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asciilifeform: on a proper lispmtronic comp, there is no juggling of 'pointers' or any other naked, unannotated bitstrings.
asciilifeform: aha so mircea_popescu is simply asking for lispm, lol.
asciilifeform: the simplest way to do this using current off-the-shelf hardware is to not expose the pointers.
asciilifeform: (instead of 1 model of computation, you now have 3 -- that you know about. plus others, unwanted, resulting from interactions b/w the 3.)
asciilifeform: name 'bytecode' simply came about because making the opcodes 1 octet long is convenient
asciilifeform: also (and iirc i discussed this on my www at one point) the correct approach is to ditch the native compiler, in favour of the interpreter, hand-compiled to fit in L0 cache
asciilifeform: instead ought to simply have 1 permanently-running instance of the runtime per cpu core
asciilifeform: 'We can leverage the rapidly-growing crate ecosystem. We can drop support legacy compilers and platforms (looking at you, MS-DOS).'
asciilifeform: and before long, it will be impossible to actually get normal-people emacs running on any typical os.
asciilifeform: the thing was massively multilayer lampoon of various cultural gibblets
asciilifeform: trinque: impotent/defeated/despairing folx certainly exist
asciilifeform: 'The Boeing-manufactured bomber has been flying since 1952 and is expected to remain operating until around 2040, depending on when it is fully replaced by the Northrop Grumman’s B-21. ' << b21 is the bomberized chumpatronic equiv. of the mega-imaginary f35. ~21 bil. usd already contracted, in 2015! for delivery in.. 2040.
asciilifeform: '... the demonstrated fact that they are unwilling to make the well documented changes to deploy IPv6 because they simply refuse to make a change, or to learn something new. ... In the beta version of Windows XP I made sure IPv6 was ON-BY-DEFAULT, with no knob to turn it off, because I knew that given the option enterprise administrators would turn it off. I lost the battle in the shipping version though, and sure enough the first
asciilifeform: mats: the pest next to whom all other local-fauna annihilators pale in comparison, is human.
asciilifeform: (entirely plausibly, those with the described characteristics are simply more likely to pick up the microbe, rather than vice-versa)
asciilifeform: and it is even made by modern descendant of solzhenitsyn's famous employer.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: actually i found this one a few blocks away, on a walk. spent considerable money and effort in attempt to grow it.
asciilifeform: hanbot: at least in this respect, my monkeystan wins. my neighbours actually compete with me for cat-restaurant attraction.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: t. dalrymple once wrote about a beach in liberia, where the locals would not even bother to build a latrine, just shat in the sand
asciilifeform: there are indeed folx who quietly and decorously eat pistol, like gentlemen, without any reddit component. but because no reddit, there is no trivial telescope to see them through, and they do not leave 'good example' to those who must learn.
asciilifeform: this one looks like simple domain ban (in google)
asciilifeform: to possibly squeeze something useful from thread: as i understand, a lamport-based 'trb-i' ~could~ run on z80.
asciilifeform: you can also make z80 comp over weekend.
asciilifeform: morse, incidentally, is a skill that the 4th reich would quite like to see die out entirely. ohnoez, can't have folx communicating with low-tech radios, flash-lamps, through prison toilets.
asciilifeform: ect, profitable branch, and the market is unable to converge on an optimal solution. We are already seeing this with RISC-V and some of its most puzzling design decisions and strangely missing features (e.g., the lack of an IOMMU and L3 cache in all current implementations...'
asciilifeform: it. I have access to version 8's signing keys myself, being in that scene, but all my computers use version 11 so I haven't cared to mess with it. It's certainly not common but it is absolutely something that FVEY and related contractors (Raytheon, Leidos, half the people you'll see at ISS, etc) will be able to get their hands on, if they haven't already.'
asciilifeform: ftr the notion of making anything other than a large-as-possible fpga, for 'owner-controlled computing', is purest poppycock.
asciilifeform: or server variant: 'Talos™ Desktop Edition (TALP8D050) A complete Talos™ workstation with a CPU of your choice, 128 GB of DDR3 ECC RAM, an AMD Radeon RX 480 (8 GB VRAM) GPU, and two Western Digital WD40EFRX 4 TB SATA drives, all installed in a heavy-duty tower chassis. Comes pre-installed with Debian.'
