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deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/09/12/apple-do-you-care/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - “Apple, do you care?”
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/pantsuit-seattle-mayor-ed-murray-quits-amid-serial-child-fucking-scandal/ << Qntra - Pantsuit Seattle Mayor Ed Murray Quits Amid Serial Child Fucking Scandal
BingoBoingo: ^ In other "Think of the Children!"
phf: i think tmsr keyboard should be made with traditional fortepiano technology, ebony keys with ivory letter inlays, maple casing, etc.
phf: it will also come with proper pedals, like ascii always wanted
asciilifeform: 'Your face is now your password. Face ID is a secure new way to unlock, authenticate, and pay.'
asciilifeform: lol, just when i thought that crapple might have hit retardation rockbottom...
asciilifeform: 'The TrueDepth camera analyzes more than 50 different muscle movements to mirror your expressions in 12 Animoji. Reveal your inner panda, pig, or robot.'
shinohai: More like reveal your inner Cattle.
deedbot: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/BF3562F1A4B6C4581EC3633162E02492667D4C66178258073D7E3AE232DD0D3C << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1706...5337 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '79.174.64.63 (ssh-rsa key from 79.174.64.63 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (2377.ovz-ssd6.hc.ru. RU)
deedbot: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/BF3562F1A4B6C4581EC3633162E02492667D4C66178258073D7E3AE232DD0D3C << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1374...8923 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '79.174.64.63 (ssh-rsa key from 79.174.64.63 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (2377.ovz-ssd6.hc.ru. RU)
asciilifeform: ^ http://ulady.ru << exactly what it looks like
asciilifeform: 'how to propose' 'how to delay or hasten menses' ... 'exercises for bigger tits' 'how to please a man' ...
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713470 << ~organ~ tech, phf, organ. 88 keyz ain't a comp kbd.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 09:43 phf: i think tmsr keyboard should be made with traditional fortepiano technology, ebony keys with ivory letter inlays, maple casing, etc.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713468 << i'm still waiting for the brezhnev-yeltsin state-of-the-art to come back -- guard with tranquilizer gun, 'oh she felt unwell'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: https://archive.is/xFSpv << '...statue of Thomas Jefferson in black Tuesday night during a rally criticizing the university’s response to recent white nationalist demonstrations...' etc lulz >> qntra fodder ?
asciilifeform: 'They covered the statue of the university’s founder, and signs reading “racist” and “rapist” were placed on it.'
BingoBoingo: ty asciilifeform
trinque: such racism, to assume that sally hemings couldn't possibly have *liked* jefferson.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: Well, for the real deal on tht you have to go to the ever trendy open air "produce market" http://soulardmarketstl.com/
BingoBoingo: Note that they leave off the old Sunday program from their www
asciilifeform: !!up apeloyee
deedbot: apeloyee voiced for 30 minutes.
shinohai: Wait, slaves aren't produce?
apeloyee: would O(N^2) modular multiplication be too slow?
asciilifeform: apeloyee: anything that beats multiply-then-divide is an improvement, so long as it meets the basic demands ( constant time, constant space, NO branches that depend on input bits, no use of approximations, no massively heavy - 100 loc is a good approx max - code )
asciilifeform: i.e. 0 * 0 mod 0 must result in the execution of exactly the same sequence of cpu cycles, as maxwidthint * maxwidthint mod maxwidthint .
asciilifeform: likewise it also demands that there be NO table lookups
asciilifeform: and no precomputations.
asciilifeform: and no special requirements for operands ( e.g. montgomery or barrett reduction are out. )
asciilifeform: this means that yes it has to work on , e.g., even moduli. or moduli that are substantially larger, or smaller, than either or both of the multiplicands.
asciilifeform: ( modulus and both multiplicands have same bit width, and if you read the rest of ffa as has been posted here, you will know that NO such thing as normalization ever takes place, or will ever take place, all operands are assumed to be N-bit )
asciilifeform: anyway i think that sums it up, apeloyee
asciilifeform: ( i can already hear mircea_popescu going 'hahah, mod 0' )
trinque: where's your finite field now!
trinque: divide by zero joke; I'll show myself out
asciilifeform: trinque: currently my angle is, to try and make constantspacetime recursive divide&conquer division
asciilifeform: ( instead of the constantspacetimeized knuth division currently in there )
asciilifeform: probably the only actual optimization possible.
apeloyee: what woud be wrong with barrett reduction if you calculate a sufficiently precise reciprocal of modulus N,i.e. (maxint+1)^2/N?
apeloyee: ((maxint+1)^2)/N
asciilifeform: several things.
asciilifeform: apeloyee: for instance, how do you propose to carry out the corrector/verifier without using conditionals ?
asciilifeform: understand, the program may NOT include 'if' or any equivalent.
apeloyee: same way as with divisions.
asciilifeform: knuth division 'restorer' fires either once or not at all
asciilifeform: so it's one mux
apeloyee: yes.
asciilifeform: so how many mux ops would you give for barrett ?
asciilifeform: and prove that it works.
asciilifeform: other thing, apeloyee , is that if ffa does NOT operate on mixed bitnesses. i.e. if your operands are B bits, and you introduced an intermediate of some kind that is 2B bitness, now ALL of your computations with that must be 2B wide (incl. comparisons, nullity checks.)
asciilifeform: this is why it was so tricky to implement karatsuba.
asciilifeform: no ffa basic op will accept operands of unequal bitnesses.
asciilifeform: this is intentional and isn't going to change.
asciilifeform: !!up apeloyee
deedbot: apeloyee voiced for 30 minutes.
asciilifeform: now this isn't even all. how the fuck do you intend to calculate the reciprocal WITHOUT DOING THE SAME DIVISION I'M DOING NOW
asciilifeform: except in 2x the bitness.
asciilifeform: ( which costs 4x as much. and then all the garbage that follows .)
apeloyee: reciprocal can be calculated with newton's method
asciilifeform: is it not getting through that once you introduce a 2B-bit item, you are working in ffa of 2B bitness ?
asciilifeform: the only reason we are able to avoid this in karatsubamulter, is that the 2B is ~never~ treated as one number except on output, it is dealt with in parts
apeloyee: can't extract a reduced-length number?
asciilifeform: if you made the double-wide reciprocal ( i will leave aside the question of how to do this in provable constant time and provable correctness ) you're stuck using that width.
asciilifeform: for the rest of the barrett algo.
asciilifeform: and incidentally barrett , as iirc i mentioned in yesterday's thread, requires that a*b < n^2.
asciilifeform: this is not compatible with my demand of a fully general modular mult op.
asciilifeform: so this really makes the question of whether barrett could, in principle, be made in constant spacetime, academic.
asciilifeform: ffa modular mult MUST produce correct answer for ALL possible inputs a,b,n.
asciilifeform: ( n will not be 0, but aside from this all possible bitstrings are legal. )
asciilifeform: and none may result in any deviation from fixed spacetime ( so no 'use barrett if we can, use montgomery if we can...' etc. NO IFs. )
apeloyee: standard barrett requires a*b<n^2, yes. hence I specified the double-precision reciprocal.
apeloyee: (i'm not talking about floating point, if that's not obvious)
asciilifeform: no i get it
asciilifeform: apeloyee: if you want to write out the full algo, i'll read
asciilifeform: ( put in wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com or elsewhere )
apeloyee: does "full" include newton's algo with correctness proof?
asciilifeform: ideallly. i don't have a fixedtime reciprocal finder.
asciilifeform: and it doesn't afaik exist anywhere to crib.
asciilifeform: currently it seems to me that the reciprocal step ~alone~ will cost more than my knuthdivision residue finder in its entirety.
asciilifeform: this is why barrett is only used in the field when the modulus stays constant.
asciilifeform: ohai mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: apeloyee: out of curiosity, who might you be ? log lurker ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713462 << i suspect back before the "end of the world" people had a firm dislike for "life changing prizes". because hadn't experienced disruption in the proper sense ; and understood the lottery winner problems.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 03:48 BingoBoingo: AHA, until late 1990's that was US gameshow maximum prize! Then inflation
mircea_popescu: they also didn't have eg "total make-over" shows and so on.
apeloyee: asciilifeform: yes.
asciilifeform: !!up apeloyee
deedbot: apeloyee voiced for 30 minutes.
apeloyee: ok, i'll think and come later.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, after the millionaire show and a few other mega jackpots the game shows transitioned to "reality tv" which at first had prizes and then simply came with attention and opportunity to make own fortune or peril
asciilifeform: apeloyee: consider registering with deedbot, you can voice then.
