(asciilifeform) mangol: verisimilitude: what's your opinion of type inference?
(asciilifeform) scoopbot: New article on A Syndication of Verisimilitudes: A Review of ``The Codeless Code''
(asciilifeform) shinohai: It's the ides of March verisimilitude you MUST settle your debt to me with radioactive coin.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: time for you to stand up a node too!
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: leverage is a euphemism for using debt to amplify a bet
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: depends what means 'work well', if you can in fact handle your particular max line rate on 1 cpu, then sure
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: it aint a 'fountain of dough' tho, but typically a rather abject kind of whoring
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: one could easily spend whole life digging in papers and failing to find ~any actually working examples of ~any of the claimed 'progresses'.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: academitards ~never share working src. because typically there aint one (if there's anyffin resembling a proggy -- it's a pile of rigged demo bullshit which shits out the charts that go into the paper liquishit, rarely anyffin moar)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the 'why' is simple -- over8999 outta over9000 times the 'bemoaners' are pushing a bluehairism of some kind
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: observe how 'bemoaners' ~never point to working examples from '70s-'90s, of ~anything
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: for a working/industrial example of subj, see e.g. erlang.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: loox like a rather snoarworthy academitardism in '90s style
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: are you familiar w/ e. schrodinger's letter to hitler ?
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: i haven't tried any of those yet, at this point i'll likely stick with gentoo (dulap for mission critical) until pentacle is available
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: really? i'm surprised. which OS do you use currently?
(asciilifeform) bitbot: Logged on 2022-02-26 23:31:04 signpost: verisimilitude: you know, "unprecedented" may be the most american of the adjectives.
(asciilifeform) crtdaydreams: verisimilitude: where get food and water and shelter?
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: Unlike the C language, Ada doesn't kick and scream when the world doesn't bend around it.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: per asciilifeform's understanding, the ada folx purposefully made typecasting difficult, to put at least elementary obstacle forcing c victims to think for a minute before emitting cisms. this only kinda worked, nearly all published ada coad is peppered with unchecked conversions
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: if it's a straight subtype, then not copied
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: iirc yes, but i wouldn't rely on it
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: set MSG_TRUNC
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: there's a kind of sport where people gather examples of 'separate' machines not actually being separate , sometimes from academiwank, sometimes as agitprop where quietly implying that 'can't ever separate'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: not having seen yer proggy, hard to say which'd 'look worse'. your call
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: dun need to unchecked_conversion, use the address trick from cryostat
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: hm verisimilitude i thought you already built ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: what's difficult there ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: Unsigned_8 from Interfaces. see e.g. in mine, 'type Payload is array(1 .. Payload_Size) of Unsigned_8;'
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-03-07 22:31:09 verisimilitude: Hey, asciilifeform, it looks like I need to use System.Storage_Elements.Storage_Array if I want my UDP binding and UDP interface over that to use the same array type without explicitly referencing each other. There's no standard array type of Interfaces.Unsigned_8 to use. I'd welcome advice.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: most folx have a memory, i.e. dun 'behave same with same stimulation later'
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: mhm, and great liberation in this, as it means one can easily change by changing their inputs.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: I agree. it's a vestige of prayer, the belief that reality responds to pleas.
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: lol, complete with obligatory "i suck at maths lol!" that they learned from reddit or somewhere is a badge of honor and not a failure
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: link tries to install shitware, lol
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: iirc that one
(asciilifeform) whaack: btw i always wanted to write a short article on this http://verisimilitudes.net/2022-03-07 i think i wrote it in my journal once
(asciilifeform) whaack: verisimilitude: the need for what? the hopper i'm describing? have you not played v-scavenger hunt a few times yet?
