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asciilifeform: as discussed in mp's essay
asciilifeform: the uni where i studied 'comp sci' has abolished many of the hardest items in the syllabus (or made them optional)
asciilifeform: benkay: re: 'w. in comp.' - the maggots on the corpse, are not the murder weapon.
asciilifeform: th threats. Some members of Thinking Machines' board suddenly seemed to realize that the person who had been running the company all those years had no business skills. The board discussed dumping Handler, but she managed to get her biggest enemies there kicked off.'
asciilifeform: n for a CM-5 sweatshirt and then rejected it. While the company was sinking, she focused her attention on putting out a cookbook with recipes from the company's now-infamous cafeteria. Increasingly paranoid, she had a video camera aimed at her personal parking spot and, by some accounts, made people take meetings with her in her parked car. She hired a bodyguard, telling her colleagues that she had received dea
asciilifeform: 'The first round of layoffs had started. Salaries were frozen. Requests for new laptop computers were being denied. Meanwhile, Handler had an enormous marble archway installed in the atrium of the Carter Ink Building. When a national supercomputer conference was held in Seattle, she decided to stay in San Francisco and commute to Seattle from the swank Stanford Court Hotel. She commissioned a $40,000 logo desig
asciilifeform: ;;google phillip greenspun women computing
asciilifeform: with the trend for centralization (everybody but a few weirdos runs 'arm' chips, compiles c/cpp) it 'works'
asciilifeform: his several dozen grad students - not one could write a simple program for an embedded cpu.
asciilifeform: this incident showed all the symptoms of 'bite of the cornered beast.'
asciilifeform: this particular broom actually fires small-caliber quite well. in every OCR app, for example.
asciilifeform: re: thinking machines, see mp's 'tin woman' essay.
asciilifeform: re: the dope: simply owning the 'pill press' required to stamp the pictured items is quasi-illegal in usa
asciilifeform: i dumped 'intel' and 'samsung's ssd fw. ida eats it up like a champ.
asciilifeform: to solve very simple arithmetic problems
asciilifeform: 'Did it compile?' << i should hope that you are joking re: this being a standard of success in your work
asciilifeform: i still think it possible that there are competent people, but 'dark matter' because why should they talk.
asciilifeform: (re: 'how computer thinks')
asciilifeform: in my ad hoc lexicun, 'chumpatronium'
asciilifeform: a videoclip of a fairy tale coming true... ...they [americans] also wish to drive around in jeeps, accompanied by squadrons of hotties in berets with kalashnikovs - but are impotent from birth. Envy, taken with an understanding of one's own powerless... easily transforms into hatred. The leaders of the sanitarium are easier for the 'patient' to understand, closer. He sees their permissible pecadillos, and is pl
asciilifeform: 'Among all of the crimes, the most terrible (though not punishable) is the crime against one's own self -- the failure of an individual to use his own, only life. Listen to the idiotic musical noises, park the car, labour in the light but uninteresting work, and before you know it, your tenure upon this earth is over. The collective, so-called 'civilized mankind,' has excelled in the creation of (and imposition
asciilifeform: decimation: all of the materials presently available to public are on mp's site (with the exception of several photos that live on mine.)
asciilifeform: i believe this was described in one of mp's articles.
asciilifeform: mp in washington post!
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: are you coming to mp's party?
asciilifeform: computer industry in 1 sentence.
asciilifeform: (it is a pure dynamic compiler - no interpreter at all)
asciilifeform: 'sbcl,' for instance, runs at close to the speed of compiled 'c' when used intelligently
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: here, for instance, is an example of a minimal lisp in ~500 lines of C: https://github.com/qyqx/small-lisp/blob/master/sl3.c
asciilifeform: if gru still existed, this kid would be happily & productively employed.