BingoBoingo: (Duck Dynasty vs teen mom outcomes)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo sorta how porn transitioned from finding teenagers looking to explore the world to producing vanity tapes so rando hookers can pretend to be "pornstars" for an extra 10 bucks in the vip room.
BingoBoingo: It's where the money pushes the business
mircea_popescu: more like where the epic failure of management to manage the business leaves it stranded.
mircea_popescu: you can't lose the teenaged sluts, with your head.
mircea_popescu: once it's a story of stupid old women, it's history.
deedbot: BAD04B14A4545828FABCE63C3DB30625393C0BB1 registered as apeloyee.
BingoBoingo: Well, yes. fail to manage and the money pushes everything to Walmart
asciilifeform: !!rate apeloyee 1 barrett reductionist
asciilifeform: !!v 4E12C2B974FD1B07418EF6117A72E7D4A631876859A009A4756568B2B246F511
deedbot: asciilifeform rated apeloyee 1 << barrett reductionist
BingoBoingo: Failure to manage is exactly how the fortunes bestowed to select members of the urban underpriviledged get captured by Amway and other MLM scams. It's also the story of Bitcoin history from Obsi through Gigavps through labcoin to Ether huffing. Money naturally attracts old women who want it to turn into a Walmart, but a "nicer" one than the neighbors have.
mircea_popescu: there is that.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713471 << and be part of an actual car (submarine-hellicopter) with the generator in the trunk and the bitchez sunning themselves on teh roof ?
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 09:43 phf: it will also come with proper pedals, like ascii always wanted
BingoBoingo: And the "nicer" Walmart always gets beat by the better at spreadsheets in space walmart as old women get their 3 status items of not being poor from the faddy not-Walmart and race the rest of their money to the bottom walmart
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i kinda always wondered why exactly the SUV craze stopped. i mean, once you give up on sense, there's no way to land, is there ? they could have made a DOUBLE SIZED "car", that takes up two lanes, and could carry that much more injected plastic on the frame.
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had an article re why stopped
asciilifeform: the one with 'and then they decided, the roads will not be maintained'
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It transformed into "Crossover" craze. iirc pete_dushenski has a blog on this.
BingoBoingo: Crossover being a tall station wagon like peak hype cashgrab SUV, except pretense of leaving road abandoned.
BingoBoingo: Well, not usually station wagons so much as hatchbacks like Ye olde economy cars
BingoBoingo: !~google "Ford Edge"
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: 2017 Ford ® Edge SUV |2.7L Ecoboost® - The Most Powerful Gas ...: <https://www.ford.com/suvs-crossovers/edge/2017/>; 2017 Ford Edge - Build & Price: <http://shop.ford.com/build/edge/>; Ford Edge Prices, Reviews and Pictures | U.S. News & World Report: <https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/ford/edge>
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i watched last night "fun with dick and jane", which is a fine throwaway. other than tea leoni making a way the fuck better applegate/bancroft/whatever (these typically ustardian huswife of businessman roles, where businessman is one of those schmucks doing nothing, "vp of ziggler-engels" sorta thyings). but the interestinfg part is : the guy gets a promotion. the signalling signs of this promotion are, that they
mircea_popescu: dig up a new pool, that she quits her job, and that they EAT A STEAK.
shinohai: Or this monstrosity:
shinohai: !~google Porsche Cayenne
jhvh1: shinohai: Porsche All Cayenne Models - Porsche USA: <http://www.porsche.com/usa/models/cayenne/>; Porsche Cayenne Models - Porsche USA: <http://www.porsche.com/usa/models/cayenne/cayenne-models/>; Porsche Cayenne - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_Cayenne>
mircea_popescu: leaving aside how that 98lb woman could NOT have eaten the 18 oz porterhouse she served herself in two days : really doods, to finally afford 10 bucks wortha meat you gotta be promoted to floor 51 ?!
mircea_popescu: but this is old woman walmart shopping.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: lol, in usia only very poor and very rich get steak
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you should have seen that thing, it was a proper tenderloin, all of it. which you know, you do if you have a dozen people coming.
BingoBoingo: Oh my!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform maybe i misunderstand something, but that actually should have been an argument for, not against.
asciilifeform: from buyer's pov it'd be a 'for' yes
asciilifeform: but buyer gets the 4ring binder he is given, not the 77-ring he dreamed of.
mircea_popescu: no, i mean from the following cultural perspective : for as long as road network continues growing, the user wants massive, impressive beast of a steel machine. to show his supremacy over the attendant landscape in proper context (ie, he's affraid of the wilderness roads expand into). once expansion stops, he wants an efficient little thing, to get it over the next guy (ie, he's affraid of neighbour). and once road network st
mircea_popescu: arts actually getting kicked back, jungle taking over, he wants a MEGA INSANE DYSFUNCTIONAL ITEM (ie, he is now affraid of sense -- because all thatr sense has to say to him is "you're fucked|" )
asciilifeform: that last one only worx in era of infinite cheap petrol
mircea_popescu: usg petrol is half price atm, and has been for a decade.
mircea_popescu: it's ~5bux a gallon in costa rica, romania, sweden, you name it.
asciilifeform: evidently lizard gosplan doesn't expect infinite continuation of this
asciilifeform: or bush-era 'hummer' would still be sold.
mircea_popescu: im not so sure consumer crazes are part of teh gosplan
mircea_popescu: oh, that got shelved ?! WOW
asciilifeform: long ago
mircea_popescu: i guess it shows how closely i'm following.
asciilifeform: and 'what kind of auto is sold' is eminently, unabashedly controlled by usg gosplan
mircea_popescu: so what do rappers do now, priusen ?
asciilifeform: ( as seen in the wv idiocy )
asciilifeform: pagin BingoBoingo ... what do they do ? ( 'tesla' ?! )
mircea_popescu: ahahaha no fucking way, lumea s-a schimbat, hipster rapper driving lawnmower ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Last I checked they did euro supercars and bespoke super suvs.
