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asciilifeform: because originally the thing working at all - was impressive.
asciilifeform: it is important to understand why apparently-intelligent folks ate up the crap
asciilifeform: in all seriousness, 'associative computing : a programming paradigm for massively parallel computers' (j., potter, 1992)
asciilifeform: and if ssd, will get impedance mismatches during write if your db isn't tuned to match the cache
asciilifeform: except that if said disk is mechanical, you will get impedance mismatches
asciilifeform: 'I will ship them back, but I needed working sample units -this week-.
asciilifeform: I will have our reels of 470 Ohm resistors verified first thing in the morning. I'd like to send you a return label in the morning to send the boards back, so that we can review the work on the boards and verify and replace any parts which are not testing at their required values. Additionally, this step would help us to determine what has gone wrong in the assembly and why your components are not operating within specificati
asciilifeform: 'That is very strange indeed. All of the house parts we currently carry are supplied by Digikey and Mouser, and are name-brand parts. At this moment, we only stock and only order parts from US vendors who are authorized vendors for the components we purchase. (This is why our BoM tool will often list parts as unavailable, even if they can be found at non-US or non-authorized dealers.)
asciilifeform also chumped, out of 75 bux. did not really expect the thing to work
asciilifeform: some of the german machines from the '80s, when computer sucked, did this
asciilifeform: now going empty.
asciilifeform: about to manually probe the components under microscope
asciilifeform is floored by the sheer retardation. gave those idiots the simplest circuit in the world, as test
asciilifeform: it is very easy to find manufacturing service. but mostly impossible to find one that does onesies economically
asciilifeform: ( for folks who missed wtf thread was about - http://www.loper-os.org/pub/mf3_compare.jpg )
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i have nothing with which to compare the price. nobody else on the planet does qty.1 smt assembly+board with no tooling charge
asciilifeform: one of the bags contains an empty board (souvenir?) - order consisted of two assembled standard rng
asciilifeform: even a free sample board in there.
asciilifeform: phr33 s4mpl3
asciilifeform: just example.
asciilifeform: to the extent something takes place on a known muppet theatre stage, it is not even all that important to go into the supposed 'motivations' of the muppets, when you can plainly see the arms growing out of their arses
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Well... truth is a lot more complicated than that - in many places, in most places really national sovereignity is implemented as "being incredibly stupid in our own special way", which is of course neither "their own" in any sense nor to any degree special. This has to be broken down...' << aha colonization.
asciilifeform: mats or anybody else: if you have the disk diddler sample, post it
asciilifeform: (compare 'physical settlement' in btc to gold, etc)
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i'm rather surprised it took them so long to hook up the goldpricedumpatron to btc
asciilifeform: 'make' simply doesn't react well to being called from 'make'.
asciilifeform was simply too lazy to write a proper 'makefile'
asciilifeform: more or less bug-for-bug compatibility with classical norse
ascii_field: chip is out of print, and next version is quite deliberately incompatible.
ascii_field: just bringing up well-known example of this kind of process
ascii_field: e-ink sucks even compared to teletype
ascii_field: in this discussion i'm making the assumption that you intend to actually work with the machine - rather than, say, using for pgp
ascii_field: the money printer is something like a black hole of 'moral hazard', it has this effect where it is more or less impossible to behave like anything other than a scammer when sufficiently near the event horizon
ascii_field: 'sequencing fraud' << i suppose this is when i attempt to explain 'fiat banks create small-time sp4mz0r fraud' thing
asciilifeform: or rather, not (bank doesn't have much to do with an empty bag)
asciilifeform: (ianal but iirc my state actually imposes penalties on anyone, incl. landlord, who interferes with the display of a standard american flag)
asciilifeform: as in, the compartment where he hides from wife
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there's ordinary chumpatronics, where someone at least showed a bit of effort, and there's utter rubbish that falls apart after thinking about it for ten seconds if you've half a clue
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i have no idea who the chumpatronicists in question are, or what they charge, but the drawings show that none of it has any relation to physical reality
asciilifeform: complete with massive circa-1920s boilers that didn't work
asciilifeform was not involved in broadcast chumpatronics in any way, even remotely, but ended up having paycheques issued by one such thing by sheer accident
asciilifeform: cuts the fibers individually (they are designed to contain blunt impact, just as silk - the first ballistic vest material - did)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i still fucking hate that piece. the sheer mendacity of rich hickey in saying 'simplicity matters' while crapping all over lisp concept
asciilifeform: one could literally pierce a tank with a compressed turd
asciilifeform: incidentally, to continue an earlier thread with mircea_popescu et al re: 'jungle bullet' - has anyone ever attempted to militarize the old familiar 'hydrogen cannon' ?