asciilifeform: 'The world's first ATX-compatible, workstation-class mainboard for the new, free-software friendly IBM POWER8 processor. Includes one heatsink and 92 mm fan, one ATX-compatible I/O shield, and a live rescue DVD with factory reset utilities, source code for firmware and FPGA components, mainboard schematics, user manual, and Ubuntu installation media. CPU, RAM, power supply, storage drives, and chassis sold separately.'
asciilifeform: 'But getting inside the perimeter of Vandenberg North isn’t as easy as it seems. Though we had our alibi (we had developed a new-found interest in bird watching), we still didn’t have a way in. All the roads inside of the base (and thus to the front door of our underground missile sites) were completely sealed off by sentry stations and road blocks. Security forces regularly patrolled the roads. The sky was filled with Unmanned
asciilifeform: nor rathead employs.
asciilifeform: btw there is one possibly interesting detail. there appears to be a large (how large, i have nfi) set of folks who publish ~actual~ work openly (recently i was on a kick of collecting 6502 and z80 design variations, adapted for present-day component availability for glue logic) and found a wealth of quality (as in, you lay it out on breadboard and it WORX) material. with multi-decade (yes) discussion.
asciilifeform: i not only miss'em, but act on the impulse and... install'em
asciilifeform: what polo could compare.
asciilifeform: (while we're on subj, mircea_popesculandia was interesting in re whores, they had ads for'em pasted on every surface, dumpsters, light poles, bus stations, as if they were plumbers in usa)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they fall into the 3rd category -- they exist so that male chumper has TWO sets of nondischargeable loan to service, vs 1.
asciilifeform: 3 types of meatstock are bred for the college racket in usa: the slum bunnies ('diversity admit', they bring in usg payola), the eloi (actual future mandarins, small numbers, they zuckerberg around, you will find'em on rowboats, yachts), and the peasants (most of the chumpers. their purpose is to service nondischargeable debt for the rest of their natural lives.)
asciilifeform: notion is that it 'could not possibly matter' whether half of usa can or cannot read, because it isn't as if chimpanzees will learn to make jets.
asciilifeform: my first guess was that the thing was silently pwned long ago, and attempts 'driveby' shitwareization, but no dice.
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/6Nqdd/?raw=true << decryptomization (they now block arch.is??!) of depdfization of the Protocols of The Elders of Trumpzion
asciilifeform: speaking of shitware lelz, i have here a toy comp that logs in 'with finger', and after the incident with the cement, guess wat!!
asciilifeform: the idiots had very real impact,
asciilifeform: the 1 place i must disagree is 'idiocy outside does not matter to adult. the sweat i put in to remove the fleas from trb, but also from many other things so that i could even attempt that work, was quite real.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, 'modern computing' folx are essentially characters from lem's 'futurological congress', thinking that they have all kinds of neato tech, e.g., robot servants, but the latter are just d00ds doped up to think they are robots, and those served -- doped up also, to think they own robots, etc.
asciilifeform: i will confess, at one point i contemplated a 'vtronic bsd', but i have difficulty mustering any further enthusiasm for keeping unix on life support
asciilifeform: to briefly revisit my actual complaint re openbsd -- if i want emacs but NOT dbus, i am reduced to, more or less, 'make own unix', rather than using openbsd as such.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for so long as you don't attempt install of ANYTHING not found on selfsame disks -- worx
asciilifeform: iirc it was re 'potential' to exist in crowded, low-tech hovels without complaint, or the like
asciilifeform: he devotes page+ to how important it is that people carry fleas again. and how important to bring back shamanic medicines 'in time for inevitable disappearance of pharma industry'. i'd quite like to begin with orlov, and his wife, son
asciilifeform: 'In one queue (assembled by the well known false alarm of “the meat lorry is coming,” which used to bring people out from all over the place, causing them scurry about like ants), my seventy‑five year‑old grandfather stood for twelve hours : on the street corner from six in the morning until six in the evening. When he got home, with an empty bag (that day, the lorry had not turned up), he started to feel unwell, leaned on th
asciilifeform: so these are not 'public goods' as contemplated here.
asciilifeform: perhaps: item that is impractical to withhold from freeloaders, but nevertheless must be paid for.
