mircea_popescu: whole buildings of type 3 still exist here, unmolested since the 60s
asciilifeform: though oddly enough, the hovels where i lived as a student were old enough to have proper ceilings !
mircea_popescu: 2 types of bum : he who lives in hovel where can see the stars through the ceiling, and he who lives in hovel where can touch the ceiling.
mircea_popescu: all mine are ceramic. also my ceilings went from the standard 2.3 to the rarer 2.85 sometime long ago. turns out - also quite addictive.
asciilifeform: american houses are the architectural mcdonalds, cramped, uncomfortable cardboard crematoria waiting to ignite
mircea_popescu: anyway, i fgind the converse to be true, proper lights quite addictive.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: not practical to put a 200w-dissipating fixture on a ceiling already so low mircea_popescu would scratch the top of his dome if he came to my house
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> the other thing about these lamps is that (at least i find) they are addictive -- after stuffing 2 100w-imitators into a fixture that cannot physically hold 2 100w edison bulbs without catching fire, it is painful to go back << Just get new porcelain fixture. 150 to 300 Watt edisons are still available
a111: Logged on 2017-01-05 11:58 gabriel_laddel_p: In any case, the answer is no.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-05#1597045 << nah was just evaluating an idea ; meanwhile the guy http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-05#1596994 so ima just let it be.
asciilifeform: the other thing about these lamps is that (at least i find) they are addictive -- after stuffing 2 100w-imitators into a fixture that cannot physically hold 2 100w edison bulbs without catching fire, it is painful to go back
asciilifeform: (they are not, before anyone asks, +ev to fix at home, you will not get the tin can with the heat sink closed to anything like the shape you want it to be to fit in any fixture)
asciilifeform: one reason is that the chumps often submit'em, for free, for 'recycle', and the lamp house gets to sell ~same motherfucking lamp N times
ben_vulpes: "hey, the LEDs last forever kid!"
asciilifeform: it's ~never the led
asciilifeform: at the very least, to sow fud
asciilifeform: (leaving entirely aside the validity of a burrowing animal as a model for blindness via overexposure to ~whatever~ wavelength of light)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: possibly because if you were to measure how much uv got pumped into the rat eyes, the 'blue poison' thing evaporates
ben_vulpes: what is going on in their heads...
ben_vulpes: i suppose because if a thing cannot be claimed about the research lab's pet topics, it is not worth publishing?
asciilifeform: oh and, if there was mention of uv cataract signs on the rats' corneas, i missed it...
pete_dushenski: podesta et al. might even have what it ~took~ to run the world of their formative years, but meanwhile time marched on and they've now wandered far, far from home. similarly, god help the lot of us in 30-40 years. don't forget just how old these team clitler fogies are either.
asciilifeform: then went 'holy fuq'
asciilifeform: (if i missed a 'and we had ~0-uvpermeability glass in front of the rat cage...' plz correct me...)
asciilifeform: aaaa guess what ain't in there
asciilifeform: with ~blue~ ? brighter blue from lamp than from the sun? really, srs?
phf: it's safe to save 66.35.48.19 for glyf.org, it's been the same ip for the past 10 years or so. in fact, assuming this is not some weird overflow issue, today is a birthday on glyf.org machine. 2048 days uptime
diana_coman: asciilifeform, iirc there was a clog thing that was just one header - quite basic though and I have no idea in what state it is currently (i.e. whether of any use really)
trinque: rather than having it manage own logs
asciilifeform: i am specifically uninterested in 'zlog' or any other automake rubbish.
ben_vulpes: and in other faceless women: http://68.media.tumblr.com/03e68a7063687a68e1321b2129a02ac1/tumblr_ojb3iqgp6y1rxaxgfo1_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: in other lulz: https://en.wikichip.org/w/images/2/27/kaby_lake_%28dual_core%29_%28annotated%29.png << nsa core fully ~1/4..~1/2 of the die!?
ben_vulpes: hey could i beg a translation of the forum?
a111: Logged on 2017-01-04 22:46 ben_vulpes: https://blog.medium.com/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be#.8gsm40qwc << "we have no fucking idea how to make money from livejournal in 2017, but that's not going to stop us from lighting our investor's capital on fire and warming ourselves in front of it while lamenting the capitalist system!"
