(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: pre-unicodism things actually worked rather like this
(asciilifeform) gregory5: {by calling ``bugs'' in software ``flaws''} << I do this as well, "verisimilitude," but I also use the word "error."
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(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: it was used largely for small tx, i.e. coupla bitcents, where makes 0 sense to pony up tx fee that'd dwarf the payload
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: perhaps macroexpand. do you mean that it's working around flaws in bitcoin to use such a system?
(asciilifeform) whaack: verisimilitude: yeah i don't see your point re deedbot wallet being related to a poor use of bitcoin, i think every1 using the wallet knew exactly the risk they were taking on by having signpost be their counterparty, yes his service is the same as a 'webwallet' but it's a webwallet where we had the ceo in our l1 and we used for a tiny portion of our coins.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: "getting a promise of coins" is a bizarre definition of an invoicing system
(asciilifeform) whaack: verisimilitude: what article are you referring to?
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-01-11 14:15:55 verisimilitude: It should be easy to treat tales such as that of Icarus' flight as more true than the twentieth century.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-01-10 02:59:18 verisimilitude: This doesn't seem ergonomic: https://www.charachorder.com
(asciilifeform) vex: can you ride a horse verisimilitude?
(asciilifeform) vex: you know verisimilitude, obviously, that calling retards soulless would be an upopular opinion amongst a wide consensus
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: This is from this article:
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-01-09 22:59:33 verisimilitude: More spiritually, there are billions of ``people'', but not billions of souls.
(asciilifeform) gregory5: verisimilitude: you remind me of this article: http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-01-09 22:56:30 verisimilitude: That's an odd use of the word ``people''.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-01-09 22:26:46 verisimilitude: I like how part of ``the lesson'' from the JavaScript nonsense is that individual programmers shouldn't be trusted, and a group should be required for random code to be ``trustworthy''.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: if done on router -- oughta solve
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-01-09 20:29:25 verisimilitude: Oh say, I'd a persistent issue sending email, because Google burdens emails that pass through IPv6, and I couldn't figure out how to configure the email sender I used to prefer IPv4 universally. I solved the issue by figuring out how to disable IPv6 on the entire server.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: exterminators gotta learn to think like rat on demand.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: cuz you aint an 'indian coader' spamatronicist. they default to this method.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-02-21 17:41:20 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: 'the law' in fact worx exclusively against you an' i , and in favour of microshit et al (and the occasional popescu, patent troll, etc.)
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-01-09 18:08:46 verisimilitude: ``All of the layers below me don't matter. My JavaScript linter configuration file is what needs to be funded, damnit!''
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-01-09 18:09:17 verisimilitude: In the idiocy regarding this, auditing the code is never even mentioned as an option.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: "because I want it, fuck you" is perhaps every man's motivation, or not a man.
(asciilifeform) signpost: I don't have verisimilitude's kinks, but I don't begrudge them
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: Right now, my favorite library is my doubly-linked list library.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i'm sitting in front of an entire box fulla 'i use , but dun like' fwiw
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: if you 'live in emacs' seems simpler to bake an elisp thing for the frontend
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: how do you propose to bake irc frontend w/out tcp ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: errything in the linked piece is imho 100% tru, but does fail to mention that often enuff (e.g. in the case of the proggy we were discussing earlier) the option to actually 100% escape from the cumulative pile of idiocy simply aint there
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: Something I failed to include in this article was the ``Any colour, any shade, so long as it be this one.'' problem.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: what part of ' asciilifeform doesn't want an emacs dependency in this ' is hard to understand ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: not clear that this solves copy-from-term, or for that matter pasting from somewhere other than the proggy itself (e.g. from www browser or emacs)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: if you recall, plox to post
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: That can be found here.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: elaborate (which emulated terminal?)