asciilifeform: and yes it is a somewhat promisetronic thing. no need even to go as far as bank. go an' see what happens if you want 1000 amps from your mains connection.
asciilifeform: in the latter, you dump shit out of window, and rivers of piss fill the streets
asciilifeform: phf et al : i still don't get why not simply candi_lustt (+ 2 2)
asciilifeform: mp-wp supports footnotes ~in comments~ ?!
asciilifeform: actually from my reading naggum's 'city' is simply 'place where the mains sockets work, the roads are smooth, and vehicle can be mercedes and not necessarily mule'
asciilifeform: why does 'city with paved roads and indoor plumbing' necessarily equate to 'impotence' ?
asciilifeform: because compact, correct description of 'what is array'
asciilifeform: (consider one especially disastrous meltdown: in the merkle tree variant of lamport's signature scheme, you are hashing over RNG output. so if ANY collision whatsoever can be found, the enemy can forge signatures at will.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i don't have a proggy written, but the general idea is not monumentally arcane -- you simply work backwards
asciilifeform: !~later tell mircea_popescu while sleeping i had a thought re http://trilema.com/2017/towards-a-better-hash-function and my earlier attempt thereof likewise : that the thing may not in fact be ~collision-resistant~ (it may not be so difficult to take an arbitrary desired output and find a tape that hashes to it.)
asciilifeform: !~later tell ben_vulpes how does mimisbrunnr compute the tslb ? (is it the time block was received on your box ? or some other..?)
asciilifeform: in late 19th c. usa, the land of p.t. barnum &amp; co, there was a (one of many) mass-hysteria crackpotteries, an obsession with 'properly chewing your food before you swallow it.' complete with maxims such as the unforgettable 'nature shall castigate those who don't masticate!' the hayek, rand, etc. folx reminds me of nothing more than of this.
asciilifeform: complete with taleb's cockstroking.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, disinfo farms working overtime, https://cryptome.org/2017/01/Steele-Trump.pdf ( no, does not exist as human text, full of scan-of-scan nonsense, but quite hilarious )
asciilifeform: '...suppose you drive down the highway and you suddenly want to go some nice place you saw just before you pass a forest. you veer off the road, plunge into the wilderness and promptly decide that you need four-wheel drive, a huge cutting device in front of your car, much better shock absorbers, a bigger engine that could actually run on swamp water instead of getting all drowned, and then need an amphibious vehicle to get across the
asciilifeform: davout: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3144404199547949@naggum.no.html << from 6th paragraph, with the 'swamp water'
asciilifeform: ^ punch-tape reader, made of modern components!
asciilifeform: phf: believe or not, asciilifeform sat on a jury once where 100% of the evidence was the computrace nonsense
asciilifeform: btw this bios contains the infamous 'computrace' rootkit. the cure for which is 1) don't switch it on 2) don't run winblowz
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://www.chipworks.com/about-chipworks/overview/blog/scanning-microwave-impedance-microscopy-smim << this looks quite buildable, using same mechanical rigging as the classic 'STM in your kitchen' recipe
asciilifeform: and at the same time ^ 'supercomputing expertise for small &amp; medium enterprise network' !
asciilifeform: http://cesga.es >> 'A propuesta de la Comisión de Igualdad del CESGA , el pasado miércoles 21 de diciembre en reunión del personal del CESGA, se aprobó por unanimidad la implantación de un Protocolo de Prevención e Actuación frente al Acoso Sexual o por Razón de Sexo. Dicho documento incluye una serie de medidas que tienen como objeto la prevención, información, sensibilización, formación y asesoramiento en materia de aco
asciilifeform: esto.at >> lamp seller/installer.
