ascii_field: take compulsory remote updates from usg ?
ascii_field: i followed the project for years largely on account of NOBODY-else-is-pissing-on-backwards-compat
ascii_field: 'In February 2003, the FBI assigned a team of FBI personnel --- "Team 10" -- to work full-time at the NSA to manage the FBI's participation in the program. Team 10's primary responsiblity was to disseminate PSP information through [censored] ECs to FBI field offices for investigative or other purposes. However, over time, Team 10 began to participate in the PSP in other ways. For example, Team 10 occasionally submitted
ascii_field: i just think it is grimly hilarious how everything we've spoken of here ~will~ be implemented in bastardized usg versions
ascii_field: 'For instance, bitcoin prevents double-spending with global mining costs in multiple dollars per transaction (as of 2015). Trusted transaction intermediation is an easily implemented service whose cost is a tiny fraction of this. And the transaction velocity of money is high; transactions in land are far more rare.'
ascii_field: 'A sufficiently smart optimizer doesn't need to optimize every Nock formula that could calculate a decrement function. It only needs to optimize one: the one we actually run. The only one we run is the one compiled from the decrement function ++dec in the Hoon standard library. So there's no sense in which our sufficiently smart optimizer needs to analyze Nock formulas to see if they're decrement formulas. It only needs
asciilifeform: 'This is not the first time the 32-year-old Mr. Shkreli, who has a reputation for both brilliance and brashness, has been the center of controversy. He started MSMB Capital, a hedge fund company, in his 20s and drew attention for urging the Food and Drug Administration not to approve certain drugs made by companies whose stock he was shorting.' << mega-l0l
asciilifeform: i assume it is an olympiad of one kind or another ?
asciilifeform: under (3) i also include that native compiler must support unix threading
asciilifeform: 1) type safety 2) MULTIPLE independent implementations 3) at least two NATIVE compilers exist 4) written international standard, preferably published on dead tree
asciilifeform: punkman: later i created a mechanism to measure only consumption from within the process proper, but i did not have time to turn this into a plot.
asciilifeform: btw there are misleading figures circulating re: 'size of the mempool today is 5MB' etc.
asciilifeform: 1) hard-limited, value-weighted tx mempool
asciilifeform: (and so simply ends up wasting time spent on reconnecting)
asciilifeform: ne who isn't relevant and knows it has an automatic grudge against you. Since CS research is quite competitive, evolution has its way, and relevance goes the way of the snake's legs.'
asciilifeform: st, by turning it into a form of mathematics. Math outcompetes creative programming in the funding process, simply because it appears to be more rigorous. It is more rigorous, and it generates a longer, deeper river of more impressive publications. And, because its area is nominally applied, it doesn't have to compete with the real mathematicians over in "algorithms," who would clean the bureaucrats' clocks in five minutes.'
asciilifeform: and what the fuck do people smoke that makes them release a compiler without tree shaking?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279879 << actually as far as i can tell it is ~worse~. the 'small binaries' are bytecode-compiled that runs SLOW AS FUCK ~and~ REQUIRED RUNTIME INSTALLED
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279842 << lulzy. for comparison, i picked up a (turned out, virginal (!!!)) ti-92plus for 25 usd.
asciilifeform: as in, the thing usg universities, 'ngo' complex, etc. finance.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it suddenly makes sense when you realize that they are not competing with bitcoin, but with 'bitcoin'
asciilifeform: aha, never saw those before in any sort of numbers outside university campus
asciilifeform: and yes, incompetence. i do not have the competences of mircea_popescu, this is not a seekrit.
asciilifeform: incidentally, usg imploded libya by vaguely promising 'mansions' - 'your crown-owned official mercedes will become yours! as will your crown-issued chicks!' etc
asciilifeform: i.e. exempt from all reg
asciilifeform: and, more importantly, why ?
asciilifeform: because i don't see the improvement.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278952 << is this meant as some kind of improvement on good ol' yacc ?
asciilifeform: fuck if i know of what. fingerprints, perhaps, or stool samples, or what.
asciilifeform: 'Foreign financial institutions require ex-US individuals to show them a CLN (or provide a "reasonable explanation" of why they do not have one) to comply with the exchange of information provisions of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and the various intergovernmental agreements the US has signed with foreign jurisdictions.' << ahahahahaha l0l!! pay $3k to get the privilege of using this other set of usg banks in
asciilifeform: phf: if you compile standalone that is
asciilifeform: mozart's sister, iirc, was a very passable player but never composed.