asciilifeform: trinque: it isn't like one could cut through a phalanx of usg stormtroopers and stay legally in the clear simply because the machine is not banned per se
ascii_field: the only thing statal (vs tribal) law ever was, is a '3 ring binder' affair to simplify peasant-herding
ascii_field: 'subspace' >> 'Unfortunately, downloading all messages scales very poorly. In Subspace, we use a filtering technique that allows us to mix our messages with a user-defined subset of the total message space, reducing your bandwidth consumption while preserving your privacy.' >> shitgnomism
asciilifeform: '...we should start with cleaner hardware, then write a cleaner replacement for the JVM (same cross-platform capabilities!?, same performance optimisations!?), as well as all its libraries... we'd be busy at least for another decade and required backing from several large companies.'
asciilifeform: but i seem to be the only one who (publicly) realized that it is the very thing for building dataflow comp.
asciilifeform: my concern because life is short and i want to compute with c-gates.
asciilifeform: not necessarily impossible - but who's to say when.
asciilifeform: compiler-infection is as old as time.
asciilifeform: artificially clamping your memory -> stupider
asciilifeform: i've seen it trotted out as an argument that it is impossible to program in common lisp
asciilifeform: or simply to the fact that straight line of alphabet yes, can unambiguously describe everything. but it takes titanic space for a large class of concepts
asciilifeform: let's suppose they weren't implicit.
asciilifeform: there is a reason why newton and leibniz both came up with new symbols for this example
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: simple mapping to the word brutally linearizes the expression
asciilifeform: good abstractions are not only orthogonal and well-chosen, but -compact-
asciilifeform: adlai: if you're curious, i quit the emulator when i realized that even the text output absolutely trivial on a dataflow machine cannot be rendered in real time on a von neumann box (simply attach dependency graph to each rectangle of video buffer ram)
asciilifeform: yet another example of an item for which you absolutely need a moving picture
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it forces people to think, and it simplifies the task of rooting out thoise who haven't << why not goose quill pen, then
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: for me in particular? or asking why difficult to implement correctly
asciilifeform: why this death is notable? did they go down 'in style', taking $maxint of chumpmoney into neverneverland with them ?
asciilifeform: and that no one would stampede over it
ascii_field: because x per se doesn't impose the retardation
ascii_field: i'd argue that these folks -simply don't get to- design cpu any more.
ascii_field: most of all the fact of claiming credit (implicitly) for decades of the work of other, genuinely original folks.
ascii_field: marketing materials promise elaborate, 'smart' cpu crud (branch prediction even more complicated than on extant x86, code that executes even less deterministically, etc.)
ascii_field: dignork: what normally happens in a case like this is - that the hole is sewn shut, but not completely shut - rather like 'infibulated' gurl partz in the middle east
ascii_field: summary for the impatient - arbitrary bit-flips induced from ring3 code on x86
asciilifeform: (these folks are generally preoccupied with the authenticity of the engine, unlike, e.g., the famous cuban mechanics, because that's actually the part they imprinted on as children)
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: implementing a programming language of one kind or another is, afaik, still sop as homework
asciilifeform: the kind of lisp undergrads tend to implement
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if you're unfamiliar with it - autolisp is a 1970s style lisp (complete with unsolved 'funarg problem' !) similar to emacs elisp
asciilifeform: but my impression is that he's the 'boy stuffing his finger in the flood dike' as in the fairy tale
asciilifeform: bringing it back to the 'tsync' thread, there are two separate questions that the evil dwarves would have us believe are simply one - the technical merit or lack thereof of the 'tsync' mechanism
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: short summary: patch submitted by google chrome devs themselves; supposedly to simplify their sandbox 'jail' mechanism
asciilifeform: 'what do you mean i shouldn't butcher my chumps'
asciilifeform: see the 'tape sorts' featured in the knuth aop centerfolds, for example
asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/mailman/listinfo/btc-dev << 'CloudFront attempted to establish a connection with the origin, but either the attempt failed or the origin closed the connection. ' >> ??!?!
