mircea_popescu: "Altering the faulty declaration improved the performance of the entire system by 20%." << umm... go hang ?
mircea_popescu: are you seriously going to tell me that the compiler fails to identify this optimization ?!
mircea_popescu: The three arrays happen to be of fixed size, which is reflected in the following correct declaration:
mircea_popescu: This example is a mistake that is easy to make. The programmer here did not declare his arrays as fully as he could have. Therefore, each array access was about as slow as a function call when it should have been a few instructions. The original declaration was as follows:
mircea_popescu: let's consider the following bit of clisp guts :
deedbot-: [Qntra] Gavin and Toomim Present: "Classic" Another Hard Fork Risk - http://qntra.net/2016/01/gavin-and-toomim-present-classic-another-hard-fork-risk/
mircea_popescu: "sovereignity is the ability to convince lazy idiots that symbols have meaning".
mircea_popescu: why do they need that, one would wonder ?
mircea_popescu: all the talk neglects to notice how teh usg is force to try and replace cars - autonomous for 1500 miles - with rubber band machines, autonomous for maybe 50. at GREAT expense.
BingoBoingo awaits mircea_popescu paying out bounties to Unilever for the death of his enemies.
mircea_popescu: as someone once said, "their tricks work for them only a short distance of their run, and for us the whole run."
punkman: "a flurry of various machine making machines." "houses don't need a fucking pool, they need a runway." << I love futuristic-mp
mircea_popescu: best ray to date, as far as the military records go.
ascii_butugychag: 'sovereignty is the ability to manufacture airplane in large numbers'
ascii_butugychag: it follows from orwell's theorem
ascii_butugychag: the megastate didn't end up with air superiority because of the gods' whim, though
mircea_popescu: bitch can cool herself in the basement.
mircea_popescu: they need a runway.
mircea_popescu: private jets all the way. private helicopters, cessnas, fuck it.
mircea_popescu: fuck boeing nevertheless. i do not wish to even hear of bullshit "airport" to have "tsa" at.
mircea_popescu: ahaha I~~~ am the one smoking something strong ?
mircea_popescu: "C is therefore a language for which it is easy to write a decent compiler"
ascii_butugychag: if mircea_popescu imagines that his gateway to the bowels of hell will be dug by six dudes with shovels, he is smoking something strong.
mircea_popescu: no, we have city-run stell mill like the city power network,
mircea_popescu: only reason those are excused is because ancient tradition. otherwise, caterpillar as loathsome as john deere as loathsome as monsanto as loathsome as mpaa
ascii_butugychag: they were heavy industrial equipment.
ascii_butugychag: thing is, these were not pc
mircea_popescu: and that they're wrong, and unloved.
mircea_popescu: at least the usg, from the president to the last goon, knows they're sitting on a prayer
mircea_popescu: last fucking thing the world of today needed would be some unfucked & unfuckable, nose-in-the-sky self sufficient engineer derps with delusions of success.
gribble: Ahmed Bodiwala (@CryptoExpert) | Twitter: <https://twitter.com/cryptoexpert>; ahmedbodi · GitHub: <https://github.com/ahmedbodi>; The Arscoin rollout, through the eyes of the server administrators ...: <http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/the-arscoin-rollout-through-the-eyes-of-the-server-administrators/>
mircea_popescu: i'd have much preferred it if that quote read "had we done what mp said we shoudl do the first time he called us idiots back in 2013, we'd now be in a position where we could almost pass for human"
mircea_popescu: bluematt left, apparently. which brings the bipedal count to ~0
mircea_popescu: http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/2016/01/11#l1452496750.0 << in other news, what scant remains is left of #power-rangers are moving into a "actual improvements" phase.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, by now they're self-parodic.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 18:37:55; mircea_popescu: and in the endless lulz, https://archive.is/ZTfo5
mircea_popescu: "And outside the US there were major Lisp efforts, including Cambridge Lisp and Le-Lisp. The humble US grassroots effort did not seek membership from outside the US, and one can safely regard that as a mistake. Frankly, it never occurred to the Common Lisp group that this purely American effort would be of interest outside the US, because very few of the group saw a future in AI that would extend the needs for a standa
mircea_popescu: "The largest criticisms of Symbolics in the article are that Symbolics believed AI would take off and that Symbolics mistakenly pushed its view that proprietary hardware was the way to go for AI."