asciilifeform: and you get a kind of temporary storage tank
asciilifeform: the champ in re: fitsinhead appears to be, mega-unsurprisingly,
asciilifeform: for instance, i've been surveying implementations of standard ml
asciilifeform: my other objection is that the ~implementation~ usually ends up being ludicrously complex and not-at-all fitsinheady
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278910 << there is a good chunk that can be thrown out (things not implemented in classical gpg) but after this you still have a steaming pile of shit.
ascii_field: but never seriously contemplated by 'standards body' (no prized for saying why)
ascii_field: and the ultimate litmus test for whether a proposed security mechanism is usgistic: 'does this item INCREASE - or DECREASE - the amount of complexity present in the system, for which i must defer to someone's authority to determine whether it does what was promised ?'
ascii_field: anyone who proposes one, directly or by implication, is (whether he knows it or not) committing pseudointellectual flimflammery in the service of hitler.
ascii_field: understand, i have no objection to tools such as computerized theorem-proving, data flow analysis, etc. except in that these are put forward as ~substitutes for fits-in-head simplicity~.
ascii_field: and yes, i guess, being concerned with the number of intellectual 'cpu cycles' needed to fully grasp the ~implementation~ of the language and the machine under it - makes me a t3rr0r1st11111
ascii_field: my other problem is that i have not yet found an implementation of ml language that fits-in-head.
ascii_field: this is fundamentally an example of what i was talking about.
ascii_field: accompanied by unsubstantiated claims of 'equivalence' between long rsa and short ecc key 'hardnesses'
ascii_field: program verification is 1) provably unsolvable in the general case 2) to the extent it adds complexity and overall logical mass and subtracts from fit-in-head-ability, it is ~an evil~
ascii_field: no but the basic idea of turning a high-level message into incomprehensible ground beef
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278246 << this ~has~ to be some kind of disinfo. it seems impossible, like hearing about a demolished skyscraper un-exploding, an egg un-breaking and picking itself up from the kitchen floor and sliding back into the chicken
ascii_field: 'Still, when a complete, condemnable dump is on the market for a third of a million dollars, it’s clear that money has lost all meaning.'
ascii_field: (xerox is the true unsung hero-to-zero story of usa - for fucks sake they had the interactive graphical computer before anyone else)
asciilifeform: Each and every time someone in the Computer Science field has a Bright Idea, the world had better be prepared to adapt, because Here Comes Genius and everything everybody has done needs to be done differently from now on, because This Genius Knows Best. Gratuitous re-invention is very appealing to some people. It means that they do not have to cope with anybody else's ideas. They may hope to garner support behind them, but th
asciilifeform: this will happen, for example, when we finally... add a file
asciilifeform: a good chunk of these is, likely, attempts at massage
asciilifeform: fwiw, my brother, who did not see a computer until adulthood, has perfect vision.
asciilifeform: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2015/09/16/a-clock-is-not-a-bomb-ahmeds-arrest-and-why-we-cant-have-nice-things
ascii_field: comparing the options available to capone or even tito, to the meagre existence of random schmuck, is also disingenuous.
ascii_field: and comparing the equivalent of shooting yourself in the head to cleaning a car is disingenuous, at least.
ascii_field: no implication, even, of normal service for more $
asciilifeform: one would have to either steal the datasheet somewhere, or empirically (!) reverse the thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a compromised key generator would've been classier
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276226 << anyone else puzzled re: the total lack of mention of the author of the implant (usg) ?
asciilifeform: actually that korean piece of shit is ~the~ implementation of 'respeto por el trabajador'
asciilifeform: and the proof is an impossibility.
asciilifeform: recoil-dampener aha
asciilifeform: what, evil empire can't afford 100GB/s forever ?
asciilifeform: -- 'jump up twenty metres and scatter yourself around.'
asciilifeform: sure. let's see who if anyone complains.
asciilifeform: thing is, imho world is not made of us and of derps, or rather it ~is~ but rather like a mountain of lamproite
ascii_field: sometimes, not then, either (how many people are publicly hosting the hackteam dump ?)
ascii_field: i had the thought once that gossipd would make this item quite trivial to implement
ascii_field: srsly, is it an impossibility to have a 'cryptome'-like site run by thinking folks ?