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/7OhDY << from same rag, '“We will cut so much, your head will spin,” Trump promised. Plenty of people will cheer him on despite the fact that federal workers are a bulwark of the country’s middle class. Remember, that middle class everyone was talking about during the campaign? Federal workforce jobs are relatively stable in a disrupted economy. And although the most highly educated could earn more in the pri
asciilifeform: 'The entire blockchain ecosystem suffers when situations like this reflect insecurities. Bugs are always going to plague computer code, but when found in such a fledgling field, they are scrutinized and can cause skepticism. To ensure the safety and reliability of any code written, it’s important to follow industry standard best practices.' << ahahahahahaha
asciilifeform: which brings us to : 'Imperial Irrigation District had an initiative in front of them that took into account replacing meters and reading processes. The utility also began looking for an IP-based remote meter reading solution that utilized hosted software. The hosted solution would need to work in conjunction with IID’s existing billing system while integrating its various data collection technologies— without requiring additiona
asciilifeform: (specifically they did not permit chumps incoming tcp)
asciilifeform: the interesting bit omitted here is that this particular statute is written in such a way as to specifically claim jurisdiction over ~everyone~, and not simply usg subjects
asciilifeform: i can almost see the pleabargain-of-the-fyootoor: 'mr idiot, 33, to forgo impalement or the anthill, agreed not appeal any death sentence of beheading or less'
asciilifeform: 'The paper propose a new proof-of-work mechanism that improves decentralization and reduces the risk of 51% attack without increasing the risk of Sybil attack. This new mechanism introduces a series of principles such as Career open to all talents, without distinction of birth, Distribution according to labor and All Men are created equal.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'u.s. national ignition centre' is an unholy cocktail of 'scientocracy'. it has three purposes: 1) ensure that laser-initiated fusion chain reaction is not discovered. (distant) 2) -- 'if discovered, must be under usg roof' 3) employ 1,000,000 'physics'-flavoured mediocrities
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 10baseT is surprisingly easy to 'bitbang-implement'
asciilifeform: in re degrees of certainty. e.g., earning the -10 is quite an achievement, it requires being a reliable compass of nogoodness
asciilifeform: good example (though link to obsolete wotron)
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski et al : where is the auto that still has rubber bumper ?
asciilifeform: asking for mircea_popescu-style 'sane' programmer is rather like to ask for hygienic sewer repairman. if such a thing is possible it consists of cosmonautic-grade compartment sealing.
asciilifeform: programmers who stay sane, at least in my experience, tend to be folks who are very disciplined re compartmentalization .
asciilifeform: davout: for mempool tx i can just ban the opcode.
asciilifeform: (vs a mempool tx)
asciilifeform: (and it would be extremely impractical to divide it, the thing is a GB+ and counting)
asciilifeform: the barf wave, however, resulted from two werker runs that overwrote one another's working temp sets on disk. another wtf, that should not have been possible, added locking.
asciilifeform: features you'd like in a friend, a foe, a spouse or an employee already built-in, while computer hardware has a certain gap to fill in this department.'
asciilifeform: 'It is my opinion that the fans of this family of hardware/vaporware, consistent advocates of The New Age of Computing, have serious AI problems. Here's a sample quote on cellular automata: "I guess they really are like us." Well, if you want to build a computing device in order to have a relationship with it, maybe a cellular automaton will do the trick. Although I'd recommend to first check the fine selection of Homo Sapiens we have
asciilifeform: which was 100% of my complaint really.
asciilifeform: 'no comp' is a moherfuckng FEATURE
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: just don't autoarchive pastes by tempvoiced folx
asciilifeform: i at one point wanted to use the mighty 'super-H' (ss in sega) chip, salivated over the manual, but turned out, all the dev tools from vendor are microshitian, and even the ~example sources~ wouldn't unpack without some microturd
asciilifeform: adlai: there is an even simpler plausible hypothesis - that it is simply easier to build the massive blockwithhold-chains the cartel builds, if one does ~not~ include wild tx-en in'em
asciilifeform: !~later tell trinque repairs on phuctor are complete and the rss feed again consists strictly of genuinely-phuctored mods. the werker will be re-enabled tonight. it is safe to switch the feed back on.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: notice, for example, that complete schematic, cpld, etc. for FUCKGOATS is posted on www.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: entirely leaving aside the particulars of your product, i must confess that i get an impression that gabriel_laddel_p is not himself entirely certain yet how it is that he wants to do business, and with whom, on what terms.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: it gives an impression that , i suspect, you do not want
asciilifeform: iirc one of the 'death of symbolics' treatises went on at length about the follow of them NOT having made any attempt to market their chip synthesis stack as a commercial offering
asciilifeform: i had this itch 2+ yrs ago but my evil plan was to make it simply eat the collected works of mircea_popescu rather than explicit rules
asciilifeform: considering that the standard was a product of a truce between competing lispm vendors, it is not mega-surprise. but trinque is right.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in this century 'lisp people' tend to resemble holyromanempire's 'roman people'
asciilifeform: eh i had more than the appropriate measure of sympathy for the poor bugger because laboured under the impression that he, fwiw, was a monster i had an indirect hand in creating
asciilifeform: but notice, he won't, like vampire avoids the sun
asciilifeform: 'Gentoo can PRACTICALLY be improved by slowly &amp; surely eliminating it from Masamune. There are plenty of people who can, and have written lisp bootloaders. The only problem with this (and all related projects) is that they're incomplete, due to lacking a working lisp environment one can integrate with. People write code using the _stable_ abstractions at hand.'