(asciilifeform) signpost: echo -n '' | socat - udp:verisimilitudes.net:2222,sp=10666
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: think I just pooted one your way via socat
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I've a little UDP echo server now at verisimilitudes.net on port 2222.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-03-04 12:38:49 verisimilitude: No, what's insulting is how signpost has treated me as a conversation partner, billymg.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-03-07#1083171 I know what they are, but it still impresses me to see people so skilled at wading in shit. It's an interesting read, junk food for the mind.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-28 14:43:20 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: moar interesting is the 'big pic' -- the current war in fact started from 4th crusade, and continues episodically in form of various 'drang nach osten' by impoverished western eureichs, who will not give up dream of 'lebensraum' and delish phree minerals from 'unfairly squatted by orcs' 1/6th of planet3
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: 'used' crapple market afaik long-dead, what with the epoxied pnojes with individually fritzchipped parts (i.e. can't interchange), the lappies with soldered-in ssds, etc
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: regular occurrence in e.g. syria previously
(asciilifeform) mats: verisimilitude: ru has a lot of nonfood commodities exports, vodka isn’t the thing
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: mmm fair enough
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-03-04 15:39:39 verisimilitude: After using Tor for years, my stance softened. Eventually, I'd to accept I was becoming neurotic, and my traffic wasn't so interesting in any case.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-01-06 20:45:05 verisimilitude: Part of why I don't write much, is I want perfection or nothing, and something that can't be ideal may not be worth trying.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: That's how I start this article; intelligent and good taste are linked.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: it has 0 to do with aesthetics. simply that hill-climbing algo for e.g. staying dry would have you sit in a phone booth until rain stops, rather than going home, even if home is across street
(asciilifeform) mats: verisimilitude: read the logs
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: what's that to do with it?
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: np
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-03-06 02:30:05 verisimilitude: Still, my library uses no C language whatsoever, beyond the Ada Interfaces.C mechanism.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: ah heh already in verisimilitude's quote
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: ty
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: where's the quoted text in given linked pg ?
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-03-04 14:24:14 verisimilitude: Perhaps Telegram will serve a similar purpose to how Apple totally kept the FBI out of an iPhone, thimbronion.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: what do you think was its orig purpose, lol
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: problem is yer thwarting regular old 'analysis' in the heads of the folx yer actually intending to converse with
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I suppose another reason to be coy is to thwart automated analysis, billymg. I did something similar in this article.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: fwiw asciilifeform is satisfied that yer neither a moron nor a provocateur. but recs to consider adage 'you are what you eat', rec to eat less lolcatboard
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: i'm long past thinking you're that interesting
(asciilifeform) bitbot: Logged on 2022-03-04 18:03:14 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-03-04#1082453 This is purposeful.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-03-02 15:44:22 verisimilitude: I never wrote that.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform did not make this interpretation (i.e. verisimilitude as provocateur) but points out that in that case shoe fits, and readers could easily conclude same.
(asciilifeform) bitbot: Logged on 2021-01-28 14:44:51 verisimilitude: I didn't mention Jews, but this conversation makes me think of a saying I'd thought of and have been saving since.
(asciilifeform) bitbot: Logged on 2021-01-28 14:42:10 billymg: verisimilitude: i won't disagree with you there, and in fact i thought of them when reading alf's statement. though having lived in nyc for as long as i did and with some of my best friends being jewish i'd like to point out that not every jew == 'da jooz'
(asciilifeform) bitbot: Logged on 2021-01-28 14:33:42 verisimilitude: I can think of other groups who enjoy kvetching about persecution, billymg.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-03-02 15:44:22 verisimilitude: I never wrote that.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-03-02 15:40:41 verisimilitude: They've interesting names, right?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform will comment re verisimilitude's lul . what asciilifeform objects to aint 'heiling hitler' -- would welcome an intelligent e.g. resurrected otto skorzeny to #a. objects, however , to 1 ) coyness 2) handshake wink-nudge signalling noise.
(asciilifeform) billymg: who knows, maybe NSA is actively hunting verisimilitude, but i suspect not
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: you can be frustrating to converse with. i used to think it was bad faith trolling, but now i think it's more likely you're just genuinely unaware when you're irritating someone
(asciilifeform) thimbronion: verisimilitude: signpost has probably treated you better than anyone else in your short life
(asciilifeform) bitbot: Logged on 2022-03-04 05:49:02 verisimilitude: I think I'll get along better with you if I try to only discuss programming here, at least most of the time.
(asciilifeform) signpost: likewise the banker class loves it when idiots like verisimilitude start talking about "international jewry"
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude is signaling his status as a middle-caste slave with his nazi racial theory fantasies, lest he be lowered further.