ascii_field: where is the evidence that the author of this message ever possessed the keys claimed as compromised ?
ascii_field: and as i stand in the impalement queue, yes, i might agree
ascii_field: only forward flow, for example
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: np-complete does not mean unsolvable ! just means that not solvable efficiently if the data set is at all large
ascii_field: mats: how often do your friends get physically replaced with impostors ?
ascii_field: in this example, i'm just an earthworm. watching.
ascii_field: williamdunne: thread in question was about the impossibility of selling exploits
ascii_field: they are rescued by the complete lack of any consequences for story which does not hang together (e.g., '9/11' details, or the 'how they found ulbricht' story, etc)
ascii_field: he set the mega-example for others to follow.
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: biology is terrible example here
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1274711 << naggum ~had~ something like #b-a - comp.lang.lisp. very similar mix of brain.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1274669 << see old thread where i compared chipmaking to satellite launch. they are very similar activities, in having unpredictable, largely unpreventable, and very high failure rate.
asciilifeform: ram is deadly simple.
asciilifeform: buttocks to join in holy matrimony. But the Supreme Court seems game for such tweaks, and, as an added benefit, when time comes for Mr. Trump to divorce (as it invariably has), the Pope would be only too happy to annul such a union.'
asciilifeform: oesn't amount to muchbut, more specifically, her amazing ass. She has a stunning derrière that I am sure will make America feel proud again. Further, I propose that Trump marry her ass, and make a sort of national royal ass-family. She'd be the Vice-Prezz and the First Lady-Asskilling two birds with one ass, if you will! Yes, it would require another tweak to the marriage laws to make it possible for a man and a woman's
asciilifeform: ''So here are five perfectly good reasons why Trump would make one fine Prezz. But he needs a running mate. Now, wouldn't it be a fine thing to have a woman Vice-Prezz? It's been two election cycles since a spectacularly dumb bimboSarah Palincame within a few percentage points of the Vice-Prezzidency; maybe it's time to try again. And so I propose Kim Kardashian as Trump's running mate. Not Kim Kardashian herselfshe d
asciilifeform: let's work a small example
asciilifeform: the hard part is to make something that is a meaningful improvement in more than a strictly-hygienic sense
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mod6 therealbitcoin www points out, correctly, that certain patches (e.g., asciilifeform_tx-orphanage_amputation.patch) are considered experimental; but asciilifeform_maxint_locks_corrected.patch is pretty much mandatory - node will not sync without it, afaik.
ascii_field: 'nocrypto uses bits of C, similarly to other cryptographic libraries written in high-level languages. This was actually less of a performance concern, and more of a security one: for the low-level primitives which are tricky to implement and for which known, compact and widely used code already exists, the implementation is probably better reused. The major pitfall we hoped to avoid that way are side-channel attacks.' <<
ascii_field: if you can't verify a block in <10min GUARANTEED you don't have a computer.
ascii_field: 'He continued: “I know of two instances where people on metered connections went over their data cap for August because of this unwanted download. My own internet (slow DSL) was crawling for a week or so until I discovered this problem. In fact, that’s what led me to it. Not only does it download, it tries to install every time the computer is booted.”'
ascii_field: MICROSOFT HAS CONFIRMED that Windows 10 is being downloaded to computers whether or not users have opted in.
ascii_field: 'MICROSOFT HAS CONFIRMED that Windows 10 is being downloaded to computers whether or not users have opted in.
ascii_field: to be completed some time 20 years from now, if things go well.
ascii_field: attempting to address the kernel bloat without somehow magicking this away, is idiocy.
ascii_field: trinque: if it cannot compile emacs without building 'dbus', then it can GO TO HELL
ascii_field: HENCE my almost life-long interest in 'computer algebra' machinery.
ascii_field: this, incidentally, is ~the~ bar for formalization. IFF you can do it on a computer, then ~possibly~ you really have a formal handle on the mechanics. but NOT before then.
ascii_field: and it wasn't usg in particular, but industrial slave empires in general
ascii_field: kakobrekla: mircea_popescu's implication was that it ought to be a sane continuation of what gentoo once was (a linux for literate folks to use)
ascii_field: why would anyone use 'symphony' chat thing after this... ?
ascii_field: '"To address cyber-security concerns, we ensure that all your conversations are transmitted in encrypted form," he wrote. "The key is that we do this without compromising ease of use and content discovery." As we now know, at least part of that "content discovery" now includes investitgators' searching for evidence of malfeasance.'
