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(asciilifeform) edef: verisimilitude: i enjoyed that post, thank you
(asciilifeform) edef: verisimilitude: i am enjoying the bit about storing words, i have considered similar things
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I cover that in some detail here.
(asciilifeform) edef: verisimilitude: by this ignorance they do not abolish that complexity, they merely pass the buck
(asciilifeform) edef: verisimilitude: there are certain tools that consider the complexity of the domain they operate in as irrelevant
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: This is the main page for my MMC, a machine code development tool.
(asciilifeform) edef: verisimilitude: if it comes in a raw form where i have no semantic search ability, then a good text search tool is interesting
(asciilifeform) edef: verisimilitude: but part of the purpose of having an exocortex is to allow me to process large amounts of information easily
(asciilifeform) edef: verisimilitude: i suppose so
(asciilifeform) edef: verisimilitude: it has some niceties, like gitignore support, and smart casing (ie `rg -S foo` is case-insensitive, but `rg -S Foo` is case-sensitive)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: how didja discover this ? were friends in meatspace ?
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(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-08 23:22:45 verisimilitude: I'm sure any humanity left there is currently waiting to be purged.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-08 23:17:18 verisimilitude: I don't regard GNU as ``great'', merely ``better''.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-08 23:16:48 verisimilitude: To see a demonstration, there's a video in that linked article, asciilifeform; I'd re-record it, but I don't yet know of a tool to allow me to display key presses on screen well.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-08 23:15:28 verisimilitude: Sure, but I'm perfectly willing to use Emacs for until I replace parts of it. I considered writing my MMC as an Emacs mode, but wanted more control. I could use Emacs for machine code programming, but never will, because I've my own dedicated tool now.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-08 23:14:39 gregorynyssa: verisimilitude: the data-model of Emacs gets uglier the more you study it, not unlike Git.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: gregorynyssa, verisimilitude : if only wooden jokes in the docs were the only problem in gnu world..
(asciilifeform) gregorynyssa: verisimilitude: then you will like this one:
(asciilifeform) gregorynyssa: verisimilitude: fair enough.
(asciilifeform) gregorynyssa: verisimilitude: the data-model of Emacs gets uglier the more you study it, not unlike Git.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: admittedly i haven't used your item, but the process sounds not entirely dissimilar to the way my customized emacs worx
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: what do you mean 'without text' ?
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I want to program without text, and replace what passes for text anyway, and my MMC is a tool towards this goal that can get a smile from me. It's an ideal for machine code, where I need never type mnemonics to be fed to a batch-tool and other such nonsense.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the response of lamers to 'new compiler' is typically 'bbbut my undefined-behaviours!1111'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: observe that fsf did not succeed in preventing 'tivoism'.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i'm actually ~not~ certain that its existence was any kinda net positive.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: 'being hostile to poor design' would require some semblance of a concept of good design. and an opposition to 'gaggle of rando idiots' model of development.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: you may find interesting to read about how the 'decentralization' promise of bitcoin was ultimately broken by miner cartels.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: c/unix were built 'off hours' by folx for ~own use~ and then transformed, by force of accident, into 'standard'. similarly to much later opensores crapola.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: sadly, not so clean, idjit miners routinely enforce all kindsa arbitrary garbage narrowings of the protocol
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: a problem with paper standards is that you can't run'em, someone actually has to implement (and attest to compliance)
(asciilifeform) gregorynyssa: verisimilitude: right, I see what you mean now.
(asciilifeform) gregorynyssa: verisimilitude: is terminal control even part of POSIX, strictly speaking?
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: See the comments of my ACUTE-TERMINAL-CONTROL for a basic example.
(asciilifeform) gregorynyssa: verisimilitude: indeed. I think Poettering got one thing correct, and that was to write programs targeting Linux itself, rather than keeping up the half-hearted POSIX charade.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: specifically not 'easiest'. but the one which weighs the least (incl. loc of pre-existing soft req'd to build.)