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: Logged on 11-01-2016 17:58:22; mircea_popescu: it is also fundamentally why math "is hard". for every non-retarded young adult who believes math is hard you have a case of a child who developed his own, highly personal set of shitty symbols, and then never received a good explanation as to what the difference between his and "everyone else"'s is, so got lost.
mircea_popescu: "Now one of the things about Lisp, and I've seen it before, is that Lisp is a real magnet for this kind of mind. " check it out, he ... carefully put in the hook for language specific http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=11-01-2016#1366854
mircea_popescu: nevertheless :D
mircea_popescu: http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm << nice writing, and in more than one way. ascii_butugychag dja happen to recognize the very plain, alphabetic notation employed ? :D
mircea_popescu: "Any lecturer who serves his time will probably graduate hundreds, if not thousands of students. Mostly they merge into a blur; like those paintings of crowd scenes where the leading faces are clearly picked out and the rest just have iconic representations. This anonymity can be embarrassing when some past student hails you by name and you really haven't got the foggiest idea of who he or she is. It's both nice to
ascii_butugychag: snout already protrudes from the pot
ascii_butugychag: hey my pig is growing by the hour!111
mircea_popescu: "The right thing to do was to carefully implement one, common base mode for process interaction, and to carefully put in hooks for customising this base mode into language-specific modes" << and in today's installement of intelligence is no defense from stupidity news, "if you tried wrestling with a wild pig in some mud you found in the forrest and got raped, the correct thing is to buy some earth from the supermarket,
mircea_popescu: im not sure i understand the question
mircea_popescu: they try to hack it togetgher with bs like the internet taskforce "we believe in rough consensus and working code", but it's structurally nonsense. the only reason it sort-of appeared to work was because it was unwittingly implementing some wot/ba features.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the point oshivers' not aware of is that THE ONLY way to have 100% solutions is with the power of the wot as deployed by b-a
mircea_popescu: implementations had been built. No one can use each others code."
mircea_popescu: Not only does it lack coverage, but the deep structure wasn't thought out well
BingoBoingo: adlai: What about the stripper ReggieX
gribble: The SRE regular-expression notation: <http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/papers/sre.txt>; Technical Bibliography - College of Computer and Information Science: <http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/citations.html>; Olin Shivers - College of Computer and Information Science: <http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/cv.pdf>
adlai: ascii_butugychag: agreed, but for such a mega-classic, it's unbearably un-googleable. anything about "80/100% solutions" (spelled however you like) turns up corporations priding themselves in the quick, dirty, and incomplete.
adlai waits for the man to show up
ascii_butugychag: do they need to live ?
mircea_popescu: that we'll doublespend all the txn that they see as conformant, and then impose the longer chain with the doublespends.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag if we do force a longer chain which breaks that softfork we HAVE to also steal all their money.
ascii_butugychag: betcha the pool would instantly fill with trb folk
ascii_butugychag: why not preferentially mine the high-S ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> anyway, if the toomims take thgeir fake hashpower to this thing it'll be a perfect exit for that set of scammers and good riddance. << I alway thought the Toomims hashpower was real? Who claiming fake hashpower would claim so little?
mircea_popescu: troops also got their own land to plow.
mircea_popescu: not every inconvenience is good enough to call out the troops.
ascii_butugychag: bowing to the enemy
ascii_butugychag: and surrendering on the declaration
mircea_popescu: anyway, if the toomims take thgeir fake hashpower to this thing it'll be a perfect exit for that set of scammers and good riddance.
ascii_butugychag: i mean, the present situation is icky
ascii_butugychag: but would conveniently drive an additional nail into the enemy's skull
mircea_popescu: eh, i dunno if you recall the discussion at the time, but anyway. i am not really THAT against that soft fork, because like it or not this situation with ambiguous s-ness is not so good.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the loyal miners get 10x easier coins.
mircea_popescu: so basically the renegade miners that got scammed into mining a fork got all the mining competition and none of the benefits.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile i will continue to honor payments on the actual bitcoin chain.