asciilifeform: trinque: it isn't really a computer until this is so.
asciilifeform: this is the difference between the typesetter component in 'concordia' and latex
asciilifeform: n encryption (to use stronger encryption in many areas, such as AES-loop, you needed to compile your own kernel and go to great lengths to manually bypass barriers they put in place to the use of genuinely strong encryption)....'
asciilifeform: actually i'd prefer ~no~ employment and just a dirigible full of money.
asciilifeform: the implication is that man does not live by bread alone (tm)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-09-2015#1273136 << the implication, unless i am mistaken, is that i ought to go to tanzania, mongolia, wherever, to avoid being shot in the head. but what do i need not-being-shot-in-the-head for, in tanzania ?
asciilifeform: 'Pick your favorite expression that is zero but not easily simplified to zero by the CAS. Then divide by this zero and deduce all kinds of absurdities.'
asciilifeform: (re: 'derive' & friends. from http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/348809/computer-algebra-how-does-the-ti-89-do-it )
asciilifeform: e to attempting to match the TI-89's level of automation. The fact that Mathematica, Sage, etc. also will not perform these simplifications without a 'hint' makes me feel a little better, but the question remains: How on earth did the TI engineers manage to do this with literally a tiny, tiny fraction of the computing power a desktop has?'
asciilifeform: 'In my own CAS development experience, I've found it nearly impossible to do what the TI-89 does, that is, automatically perform these simplifications without wrapping them in a 'hint' function. I've found that both in terms of computational cost, and in pure software engineering difficulty, this is basically impossible to do. Every CAS I've ever built has involved horrendous debugging of infinite recursion and similar bugs du
asciilifeform: 'air' is a dream to open compared to the old g4 'powerbooks' where you needed a spudger
asciilifeform: was revolted when saw a smarmy and profoundly cocksucking pamphlet advertising a general patton memorial.
asciilifeform: but disobeying a written order is one of the few simple ways.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it does not. now, granted, in some states (e.g. maryland) it is very difficult for the employer to prove 'fired for cause'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: when i worked, briefly, for a megacorp (it bought the little outfit i was in at the time) we were moved to a virtually EMPTY building, placed - all two dozen of us - in the middle of an EMPTY floor, having forty or so proper door-closey offices, and a flunkie was sent JUST TO WATCH THAT NO ONE MOVED INTO THEM
asciilifeform: very sharp emphasis on this in jp
asciilifeform: if ca were to drown overnight, it could extend the empire's lease on life by many years...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i said 'does not cleanly compile', that is, requires a runtime component, rather than 'does not compile'
asciilifeform: have capitulated. (or this is implied, i have not asked them why it is 'part of gnu project)
asciilifeform: scheme with continuations (call-with-current-continuation aka call/cc) doesn't cleanly compile to the c-machine.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'just in time' compilator is something like a memoized interpreter, yes.
asciilifeform: (or i suppose 'jit'-compiled in recent versions)
asciilifeform: like the 'implicit variable'
asciilifeform: and perhaps now mircea_popescu figured out how i got on my 'computer algebra' kick in recent months.
asciilifeform: phf: that is because employment in usa is a 'dominance game' first and useful work second.
asciilifeform: oliver heaviside wrote cryptically of the important life-cycle step of 'earning one's worm'
asciilifeform: *compaints
asciilifeform: phf: didja miss the part where he lives in brazil and has to fight off complains from little gurlz who NEED their straight-A marks ?
asciilifeform: trinque: competition for what?
asciilifeform: a gigantic stone on which you can build a skyscraper also 'handles great organizational complexity'
asciilifeform: trinque: and THAT is why no one has rebuilt computing.
asciilifeform: 'All of this "code sharing" is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need. As soon as the need arises, a lot of people discover that it has cost them real money to work for the community and they reap very little benefit from it, because they are sharing value-less services and getting value out of something that people take for granted is hard to impossible.'
asciilifeform: '(2) Significant or Highly Sensitive Matters. A development or circumstance involving an intelligence activity or intelligence personnel that could impugn the reputation or integrity of the DoD Intelligence Community or otherwise call into question the propriety of an intelligence activity. Such matters might be manifested in or by an activity...'
