#trilema | 2018-08-02

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in other sorta-lulz : ewing's sarcoma is an extrmely rare (sarcomas are in general rare in humans, but this is bone-ish origin, so even rarer) that presents in about 5 cases per million in the us, about 2 cases per million in the rest of the "industrialized world" aka pantsuitlands, and sub 1 per million in the rest of the world in general.

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mircea_popescu

HOWEVER it presents in 3 cases per 20 kids in a "temporary class" in north carolina while their school underwent renovation.

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mircea_popescu

all i can say is thank you hillary clinton for stopping smoking.

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09:06

00:52	mircea_popescu	in other sorta-lulz : ewing's sarcoma is an extrmely rare (sarcomas are in general rare in humans, but this is bone-ish origin, so even rarer) that presents in about 5 cases per million in the us, about 2 cases per million in the rest of the "industrialized world" aka pantsuitlands, and sub 1 per million in the rest of the world in general.
00:52	mircea_popescu	HOWEVER it presents in 3 cases per 20 kids in a "temporary class" in north carolina while their school underwent renovation.
00:53	mircea_popescu	all i can say is thank you hillary clinton for stopping smoking.
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09:06	asciilifeform	!!deed http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/LQWT8/?raw=true
09:06	deedbot	accepted: 1
09:06	asciilifeform	mod6, mircea_popescu , ben_vulpes , trinque , et al, plox to update noad tables.
09:07	asciilifeform	( asciilifeform's local isp has dynamic ip, but changes erry other year or so )
09:07	asciilifeform	pretty annoying, actually, every yr i wake up to a mess of broken ssh pipes...
09:14	asciilifeform	trb noad is up again as of nao.
09:15	asciilifeform	( tbf, was up previously, simply returning old ip to peers )
09:18	asciilifeform	http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-01#1838902 << was rereading this thread, and realized that sadly nodice: 16bit (late years) isa, x 8MHz gives you 16MB/sec theoretical max, which is no kind of serious scope at all
09:18	a111	Logged on 2018-08-01 22:29 mircea_popescu: (if the putative fast oscilloscope ever got interfaced with killer micro box, it'd be through isa also, i'm sure.)
09:18	asciilifeform	if one is willing to dispense with vintage cards, and take it to the 20MHz or so (beyond which the capacitance of the contacts becomes problem) that's still not anywhere near GB/s
09:21	asciilifeform	however! this does not mean that the 'progress' idiocy where they replaced isa with a stateful monstrosity, is justified -- one could still have an isa-style bus today (i.e. directly addressable by cpu, and cards have simple 'is this for me?' logic, rather than book-length ???? )
09:22	asciilifeform	but point being, 'killer scope' won't be plugged into same bus as soundblaster16...
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10:15	deedbot	http://deedbot.org/bundle-534848.txt
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10:47	asciilifeform	meanwhile, in dept of 'the lady doth protest too much', http://www.contravex.com/#footnote_12_21699
10:48	mod6	asciilifeform: ack, will update here sometime today
10:49	asciilifeform	ty mod6
10:52	asciilifeform	diana_coman, mircea_popescu : i'd still recommend adding a timeout ( and log alarm if it ever actually times out ) to the FG reader in the s.mg routine -- it isn't physically impossible for the box to die
10:54	asciilifeform	( theoretical lifetime of FG is anywhere from 30+ yrs , until electron migration nails the eeprom in the cpld , but nobody actually knows, tho fwiw this particular chip existed since 1997 iirc and no known failures , so lives at least this long )
10:55	asciilifeform	the added bonus would be that if run on a misconfigured system, it will do something moar informative than simply hang.
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11:30	asciilifeform	meanwhile, in resurrected vintage lulz : linus agreed ( https://archive.is/aFETR ) to merge the http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-12#1796987 shitshow into kernel .
11:30	a111	Logged on 2018-04-12 15:22 asciilifeform: zx2c4: author of 'wireguard' ?
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11:49	mircea_popescu	asciilifeform was it capped at 8mz ?!
11:49	mircea_popescu	note, i said agpx!
11:50	asciilifeform	mircea_popescu: wasn't capped, originally was 1:1 with cpu clock, then starting with 386 or so started being divide-by-4
11:51	mircea_popescu	i kinda missed that memo.
11:51	asciilifeform	and lol agp ( interesting q, did anybody ever make something other than a vga card for it ? or for that matter, a mb with >1 hole )
11:51	mircea_popescu	why lol ?
11:51	mircea_popescu	afaik it even comes double-stacked on some boards, and is UTTERLY capable of gb/sa
11:51	mircea_popescu	afaik also isa-on-steroids, but i've never looked THAT closely
11:51	asciilifeform	lived for quite short time ( asciilifeform has all sorts of vintage gear but 0 boxen with agp remaining )
11:52	mircea_popescu	sure as fuck it isn't the level of mess of usb.
11:52	mircea_popescu	i have some.