asciilifeform: jurov: original thread was 'telecommute is nice' -- mp: 'nah you all suck and what does it matter what you little white mice do or don't do'
asciilifeform: telecommute is simply LESS of the loathesome torture than the alternative.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-11#1450022 << much simpler than this. thought i suppose mircea_popescu is enjoying being deliberately thick.
asciilifeform: phrase on everybody's lips was 'Quand je serai lancé'. As it turned out, nobody was 'lancé', the slump descended like another Ice Age, the cosmopolitan mob of artists vanished, and the huge Montparnasse cafés which only ten years ago were filled till the small hours by hordes of shrieking poseurs have turned into darkened tombs in which there are not even any ghosts.'
asciilifeform: twenties there were as many as 30,000 painters in Paris, most of them impostors. The populace had grown so hardened to artists that gruff-voiced lesbians in corduroy breeches and young men in Grecian or medieval costume could walk the streets without attracting a glance, and along the Seine banks Notre Dame it was almost impossible to pick one's way between the sketching-stools. It was the age of dark horses and neglected genii; the
asciilifeform: i'm mostly convinced at this point that any serious attempt at sanity will be a similar enough thing to ada that it will trigger all of the same allergies in same folks.
asciilifeform: 133337 d000dz on dirigibles are never far from their cockpit, dun need no stinking pocket comp
asciilifeform: generally i don't even ~use~ the www logz when on an actual computer
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: at a comp sec convention 'shmoocon' they handed out, among other souvenirs, little plastic sliding shutters for webcams
asciilifeform: (it is heavily unoptimized for human consumption and arm asm is a bitch to audit)
asciilifeform: srsly the original drm chumpers, buying, believe, ~whole computer~ built solely to make copying the gamez harder!
asciilifeform: re earlier thread, here is an interesting example of strong cage - intel microcode
asciilifeform: but i definitely see how it handily encompasses the varied crimes of the egalitarian cult.
asciilifeform: (there are no timestamps, cache control crapolade, etc)
asciilifeform: clinic and title company both ran winblowz and Generous Shareholder Donated their cert to ftmeade ?
asciilifeform: $ sha512sum mp.txt
asciilifeform: and the examples are quite contrived.
asciilifeform: and iirc he got seriously hot&bothered thinkin' of '30s totalitarian inca empires.
asciilifeform: or could simply load it
asciilifeform: (the most reality-based hypothesis is that ~asciilifeform~ simply isn't 133337 enough to score decent gig)
asciilifeform: from my admittedly amateur understanding, mircea_popescus are produced when power verticals ~collapse~ and teenagers are competing in re cutting throats rather than who can be best young sov bureaucrat.
asciilifeform: punkman: when you cheat at lotto, you are simply playing another lotto.
asciilifeform: to be complete, it oughta also contain a reminder that there is not a forest where you can put 10 bil. wolves.
asciilifeform: but briefly back to thread, imho it is important to understand that asking 'how to be mircea_popescu' is a fundamentally broken question, not unlike 'how do i win the lotto'
asciilifeform: generally works great, it is how su made ballet dancers, chess champions, etc.
asciilifeform: i'm simply tired of having to leave the house.
asciilifeform: $down DonaldTrumpOfBTC
asciilifeform: $up DonaldTrumpOfBTC
asciilifeform: ''According to the civil complaint filed in federal court in Virginia on Tuesday, the boy had been given an “SSSS designation indicating that he had been designated as a ‘known or suspected terrorist'" while going through airport security. Since he was a seven-month-old, Baby Doe, as he is referred to, was subject to “extensive searches,” including rifling through all of his diapers.'
asciilifeform: who dispenses food and tampon alike!11
asciilifeform: but it was the tampon donation bin that really melted my brain.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448517 << again, unlike literally the entire whole of rest of computingdom, the old adas are neither less-broken NOR BETTER-supported.
asciilifeform: quite unlike the rest of computing, yes, but don't take my word for it
asciilifeform: mthreat: incidentally, the old wot was imported, you oughta be able to voice yourself.
asciilifeform: mod6: for a good example of one that ~isn't~ - see the epic mircea_popescu thread with otp!