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-01-06 19:50:35 verisimilitude: Alternatively, I see no reason why this program couldn't use the emulated terminal, which at least works decently. Mine ACUTE-TERMINAL-CONTROL has the necessary functionality in its READ-EVENT function.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: not only, but emulator per se is a bit halfbaked, crashes with regularity
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: doesn't hurt to check ebay periodically also (mine was from dks via ebay)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: expect to pay 6-7k$
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: if you want actual machine, write to dks, he might have 1 or 2 left
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: lemme know if you need a copy (iirc is relatively easy to find on www atm tho)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: not intending to sell until i've a 100% clone
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: purchased it for reversing, not daily use
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i've only 1 such machine, and for all i know at any given time it's on its final hour
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: Alternatively, I see no reason why this program couldn't use the emulated terminal, which at least works decently. Mine ACUTE-TERMINAL-CONTROL has the necessary functionality in its READ-EVENT function.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-31 03:21:37 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-12-28#1069960 I'll be investigating this soon.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-31 03:25:04 verisimilitude: I read a Trilema article lately, discussing the USG. It doesn't read with its intended impact now that Neptune killed Mircea.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-31 03:20:38 verisimilitude: I currently write the SVGs on my website by-hand.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-31 03:17:02 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-12-28#1069886 I've used whitequark's IRC logs before. I wasn't aware he was some anime tranny by now; what a shame.
(asciilifeform) vex: verisimilitude, have you got a notebook? time away from machines is invigorating
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(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-31 02:26:28 verisimilitude: I have almost seven hundred WWW browser tabs in my Firefox, currently.
(asciilifeform) vex: care to qualify your statement verisimilitude?
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-31 01:50:43 verisimilitude: I want to have a Latin Elision, which I'll write about heavily.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-31 02:01:09 verisimilitude: I wanted to avoid using what's obviously the same word in the translation, gregory5.
(asciilifeform) vex: what's a coffee at casa `d verisimilitude look like?
(asciilifeform) vex: you're not smoking shard are you verisimilitude?
(asciilifeform) d4: Reading it just now reminds me of http://verisimilitudes.net/2020-12-27
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: ty
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(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-13 00:23:01 scoopbot: New post on A Syndication of Verisimilitudes: Omnipresent Mismatch
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-09 15:25:05 verisimilitude: This is perhaps a contrived example, but the basics of using finite functions expressed as tables, with small compositional rules to use them in more situations, is very appealing.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-06 21:31:21 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-05-19#1036887 https://github.com/nineties/planckforth
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-06 21:49:27 verisimilitude: It uses the square root of the space of the former table solution.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-06 21:31:21 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-05-19#1036887 https://github.com/nineties/planckforth
(asciilifeform) adlai: verisimilitude: the conversation didn't cease, it was "only resting"... I was even still connected to dulapnet, only parted from the channel.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-04 23:50:53 verisimilitude: Have my well wishes, asciilifeform.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-12-04#1068761 << ty, verisimilitude !
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-12-01 01:57:29 verisimilitude: I read an interesting paper about the serpent cipher, for implementation. Unfortunately, this means any interesting metaprogramming I could've done with a Common Lisp implementation is no longer feasible, so I may not bother to even write that version.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: why wait til then?
(asciilifeform) vex: verisimilitude, anyone tells ytou you got a problem. show them the door with an open hand
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-11-16 16:03:54 verisimilitude: I be not the only one here drinking six or eight cups of coffee each day, right?
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-11-16 15:58:19 verisimilitude: Anyway, here's something stupid and perhaps amusing: I will pay you cash to delete your npm module
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-11-16 16:03:54 verisimilitude: I be not the only one here drinking six or eight cups of coffee each day, right?
(asciilifeform) scoopbot: New post on A Syndication of Verisimilitudes: A Review of ``Computing Machinery and Intelligence'' by Alan Turing
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-07-07 17:23:30 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i dun think kakobrekla is 'pushing' ethertardism, but pointing out that it is a natural fuffle for folx who demand impossibilities to be offered eventually.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: funnily enuff, speaking of 2014, it's what asciilifeform spent good % of it doing -- discovering how to make a reliable unwhitened rng.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: asciilifeform had an earlier www but it 1) wasn't terribly interesting 2) ~100% of it is still visible under 'vintage' section on the current one
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: paper slips?!