BingoBoingo: Everyone else drives crossovers because they suppose it lives in exact middle
BingoBoingo: between trabangini and trabanHummer
mircea_popescu: what;s euro supercars here, like maybach ?
asciilifeform: jagdtiger
mircea_popescu: (they did make the p3)
BingoBoingo: Maserati seems to be the one I see on road least un-often
mircea_popescu: vinegarcar
BingoBoingo: Alfa Romeo returned to States recently and is marketing itself being Italian as meaning alt-ferarri
mircea_popescu: they're all the same, you realise, fiat's maybach
mircea_popescu: (maybach was an old luxury brand bought by mercedes ; maserati idem, early 1900s brand, bought by fiat ; spun off with alpha romeo and abarth recently cuz who wants a fiat)
BingoBoingo: Well fiat by buying Chrylser seems to have went "we were fascist too, just as better as Daimler Benz" Which previously owned chysler when chrysler was Mitsubishi
mircea_popescu: (and ftr, it's fca ie fiat-chrysler)
BingoBoingo: Was Daimler Chrysler with US products being "Diamond Star Motors" or whatever the fuck mitsubishis
BingoBoingo: With Mitsubishi itself being the only Japanese automaker in US whose name is anti-associated with reliability
mircea_popescu: the demographic slices lulz are best enjoyed by the traveller btw. in argentina, they ACTUALLY ADVERTISE "french technology" in automotive industry.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> pagin BingoBoingo ... what do they do ? ( 'tesla' ?! ) << Fuck they all drive Dodges!
mircea_popescu: as if it were a thing.
BingoBoingo: Dodge challenger/Charger is the trend
mircea_popescu: i expect this is because dodge is paying ?
BingoBoingo: Prolly.
BingoBoingo: Also doing the thing where they sell the public big numbers of horsepower or at least appearance thereof
BingoBoingo: Commericals feature "X vehicles over 400 horsepower"
mircea_popescu: dodge is making high power cars nao ?
BingoBoingo: Yeah, Like they did in early 1970's
mircea_popescu: i thought they were trying for the economy thing. didn't take huh.
BingoBoingo: Yeah, it didn't take. through Mitsubishi years they did economy thing with lonely Viper and Neon SRT-4 being only power offerings that weren't trucks
asciilifeform: when usa physical reality finally converges to the economic reality, i'd expect revival of the motorcycle. but for some reason not happened yet
mircea_popescu: moar like the nazy 2 seater item.
mircea_popescu: that -- great for bad terrain.
asciilifeform: aha with sidecar
asciilifeform: i have a neighbour who has, i shit thee not, a 'ural'
BingoBoingo: Dodge/Ford/Chevy are all sorta competing on pwoer angle. Except Ford/Chevy also are keeping some economy options.
asciilifeform: imported from ru.
mircea_popescu: prolly will be moar like dune trike, but yes
mircea_popescu: what was that englishj lulzcar on 3 wheels, we had it in log.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: A couple towns away there is Vespa/Ural dealer
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: where i live one still sees these ~exclusively in the warm months, driven by hobbyists -- rather than commuters who can't afford petrol for a 4cyl
mircea_popescu: vespa is massively popular here for some reason.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> when usa physical reality finally converges to the economic reality, i'd expect revival of the motorcycle. but for some reason not happened yet << This summer there's been more of them locally than in recent history. Much of the US though has winter...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: AHA
shinohai: AH THE RELIANT ROBIN mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the bmw r75 will do ice.
shinohai: bwahahahaha
mircea_popescu: a yeah right shinohai
shinohai: Those things are hilarious. Absolutely 0 og
shinohai: *center of gravity
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo the bmw r75 will do ice. << Still requires skill
mircea_popescu: well sure.
mircea_popescu: though you realise the side wheel is driven
mircea_popescu: so it's not as bad irl as one imagines.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there were some zundapps still on the road when asciilifeform was a boy, in orcistan
asciilifeform: probably same in mircea_popesculandia
mircea_popescu: yeah, in the end they won the war of the sidecar bikes did they
asciilifeform: ftr ural sidewheel is driven also ( more or less exact copy )
asciilifeform: at one time i thought 'hm would be nifty to get an ural' but then noticed that d00d has the pistons laid out on a towel in his front yard, more often that i ever hear or see the machine actually go
mircea_popescu: this is not necessarily bike's fault.
mircea_popescu: some people have head issues.
asciilifeform: i've yet to meet anybody who disassembles engine just for the hell of it
asciilifeform: but whoknows
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713479 << Изнеженное дворянство еще не раз будет возвращать в обиход декольте. looks like liberal reuse of old fishwrapper clippings ?
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 14:34 asciilifeform: ^ http://ulady.ru << exactly what it looks like
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: whole thing is more or less the customary english clickfarm, but with order of magnitude less pantsuit (e.g. instead of clitler pieces, 'magnify yer tits' etc )
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713483 << iirc pantsuited hilarity did feel such unwell at some point.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 15:43 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713468 << i'm still waiting for the brezhnev-yeltsin state-of-the-art to come back -- guard with tranquilizer gun, 'oh she felt unwell'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yes, because the free strings they can get hands on were written in 1980 by gosplan as quoted, rather than in 2000 by perianne boring aspie
asciilifeform: and visible even to my untrained eye.
mircea_popescu: filter feeders will be you know, filters. kinda why so popular semiology sources in marine biology.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713488 << rather, could have possibly liked BEING MANHANDLED by jefferson ~or whatever other white boy was willing~.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 17:00 trinque: such racism, to assume that sally hemings couldn't possibly have *liked* jefferson.
mircea_popescu: all the dogs i ever met were thrilled to be scratched behind ears whenever and whichever way you felt like, the warm glow of "omfg, i am being handled BY HUMAN!!!" visibly overpowering all "thoughts" such as they had in their dog brain.
mircea_popescu: the proposition that there existed black woman in the time discussed who didn't similarily bask in "omfg, WHITE MAN!!! is scratching me between the legs" is out and out ridiculous anachronism.
mircea_popescu: what exactly am i asked to believe, that woman whose name only exists because she was bought by jefferson family somehow had other priorities ? like what, sexual congress with the black males ? odds are she'd have rather fucked a donkey.
mircea_popescu: heck, they don't wanna fuck them as it is, TODAY! look through the dating sites, two thirds of black female profiles indicate "no black males" in some manner (such as, "no gangstas" or whatever)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only fucked jefferson, but slept in his bed, did his paperwork.
asciilifeform: j was by some accounts an introverted d00d, did not much get along with chix, after his wife died decided to solve problem 'the sexbot way'
mircea_popescu: and if they had been jewish, all her older female relatives would have gotten misty in the cobweb, "omfg he's a DOCTOR!!!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is a lot more common than realised, on account of accomplished adult male not having patience for the older female only mode of life (the claque).
