tmsr - Log 2018-06-16

phf: asciilifeform: the way it looks x60 is not going to be replaced anytime soon, but it's running freebsd, and i avoid putting unstable stuff on it. i want a linux box for messy hacking though.

mircea_popescu: a well, what else are plans for.

mircea_popescu: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/0gXiA/?raw=true << aaand in other not-news, motherfucker i CANT STAAAAAAND the "woke" ustardian crowd.

mircea_popescu: what the fuck, pompous inanity in a light bore sauce. how ? how does anyone get through their days with these shits ?

douchebag: The best part about making plans is when bullshit comes up and prevents said plans from taking place.

mircea_popescu: douchebag so, no more europe, no more start-up ? getting married isntead or jail or what.

douchebag: Nah, I've just had a number of family related issues come up suddenly along with some other factors that would make it difficult for me to travel overseas within the next few months.

mircea_popescu: sucks.

mircea_popescu: in other lulz, google "doesn't know" http://trilema.com/2015/the-anal-child/ exists ; if you google for anal child all you get is other articles that reference it, and pages like say trilema.com/2015/03 ; but the article itself "dun exist".

asciilifeform: i recall (but for some reason cannot find in logz..) mircea_popescu discovering this several yrs ago

mircea_popescu: i'm like an old man enjoying his feudal domains and his alzheimer's, i keep finding the same things over and over again.

mircea_popescu: the joy -- undiminished, each time.

mircea_popescu: nope, ro is there.

mircea_popescu: lotta "Prevenția înainte de toate. Cum să protejăm copiii de abuzul sexual books.google.com Translate this page Elisabeth Raffauf - 2016 - ‎Psychology" bullshit, too. of course.

mircea_popescu: fucking pedo smile on that woman...

asciilifeform: in other archaeology: re particle glitching : apparently even hard (100kV+) xray does ~nuffin to current-day asics , needs -- ideally -- fast neutrons (good luck finding this in jungle conditions) or at the very least hard gamma (co-60 , possibly eu-152)

mircea_popescu: by now it's more likely to melt.

asciilifeform: problem is in other direction, very very little actually interacts with half mm of si slice

mircea_popescu: how about you know, a few Bs ?

asciilifeform: gold standard in heavy industrial world is apparently fast neutron. ( thermal neutron also worx )

mircea_popescu: say, how about voltage shenanigans ?

asciilifeform: this worked in the past, but cr50 seems to include boobytrap for voltage glitching

mircea_popescu: turns it off ?

mircea_popescu: what if you simply clip something to the power and gnd pins and harmonics the hell out of it ? o wow, really ?

mircea_popescu: a proud flagship of the confederacy of dunces.

asciilifeform: particle diddling is great , in theory, as there is not really a practical defense against it

asciilifeform: the satellite folx have largely given up on making logic impervious to particles, they moved to tandemism instead

asciilifeform: ( not that anybody would spring for troo rad-hard in konsoomer crapola, anyway )

asciilifeform: a steerable linear accelerator ( a la electron microscope's deflector ) would make for a pretty universal , if costly, fritz cure.

mircea_popescu: a steerable linear accelerator'd be a few million.

mircea_popescu: but, yes, in characteristical fashion the problem fritz chip proposes to solve is not solvable.

asciilifeform: enemy didn't set out to make impossible wall; simply tall enuff that the headache far exceeds what anybody's willing to bother with. and to date seems to have succeeded.

mircea_popescu: the success entirely depends on man-alone-ism

mircea_popescu: amusingly, 1980s vintage siemensen can be had for as little as 20k

mircea_popescu: anyway, collimation's the real problem here.

mircea_popescu: afaik no nm addressable items even exist. tho they should. ☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you dun need nm addressing, or much of any addressing, tho, random flippage of sram would handily suffice for just about any defritzing job

asciilifeform: even better if it can be aimed without latching up power supply, etc. circuitry.

mircea_popescu: a surplus medical piece's not even a bad investment in capital goods then

mircea_popescu: though ideally one with a microwave source rather than some rare metal capsule.

asciilifeform: hey if can get same result with a 100 $ co-60 capsule, as with 100k$ accelerator, it's a win

mircea_popescu: conceivably.

