(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: 19th c. brits almost certainly likewise thought 'our opium, so great, even in china, they hate us, but luvv it'
(asciilifeform) adlai: verisimilitude: heh, a few of the old books that I have intercepted on their way out from the library at the university are in "might as well be printed&rebound warez copies" condition
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-28 02:49:28 verisimilitude: As a summary, seekdir was broken for twenty-five years, but all of the BSDs just blindly reused the code, so it went undetected until now.
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(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-27 01:28:49 verisimilitude: http://verisimilitudes.net/mmc-lmc-in-gnome-terminal.png
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(asciilifeform) shinohai: verisimilitude: Breaking Bad joke.
(asciilifeform) macc24: hey verisimilitude
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(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-19 02:15:35 verisimilitude: Apathy is the best strategy again; I'm not gaining money playing with crypto or at startups, but at least I'm not losing money.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-19 02:13:40 verisimilitude: Here's a different fool, with the same flavour as the others: https://decrypt.co/51692
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i'd work on moving. (lived in a hellhole like this -- moved.)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: walk?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: in which millenium was this mythical '1 rules for all' ? i'm not aware of any
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: in usa this doesn't help not because there are fed provocateurs errywhere, but because -- unless you are already living like mafia -- you can't actually cover your expenses w/ a suitcase of benjies
(asciilifeform) thimbronion: verisimilitude: make friends with the Chinese. They generally have no respect for the law.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: or -- outside reich -- w/out the 'worry'
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-17 15:30:44 verisimilitude: Say, asciilifeform, I was wasting time reading Hacker News and saw someone mention thee and thy work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25458080
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: whole pt of bitcoin is that when you're on the rack, ought to be no way to demonstrate whether you have any. if on acct of some technical flaw of bitcoin (or your particular setup) this is impractical, imho one ought not to use bitcoin at all.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-16 21:33:56 trinque: verisimilitude: some folks made a distributed udp chat app atop https://hypercore-protocol.org/
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: almost sop today, for various bots to use pnoje-style ref string
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: normally, if you're any kind of effective thinker, will rarely find yourself contemplating 100% irrelevant material.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: as it happens, not entirely irrelevant. or, think, wouldn't have contemplated it.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: outta curiosity, why ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: there's apparently a pretty long queue for 'getting suicided', there aint enuff for erryone.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: e.g. napoleon, disagreed ('if there had been a musketball for me in moscow!' if only')
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: what's the upper temporal limit re this hypothesis ? already on 11th yr of somehow not concentration camp.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i (and not only ) am convinced that the author of js intended it as a practical joke
(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: the js world's known for trivial programs hauling in 3gb of dependencies
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: errything i know about js, learned in '90s on 'netscape', to 1st approximation.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: it's a dozen ln of straight js, tho. vs multi-MB 'libraries' of e.g. 'node'.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: aa, ulam's fortune teller
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: which ?