asciilifeform: i don't even code << probably more first-rate heads have been ruined by programming computers than dope
asciilifeform: journarasts fear real-time net witnesses in exactly the same way that mythological vampire fears sunlight and crucifix
asciilifeform: [insert the obligatory 'idots cannot imagine competence in others' bit here]
asciilifeform: anyone who voluntarily does business with them is chumpatron fuel
asciilifeform: diametric: afaik the only well-known, interesting place where key can never be changed is mpex
asciilifeform: intent is for the product to be priced competitively vs. the state-of-the-art alternative (i.e. the traditional '90s laptop with linux/gpg in ROM)
asciilifeform: mp proposed a tentative price at one point, but that was some time ago
asciilifeform: antephialtic: there is to be a cardano at mp's party. if you really can't wait, you can come and buy that one.
asciilifeform: 'buck converter' is more efficient, in that it works by letting a cap charge to the desired voltage and then empty into another
asciilifeform: afaik it's only ever done to zap potential competition of 'favorite son' dod contractors.
asciilifeform: my impression was that he suggested coupling a bitbet-like apparatus to a trading bot.
asciilifeform: what prevents 'ordinary investor' from simply buying btc somewhere?
asciilifeform: Ademan: how does WoT = IP << see mp's piece on how 'the same string, emitted from different mouths, is worth different amount'
asciilifeform: benderp: impalement (of the king vlad, rather than assyrian, variety) was a much more leisurely affair
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the air compressor story is inescapably linked in my mind with Latvia.
asciilifeform: so u.s. bureaucrats are not harmless merely because of their everyday impotence.
asciilifeform: no need to go far for other examples. fbi, for instance, mainly relies on entrapment to manufacture 'terrorists'
asciilifeform: all of these tentacles limp along, until they encounter... a meal.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: doesn't seem to work terribly well. perhaps my hands simply don't grow from the correct place.
asciilifeform: obstruct vision, living arrangements all thought through and everything.' (mp's http://trilema.com/2012/strategic-superiority-a-saga)
asciilifeform: petent at dealing with the human cattle : fastfood providers, supermarkets, the government. Both as employers and providers these specialised bureaucracies have the necessary tools, including cattle prods (or whatever they’re called now, non-lethal something or the other) to correctly handle them. They have the chemicals, they’ve done the research, know the behavioural patterns, have the walls all built to
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: 'Honest toil not so much, but honest cunning aplenty in this fabled subsection of the population, the offensively stupid poor. The costs of the strategic mistake of dealing with them are huge. Up until recently it was practically impossible to become embroiled into any sort of dealing with the subgroup, their ownership being strictly assumed and their lives strictly subsumed by the corporations com
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: see mp's piece on why it is unwise to become embroiled in the making of products for idiots.
asciilifeform: afaik the only software today 'specifically targeted at mac users' is the nickel-and-dime chumpatron where these folks pay $20/each for a hundred little gui utilities that'd be a 1-line bash script on an ordinary computer
asciilifeform: people teaching everything from number theory to marksmanship complain about this.
asciilifeform: 'endless war and endless underfeeding for the sake of war, slave populations toiling behind barbed wire, women dragged shrieking to the block, cork-lined cellars where the executioner blows your brains out from behind. So it appears that amputation of the soul isn't just a simple surgical job, like having your appendix out. The wound has a tendency to go septic.' (orwell's 'notes on the way')
asciilifeform: sure, but in the 'microscope is backwards-compatible with hammer' sense.
asciilifeform: possible that ltc market has become 'lightweight' enough to simply 'throw'
asciilifeform: imprisonment-for-hire ?
asciilifeform: Shakespeare: scroll up for coin-operated public impregnatrons.
asciilifeform: Shakespeare: not unlike asking 'is a leader who imposes law resulting in more steel production smart' ?
asciilifeform: damn, thought that was the post where you described automatic 'public impregnators' for japan
asciilifeform: better example, buzz of the fly
asciilifeform: putin's position with respect to the u.s. is roughly similar to mpex vs. the btc wankiverse
asciilifeform: i personally have attempted, on occasion, to make it go.