mircea_popescu: and in other modern art, http://68.media.tumblr.com/c3a9f3a638093cc83be9d4c07b23e3fe/tumblr_o2bscuWbtH1rg2eiao1_1280.jpg
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-05#1596792 << spiffy as hell phf i very much wanted this the other night
ben_vulpes: aok there we go
mod6: yeah, i did get a chance to skim the PHP, but not much else yet.
asciilifeform behind schedule on earlier $items, sadly did not have time to further massage subj
mircea_popescu is writing up the fabulous hash function just in case.
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/01/05/a-quick-trick-to-save-medium-articles-before-they-go-bye-bye/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - A quick trick to save Medium articles before they go bye-bye.
mircea_popescu: at least they won't be helping anyone with javascript.
mircea_popescu: preferably, someone called antron / big lurch. thrice. and i hope he's stuck raising the offspring, like that bill de blasio idiot.
mircea_popescu: "James Mickens is a researcher in the Distributed Systems group at Microsofts Redmond lab. His current research focuses on web applications, with an emphasis on the design of JavaScript frameworks that allow developers to diagnose and fix bugs in widely deployed web applications." << i hope someone seduced his spouse
Framedragger: that handwritten card looks rather lovely i must say
Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-04#1596442 << haha! :) haven't heard of it (if you mean the tea brand). gift looks nice - hopefully there's actual proper .lt honey in it (if so - ftw / gonna be a treat). dunno what the odds for that are tho.
gabriel_laddel_p: In any case, the answer is no.
gabriel_laddel_p: mircea_popescu: I had previously sent you all the required information via PM. Perhaps my connection was (silently) dropped prior.
Framedragger: medium: "However, in building out this model, we realized we didn’t yet have the right solution to the big question of driving payment for quality content." ahahahahaa another startup realizes that this exotic nuance of balance sheet called REVENUE cannot be simply california-sun-wished-away
asciilifeform ponders the puzzler
mircea_popescu: "helped make medium what it is today" ? what the everloving fuck IS it, an upstart hoping to one day be a #trilema log ? whoa!
mircea_popescu: davout the notion that those fucktards thought at any point they're employing 150 people...
trinque: http://www.livescience.com/57373-52-countries-ban-spanking-france.html << meanwhile, france bans beating one's kids (impotently, apparently..), citing research showing "they weren't that good at it anyway"
asciilifeform: '“Abu Muhammed Horasani” managed to escape from Reina by covering himself in his victims’ blood and used a taxi to escape the murder scene.' lolwat
asciilifeform: (if the mega-fat folx can successfully wheedle 'right to' 2nd seat for phreee, why not RIGHT TO charter plane???)
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo dude this elliot. SO.LONG. why the fuck are all the retards so fucking longwinded. << Well this one's in England, and Tall, and not yet known to be An Hero
asciilifeform: (whole thing a riot. 'the slow winter', j. mickens)
asciilifeform: '... You go to work hung-over, and you realize that, during a drunken conference call, you told your boss that your processor has 32 registers when it only has 8, but then you realize THAT YOU CAN TOTALLY LIE ABOUT THE NUMBER OF PHYSICAL REGISTERS, and you invent a crazy hardware mapping scheme from virtual registers to physical ones, and at this point, you start seducing the spouses of the compiler team...'
asciilifeform: register containing the branch’s recent branching history, because in those days, you could XOR anything with anything and get something useful...'
asciilifeform: never work, but then you’d test it and it would be 94% accurate, and the branches would wake up the next morning and read their newspapers and the headlines would say OUR WORLD HAS BEEN SET ON FIRE. You’d give your buddy a high-five and go celebrate at the bar, and then you’d think, “I wonder if we can make branch predictors even more accurate,” and the next day you’d start XOR’ing the branch’s PC address with a shift
asciilifeform: 'I think that it used to be fun to be a hardware architect. Anything that you invented would be amazing, and the laws of physics were actively trying to help you succeed. Your friend would say, “I wish that we could predict branches more accurately,” and you’d think, “maybe we can leverage three bits of state per branch to implement a simple saturating counter,” and you’d laugh and declare that such a stupid scheme would
asciilifeform: in other lulz,
trinque: https://archive.is/BH36k << ahaha, having expended ~all~ other avenues (on reddit), he's reached the end (on reddit)
trinque: the way this guy pleads about being desperate reminds me of the elliot (named eli, even) in There Will Be Blood.