(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: some folks made a distributed udp chat app atop https://hypercore-protocol.org/
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: laugh if you will, but asciilifeform was orig. 'dragged kicking and screaming' to irc. by mp, of all people.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-16 00:02:34 feedbot: http://verisimilitudes.net/2020-12-15 << A Syndication of Verisimilitudes -- A Review of ``Let Over Lambda'' By Doug Hoyte
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: lest this escape -- verisimilitude : i bought that book when it came out, and enjoyed at the time. but today i'm of same mind re this item as of pg's 'on lisp' --
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: there was more substance (and, more entertainment value) in a typical piece in 'pravda', than in pieces like the linked item
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: at the risk of oversimplification -- one school is that they exist so that rockefeller can buy 15 yachts instead of 1 while you work in either case 25 years of 14hour days and then die.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: there are in fact two main schools of thought re the q of why machines exist (not even speaking of computer in the particular!)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: imho 0 to do with the political systems as such, but folks in computing industry, more than in e.g. medical, labour sometimes for entire career under the delusion that there is 'market of ideas' where 'better tech wins' etc
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: upstack -- imho it is worth understanding why well-designed, simple, and functional systems remain obscure, while perl/cpp/microshit 'wins'. if more sane folx understood the basics of the underlying civilizational decay which powers this process, would die of cirrosis less often and overall happier imho
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: a++, then. erry yr or so, 1-2 folx write in, 'i read this, it made sense, ty for writing.'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: entire field is structured in such a way that anyone who does not behave this way, remains obscure and with 0 mass influence.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: ~was sold~ as good for deskilling process.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i could say 'but mathematics, unlike computing, actually advances..' but now not convinced even of this.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: stroustrup is best understood in light of the deskilling fashion of the '80s--present.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: depending on how low is your personal standard for "make some manner of influence" -- perhaps then can
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i'll admit that i do not believe, at this point, that 'can make difference' -- the decay of computer is simply small part of the general decline of the current civilization. and everything i write, will, sooner rather than later, vanish underneath kilometers of liquishit. but choose to act as if this were not the case. similarly to how soldier goes into the attack without
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(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: yer living in a (rebranded, less -- despite the pr bullshit -- efficient in ~every respect) clone of su.
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(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-11 23:56:40 verisimilitude: Explain what this is, shinohai.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-09 20:50:23 verisimilitude: There was a judge who wrote an article for the New York Times recently, trying to pass a law that makes it illegal to sell the information of judges and officers and whatnot, making no comment on why it should be fine for everyone else. Her son was killed by a man trying to shoot her; it's a shame the man missed his target.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-04 11:46:06 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-12-04#1025840 I enjoy using my machine code development tool of mine own design to write and document machine code, qonfluent.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-12-04#1025840 I enjoy using my machine code development tool of mine own design to write and document machine code, qonfluent.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-04 01:54:55 verisimilitude: I noticed this domain in mine HTTP referrers earlier, and wanted to see who was mentioning me.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-11-26 14:12:01 verisimilitude: I try to avoid caring about what I can't control, trinque.
(asciilifeform) adlai: verisimilitude: it is impossible to prevent that kind of rehosting; a different approach is to include a brief text at a different place within each article that alert people to the possibility that they are reading a repackaging
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-02 14:22:52 verisimilitude: I'm convinced textual languages are poor tools, and not the future, if the future is to be worth a damn.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: btw verisimilitude , this leads naturally into question : pcb routing is ideal fit for machine optimizer. constraints are easily expressed ('don't cross wires'; 'make'em all as short as possible'; 'reduce layers') and 0 intrinsic text involved. pcb routing is still hell. and 0 movement on this front in
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: also try programming in e.g. prolog, haskell, and see what looks like when the language feels free to make use of np-complete algos at will while trying to figure out what you meant by your proggy
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: it aint esp. 'sexy' activity, but i rec to read at least a little re historical compiler design (e.g. 'dragon book') an' get a sense of what can and what cannot be accomplished w/ known tech re mechanical optimizations
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i would not refuse a mechanical reasoner/optimizer/etc which WORKED and in fact simplified, and could 'explain' how did it,etc. but these don't actually exist, the state of the art there is stuck in the early '70s still.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: to date, efforts at 'automated proof systems' more or less all resolve to this.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: this is known traditionally as 'sufficiently smart compiler'(tm). a kind of philosopher's stone in the industry.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: to understand context in which ada was enacted, must look at what sort of horrors were then in common use in heavy industry.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: ada was primarily intended to make the ~lang vendor~ fungible. errything else, was afterthought.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: that's the thing, it aint meant to be used. purchased -- yes. paraded -- occasionally. used?
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-02 12:53:59 verisimilitude: It's disappointing that perfect software is possible, but the overlords are too incompetent to build it. Movies depict evil empires run with cold efficiency, and many other things, but my sparse knowledge of the world has me inclined to perhaps believe that the US has been mostly successful with, say, war, because of its chaotic nature, and not because of much of anything greater.