asciilifeform: it is not easy to describe, accurately and completely, the nato block's policy of nation-wrecking using something other than 'russian' terms. but you're welcome to try.
asciilifeform: people who apply 'human morality' to the logic of empire are weird.
asciilifeform: what would be needed for non-emptiness? a resurrected hitler?
asciilifeform: 'Russia promised to respond “symmetrically.” In its arsenal is: popping the huge financial bubble and causing a resumption of the financial collapse of 2008 by any number of means, from requiring gold instead of fiat currency as payment for oil and gas, to dumping US dollar reserves (in concert with China), to putting the EU on a fast track to economic collapse by giving the natural gas valve a slight clock
asciilifeform: there is a very simple mitigation strategy. you don't need to burgle ft. meade to learn it.
asciilifeform: but if you take raspi, or pc on your desk, or whatnot, and remove the diseased meat, you will have... an empty crate.
asciilifeform: it means, roughly, 'emptiness'
asciilifeform: ;;google NONSTOP TEMPEST
asciilifeform: but essence is: there is an amplifier. it takes a small signal, uses it to modulate a carrier wave
asciilifeform: (not to be confused with 'TEMPEST')
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: suggested experiment. take a radio transmitter (a household walkie-talkie will do) and transmit, with a computer sitting nearby.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: it's on mp's site, he's co-author
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: did i just fall through time warp? 'mpex' not built yet?
asciilifeform: sometimes you just can't play. i, for instance, might like to start a pharma company, but i checked my sofa cushions and there is not $1B to be found therein
asciilifeform: and implied values thereof
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: traditionally, one first secures capital and only then gets on the hook for business obligations (employees, factory floor, etc.)
asciilifeform: just take one of the loyal men and order him to get temporary job and borrow.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: if you take some employment (even temporarily) bank will lend you $.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in case this isn't obvious, it is trivial to patch a chump's ms-outlook to color a mal-signed message the requisite colour.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you recall, i found you in the first place because of a letter from mpoepr. she was never anything other than impeccably polite to me.
asciilifeform: there seems to be a 'garlic/vampire' dynamic with mpoepr.
asciilifeform: dub: other than the factoid that they employ folks to steal poorly-secured traditional chumpnets, this is uninteresting.
asciilifeform: whole thing probably was an ms-word template left over from '90s
asciilifeform: the most effective cell jammer doesn't simply piss out white noise, but emulates a functioning tower - one which happens to route calls into '/dev/null'
asciilifeform: they stamp out their own 'arm' clone now
asciilifeform: reminiscent of mp's piece re: spam being largely a cargocult
asciilifeform: i find it strange that people would skimp on a device that they stare at for 12+ hrs/day.
asciilifeform: fellow i know from india (former physicist) confirmed the famous rat temple
asciilifeform: still foolish to rely on x86 'rings' for isolation of something genuinely important
asciilifeform: it had cultural impact though:
asciilifeform: most of the people i know with actual degrees - yours truly included - (sci/eng.) had, at the time of signing up, delusions of employment in academia
asciilifeform: maybe poor choice of words. 'employment' rather than 'work'
asciilifeform: this place would probably empty out overnight if everybody had work elsewhere.
asciilifeform: sometimes i wonder if i actually learned english, or was cheated and given something vaguely compatible
asciilifeform: a bit of an oversimplification
asciilifeform: by tradition, one is expected to actually piss in the company of a witness
asciilifeform: surely that girl could learn to pull a trigger, for example.
asciilifeform: big empty space in the middle for DSHK.
asciilifeform: they can't all be impotent
asciilifeform: and the 'college' racket could finally implode.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: (unrelated) consider one day telling the tale of where you dug up MPOEPR.
asciilifeform: as described in latest s.nsa statement, present plan is to display a working cardano at mp's conference.