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271218 << eventually they will cut their losses and demolish. but not yet, because the empties are a kind of bezzle of their own. ftr a good fraction of the town where i live consists of recently built and almost wholly empty dwellings.
asciilifeform: http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/05/22/temple-physics-chair-charged-with-passing-tech-to-china << has the indictment.
asciilifeform: http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/09/11/temple-professor-charges-dropped << has the document
ascii_field: shinohai: some insurance companies will not officially recognize the fact of theft, vandalism, etc. without a police case #
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270419 << this leads to one neglected unix script tool which one could easily implement 'v' in a few lines - 'gnu make' !
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270266 << if you want your employees to fight to the death, yes, throw in the chix
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270165 << and if every man, woman, child, dog, cat, in china, got on a stool and jumped at once...
asciilifeform: it is important to know why items such as picolisp and mulisp exist - compactness. (and to a lesser extent, 'fits in head'.)
asciilifeform: come on folks, compilation is not magic.
asciilifeform: e.g., the very same mulisp discussed in the 'derive.exe' thread; 'dream' (x86 and later x86_64 scheme implementation;) and others
asciilifeform: b) plenty of lisps, of various descriptions, mainly but not exclusively 'scheme' implementations, written in 100% asm from the ground
asciilifeform: 2) sbcl and other adult commonlisps a) use c version for bootstrapping, which is to say, compiling self to a legit 100% self-shat executable --- but they will link with libc for unix terminal i/o, sockets, etc
asciilifeform: not impossible. merely improbable. esp. if it is not directly what they are paid for.
asciilifeform: impressive, what they fit in there, no ?
asciilifeform: http://web.alfredstate.edu/quagliato/ti92/tialg/IMG00044.GIF << compositor of functions.
asciilifeform: complete with the 3d grapher thing
asciilifeform: i regard it as the mark of a thinking man's computer
ascii_field: jurov: it ended with me scouring several GB of packet dump for the tx and not finding it
ascii_field: (simple html)
ascii_field: the thing to understand is that 'hardware gosspid' nodes would form an impenetrable skin around a p2p sane internet.
ascii_field: simply means that the enemy needs to spend three minutes adjusting his shit cannon
ascii_field: complete with magical cards
ascii_field: trinque: why not simply throw trunks of benjies at the enemy, aha
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the 'checkpoint' thing is actually useless as implemented now, it merely skips verification for the listed blocks
asciilifeform: i mean, how does this work? they were in comparty and now have nothing to do ?
asciilifeform: if you try to implement 'sane subset' (and which would that be?) you end up able to view sites that work fine in lynx anyway - and not much else
asciilifeform: but if you want to have, e.g., an operating room, it is important that it does not ~end~ there.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267539 << again with the miasma theory. ~yes~ the swamp sucks to live in. yes, you get malaria and die. but it is not because of the swamp gas.
asciilifeform: punkman: text compresses well.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267767 << this is a CATASTROPHICALLY bad idea, because any attempt is simply asking for self-delusionary masamunification (sorry gabriel_laddel, but you know precisely what i mean.) -- this being, 'aha this is a turd, but WE made it and therefore doesn't stink and is somehow edible'
asciilifeform: everyone uses 'half-baked, bug-ridden implementation' of wot. even idiots. the idiot version of wot for email is, roughly, 'reject all messages not coming from u.s. fortune-500 corp domains.'
asciilifeform: programming a computer is not building pyramid, there is no legitimate role for brute muscle.
asciilifeform: if your project demands human compilers, your project is retarded.
asciilifeform: but in the case of the latter ('dejanews') there never WAS any competition
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267355 << what is 'sane browser' ? if it is simply 'loads text', then mircea_popescu has it, run 'curl' ! but noooooo, you wanna read new york birdcage liner, aha ? then you're stuck with the shit soup, sorry.
asciilifeform: most of the 'small languages' on a unix box are 'glue'. you don't need glue on a sane computer.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267236 << the path to fits-in-head STRICTLY depends on every particular thing on the machine being implemented ONCE. this includes lexer, parser, related items.
asciilifeform: i will add that it is not actually easy to write a useful computeralgebratron.
asciilifeform: mulisp has an interestingly forth-like self-mod compiler
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: microshit has not improved a single thing it touched, from z80 rom basic, xenix, msdos (yes), to this day
asciilifeform: mats: nope. so i jump to somewhere that has the prologue. solved.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if i had to guess, would say that it checks for a standard prologue before jumping to the return addr found on stack
asciilifeform: demented, extraordinary irresponsible chimp ?