(asciilifeform) shinohai: verisimilitude: y not ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: there's 'over 9000' ways to do it; the ~correct~ one is the one which weighs the least.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: gc in lisp, in an envir. where you are able to diddle cons cells directly.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the latter
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I dislike one of the only serious sh programs I've written. Notice the care I took to not have any of the data leave the pipeline, only for xargs to still viciously bite me, because it still treats certain characters specially.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: this is the essence of the concept of 'promisetronic'. in other words, the diff. b/w bitcoin and a heathen bank.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: sorta why i dun think much of timestamps in e.g. gpg sigs (and have no intention of including concept of time in peh)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i leave time marks largely for self, when reading yrs later, helps to have rough chronology
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: normally when i amend an item after publication, i leave a clear mark to indicate, with date.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: historical interest strictly
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: at one time i published ffa 1/ch/wk like clockwork. then at one pt no longer could (day job ate time) and this caused epic wank, began the process whereby broke up w/ mp et al
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the linked item thus far is the only lethal bug found & revealed.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i was mildly disappointed that none of the historical readers found the mine in ch15 . but i also did not find until later, so haven't any room to laugh at others
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i wrote in , imho, sufficiently small chunks that can be eaten in <1h per ch.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: have you been reading for some time, or recently picked up ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: don't hesitate to comment
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: after lengthy dry spell (heathendom matters) returned to cleaning up ch21b for publication.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: arguably i mislead in the earlier summary, oughta have said 'least precise'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: recall from grade school, 'accuracy' vs 'precision'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: current-day nyt (and other fishwraps) routinely monkey w/ archives (and charge iirc significantly moar for ad that makes its way into printed birdcage liners, vs. www-only)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: 100% of the mechanical pieces existed in '90s (chaum et all), the item that made present-day bitcoinism possible was specifically the longest-chain hash work mechanism
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: unlike many of the other ex-#t folx, asciilifeform never frequented that forum. but iirc it had various comically ad-hoc pseudo-WoT mechanisms, yes
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: current state of art for 'guaranteed time', deedbot, gives multi-hour granularity (i.e. until block is mined)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: on the contrary, i often find that second is insufficiently granular for logs, where a process can piss out 9000ln/sec., for guaranteed preservation of ordering
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: in principle, a 256-bit timestamp would span the entire life of universe, as per supposed state of art, from start to hypothesized end. in nsec.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the trouble w/ arbitrary-width arithmetic is that there's 9000 places where yer stuck with a finite bitness. e.g. packets.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-05 01:22:34 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-08-04#1017850 The main issue with timestamps, in my eyes, is not necessarily the odd timekeeping methods in common use, but the fact that time is an unbounded quantity, so using a fixed-size to handle it is fundamentally wrong. Discarding with time is an automatic simplification.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-08-05 01:20:44 verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-08-04#1017833 I wholeheartedly agree, asciilifeform. I've found it queer that programs are written, with changes measured line-by-line, in such a jilted fashion, where the popular debugging method is to revert changes that break, rather than seek true understanding.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: have you compared performance to that of the sha2 that comes w/ gnat ?
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(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-24 17:24:58 verisimilitude: I once had a conversation, longer back, about how burdensome current machines make it to account for all failure cases, to be told roughly ``Who wants to write a program that works correctly in all instances?'' by a proud C programmer.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: if yer concerned w/ spam, the glue trap i use on my www (3rd yr nao) worx a++++
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: there was never ~any planning, of whatever kind, in design of unix, it is exact equivalent of the sheet metal towns beggars inhabit in brazil & elsewhere
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: imho publishing yer experimental notes is a++ Good Thing. (and nao if you also had comments box on yer www...)