asciilifeform: apparently incredibly loved in the harems << amplified the lulz from remembering that the first (and until moving to usa, only) gum i ever chewed on was turkish
asciilifeform: nubbins`: and the vendor is an known, egregious, and unrepentant liar, intent on giving an impression of 'open' for some strange reason
asciilifeform: nubbins`: they are contractually obligated to never fully deblob it on account of mpeg 'license' crapolade
asciilifeform wonders what the rate would have to be to cut off the chump flow
asciilifeform: in, for example, the fact that the 'blob' does not merely initialize the hardware, but actually runs at all times on its own coprocessor
asciilifeform: regarding your intentions to compute rsa funktion
asciilifeform: poor fella arrived just as i was thinking of attempting essay re: specificity-of-diddling
asciilifeform: as it used a miniature rocket (approx. the size of .5 round...) which was fin-stabilized and rotated, it needed only a very simple firing mechanism and low-pressure barrel
asciilifeform: iirc there are 100+ year old examples which still function as rated!
asciilifeform: implies that you can dig up economically
asciilifeform: implies the price going from reasonable to $maxint overnight, or the like
asciilifeform: cazalla: it is worth your while to become acquainted with the actual theory (vs the popular disinfo presentation of it) - rather than 'running out of oil', considerably more complicated (approximately, running out of -economical- oil)
asciilifeform: ^ small 'nas' computer available in usa for < 20 usd; reasonably-well-understood leaked chip docs; reasonable performance
asciilifeform: to make long story short (i am quite uncertain that making it longer will improve the understanding of anyone who does not already grasp the above) -
asciilifeform: though if he can get a real-time covert channel into my unit, he can perhaps accomplish something with a simple 'hidden debug' trick
asciilifeform: if 'secure' but not user-verifiable, the only people against whom it attempts security is: you. the owner.
asciilifeform: i might exaggerate slightly, but at any rate it won't be accomplished by a fella with a day job.
asciilifeform: iirc we spoke re: the sewer pumps here at least once
asciilifeform: you're still thinking in terms of temporary disruptions in 'business as usual'
asciilifeform: trinque: try to remember the substantial differences between the two empires
asciilifeform: if there were a 'rural militia' with above room-temperature iq, usa would already look like iraq
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: sometimes discussed in historical chumpatronics literature, re: schemes to 'invest in xxxx, and once it tanks, we'll buy it up for firewood we promise'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this type of chumpatron has a name, though i'm blanking on what it was
asciilifeform: evidently they ran short of chumps dumb enough to install the thing voluntarily
asciilifeform: PeterL: when i went to mircea_popescu's conference-2, had an attache of rng samples, which nobody at any of the borders was interested in so much as opening much less demanding to know how to plug them in
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i drove the hog to the forest & turned it loose there. found it interesting how the beast had to be shaken out of the trap, wouldn't simply leave on its own
asciilifeform: for trivial example, the shortest program which does nothing at all is ''.
asciilifeform: possibly because only fact i knew about him was him being involved in the dotcom bubble and being responsible for the steaming crock of shit that is netscape, and, by implication, the entire shit soup of www standards
asciilifeform: decimation: i did not test on any closed-source compiler because they don't exist on the planet i choose to live on
asciilifeform: decimation: i tested on both available compilers, the foundation's and the gnu
asciilifeform: pragma Import (C, Puts, "puts");
asciilifeform: the total intellectual load placed on chumps was considerably lighter
asciilifeform: there are also impotent, and also dead ones
asciilifeform: as adlai pointed out, there is ample info bounding the possible plaintexts available in the ciphertext
asciilifeform: it tells you (or would, if could be written, but the most you can hope for is an approximation, as the problem - even with all the necessary data - is np-complete) the theoretical maximum that could have been achieved
asciilifeform: it's simply an elementary fact that you can't +ev your way 'from rags to riches' unless you know something other folks don't
asciilifeform: but trying to compare to the well-known thermodynamic optimum for an engine
asciilifeform: jurov: would you say that the 'thousands of chumps' are using your gizmo instead ?
asciilifeform: didn't mean to imply that it was.