asciilifeform: and, mostly completing the list, maintaining infrastructure (sort of!)
asciilifeform: but it is not entirely implausible
asciilifeform: 'v' is more important than 'm' here.
asciilifeform: from the same rag, 'Canadian man who poked holes in condoms to impregnate girlfriend loses appeal'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unrelated - from what part of the world is mpoepr ?
asciilifeform: perhaps woman posted this crap herself - hungers for free sympathy coin.
asciilifeform: with added twist that a zombie can install the implant in a generic bird
asciilifeform: i've suggested it as 'landing gear' for flying bots, to diametric (who built an example of each at one point)
asciilifeform: mice do so love cheese. but, afaik, this particular trap remains empty. paper chumpatron.
asciilifeform: 'The Citadel is not designed to withstand any direct .Mil or .Gov attack. Nor is the Citadel, in any manner, attempting to provoke any government entity.'
asciilifeform: as far as i could tell, the thing is/was some combo of a usg honeypot and straight 'jam tomorrow, not today' chumpatron.
asciilifeform: from chumpers
asciilifeform: not simply noisy
asciilifeform: believing marriage and the care of a family to be incompatible
asciilifeform: Big Brother, which it was impossible to contemplate without
asciilifeform: over the Indian Ocean with important despatches, he had
asciilifeform: trick of asking questions and then promptly answering them
asciilifeform: and death he held up as an example worthy to be followed. Today
asciilifeform: complicate the records too much. What was needed was a piece of
asciilifeform: triumph of over-production in the Ninth Three-Year Plan, might
asciilifeform: ;;google sympathetic magic
asciilifeform: MisterE: see mp's essay on cattle-tronics technology to learn why this is not actually an idea.
asciilifeform: Chumpatronics Medal
asciilifeform: where people compute using song
asciilifeform: wait - it's a civil complaint?
asciilifeform: how? see mp's little piece about 'art'
asciilifeform: because that's simply how it works.
asciilifeform: re: invention, for the impatient:
asciilifeform: (and coughed up terms like 'impedence')
asciilifeform: the 'time microscope' thing is typical of aging inventors who, by virtue of being cut off from competent peers (either by having none alive, or being on the wrong side of a jail of one kind or another)
asciilifeform: no one alive today is even fit to suck his decomposed cocke
asciilifeform: eventually i will deal with this subject in writing, unless mp takes up this chore in my place.
asciilifeform: which one of you people spoke of reading landau in french? was it mp?
asciilifeform: it wasn't simply because it was a plywood jalopy with a grass cutter engine.
asciilifeform: comparison with pynchon et al is unwarranted
asciilifeform: quite a few people don't seem to understand the implications
asciilifeform: sometimes simple crap is actually... simple
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: 1% & comsec - one needn't be a historic champion to learn basic things
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: studying classic examples only takes you so far
asciilifeform: the traditional de-colonialization move from imposed to... self-imposed
asciilifeform: 'It’s not clear how you would build a secure way to initialise the Trezor, as you’d need to use an untrusted computer to present trusted keys into the device. A virus (MITM) could intercept and rewrite the keys as they were being loaded into the device. Unless you had key fingerprints written down on paper, it’d be impossible to notice a mismatch. Pre-agreed root certs installed at the factory solve this
asciilifeform: 'SSL is one of very few crypto systems that’s in daily usage by hundreds of millions of people. Remarkably, it seems that governments have not compromised the infrastructure.'
asciilifeform: idk, i wasn't there - but it was either tried to no result, or not attempted for good reason, i'd bet.
asciilifeform: quoted tidbit was about the futility of simply offering a cop benjamins on the spot to send him off
asciilifeform: russian fellow by the name of D. Starostin did 5 yrs. in a new york prison for attempted murder
asciilifeform: all this is is an attempt to tax an already plentiful and omnipresent supply of mj
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'legalization' thing is a sham. it's quite like, if drinking a cup of coffee were punished with $25 fine, but anyone found with a sack of coffee beans were impaled
asciilifeform: uni is certainly a chumpatron.