asciilifeform: trinque: eh he's a veeery speshul trainflake, managed to read (if one is to believe) my compleateworx, and learn 0
asciilifeform: btw this pompous style of painting is u.s. dod sop
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-07#1597952 << meetoo!! the drafting implements &amp; logarithmic rulers esp.
asciilifeform: 'We decided we needed to take a different — and bolder — approach to this problem. We believe people who write and share ideas should be rewarded on their ability to enlighten and inform, not simply their ability to attract a few seconds of attention. ' << lel, ordinary spamatronics not enough, gotta also have http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-31#1594901
asciilifeform: iirc medium is simply latest iteration of the tired old idiocy
asciilifeform: to set up proper box, 'mp-wp', etc. ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it had been, say, ~considerably~ smaller a la systemv's cat command (old thread), it'd be at least worth contemplating. but yes, it was a tall pile of shit even in 1993
asciilifeform: recall the libreboot idiocy. or the however many attempts to oust linus t.
asciilifeform: 'Compare OpenVMS' security vulnerability record against other operating systems at CVE Details .... http://www.cvedetails.com/product/4990/HP-Openvms.html?vendor_id=10' vs ' linux: http://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.html?vendor_id=33 '
asciilifeform: (spun off, apparently, out of compaq, but...)
asciilifeform: (see the 100kB text example earlier)
asciilifeform: gentoo could theoretically be improved -- but not by bolting a hacked-together cl layer ON TOP OF pythonic emerge
asciilifeform: about, e.g., impedance mismatches in a comp system, or the failure of massive abstraction towers, or any of what i consider to be the basic observations
asciilifeform: ftr i grunted through gabriel_laddel's www material and cringed, he quotes massive chunks from my www but shows no symptoms of having learned anything there
asciilifeform: which is to say, any and all attempts at 'it OUTWARDLY worx!1111' without correspondingly aligned internals
asciilifeform: why would you go through life owning 1comp
asciilifeform: if you successfully connect, you give the other side a sample of your keystroke timings, which for some reason usg is obsessed with
asciilifeform: but even failing this, diffiehellman gives the other side a sample from your rng.
asciilifeform: 'The round of $4M was led by Union Square Ventures, with participation by Lux Capital, Naval Ravikant, Digital Currency Group, Compound, Version One, Kal Vepuri and Rising Tide.' << this buys, what, seven greyhound buses ?
asciilifeform: e.g. the 'is somebody peeking at my display from behind my back' company
asciilifeform: 'Trump shows little respect for the Constitution, the Republic, or for human decency, and I fear for national security if he becomes our president.'
asciilifeform: ( i could be wrong about this, but yc seems to be quite the same chumpatron today as it was decade ago )
asciilifeform: it isn't clear imho that he is ~incompetent~, either. the outcome depends largely on the grade of cattle coming into the meat processor, and how would he affect this?
asciilifeform: 'Mormon Tabernacle Choir... ... The group is based out of Salt Lake City, Utah, and dates back to the founding of the Mormon Church. ... It has some 360 members, but the decision to participate in Trump's Inauguration caused one member to leave. Jan Chamberlin said she was dropping out of the group and wrote on Facebook with reference to the inaugural performance: "I only know I could never 'throw roses to Hitler.' And I certainly co
asciilifeform: while we're in cpuwank mode, 'The Intel Core i7-7700K is what happens when a chip company stops trying. The i7-7700K is the first desktop Intel chip in brave new post-"tick-tock" world—which means that instead of major improvements to architecture, process, and instructions per clock (IPC), we get slightly higher clock speeds and a way to decode DRM-laden 4K streaming video. Huzzah.'