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea what they imagine this will do. suppose 90% of the miners move over. i will not honor any of their payments, not on mpex, not on bitbet, not anywhere else. that's the whole market.
mircea_popescu: they're more than free to make their own altcoin, like everyhone else throughout the years. glhf and all that.
mircea_popescu: anyway. this bullshit won't be either mined or relayed by trb.
mircea_popescu: derps so fucking desperately need moar brandings and things. plox to make a website. with the cssen
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 17:16:36; adlai: there's no a-priori reason why fork proponents can't stake their reputation on pgp-signed contracts to buy up their alt after it's launch... reminscent of the $20 XPY floor
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-01-2016#1368198 << well, none other than the obvious reason, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-01-2016#1368184 << start by getting in the wot.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-01-2016#1368177 << supposedly there is a chain. i never personally checked.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 17:07:24; psztorc: BingoBoingo: you see, that's the thing when it comes to death threats, though.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I need to know for the jokes!!!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo there's no end of these "bitcoin experts" who have weekly opinions and who are to be taken seriously provided you don't examine anything past last week.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 17:08:33; adlai: psztorc: out of curiosity, did anything ever come of plans to build a market for exchanging such coins? rather than manually arbitraging between businesses on either side
BingoBoingo: Anyways, look which degenerate gambler is ready to lose other people's money again https://archive.is/qBHnW
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-01-2016#1368129 |<< this isn't going to be like the "miners vote to uncontroversial softfork, oops forgot to actually implement it" debacle is it ?
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 16:57:00; thestringpuller: from my studies, I thought that jazz musicians routinely passed down songs via audition rather than sight (via score).
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-01-2016#1368128 << quite common actually, yes. chiefly because jazz is a lot more into the whole color and interpretation thing.
adlai envisions an aging mircea_popescu, tired of 'systems analysis', finding his final calling with the shakuhachi. (it's also quite good for spanking)
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 16:48:30; adlai: clef notation is worse than useless, because it sparks endless bikeshedding about whether E sharp "ever is or could be equal to" F
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 16:37:02; ascii_butugychag: (he has the virtue of not building towers of own shit, like farm swine, but that's the beginning and end of it)
thestringpuller: so we have to live in vaults because some fucker wants to launch a nuke cause "hey this will fix the world!111"
deedbot-: [Qntra] Another One Bites The Dust: Cryptsy Edition - http://qntra.net/2016/01/another-one-bites-the-dust-cryptsy-edition/
thestringpuller: the forkers think it's all fun and games until an ecological disaster occurs. then who is expected to clean it up?
psztorc: Well, that's the news, so to speak.
adlai: psztorc: at the top of my push-down stack of Bitcoin forkists are all the names listed on https://bitcoinclassic.com/
ascii_butugychag: mats: i hear they give priority to applicants who give a shit
adlai only trades altcoins in the middle clef
adlai: psztorc: have you considered asking fork proponents to help build such a market? i think the antifork crowd are more content to take a more patient role in this game of chicken, because the "burden of forking" is on the other camp
adlai: there's no a-priori reason why fork proponents can't stake their reputation on pgp-signed contracts to buy up their alt after it's launch... reminscent of the $20 XPY floor
ascii_butugychag: the arbitrage thing
psztorc: So I just shelved it...unlike TC/HM, the watered-down version required some community buy-in, so I knew it was DoA.
psztorc: I know, that's why I proposed rushing out a very very simple version which outright relied on multisig for the 2-way-peg and the price-oracle input.
adlai: psztorc: the problem with basing this rather-necessary tool on TC/HM is that the latter doesn't exist yet...
assbot: The Win-Win Blocksize Solution | Truthcoin: Making Cheap Talk Expensive ... ( http://bit.ly/1ONyiRv )
adlai: mircea_popescu doesn't own woodcoin, either.
adlai: ascii_butugychag: you can run bitcoind and forkcoind, and automate https://github.com/TierNolan/bips/blob/bip4x/bip-atom.mediawiki between them... if only anybody wrote the glue for this. for some reason I thought psztorc was working on this, but can't find the github repo
psztorc: This one let you exchange the coins, *before* the fork actually split them into two Altcoins.