mircea_popescu: well, it's comparatively safe ; not like pornography or, god forbid, printed matter pertaining to abortion.

asciilifeform: ( there are some lulzy countries like ru where anyffing that radiates moar than a banana, requires note from hitler )

mircea_popescu: which technically includes chinese cement, but the fanfic "fails to notice" thereby "it never happened"

asciilifeform: they routinely turn away chinesium at the customs post there, on account of items like this cement.

mircea_popescu: aha.

asciilifeform: ( ru has possibly world's most fascist customs, recall the incident with the chinese teapots )

mircea_popescu: except when they don't, but sure.

mircea_popescu: whyssat ?

asciilifeform: errything from uruguay, argentina, weirdos, to diana_coman's taxed FUCKGOATS , etc

asciilifeform: usa seems to have the most permissive customs, pretty much anyffing that doesn't set off the dogs, is ignored

mircea_popescu: except girl ankle weights, aged cheeses, money, clothes that don't look like they're intended for the servants, and on it goes.

asciilifeform: but possibly , idk, what did mircea_popescu have, gold-embroidered epaulettes ? diamond cuffs ?

mircea_popescu: i think it's on trilema somewhere, customs dood was liek "but don't you have any normal clothes ?!"

mircea_popescu: i dunno... i assume what quentin tarantino dresses jackson and travolta in, so they look like "a couple of dorks"

mircea_popescu: likely.

asciilifeform: ( in usa the inspector monkey dun even get a say, the machine's ocr thing turns on red light, and monkey is stuck filling out form )

mircea_popescu: i believe.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-16#1825995 << revisiting upstack -- the chip is by far easier to move, than the beam . ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-06-16 15:10 mircea_popescu: afaik no nm addressable items even exist. tho they should.

mircea_popescu: certainly.

asciilifeform: ( incidentally a cf-252 neutron source is said to cost a btc or three, but -- unsurprisingly -- not in konsoomer retail )

mircea_popescu: you really working to earn that terrorist badge, arentcha

asciilifeform: ~pocket-sized neutron sources with 0 rare metals have been demonstrated (e.g. penning's) but rather hightech artifact

asciilifeform: dunno if anybody's built in jungle conditions anyffing better than farnsworth's electrostatic confinement thing.

asciilifeform: ( the latter apparently in perennial fashion among the moar moneyed 'make magazine' derps, 'look ma, i have fusion' )

asciilifeform: this approach is only attractive/economical compared to linear accelerator.

BingoBoingo: Gotta build jungle mud huts with the jungle mud you have, not the jungle mud you want

asciilifeform: ( imho the gedankenexperiment of 'can haz sub-$10k 3MEv chip fuzzer?' deserves at least some log space )

mircea_popescu: why sub 10k and why 3m ?

asciilifeform: ( hey kanzure ! wanna do something actually useful with that '2 mil' pile of scrap gear ? )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 3MEv is , if the satellite folx are to be believed, squarely above the boundary where enuff energy is transferred to flip bit , but not so much as to thermonuke the semiconductor

asciilifeform: ( tho with every shot there is a probability of, e.g., catastrophic latchup, short circuit , magic smoke )

mircea_popescu: this'd benefit from actual documentation.

asciilifeform: the only open documentation seems to be from semiconductor houses , there's some material from altera co, i did not bother to link ( who wants pdf ) , can prolly dredge it up again if somebody really wants

asciilifeform: aside from golden toilet satellite gear makers, it seems to be the fpga folks who most concern with 'single event upset' ( term of art for this item ) , as a flipped bit in fpga config , even down on earth, routinely translates into magicsmokerelease

asciilifeform: interestingly (and possibly surprisingly to the uninitiated) sram is actually ~moar~ sensitive to particle than dram

asciilifeform: most real-world 'single event' seems to originate from alpha-emitting crapola in the chip solder balls, rather than the proverbial 'cosmic ray'

asciilifeform: ( the ~internal~ solder balls, which replaced ye olde gold whiskers for die to package linkage , that is )

mircea_popescu: likely.