asciilifeform: ok to be perfectly clear, i compared 2 boxes, one -- the aforementioned crapple, one -- a 2x2393SE.
asciilifeform: but gotta compare to same-period comp.
asciilifeform: and yeah lappy is to actual comp as sapper's spade is to excavator.
asciilifeform: the crapple is ~impossible to do anything serious on. wtf, gdb
asciilifeform: (all of my full-sized mircea_popescu-style comps are 'bearded', this comes with using pre-obummer amd iron.)
asciilifeform: e.g., knowing how much power, to the microamp, victim is drawing; or time; etc
asciilifeform: it's a standard american 15amp circuit
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i saw interesting variant of this, with the selfsame led bulbs, where a dead lamp would light for about 1/2 second after the live one connected in tandem switched (from wall switch) off !
asciilifeform: (lampism esoterica. 'soft white' is the trade name for the faux-incandescent phosphor variant led)
asciilifeform: i do different thing -- mail the lamps back, with a note about considering www article re rubbish lamp, and inviting maker to consider honouring the warranty
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wonder if they have prisoners sift through rubbish in search of lamps yet.
asciilifeform just measured another led lamp, 0 at 5cm.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it isn't the lamp that catches fire
asciilifeform: yeah complete with old ru-made locks
asciilifeform: american houses are the architectural mcdonalds, cramped, uncomfortable cardboard crematoria waiting to ignite
asciilifeform confesses to complete lack of emotion re subj
asciilifeform: the other thing about these lamps is that (at least i find) they are addictive -- after stuffing 2 100w-imitators into a fixture that cannot physically hold 2 100w edison bulbs without catching fire, it is painful to go back
asciilifeform: one reason is that the chumps often submit'em, for free, for 'recycle', and the lamp house gets to sell ~same motherfucking lamp N times
asciilifeform: led lamp makers are scamming folx left and right in entirely nonsubtle ways (i just unscrewed 5th dead '20 year life!111' bulb this year, none were older than ~1y)
asciilifeform: it is chumpatronic.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: possibly because if you were to measure how much uv got pumped into the rat eyes, the 'blue poison' thing evaporates
asciilifeform: ~0 of which gets through typical lamp dome, just as nobody gets sunburn from sitting near a window indoors.
asciilifeform: with ~blue~ ? brighter blue from lamp than from the sun? really, srs?
asciilifeform: but i'd like timestamps, rollover, and nonbufferization
asciilifeform: '... You go to work hung-over, and you realize that, during a drunken conference call, you told your boss that your processor has 32 registers when it only has 8, but then you realize THAT YOU CAN TOTALLY LIE ABOUT THE NUMBER OF PHYSICAL REGISTERS, and you invent a crazy hardware mapping scheme from virtual registers to physical ones, and at this point, you start seducing the spouses of the compiler team...'
asciilifeform: 'I think that it used to be fun to be a hardware architect. Anything that you invented would be amazing, and the laws of physics were actively trying to help you succeed. Your friend would say, “I wish that we could predict branches more accurately,” and you’d think, “maybe we can leverage three bits of state per branch to implement a simple saturating counter,” and you’d laugh and declare that such a stupid scheme would
asciilifeform pictures BingoBoingo's impregn^H^H^Hivf clinic
asciilifeform: (i predict: instead of door busting, they will simply do pre-dawn demolition charges from all sides, presto, 0 evidence)
asciilifeform: tecoistic, aha, as pictured in example earlier.
asciilifeform: magical-newlines (unix diff) and parens-sexpr (lisps) is a pretty heavy impedance mismatch.
asciilifeform: it was a somewhat pathological example. but i will point out that in this system , mircea_popescu's tab-corrector patch would be 100% human-readable.
asciilifeform: has mircea_popescu ever tried to implement traditional unix diff ?
asciilifeform: the one thing i consider a major win here, compactness aside, is the freeness-from-inbandmagic.
asciilifeform: i dare say that a colourized, phf-style viewer can make the suggested char-differ quite readable in comparison with ye olde unixdiff.
asciilifeform: let's make example...
asciilifeform: because it is example of 'dynamic algo'
asciilifeform: so you will have simpler proggy.
asciilifeform: no complaints actually
asciilifeform: curl http://foo | pgpdump -i | .... to be 'precise'.