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-11-11 17:49:50 verisimilitude: The Bitcoin blockchain is hundreds of gigabytes now, right?
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-11-07 00:08:41 cdd: verisimilitude (sort of) I don't remember exactly It was about a year ago I came across loper-os
(asciilifeform) cdd: verisimilitude: we met on #lainchan once
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: well you mentioned knowing verisimilitude.
(asciilifeform) cdd: verisimilitude (sort of) I don't remember exactly It was about a year ago I came across loper-os
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-01-20 15:43:03 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the history is contested, but concept 100% applies. you can't found a religion on '1+1==2' or 'fire is hot'. but on idiocies -- can, makes simple to distinguish 'believers'. in current-day game-theoretical parlance, 'expensive signal'.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: iirc the classic one already 100% unrolled, but lessee what verisimilitude comes up with.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-27 16:44:24 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-09-25#1059602 It's unnecessarily repetitive. It should've been written using unrolled loops, instead. My version will be much nicer to audit and use.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: didja ever describe what you found lacking in the classic ada serpent ?
(asciilifeform) vex: night verisimilitude
(asciilifeform) vex: if you ever get bored of life on land verisimilitude, I'd be happy to have a cunning linguist for a voyage
(asciilifeform) vex: verisimilitude. defffo look for a lady
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: did that piece of shit ever get the trackpad working correctly?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: maybe verisimilitude found the correct cabbage for himself.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: it's over9000x easier to pull off if you dun need money. so iirc verisimilitude is pretty close.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: atm my desk has 4 desktops bolted to it (segregated by what lives there, and piped to kvm)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: so if you hadn't, then it is using the onboard flash
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: pretty sure you have to buy it separately (and the adapter board, i bought, is in the box w/ the machine)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: link?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: water supply in parts of usa is actually like that.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-29 20:16:55 verisimilitude: I can't tell how to have it boot with a fsck, and of course I can't fsck a mounted filesystem. I need to park the car before its engine be inspected, naturally; I just need to ignore the systems that defied nature by not having this constraint.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-29 20:17:55 verisimilitude: Anything I give a damn about is backed up several times.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: yer keeping msg hashes anyway, for deduping (and getdata)
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-04 17:45:02 verisimilitude: I want to design a Pest implementation which stores all messages in a log; how am I to store the hearsay information; it seems this information is only revealed in the hypothetical IRC gateway; there shouldn't be information generated which can't later be regenerated.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: asciilifeform for instance likes his irc client and doesn't care to part with it.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i was gonna ask 'what didja boot to install with' then remembered that verisimilitude used the included thing
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: any idea whether iron or the incl. shitlinux was at fault?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: wb verisimilitude
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-26 12:34:24 cgra: thanks asciilifeform, verisimilitude and signpost for 80 col comments. personally had already also developed a general feel of around 100-120 col being "most comfortable". now summarized in my own head that need 80-90 col only mostly if want to unconditionally support code on paper.
(asciilifeform) cgra: thanks asciilifeform, verisimilitude and signpost for 80 col comments. personally had already also developed a general feel of around 100-120 col being "most comfortable". now summarized in my own head that need 80-90 col only mostly if want to unconditionally support code on paper.
(asciilifeform) d4: I'm a programmer interested in cryptography and its applications. I've read verisimilitude's blog and yours so that's how I'm here.
