03:55 |
vex |
http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-06-24#1109176 fuck I love crtdaydreams, fuck, my arse is doing to sleep sitting at this desk, I'd better go and grab the manitou and lift the old gal up a hew holes |
03:55 |
dulapbot |
Logged on 2022-06-24 18:46:24 crtdaydreams: holes and pins on this unit |
04:09 |
vex |
I'd like a big stainless desk frame I can bolt to the concrete. 316 50x50 with a 50 mil slab of something nice on top |
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04:11 |
crtdaydreams |
http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-06-27#1109261 << prick of a thing to weld |
04:11 |
dulapbot |
Logged on 2022-06-27 00:07:00 vex: I'd like a big stainless desk frame I can bolt to the concrete. 316 50x50 with a 50 mil slab of something nice on top |
04:11 |
vex |
I've ever tried, I thought you might know a thing or two |
04:12 |
crtdaydreams |
thing is, it's pretty well the same thing I had in mind, except running pulleys on aluminimum rollers inside the legs |
04:12 |
crtdaydreams |
so can lift up and down |
04:13 |
vex |
how does it stop? |
04:13 |
crtdaydreams |
ratchet cable winder |
04:13 |
crtdaydreams |
rests on the tension |
04:13 |
vex |
kinda clunky for at $10k item |
04:14 |
vex |
is it gonna wobble around and shit? |
04:14 |
crtdaydreams |
heh, aforementioned dun move it much |
04:14 |
crtdaydreams |
it's 50x50... |
04:14 |
vex |
yeah, I think I only want one height |
04:14 |
crtdaydreams |
if yer bolting it the concrete fair enuff |
04:15 |
vex |
Where are you getting these big slabs of silky from anyway? or did I overestimate the size of `scool desk'? |
04:16 |
crtdaydreams |
well the one I'm working on is 25x25 over 20x20 2mil thick |
04:16 |
crtdaydreams |
the actual box is 610x420x165 or something like that |
04:17 |
crtdaydreams |
the slab on top is wider than the box |
04:17 |
crtdaydreams |
can't give ya a measurement off the top of my head |
04:17 |
crtdaydreams |
I welded up the frame for it last night |
04:17 |
vex |
yeh, I was imagining bigger. sounds cool. those rhsections fit together do they? |
04:18 |
crtdaydreams |
yup with about a .25 mil gap either side |
04:18 |
crtdaydreams |
fits perfectly |
04:18 |
vex |
gonna chuck a few grease niplles on her? |
04:18 |
crtdaydreams |
nah, just some dry silicon lube after painting |
04:18 |
crtdaydreams |
shouldn't be moving it up and down all the time, this one is just holes and pins |
04:19 |
crtdaydreams |
no fancy pulleys etc |
04:19 |
crtdaydreams |
satin black to match the brass and silkyoak |
04:19 |
vex |
ooh.. brass?! |
04:20 |
crtdaydreams |
brass hinges and a sliding bevel to angle the lid/drawing board |
04:20 |
crtdaydreams |
brass screws etc. |
04:21 |
crtdaydreams |
It fits in the frame with not a thou to spare |
04:21 |
vex |
sexy. and it is a drawing board too? |
04:21 |
vex |
does it come with matching tsquare? |
04:22 |
crtdaydreams |
yup and sorta (tsquare is sadly not silkyoak, and needs a bita love) |
04:23 |
crtdaydreams |
I'll have some pics on my site in due course |
04:23 |
vex |
cool. are you keeping it? |
04:23 |
* |
crtdaydreams has yet to paint, assemble and polish |
04:24 |
crtdaydreams |
damn right I'm keeping it |
04:24 |
vex |
sounds like it'd be worth half a bc to the hipsters in melbourne |
04:24 |
crtdaydreams |
probably |
04:25 |
crtdaydreams |
I dunno if I'd sell it right away though, the wood hasn't be laquered or polished etc. merely oiled. |
04:25 |
crtdaydreams |
I don't have the equipment to do a proper finish (yet :P) |
04:26 |
crtdaydreams |
gtg, o/ |
04:27 |
vex |
cya cunt :) |
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~ 45 minutes ~ |
05:12 |
vex |
i'd put a lttle inlaid brass cdd logo where the title box might be, over time the graphite rubbings might report it |
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~ 17 minutes ~ |
05:30 |
vex |
http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-06-24#1109024 cool rundown. I didn't remember |
05:30 |
dulapbot |
Logged on 2022-06-24 14:45:18 asciilifeform: became a hobo (given as 'stanford is run by morons', 'turned on, tuned in, dropped out'); took to hiding out on rooftops ('the guards are morons'); took to eating stims by the kg ('to finish my lispm! any day nao!'); hallucinated, fell off roof, broke foot; 'doctors are morons, i'ma self-amputate'; then vanished, and not seen on net in some yrs, likely rip |