asciilifeform: got thousands of willing chumps
asciilifeform: 'The FBIs theatrical professions of regret over Vickis death belied the fact that the battalion of combat-outfitted law enforcement personnel on the scene at Ruby Ridge celebrated the killing as a noble victory: With full knowledge that Mrs. Weaver was dead, they named their staging area Camp Vicki, and used a public address system to taunt Randy and his by pretending to speak on behalf of his dead wife.'
asciilifeform: 'Horiuchis comrades offered the same defense of the FBI snipers murderous actions at Ruby Ridge. By killing Vicki, he acted to save lives, insisted fellow FBI sniper Dale Monroe. Like the unnamed Iraqi woman, Vicki must be regarded as a hateful, irrational, marginally human creature who simply didnt understand that when the Empire makes a proprietary claim on you and your family, it is not only a crime but a sin
asciilifeform: lon horiuchi, for example, is a free man.
asciilifeform: http://www.sigsam.org/bulletin/articles/178/stoutemyer.pdf << again, for anyone who missed this, and is interested in 'derive' or 'mulisp'. this article was co-written by the authors of mulisp and derive! chock-full of implementation details and interesting lore. and yes, it is in pdf. and no, it cannot be represented in ascii. fuckyou buy a printer.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall that rms began long before 'personal' variety of computer was worth a sparrow's fart.
asciilifeform: yes, it puts out bright light, other things almost impossible to see next to it.
asciilifeform: of the human compiler variety - yes.
asciilifeform: emphasis on 'dust'
asciilifeform: having a job history (and if you paid tax, it is impossible to conceal) counts against you.
asciilifeform: can get 'food stamps' more often, but need multiple years of tax returns demonstrating being a pauper, typically
asciilifeform: of becoming furnace stokers and night watchmen instead of engineers, as per the su example.
asciilifeform: as per the su example
ascii_field: ;;later tell gabriel_laddel http://www.sigsam.org/bulletin/articles/178/stoutemyer.pdf << some actual implementation details re: 'derive' & 'mulisp'
ascii_field: at he wanted to do. The Apple II computer, by the way, was the only successful product Apple had for its first 10 years, and it was all done, for my own reasons for myself, before Steve Jobs even knew it existed.'
ascii_field: 'Steve Jobs played no role at all in any of my designs of the Apple I and Apple II computer and printer interfaces and serial interfaces and floppy disks and stuff that I made to enhance the computers. He did not know technology. He’d never designed anything as a hardware engineer, and he didn’t know software. He wanted to be important, and the important people are always the business people. So that’s wh
ascii_field: classic example of this algo being what happened with the '9-11 truth' folks.
ascii_field: as for turning those cops loose, it is part of http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=02-09-2015#1259456 campaign.
ascii_field: but quite impossible to turn 10c into 20c.
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: see my ancient review of mpex for instance.
ascii_field: terrible example
ascii_field: the real enabler is usg, of course, because not just anyone gets to harvest the chump armies.
ascii_field: 'Diverse Double-Compiling' << little problem here. THERE IS ONLY ONE C COMPILER worth a cow's fart
asciilifeform: 'For example, there is the refugee problem, which seems to be affecting all the countries that bombed, invaded or otherwise disrupted the countries that are now causing the refugee crisis. It never seemed to dawn on the highly compensated eurocratic morons that helping the US empire to destroy Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen, and sow chaos all over the Middle East would result in a torrent of humans deluging their sh
asciilifeform: and for the predictable game of hopscotch through various 'voluntary', 'voluntary-compulsory', finally compulsory belt-tightenings
asciilifeform: i have been getting increasingly frequent telephone spam from electric co., offering to cut my rates in exchange for a (for now, voluntary!) remote disable on my air conditioner compressor. it is hilariously insulting. why won't they just mail me a vial of cyanide, also 'voluntary' ?
asciilifeform: trinque: if you cannot understand this, i am probably wasting space here attempting to explain it.
asciilifeform: it was a kind of theme park of not-feeling-cramped
asciilifeform: i now understand why chinese emperors (and american industrialists) built them!
asciilifeform: i think the 'cramped' actually made it appealing to my inner submariner
asciilifeform: possibly one of the worst company www i have ever seen.
