thanks.

my family is spread over several states and coordinating things has been interesting. but looking around today things are in pretty good shape to conclude the final stuff soon. just a small punch list and good to go.

yup im still in. should be home and have access to my network next week soon as i get business taken care of here. then ill have the original image. is there any particular size or color depth you want?

when traveling i use a stripped to the bone 4 year old laptop with nothing valuable on it in case its lost or stolen.

ah so you are the man to talk to for custom hat avatars.

may i order one? i wont be able to upload a good pic for a week or so, i am in the middle of funeral and estate business at the moment.

these are VERY cool.

ok im embarrassed to admit this but have only sporadically been reading the WO thread (and the forum in general) these last few weeks (reason below). i have just peeked in the thread here and there.

had an illness and then finally death in the family, and been away for the last month dealing with it. hope to wind things up this week.

so these cool hats.. who is doing them? i remember seeing a name here and there but everythings been a blur these last few weeks.

V8! your avatar! someone stole the Interceptor??

this means WAR with the thief(s). hunt them down and hurt them, we will. no mercy.

ya know some people just use alarm clocks and coffee to get up you know. works ok.

my 1st assembly language program was on a trs-80 model one.. it was pretty much this:

                            LOAD A, "E"
LOOP_OF_DEATH:  PUSH AF
                            GOTO LOOP_OF_DEATH

i did it to see how fast i could fill the screen with the letter "E" vs BASIC code (POKE x,y) as with BASIC you could see it fill as the loop executed.  with PUSH i figured the stack would grow till it filled all memory, including the memory mapped video screen. it did. not to mention overwriting itself eventually of course.

with the machine language code the screen was instantly filled and the machine locked up before i could even begin to take my finger off the RETURN key heh. i was impressed. helped me understand just how fast straight machine code was vs interpreted code.

olde skool stuff heh. well older, anyway.. used a pdp-11 in school. 12 bit i think. 8 inch floppies. no vacuum tube stuff though. THATS olde skool for sure.

had a timex sinclair 1000 too. with 16k expansion pack and the sparky printer. breath on any of it and instant lockup.

never had the ti-99/4 though. i should buy one just for my collection

wasnt it a 6510 in the VIC20. it had added some dedicated i/o pins vs the 6502 or something IIRC.

or maybe that was just the C64.. i had both.

fun times but i got more into the TRS-80 line with CP/M and such after.

yeah mining and tech sections have (to me) different criteria than other sections. in mining and tech related stuff the emphasis is more on how complete your information is, and how clear the problem/solution is presented. probably pretty useless info to the forum in general, and its quickly ignored.

like, babies born sideways?

sounds painful.

i dunno. fpga will never be best at any particular algo, but its very hard to outright doorstop them. they will always be able to mine some algo or another with a new bitstream, whereas asics are done for good once their particular algo is no longer used.

yeah cant all the nut jobs here pool some money and send a team? ~2 btc to prove it and become HEROS to the world to show its a conspiracy??

totally worth it. come on guys cough it up.

30 merits a word, or ~1.3 merit per letter.

imagine what JJG would get for one of his typical posts at that rate..

im keeping mine, a 2x nest, couple 215+ and a 110. i never counted on even remotely nearing ROI, it was more to have new toys.

but disappointing though. breaking even or better does makes new toys even more fun.

i suppose if you have the free time to set up all those VMs or such, download all those  wallets and blockchains and maintain them, and take all that risk to your coins and infrastructure, you could find the occasional nugget of gold.

to me thats way to risky and time consuming. ill take reliability and simplicity. for the most part anyway.

can i just despise myself and call it even? been a long day

until the backlog of "jr demoted to newb but did have the occasional good post in their history that was missed so not merited" people gets slogged through, this may look like some of us are too quick to merit someone who got demoted.

but the whole point is (per theymos) all they need is ONE good(ish) post thats meritable and get their rank back. or be able to get to jr rank to begin with.

although with some accounts ya gotta look pretty far back..

ok took a quick look through your post history, most was more or less on topic and intelligible, especially if english is not your native language. no real spam that i could see. so a merit for ya.