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> j was by some accounts an introverted d00d, did not much get along with chix, after his wife died decided to solve problem 'the sexbot way' << Not 'sexbot way', in the way his time and place handled much beloved mistress; such status is indicated by liberation as opposed to re-sale of the resultant octaroon children at their coming of age (as opposed to Jefferson's death).
mircea_popescu: this is a solid point.
mircea_popescu: the particular woman in question was yes, domestic slavegirl, it's a thing, it works well.
asciilifeform: worked a-ok for him
mircea_popescu: but the more general points of "rape" and "racism" were being discussed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it'd work a-ok for all the current ronin ones.
mircea_popescu: the pretention that "they have other things to do" a flimsy wrapper over the obvious "you've nobody that'd take you in"
trinque: got to take trip(s) to paris, etc, didn't she?
trinque: what a life
trinque: but no, I'm sure she'd have rather blacklivesmattered loudly somewhere dressed in walmart rags
mircea_popescu: jefferson was, in truth, a bit of a lulzfest after his unseating. somewhat of an early us ron paul / jirinowski etc.
mircea_popescu: nonsensical-populist.
mircea_popescu: at the time, this was called "agrarian"
mircea_popescu: but if it's not fucking obvious that in 1800 agrarianism is another word for nonsense...
asciilifeform: at least had the sense to mostly withdraw from public life
asciilifeform: into woodworking or what was it.
mircea_popescu: really, ran on the time's MAGA platform, got nowhere.
mircea_popescu: not enough popdensity for populism to work politically yet.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> nonsensical-populist. << And not Pantsuit took over the party he founded
mircea_popescu: come to think of it, the arrangement where the woman is a slave (like every sultan's consort up to roxana) and her offspring ARE SLAVES TOO until such a time father thinks otherwise (which yes, can be coming of age, if ever) is probably best way to do it.
mircea_popescu: way the fuck cheaper socially than my stricter "i will only have children in a society where i get to decide if they live or die"
trinque: romans would toss the duds into slavery, eh? similar outputs?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo well, us "parties" history is funny in that having no proper substance of their own (let alone ideology, bridge too far) they keep osciallting throiugh the same zero both. it's like centennial switcharoo game.
mircea_popescu: trinque it is better to be elevated than cast down.
trinque: I can see that point
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, the flip is happening Great Again!
BingoBoingo: So long as Trump can pull GOP to electoral sweet spot of a little economically liberal and a lotta socially conservative
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713729 << this is not even a correct statement. more properly "i will desist killing all my offspring before gestation completes if and only if my sovereign right to kill them at any time is socially recognized".
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 19:21 mircea_popescu: way the fuck cheaper socially than my stricter "i will only have children in a society where i get to decide if they live or die"
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/09/civil-unrest-continues-in-charleston-leftist-culture-warriors-move-historical-revisionism-target-to-university-founder-thomas-jefferson/ << Qntra - Civil Unrest Continues In Charleston: Leftist Culture Warriors Move Historical Revisionism Target To University Founder Thomas Jefferson
mircea_popescu: anyway, since nobody apparently got the faberge egg bait, let's put it in the logs. so yes on the substance front i asked alf if he knows what it is because it is in fact stained glass, except with gold instead of lead and porcelain instead of glass, ie just like his properly cast key, piston-and-typeface in metal, bulk in porcelain.
mircea_popescu: but on the significance front i asked because the principal preoccupation of the russian tsar afrter the french went stupid was to rescue as much of the old world industry stack as possible, which is how jhe ended up with swiss, austrian, french etc manufacturers.
mircea_popescu: that "trademark" is now owned by unilever, as you might've guessed, and it's used to sell items in qatar, as you might've also guessed. the point being that the poor rich arabs are trying to salvage whatever's left of the tsar's pile of salvaged material, today.
mircea_popescu: we're at the third pass of midden filtering! think about it!
mircea_popescu: and no, none of the "three for five bux, plastic injected and happy face" is in any way competition (or god help us replacement!) for what's here discussed.
asciilifeform: i thought those were late 19th c tech tho
mircea_popescu: entirely orthogonal tech stacks ; and wouldn't you know it that the simple man's reaction to perceptible orthogonality is to pick one and pretend the rest dun exist.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform define those ?
asciilifeform: the eggs
mircea_popescu: absolutely not.
mircea_popescu: before europe went stupid, and blacklivesmatter all over itself, there was a major concern with making mechanical life.
asciilifeform: made in 1880s, neh
mircea_popescu: hence all the clock towers with figurines, and about 50% of german lands gdp.
mircea_popescu: starting in 1720s!
mircea_popescu: it's a longer running item than computing!
mircea_popescu: and btw, it DID discover computing! hence mechanical calculators.
mircea_popescu: it is also WHY laplace hjappened.
asciilifeform: i recall the automata, von kempelen et al
mircea_popescu: dood could have been a general discussing importantly female transsexuals in the french expeditionary force
mircea_popescu: but the preoccupations of the culture at the time were such that INSTEAD he "of his own" "preferred" to solve some important geometry problemsa
mircea_popescu: so the austrian orfevres could make better movements for their puppets.
asciilifeform: incidentally afaik von kempelen's mechanical voicebox was never replicated even to this day
asciilifeform: ( we had the thread, possibly )
mircea_popescu: so : the faberge egg, the original, was made in 1885 ; but it was the continuation and in a sense the crowing of a current of thought (ie, culture) and proper civilisation that reached back over a centry.
asciilifeform: i can picture it. and specifically what mircea_popescu meant, re 'craftsmanship' tech as opposed to industrial/scalables
mircea_popescu: yes. different concerns entirely.
mircea_popescu: but the point remains that the high performance lathe was invented FOR THIS not for that!
mircea_popescu: and laplace existed BECAUSE OF THIS not because "i fucking love science" and "you like nerds, fuck one" ie "we want to get more science".
mircea_popescu: and broadly speaking -- that without THIS neither laplace nor the lathe are happening, period and full stop.
asciilifeform: lathe driven moar by musketry than by fine art tho
mircea_popescu: more importantly -- that the chinese DID takle over "industry", as well they should ; but that survival and prosperity depends on THIS. let them have THAT industry, it's actually a great fit for them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's two kinds of people -- and only one of them comes back from the war to complain about the boots.
mircea_popescu: guess which is which.
asciilifeform: did we ever do the chronometer thing ? a bit like that there egg, likewise craftsman 'unindustrial' product, and made the british navy briefly +ev
mircea_popescu: (and to round off the above : consider that the first metallic aluminum was shaped into a box and offered to the same person as the ironclad drawings were offered. whyssat ? cuz that's how all science flew back when people could control it.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeswedid.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: funnily enough there is a monument to this aluminum right here . washington obelisk has a top, 'priceless' pyramid of al
asciilifeform: made at the time when the royal aluminum spoon gift etc.
asciilifeform wonders if some modern monarch ever was given an aerogel spoon
mircea_popescu: or dildo.
mircea_popescu: "your higheness, have your favourite slave fuck herself in the ass with it!"
mircea_popescu would be genuinely curious if this could be done. on one hand trained girl can do wonders with ass, on other hand that thing is fragile as all fuck...
asciilifeform: could be done
asciilifeform: and not only could be, but could be attached to the end of a red hot poker , and subject would feel no heat
asciilifeform half-expected mircea_popescu to say that he already had owned aerogel dildo.
mircea_popescu: no, gotta leave something for the industrious to gift.
asciilifeform: famous pic
asciilifeform: i recall seeing it in print, even
mircea_popescu: well you print things
asciilifeform: iirc early 1990s ( pre-pantsuitization ) sci-am mag.
asciilifeform: naah loong ago
asciilifeform: aerogel'd make a spiffy pedestal for sram pc...
asciilifeform has a coffin notebook little list of items that nobody knows how to produce industrially, and so never expects to touch with own hands
asciilifeform: it's really half the attraction of having own decent lab setup
asciilifeform: some folx make holographs today, in their cellars, it is i suspect the same attraction. rather like colour film in 1930s
asciilifeform: 'want it? gotta do it yerself, corner store won't even dream of it'
asciilifeform: ( personal comp in 1970s. etc )
asciilifeform: there is imho a marked difference tho b/w 'nobody mass produces this' and 'nobody knows how'
asciilifeform: ( possible example of the former -- http://btcbase.org/log/2015-01-18#982523 ; of the latter -- aerogels )
a111: Logged on 2015-01-18 21:18 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: head-worn displays are considered, by usg, to be key military tech (all existing manufacturers of serious - i.e. svga and above units - supply usg exclusively)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you realise thermic isolation is a time function, yes ? eventually all parts of assemblage do end up in thermic equilibrium, there's no pill for this. insulation just makes it take longer is all.
mircea_popescu waves at phf. check it out, we can wreck your logs for multiple days in a row!