05:35 |
vex |
even if rock bottom sober, still rip |
05:37 |
vex |
I think he's chained by his one good leg to an assembly line in mexico making hyroiotic acid 247 |
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~ 22 minutes ~ |
06:00 |
vex |
I don't like to speak ill of the dead, but macacamias don't grow overnight |
06:04 |
vex |
achtung bingoboingo; I'm making things up. |
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~ 32 minutes ~ |
06:36 |
vex |
I'll reconsider things untill the summer is almost over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8oTvIaWH7s |
06:39 |
vex |
prolly rock up right when the pool is closing, in the smallest speedo |
06:39 |
vex |
that's when the bitches are horniest |
06:41 |
vex |
front pike to whiskey |
06:45 |
vex |
australie |
06:45 |
vex |
1 dive only |
06:48 |
vex |
thirsty |
06:51 |
vex |
embrace the disgrace |
06:52 |
vex |
frowns abound |
06:53 |
vex |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69CCsfaZlA dat flop |
06:57 |
vex |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw |
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07:23 |
vex |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUNTk5xsxk4 |
07:28 |
vex |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ_i3Ar8yZ4 |
07:34 |
vex |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emdMHoSqYfs |
07:43 |
vex |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GlFZRXBQyg |
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~ 3 hours 14 minutes ~ |
10:57 |
crtdaydreams |
asciilifeform: would like to know what happened with this, i recall someone mentioning the limiting factor being speed |
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10:57 |
dulapbot |
(trilema) 2017-08-31 asciilifeform: phf et al : to briefly continue http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-31#1707895 -- picture an a4-sized plinth, of, e.g., 32 dimm slots. each can contain a card of sram, or alternatively of 4 ice40-8k's, or some peripheral ( e.g. nic magnetics. ) |
10:59 |
crtdaydreams |
(specifically in reference to e.g. ice40s) |
11:04 |
crtdaydreams |
shelved til pest et cetera 'solved' i presume |
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~ 3 hours 3 minutes ~ |
14:07 |
asciilifeform |
http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-06-27#1109329 << shelved after experiments suggested that this approach doesn't win |
14:07 |
dulapbot |
Logged on 2022-06-27 06:55:22 crtdaydreams: asciilifeform: would like to know what happened with this, i recall someone mentioning the limiting factor being speed |
14:07 |
dulapbot |
Logged on 2022-03-29 09:12:44 asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-03-29#1090185 << obv. can connect >1, but they won't 'behave like larger array', given propagation delays and sparseness of i/o |
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~ 1 hours 59 minutes ~ |
16:07 |
phf |
man chromebooks are utter junk |
16:14 |
asciilifeform |
phf: yours finally let out magick smoak ? |
16:14 |
* |
asciilifeform still has the original which pictured in the articles, tho sans the mousepad, ripped its cable at some pt during the various vivisections |
16:15 |
phf |
nah, spent couple of hours trying to get some intel asus to boot into linux |
16:15 |
asciilifeform |
aa, the x86 ones |
16:15 |
phf |
got convinced that http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-06-23#1108733 |
16:15 |
dulapbot |
Logged on 2022-06-23 15:21:03 phf: tbf even messing with a chromebook is kind of a mistake |
16:15 |
* |
asciilifeform not tried those |
16:16 |
asciilifeform |
phf: i can sorta see wai to fiddle with the arm32 ones, but wat's the use of the ultralowend intel boxen ? |
16:16 |
asciilifeform |
( do they also somehow 12h emacs ? seems unlikely ) |
16:17 |
phf |
it's just fust enough to play early 2000s games in wine :> |
16:19 |
asciilifeform |
x60 also justabout |
16:19 |
asciilifeform |
(tho the fan is annoying imho) |
16:20 |
phf |
it's just touch slow for e.g. vtmb |
16:21 |
asciilifeform |
a |
16:22 |
phf |
which is about my cutoff point, e.g. thief deadly shadows from about same period, or like return to castle wolfenstein |
16:23 |
phf |
i no longer have any gaming machine, openbsd doesn't play wine, etc. |