mircea_popescu: in other assisted-insemination news, http://68.media.tumblr.com/816ef98fc0f1a62b61d32aa82d09e041/tumblr_o959iavVvq1vs4rsbo1_1280.jpg
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo dude this elliot. SO.LONG. why the fuck are all the retards so fucking longwinded.
adlai: or a range, so that when i have slaves, i can figure out how much time it'll take them to find the needle
mircea_popescu: lmao. the effort this guy puts into trying to look like he belongs here.
adlai: superstition ain't the way (tm) s (r)
asciilifeform: btw there was more than one documented case of such clinic being precisely that kind of op
BingoBoingo: That genetic experment used to cost a nickle at the drive in
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that you don't know is exactly the point, now isn't it. not so dumb after all.
mircea_popescu: also the reason noobs can't write literature is because they imagine description needs to be exhaustive. so their prose turns tedious and then unreadable.
adlai: and your father smelled of elderberries!
mircea_popescu: no, it is not. for one thing - it's how you're here in the first place.
mircea_popescu: besides - i thought lisp convention was "oh, our parens are just \n and indentation so nm, just take them out"
adlai: asciilifeform: the point of paredit vs teco is so that, specifically when diffing lisp source, reindentation can be elided, and unexpected indentation can be specified relative to standard
asciilifeform: encoder ought to be aware that it shat a weight of encoderola ~equal to the fucking payload
adlai: the algo, yeah. it's o(more)
mircea_popescu: i could read eight lines in the time it takes me to go 3 chars/second with this shit
mircea_popescu: this has little to do with thief and much to do with the social strategy.
mircea_popescu: famous russian gun commentator guy explains this cannonicaly, imo. "thief - wants to get loot. not to die with you there."
asciilifeform: there is a famous case of red army d00d who killed dozen+ germans with axe.
asciilifeform: (when it doesn't work, there is usually nobody nearby with a pen, to document..)
asciilifeform: then not so coward
mircea_popescu: i dunno what you ended up believing about black doods because that lisa kudrow imbecile told you, but they're exactly like gypsies in ru : cowardly, and inept.
mircea_popescu: no, they don't.
mircea_popescu: once that appears, the usg as you know it goes away.
asciilifeform: eh the black d00dz returnfire
mircea_popescu: it has EVERYTHING to do with the absence of a 2-3% minority which returns fire.
mircea_popescu: in any case - the fact that the us police state still exists has nothing to do with 80% of the citizenry being happy to take it up the ass at airport ; or 90%, or 95%.
asciilifeform: didn't help the armenians, iirc
mircea_popescu: but that is WHY they failed. in order for intransigent minority to ruin majority rule, it must be diffused.
mircea_popescu: entirely besides the point.
asciilifeform: these weren't urban dissolved-gypos
asciilifeform: why not? the protagonists held territory (in some cases, whole village)
asciilifeform: and the latvian equiv.
mircea_popescu: the moment the workers got ~even a little~ more unruly, prussian kingdom said its goodbyes to history.
mircea_popescu: without that - no stalinism. it's not as if stalin is given, and if leningrad DID oppose resistence then stalin'd have landed the ufos. stalin had no ufos. in fact, had barely rifle.
mircea_popescu: the fact that leningrad was willing to split in two and one half hold at knifepoint the other WHILE THE OTHER OPPOSED NO RESISTENCE is the sine qua non condition of stalinism.
asciilifeform: at any rate this is a stretch, most of the executed folk are no kind of desperado, have 0 weapon bigger than a fork
mircea_popescu: doubtful. there's a runaway exponential there, the sheeple state can only be maintained if sheeple.
