asciilifeform: (and quite certainly won't do mods, even if entire cost is covered)

asciilifeform: the flats folx have the other problem: typically the landlord is a corp and operates 'by 3ring binder'

asciilifeform: understand, i shop in a market where the availability is ~0.

asciilifeform: rental houses.

asciilifeform: (flats - not.)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: HOUSES have ~100% occupation, where i live.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sometimes they showed up almost immediately ! as in, next day i call and 'oops sorry it was already snapped'

asciilifeform: they dun want to do 'work'. 'this hovel was good enough for the others, it oughta be good enough for you, if you won't take it there are 25 others who will'

asciilifeform: but also, as i learned experimentally, one that doesn't create 'work' for the owner. for instance, i went to a great many folx who were letting out houses, and they wouldn't hear of 'install dishwasher', even when offered 100% of the (not especially frightening) cost of this mod.

asciilifeform: this is so.

asciilifeform: typically 'good tenant' is one who pays on time, and asks for repairs ~never.

asciilifeform: it's more or less the definition of peonage.

asciilifeform: (but can guess. peons have ~0 negotiating leverage.)

asciilifeform: i wasn't at their negotiation table, have nfi how it went.

asciilifeform: (90yo who owns a few dozen properties of various descriptions)

asciilifeform: in the case in question, it was a human one

asciilifeform: some people do

asciilifeform: (peon is lucky to even get permission to repaint a wall)

asciilifeform: landlord ate none of the cost, this is sop for peon housing

asciilifeform: it made a perverse sense, 'yes someone else will get to eat it, eventually, but moving to a flat that already has all of this, will cost MORE , and forever'

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-20#1629306 << i know a d00d who paid with own money to renovate... flat he was living in. five figs (usd) even. ☝︎

asciilifeform: *built in microshit

asciilifeform: build in microshit vs, even. (this includes usg's, as was well laid out for exhibit in the latest dump)

asciilifeform: Framedragger: 99+% of the malware samples i have ever laid hands on, were complete snoar

asciilifeform: 'useful, solid'

asciilifeform: the original dos was not created by microshit.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: directx is simply a fruit of collusion with the gpu vendors, i see nothing innovative about it

asciilifeform: ( i don't recall, in my entire working life, cribbing a useful, solid piece of technical knowhow from microshit. )

asciilifeform: Framedragger: better q imho would be - whether there is anything to be learned from these.

asciilifeform: and so my tape decks, once princely , gather dust.

asciilifeform: (4GB 4mm tape is not today price-competitive, much less time-is-money-competitive, with dvd-r)

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-20#1629271 << i actually like tapes, and wish that they were readily available today in useful sizes ☝︎

asciilifeform: last i recall, nobody had.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-20#1629267 << Framedragger did anybody ever in fact reverse-engineer microshit's 'exfat' ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: asciilifeform, however, remembers 'defragging.' and lost clusters. and various 'pleasures.'

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-20#1629270 << the magical powerz of low expectations!111 ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-20#1629264 << how's that meant to work ? classical fat32 has no such animal as a symlink, for instance. ☝︎

asciilifeform: *life

asciilifeform: i'd enjoy reading honest benchmarks for 1st time in lfie

asciilifeform: hey general-purpose fs are still useful for... general-purpose life. nobody cancelled'em

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-20#1629256 << even reiser is almost certainly waste of time, general-purpose fs is very sharply the opposite of what we want, they are all optimized for mutability (can delete/rename/resize/etc) and fast reads at the expense of slow entity creation, as well as carrying out silent rebalances/defrags/etc. ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-20#1629232 << trbi, with the fixed-length-everythings, needs ~no fancy indexer at all. it's for a hypothetical sane-trb. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://archive.is/NAyGm << linked from somewhere in this lul

asciilifeform: in other lulz, from the dept. of 'let's make a sham version of EVERYTHING discussed in #trilema', http://btcpowupdate.org

asciilifeform: very versatile thing, imho not the least bit obsolete.

