to scrap the design.

asciilifeform: so we wait for EACH rng : http://btcbase.org/patches/fg-genesis#L360 : to pulse, before entering normal operation.

asciilifeform: so that leaves the rng.

asciilifeform: the optional clock-in is subject to the same caveat as the internal clock

asciilifeform: (and the optional clock-in)

asciilifeform: on the other hand, there is no external input into the box other than the 2 rng.

asciilifeform: you will not have repeatable operation.

asciilifeform: it is so as to make the deterministic test possible. turns out, the warm-up of crystal oscillator is NOT deterministic. so if you let the thing begin IMMEDIATELY when the clock is valid,

asciilifeform: btw, this is not a bad time to explain WHY i set it up so that fg remains 'sad' until BOTH rng start up

asciilifeform: as in, 1+ per sq. m. of asphalt !

asciilifeform: where asciilifeform lives, there is a cicadacalypse every 17y

asciilifeform: y'know, like folx oughta do.

asciilifeform: also there always remains the option of reading the src !!

asciilifeform: ( new crates have updated paper copy. )

asciilifeform: adlai: the online doc is authoritative.

asciilifeform: (and the diff b/w a shield and an antenna is the ground. who is going to test the grounds? adlai ?)

asciilifeform: adlai: 'shielded cable' is still quite unshielded on the 2 ends..

asciilifeform: adlai: let's have it

asciilifeform: !!up adlai

asciilifeform: the report was 'here's 100 for sale'

asciilifeform: iirc.

asciilifeform: on danielpbarron's www

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-03#1636187 << mno, i killed testnet with own hands (at that point it hadn't been of any use in some years) : http://btcbase.org/patches/asciilifeform_lets_lose_testnet ☝︎

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes apparently was

asciilifeform: dunno that anybody is still playing with shiva

asciilifeform: shitoshi's turd is an incurable patient, in my eyes.

asciilifeform: i can't say i ever had any interest in getting that part to work.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: iirc the test target built a turd that exercised data structures, serialization, etc. rather than whole thing

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-03#1636163 << i only know re lulu's rates; they are flat (or rather, depend on pg count, paper type, and process - colour vs bw -- strictly) ☝︎

asciilifeform: i've nfi if it ever worked.

asciilifeform: dun think so

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the one that came in genesis ?

asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform's use, if it isn't obvious, is a fairly obvious abuse. the 'intended' use is of course for chump to be used as a 'content generator' draft horse by the hucksters, a la traditional publishing )

asciilifeform: tbh oughta enjoy these 'print one copy for my desk' shops while they last. i suspect that amazon will eventually kill them.

asciilifeform: i got a nice hardcover of https://www.ada-ru.org/V-0.4w/index.html , for instance, made.

asciilifeform: lulu knows how to do hardcovers, and they aren't half bad qualitywise.

asciilifeform: there may be cheaper/higher quality/whichever shops nao

asciilifeform: (just be sure to avoid ticking 'show in public' box, unless of course you go in for exhibitionism)

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'lulu' works

asciilifeform: nomoar.

asciilifeform: *used

asciilifeform: use to own a binding machine. threw it out.

asciilifeform: (i shit thee not)

asciilifeform: cheaper than ~own laser printer~

asciilifeform: it costs ~0.

asciilifeform: to take to bed.

asciilifeform: i have random crapolade printed, routinely.

asciilifeform: (as in -- wholly unfiltered access)

asciilifeform: pod as accessible-to-groundlings is circa ~2010.

asciilifeform: there are still a few academic publishers with something like tattered remnant of credibility (cambridge; springer -- ~maybe~) but probably soon -- not

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-02#1636100 << 'made a book, achievement!111' evaporated some time in 2010, when 'print on demand' appeared ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-02#1636098 << i could almost hear that soundtrack playing ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-02#1636095 << dun seem to be in pf, but in php liquishit luserfriendly gui frontend ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-02#1636096 << bonus: the tab/window this loads in is ~self-closing~ in chrome and similar ☝︎

asciilifeform: or hm, that was klaus b.

asciilifeform: Johann Barbie BitGo << wasn't this d00d hanged at nuremberg ?