asciilifeform: http://www.omansion.com << very spammy www, if i learned of it from www instead of wandering in, would not have even contemplated setting foot near it
asciilifeform: house of 19th c. mega-imperial somebody, turned into a museum-cum-whore-hotel
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-09-2015#1264658 << omitted important elements, the zombie city and the celestial horde.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1264422 << completely useless for anything but static html. it simply happens to be where my site lives
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1264205 << win. where do i buy a ticket to the public impalement of the 'best practices' folks ?
asciilifeform: andychase: this pointedly does not include adding any subcomponent where gavin, hearn, & co had any say in making.
asciilifeform: banners is simply a table of what was signed by whom.
asciilifeform: let's say it weren't. then ' ./v.py w ' prints wot ? but this is broken. because what if 'w' is my patch dir, and i simply forgot to include the second arg.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: use the cross-compilator instructions from my pogotron recipe
asciilifeform: it simply did not happen to be very high
ascii_modem: unless mp gets here first
asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/attachments/20150904/florianweimer_cfc8c951caf6f5369c6421759f0113527f5f5fa0.fuckeveryonewhowaseverinvolvedincomputersyouarethereasonthingsuckihopeyougetcanceranddie << worked also.
asciilifeform: trivially, it is impossible to have a thing like what i am making now, where the sig is not uploaded first
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was all the more frustrating to me because 1) i suggested it 2) couldn't think of any genuine improvement
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hexdump -C foo1 > foo1.hex; hexdump -C foo2 > foo2.hex; diff foo1.hex foo2.hex
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-August/000145.html << good example of how to use turdatron. click on the links to see each of the three attachments verbatim.
ascii_modem: usg empowers scum as deliberate policy.
ascii_field: or, hell, clamps for a 'claymore'
ascii_field: one example of 'military' feature would be, say, guidance via laser (or something else the opponent can't jam with $5 of components)
ascii_field: 'Some servers occasionally or consistently produce ServerKeyExchange messages which contain RSA signatures which are zero. Encoding of the number zero varied. In some cases, zero or one bytes were transmitted. Sometimes the length of the signature matched the size of the RSA modulus. The latter suggests that the server implementation may have omitted the copy of the computed signature. This could happen if RSA-CRT
ascii_field: 'We observed one rather peculiar factorization of a RSA modulus, involving factor 23. What happened was that the public key in the X.509 certificate was corrupted in some (there was a bit flip, according to the server operator), and equation (1) accidentally revealed the factor 23. The corrupted modulus had other small factors, too, and a large composite factor with an unknown factorization.'
ascii_field: running Simple Exec (SE-S) applications
ascii_field: perl was the only serious candidate, and if ben_vulpes would like to attempt a cleaner version (!) in it, i'm all ears.
asciilifeform: usg is a planetary infestation, 'kicked out' is really a feeble and temporary thing.
asciilifeform had an interesting dream as he slept. dreamt that he had occasion, for some reason, to call the cops. they came, and instead of registering whatever complaint (something involving cars) began to fill up his house, room by room, until seemingly no more could fit, but continued to pack, pack, until walls began to crack under the sheer pressure of meat
asciilifeform: l0k i'm a chump.
asciilifeform: 'Three journalists working with Vice News have been charged with "engaging in terrorist activity" on behalf of ISIL (ISIS), because one of them used encryption software. A Turkish official told Al Jazeera: "The main issue seems to be that the [journalists'] fixer uses a complex encryption system on his personal computer that a lot of ISIL militants also utilise for strategic communications."'
asciilifeform: is this where we do the 2013 thread re: whether a fully-knowable computing machine is possible, all over again ?
asciilifeform: brain is not the gold standard, aha. there is a reason why 'mentats' are creatures of imagination and we compute with machines whenever the least bit possible.
ascii_field: at the same time i ~would~ like a >300 dpi screen on real computer
ascii_field: tiny more from the fact that it compresses so well
ascii_field: this is not because ebay is a great thing, but because it has killed everything else remotely comparable.
ascii_field: full of supposedly-tolerable 'minor imperfections' like most opensource garbage
ascii_field: thing is, i like doing things away from computer.
ascii_field: phf: it is better to use a really good computer proggy, like 'derive', than a shit calculator
ascii_field: phun phakt: in recent year or so, 'paypal' will simply sit on a transaction for three weeks, collecting interest from the money.