asciilifeform: (i predict: instead of door busting, they will simply do pre-dawn demolition charges from all sides, presto, 0 evidence)
BingoBoingo: "However, the plan would render the mortgage break useless for millions of families by roughly doubling the standard deduction available to all taxpayers, from $12,600 to $24,000 for a married couple." << And In law compliant WAPO land this is somehow "bad"! Oh noes, poor people not incentivized to play landholding!
asciilifeform: iirc 'malcolm x' was executed in precisely the way described tho.
asciilifeform: i actually have insufficient data, after rejecting the available report as disinfo.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we had similar case right in this shithole town, victim was spared (though not his animals) only because he turned out to be... the mayor
adlai can imagine the scene: dude is holding xbox^Hw with one hand, pnoJ3 in the other; hears lawyer, raises hand, unwittingly SBCs
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform on the basis of extant reports, not so.
adlai: dude was dangerous, he'd already been visited by cops in the past! (for, uh... growing too much grass, and i don't mean the happy kind)
asciilifeform: they knock down door of d00d known to 'will shoot intruders' and of course machine gun barrage after he stumbles out of bed with old 12ga etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in usa 'raid' is specifically a 'kick the dig until it bites, then shoot it' exterminator tactic against would-be cop shooters
BingoBoingo: TLDR - Raising the "standard deduction" apparently hurts poor people in Bizarro WAPO logic https://archive.is/XvAyd
asciilifeform: '“Somebody may want to ask the question as to why a pre-dawn, forced entry was necessary in this case,” Millar said , adding the public needs a full account of what happened Friday. (We) specifically want to know why a pre-dawn raid was required in a house with two young children.”'
asciilifeform: '“‘Sam, put your (expletive) hands up . . . They’re going to shoot you, Sam. Put your hands up.’” Cake said he told him. “‘OK,’” Maloney said calmly. ... “Right after that ‘OK’ there are four shots in succession — like pop, pop, pop, pop. No breaks, no more than four, no less than four also,” Cake recalled.'
asciilifeform: lulzy, brits haven't yet picked up the american tradition of cutting off victim's phones before executing a hit
asciilifeform: '“‘Hi Nick, it’s Sam. The police are raiding my house,’” he said.'
mircea_popescu: what's the lispworld diff utility do ?
mircea_popescu: check the shit out!
a111: Logged on 2017-01-05 01:16 a111: Logged on 2017-01-04 08:25 ben_vulpes: http://imgur.com/a/KuPJv << some kind of voodoo magic in there knows i moved that format string around
asciilifeform: (incidentally you can cheat, mircea_popescu-style, by dividing the diffables into segments using 2+ newlines as divmarkers, and nw-ing the resulting segments, then outputting the diffs.)
BingoBoingo: I present the Elliot descended of Aristoocracy and Malay in England https://archive.is/l1EDi
a111: Logged on 2016-12-28 02:23 phf: http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Condition-Handling-2001.html this is the canonical document on error handling in common lisp. it's long and dense, because powerful machinery
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "Still, tomorrow any or all of these fiat emphasized fiat/Bitcoin interfaces could tomorrow offer" << are the tomorrows some stylistical thing i dun get ?
adlai: yeah, on other people's "oe"
adlai: meh, btcfiat is such a saturated market anyways. there's probably free energy to minimize these days, but i couldn't have known that a month ago
adlai: seeing as it's a tool, not a "manned missile" (spot the sauce!), scalpl's on vacation during the semester
adlai has been 'clean' of sauces other than mphash etc for longer than he usually keeps
a111: Logged on 2017-01-05 01:18 asciilifeform: d00d must be back on the sauce
asciilifeform: (forward-then-backward)
mircea_popescu: hey, an indiancandy there's gotta be.
asciilifeform: d00d must be back on the sauce
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm not even asleep. just, by now, barely reading adlai, the stubborn anal childhood is not nearly as interesting as the subject imagines.
asciilifeform: it's the sort of crackpottery that could have made its way into git toolz
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i have nfi how these work, but maybe bramcohen's algo (linked earlier)
ben_vulpes: we can therefore we must!