16:24 |
phf |
oh, a perfectly usable chromebook, nope! |
16:24 |
* |
asciilifeform in '17 'wainot i'ma build a mswin box w/ fattest gpu, maybe games' -- shortly after turned it into a commercial test toilet, lol, and ever since been that |
16:25 |
phf |
i have a back of a truck top of the line nvidia from last year, which i've been meaning to build a gaming computer around, but somehow fucking with rear differential is more interesting. |
16:25 |
phf |
*back of the truck |
16:26 |
phf |
*fell of the truck |
16:26 |
phf |
i give up |
16:26 |
asciilifeform |
lol |
16:27 |
* |
asciilifeform for last 6mo also deep in equiv of 'rear differential' but with ancient house, rather than truck (truck, for nao, ~worx w/out much fiddle) |
16:27 |
asciilifeform |
tho considering 1 of those micro cranes for truck |
16:28 |
asciilifeform |
( and e.g. backhoe ) |
16:31 |
asciilifeform |
( pet: 'let's install a 2nd pet in this room' a: 'i was gonna put the board line there, lol' etc ) |
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16:31 |
dulapbot |
Logged on 2022-06-17 16:44:26 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in misc. irons, apparently a complete chinese-style production like (x-y paste jetter, pick'n'place, conveyor, reflow oven) can be had naodays for ~15k $ , comes in 1 shipping container |
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~ 1 hours 8 minutes ~ |
17:40 |
* |
signpost stood up a VR setup with nvidia and valve index to see whether infinite wall o' terminals was possible yet. |
17:40 |
signpost |
verdict is still "nope" |
17:40 |
asciilifeform |
signpost: does that one still suffer the 'pixels the size of tea saucers' problem ? |
17:40 |
signpost |
had fun with a few VR games for a bit, and item's now collecting dust as one'd expect. |
17:41 |
asciilifeform |
( i.e. '4k'(tm)(r) when spread out over yer whole retina aint in fact much ) |
17:41 |
asciilifeform |
not for text work, that is |
17:41 |
signpost |
right, resolution is too low, and far too low to have some of the "screens" at an angle for quick glancing to the side. |
17:42 |
signpost |
let alone that "glancing" isn't possible without turning one's whole head. |
17:42 |
signpost |
it's going to need enough detail across the entire motion of the eye to work. |
17:42 |
asciilifeform |
if had working eye tracking, and proper electronics (i.e. vector graphics representation and rasterization in realtime, in iron) -- in principle '4k' enuff to cover central vision |
17:43 |
asciilifeform |
afaik all the off-shelf vrvisors geared to 3dshoot/pr0n, tho, so not holding breath |
17:44 |
signpost |
most fun I've had with the thing has been "SUPER HOT", a bullet-time shooter, and star wars themed space-shooter. |
17:45 |
signpost |
both not more than "yeah, this will be cool in 10 more years". |
17:45 |
asciilifeform |
signpost: interestingly, was at that stage in '90s |
17:46 |
asciilifeform |
like '3d movie' , is in a kind of endless disappearance/reappearance loop |
17:47 |
asciilifeform |
meanwhile the req'd tech for 'vr for text' exists, but in mysterious patent limbo 4evah |
17:47 |
dulapbot |
(trilema) 2014-03-22 asciilifeform: kopin corp. had microdisplays with ~1600x1200 in fingernail sized element, for ages |
17:47 |
signpost |
we are probably the wrong personality type to enjoy it regardless of level of tech. |
17:47 |
asciilifeform |
oblig vintage asciilifeform piece |
17:47 |
signpost |
this was way more fun than VR will ever be. |
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17:47 |
dulapbot |
Logged on 2022-06-22 00:08:45 signpost: out in nc at uncle's atm to drink and plink. |
17:48 |
asciilifeform |
dunno, asciilifeform would buy a programming helmet. |
17:48 |
signpost |
just got back |
17:48 |
asciilifeform |
(if only to make his setup with 100kg of eizos + 200kg of desk, portable) |
17:48 |
signpost |
I'd also buy, but every time I use VR I get the sense of uncanny valley, like I've been tricked by something obscene. |
17:49 |
* |
asciilifeform not interested in 'virtual rooms' etc. idjit skeumorphisms; just fucking plain text on retina plox |
17:49 |
signpost |
mhm, as a tool for work, will likely be mighty useful. |
17:50 |
* |
asciilifeform suspects that the highres retina displays -- which were demoed in '80s -- are being 'sat on' on acct of being perceived coldwar 'wunderwaffen' |