asciilifeform: (unlike 'redditicus' the impossibility doesn't irritate me in the slightest, i have other things in life to play with)
asciilifeform: i merely suspect that no one, not even a god, could 'get rich' at 'investing' pocket change at mpex
asciilifeform: you would have done better than 'perfect info' bot << impossible by definition
asciilifeform: (this is actually np-complete, but one can find approximations)
asciilifeform: for folks who can reliably turn x into 2x - they already have mpex accounts, aren't reading this
asciilifeform: i kinda wonder why poor folks are even interested in mpex (or, for that matter, schwab)
asciilifeform: (n00bs can read my original article reviewing mpex, containing summary of mircea_popescu's material on above subject - http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1108 )
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: if homo redditicus were only a problem because 'spamming the orderbook', that would be another thing. a bot could theoretically 'vacuum up the chump money' and that's that. But - they, as i understand, spam support lines, public fora, and overall poison the atmosphere in ways not outweighed by the pennies they bring in
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that would be essentially reselling mpex account at cost, no ?
asciilifeform: jurov: they sure are for me, for example
asciilifeform: felipelalli: Is it possible to remove an account and keep the assets << if you bought an mpex account...
asciilifeform: f someone like Emwazi, whom MI5 had been chasing for years, can simply disappear, only to reappear as the man beheading western journalists (though technically, the videos never show him doing so), then it suggests the entire dragnet is least effective when it is most needed. The Express’ ill-defined sources appear to want to tell a story about SIGINT succeeded rather then explain how it is that SIGINT failed (at least accor
asciilifeform: because otherwise you're comparing bulldog and rhinoceros
asciilifeform: (my hypothesis, simple: because eth. isn't alive and cannot be killed by shooting in the head. like 'redphone' and 'silent circle')
asciilifeform: see, for instance, the story regarding the composition of their not-quite-national-anthem 'ey iran' - sorta their equiv. of 'america the beautiful'
asciilifeform refrains from going into deep tangent re: how iran may well have joined euro camp rather than descending into strange if it hadn't been spat upon as 'eastern monkeys' when tried
asciilifeform: a case like these is simply historians misidentifying who is actually the fella wearing the crown
asciilifeform: iirc they're limited to public servants or folks willing to license themselves as 'museums' (complete with fingerprinting, letters of recommendation from mayor, surprise inspections, ... etc)
asciilifeform: decimation: this might have to do with the fact that much of what u.s. folks take to the shooting galleries seems to exist for little purpose but to make an impressive 'bang'
asciilifeform: no need for computer, even.
asciilifeform: because much simpler even than what they do
asciilifeform: what kind of 'sin' is he meant to tempt 'sinners' into?
asciilifeform: i.e., it no longer means 'where you go to trade money for $goodies' but just 'place you go to dump excess money'
asciilifeform: 'According to neighbors and a man who hired the teen to write for his Web site, the Osbourn Park student was quiet in person but exceptionally intelligent — authoring articles on complicated science and technology topics.' (wa. p.) << mega-l0l
asciilifeform: (simple weapons, but highly skilled professionals)
asciilifeform: all depends on range, angle of impact
asciilifeform: complete with trihedral bayonet
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: folks are used to their sawed-off shotguns, balk at slightly heavier, longer 'thompson'
asciilifeform: there are non-chumpatronic mortgages?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mpex, as i understand, consists of ultra-long-haul folks
asciilifeform: that's just about everybody's first impression
asciilifeform: tried to take photo, but 2 in the morning and damn near impossible to get a good shot through glass and mosquito net
asciilifeform: normally implies spade handle or the like
asciilifeform: but the computer - we don't have.
asciilifeform: so far, every alternative i've tried vs qwerty keyboard - simply stinks
asciilifeform: just an actual computer that can be used other than on a desk
asciilifeform: i've ran across folks who claim to have done it - but on close examination, it always turns out that they're living with some 'small' imperfection that i find utterly intolerable
asciilifeform: decimation: hence total lack of interest in attempting to put a civilized unixlike on these
asciilifeform: i see them as fellating usg actively, plain and simple
asciilifeform: for instance, the console was really a powerful computer in its own right (contained video rendered and sound card) and could be separated from the (very loud!) machine by, iirc, 200 metres!