asciilifeform: ( the traditional kind, with crt. )

asciilifeform: to n00bs i often recommend to have an analogue scope also

asciilifeform: re that particular unit -- screen is the weak point, what with 320x200

asciilifeform: in mb/s range worx great, rigol has usb jack, even, knows how to piss to thumb drive

asciilifeform: you buy it anywhere, 1ns sram is not exotic

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-19#1629104 << if your scope samples at 1G/sec, and (cheapomatic) 8-bit ADC: that's a 1000MB/s. where do i buy a camera ssd that writes at this rate? ☝︎

asciilifeform brb, meat

asciilifeform: needs fast.

asciilifeform: slow

asciilifeform: there's 4MB in that rigol, if you want more than 4MB of tape, gotta plug into comp

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: ( serious aficionados would spit, say '2k + !')

asciilifeform: most of the nice ( $1000 and up) scopes, are winblowistic aha

asciilifeform: iirc one of the other d00d at c2 confessed to having same rigol at home ( was it kako..? or davout )

asciilifeform: ( analogue solidstate switches with low distortion -- cost money; relays have 0 distortion, and cost penny )

asciilifeform: normal for starvation-cheap chinese instrument

asciilifeform: relays ( i shit thee not ) click inside it, when switching ranges

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-19#1629073 << is what i have. cheapo, but worx with not-winblowz ☝︎

asciilifeform brb, meat

asciilifeform: is in the logs somewhere..

asciilifeform: at , e.g., that french outfit

asciilifeform: recently i found that even a plebe could, in theory, afford a few thou. units of 1980s-style fab.

asciilifeform: more like ship charter, than space launch.

asciilifeform: fabbing at other than 'bleeding edge' process, is apparently quite predictable and 'boring' affair

asciilifeform: i know this because he is fabless, makes'em at commercial 'by the pound' fabs

asciilifeform: makes'em in modern fab, cheap, too, i have a bunch of samples here

asciilifeform: that d00d (chuck peddle, iirc) who makes the wd65c02

asciilifeform: and 6502

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: and z80 worx ok in 22nm.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there are ~no echoes etc at the 10mhz the thing worked at.

asciilifeform: then, eventually, whole shebang with fpga.

asciilifeform: then replace card with fpga+ivorychip (after reversed glue logic)

asciilifeform: phf: i've contemplated a 'cheat' : run macivory 'lifesupport' on patched m68k emulator (e.g., 'basilisk') that would bring nubus i/o out to a test stand, on which the card would sit

asciilifeform: ( much easier to snoop nubus cycles than to tap a bus on ancient and fragile card )

asciilifeform: which paradoxically makes it ~better~ from reversing pov

asciilifeform: also it seems like there were 2 macivories, the one i almost bought, was 4x slower than the last made, and had external ( on another nubus card ) ram

asciilifeform: i was merely confounded by 'i'll test it in my ivory'

asciilifeform: aha i knew this

asciilifeform: aah

asciilifeform: asciilifeform would trade a 3620 and 2 alphas for 1 working ivory

asciilifeform: oh hm i thought phf had an ivory

asciilifeform: iirc alpha-genera on 1ghz alpha runs at 40x the clock that xl1200 ran at..

asciilifeform: ( ivories, and xl1200, and i forget what else )

asciilifeform: out of curiosity, why does phf keep 'ivories' around if he has alpha, and on top of that a patched/working x64 generatron?

asciilifeform: betcha all of the 'life support' would fit also. just stick a few srams and a nic on top.

asciilifeform: ( and picture if it could be made in modern fab, at GHz+ ! ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: it'd handily fit in a, e.g., xilinx spartan6.

asciilifeform: phun phakt, according to the press release for smbx, that thing had 370k transistor. slightly more than 386. (but around half as many as 486 iirc)

asciilifeform: *was

asciilifeform: phf wouldn't happen to know the pinout, by any chance ..?

asciilifeform: i bid 2.6k usd on the ivory2 from earlier thread, then wss outbid, then offered nonbinding '2nd chance', but by then thought 'meh'

asciilifeform: overall i suspect this is a more productive attack than microscopy ( though the thing was fabbed at 1 uM, it would be quite visible on optical microscope )

asciilifeform: and xray for the pcb tracks