17:51 |
signpost |
not familiar, but facebook's demoing some interesting stuff. might just be a matter of there not being a civilian market for $100k/headset. |
17:52 |
asciilifeform |
sure there is. asciilifeform or for that matter errybody who spends 14h+/d in cockpit, would buy in a heartbeat, if the thing actually worked |
17:52 |
* |
asciilifeform bought arsebook's headsets, unsurprisingly found to be rubbish |
17:53 |
signpost |
yeah, but they're $1k, and I'm talking about a "market" in which no company can plan anything further out than a few quarters, and denominated in a currency that'll buy half next year. |
17:53 |
asciilifeform |
http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-06-27#1109384 << 'phf's horse' lol |
17:53 |
dulapbot |
Logged on 2022-06-27 13:45:16 signpost: this was way more fun than VR will ever be. |
17:59 |
signpost |
best thing about the trip was that our phones didn't work for shit. |
18:00 |
* |
asciilifeform once did time in a salt mine w/ a fella who spent coupla wks erry spring in ru taiga. 'best thing, pnoje dunwork' etc. still had to come back errytime to salt mine unsurpris. |
18:00 |
signpost |
full disconnection will remain impossible while there's still such a thing as property tax. |
18:01 |
signpost |
which is somehow not a poll tax because, I suppose, one could choose to live in a sewer. |
18:01 |
asciilifeform |
well if yer genuinely loaded and it's effectively 'penny', then wainot |
18:03 |
* |
signpost has grown cautious watching those who were "genuinely loaded" in the 80s and 90s implode when the environment shifted around them. |
18:04 |
signpost |
in hyperinflation I expect that property taxes (or rents) will probably make short work of most people's retirements. |
18:06 |
asciilifeform |
signpost: considering that the entire purpose of engineered inflation is to confiscate savings.. |
18:07 |
asciilifeform |
the folx on the trigger-pulling end of that crime will, unsurprisingly, make bank, rather than starve |
18:08 |
asciilifeform |
(i.e. erryone who owns 'growing', with inflatola, income-generating assets. at the expense of erryone who not) |
18:09 |
asciilifeform |
'stable society dun need a middle class'(tm)(r)(mats) or how did it go |
18:09 |
asciilifeform |
1917 was a while back, lizards not in any sense afraid of payback naodays |
18:10 |
asciilifeform |
nor are their bootlicks |
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~ 48 minutes ~ |
18:58 |
verisimilitude |
It's still pathetic that video games are about the only things computers can do right nowadays. |
18:59 |
verisimilitude |
Still, they can be rather fun. |
19:00 |
verisimilitude |
I've seen an impressive VR racing game demo; I could see it working for arcades, but traditional arcades didn't need face condoms as a public VR system would. |
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~ 45 minutes ~ |
19:45 |
mats |
i always wanted to be famous enough to be quoted |
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~ 18 minutes ~ |
20:03 |
verisimilitude |
Keep trying; that was a paraphrase. |
20:07 |
asciilifeform |
even mp's programme was a paraphrase, lol |
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~ 37 minutes ~ |
20:45 |
verisimilitude |
The Latin word FABER FABRI means ``crafter'' and the like, meaning it's the origin of words such as ``fabrication'' and how neat. |
20:48 |
verisimilitude |
It's also neat how several words use the same base in different declensions, such as GENA (cheek) and GENŪ (knee) or COLLVM (neck) and COLLIS (hill). |
20:48 |
verisimilitude |
How fun. |
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~ 16 minutes ~ |
21:04 |
shinohai |
For the logs: "i always wanted to be famous enough to be quoted" - mats |
21:07 |
verisimilitude |
Congratulations, mats. |
21:21 |
asciilifeform |
verisimilitude: with no intention to rain on yer parade, still gotta note that 0 of these are any kinda noose to folx who know 2-3 eurolangs |
21:28 |
signpost |
hey man, us walmart-raised fags gotta learn to talk good too. |
21:40 |
verisimilitude |
It's okay, asciilifeform, I walk with an umbrella. |
21:41 |
signpost |
lol |
21:41 |
verisimilitude |
I suppose that very word, ``umbrella'', is ``little shadow'' or something or another. |