psztorc: The plan was to rush out a tiny version of Truthcoin/Hivemind , now I'm just going to wait for the full thing to be done.
ascii_butugychag: adlai: there is no shortage of places to trade crackpot alts
adlai: psztorc: out of curiosity, did anything ever come of plans to build a market for exchanging such coins? rather than manually arbitraging between businesses on either side
psztorc: BingoBoingo: you see, that's the thing when it comes to death threats, though.
ascii_butugychag: (see the 'missile' essay)
ascii_butugychag: folks who want to convert their btc into a usg-alt that mircea_popescu will sell 1,000,000 of for a penny each the day of the phork, can go ahead any time...
adlai should maybe have used Y for the soft limit example; these are different parameters, and until miners start wasting their own money to back up these claims, the claims might as well be plaintext on a webpage for all Bitcoin cares
punkman: o hey there's gavin in dev list
psztorc: I am aware of the relative lack-of-influence of miners in this case.
adlai: psztorc: i'm more interested in measuring the seismic trembles as miners agonize over raising their soft limit past 1MB... ie, being the guinea pig that expends their own hashpower-hours to verify whether or not it's all a fluffy bluff
psztorc: According to a reliable friend, they already have 40% committed, and according to a different friend, the Chinese miners will agree to join the 40%.
thestringpuller: i can confirm from my experience with kerbal space program, it's much more dramatic reentering the atmospher than leaving it
adlai: thestringpuller: compare to shakuhachi tradition, where a song isn't "yours" until you've a) tweaked out your own version, and b) taught it to your students
adlai has probably spent more hours playing music than writing lisp, although the trends seem headed for a reversal in a couple years
thestringpuller: it wasn't until someone was bored enough to write the thing down that you got Fake Books and stuff of the "American Song Book"
psztorc: Very interesting that you are talking about music theory.
thestringpuller: from my studies, I thought that jazz musicians routinely passed down songs via audition rather than sight (via score).
ascii_butugychag: play in the air.
ascii_butugychag: who needs the piano
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 16:48:30; adlai: clef notation is worse than useless, because it sparks endless bikeshedding about whether E sharp "ever is or could be equal to" F
ascii_butugychag: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-01-2016#1368109 << adlai is a concert musician ? plays music from a score every day of the week ?
thestringpuller: Live from the labor camp as wild asciilifeform appears.
adlai: bonus points if they can sight-transpose... triple bonus if they can do it in the direction unnatural for their instrument's historic bias
adlai: clef notation is worse than useless, because it sparks endless bikeshedding about whether E sharp "ever is or could be equal to" F
ascii_butugychag: (he has the virtue of not building towers of own shit, like farm swine, but that's the beginning and end of it)
ascii_butugychag: no amount of 'will!11111', virility, non-pencildickery, counts for ~shit~ if you have no soul. beasts of the motherfucking field, the lot of'em.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 14:01:05; mircea_popescu: "In connection with the offer of the above securities, the Stabilising Manager(s) may over-allot the securities or effect transactions with a view to supporting the market price of the securities at a level higher than that which might otherwise prevail. "
mircea_popescu: "the lord doesn't know of you"
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 13:58:38; mircea_popescu: i have absolutely no idea what these bundy dudes must be thinking to elevate the usg charade into relevancy through participating. but then again... can't trust one to think that's not got a pubkey, can you.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 13:32:43; mircea_popescu: "f course, a full charge won't be that important most days," << god fucking help them once memory effects and other such things start taking a toll. the full prospect should read " As previously announced, the Bolt's 288 cells will be able to go over 200 miles on a full charge about 20 or so times. Good fucking luck with your new disposable car!"
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 13:33:54; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-01-2016#1367845 << i don't hate the unicode folk. i hate the notion that we'd include all this in the first place. once we decide "we need it", i'd actually prefer unicode to any adhoc herpderping.
ascii_butugychag: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-01-2016#1368044 << i would much like to attend a concert hall directed by mircea_popescu. understand, just to watch the faces of the musicians when they open their scores and discover, instead of musical notation, 'do re mi.....' x 100,001 !1
mircea_popescu: yes, they are.