asciilifeform: pgpdump -i
asciilifeform: (btw, trinque et al, here's a bot command idea: #!k (for instance) takes url and looks for pgp keyblocks or sigs or any other pgptronic object from which a key bitness , fp, or other interesting attribute can be pgpdump'd, and prints same in log)
asciilifeform often wondered why the things can't simply be made threaded, and with variant thread
asciilifeform: seems to me like it might unduly empower miners.
asciilifeform: stock trb mempool
asciilifeform: while i like the 'diode' aspect of this scheme, i will say that my public nodes would fall down in about three seconds, and permanently, if the primitive autobanhammer of gaviniferously-symptomatic peers were to be switched off.
asciilifeform: and whatdoyoumean 'no tx', is the thing contemplated a wholly mempool-less node ?
asciilifeform: in the case of candidate-block and candidate-mempooltx queue receiver (from outside the walls), mircea_popescu proposes to throw out even the weak logic for banning obvious crapola that we have today in trb?
asciilifeform: in the tx case, anybody can overwrite legit tx in your buffer by dumping liquishit in.
asciilifeform: what happens when evilpeer dumps a TB of liquishit into the queue?
asciilifeform: and there are no provisions for safely ~removing a tx~ from mempool, ever, at all
asciilifeform: esp. if the actual computation is unbounded
asciilifeform: this is great from many pov but imposes own cost.
asciilifeform: they are arithmetical, because the designers insisted that the hash be computable in fixed number of cpu cycles.
asciilifeform: essentially, anything where you cannot, in any practical computer, express the hash's reversal as an n-sat problem
asciilifeform: but i could think of one definitive improvement over traditional hashes: non-algebraic (see recent 'rsa padding' thread) tranform
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: to take toy example: 'game of life' playing field state, with initial state S and move count M, naively might seem like good crypto
asciilifeform: (tldr -- a digital approximation of a complex process is 1) not ~the process itself~, noshit.jpg 2) not necessarily all that complex, in the chaos/avalanche sense, or in any way cryptologically hard)
asciilifeform: because the transition between 'irreducibly complex' and 'braindamagedly simple' phase space is unknown.
asciilifeform: (gyroscopic moment of the motor, but also differently-impacting stream from propeller on one wing vs other)
asciilifeform: (this is a certainty if the various components do not AT ALL TIMES agree)
asciilifeform: for the components to speak to one another.
asciilifeform: they will require a -- quite complicated -- entirely new protocol
asciilifeform: now you ~could~ make the -- imho very tenuous -- argument that mining logic is ~implicitly~ present in the block verification logic.
asciilifeform: this is why the original genesis was such a painful affair (and why it was and remains important to READ how i did it)
asciilifeform: your 'b' : mempool+networking, 'a' -- blockchain ?
asciilifeform: (really, a 'c', 'a' speaks blockchain and 'b' speaks mempool)
asciilifeform: so b there is the 'third' contemplated earlier.
asciilifeform: to take entirely random example, top-of-the-line 'wiha' multihead screwdrivers, ALL now have plastic handles
asciilifeform: the folx who buy by the trainload, generally are happy to pass the scam on to their retail chumps tho.
asciilifeform: didja know it is nearly impossible to buy pure-cu ethernet snake ?
asciilifeform: (sc4mz0rz invariably cu-plate it, to deceive simple-minded buyer)
asciilifeform: the other hypothesis that invites itself is the tlp/mp 'ceremonial object' one. the, e.g., static mat, was sold on a www with reviews, and not necessarily faux ones. many satisfied sheeples own various tools and NEVER USE, and they -- are quite happy!
asciilifeform: even simple thing, that i would have bet money no one could fuck up -- fucked up. ~year ago i bought 'antistatic mat', conductive rubber thing with coiled cord that goes to ground pin of mains socket, etc. that cord is now frayed in 11 places.
asciilifeform: we won't be welding gnu mpi onto anything permanent.