(asciilifeform) shinohai: verisimilitude: Unfortunately not at a rate fast enough to reduce new influx of wannabes.
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(asciilifeform) zzz999: Logged on 2020-11-26 19:39:34 verisimilitude: That's an interesting article regarding scythes; I've an antique scythe, but not many opportunities, nor the knowledge, to use it.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I exude verisimilitude.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I reflected on the preceding decade, and something still holds just as true.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-11-26 01:15:32 verisimilitude: It's impossible for me to care about my country more than my work. It's silly to even consider it.
(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: where are you from btw?
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(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i admit, did not read that one
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i was investigating not so much 'better architecture' but 'what physical cpu can buy today?'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: mips likewise lacked the carry flag. it's missing from afaik all pipeline-style cpus.
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(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: seems the prototype worked fine, and you self-selected into a place that suited you
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(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: All of my machine code programs, such as this one, have been written with the tool. I type relatively little, as it spares me this.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I wrote ``without text'', and by that I refer to what passes for machine text currently.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: As I explain in the first article, using a tool with an intimate knowledge of the task eliminates failure modes compared to other approaches.
(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: upstack, way premature for any "new republic"
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I've also a Common Lisp experiment, but this is solely concerned with the client; a TCP server should always be a distinct interface.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: if you read e.g. this, and this, and understood 100% how they worked, yer prolly qualified to write a useful network lib
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i had nfi you were baking a network lib..
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-11-06 18:37:45 trinque: verisimilitude: has to be taken in the context of the comically bad codenames nsa uses for its VERY SRS tools.
(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: no need to cross the streams; whole point is that several here own boxen
(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: has to be taken in the context of the comically bad codenames nsa uses for its VERY SRS tools.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: there was the seemingly-endless series of morons who objected to the name of FUCKGOATS, for instance.
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(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: because I cannot find fault with the perspective that the herd having "decided" means nothing. I hold the same.
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(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: I take it all back. fuck "modernity". shine on you crazy diamond.
(asciilifeform) trinque: incidentally verisimilitude if you start writing in latin I will defo continue to read.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-11-03 12:49:50 verisimilitude: Well, the English language is on a path to removing gender and case entirely, and then the contributions from Ebonics will wipe away whatever precision is left. I won't go willingly to that future.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-11-03 12:53:23 verisimilitude: See, if people don't resist, language will just decay, BingoBoingo.
(asciilifeform) thimbronion: verisimilitude: unless you can unmigrate a bunch of people English is never coming back.
(asciilifeform) thimbronion: verisimilitude: Mandarin is the worst.
(asciilifeform) PeterL: verisimilitude: it grates on me every time you use "mine" where you should use "my" - English isn't German, you can't use mine as a possesive adjective
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(asciilifeform) gregorynyssa: verisimilitude: coincidentally I had the same conversation with asciilifeform two months ago. have a look at: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-08-22#1020105
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: from hygienic pov -- entirely similar.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: many well-known historic chip vendors have been (and are to this day) fabless. e.g. sun, xilinx, nvidia, apple.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: moore afaik does not operate a fab and never has
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: how many (nominally) independent fab houses can you think of ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: not quite monopoly. but close.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: see also asciilifeform's rather pessimistic pov re subj
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: instead, the older processes go extinct, and the machinery which produced'em is scrapped.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i find it interesting that this has not -- despite various predictions -- happened, at any point.
(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: not to oversimplify, but "what are you going to do about it?"
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i'ma aware that you own 1 of the early loongsons. and i expect that you know that they have not been seen, even on collector market, in some years.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: legendarily, in haiti, shaman was able to command a man to die, of fright, with the right words. i expect, if was true, took generations of conditioning. so one day yes, possibly can kill'em w/ words..