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "women doing a shitty job fucking are doing it in the bedroom"
ascii_butugychag: betcha there will be 1,001 usg gossipd.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 07:38:29; ben_vulpes: jokes through the roof
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-01-2016#1367960 << a board meeting decided to make the qntra good.
mircea_popescu: "In connection with the offer of the above securities, the Stabilising Manager(s) may over-allot the securities or effect transactions with a view to supporting the market price of the securities at a level higher than that which might otherwise prevail. "
mircea_popescu: i have absolutely no idea what these bundy dudes must be thinking to elevate the usg charade into relevancy through participating. but then again... can't trust one to think that's not got a pubkey, can you.
assbot: Logged on 11-01-2016 19:04:25; mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/0A0WRTM << there, consider that.
mircea_popescu: "Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher · 11h11 hours ago Burns mayor to Bundys: "Our community does not want you here." Big applause. #Oregonstandoff111 retweets 118 likes " "Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher · 11h11 hours ago Packed house for tonight's community mtg in Burns about the #Oregonstandoff. " << yeah, i'm sure it was packed. all with http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-01-2016#1366965
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-01-2016#1367880 << eh gtfo. if the police shows up and does anything above and beyond fining the shop for spurious call they're remiss.
mircea_popescu: "i know... we'll offshore everything to china and live off a '''service economy'''. then we won't bother getting off the couch. win-win!"
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 06:02:19; pete_dushenski: some fat needs to be trimmed around here, whether that idjits going back to wherever the fuck they came from (ftr no one is "from" alberta) or they can learn that business isn't this thing where money and clients rain down from the sky and it's all you can do to beat them back at the door
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 05:51:38; punkman: even if you hate the Unicode folks, they have actually codified a lot of these things and it mostly seems to work
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-01-2016#1367845 << i don't hate the unicode folk. i hate the notion that we'd include all this in the first place. once we decide "we need it", i'd actually prefer unicode to any adhoc herpderping.
mircea_popescu: "f course, a full charge won't be that important most days," << god fucking help them once memory effects and other such things start taking a toll. the full prospect should read " As previously announced, the Bolt's 288 cells will be able to go over 200 miles on a full charge about 20 or so times. Good fucking luck with your new disposable car!"
mircea_popescu: do you mean "this" manner, as in the latter ? or actually "that" manner, as in the former.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 05:28:22; trinque: why create syntactic barriers to understanding when you can just kill the folks you don't want in your math club, anyway
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: "the square of the length of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the square of the catheti", for the curious. kids the world over (in those places with an actual culture, as opposed to hunter-gatherer societies of primitives) actually learn this by heart, and it's one of the first steps on the stair they ever meet.
asciilifeform bbl, must meet the party's five-year plan
mircea_popescu: the egyptians had... unusable pi.
mircea_popescu: the greeks had pi.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: neither had effective long division.
mircea_popescu: but so far we doth not even agree on the historical facts
asciilifeform: i get it, there is a fashion in the derp army of going around and 'i'm a visual thinker!11111'. this changes nothing. there are napoleons in your local loony bin, does not change the historic fact of napoleon.
mircea_popescu: mujch in the manner europe overtook china.
mircea_popescu: the alphabetic greeks overtook the hyeroglyphic egyptioans. for this reason and this alone.
asciilifeform: until some folks broke free of the must-verbalize crapolade.
asciilifeform: and most cultures were mathematically zeroes.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> BUT if the product was any good, it always got redone and typeset properly << "if the product were any good it was always mass produced". hurr.
mircea_popescu: so let it be said : that alphabet can NAME way more things than your symbolics can ever dream to represent. and for that matter, that from the multi-millenarian history of world culture, alphabetic notation does indeed convey richer, more numerous ideas in less space than hyeroglypghics do. which is why we fucked the chinese, and why egypt is muslim now.
asciilifeform: BUT if the product was any good, it always got redone and typeset properly
asciilifeform: incidentally, serious researchers often ended up doing the selectric-to-web-press thing, on account of sheer hurry
mircea_popescu: had to run the machines to do things.
mircea_popescu: his work, on the machines, is actually quite lispy. in the ONLY UPPERCASE EXISTS sense of lispy
asciilifeform: he had the option of typesetting on a 'selectric' and having that go straight to press
mircea_popescu: he did, yes, but i won't count it because at his time (40s) he had no other options.