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713497 << man your answers are terrible! what happened to "yes, our current item is O n^3 log n ?" or "no, our current item is n log n" ?
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 17:17 asciilifeform: apeloyee: anything that beats multiply-then-divide is an improvement, so long as it meets the basic demands ( constant time, constant space, NO branches that depend on input bits, no use of approximations, no massively heavy - 100 loc is a good approx max - code )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i know that aerogel ain't a maxwell's demon, lol
asciilifeform: but makes a pretty spiffy frying pan handle.
mircea_popescu: yes but only because you fry intermittently. computer is always on.
asciilifeform: was thinking of the 'omfg it floats in mid air' rather than thermal aspect, there.
mircea_popescu: now, good insulation DOES model the flow of heat, ie the hotter outer part will cool more before it touches your sram, so not entirely useless.
mircea_popescu: but just saying for teh record.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713808 << i did assume that d00d read the current coad
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 20:15 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713497 << man your answers are terrible! what happened to "yes, our current item is O n^3 log n ?" or "no, our current item is n log n" ?
asciilifeform: ( typically it is the silent lurkers who read every line of it, oddlyenough )
mircea_popescu: i can't say that i know. what complexity is our current item ?
asciilifeform: as of my last reckoning O(n^3 log n)
asciilifeform: but i still gotta massage the divider
asciilifeform: right now it is 'egyptian' (knuthian) and goes bitwise
asciilifeform: it oughta go wordwise.
asciilifeform: other observation , gleaned from mircea_popescu and then from knuth -- can modularly ~add~ inside karatsubatron
asciilifeform: and this works out
asciilifeform: ( precisely how to do this, i have not yet determined )
mircea_popescu: oh btw, should prolly formalize the function/mechanism thing from yest a bit. so, a function (in the correct, math understanding, a "procedure" in cs lingo is no different, which is why lisp hasn't "procedures") denotes correct results, but does not connote any particular method of obtaining them. this is no good for us, in many military applications, where we must actually specify not merely WHAT is being sought, but also HO
mircea_popescu: W, precisely, it is to be obtained. this is why the concept of "function" as heretofore used is not useful in republican computing, and we must introduce a new item.
mircea_popescu: this new item is to my eyes fundamental pillar of "fit in head", because a thoroughly well understood mechanism can then be relegated to background and built upon.
asciilifeform: what's wrong with 'circuit' ?
asciilifeform: that's what it resolves to.
asciilifeform: show the gates.
mircea_popescu: pure historical accident. you'd rather call it circuit ?
mircea_popescu: there's some common language overload that seems to make "mechanism" preferable, but it's slight and who cares.
asciilifeform: it reflects the reality of what a 'constantspacetime program' really is.
mircea_popescu: this is a solid point.
asciilifeform: and why almost the entirety of the ~useful~ reading material asciilifeform collected, was from iron makers
asciilifeform: outside of perhaps ballooning, continuously-variably-voluminous entities are rare in engineering
asciilifeform: maker of cpu will almost unavoidably take an interest in 'ffa-style' arithmetizing.
mircea_popescu: well, it's the core of the combustion engine, innit ? continuously-variably-voluminous.
asciilifeform: not whole engine, lol
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform waitasecond!
mircea_popescu: wtf you mean wordwise ?!
asciilifeform: the way the comba multer works
asciilifeform: notice that it doesn't walk the bits
asciilifeform: ( the egyptian multer, now gone -- did walk the bits, and was directly analogous to the knuthian divider )
mircea_popescu: this is the stupidest shit i ever heard. gimme two numbers.
mircea_popescu: 8 digit.
asciilifeform: 349087340, 753059056
asciilifeform: ( shave'em if you like )
asciilifeform: believe or not there are several known subquadratic division algos
asciilifeform: one by jebelean, 'Exact Division with Karatsuba Complexity' , possibly ffaizable.
asciilifeform: ( if it can be turned into div with remainder... )
mircea_popescu: Here's how we divide 349087340 to 3059056 :
mircea_popescu: 1. we notice that 349087340 being 1 0100 1100 1110 1010 0110 0110 1100 is 29 bits long. we further notice that 3059056 being 10 1110 1010 1101 0111 0000 is 22 bits long.
mircea_popescu: 2. we select the first 22 bits of the dividend, to wit 1 0100 1100 1110 1010 0110 0 and we compare the divisor to it. as the divisor is larger, we add one further bit, obtaining 1 0100 1100 1110 1010 0110 01.
mircea_popescu: 3. we substract the divisor from this fragment of the divident, obtaning 1 0100 1100 1110 1010 0110 01 - 10 1110 1010 1101 0111 0000 = 10 0100 1000 1101 0010 1001 (aka 2395433).
mircea_popescu: we continue comparing the divisor, adding bits from the divident's tail and substracting the divident until we run out of digits, at which time we have the remainder. every time we substract we mark down an 1, every time we add digits from the divident's tail we mark down a 0.
mircea_popescu: wtf "wrodwise" ? the only way to do division is divisor-bitsize
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you just described our existing divtron aha
mircea_popescu: so then what is bitwise in it ?!
asciilifeform: the fact that it advances a bit at a time ?
asciilifeform: i.e. shifts by 1
mircea_popescu: oh i see what you mean.
asciilifeform: for i in 1 .. Dividend'Length * Bitness loop ...
mircea_popescu: and since i've this piled in here : to ~multiply~ 349087340 by 3059056 : you create a list 22 items long, that is 29 + 22 bits wide, and you proceed writing down 1 0100 1100 1110 1010 0110 0110 1100 in it bit-shifted 22 times, nulled on occasion. then you add these terms. right ?
asciilifeform: that was how my first ffa multer worked
asciilifeform: 'egyptian algo'
asciilifeform: it was about 100x slower than comba ( current basecase ) and ~150x slower than karatsuba+comba ( currently what we use )
mircea_popescu: is that 100 or 150 related to a particular bitsize ? 8096 ?
asciilifeform: not really
asciilifeform: it flows from the fact that we walked 1 bit, rather than ( on my box ) 64 at a time
asciilifeform: for every single subop
mircea_popescu: gotta workwalk.
mircea_popescu: word*walk
asciilifeform: i threw out egyptian multer very reluctantly, it was so short an' sweet
asciilifeform: it's what yer cpu still does internally.
asciilifeform: ( simplest possible mul )
mircea_popescu: very evidently what it does. at least to the sort of people who learned how to write in longhand and do square roots by hand
asciilifeform: it's how i learned'em
mircea_popescu can still do this.
asciilifeform: the magic of arithmetizing by hand.
mircea_popescu: da fuck is wrong with people these days, i do not know, but i do recall as early teens, 12 yo or so, there was this very exciting moment in school when they imported AN AMERICAN!!! to do some english classes. this was you know, wild wild stuff at the time.
mircea_popescu: and he proceeded to blockprint. which was about as shocking as if he had taken off pants in class.
mircea_popescu: after which we had kid council, decided guy is not really a teacher.
mircea_popescu: because srslty now who the fuck block prints if they ever went to school..