asciilifeform: i did specify that in a chumpatron, vs. an ordinary bioreactor, the fuel /wants/ to burn
asciilifeform: casino is an incontrovertible chumpatron
asciilifeform: 'honest chumpatron' - like 'pleasurable woodchipper' ?
asciilifeform: benkay`: and what about chumpatron
asciilifeform: spammer wants to talk to one chump at a time
asciilifeform: easier project, for complete beginner, then
asciilifeform: moiety: example - the blockchain-operated www-less exchange discussed last week (?)
asciilifeform: is the intended implication that... you don't intend to?
asciilifeform: because PKI == chumpatron
asciilifeform: (circuit-level implementation, done correctly, would leave no room for doubt as to the fate of every input bit, and the origin of every output)
asciilifeform: unrelated: did anyone ever answer the call to implement btc reference client compatible in verilog?
asciilifeform: '... If you have a 'specialty' field such as... a degree in computer science... you could be 'drafted'..'
asciilifeform: the only sure bet is that there will be some sweet placebo to reassure the chumps that 'this time, It's Different !11! (TM)'
asciilifeform: 'a holy place never remains empty' (rus. proverb)
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: a team of chumpatronic engineers is working around the clock to fix this.
asciilifeform: plow? bah. uprooted tree stump. what pre-iron-age slavs plowed with.
asciilifeform: attempt no parking there.
asciilifeform: it was a foolish declaration of chimp war, egged on by the u.s
asciilifeform: a not entirely-implausible scenario, though.
asciilifeform: 'Patton, like Douglas MacArthur, was an unfortunate mixture of personal courage, technical brilliance and toxic personality, and like MacArthur, a role model to three generations of mediocrities who equate pomp and nitpicking with excellence.'
asciilifeform: orlov's view seems to be that usg/nato/allies wreck countries (near east, etc.) to retard development -> to throttle resource consumption, create captive markets a la the brits at their peak, churn mil. inventory, 'controllable chaos' to feed various parasites.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: imagine if technology were possible! he could simply whisper 'this turd will not bear my pgp signature' and be done.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: remember my 'test drive' of mpex? that's all i did...
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: seems like a serious amount of work to do, simply in order to make a fair gamble.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: one of these days, you ought to write 'n00b guide' to sports bets. for instance, i grew up thinking of the whole concept as a chumpatron (lusers bet, the sports meisters throw matches & pocket the chumpatronium)
asciilifeform: empty now.
asciilifeform: military bureaucrats traditionally keep this simple.
asciilifeform: (if you are not willing to pay what this costs, the payload cannot be important)
asciilifeform: benkay: "personal crypto security: basically impossibly hard" << every time this is said, nsa cafeteria fillets and serves a white tiger kitten (or insert rarer and cuter animal)
asciilifeform: all the samples, if i recall, shipped in it.
asciilifeform: the problem of 'tell shit from shinola programmatically' is ai-complete
asciilifeform: the $5k circa 2010 - that's my old employer.
asciilifeform: http://www.usaspending.gov/search?form_fields={"recipient_name":"symbolics+","recip_state":null,"recip_congdist":null,"recip_country":null,"recipient_duns":["966978090","873185821"],"spending_cat":null,"dept":null,"extent_competed":null,"psc_code":null,"naics_code":null,"fyear":null}&sort_by=date&per_page=25
asciilifeform: he doesn't own the company
asciilifeform: (see the 'last psychiatrist' piece mp linked to the other day)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if mpex acct costs 30, how did 'from new accts' add up to 70?
asciilifeform: you fuze a layer, then spread more powder, and so on, until the piece is complete
asciilifeform: benkay`: fiction like this ends up being 'a less funny joke' soon after it is written. see, for example, http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
asciilifeform: beyond simple 'ritual unclean' voodoo.