mircea_popescu: the difference between a thinking man and a hack is that a hack goes "hey, i can't explain this without a blackboard"
asciilifeform: but note that he did not try 'let's use only ascii for all of mathematics'
mircea_popescu: he reads it out half the fucking time
asciilifeform: and yes, explained the basics, he was a teacher !
asciilifeform: feynman used standard mathematical notation.
mircea_popescu: not coincidental to the admiration, but integral.
mircea_popescu: so did newton. so did all of them. so did fucking feynman which is WHY youadmire him
mircea_popescu: gauss wrote his shit out. review the notes.
asciilifeform: me - no. gauss - motherfucking yes.
mircea_popescu: don't idly suppose you're better than the greeks just because you have more maggots eating more cans of spam.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you will note THEY ALSO DID NOT NEED TO.
asciilifeform: they were not trying to build 5,000-story towers!
mircea_popescu: now what's the symbol for hypotenuse ? or do we not know this exists.
asciilifeform: and yes, we know that it worked for the greeks.
asciilifeform: 'CRYPTO_SECRETBOX is a combination of poly1305 (MAC) and xsalsa20 (stream cipher) that is used to encrypt the URCLINE. The taia96n label, CMD, and random bytes are used as the NONCE, and the secret key is chosen prior to encryption.'
asciilifeform: i woke up and read the docz, almost fell out of bed:
ben_vulpes: "fuck it why even try" << motherfucking gold
ben_vulpes: jokes through the roof
BingoBoingo: Tomiii: Well, the general downsides of ECC. At least in Bitcoin the public key isn't even public unless an address has spent a transaction.
Tomiii: BingoBoingo: what are the downsides of ECC in gpg?
BingoBoingo: Tomiii: It should be possible in theory, but why seems iffy.
Tomiii: BingoBoingo: people said the same thing about determinstic wallets in bitcoin (at first), but now they are pretty popular
assbot: The Royal Bank of Scotland plc - Stabilisation notice | Business Wire ... ( http://bit.ly/1mS10FZ )
BingoBoingo: ALSO LOOK AT google breaking the law in the united states by distributing this: https://archive.is/xs37a
punkman: maybe The Collegiate Licensing Company said elephant would sell well
BingoBoingo: I still have no idea why their mascot is an elephant
punkman: "Roll Tide is the rallying cry for the Alabama Crimson Tide athletic teams. The trademark to the phrase is claimed by the University of Alabama, with licensing and marketing by The Collegiate Licensing Company."
BingoBoingo: In other news Alabama won the National Championship with an onside kick. Anyone looking for the video is advised to find the Russian audio commentators for maximum excitement, Roll Tide.
assbot: We saw some really bad Intel CPU bugs in 2015, and we should expect to see more in the future ... ( http://bit.ly/1mRYPSL )
BingoBoingo: "Prime95, which has historically been used to benchmark and stress-test computers, uses Fast Fourier Transforms to multiply extremely large numbers. A particular exponent size, 14,942,209, has been found to cause the system crashes."
BingoBoingo: Other Skylake lulz if someone (cough, cough, mats) wants to throw together a larger Intel and skylake suck piece http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/01/11/2049209/intel-skylake-bug-causes-pcs-to-freeze-during-complex-workloads
mats: left out the L
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mats: also, you misspelled the instruction in qntra piece
BingoBoingo: <mats> i don't get it, why another instruction << Because Intel
pete_dushenski: for my part on the phone-comp sync experiments, i'm pleased to report that the razr syncs like a charm via 10.6 'isync' once contacts are moved from sim storage to phone storage. the catch being that your next phone would also have to sync using 'isync' or else you'll have to switch the contact back to sim storage before changing phones.
ben_vulpes: nary a walk the dinosaur in sight
mats: i don't get it, why another instruction
mats: why not just modify 'CLFLUSH' to do the same thing as 'CLFLUSHOPT'
ben_vulpes: man these greentexts do not even resemble those of my childhood
ben_vulpes did not have wordspace in the above piece to explain the dev entanglement hat-trick steve pulled