asciilifeform: ( it is worth remembering that ffa is not built to be a museum piece, 'shortest physically possible rsa', but grudgingly made concessions liek abandoning egyptian mul -- so long as result is still fixedspacetime -- , so that it can actually be fired in anger . )
mircea_popescu: (it didn't help that it was in the torah of the time, as per saint habarnam gospels, "only blockprinted")
asciilifeform: believe or not, asciilifeform never learned proper latin penmanship.
asciilifeform: it was ~eliminated in the schools shortly before he landed in usa .
mircea_popescu: !~translate Neznayka
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: (translate <source language> [to] <target language> <text>) -- Returns <text> translated from <source language> into <target language>.
asciilifeform: i dun think anybody ever translated'im
mircea_popescu: !~translate ru to en Незнайка
asciilifeform: or hm, maybe that brit d00d
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Dunno
asciilifeform: ahahahahalolno
asciilifeform: holy SHIT they translatedit
mircea_popescu: there you go! modern science marches on.
asciilifeform: 'adventures of dunno and his friends'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform imo it's very fucking stupid to show kids how to do plain division by hand, but then NOT also show them how to do square roots. it fucks up the whole purpose ofd the whole thing, paring down a tree branch to a single item.
mircea_popescu: you can not mark them for the latter, i guess, but the point must be made that no, NOTHING EVER STOPS.
asciilifeform: aha it's the thing described in mircea_popescu's 'and then newton sat down to write 3 laws...' article
mircea_popescu: and here's the engineer's sliderule for logs tee hee.
asciilifeform pictures rsa sliderule...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a pity all the cancerous fags passing for comedians in pantsuit circles are crowding out the real talent which might be writing exceptional xharms pieces on the basis of current idiocy.
mircea_popescu: "and then newton sat down to write three laws" exactly it.
mircea_popescu: !~translate ru to en Карасик
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Karasik
mircea_popescu: oh i see!
asciilifeform: ahahahaha
mircea_popescu: !~translate ru to en Калачик
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Kalachik
mircea_popescu: !~translate ru to en Селедочка
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Herring
asciilifeform: herringess!111
mircea_popescu: oh, like salted ?
asciilifeform: aha but she's a chix
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform she's actually a scientix.
asciilifeform: the apotheosis of neznaika series was 'neznaika on the moon', which 'for adults' described moar or less exactly 1990s ruprivatizationlulz
mircea_popescu: see, one's fuchsia, the other's herringette.
asciilifeform: there is a legend that yeltsin swore on a copy instead of bible
mircea_popescu: afaik "fuchsia herring" never gained coinage in ru, but honestly it's a much better name for "black chicks code" than "black chicks code"
mircea_popescu: (no, the present socialism isn't the first to run headfirst into the female brick wall. who could have predictered!)
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform got a leather-bound 'незнайка на луне' nearly 2wks before the plane , and was in for quite a treat, pictured was stereotypical 'capitalist hell' usa )
mircea_popescu: dja see yest's mentioned throwaway flick btw ?
mircea_popescu: also lulzy, in simiular vein, though i wouldn't for a moment call it "capitalist hell". it is pure and simple collapse among the symbols, as typified in teh elevator scene.
mircea_popescu: ie, there's nothing capitalist about it whatsoever ; capitalism does order the disordered symbols in similar manner as longhand does, as an act of civilisation and a point of manifest superiority pointedly absent from the work (or generally ustardian mentality today)
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713586 << i'm pretty sure that's even in logs: we've concluded that ideal ascii item is a moog like thing, installed on a Nautilus
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 18:31 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713471 << and be part of an actual car (submarine-hellicopter) with the generator in the trunk and the bitchez sunning themselves on teh roof ?
mircea_popescu: yes, but putting that in the log is like putting the goop in the woman. so much fun to do you keep doing it.
asciilifeform: oh hey speaking of lost technology, my noritake itron is here
mircea_popescu: phf you know, for all the foibles, 1970s pop icons DID try a sort of very brusque, uninformed and "hi i come from the trailer park" alf-boat. hence cocksucker blues and the large touring busses.
asciilifeform looked for brandnew one for yrs, finally found
mircea_popescu: (i take it everyone's seen cocksucker blues ?)
phf: i missed that somehow
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 17:31 trinque: divide by zero joke; I'll show myself out
mircea_popescu: fwiw, in my universe mod 0 is defined, and has the value 0.
asciilifeform: this carries lulz potential
mircea_popescu: this is because of set theoretic considerations whereby increases in the mod parameter increase the pile of possible results, eg mod 2 is 0 or 1
mircea_popescu: the other school of course says mod 0 is an indifferent op, ie 18 mod 0 = 18
mircea_popescu: this is nonsense, but i won't delve into why.
mircea_popescu: of course the computronist would think mod 0 is "an op that dun terminate". but in any case, the "divide by x" approach to calculating a mod is just shorthand, not fundamental. mod is defined in terms of substraction (take x and y, substract y from x until remainder sub y), has nothing to do with multiplication side of the number ring.
mircea_popescu: and so in these terms, the question becomes "if you substract nothing from something an infinite number of times, what're you left with ?"
mircea_popescu: and you're left with nothing.
asciilifeform: this is when i point out that div0 gives maxint in ffa ( at least naked ffa, without checking first )
asciilifeform: but this is problematic and div0 is a fatal eggog in p.
asciilifeform: ( there is a legit reason why, but i will leave it as exercise for readers )
mircea_popescu: oh did lobbesbot bite it ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713551 << i don't think his notion is without merit, incidentally. there may be something there.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 18:06 asciilifeform: ideallly. i don't have a fixedtime reciprocal finder.
mircea_popescu: eg, item indeed dun exist but no obvious reason why it couldn't be made.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've been laying it out on paper since he posted. any way i cut it, thus far, it costs moar than the classical .
mircea_popescu: that part i believe ; but as to the science rather than the engineering of it.
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713800 << one of the appeals of VDNH back in the day was a tucked-in-the-corner collection of Denisyuk holograms. so i went there again, place is almost a shell at this point, BUT one of the buildings was taken over by polytechnical museum, not only did they make a rather nifty science (without quotes!) museum but they also preserved all those old holograms. i suspect i wasn't the only one who loved
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 20:00 asciilifeform: some folx make holographs today, in their cellars, it is i suspect the same attraction. rather like colour film in 1930s
phf: that exhibit back in the day.
mircea_popescu: not all truths are useful and not all usefuls are true.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, but unlike , say, egyptian mult, barrett doesn't have the appeal of simplicity or obvious correctness.
mircea_popescu: it only has the appeal of the unknown, as in who knows what pie we find turning over this pot.
asciilifeform: it's really closer to fft multer
asciilifeform: ( which is spiffy but imho quite inappropriate in crypto )
asciilifeform: phf: sadly i've never been there
asciilifeform: ( or dunno, maybe would be even sadder today if i had... )
mircea_popescu: one of those "simple but powerful, fu" items.
asciilifeform blows dust off 'holo ecdsa cracking' notebook
mircea_popescu: it is in fact (the method described) an application of laser interferometry, which is precisely how you'd do the tower-of-light solver.
phf: asciilifeform: yeah, it was a very niche thing. a sort soviet retro future exhibit that somehow survived through the 90s. i don't quite remember what else was there, plasma globes, various magnet accentuated magnetic liquids, that sort of stuff
mircea_popescu: now THIS would be quantum-ish computer that kinda-might-work
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc we had the thread, in '13 even
phf: either of you mind digging up that thread?
mircea_popescu: the tower of light solver you mean ?