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: enjoy
(asciilifeform) deedbot: asciilifeform updated rating of verisimilitude from 1 to 1 << commonlisp & various.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: !!rate verisimilitude 1 commonlisp & various.
(asciilifeform) deedbot: asciilifeform rated verisimilitude 1 at 2019/02/04 23:51:47 << commonlisp & cpu design fella, http://verisimilitudes.net , loper-os reader .
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: !!rated verisimilitude
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-09-08 19:33:46 verisimilitude: It's an advanced, interactive machine code development tool of mine own design, and I'm quite proud of the idea, even if my implementation falls short of my mind's eye's ideals.
(asciilifeform) adlai notes that "fail early" is a good practice, and is glad that verisimilitude has declared the offered payment insufficient!
(asciilifeform) adlai: verisimilitude: thank you for humoring my thinking-aloud about the unsigned commission. I will continue drafting such a contract, using this specific instance as a hypothetical prototype.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-12 16:51:24 verisimilitude: This is the main page for my MMC, a machine code development tool.
(asciilifeform) adlai drops an explicit pointer to Evolution of the Metadata Format, queued as 2nd article after entry point
(asciilifeform) adlai: verisimilitude: I am sticking to a lower total payment to discourage acceptance of the contract
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(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-17 12:41:21 snsabot: verisimilitude last seen here on 2020-09-26 16:40:33: Also, what's the line column maximum I should use, adlai; I prefer one hundred.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: verisimilitude last seen here on 2020-09-26 16:40:33: Also, what's the line column maximum I should use, adlai; I prefer one hundred.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: !q seen verisimilitude
(asciilifeform) adlai will probably continue the negotiation with verisimilitude, because working alone for too long leads to anaphora, haskell, and worse
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-02-15 23:21:32 verisimilitude: I'll try again: [Common Lisp Style Document](http://verisimilitudes.net/2020-02-14)
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(alethepedia) snsabot: (asciilifeform) 2020-09-26 verisimilitude: Define ``barf'' here.
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(asciilifeform) adlai wonders whether verisimilitude will comment on the drafted contract ~before~ the expiration! neither the draft, nor the logs here, require any coordination beyond "work happened; problem?"
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-09-26 15:51:24 adlai: verisimilitude: if you want links with reasonably deterministic content, use https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adlai/scalpl/b913a8f048b5cd5386aead2c54339f210b45abf5/scalpl.asd as your starting point
(asciilifeform) adlai is not rushed; waiting for verisimilitude
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(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-09-25 13:51:31 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: interestingly, not only money. piles o'shit attract 'fixers'. working systems -- not so much.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-09-26 15:29:19 adlai: unsigned, from the hip: one bitcent per file, for patches adding toplevel comments that explain the effects of each configurable parameter, and 'magic number', in the form immediately following that toplevel comment; for lack of a more magical man-month, this offer -- exclusive to verisimilitude -- is valid until greenwich noon, on november eighth .
(asciilifeform) adlai is aware that the expected amount, while enough to cover both deeding a specification of verisimilitude's task, and the amount most recently suggested as payment, is significantly less than the optimistic end of
(asciilifeform) adlai recommends that verisimilitude avoid reading scalpl on an empty stomach; barfing is much less painful when you hock out chaff along with the 'gift'.
(asciilifeform) adlai: BARF ... verb, intransitive : to become so ill, typically as a direct result of food poisoning, that the subject is unable to continue performing useful work, and possibly even has to flush a toilet, exceed expected daily caloric intake, brush teeth, and get some fresh air; e.g., "verisimilitude: adlai: I read your code, and now I have a detached retina; keep your 0.12 BTC, you lazy dog, there is not
(asciilifeform) adlai: mats: you have right of first refusal, if verisimilitude barfs!