asciilifeform: mod6: complicated.
asciilifeform: (example of large ada application)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what did templos ever do to you!111
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re thread, see also earlier threadz re 'impedance matching'
asciilifeform: the very first thing you learn of a computer, 'this thing has N states, yes, it is a large N, but N is an INTEGER'
asciilifeform: it was an ~example~ somebody wrote.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu reads 3 pages of ada examples and spews nonsense re same
asciilifeform feels like complete idiot for having had notions of buying
asciilifeform: if Matic could, as a matter of courtesy, provide the complete logs for the site.
asciilifeform: 'The Education Department has assembled a “behavioral sciences unit” to study the psychology of borrowers and why they don’t repay. “We obviously have not cracked that nut but we want to keep working on it,” said Ted Mitchell, the Education Department’s undersecretary. He said many defaulted borrowers dropped out of school and are underemployed.'
asciilifeform: '... The picture has improved slightly from a year earlier, when the nonpayment rate was 46%, but that progress largely reflected a surge in Americans entering a program for distressed borrowers to lower their payments.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu often says 'i don't deal in counterfactuals', and the principle seems quite in place here - it is not clear to me that a gcc-less 1980s would have led to anything other than a wintel os+compiler monopoly
asciilifeform: example?
asciilifeform: let's see if mircea_popescu coughs up a better example when he wakes up.
asciilifeform: they have the classical ustard affliction of 'we are the greatest people, we are the greatest empire, nothing like us ever was'
asciilifeform: (turing's halting theorem is really a generalization of godel's incompleteness t.)
asciilifeform: (virtually any attempt reduces to the halting problem)
asciilifeform: lambda calc does not comport with physical machines well.
asciilifeform: but in some perverse cases (e.g., 'chicken') compiled to c, but then you lose eval
asciilifeform: phf: bytecode-compile
asciilifeform: the operation of the compiler in common lisp is generally semantically transparent.
asciilifeform: mod6: modern common lisps typically include a compiler.
asciilifeform: mod6: clojure compiles to jvm
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in usa software cos were EXEMPTED from liability suits
asciilifeform: or functional requirements, poor design, or programming mistakes. The root cause of the hazards will be exposure of implementation-defined behaviors in a programming language. Who will the lawyers sue over the consequences of those hazards?'
asciilifeform: the new hardware will be received as a complete surprise by most users of the upgraded system and by their management. The surprise may be accompanied by hazardous events because of incorrect control of a safety critical system. People may be injured or die, the environment may be seriously damaged, and very expensive systems may be damaged or destroyed. The root cause of the hazards will not be po
asciilifeform: 'As a software safety engineer I find the implementation-defined aspects of C++ bit-fields to be very unsettling. A project may verify that its C++ bit-fields work as intended on a particular architecture, but when a technology refresh is performed in several years, there is no assurance that the C++ program will continue to work properly on the new hardware. The failure of the C++ program to run on
asciilifeform: lumpen is actually ~below~ rat.
asciilifeform: no i know about the lumpens.
asciilifeform: i'm speaking of poor, not lumpen scum
asciilifeform: (examples of type-predicates you ~could~ make)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these were ~examples~
asciilifeform: ada is a civilized lang like commonlisp and there is NOT a presumption that integers are machine words !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the bitwise thing works. i have nfi why not used in the example.
asciilifeform: what'd be the complex conjugate of l0l ?
asciilifeform: not entirely new, examples existed as early as 1969
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: generally folks will use simple predicates (e.g., 'not equal to 0')
asciilifeform: and if you improve the thing, you break it.
asciilifeform: phf: there are some very obvious warts in the language - e.g., the compiler is one-pass and you end up having to write c-style prototypes for some functions.
asciilifeform: a properly constructed computer would perform ALL of the same checks, and more, IN HARDWARE
asciilifeform: ada tasks, afaik, is the only sane implementation of parallelism where you ~never~ specify explicit thread
asciilifeform: ;;later tell phf i find myself agreeing with adlai, the way we have it now, the log is in fact near-unreadable EXCEPT in wwwtron. links oughta dump into the chan assbot-style
asciilifeform: simple enough concept.