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-26 13:36:05 verisimilitude: I thought I'd use the neat interfacing system of Ada, but even with a ``standard'' type it's needlessly frustrating.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: 0 chance of portability on unixlikes w/out the c bindings, cuz the built-in structs actually vary in size & layout b/w not only irons (endianism etc) but even particular os
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: indeed it does
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: if yours is to sit on a posixistic os, rather than driving nic iron directly, can use mine as crib sheet -- it includes errything necessary
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the sad part there is that ffiism is part of all but the most trivial cl proggy (either directly or via libraryism) on acct of the fossilized standard and its failure to include almost any i/o apart from console
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: i say this because verisimilitude is cl aficionado and knows that to read proggy w/ anyffin more than trivial macros is quite difficult
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: think of ada generics as similar to cl macros, but with 9000x moar fascism, i.e. it is ~very~ easy to write a visually-correct proggy w/em that nevertheless chokes the compiler (because it doesn't know how to prove that it is guaranteed correct under the given elaboration order)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i'd luvv to say immediately exactly where you made mistake, but the item you posted -- where coupla dozen genericisms inside 1 package -- would take week to unravel
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: you'll need to actually read the linked docs re how-to-generic
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: will add, even if you get it 100% right, makes proggy ~considerably~ harder to read. imho best avoided unless entirely physically impossible to do the job w/out it (as i found to be the case in 'cryostat', there is absolutely no way to do this w/out making the payload a generic type )
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: 'already made' is a quite strict concept in ada planet. req'd reading.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: genericism doesn't work the way you used it, gotta in fact specify the full thing before it can be instantiated.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i gotta ask, why does this need genericism ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: 404
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-26 02:02:00 verisimilitude: instantiation cannot provide body for "X"
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: Well, I've already a decently vague understanding of this, if from none other than the book in my 2019-11-15 article.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: if yer interested in cpu design, and want to get at it from '1st principles', write a simple circuit sim in yer preferred interactive lang (e.g. cl). a la 'verilator'
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I called that machine code 33554432, 2**25, because there were twenty-five toggles, and I'd no better name for the machine. I detail it in my 2017-06-06 article, but don't recommend reading that just yet, as I've been rewriting it; the current version reads as if schizophrenic ramblings, in comparison.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: this is rather moar basic than kogge
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i rec to get & read e.g. hennessy&patterson's b00k re cpu design -- the headaches/tradeoffs involved haven't actually changes since '70s.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: at the risk of making guess , sounds rather like fpga
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: 'vertical' most folx are familiar with on some level -- 'heavy' instructions are internally represented as sequences of 'light' ones
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-24 17:50:05 verisimilitude: I think comparing UNIX to the WWW to RISC reveals a more insidious pattern, although those three are connected by the same class of idiots.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: ( verisimilitude -- is 'horiz. microcode' -- vs. e.g. 'vertical' - familiar item to you? i have nfi what sorta schooling you had )
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the entire 'debate' was an artifact of 1980s 'micro wars.' the argument of 'risc' proponents was 'no one will write in asm, so let's dispense with most instructions to make easier pipeline mechanics'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: classic example of 'cisc', if you'll allow, is the m68k
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: before you do, what's your preferred example for archaetypical cisc box ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: elaborate ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: there are no cisc machines on market, and haven't been since 1990 or so . ( all that there is, is 'risc w/ complicated microcode to resemble cisc externally' and 'risc w/ smaller microcode' )
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-24 17:24:58 verisimilitude: I once had a conversation, longer back, about how burdensome current machines make it to account for all failure cases, to be told roughly ``Who wants to write a program that works correctly in all instances?'' by a proud C programmer.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-24 17:24:58 verisimilitude: I once had a conversation, longer back, about how burdensome current machines make it to account for all failure cases, to be told roughly ``Who wants to write a program that works correctly in all instances?'' by a proud C programmer.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform will have to find (or bake) a replacement for that archive www, verisimilitude aint the 1st to report that it dun load from his locale
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: this is why you can be as 'polite' as you like in the heathen pits, but still guaranteed to be banned. ( see also . )
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: for the l0gz, will preserve this lul : (some vermin, in response to verisimilitude's 'tried ada') : 'this is just larping though, I suspect most activities that you do can be glued together with a bunch of shell scripts, with roughly as much reliability requirements.'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: ran into this forum thread by accident. found lulzy how hn-type scum react to e.g. ada the way archaetypical vampire reacts to garlic.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-16 00:41:50 feedbot: http://verisimilitudes.net/2020-07-15 << A Syndication of Verisimilitudes -- A Review of ``Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK'' by McCormick and Chapin
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-07-16#1016334 << verisimilitude : i read this book coupla yrs ago, and found unsatisfying for same reason you did -- 0 'live-fire' examples. problem in common with most other programmaculature from recent 20y+. (unlike e.g. armstrong's original 'erlang' guide, which featured excerpts from ericsson's actual pbx !)
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(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-07 23:42:37 verisimilitude: I do look upon Hacker News regularly, as it still has some interesting submissions, be they interesting unto themselves or interesting to mock for their stupidity; n-gate is also a nice weekly read.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-07 23:41:56 verisimilitude: ``I appreciate the anti-corporate vibe and at the same time wish they were a little more professional.''