asciilifeform: just that you should understand the implications.
asciilifeform: and that, while certain interesting classes of attack are impossible on an fpga,
asciilifeform: (fpga has no idea where the 'cache' will be on the fabric, or even that it will be configured as cpu rather than, say, decompressor)
asciilifeform: but as soon as the western rights holders complain
asciilifeform: imho, MP's version is the most plausible one so far.
asciilifeform: wake me up for the televised impalements.
asciilifeform: their open declaration 'this priceless gem must never fall into the hands of the public' is simply begging for it.
asciilifeform: complex supports and fulcrums << codpiece ?!
asciilifeform: imported mugger? or homegrown american
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: hemp, gold, 100 other historical examples
asciilifeform: perhaps our little break is simply over.
asciilifeform: little parasites were constant companions of people, historically.
asciilifeform: phun phact - in soviet prison camps, notes ('scribbles', roughly translated from the argot) went around freely from one end of the archipelago to another. (how? bribe a guard)
asciilifeform: channelling herr naggum: 'It is like going to a library full of books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these cheaper books is an inspiration to future authors.'
asciilifeform: did some chump really build a whatever-the-fuck with a set of leaked sources?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this probably wasn't the purpose of 'compendium of basic points...,' but now i'm marvelling over the ancient forum garbage
asciilifeform: (under no circumstances are cattle permitted to wander unguided, mp had a piece on this if i recall)
asciilifeform: folks who think they have an efficient solution to an np-complete problem should not settle for small change.
asciilifeform: once the complete blueprints for the current product are published, the carcass becomes less essential. and this too should end up priced in.
asciilifeform: at any rate, i do assume that mpex users have brains and that the amount of s.nsa operations presently resting on my earthy carcass is priced into the shares.
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: more importantly, do you need random bytes that others do not have a copy of?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one of the great mysteries that my puny brain is powerless to digest is why you & mpoepr haven't decamped and left that forum to the radioactive cockroaches and rats
asciilifeform: mpoe-pr ?
asciilifeform: is the implication of $foowife something like 'married to the sea' ?
asciilifeform: fired in a two-parter - emp shell to blind sensors, classical shell follows behind.
asciilifeform: the notion of a useful non-nuclear emp weapon is transparent grantsmanship
asciilifeform: the reason why it is so easy to produce massive emp with nuke is, charged particles zinging around in van allen belt.
asciilifeform: u.s. claimed that they zapped the entire iraqi power grid with emp, a transparently laughable tale
asciilifeform: explosively-pumped vircator.
asciilifeform: knocking it out for several hours (they had to change an amp)
asciilifeform: during 'desert storm' u.s. popped an emp bomb above an iraqi radio station
asciilifeform: incidentally, emp weapon other than traditional nuke is more or less a joke
asciilifeform: (one can laugh at the implementation, but not the physics.)
asciilifeform: although the schoolbook typically starts with a spherical shell as example
asciilifeform: pill against emp is to use line-of-sight optical links between the 'bees'
asciilifeform: B007: box controlling some stepper motors. hence single-tasking OS where you can simply execute 'CLI' and kill interrupts, getting 100% deterministic timing with empty loop.
asciilifeform: (better example: lynne conway)
asciilifeform: i actually sat on a jury some years ago in a case where 'computrace' was the evidence.
asciilifeform: re: ransomware: '90s virii simply formatted your disk. how exactly is this any worse?
asciilifeform: but if you're hijacking something, why not a supercomputer. 'might as well hang for a sheep as for a lamb.'
asciilifeform: neither is mooching cpu cycles from employer
asciilifeform: but, unlike the case of a dedicated app, there is no simple mechanical test.
asciilifeform: if you have any dedicated software component on the pc end (e.g. browser plugin), it is a target.
asciilifeform: example:
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