(asciilifeform) signpost: or verisimilitude here, who I'd put decent odds on actually being half polack, or similar.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: you have little life experience beyond your keyboard. there's no reason I should put effort into teaching you anything.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-03-03 15:53:09 verisimilitude: Once a refined Pest be available, I intend to show it to the owner, Joshua Moon; I've told him before that trying to have a website in the face of such issues is a losing game, if only due to the protocols.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-28 19:55:00 verisimilitude: I use Namecheap, how wonderful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-03-03 15:56:32 verisimilitude: His issue is he wants to be accessible to normal people, and show up in Google search results; both are a rigged game.
(asciilifeform) bonechewer: verisimilitude: who do you see wanting to block Brave? got a link?
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I don't see myself no longer renting VERISIMILITUDES.NET or other domains within the decade, bonechewer.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I've seen many discussions in which they clearly need a linked list, but then the ``experienced Googler'' says those are bad, and a vector has ``amortized O(1)'' insertion or such drivel. They get haughty over using just a few data structures.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: long pre-dates the invention of corporation. 'hydraulic despotism'(tm) per historians
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: microshit's behaves similarly (incl., comically, sometimes spamboxing mail from ~microshit itself~)
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-02-21 20:36:08 verisimilitude: It would be nice to live in an ethnostate.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-28 14:43:20 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: moar interesting is the 'big pic' -- the current war in fact started from 4th crusade, and continues episodically in form of various 'drang nach osten' by impoverished western eureichs, who will not give up dream of 'lebensraum' and delish phree minerals from 'unfairly squatted by orcs' 1/6th of planet3
(asciilifeform) thimbronion: verisimilitude: at the moment all I can recall are the memes she shares which are based usually on visually absurd mashups of meme celebrities like The Rock. The Rock as a floret of Broccoli, etc.
(asciilifeform) thimbronion: verisimilitude: the thing about humor is you have to know your audience
(asciilifeform) shinohai: Here's one for you in comic form verisimilitude http://btc.info.gf/uploads/CLISP.jpg
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: This is a tough channel for jokes, I see. I'll leave this list and be done with it for now.
(asciilifeform) PeterL: verisimilitude: I dun get it?
(asciilifeform) PeterL: verisimilitude: were they laughing at the joke or laughing at how horrible of a joke it was?
(asciilifeform) mats: verisimilitude: lay it on us
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: suppose it was lizards who owned the football teams, and suppose you were also -- a lizard. just not one of The Lizards. would this change things?
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: likewise, what does it matter what da jooz do?
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: that last one i can agree with. more important is what we can control. e.g. trb, pestnet, etc.
(asciilifeform) PeterL: verisimilitude: is there a point you are trying to make or are you just spinning in circles here?
(asciilifeform) bitbot: Logged on 2021-01-28 14:44:51 verisimilitude: I didn't mention Jews, but this conversation makes me think of a saying I'd thought of and have been saving since.
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: if i looked them up i'm sure they'd have many characteristics by which one could choose to describe them. i'm interested to know which of their characteristics make them interesting to you, verisimilitude
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: who were they?
(asciilifeform) billymg: amazing point verisimilitude, i'm sure no one here has heard of those two before
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-03-02 00:31:47 verisimilitude: Russia is still sending gas down the pipeline, right?
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: I'll check that out as well.
(asciilifeform) bonechewer: verisimilitude: yeah I was referring to Mandarin, gwo yu. I do abysmally with the Mandarin tones, but at least have the hope of slow progress. The Taiwanese (hoklo) tone system absolutely escapes me.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-03-01 14:23:28 verisimilitude: None of these financial games really mean anything.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: seems you're having a hard time following. I was talking about this http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-03-01#1081633
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I don't like birthday cards and the like either, signpost; does this also make me a solipsist?
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-03-01 14:45:18 verisimilitude: I think that graveyards shouldn't exist. They waste land.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-03-01#1081628 << verisimilitude will be pleased to learn that tombs which nobody ups the refcount on, do typically get gc'd eventually.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: and you wonder why I call you a solipsist.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: looks like namecheap's CTO is from ukr.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: seems that they banned folx who (at some pt) hosted in ru
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: could just as readily be an upstanding ukr or polack tho
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-28 19:55:00 verisimilitude: I use Namecheap, how wonderful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I see the price for verisimilitudes.com is $3,493.75, I figure due to me.