asciilifeform: implication here, if i understand, is that mining as we know it is a work of fiat sovereigns
asciilifeform: if i had to guess, from my grossly inadequate picture, why he did it, why not the simple hypothesis - buy it back while it is mega-cheap
asciilifeform: mp's productions are so opaque that i cannot even conjecture about the mechanics, which is, i suppose, precisely how he likes it.
asciilifeform: the publicly-sold-miners thing was 100% chumpstrapping
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '...in 2016 common people simply can not buy new miners, no matter what happens and how much money they're willing to spend...' << ahahaha precisely what i predicted when i showed up
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: interesting. am i thick or what am i missing, but afaik 0 implications in re the things that i do...
asciilifeform: https://www.owlfolio.org/research/bootstrapping-trust-in-compilers << lulzy, folks reinventing the inevitable
asciilifeform: $up Humpty
asciilifeform: dram is how we get wonders such as 'rowhammer', but also bits that rot from not only cosmic ray but the background gamme of impurities in ITSELF, etc
asciilifeform: but it would be mega-improvement if folks outside the большая зона were buyin'.
asciilifeform: mips ~company~ is a parasite, just like arm co.
asciilifeform: nor against tendrils that seek out and 'specifically diddle', e.g, gmp mult.
asciilifeform: fwiw my grandfather spent a good chunk of his life on hydraulic analogue computerz.
asciilifeform: because without this, a computer is not an asset, but a catastrophicly limitless liability.
asciilifeform: (ALL of them, not simply x86)
asciilifeform: i actually REMOVED the asm optimizations from my fork of gmp, for instance.
asciilifeform: 90% of why i like ada is that it 'compiles like c' (i.e. without massive runtime or bytecode claptrap in place of ida-able binary) WHILE having bounds-checked array accesses etc.
asciilifeform: in other 'news', in my dream, mircea_popescu was camping in a tent in my house, and reading a dead tree copy of the logz summarized by somebody or other, and it was a thing on ancient yellowed paper, he cursed and spat and in the end tore it up and started smashing things, then went out the door and started firing some sort of energy weapon at the trees
asciilifeform: (the issue of whether the muscle exists, to do this, is a separate question. the above is simply re the political aspect of whether it is a thing that is even to be contemplated.)
asciilifeform: so if they had remained alive, 'armenian' today might simply mean just a subtype of turk
asciilifeform: it exists entirely as a usgtronic 'oh noez empire that isn't us is gassing its vermin'
asciilifeform: holy fuck c compiler worx
asciilifeform: literally no diff but for the number stamped on the chassis.
asciilifeform: trinque: gonna import wot ?
asciilifeform: l0l in related nyooz i tried a floor washing machine thing, with steampunk water circulator, spinning brushes, etc. and somehow it managed to remove ~NO DIRT
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i thought pastes were intrinsically a temporary thing
asciilifeform: as are voting circuits, and other aspects of a sane computer
asciilifeform: in other nyooz, 'ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The hacker "Guccifer," alleged to be Marcel Lehel Lazar, 44, of Arad, Romania, made his initial appearance today here in federal court on charges relating to unauthorized access of protected computers. According to the indictment, from December 2012 to January 2014, Lazar hacked into....'
asciilifeform: <phf> Upload em and I will implement mp-array that can be indexed with negatives << phun phakt, c will ~happily~ permit you to index with negatives.
asciilifeform: but they want enough-mp
asciilifeform: which is one of the resons thinking folk so often succumb to the temptation of 'let's make a lang'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2016/outrageous-mps-guide-to-not-being-a-poorfag/#comment-116904
asciilifeform: 'It is improper. Enumerations must always be made of items of the same kind. It's not enough that the items answer to the same purpose. They must actually be of the same kind.' << aaaaand this is how we learned that mircea_popescu , under the cover of darkness, programs! in ada !1111
asciilifeform: usg ~knows~ but it is impolitic to ~do~ anything.
asciilifeform: and so never was tempted to keep >1 auto.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i understand why you pick example of feudal battlefield, rather than red army, but the latter was actually the state of the art afaik.