(asciilifeform) adlai: verisimilitude: if you want links with reasonably deterministic content, use https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adlai/scalpl/b913a8f048b5cd5386aead2c54339f210b45abf5/scalpl.asd as your starting point
(asciilifeform) adlai: as for "what files, you have published no source!": since verisimilitude expressed an intent to publish the patches over gopher, I should probably publish the files in the same protocol, and this will take time; probably less than "until november eighth", much less.
(asciilifeform) adlai: unsigned, from the hip: one bitcent per file, for patches adding toplevel comments that explain the effects of each configurable parameter, and 'magic number', in the form immediately following that toplevel comment; for lack of a more magical man-month, this offer -- exclusive to verisimilitude -- is valid until greenwich noon, on november eighth .
(asciilifeform) gregorynyssa: asciilifeform: verisimilitude: I still think the 1990s was the decade when programming went horribly wrong.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: it's vaguely similar to what happened in re medicine at various times ( 1400s, 1600s, 1800s ) -- some small breakthroughs (often rediscovered from past) and suddenly erry mountebank puts on costume and goes 'doctoring', leaving trail of gangrenous devastation as he goes
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: part of the underlying disaster, i suspect, was the 'gold rush' that pulled 1e8 mediocrities into pretending to 'program'. sadly aint even over.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: that's only half the story. does not explain why simplified/corrected/orthogonalized variants of $item are rejected by 'community', while pile of shit -- eagerly eaten up, in typical practice
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: interestingly, not only money. piles o'shit attract 'fixers'. working systems -- not so much.
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(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-09-25#1022133 << imho quite good piece, verisimilitude . the description of state of software rot is entirely correct. would be interesting tho to consider in detail the causes.
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(alethepedia) adlai: thimbronion: "Prince Trippy" is the pseudonym that verisimilitude uses to claim copyright on the code published in the Gopher hole linked from his website
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(asciilifeform) adlai: verisimilitude: you seem to have expected exclusivity for part, if not all, of the work. that is alright, and possibly even quite reasonable. I'll reconsider the offer's structure before acting upon asciilifeform's suggestion w.r.t. deeding a signed offer.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-09-12 11:52:38 adlai: does not require, fwiw, that verisimilitude use 'git'; any reasonable patch format suffices, as long as figuring out how to apply it to my copy of the code doesn't break my will to compensate the sender.
(asciilifeform) adlai does not require, fwiw, that verisimilitude use 'git'; any reasonable patch format suffices, as long as figuring out how to apply it to my copy of the code doesn't break my will to compensate the sender.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-09-03 20:46:29 verisimilitude: I'm not starving, and I'm not much of an artist.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-09-03 12:35:12 verisimilitude: So when can any expect a decision regarding that, adlai?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: imho calculator-like -- ideal
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: programmed with lamp-buttons, like ye olde 'altair', is how i picture it.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: ever considered making an iron/'keychain' embodiment of your mmc ? would make a++ educational toy imho. i'd even buy one.
(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: will get to reading your series in time.
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(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: what good btw would tick table do for emulated cpu (as in your case) ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: actually pretty difficult problem for x86 (where massive effect from pipeline interaction b/w adjacent ops)
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-09-08 19:58:02 verisimilitude: Upon pressing a key, questions are asked until sufficient information is provided, and then a human-readable description of the instruction is given, alongside the omnipresent information such as the unit value in several bases and the address.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-09-08#1021350 << fwiw i read verisimilitude's series on subj. it's imho elegant, for toy cpu, but i find that in practice nontrivial proggies in asm involve quite a bit of 'cut&pasta' and macroism. ( e.g. 'M' is maybe 40% macroism by weight )
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-09-08 19:48:51 trinque: verisimilitude: or is the idea closer to producing a "machine-code repl"?
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-09-08 19:17:43 verisimilitude: I'm vehemently opposed to an x86_64 MMC targeting, as I don't believe the instruction set is even suited to an assembler, but the leagues simpler x86 may be in my sights, eventually.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-09-08 19:16:26 verisimilitude: My MMC model is superior to the assembler model.