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(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-10 18:34:27 scoopbot: New post on A Syndication of Verisimilitudes: Experiences with Alleviating Pain
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform also read verisimilitude's recent post, but must forgo to comment, as asciilifeform's ergonomics advice has not cured e.g. whaack or mats, fucked hands are a seriously individual matter and folx had best try to find honest doctors somewhere
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(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: possibly sooner, it seems that various folx have experimental drafts already
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: note, i dun disagree re 'save the relayers' etc. -- simply would prefer to avoid bloating the spec (and i fear is already excessive as it is)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: why would it become irreparable ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i've no objections, but also don't see why this has to be in pest spec
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: why do you want to store (outside of your personal irc console logs) info that doesn't need to be relayed to any pest peers ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: you simply store the messages, along with count of relayers.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-30 18:31:15 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: imho life ends when you can no longer think, not when no longer take a shit.
(asciilifeform) scoopbot: New post on A Syndication of Verisimilitudes: Determinism can be Inefficient
(asciilifeform) shinohai: asciilifeform & verisimilitude ... be sure to stop by shinohai's booth in hell. I'll have ladies and lemonade.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: maybe we'll meet in dpb's hell, verisimilitude
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i'd swear that i aint interesting at all in person, but you won't believe anyway
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: sure. i suspect asciilifeform poorly phrased the orig statement, provoking folx.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: not for me, ty
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: Here's some recommended reading for maintaining solitude without money.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: imho life ends when you can no longer think, not when no longer take a shit.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i suspect you do not know what means 'starving'. the mind dies long before the body.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: that's <1mo of run.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: not afaik.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-27 16:54:21 verisimilitude: My SHA design required the others, because they influenced message length calculation, but Serpent doesn't have this concern.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: post; will read
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-25 00:17:42 asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-09-24#1059600 << what did you dislike in it, verisimilitude ? and in what way do you think you can improve on it ? thing has 1 job -- to carry out the algo in constant timespace, with 0 branching-or-indexing-on-seekrits. there's pretty much 1 and only 1 way to do it.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-24 23:59:51 verisimilitude: On that note, I found stream ciphers very similar to hash checksum functions in many ways; my naive description would be the former are akin to reversible forms of the latter, or vice-versa.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-24 23:59:06 verisimilitude: Now, asciilifeform isn't actually going to use that old Ada Serpent implementation, is he; I found the code horrible, and will write a nicer implementation.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-09-24#1059600 << what did you dislike in it, verisimilitude ? and in what way do you think you can improve on it ? thing has 1 job -- to carry out the algo in constant timespace, with 0 branching-or-indexing-on-seekrits. there's pretty much 1 and only 1 way to do it.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-22 01:04:03 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-09-19#1058661 Elaborate.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-16 00:50:53 scoopbot: New post on A Syndication of Verisimilitudes: A Review of the ``GunPey'' Video Game
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-16 04:06:57 verisimilitude: This amused me: https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/posts/usenix21-weaponizing-censors
(asciilifeform) punkman: verisimilitude: URL not loading here
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(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: PeterL, verisimilitude : storing a black packet is absolutely pointless (even if you already discovered, by decoding it, that the signature is valid and the timestamp is not stale)
(asciilifeform) PeterL: verisimilitude: so you are saying to save both the black and red packet after authentication, which doubles the amount of data stored, but will allow quicker discarding of black packets if somebody tries to flood you with replays?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: ^ this in re verisimilitude's article, nought to do w/ pest
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: ^ this in re [http://verisimilitudes.net/2021-09-09][[verisimilitude's article], nought to do w/ pest
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-12 19:50:15 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-09-10#1057182 The idea is it uses multiple copies in a way which prevents tampering from reasonably happening, without a hash checksum or whatnot.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-12 20:38:00 thimbronion: verisimilitude: yes, but then the packet wouldn't be the size specified in the spec
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-12 20:20:15 verisimilitude: Storing encrypted messeges in the deduplication buffer is an obvious optimization; I've been thinking about per-peer deduplication buffers, but there doesn't seem to be justification for them.
(asciilifeform) thimbronion: verisimilitude: yes, but then the packet wouldn't be the size specified in the spec
(asciilifeform) bingoboingo: verisimilitude: Maybe? Just I'm not sure what to do with it and you seem to have ideas.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-10 08:59:32 PeterL: verisimilitude: have you thought of adding comment functionality to your blog?