(pest) awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: I might have to move here permanently. For whatever reason verisimilitude both bores the hell out of me and drives me nuts
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: such as.. all our messianic and "end of days" myths are loosening us up for their arrival.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: I take this as hopeless men projecting their suicidality on all they encounter.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-28 14:43:20 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: moar interesting is the 'big pic' -- the current war in fact started from 4th crusade, and continues episodically in form of various 'drang nach osten' by impoverished western eureichs, who will not give up dream of 'lebensraum' and delish phree minerals from 'unfairly squatted by orcs' 1/6th of planet3
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: rejecting naziism does not imply approval of communism. what is this, american politics now?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the actual problem wasn't even the woodchipper, but w/ being tools of the lizards. (old man adolph discarded as soon as 'went off reservation')
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: those are all people with greatness. there is no problem.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: yes, and I'm potato irish, southern italian, greek, and a few other things the wehrmacht would've chewed up given time
(asciilifeform) signpost: curious how far up the nazi racial hierarchy verisimilitude finds himself.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i rec to think re whether the contemplated groups actually exist as pictured, rather than in wardrobe of lizards' costume theatre.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: listen, your use of "negro" and "jewry", you're the internet tough guy that thinks world *ought to* elevate you.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: iirc yer in favour of honest monarchism, i.e. where openly declared god-emperor, rather than current lizard's rule by illusion. cosplaying serves the latter.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: the costume, verisimilitude , dun do anyffin. recall the legendary warning printed on 'superman' costume in u.s. toystores -- 'warning: does not enable flight'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the consistent pov would be to also not show up when they're handing out costumes & alt-illusion
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: the reason you will fail is that you think you will be recognized by something powerful someday, which is a slave's idea of power.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: exactly same people, lol, in diff. costumes
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: the 4chan "fascists" will not survive a great depression. you are among them.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: moar interesting is the 'big pic' -- the current war in fact started from 4th crusade, and continues episodically in form of various 'drang nach osten' by impoverished western eureichs, who will not give up dream of 'lebensraum' and delish phree minerals from 'unfairly squatted by orcs' 1/6th of planet3
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: that jewry gave you many of your most important physicists, etc.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: ukristan is a kind of 'jurassic park' where plain old, w/out 'neo', nazis (i.e. direct inheritors of '41-'44 attempt at 'europeanization') still alive & kickin'
(asciilifeform) shinohai: I just gave birth to a 1lb brown bundle of joy, wanna see pics verisimilitude ?
(asciilifeform) signpost: by mass, earth's weaklings are mostly white, verisimilitude.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: this'd describe ~100% of orc world, not simply the cosplay folx parading in grandfather's ss uniform
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-27 19:22:54 verisimilitude: Joking aside, is anyone here even near Russia?
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-27 21:26:22 vex: i'm trying to thing of an awesome. jp honorific for verisimilitude's yotsuba
(asciilifeform) vex: i'm trying to thing of an awesome. jp honorific for verisimilitude's yotsuba
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: looked to be mostly idle white kids to me.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: hey man, I'll toast the end with y'all.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: when I lived in Houston there was a nice old-school restaurant run by a Romanian gent, used to love going there.
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: yeah, i load the catalog now and then when i'm bored
(asciilifeform) shinohai: verisimilitude: occasionally browse it when bored.
(asciilifeform) shinohai: verisimilitude: Here's how the West will defeat totalitarians like Putin: http://btc.info.gf/uploads/TROONS1.png
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: you had me there for a second, thought you were being serious
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: you know, "unprecedented" may be the most american of the adjectives.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-26 16:25:58 verisimilitude: Another thing about the Internet is how it's really not designed for anything but messages. It can't really provide a stream like the telephone network could, because the telephone network effectively established a physical line. A packet-switching network could do this, by reserving buffers and establishing a chain of reserved buffers, but this would need some way to restrict the reservation to avoid issues, such as identificati
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: I believe the clients carry along their own bootstrap nodes hard-coded, though perhaps some of them allow configuration
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: exactly
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: i like the sidebar that updates based on content as well, and that archive and category pages are generated automatically, and that it's all searchable
(asciilifeform) billymg: verisimilitude: because i don't know what else to use instead, any suggestions? (yes, comment system would be a requirement)
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I use this.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: This is how I write machine code.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: Unfortunately, this is the current state-of-the-art regarding Elision.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-25 13:26:38 verisimilitude: Consider the problem of searching from one point to another, forwards or backwards, for the first word beginning with some specified letters. Let me know when to share my solution.