asciilifeform: this is why i always had sympathy with the folks who pete_dushenski enjoys feeling superior to.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's advice, 'become a pirate!1111' is ~practical and mega-useful~ by comparison !
asciilifeform: i am left to wonder, clearly mircea_popescu has a very high opinion of orc scum, why doesn't he recruit ~them~ to write his softs, run his companies, etc. ?
asciilifeform: and perhaps a reasonable set of lampshades.
asciilifeform: (e.g., gmp uses 4+ different mult algos)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did precisely once, with my last employer. there was much gnashing of teeth, and ill feeling from the other slaves (there were only a handful of us, and no one was actually replaceable)
asciilifeform: he is not an employee, does not clock hours or report to a boss, and is not - in as far as i can surmise - accountable to anyone, for anything he does.
asciilifeform: rms is not an employee of mit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sure. but on this imperfect notion rests the possibility of having a town, or anything really that you can't carry up your arse while drawing a bowstring
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: would you sell mpex to hitler ?
asciilifeform: just thinking, hitler could buy it simply to abuse.
asciilifeform: (as i understand, it gets sold with empty tank)
asciilifeform implodes, covetously
asciilifeform: likely davout has never seen, heard of, or even contemplated such a thing
asciilifeform: incidentally the 'same master' algo is catastrophically dangerous because it does not allow you to retire a broken ciphersystem COMPLETELY
asciilifeform: (this thing where folks expect keys to never change, is lulzy, yes i get it, mircea_popescu gotta prevent mpex account resale, but it is dumb in any other context)
asciilifeform: like old t-34 pulled from the swamps.
asciilifeform: how did i even end up in this thread, this is the perfect example of mircea_popescu's 'gynaeceum material, dun work in forum' thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's 'pissed in the back alley of cairo' example
asciilifeform: this is not 'cooking' (which i quite approve of) but room-temperature-cheese.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this was attempted, i had the elementary nervous system to resist
asciilifeform: 11:31 <+mircea_popescu> phf i dunno fucking comprehend the disdain affected (perhaps to the point of believing themselves) by intellectual folk re the pro sluts. << nonono i just loathe the hump of the bell curve, sluts, no sluts, whatever
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i knew a buncha similar kidz who , yes, adapted to chimp cunt.
asciilifeform: go, adapt to chimps in the zoo.
asciilifeform: at any rate one probably ought to regard 'gavin gets xxx for gavining' with the same salt as 'red army soldier gets x grams of chocolate in surrender camp'
asciilifeform: Mar 31 09:31:56 <mircea_popescu>he has his idiosyncratic criteria, which fit the events. and change with teh events. << this is unfounded. all i ever said on subj is 'gavin is exempt from arbeit macht frei, doesn't commute, doesn't punch clock'. turns out - true. (unless mircea_popescu has intel suggesting otherwise ?)
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: afaik modern day champ is ru, at 15% flat.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: everything is either a complete-algebra or a buluceala pit.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: see if this rings a bell. there were two kinds of bettors on bbet. one that did not get double-paid. and one that 1) did 2) kept quite, kept the coin and possibly a 3) got double-paid, returned the coin. i am not aware of any (3) and kakobrekla stated that 3 was empty set.
asciilifeform implodes.
asciilifeform: incidentally odessa catacombs had no purpose in the usual sense. they were simply cavity from limestone quarry for the city above.
asciilifeform: Mar 30 10:02:53 <mircea_popescu> “I would never trust the legal system, frankly, to protect my family again,” Jeff Sikorski said. << l0l!! it is worth comparing usaschwitz inmate to, e.g., pashtun, or even eskimo. even lowliest savage has ~some~ means with which to bite back, avenge an affront.
asciilifeform: lulzily, in other nooze, classic #b-a is undergoing a very corpselike decomposition, fauna nobody even knew existed are devouring the carcass
asciilifeform: i also played it on demo-mpex for a while
asciilifeform: or in baked-assumption space
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: crapping out a shitlang and conning naive schmucks into writing programs in it is a time-hounoured way to cheaply score pseudo-relevance. sorta like a comp sci version of altcoinism.