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-06-08 16:07:53 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: again, there's a ~bottomless pit of these. y'know, as with other clickbait/tabloid themes. 'how you hairbrush is killing you.' '47 dirty tricks your dentist doesn't want you to know.' etc
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-09 23:26:53 scoopbot: New post on A Syndication of Verisimilitudes: Integrity with One-Time Pads
(asciilifeform) PeterL: verisimilitude: have you thought of adding comment functionality to your blog?
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-09 23:39:49 asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-09-09#1057145 << verisimilitude have you never heard of error correcting codes, or simply for some unclear purpose pretending not to have ?
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-09 23:26:53 scoopbot: New post on A Syndication of Verisimilitudes: Integrity with One-Time Pads
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-09-09#1057145 << verisimilitude have you never heard of error correcting codes, or simply for some unclear purpose pretending not to have ?
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-09-09 23:13:56 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-09-08#1056996 I noticed, but forgot to mention it.
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(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-01-04 12:15:52 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: vonneumannism is not simply a set of broken mechanisms, but of broken ~thought patterns~. there are certain problems that can't even be reasoned about effectively for so long as operating with concepts where dichotomy b/w 'cpu' and 'memory'.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: whaack: unfortunate re rsi; maybe ask verisimilitude & mats re subj
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: afaik normally idiom to refer to a rubbish lock, neh
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: so let's suppose a dishonest or sabotaged peer, verisimilitude
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: or do you mean constructedly from action of 1 peer? if so how ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: shortly after 5 asteroids fall on both machines
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: ACHTUNG, panzers! thimbronion , signpost , verisimilitude , et al : v. 0xFE.
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: more the merrier. still a worthwhile endeavor imho.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-08-31 23:04:33 signpost: anyhow you could be right. I failed to get verisimilitude to grunt out that encoder.
(asciilifeform) signpost: anyhow you could be right. I failed to get verisimilitude to grunt out that encoder.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-01-14 15:29:06 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: it only has 'incentive to work' if a) there's competition in the market b) competitors have, potentially, 'moar working' softs
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-08-26 21:19:54 verisimilitude: I read book about chip making from the 1990s, and it mentioned using gallium arsenide instead of silicon could be multiple times faster, and it mentioned using x-rays for photolithography, but I don't see anything new about either of these.
(asciilifeform) vex: have you got any Bahasa verisimilitude? might be handy if you wanna expolore materials
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I suppose I must choose Common Lisp, but Ada code looks nicer and has more guarantees, APL is always more concise and pure, and playing with CHIP-8 frees me from so much nonsense of current environments and my machine code development tool frees me from text.
(asciilifeform) vex: what's your fave lang verisimilitude ?
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I'm currently lazily working towards realizing my language model, Elision within the year, vex.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the 'secret' fact is that errybody gets the treatment he's willing to put up with; and no better.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: notice that asciilifeform did not say 'don't join the army'
(asciilifeform) jon: hey verisimilitude
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-08-15 23:40:21 verisimilitude: Lastly, it amuses me asciilifeform didn't argue much, because that would be akin to writing ``Hashes are voodoo, but where would we be without voodoo?''.
(asciilifeform) scoopbot: New post on A Syndication of Verisimilitudes: A Review of ``The Last Unicorn'' by Peter Beagle
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-08-15 14:40:25 signpost: upstack, verisimilitude, there's this consistent tone of infantile narcissism with you. I'm curious if you're aware of it.