phf: yes
asciilifeform: !#s knapsack
asciilifeform: somewhere in there.
phf: asciilifeform: unless you meant vdnh, in which case it was "Выставка достижений народного хозяйства
a111: Logged on 2015-02-22 05:59 mircea_popescu: is shamir still working on those light machines ?
a111: Logged on 2014-02-20 02:13 asciilifeform: incidentally
mircea_popescu: oh the knapsack application
mircea_popescu: i was thinking of the rsatron
asciilifeform: !#s twinkle
phf: a kind of semipermanent "look into the bright communist future" exhibit
asciilifeform: 'Бобина, по всей вероятности, от какого-то грузовика. В первые годы Денисюк использовал ее для поджигания ртутной лампы, она выполняла поначалу функции не изобретенного еще лазера. Рядом расположен конденсатор производства SIEMENS и трансфор
asciilifeform: матор, явно трофейные, найденные на какой-нибудь свалке послевоенных лет. Крупное открытие в голографии было сотворено из самых обычных материалов, что свидетельствует об удивительной увлеченности, энтузиазме при полном отсутствии подд
asciilifeform: ержки со стороны руководства. Сборочные и монтажные работы молодой лаборант производил самостоятельно.'
asciilifeform: 'the bobbin, in all likelihood, was from some truck. in the early years denisyuk used it for igniting the mercury lamp, it served at first the function of the yet-uninvented laser. nearby is a capacitor by siemens, a transformer, definitely scavenged, found on some post-war scrapyard
phf: aha
asciilifeform: the major breakthrough in holography was made from very common materials, which shows the astonishing dedication, enthusiasm despite a total lack of support from management
asciilifeform: construction and assembly the young lab tech did with his own hands.'
phf: in the 90s the exhibit of denisyuk technology was basically a tiny room, with a handful of original prints and the "holographic device", displayed with a working laser. was a kind of mecca for certain kind of person, mandatory for a visit when you're spending a day in vdnh
asciilifeform did not grow up in moscow, and spent a total of couplea days there, as a kid, never saw this item sadly
mircea_popescu: Бобина << ie inductor neh ?
asciilifeform: speaking of lost tech, can haz ivory micrograph yet, phf ?
mircea_popescu: a coil basically
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in english i think called 'flyback'
asciilifeform: i.e. crt gun transformer
mircea_popescu: induction coil, somerthing. (mobos still have them for instance)
asciilifeform: if it's electronic and you can hear it squeal , it's got inductor
asciilifeform: ( recall recent article re how to get gpg privkey out of the squeals. )
phf: asciilifeform: i haven't had a chance to meet with zeptobars guy yet, but will do before the end of my visit
mircea_popescu: phf goes to moscow, is to find ivory micrograph and bdsm club photograph, instead stuck in hotel room reading up on logs
mircea_popescu: WILL THIS SHIT END SO I CAN GET OUT BEFORE SUNUP!
phf: came to moscow to free up time, found out most time is taken up by reading logs
asciilifeform: lol somehow i pictured phf as one of the folx who operates in burst mode, reads log for 8h marathon every 5wks or sumthing
mircea_popescu: except to where it's one week every week and a half
mircea_popescu: then willy nilly he has to sleep.
shinohai: Lulzy: "U.S. moves to ban use of Kaspersky software in federal agencies amid concerns of Russian espionage"
asciilifeform: oldnoose shinohai
a111: Logged on 2017-08-18 23:01 asciilifeform: 'That followed the General Services Administration removing Kaspersky from an approved-vendors list in early July and a congressional push to pass a law that would ban Kaspersky from being used by the Department of Defense.'
shinohai: My feed has failed me
asciilifeform: oh hey did we do yesterday's nsa bluetooth remoteroot burn ?
mircea_popescu: i think we were busy with actually interesting things.
mircea_popescu: buyt anyway, it was a long known thing neh ?
asciilifeform: ( exactly like the broadcom remoteroot from 6mo ago. except this one is an overflowism IN THE SPEC rather than any particular chip's implementation )
mircea_popescu: heck, in one of the many plaintive items about "omfg you aren;'t going to believe the state of nuke tech", there even was the story of jhow bluetooth is bannable offense.
mircea_popescu: wnat me to dig it up ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: subj is re perma-rooting of any bt-supporting item, rather than 'data theft' such as haunts usg
asciilifeform: as in, theoretically - worm over rf
mircea_popescu: right, but the same item went from vague to pointed is all.
mircea_popescu: aanyway, minor point.
asciilifeform: the one interesting bit is re 'was in the spec'
asciilifeform: and not the least bit particular to 1 or even N vendors.
asciilifeform: phunphakt, ~all recent autos sold , refirmwareable over bt.
hanbot: crowgoat.tumblr.com << my dad caught some frames of a mountain lion right outside his van (lives in a state park), for the cat afficionados
mircea_popescu: ahaha check that out.
shinohai: Meow
mod6: m00
shinohai: m00000000000000000000000000000 mod6
shinohai: Am I reverting to redditardness?
mod6: hehe. what up shinohai
shinohai: Just sitting here with my Baroness hoping you haz good news re: trb or ada experiments?
mircea_popescu: there's something fundamentally wrong with that pic...
shinohai: What is wrong? Are you like trinque and think she should wash hair again?
mircea_popescu: tits are not bare.
shinohai: She says if she insults in kanzure's manner, will you give her full integer Bitcoin? jajaja
mircea_popescu: i dun think so!
mircea_popescu: what's she do anyway ?
shinohai: She social engineers weak men out of money, what else?
shinohai: I'm sure mircea_popescu 's slaves could do the same.
mircea_popescu: well, the perpetuation of the species is proof positive that most females could do it fine.
shinohai: tfw women suddenly feel insulted when you tell them the story of Ragnar Lodbrok
mod6: <+shinohai> Just sitting here with my Baroness hoping you haz good news re: trb or ada experiments? << ah, just trying to catch up on this 2nd megal0g
mod6: <+shinohai> She says if she insults in kanzure's manner, will you give her full integer Bitcoin? jajaja << lol
shinohai: mod6: she reads the logs too, after I translate them.
shinohai: Good for the both of us I guess
mod6: werd
shinohai: Gottalove those wimmenz with fire in the eye when they ask you such questions
mircea_popescu: in other news, should saucy mcsaucerson be a burlesque magic act ? or a really bad apple juggler ?
shinohai: majic act
shinohai: *poof* I'm gone
mircea_popescu: http://68.media.tumblr.com/f3e231e4b02fbeedcd44811027eb3f7c/tumblr_nvgh93W86o1sjfoovo1_500.gif << i take it everyone knows the "guys, change the corpse in 3B, it's full" joke ?
asciilifeform: even asciilifeform knows 'corpse in 3b'
shinohai: asciilifeform haz `petz`
asciilifeform: shinohai: just 1 ( unless you count houseplants ). why?
shinohai: No reason at all. asciilifeform is lucky to have petz, as am I.
mircea_popescu: speaking of paucity in scientific literature : /me has not to date encountered a proper discussion of laplace's "sun also rises" probability ; notwithstanding the pantsuits got butthurt enough over the "absurdity" of it to pretend "bayesian" is the proper name for laplaceian statistics, nobody seems to have put the elbow greate into it.
mircea_popescu: ie, it's not just cryptography that suffers from a shocking dearth of actually useful contribution,
shinohai: I thought "The Sun also rises" was Heningway work
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: expand on subj plox for the l0gz
mircea_popescu: shinohai laplace points out (correctly) that a first heuristic for "what is the probability of sun rising tomorrow" is to divide the number of times it was observed rising to the total number of assays. in this case, your life in days / your life in days + 1.