asciilifeform: this was the basic objective, obvious to anyone with iq above bathwater temperature
asciilifeform: i think the machine ~exists~ in order to make the gasoline-smelling 'starbux' swill taste great in comparison
asciilifeform: <asciilifeform> there are precisely TWO known sane approaches to programming a computer.
asciilifeform: in other nyooz, the immunocompromise thing was accurate, already folks who oughta know better, on old planet, asked me if i'd host a powerranger idiot repo 'for trb'
asciilifeform: well yes, fella falling from the empire state building is a bit occupied, too busy to build a chute.
asciilifeform: i will give example pertaining to bignum/crypto
asciilifeform: i will give example, of the precious few 'gifts of the learned monks',
asciilifeform: better example, bear with me:
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu thinks 'nominal attempt' - as in 'hasty justification because asciilifeform had indigestion and was inclined to harp on mircea_popescu for no good reason' ?
asciilifeform: phf: aha, mine also. so far the data is discouraging - who the fuck, for example, is aegis ?
asciilifeform: but note, i did predict, classical b-a will die an immunocompromised death, without mircea_popescu's ddt spray
asciilifeform: the concept of 'this here's the log' will not compute in gossipworld.
asciilifeform: (a reasonably-healthy, well-fed grown man can crank out 100W, 200 - in bursts. employ reddit!11)
asciilifeform: l0l that thing looks just like the 'stairmaster' gizmo they pumped medieval organs with
asciilifeform: nor does the outcome have any serious impact on reality.
asciilifeform: lives, iirc, under the heel of his wife (i could be mistaken, but did get this impression from the 4-5 h we spent together)
asciilifeform: phf: i actually met TaT in meatspace, at mircea_popescu's c2. we sat in the airport together in the end. i got the impression that he was 'ok guy' but somewhat lacked... courage.
asciilifeform: notice the 'hitler-compliant!11' sticker on bottom right hand.
asciilifeform: on a happy note, appreciate how much ~aggressive sanity~ is baked into ada. it is routine, for example, to program ~without a heap~ !
asciilifeform: because items like 'no overflows, fuck off', 'standard and rationale books', 'i can compile this by hand', or 'i can saw the binary open in ida and it is pretty clear what chunk of asm corresponds to what line of src' are NOT NEGOTIABLE.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-03-2016#1440527 << because motherfucking 1980?? or if you prefer, because it's an ancient gcc frontend? or, if neither satisfies, because its the only compiled lang with knobs to ease binary auditing?
asciilifeform: i care about wars between reddits about as much as i care about the competing anthills in the forest.
asciilifeform: 'n the first ARM project I did, based on a TMS ARM M3 implementation, we found 2 bugs in the CPU and 4 in the GPU. These will actually never be corrected - the chips have already been declared obsolete, and new ones are out, with their own bugs. Sometimes the very implementation is asking for it - the last ARM-based MPU I used could easily be set to have memory cycles that end before they even start, completely needles and idi
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-03-2016#1440210 >> 'A France-based Usenet provider says that his service has been raided and shutdown by the police. The 5,000 user 'Newsoo' service appears to have been a labor of love for its owner, but all data is now in the hands of authorities after he was arrested. A long-standing complaint by anti-piracy outfit SACEM appears to have been the trigger.' << what's next, 'last jewish s
asciilifeform: 'A number of IETF standards groups are currently in the process of applying the second-system effect to redesigning their crypto protocols. A major feature of these changes includes the dropping of traditional encryption algorithms and mechanisms like RSA, DH, ECDH/ECDSA, SHA-2, and AES, for a completely different set of mechanisms, including Curve25519 (designed by Dan Bernstein et al), EdDSA (Bernstein and colleagues), Poly
asciilifeform: 'The person who pushed the commit is Gerhard Rieger who is the same person who fixed it a year later. In the comment he refers to an Oracle employee at the time who has yet to comment on his mistake. It also seems like his github account and his personnal websites were deleted the day this security advisory was published.
