asciilifeform: 'sapper errs 1ce', could take another 10y to get a 2nd 'ivory' if i kill this one.

asciilifeform: really a 'sapper errs once' sorta job, if i zap so much as 1 GAL i'ma need whole new orchestra again.

asciilifeform: if this were any other ic, i'd say 'gift horse', but in this case 'sapper errs once' ( or , i suppose, twice.. )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: could, for example, use diana_coman's. or a modified permissive ffa. or even the thing that came with gnat. but in any case would be 'sapper errs once' component, gotta be bug-free

asciilifeform: and 'sapper errs once'

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-17#1835478 << losing control of your key is a fatal sapper mistake regardless of what else ☝︎

asciilifeform: and tx input coad is safety-critical, sapper errs once.

asciilifeform: phf: i did find the (quite gnarly) method to replace the built-in rsa keys with mine, and how to sign arbitrary kernels. what i did not do , is to build a proper non-googlistic uboot for it, and flash it in in place of old ( 'sapper errs once' , there doesn't seem to be any spi rom contacts brought out on the mainboard for a 2nd try if fails )

asciilifeform: of a good sapper at any rate.

asciilifeform: and i'm sure he digs trench faster with excavator than with rusty sapper's spade under fire also.

asciilifeform: not everybody is a sapper for a living.

asciilifeform: this is one of those 'sapper -- errs once' affairs.

asciilifeform: and yeah lappy is to actual comp as sapper's spade is to excavator.

asciilifeform: cost of failure, sometimes you simply live with. i signed FUCKGOATS, and it is a 'sapper makes 1 mistake' item, it is not possible to repair the units if i had made a mistake.

asciilifeform: mines generally win the mine-vs-sapper game. which is why modern-day minefields are typically cleared by, one way or another, setting them off, rather than digging up ww2-style.

asciilifeform: counts as sapper!111

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, depending on skill of sapper.

asciilifeform: snorera: calls, at the very minimum, for an expert sapper, who is not a reich subject

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've been lifting the rocks for a while. but i do it with sapper's spade , but as i understand you did it with bbet's foot ?

asciilifeform: sapper is a better job, at least you're dead right away

asciilifeform: polarbeard: where i come from we have a proverb, 'the sapper errs - once.'

asciilifeform: trinque: the article on that page concerns a sapper

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu please don't change profession to sapper.

asciilifeform: 'a sapper errs once' (tm)

asciilifeform: the actual problem is that the sapper gets to err two or three times, at best

asciilifeform: how many mistakes does a sapper make ?

asciilifeform: if you aren't a sapper - find another hobby

asciilifeform: nubbins`: mircea_popescu takes a 'sapper errs once' attitude to bitcoin compatibility, for reasons which should need no explanation

asciilifeform: when i explain to folks why i dislike programming on available systems, i sometimes use example that it is rather like being a fellow who likes gardening, but there was a thermonuclear war not long ago, and you gotta sift the soil with sapper's spade in one hand, geiger in the other, and there won't be much sunlight to be had either.

asciilifeform: 'sapper errs twice, once when choosing profession'

asciilifeform: if seriously contemplating this, it is absolutely essential that 'the sapper not err'

asciilifeform: sapper - errs once.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: man with sapper spade can entrench himself in less than an hour.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo owns a sapper spade?

asciilifeform: nope, that's a sapper's spade.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but for sapper who hurries - brevis-er.

asciilifeform: the latter also has the duty of being 'sapper' and trying very much not to err.

asciilifeform: so, to continue last night's thread - am i stuck merging turdatron patches? or is one of you folks willing to be the sapper.

asciilifeform: some pretty heavy 'the sapper errs once' action.

asciilifeform: which you cant really tell if it was a good << hence the original discussion of why 'the sapper errs once'

asciilifeform: 'the sapper errs once.'

asciilifeform: rithm: everyone knows you sharpen a sapper's spade for zombies, not axe.

asciilifeform: the sapper errs once.

asciilifeform: there's a variation on the proverb where 'the sapper errs twice. once - when choosing profession'

asciilifeform: 'the sapper errs once.'

asciilifeform: |===D - sapper's shovel?