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-02#1636123 << lol, luke-jr 'Core Developer' ; Mycelium; Electrum; TREZOR; misc. crapola ☝︎

asciilifeform: what did it turn out to mean ? he fucks trains ?

asciilifeform: and it takes three men and a mule to pull it

asciilifeform: or pump a man so full of lead, he gets taken to quicklime pit in a wheelbarrow

asciilifeform: whaddayamean they don't sit around , retired and deposed colonels, deciding which fighting cock to sell, before starving ☟︎

asciilifeform: i suspect that my entire picture of spanish world is skewed by marquez

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform keeps his 3rd hand on the numberz pad, is all.

asciilifeform: entirely orthogonal, this axis, to reality.

asciilifeform: others -- not even on the lizard throne.

asciilifeform: some folx win biochemical lottery, noshit, are happy even when stewing in own shit in calcutta, yes.

asciilifeform: strictly in the sense of 'you can't learn to DO this, it isn't a thing that a generic ~you~ can ~do~'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the way i see it, doing http://trilema.com/2014/how-to-make-money-on-the-internet-while-pretending-you-know-what-youre-talking-about-and-accumulating-a-legion-of-mindless-followers-for-fun-and-profit by being 10,000,001 people trying nonsense, and then writing as the 1 surviving taleb, is exactly same as doing it via the usual 10,000,001 sybils

asciilifeform: freely admits 'even if all of your 10,000,001 barriers to being me were removed, by martians, you still won't'

asciilifeform: one of the things i always liked about mircea_popescu is that he never did this.

asciilifeform: 'how You Too Can Win Lottery.'

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-02#1635995 << purporting to teach a demonstrably-unteachable replication of unreplicable success -- is the 'american' item. ☝︎

asciilifeform: dun make a guru.

asciilifeform: maybe there was something good in joseph smith also -- 'stop drinking', say.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: other observation re taleb -- i find his works quintessentially 'american', in the most damning sense of the word -- they are exactly 'salvation through method' - 'do-s and dont-s', 'don't use black-scholes', 'do worship at my feet, and have my esteemed pedigree tree, and sit on the sunny shores of the levant, and You Too Could Be A God Like Me' etc.

asciilifeform: quite similar to , e.g., sov. general grigorenko, 'dissident'

asciilifeform: my other irritation, fwiw, in taleb, is that he positions himself as 'opponent' of lizard system, while in fact being a creature of it

asciilifeform: re 5th c

asciilifeform: was

asciilifeform: but suffers from large admixture of nonsense and peacock feathers.

asciilifeform: it is clearly the work of a thinking man.

asciilifeform: this is so. it is why i even try, occasionally, to read his material

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: ain't proof.'

asciilifeform: and not from self-aggrandizing b00ks,

asciilifeform: my pov re taleb reduces to 'asciilifeform does not have he expertise to determine, from the supplied info, whether taleb is a brilliant trader; but the money, even supposing taleb made it from trading,

asciilifeform: 'stand right here, perhaps gold asteroid will fall for you too!'

asciilifeform: successes that cannot be replicated are 'antiknowledge'

asciilifeform: as per naggum's example of 'comp industry 'learned' from microshit'.

asciilifeform: lottery winners have not merely 0 to teach, but 'learning' from them tends to make folx dumber. ☟︎

asciilifeform: and i even have nothing, believe it or not, against lottery winners. of whatever kind. but i will not worship them.

asciilifeform: i am not a protester of the food chain.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: expand plz

asciilifeform: likely

asciilifeform: d00d makes a successful bet, once in his life, and it irradiates his brain

asciilifeform: makes me recall mircea_popescu's '5th psychological urge / 'mystical correctness' article

asciilifeform: i remember him from couplea yrs ago; 'economist' and dietary crackpot