asciilifeform: moar lulz: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-23/rockefellers-dump-exxon-holdings-that-made-family-s-fortune
asciilifeform: hey it worked for medieval cathedrals. but this is fair complaint. if you like speed, go to the races, not to me, i am the turtle.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: fwiw you got my - because you refuse to quit shitting in the kitchen. i waited for weeks, thinking you would tire of it, but no dice. if you want to constructively nemesis mp, start a blog, ffs.
asciilifeform: mp may have dropped a cig, and lit the forest on fire. some of us tried to help stamp out the flames. others - fanned them.
asciilifeform: trinque: i am beginning to see mp's pov on this, now.
asciilifeform: jurov: thought was not about 'most people', but about mp
asciilifeform: trinque: i suppose that if we imitate republican spain long enough, mp will take his ball and go home, and there will be no l1 etc.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: and here i was thinking i could at least achieve championship as arse.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: if tomorrow mircea_popescu decides that i am an imbecile and never speaks to me again, i will build exactly same items. and even offer him free sample!
asciilifeform: jurov: imho that would be an improvement
asciilifeform: trinque: but simply ~payout~
asciilifeform: if either ALONE would have satisfied the creditors, they were then idempotent !
asciilifeform: nubbins`: your contention is that it was impossible for the windfall recipients to return it ?
asciilifeform: e.g., tearing apart jungle temple, burying the remains - in shit, banana peels.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: monkeys accomplish plenty. just not anything you would want.
asciilifeform: i can't see how the scumbags who pocketed the doublespend and then whined about bet payout delay, are not accomplices in the murder of bbet.
asciilifeform: straddling the asymptote.
asciilifeform: what's the threshhold for jumping off cliff ? is it when you splat? when you're in freefall? when you stop the car? when brushing your teeth that morning, thinking 'cliff..' ???
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-03-2016#1438635 << one of the ways we get komyooonisms is that 'divide it all among the scum equally' is 'THE SIMPLEST' algo in the world.
asciilifeform: and introducing 'what if there were some agreement re: n+1th etc' is the place where unwarranted assumptions are made
asciilifeform: well, he ampered it, at least, and i did some of the maxwellizing and pretty much all of the heavisiding.
asciilifeform: mrottenkolber: you are in good company, i also do not use bitcoin with any appreciable frequency...
asciilifeform: mrottenkolber: this is not the important bit. a collision will successfully interfere with the function of automated vtrons, e.g., one where patches are thrown into a hopper unattended
asciilifeform: making them feel inadequate simply for being who they are—salt of the earth Americans, racist, bigoted, small-minded, parochial, willfully ignorant, armed to the teeth and proud of it. There is very little that the régime can ask of these people, because the response to every possible ask is “no, because we hate you.”'
asciilifeform: 'As I said, the Washington régime is just as hated within the US as it is around the world, if not more. Trump's slogan of “Make America great again!” may sound overly ambitious, but what if his promise is to make America great again at exactly one thing—throwing members of the Washington régime on the ground and stomping on their heads until they pop? I am pretty sure that he can get this done.'
asciilifeform: ada isn't, contrary to appearances, simply a 'bloated c' though.
asciilifeform: trinque: nowhere in what crapple sells is there to be found anything posing so much as a temporary annoyance to hitler.
asciilifeform: which is why the gossip model of wot is the correct one, where there is no attempt at global/'canonical' state, but only a series of questions, which folks may choose to answer - or not - depending on who asks.
asciilifeform: mod6: mircea_popescu had a good article, iirc, on this. it was the last gasp of the 'my computer is mine and i know how it works' era.
asciilifeform: there are reasons why my first act re trb was to exterminate all compatibility with microshit
asciilifeform: and, importantly, ~fails~ to break things that oughta break
asciilifeform: though i considered, brifly, hijacking the high bits of the timestamp 32b field for it
asciilifeform: i once decided to determine the simplest box that could be assembled from readily-available (preferebly, sov-block) components, that could GENERATE and OPERATE a reasonable onetimepad.
asciilifeform: they also contained various custom i/o, that is gnarly, of heavy incidental complexity, and - importantly - cannot be had in new production
asciilifeform: mod6: and i probably ought to point out that 'quality random' was baked long ago, ben_vulpes actually took a sample unit home after c3...
asciilifeform: mod6: last week i finally built... a computer.