(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: or is the idea closer to producing a "machine-code repl"?
(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: what was the design problem you were trying to solve with mmc?
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: Here is the primary article, and here is the latest article. Currently, only a CHIP-8 targeting exists.
(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: can I have a macroexpand on MMC?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: for +9000 lulz, apparently said 'news' consists of wankage dug up from 2014
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-09-04 01:05:14 verisimilitude: Call them ``bug-chasers''.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-09-04 00:24:46 verisimilitude: Say, asciilifeform, I've been working on my SHA again, and the generic package should largely just be the SHA256 with some adjustments. I'm going to need to have many renamings to instantiate it with the generics hidden, aren't I?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: aite
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: To phc, I've actually a relevant section of my website, so go there and read it: http://verisimilitudes.net
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i gotta ask, are you actually artist, or just starving ?
(asciilifeform) shinohai: ah kk .... verisimilitude is this in your purview
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: imho there aint one. lamers who demand guism, or simply install a heathen linux of last 5+y vintage, end up w/ 2.x
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: abstractly, imho is interesting how little '$work for $coin' there is / has been historically .
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: fella shows up ~1x/quarter, you may have to wait..
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-31 11:46:57 verisimilitude: I'm interested, adlai.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-30 23:00:47 verisimilitude: I meant the library would cover general TCP, and ignore any fancy options, which probably aren't needed.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: how do you intend to implement 'tcp spackle for sbcl + buncha others' w/out ifdefism ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: tcp per se is a mindbogglingly-braindamaged abstraction that never has been and probably never could be implemented even half-sanely . which limits, to asciilifeform's pov, the appeal of the very idea of 'fixing' it.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-30 20:08:47 verisimilitude: I've experienced similar frustrations, so I focus on other things. My EASY-PEASY-TCP may be of some interest; if so, I may resume work on it.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I've experienced similar frustrations, so I focus on other things. My EASY-PEASY-TCP may be of some interest; if so, I may resume work on it.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-27 12:25:57 verisimilitude: Were dueling still common, people would insult each other less, because dying over it would be more common. Unfortunately, the current world allows cretins to spew opinions without potentially being murdered by the common man; only the wealthy get to kill people for their opinions.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-25 01:34:58 verisimilitude: To not discard with that would be akin to ``Okay, now that we've burned down the library, let's be civil from here on out and respect each other's ideas.'', and it would be disgusting.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-25 01:33:54 verisimilitude: Regarding the Naggum piece, I can't agree with backwards compatibility being valuable in computing, yet. Unicode has misspellings, because they couldn't be bothered to get it correct initially. HTTP is singlehandedly responsible for popularizing the misspelling of ``referrer''. UNIX was created by people who don't think programs need to be correct.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-25 01:28:50 verisimilitude: I'm far more concerned with becoming fluent in Latin, Greek, and conlangs. I'd like to translate some of my articles to toki pona once I consider myself fluent therein, and then to other languages as I learn them. Now I wonder why loper-os doesn't seem to have Russian translations available, or have I merely overlooked these?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i dare say pretty good piece re subj. will add, in ru world, the fallacy typified by the linked 'abstractions' piece is known as 'inverse cargo cult' : roughly, 'the white man's airplanes are really the same as ours; he cannot fly any more than we can, but is simply has shinier-looking straw and coconuts to build his simulacra with'
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(asciilifeform) deedbot: asciilifeform rated verisimilitude 1 at 2019/02/04 23:51:47 << commonlisp & cpu design fella, http://verisimilitudes.net , loper-os reader .
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: !!rated verisimilitude
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: !!key verisimilitude
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-23 15:50:01 verisimilitude: Isn't separate included at least in part to enable some manner of conditional compilation, asciilifeform? It's not at all comparable to Common Lisp's #+ and #-, and conditional compilation is best avoided anyway, but it's something.