asciilifeform: ( butthurtz over laplace?! )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the above is very problematic for the "global warming" mindset.
mircea_popescu: (no, "global warming" is absolutely not novel ; the same sort of cathar nonsense was prevalent in all ages of great pretense and low literacy, usuallyu known as dark ages)
asciilifeform: i thought the sun item was a wink at the fact that statistic is an inference tool, not divine revelation
mircea_popescu: not really. pretty much everything that's pompously called "bayesian statistics" in the "rationalist" circles (not just the self-labeled internet tards, but eg googleheads) is simply lifted laplace / serials shaved off.
shinohai: hahaha the laplace
shinohai: Indeed correct
mircea_popescu: the exact quote is "En faisant, par exemple, remonter la plus ancienne époque de l'histoire à cinq mille ans, ou à 1 826 21jours, et le soleil s'étant levé constamment dans cet intervalle , à chaque révolution de vingt-quatre heures, il y a 182621/1 à parier contre un qu'il se lèvera encore demain. Mais ce nombre est incomparablement plus fort pour celui qui connaissant par l'ensemble des phénomènes le principe ré
mircea_popescu: gulateur des jours et des saisons, voit que rien dans le moment actuel ne peut en arrêter le cours."
mircea_popescu: and the exact problem is directly obvious if one considers HOW exactly the "data" of "climate science" was obtained. "what do you mean you have to be there to observe!"
mircea_popescu: they want observation-by-proxy, like everything else.
shinohai: mircea_popescu also speaks French? not surprised
mircea_popescu: um. i spoke french before i spoke english.
shinohai: Ugh. English is such dirty tongue, even to natico. Saves?
mircea_popescu: anyway, his point stands -- absent any qualitative understanding, ie for a black box world, the probability as declared is the best approximation. this is no small matter, at all.
mircea_popescu: shinohai i actually don't mind it, it's sort of like trying to write only in aliterations.
mircea_popescu: !~calc 182621/5000
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 182621/5000 = 36.5242
mircea_popescu: pretty fine 365 days and 1/4 value he got there, too.
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713937 << I suppose I'll have to add "write great novel romance novel 'Sally Hemmings And The Widower'" to agenda
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 21:17 mircea_popescu: afaik "fuchsia herring" never gained coinage in ru, but honestly it's a much better name for "black chicks code" than "black chicks code"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo hey, nothing can stop you! great us novel still awaiting the pen.
mircea_popescu: !~calc 1826213/5000
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 1826213/5000 = 365.24260000000004
shinohai: Siempre soy un soldado de la Malagueña Salerosa
mircea_popescu: a 3 got lost in there.
mircea_popescu: (it exists in teh original)
shinohai: I should star charging for requests to jhvh1
shinohai: `yo soy soldado electronico` jajajaja
mod6: neat
mircea_popescu: (current value is 365.2422, but it is likely his value was closer to the correct value at his time than ours.)
mircea_popescu: ie, days become longer by a few ms each century because reasons.
mircea_popescu: (reasons being mostly moon driving tides which slow down earth, and imperfect free movement due to friction in charged plasma field.)
shinohai: Sing this song while you are inside her, clothes are no:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=senoF0vblek
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is that a ~hardened~ calculator ?
mircea_popescu: shinohai cat got your kbd ?
BingoBoingo: <shinohai> She social engineers weak men out of money, what else? << Congrats
shinohai: Mi kbd es siempre furea tu alcanza
shinohai: Por eso soy Don del Republica
mircea_popescu: !#s Don the Crown
shinohai: jajaja no Crown
shinohai: tu me hiciste!
shinohai: Ay me desecho
a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 02:18 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is that a ~hardened~ calculator ?
asciilifeform: presumably verified magickeyz that cleared if boobyswitch sprung
asciilifeform: americans had ( have? ) similar concept
asciilifeform: ( and we had the babylonian seals thread. standardized seals are useless. but magic value that sram forgets if boobytrap sprung, is prolly best physicaltamper trap possible short of keeping subject under own pillow to guard )
asciilifeform: pictured toolbox also seems to contain items for use with babylonian-style seals
mircea_popescu: well, more evolved versions actually. (have item that hashes time counter + fixed salt through known process ; wipe salt if sprung.
asciilifeform: presumably these were also used in n00kz ( they were used in konsoomer items for some unknown to me reason, i have a calculator still with virginal seal on bolts )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: time counter is tricky because clock drift
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, the space heaters of the era came with, shit you not, nickeline wire + lead stamp seal on the screw-in cover.
asciilifeform: but is also used, incl. in konsoomer mtgox keyz etc
asciilifeform: lol!! yougottabeshittingme
mircea_popescu: no idea why, i mean you fucking owned the item, and you coudl actually buy replacement resistences for it.
mircea_popescu: and in other "wikipedia is great because social media is science and consensus is truth" lulz, http://www.piticigratis.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1504781940364.jpg
asciilifeform: btw if anyone givesafuck, i found the sealtron, it is a commercial ru export nao, supposedly, http://промкаталог.рф/PublicDocuments/1312420.pdf
mircea_popescu: holy fuck these people do not understand the web. at all.
asciilifeform: clever, seems to use unique rf characteristics of a random wire hairball
asciilifeform: as seal
mircea_popescu: a) рф ? rly ? wtf is рф ? b) publicdocumens/1312420 ? really ? WHAT THE FUCK is being communciated, am i often going to do select where = randomnumber ? c) pdf, really ? fu
asciilifeform: lolorcs
asciilifeform: i'ma jpegize it laters if anyone gives actual shit.
mircea_popescu: the wireball idea is sound ; the rest of the crap... notrly. i'd say it's been already fully recorded as is.
asciilifeform: item is really hightech version of ye olde glass rod.
mircea_popescu: tho really, there's more em planes in coil of wire than there's cleavage planes in foundry glass.
asciilifeform: as for the peculiar iron box and led display, it's a straight rework of old sov calc chassis, which is telltale evidence of when item was designed : '80s, the last time anything interesting happened in orcistan.
asciilifeform: on second reading, thing is optical, which is fucking
asciilifeform: omfg was it not obvious to use rf profile?!!
asciilifeform: they make petro drilling accessories, nuke accounting tools, and... church domes
asciilifeform: and various reactor furniture.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz asciilifeform : phuctor server raid array failing, when'd you like the item restarted ?
asciilifeform: 9h from nao?
mircea_popescu: so in gmt, 3 am ?
mircea_popescu: and if not, 3am next day ?
mircea_popescu: why exactly raid reconstruction would require reboot is an open question, and exactly contrary to the specific design of this item
asciilifeform: was my thought.
asciilifeform: infuriating nonsense.
mircea_popescu: why exactly i am still paying fucking fiatola ugstani retards to host servers for me when there's a whole lot of supposedly competent, supposedly business oriented and not yet entirely senile bright minds also an open question
mircea_popescu: but whatever, why should anything work well by itself.
mircea_popescu utterly can't be arsed to care anymore.
asciilifeform: i vaguely suspect that 'sane hoster' is a contradition similar to 'sane miner'
asciilifeform: but cannot prove.
asciilifeform: *contradiction
mircea_popescu: everything to do with a honest day's work is an incomprehensible ball of contradictions to the comfortable lazy, ever so convinced of the usual slate of "can make own decisions" and whatnots.
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