asciilifeform: lispm gives an interesting feeling straight away - of computer that cost what a business airplane cost, and intended to maximize the thinking power of an economically-important thinking person
asciilifeform: there was another, later white kbd, which i have, with entirely different internals - but protocol-compatible with the old scanned-matrix one pictured here
asciilifeform: i suppose that was only on real computer
asciilifeform: in much the same way that mpex is the only game in town in its field
asciilifeform: that is, a hard-standardized (iso preferred) prog. lang. with safe types and deterministic memory usage, that has extant compiler back-ends for all major cpu architectures
asciilifeform: decimation: how many usg employees that were once dealing in official secrets would come up entirely clean if their belongings were searched ? as in, not even a 'post-it note'
asciilifeform: it is interesting to compare, in this respect, the semiconductor industry to... nuclear one
ascii_field: (see today's log for example)
ascii_field: and everybody else just chumps along using the binary pkg
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: complicated. phytoestrogens in rice, soy are part of the story
asciilifeform: (much unexplored design space in dildonics. for instance, a cylindrical/topologically-toroidal 'conveyor' with belt that recirculates through inner hollow, could product impression of infinite length)
asciilifeform: establishment, and that pressure to succeed might sporadically give rise to improved performance, leading to at least a few instances of success. But if in fact failure is no problem at all, and if instead there was some sort of pressure to fail, then we would see exactly what we do see.'
asciilifeform: 'Looking at this broad landscape of failure, there are two ways to interpret it. One is that the US officialdom is the most incompetent one imaginable, and can't ever get anything right. But another is that they do not succeed for a distinctly different reason: they don't succeed because results don't matter. You see, if failure were a problem, then there would be some sort of pressure coming from somewhere or other within the
asciilifeform: as for the compiler, it's been part of vanilla gcc for years.
ascii_field: i'll spoil a little of it: manufacturing samples arriving sometime late this wk. or early next
ascii_field: the somewhat lower-tech 'phuctor', for example, has been running continuously since nov. 2013.
asciilifeform: chumpatronics with physical props.
asciilifeform: simple bait, works.
asciilifeform: idea being, 'me: if gravity has chiral component, consider two propellers glued back to back as 'barbell'. ought to rotate in a particular direction depending on orientation. align using electromagnetic means, infer angular momenta' al: 'here's how'
asciilifeform: i did emphatically did -not- invent or design the calorimetric test
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: thread was re: whether and how one could build a reasonable computer without access to ic fab or the output of one
asciilifeform: compared to american ic of the modern type, of that period
asciilifeform: for some reason the theft of several examples of these curios by usg from sunken submarine is still considered a deep secret in usa
asciilifeform: did i ever tell the tale of how i was once about to do a little consulting for an engineering prof, and discovered that the code that implemented 'his' algo was plagiarized wholesale by his students?
asciilifeform: almost invariably 'high powered' kids in usa are simply cribbing mindlessly
asciilifeform: because it's a temporary parole, for one thing
asciilifeform: 3d 'shooter' where you had to 'pass bootcamp', dig pits, die in ten minutes of firefight dropping like potato, etc
asciilifeform: complete with wall carpets?
asciilifeform: plenty of folks do - simply that most of them don't write oddball os
asciilifeform: starvation pension, but enough to keep his computer lit
asciilifeform: almost impenetrable by the idly curious
asciilifeform: what do you suppose would happen if herr thiel decided to pump every penny he had into buying btc ?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: he's selective re: which trendisms to employ
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel, mircea_popescu: simply pointing out that most fiat 'barons' are more like herr buffett than mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i can only speak re: the costs of the component which i was to wangle time on
asciilifeform: essentially, according to 'neutral' folks in physics, al simply doesn't -get to- make the instrument
asciilifeform: al actually spent years battling idiots who 'forked physics' and 'forked chemistry' on usenet, in much the same style as mpoe-pr battled btc sc4mz0rz
asciilifeform: that is, if one day we simply exterminate them, he still hasn't really won, just sat down in lysenko's throne
asciilifeform: which takes a few $b in imperial money
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: the interesting thing, and important to explain mircea_popescu's puzzlement, is that the enemy has been studiously arranging experiments to avoid actually testing the effect in question and declaring it 'settled'
asciilifeform: and, incidentally, there are other chiralanes possible (you can generate them as computer model, that is. there is, afaik, no known synthesis for any of them)
asciilifeform: but is optically non-superimposable on its mirror image
asciilifeform: fact is, we haven't actually built computers yet
asciilifeform: 1) ocr doesn't work because 99.99% is still ludicrously low - human reader -who fully understands the text- still required 2) no ocr exists or is reasonably likely to ever exist for anything rich in notation 3) the machine-readability of most mathematical work is a fully ai-complete problem
asciilifeform: 'For example, Newton's apple contains vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid) which is parity-asymmetric, and it would accelerate differently if the laws of gravity cared about the mirror images.' << lying scum, yes. implying that effect cannot exist because not observable with naked eye on naturally-occurring objects
asciilifeform: decimation: it is quite possibly impractical to make bga (ball grid array) ic packages without pb
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you will notice the imperial mooks got utterly owned in that play << afaik usg accomplished their one non-negotiable thing in iraq - break the orcs into eternally-warring bantustans, 'vaccinate' against any possible emergence of a real sovereign
asciilifeform: (i did work through a good chunk of the maths behind al's eötvös adventures, for own edification and to attempt to come up with a way to rescue him - to learn how that went, see old thread)
asciilifeform: or employs a monkey to write 'his' communique
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ar has ru-style 'meetings' ? i.e. crowds of folks with prefab picket signs, paid chump change to wave around ?