(asciilifeform) shinohai: But verisimilitude we got to be inclusive to all those pregnant men out there.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: Why shouldn't I be able to add this symbol to our conversation: http://verisimilitudes.net/crest.png
(asciilifeform) crtdaydreams: verisimilitude: wouldn't you just want to have a low level impl. of s-exp wherin you remove the abstraction between symbols and strings?
(asciilifeform) PeterL: hi verisimilitude
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-25 13:26:38 verisimilitude: Consider the problem of searching from one point to another, forwards or backwards, for the first word beginning with some specified letters. Let me know when to share my solution.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-25 13:27:35 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-02-25#1080700 Also, making sense of the text doesn't require knowing its letters, as a hint.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-25 13:21:17 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-02-25#1080703 We agree software should be finished. A dictionary certainly can be finished.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-25 13:18:31 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-02-25#1080700 This is incorrect. It could be done very easily with merely megabytes of memory and minimal computation.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-25 13:26:38 verisimilitude: Consider the problem of searching from one point to another, forwards or backwards, for the first word beginning with some specified letters. Let me know when to share my solution.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: which problem, exactly?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: yer essentially asking to uninvent the alphabet.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: your encoding thing
(asciilifeform) jonsykkel: verisimilitude: aight, readed. but it creates larger # of q's
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-21 21:00:10 verisimilitude: However, consider a system where those two words and their trailing punctuation fit in two thirty-two bit words; consider that the system wouldn't parse them, but simply know of the message ahead of time, and compare verbatim templates for the context until it determines which one matches; consider that new code of 29 isn't a number to be parsed, but inlined in the message as a known number.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-21 20:56:57 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-02-19#1079982 I intend to have one at some point, jonsykkel.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-21 20:56:54 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-02-19#1079981 This works, I tested, but it's not clear to me it always works; I quite like the little trick I used for mine, using the correctness of one to prove the other.
(asciilifeform) vex: i'd love to read verisimilitude's pest spec commentry/latin translation
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: we aint got 'better os' tho, verisimilitude
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: iirc signpost pointed you at various lubyism articles. wainot derive a better algo, say.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-24 17:49:19 verisimilitude: One could imagine, say, ``Don't send my next message with hash checksum of ??? to the name payload of this message.'', as one solution.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: rly is a cmachine issue.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: not only. (the 'driver issue' is that if one in fact adds in errything req'd to make tolerably current irons run, get ~at least~ same mass as current linux)
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-24 17:30:31 verisimilitude: Here's a question, signpost: Wouldn't it be far easier to tame Minix than Linux, not that it seems to need taming anyway?
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-24 16:47:14 verisimilitude: Still, this is a sickening topic, really.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-24 16:44:20 verisimilitude: Just build Emacs from source, then.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: 'sickening topic' but imho dun have to induce prostration.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude's solipsism is by now a tired thread.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: errybody tuned in has at least entire closet fulla vintage irons.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: soon enuff you'll need to build compiler & deps also by hand from src
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: there's an unsexy, boring, but vital chore -- to keep the entire fucking concept of a computer from similarly 'walking away'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the sad fact is that unless one takes efforts to preserve a working 2000s unixlike, soon enuff there won't be ~on what~ to even write 'ideal new system. you'll be sitting in front of an ipad or equiv
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: no such thing as a clean linux; better to think of it as keeping the old pickup truck running.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the telltale leper's bell of nsa-hijacked opensores is 'glued with broken glass', where deliberate booby such that you cannot easily remove the 'misfeature', cuz 'errything depends on it', and where impossible to write against old & new version compatibly, anyffin that works with the 'new' automagically chokes the old
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: resist the urge to convince yourself you're very smart for memorizing solutions to increasingly elaborate submission games imposed upon you by your owners. before you know it, you'll be chanting BTFD like mats here.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: gcc5 will arbitrarily decide that bounds checks against exploitable overflow, memset to wipe secrets from process memory, etc. 'redundant' and silently remove.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: do you understand how 'redundant' memset is used ?