asciilifeform: well, the implicit 'i swear with my life to this' - leaves me reluctant to sign anything i did not write 100% of
asciilifeform: http://104.131.72.249/patches/asciilifeform_maxint_locks_corrected << see, for example.
asciilifeform: but to make sure that certain situations are impossible
asciilifeform: as in the given example with mircea_popescu and vintage bitcoin
asciilifeform: trinque: and what if not tarnish, but the simple-attest-without-approval ?
asciilifeform: right now i am stuck simply ~refusing to sign~ as a means of expressing disapproval
asciilifeform: (pops up a spam with 'your browser is infected!111 call this toll free number!11 complete with faux 'bsod' with vague mac theme, etc)
asciilifeform: programmer has uniquely unpleasant profession, in the sense that even coal miner enters into a kind of numb routine, but with computer you can be gangbanged into a different orifice that you never knew you had, every day
asciilifeform: normally i'm the one who immediately 'notion of computing!11'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: every natural-language whateverthefuck attempt looked like, at best, RACTOR.
asciilifeform: eclipse is not a compiler
asciilifeform: complexity is only defined for ~unknowns~
asciilifeform: this is actually much harder than it appears, because there must also be a proof that the PARTICULAR INSTANCES of the problem you make use of are ~likewise~ of the worst AVERAGE CASE complexity
asciilifeform: soo it goes in the kbd. luckily ps/2 is very simple to talk in, you can use , e.g., a 16f84
asciilifeform: iirc gimp once used it, but now has the latter
asciilifeform: can't simply resolder
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-03-2016#1436543 << there is no provision for anything of the kind in trb, beyond the barbaric expedient of a tx which throws exception during processing simply not being stored
asciilifeform: speaking of jews, there is an english edition of the infamous 'jewish exam problems' compendium.
asciilifeform: 'In an apartment on Manhattan a couple of friends from the New York upper-class meet almost every night to talk about social mobility, play bridge and discuss Fourier's socialism; the cynic Nick, the philosophical Charlie, party girl Sally and austenite Audrey. They are joined by Tom. His background is much simpler and he is critical of their way of life. But he finds a soul mate in Audrey, who without his knowledge falls in l
asciilifeform: the other thing is that compactness forces one to think about the essentials.
asciilifeform: my internal mp also says 'just because you have a pistol which knows how to fire bullets at people you don't like, it does not follow that there must also exist an antipistol which sucks out bullets from people you like'
asciilifeform: if it is not obvious that this is the only meaninngful decomposition (and it thus far is ~not~ to me!) than the gedankenexperiment fails.
asciilifeform: understand, i was looking for ~the~ decomposition of the hypothetical vector.
asciilifeform: and yes, internal-mp says 'stop trying to finesse the basic use case of the forum, don't take the rifle fishing'
asciilifeform: but the gedankenexperiment of course offers no simple answer to this. just a possible component of one.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how many amps to put on a single breaker is typically not 'rocket surgery' and printed thereupon
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-03-2016#1435981 << i will not say that this is impossible, but i would actually like to watch somebody do it
asciilifeform: also i would like to watch mp or anyone actually ~do~ the 'hand verify' thing.
asciilifeform: 'I did fight things out in court. It just occurred in secret, and while a proper description would require the use of vulgarity, I'll summarize by saying I was railroaded. The length of time between when I received the PRTT order, and when I was found in contempt (ex parte) was about 5 weeks. For comparison the /median /time between filing and disposition of a civil contempt charge in federal court during 2013 was 6 /months/.'
asciilifeform: and every time i try to explain to him that his notion of 'text' is ill-defined and the actual mechanics, as implemented in unix world and elsewhere, are malignantly retarded
asciilifeform: Mr. Popescu was not an MP then, << l0l
asciilifeform: so when $random-ba-visitor proposes doing something idiotic with financitronics, mircea_popescu says 'this is moronic' and this is a-ok, because financitronics is a mircea_popescu-competence. when i say 'this is moronic' and subj is electronics, then i am on crack?
asciilifeform: i have whole shelf of 1950s b00kz in 'computing' section of my library. they are spiffy & useful.