(asciilifeform) signpost: upstack, verisimilitude, there's this consistent tone of infantile narcissism with you. I'm curious if you're aware of it.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-08-13 00:11:55 verisimilitude: Once perfect foundations are abandoned, it's a matter of risk.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: a reliable otp is in practice inaccessible to erryone but owners of FG or equivalent (i.e. auditable, unwhitened) tool
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: errything's a house of cards.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the twist is that all kindsa things necessarily rely on 'impossibility' of collision. incl. e.g. bitcoin.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: well, not 'nobody', lol
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the moar interesting question that the linked author did not ask, is whether other hash schemes could be shown to lack a loop state
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: why surprised ? asciilifeform has a great many boxes, for many uses, even a winblows box
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: pretense and organized lie goes with civilization just like smog and plague.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-08-08 17:34:07 verisimilitude: I vaguely remember my disappointment at realizing this so-called pandemic was fake, and not something which would kill hundreds of millions, perhaps leaving more room for me.
(asciilifeform) scoopbot: New post on A Syndication of Verisimilitudes: The Earliest English Elision Dictionary
(asciilifeform) PeterL: so yes, it is looking at http://verisimilitudes.net/rss.xml but the first thing listed is from last January
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-08-09 01:27:12 verisimilitude: Does scoopbot know me?
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: I'm about to go to bed, but did you ever pick up whitaker's words?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: all 100 $ of it, lolyes
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: i can tell, verisimilitude , that you also agree, otherwise would still be burning ants w/ magnifying glass, rather than tuned in here.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: only if novel.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-08-08 17:34:07 verisimilitude: I vaguely remember my disappointment at realizing this so-called pandemic was fake, and not something which would kill hundreds of millions, perhaps leaving more room for me.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i mean 'not at all', not even 'what's the weather?' level
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: possibly
(asciilifeform) adlai: verisimilitude: my guess is that you'll have better luck building Verisimilitude-Anonymouth, than elision for a live language; and I have no idea regarding e.g. 'modern standard arabic', 'francais a l'academie', etc
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: wb verisimilitude
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-08-08 17:36:58 verisimilitude: I need to write today, but I'm not certain what I should write about, and my work will disappoint me no matter what I do.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-08-01 00:11:02 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-07-29#1049331 https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: On that note, I'll link to my latest book review; despite the popular book, I think it turned out rather nice.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I'd like mine added as well, PeterL: http://verisimilitudes.net/rss.xml
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-05-19 15:09:34 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: fwiw my 'pine' is gathering dust. my patience ran out after 2 minutes of 'pushed key, but cursor moves 5s later'
(asciilifeform) shinohai: #lisp went over to libera, I believe verisimilitude said the Ada chan did too.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: whaack: chording kbd like verisimilitude's ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: could, y'know, also not keep 'bug' on desk, lol
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-07-12 22:03:40 verisimilitude: What I find amusing is how the standard for getting away with crime may eventually be ``The perpetrator wasn't carrying a cell phone.''.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: imagine for a moment -- they were to see. then what.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: it aint a 'server' seekoority feature.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-07-12 12:30:13 signpost: I rec to verisimilitude that he joins a martial arts dojo of some kind. fighting irl is terrible even if you "win"
(asciilifeform) signpost: I rec to verisimilitude that he joins a martial arts dojo of some kind. fighting irl is terrible even if you "win"
(asciilifeform) vex: verisimilitude, getting hit in the face is overated
(asciilifeform) punkman: verisimilitude: if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2021-07-11 18:48:37 signpost: verisimilitude: sounds like same story as mine. I was duped into padding the stats of a shitty state school with a fat stipend.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: lol not always ! (see reiser et al)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: do you recall n.tesla's grim prediction re 'society of the insects' ?
(asciilifeform) signpost: verisimilitude: sounds like same story as mine. I was duped into padding the stats of a shitty state school with a fat stipend.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: gregory4, verisimilitude : for lizard/jr.lizard offspring, school is for this ; for those of 'aspirationals', for mimicry of the latter; for those of workers -- to instill obedience ; for lumpens -- prison/warehouse.
(asciilifeform) gregory4: verisimilitude: if you scratch the surface slightly, the existence of Psychopaths, like that of aliens, was itself promoted by Establishment members.