asciilifeform: where didja get the colours ben_vulpes
a111: Logged on 2017-01-04 08:25 ben_vulpes: http://imgur.com/a/KuPJv << some kind of voodoo magic in there knows i moved that format string around
adlai: asciilifeform: in other wtf, isn't ., isomorphic to ,@!?
asciilifeform: monkeys -- to the monkey house.
adlai: sure, you can write the whole thing in forth (or lambda calc, or categories, or...), but as the agent said to the provocateur - 'good luck'
adlai: but it's correct as a version number, because consensus systems fail correctly together, and "history is written by the victors"
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's in the logs.
mircea_popescu: hm i could have sworn it was used before, "ideal bitcoin" ie the tmsr offering in the summer of forks. bitcoin v2.0, whatever
mircea_popescu: if we make the trb-i correct it should work like vtrons, multiple language implementations
asciilifeform: unless folx ~really~ pine for the tabs fix thing...
a111: Logged on 2017-01-05 00:43 asciilifeform: incidentally you will blow up on the +++ mine if you try and diff a vdiff.
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-05#1596657 << yeah i found this when casually comparing the output of 'pdiff' (phf's version) with that of vdiff
asciilifeform: the reason i keep coming back to this thought is that unix diff results in some pretty barfy lisp vpatches.
asciilifeform: i do see the merit of nailing it down. but imho unix diff is retarded.
mircea_popescu: and how am i going to apply patches ? there's no such thing as signature-equivalence.
asciilifeform: (any well-formed patch representation is, in principle, convertible to any other)
mircea_popescu: i didn't bring up the fucking apocalypse to fix some tabs.
mircea_popescu: i was aware of that ~then~.
asciilifeform: (i don't even disagree, that they ought to be.)
mircea_popescu: your diff must be so painful you ALSO negrate the author.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i negrate the author.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: What is punycode ? - Learn how to use punycode to register IDNs at ...: <https://www.dynadot.com/community/help/question/what-is-punycode>; Punycoder - the IDN / Punycode converter: <https://www.punycoder.com/>; RFC 3492 - Punycode : A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for ...: <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3492>
mircea_popescu: it is, yes. the moment it needs a fucking 85 state machine to interpret its meaning it is.
asciilifeform: why have any more mutilation of the text than necessary ?
asciilifeform: (it so happens that the original happened on a uuencoded shit, tru)
mircea_popescu: look, the in-band problem i can sympatize with, but the "let's thus turn text into blobs" i do not.
asciilifeform: incidentally you will blow up on the +++ mine if you try and diff a vdiff.
mircea_popescu: iirc you didn't like the svg.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-11 18:53 asciilifeform: so i had two base64's png files in there,
mircea_popescu: ah the thing where you tried to put A BINARY BLOB through a PLAINTEXT!!!111 format and ended up having to base64 it ?
asciilifeform: any characters found not in one of the 3 above states, make the entire diff nonwellformed.
asciilifeform: or rather, it is a literal string, and ought to be subsumed in one of the above forms.
asciilifeform: the count.
mircea_popescu: and what is the meaning of \\4 ?
asciilifeform: because the machine knows how may to skip.
asciilifeform: the ....... in \N\....... can be ANY octets.
asciilifeform: the one thing i consider a major win here, compactness aside, is the freeness-from-inbandmagic.
asciilifeform: (for the colour viewer thing)
mircea_popescu: well, they're rare.
mircea_popescu: i'll give it a look ; but sounds to me a lot like "rather than learn vim i'll try and make emacs adnotate"
asciilifeform: (he'd have to for either kind)
asciilifeform: i dare say that a colourized, phf-style viewer can make the suggested char-differ quite readable in comparison with ye olde unixdiff.
asciilifeform: incl. heathenries.
mircea_popescu: the --- / +++ version is infinitely more readable.
mircea_popescu: i do not wish to need to know how many octets is the blank lead of a new line
asciilifeform: lines are crud because they make newline symbol 'magical'
asciilifeform: this is to abolish the line-based idiocy of unix diff.
ben_vulpes: among other things
ben_vulpes: there is some value in it but as mentioned before i have a c++ itch what needs scratching
ben_vulpes: i did not realize that the patch could contain comments that do not affect its output, is that so?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes slowly moving towards literate code. here's a thought... why not put the comments straight into the patch ?