asciilifeform: ( for folx who slept through kindergarten -- garden variety alpha is 5Mev and above , strictly on acct of mass )

asciilifeform: recall ancient thread re semiconductor houses buying up hulls of sunken ww1 ships , cathedral roofs, etc

mod6: <+mircea_popescu> i dunno... i assume what quentin tarantino dresses jackson and travolta in, so they look like "a couple of dorks" << hehe

asciilifeform: i find it interesting that google's approach to building cr50 ( 'hardcopy fpga' ) is actually ~moar~ diddleable, via this method, than if they had shipped ordinary fpga

douchebag: Hey mircea_popescu, I'm going through a pretty difficult time in my life right now. I'm working a job that will not improve me as a person

douchebag: Would you be willing to assign me a list of tasks to complete each week, and if I successfully complete each task would you compensate my work?

a111: Logged on 2018-06-15 20:48 asciilifeform: i suppose this one'll only get properly settled if/when douchebag confesses

douchebag: I started off just messaging girls on discord and seeing if they were interested in making money andgiving me a cut

douchebag: However, I found it was much easier to just pick up prostitutes and throw them some $ to show tits and walk them through the process in person

asciilifeform: douchebag: personally i'm not fixated on knowing how you pulled the particular trick

BingoBoingo: ^ When alf fixates on mysteries the result is NOT a sporadic comment every couple weeks

mircea_popescu: douchebag not really. we had something like that a few months earlier and it went nowhere.

mircea_popescu: it's true that it was geared towardsthe capacities and abilities of a presumptively independent republican lord, whereas you evidently need more hands-on tutoring and training. this isn't the end of the world, of course, but it is strictly uninteresting to me, as i expect to get a slavegirl out of that degree of involvement, and you don't pass the bioquals.

asciilifeform: douchebag: with the sheer abundance of unsolved boojums, even in past few wks of log, it boggles my mind why you do not pick one up and make it yer own

mircea_popescu: can't do that until middle-class "rich"

mircea_popescu: there's a reason i do this level with girls. in between the "gotta eat", which readily and correctly is resolved by "eat out of the slave trough" and "i got ideas and things, which readily is correctly resoved by the whip, there's just too many failure modes.

asciilifeform: if memory serves, the survival record for n00bz that drift so quickly to the 'how do i pay rent from this' phase, is poor

mircea_popescu: eh, the record of "i am independently wealthy lalala" folk isn't good either.

mircea_popescu: truth be told, the republic isn't really for anyone.

mircea_popescu: like science, you know, there's not 1 scientist per 10k "sciences" academia departments.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform eg, you had some friend come over long ago, was going to do laser work for early model of fuckgoats ?

mircea_popescu: or take pete d, or who the hell else. plenty of people.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: diametric ? last i knew, he had too many childrenz, went to the same bottom of the sea as those folx tend to go to

mircea_popescu: also not a rare problem.

mircea_popescu: i said "middle class rich".

asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform rowed in the same galley as him, for a while under his command )

asciilifeform: 'middle class rich' folx are typically inch short of being flat broke. ( this is likely not a surprise to mircea_popescu )

mircea_popescu: like having children ?

mircea_popescu: right.

asciilifeform: ( the former is a pretty reliable way to lose one's shirt, in asciilifeform's experience )

mircea_popescu: these are all plied specifically as ways to plug the printing press circuitry, lest it leaks.

mircea_popescu: work pretty well, too.

mircea_popescu: as naggum well put it, "have a kid or two, a start-up or two, an ambulance ride or two, suddenly your imaginary independence you sacrificed your youth for is nowehre in sight"

asciilifeform: in current-day ameristan, just takes 1 ambulance ride, really, if planets align correctly

mircea_popescu: but, the working of the wool shear is not for the sheep to meditate upon.

mircea_popescu: they got grass to process.

mircea_popescu: this is the way of sheep, to appear to be entirely aware.

mircea_popescu: it's why people fuck them, sometimes.

mircea_popescu: hey, wanna never have to kill anyone, learn to like the soylent.

