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Fri Mar 18 15:29:33 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the ~only point i made prior to the whole "way things are done!11" explosion was, that for the price of buying extension cords for all the shitty little bricks he can make a central power source himself.
Fri Mar 18 15:28:18 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i guess he'll need to use thicker wires, but hey, if it'll make your impalement sense happy why not.
Fri Mar 18 15:27:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> anyway, would it make you happier if he puts a transformer in between, takes it from 300 V 1 A to 4.5 V 60 A and then parallels that ?
Fri Mar 18 15:27:42 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> it coalesces into there being arts mircea_popescu is - apparently - innocent of
Fri Mar 18 15:27:14 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i've been trying to follow this with the huts etc but it doesn't coallesce into a something.
Fri Mar 18 15:23:34 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> go on ?
Fri Mar 18 15:22:39 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> aha ?
Fri Mar 18 15:22:15 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> not as such ? :/
Fri Mar 18 15:22:06 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: do you recall your article about african huts ?
Fri Mar 18 15:21:40 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "i want someone to make me a si foundry and i'll strangle anyone who even tries to make a power source!"
Fri Mar 18 15:21:16 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> MUST USE THEIR BRIX!!11
Fri Mar 18 15:21:12 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> part and parcel of our attempts to you know, get out of hardware dependency of chinese\
Fri Mar 18 15:21:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> MUST USE CHINEZE BRIX
Fri Mar 18 15:20:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> because this apparently is... can't move TO dc.
Fri Mar 18 15:20:40 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is even lulzier than the whole "can't move out of dc" thing.
Fri Mar 18 15:20:18 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> sigh.
Fri Mar 18 15:20:04 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> so then what ?
Fri Mar 18 15:20:00 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: sure as hell you can
Fri Mar 18 15:19:53 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> da fuck already.
Fri Mar 18 15:19:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "oh noes, the car will run into a wall!11"