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: The monument to convention grows by the day: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/885941/01fdc39df2ecc25f/
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: sure why not.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-22 18:00:24 verisimilitude: Throwing bodies at a problem doesn't work when a mental midget constructs a tower to reach the heavens without realizing it.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-22 17:59:01 verisimilitude: Their ``scalable infrastructure'' imploded on its single point of failure.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: most of the 'celebration' you'll see in software is of same kind as flies 'celebrating' corpse
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: they're correct re 'we can't compose the pieces', given as ~they~ cannot. but unable to come to terms with the fact that idjit belongs digging holes rather than programming a computer, proceeds to 'no one can'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: most common, afaik, path to this condition is when reason would require the sufferer to consider wagner&cyanide
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: soo, verisimilitude , the linked idjit's analogy is apt, simply not in the direction he'd prefer.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-22 16:52:38 verisimilitude: My favourite part of that idiot's comment is how he argues evolution is better, unawares of the real mathematicians and programmers using something that really resembles evolution, and not, as I put it, ``simulating it with C language programmers writing shitty software''.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: favourite tactic of erudite tards -- draw wholly spurious parallel, proceed as if had sumthing to do with fact
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-21 22:09:43 verisimilitude: I like how the first comment concerns how the article triggered a thought-terminating checklist that had the reader lose interest.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: there's over9000 folx whose main affliction is soul-sucking boredom, and/or desire to 'show how clever'
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-21 22:09:09 verisimilitude: Say, asciilifeform, I was skulking around and came across this: https://lobste.rs/s/fr0drk/where_lisp_fails_at_turning_people_into
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-17 21:39:04 jonsykkel: verisimilitude: red now, good shit
(asciilifeform) jonsykkel: verisimilitude: red now, good shit
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-01-18#1074264 I forgot to explicitly note this, jonsykkel, but this is how I write an ``ancient Greek program'', or more appropriately an ``ancient Roman program''.
(asciilifeform) scoopbot: New article on A Syndication of Verisimilitudes: A Review of the ISO APL Standard
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-14 19:34:32 verisimilitude: I was referring to `Amdahl's law'', in particular.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-14 19:29:41 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-02-14#1079368 I don't really pay attention to the mathematical proof of that or whatever but, unsurprisingly, have also read that when the von Neumann architecture be abandoned, such as by using systolic arrays, all of a sudden it's found that ``lol, that no longer applies''.
(asciilifeform) vex: how old are you verisimilitude?
(asciilifeform) scoopbot: New article on A Syndication of Verisimilitudes: Art of Latin Noun Declensions
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-11 21:33:40 crtdaydreams: verisimilitude: aren't tensors differing from arrays in rank? i.e. a tensor is a rank > 3 array?
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-11 22:06:15 verisimilitude: I resumed learning Latin in part to avoid going further down a crazed path with English, and yet learning it has still improved skills in both.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-11 22:40:51 verisimilitude: I want to spread my work around more, despite the general futility; give me some suggestions for venues.
(asciilifeform) crtdaydreams: verisimilitude: aren't tensors differing from arrays in rank? i.e. a tensor is a rank > 3 array?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude ^
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-06 21:28:44 verisimilitude: I referred to the email conversations, adlai.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: you'd need a rather princely box to eat >256 at a reasonable line rate, esp. if even a coupla have ~their~ 256 etc
(asciilifeform) crtdaydreams: verisimilitude: [this][http://verisimilitudes.net/2022-01-31] added a few extra neurons to my noggin
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I'm much more interested in Elision right now than in anything else, which is also what led to that article.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: could try reading the linked 1, and see if you can find anyffin to cut.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: Fuck, I designed this in 2019 and haven't finished it yet: http://verisimilitudes.net/udp.ads
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: how does the interface do so there ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: what wouldja prefer ? eating the cost of a signal on erry packet?!
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-03 22:40:56 verisimilitude: I don't look forward to covering any of it up with Ada.