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/01/04/the-rich-mans-burden/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - The Rich Man’s Burden.
ben_vulpes: in other crackpotteries up asciilifeform's dark alley: http://0100101110101101.org/biennale-py/
adlai: the homework ( http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-19#1556804 ) boils down to "understand wtf weil was on about"
asciilifeform: i read the original turd, it was ill-specified
asciilifeform: there's a sequence-alignment altcoin..?
adlai: asciilifeform: incidentally, you may find that /m/-w is a flail in the general direction of "less snoreworthy ATC"
adlai: ah. that typo-collided collided with my other homework, which i am doing.
adlai wishes he could do this homework instead of that other stuff (integration by parts^H^H^Hhands)
ben_vulpes: is there any sort of spec for "what difftron entails"?
asciilifeform: but really you just want to rip out sim-score that's in there and put in one that's a straight =)
asciilifeform: (you could try an' do something clever with matrix with deprioritized whitespace, and the like)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: you probably don't need a similarity matrix other than the unit matrix for text diffs, now that i think about it.
asciilifeform tore this out of a much larger proggy, and its fitness for any practical use is quite questionable, but ought to get the point across
asciilifeform: there.
ben_vulpes: i was hit with the ugly stick at birth, you can't scare me
asciilifeform: iirc xor is either 'xor' or c-style '^' in php
adlai: mircea_popescu: thank you for the sauce though, i was about to puzzle out the exact meaning of "M%S-th" behaviorally
mircea_popescu: the complains. "oh, you gave pseudocode ? can you make it go step by step ? oh it has, can we see code ? oh is code, can it be different code ?"
mircea_popescu: you can have the php that spits that out if you wish
asciilifeform: (i'll take the original fortran, too, if it worx)
mircea_popescu: "Because the R bit is 0, we flip it and decrease our position by 1 (but not below 0)"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform position increases by one each step, at the end of it.
asciilifeform: how does the position slide ?
mircea_popescu: calling it "state machine" is kind-of improper as i suppose the result also holds state. a cleaner separation may be advisable, but w/e.
asciilifeform: the one slightly confusing bit is where we 'add bit to state machine'
mircea_popescu: this is all pure arbitrary, can be done otherwise.
asciilifeform: i mean in 'step 1', not in the start state
pete_dushenski: ferraris older than ~20yo needed regular engine-out maintenance. every year, two at the most.
mircea_popescu: holy shit they handwrote it ?!
pete_dushenski: cheers to mircea_popescu for the regifting
pete_dushenski: the worst part of medium is that the images don't archive. this wouldn't be an issue for most republican blogs seeing as they're entirely text, but it's actually quite the bug for fiat writers, taleb included
mircea_popescu: hey, taleb's among them.
ben_vulpes: https://blog.medium.com/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be#.8gsm40qwc << "we have no fucking idea how to make money from livejournal in 2017, but that's not going to stop us from lighting our investor's capital on fire and warming ourselves in front of it while lamenting the capitalist system!"
ben_vulpes: quite the mashup
mircea_popescu: this is just a mash-up together of elements to show how the concept works. better assemblage is probably possible.
adlai should probably start putting it to use at the saltbox, for home-makework
asciilifeform: and yes, in m. you can give a state machine transition rule set and get animated gif out the other end. or a .avi. etc
adlai: one of the best retorts to rubes asking "why use lisp" is that macsyma still runs
asciilifeform: (state of the art in open sores world is still macsyma, circa 1975)
asciilifeform: or mathematizer
asciilifeform: the thing is that there are no known 'human' programming systems, afaik, that give you seamless graphical ast and editable pixel-array linkage
adlai: please elaborate, what do you mean by "writing a human proggy"? what i meant by "not a full solution" is that there's supposedly a tool out there which does 'half' the job, and obviously some human must write a proggy that does the other
mircea_popescu: anyway, the general idea above being : you take all the sane parts of working hash functions, and ditch the insanities. so - no magic numbers, inside boxes, as boxes count, etc. use modulo-arithmetic and iterators, and one long cipher box.