asciilifeform: "what is the plan b of yonder artificial lake, once dykes fail ?" << 'what should one do when a shell lands in the trench ?' -- 'jump up twenty metres and scatter yourself around.' (brit., circa ww1)
asciilifeform: e.g., turkish eunuch having (decorative, naturally!) harems of their own, complete with... eunuch guards
asciilifeform: believe or not, this actually happened in past empires
asciilifeform: but if that venture relates to computing in any way, you will probably render your brain unfit for the original mission.
asciilifeform: i specifically assign the failure of each and every attempt to date with the notion that you can get to the moon by piling chairs.
asciilifeform: it wouldn't buy a (new) pick'n'place robot, for example, unless you go ultra-chinese
asciilifeform: or my own 'professional computing' article
asciilifeform: (the on-campus housing is packed to the gunnels)
asciilifeform: these will be inhabited, incidentally, by chumps feeding the 'college' chumpatron
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: translators... armenian << actually usg translator racket is - traditionally - ultra-lucrative. complete with own boom'n'bust cycles
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: basic observation (by no means mine! or even solely orlov's) is that collapse comes 'in fits.' for example, at the moment it did not occur to you to think that obtaining drywall or labourers to knock together a 'shitboard' house, could ever be problematic
asciilifeform: just example.
asciilifeform: some politically important ethnic minority, for instance, might enjoy living in ben_vulpes's house
asciilifeform: not simply a matter of balance sheet, either.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: say later if were able to digest it. otherwise i might have to attempt a transl.
asciilifeform: what'd count as a -real, indisputable- usg leak? example: info leading to perma-pwn of a whole constellation (hell, why not all of them) of usg orbiting junk
asciilifeform: get the budget high enough without making secrecy impossible << this is right back to the 64-quadrillion-bzollar question. the dept-of-breaking-pgp gets $maxint and remains totally secret - not to say that they've succeeded or even tried, but we have no idea how much cocaine they were able to buy with the $maxint, nor the carat purity of the gold of which their toilets were made
asciilifeform: but basic point is that machine doesn't just cost what machine costs, but some actuarial numbers based on what the corpses' legal reps are likely to attempt/achieve
asciilifeform only opened it because had an ssd from visually identical machine of the same make, which turned out to be incompatible.
asciilifeform: in any given instance of meritwash, somebody's being chumped (various folks who swallow the snake oil)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-02-2014#506836 << example of me vomiting at proof-of-anything. but it seems to me now that there were not one but two usg 'monasteries' where the concept was developed
asciilifeform: everyone with access to the goods who hasn't dumped them to public unredacted and whole is ipso facto part of that set.
asciilifeform finds himself writing a netbsd kernel mod, has approximately same thoughts as fella who wakes up in 'dumpster' in a back alley, 'how i came to this sort of life' ?
asciilifeform: not even impossible to think that it still happens.
asciilifeform: it is an immediate mindfuck to be confronted with a computing-related document written this way.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: don't expect a repl, ada is a classical compiled thing like c or fortran
asciilifeform: uirements of Class 1 flight critical software (the most critical) are to be attained, every attempt must be made to detect errors induced by a compiler. This is expensive, but unavoidable given current technology. The pragma Reviewable applies to a partition so that the compiler can generate code to match special documentation thus permitting independent review of the object code. The following specific requirements apply...'
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