asciilifeform: re 'open sores', even a ~very~ small gadget, and in fact one that started life as a stand-alone library: mpi (bignum) piece of gpg 1.4, was quite astonishingly painful to properly saw off the kochball
asciilifeform: (chukchas and many neighbouring tribes had an entire thing where they would lower deer into a swamp, and dig him up months, sometimes years, later, and eat. apparently putrefaction toxins can be 'trained for', from childhood even. rather like strychnine.)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-03#1595417 << firefox, if you have not had the misfortune to look at the internals, is quite like other 'open sores' in that it is ~impossible to meaningfully recycle any part of it in 'other' (supposedly they are in fact ~other~, and not minor variations on the original) projects
asciilifeform: 'If Trump doesn’t crack open the chocolate egg that is Saudi Arabia and run off with the toy inside, then somebody else will. Saudi Arabia’s days are numbered. For now, it is still rich in money, oil, sand and imbeciles, but it is burning through the first two faster and faster. Just wait a decade or so, and the sand and the imbeciles will be all that’s left. Somebody will try to get to them and snatch what’s left of the priz
asciilifeform: meanwhile, from the dept. of orlols, http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2017/01/how-to-make-america-great-again-with.html >> '...This was the last time the Americans were able to run off with a fantastic amount of other people’s money, giving the US yet another temporary lease on life.'
asciilifeform: trinque: it is why you make the student write, eventually, the compiler
asciilifeform: teach c machine as sane people were taught: 'here's some c, here's what compiler emitted , in asm, now say why'
asciilifeform: so mircea_popescu with his cement mixer is just as 'dirty empiricist' as d00d who writes 'while (1) {.......}' without having written a c compiler and ability to explain what {} 'do' rigorously
asciilifeform: pgpdump -i.
asciilifeform: i read the whole thing , to date, while waiting for massive megaturd of phuctor to pump over to this half of the planet so i could rebuild working model of entire thing here in my torture room
asciilifeform: i dun see this as a necessary hypothesis. i dare say that if i had to write a c compiler, it would end up looking somewhat more like llvm than gcc.
asciilifeform: phf: 'impoverished' os is a plus from this pov
asciilifeform: noshit 'they knew', all compilers are built on roughly same scheme, just as all airplanes have wings, fuselage, etc
asciilifeform: notably the machine from this example is a mac with 100%-working gnat (on gcc 4.xx)
asciilifeform: 'Static linking of user binaries is not supported on Mac OS X. Tying user binaries to the internal implementation of Mac OS X libraries and interfaces would limit our ability to update and enhance Mac OS X. Instead, dynamic linking is supported (linking against crt1.o automatically instead of looking for crt0.o, for example). We strongly recommend that you consider the limitations of statically linking very carefully, and consider yo
asciilifeform: 'because when asciilifeform enables coredumps, surely what he MEANT to do is to ENABLE EXCEPT IF TOO MANY'
asciilifeform: the result, incidentally, is ZERO COREDUMPS
asciilifeform: 'The ability to limit concurrent coredumps allows dumping core to be safely enabled in these situations without affecting responsiveness of the system as a whole. I have several servers running with this patch applied (actually backported to v2.6.26) and it has allowed me to deal successfully with the situation described above.'
asciilifeform: because FuckHead-Linux decided that it is somehow ok to 'skipped coredump'
asciilifeform: Skipping core dump
asciilifeform: to complicate matters, there were a handful of jokers who made prime moduli.
asciilifeform: by attempting to load ~every~ result, as, predictably, it wants to.
asciilifeform: dumping whole thing would take considerably longer.
asciilifeform: trinque: and, again, only MODULI get dumped regularly
asciilifeform: DB DUMP IS THREE MINUTES OF A DAY
asciilifeform: as usual, whenever we ~really~ lean onto something, it crumples into the pile of shit that it was.
asciilifeform: i recommend to exempt it from the usual treatment, trinque et al, until i invent some radically new mechanism for the thing to work on, instead of postgres.
asciilifeform: pgpdump -i turd.asc
asciilifeform: i'll import revokes if i want to , motherfucker
asciilifeform: 'Если русский мужик в безысходности пьёт, / Если наглый джигит как добычу берёт / Дом отцовский его, и сестру, и жену — / Это значит, что нам объявили войну. / Это значит, что скоро война.' << sufficient sample.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, latest visitors to my www, and then to nosuchlabs: employees of Wolfram Co.
asciilifeform: (for n00bz) http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-30#1594162 << it is important to actually go the gedankenexperiment, in one's mind, and understand why it cannot be fixed.
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