BingoBoingo: Maybe some people just like walking around with a dick that smells of lanolin without using lotion?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: picture, d00d gets hold of a few coins, then... sells ( why? to buy diapers ? i dunno )

mircea_popescu: they're not real until sold, rite ?

asciilifeform: upstack, pete_d might qualify as example. i still have nfi what his problem was.

mircea_popescu: in other solipsisms, i threw out a rebours & l'innocente, because the suck, re-reading my zuleika rewrite instead, very happy with it.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform had job, kids, marriage, circle of friends, everything else. like cazalla say or w/e.

mircea_popescu: i don't think it's nearly as rare as you think.

asciilifeform: characteristically, nothing is ever heard , at least from asciilifeform's observatory, re the marvelous feats of degreasing , afterward

mircea_popescu: there isn't really much to tell, which is why "happily ever after" goes the expression.

asciilifeform: one time i remember writing to kako, asked 'so what great things you accomplished since', answer was hissy fit

mircea_popescu: well... isn't that right ?

mircea_popescu: if every brick standing for eight to twenty centuries in an indistinct wall spoke the whole time we'd go mad.

mircea_popescu: imagine the patter!

mircea_popescu: "today, a snail came. i am not sure about this new moss growing. the wind is uncharacteristically global this time of the cycle. bla, bla, bla..."

mircea_popescu: Finisce sempre cosi, con la morte. Prima, però, c'è stata la vita. La vita, nascosta sotto il bla, bla, bla, bla, bla. Tutto è sedimentato sotto il chiacchiericcio e il rumore : il silenzio è il sentimento, l'emozione e la paura. Gli sparuti, incostanti sprazzi di bellezza. E poi lo squallore disgraziato e l'uomo miserabile. Tutto è sepolto dalla coperta dell'imbarazzo dello stare al mondo. Bla, bla, bla, bla, bla.

asciilifeform: i can actually picture bricks in some old walls having something of interest to say. in this sense the biomass in fact loses to brick !

mircea_popescu: if the walls could speak, no one would listen to any degree. there's already too much to read.

asciilifeform: ( the brits seem to be afflicted by a belief that... they can speak. witness the demolition of the prison where they murdered rudolf hess; or the bulldozing of every place the skripal d00d ever sat down in; etc )

mircea_popescu: eh, england's a shithole to the degree a waspnest better approximates it. they have to constantly tear down old cells to chew into new ones.

asciilifeform: iirc just recently BingoBoingo linked to a BingoBoingostani piece re some dopehead's house being bulldozed

mircea_popescu: they have this HUGE problem in the orclands with "buildings" without title on land the builders don't own.

mircea_popescu: owing on one hand to the extreme cheapness of building materials and on the other hand to the absolutely beaslty notions of southern socialism, as to the "rights" the scum has.

mircea_popescu: anyway, there's this constant "oh, there's a lot of us, what can you do". i dunno... machine gun the leftovers after extracting all prostitutable girlies ? how about ?

asciilifeform: the great biomass reducers of the past, tamerlane to old man schicklgruber , never had any problem realizing 'what can do', aha

mircea_popescu: did they ever establish whether granpa alois was actually somewhat jewish ?

asciilifeform: there's 2 separate j00 versions tho, there's one where he's bastard son of a iirc merchant

asciilifeform: kanzure: there was a bit of useful work for a fella with a linear accelerator, see logs.

mircea_popescu: ah there it is, Leopold Frankenberger, the 19yo son of the jewish family where the 40yo grandmother worked as a cook. this is ~about what i recalled.

mircea_popescu: you know, the whole pile re hitler ancestry is fucking hysterical. fellow "absorbed austrian granite through his father", believe it or not. whatever that might mean.

mircea_popescu: on the otherhand, but just as amusing, the simple and plainly evident fact that period europe consisted of ~way~ the fuck more people who couldn't stand jews than of people who liked hitler is, somehow, not much of a subject for the pomposity calling itself "scholarship". really, this happenstance doesn't happen to be at all interesting, somehiw ?

mircea_popescu: oodles upon oodles of discussions of "antisemitism", a term very substantially like phologiston : its mere inclusion in a text constitutes an ironclad guarantee that nothing intelligent, useful or interesting will be found there.

mircea_popescu: "mommy, mommy, the kids in school hate me." "why ?" "THEYRE BARBARIC!!!!" "oh, i see!"