(asciilifeform) gregorynyssa: verisimilitude: Giacomo Tesio [banned from Lobsters][https://dev.to/shamar/i-have-been-banned-from-lobsters-ask-me-anything-5041] for pointing out a security-flaw in HTTP.
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(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I suppose I should reference my ACUTE-TERMINAL-CONTROL like this, actually.
(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trinque/2020-06-15#1000678 << sure, couldn't agree more with questioning precedent.
(asciilifeform) gregorynyssa: verisimilitude: that was a great article about textual processing. reminded me of Forth as well as Common Lisp's interning of symbols.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-03 00:07:14 ben_vulpes: one last thing. in re http://verisimilitudes.net/2018-06-06 verisimilitude i'm not going to be bound by any fixed set of words you propose i limit myself to
(asciilifeform) ben_vulpes: one last thing. in re http://verisimilitudes.net/2018-06-06 verisimilitude i'm not going to be bound by any fixed set of words you propose i limit myself to
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(asciilifeform) adlai: the elided referent of "with" in http://verisimilitudes.net/2018-02-22 is probably not unambiguous.
(asciilifeform) adlai: also, there appear to be two missing hyphens in the second body paragraph of http://verisimilitudes.net/2018-06-06, where is written "character code-by-character code", instead of the more explicit "character-code-by-character-code"
(asciilifeform) adlai wonders why verisimilitude so frequently places contractions of first person verb forms in terminal position
(asciilifeform) adlai: your adherence to precision is admirable, verisimilitude, and although I personally do not share your distress, I can understand its origin.
(asciilifeform) adlai: verisimilitude: do you consider this a complete sentence: "Therefore, the great impression that classical thermodynamics made upon me." ?
(asciilifeform) adlai hopes verisimilitude can find the present trends less depressing by reducing personal affinity to a specific modern dialect; e.g., think of your inner voice's grammar as just being some beetle exploring the indo-european canopy, rather than a nest anchored to one specific fork
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: Anyway, my ideas on language are reflected in my eyes of how machines should store and manipulate text, which are on my website here and here.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: barbarians dun conquer in the usual sense -- they finish off half-dead civilizations
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i suspect ~all of modern-day usa would sound 'ebonic' to e.g. kipling.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: can't speak for erryone, but e.g. asciilifeform was taught w/ 'the mouse ran up the clock...' by tutor w/ ~flawless 'bbc' voice. and then had to spend yrs relearning in usa..
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: notice that they dun check 'but what's in his www?' before burning
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: what do you expect the 'roving bands' to do to you ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: neato, will read
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: outta curiosity, what do you expect 'normal people' to do supposing they were to 'trace back to you' ? shit in yer postbox ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i dun expect you to take my word for it. the nice thing re softs is that you can do own experiment inexpensively.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i have not used i2p and have no opinion
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: if 'doesn't matter to start with' then why the hell put it through a snail's pace chain of proxies ??
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: why do you think that 'avg joe' can't set up exit nodes and log traffic ? say yer budget is 500 $ / mo. you can get coupla Gb/s connection. it'll catch maybe 1% of traffic. statistically, in month or 2, you'll get the victim you intended (if in fact intended specific one), and at any rate 'over 9000' login/pw pairs and whatever oh-so-'private' traffic from lamers in there
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: at one pt as part of asciilifeform's official duties, he collected virii. sometimes $turd would be set up so as to only load from $country's ip blocks. in these cases used tor + perlscript
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: depends what means 'useful'. it was once great for spam, for instance, until folx realized that you can download the exit noad list and throw it straight into iptables ban list
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i noticed -- the apl piece. neat.
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(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-06-18#1014974 << in fact in 2007 (iirc) i wrote a lisp elizatron for toki pona. (sadly, lost in sands of time. not that much of a loss..)
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(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-06-14 18:32:39 verisimilitude: How goes your work?
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(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: they're 'decent', sure, but woefully short on physical examples. ( and imho any discussion of sane computing w/out detailed reference to the state of the art : the lisp machines -- reveals author to be ignoramus, at best )
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: iirc have seen before , was linked by a commenter on 1 of my pieces re urbitism
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i sorta have entire www on the subj.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-06-08 15:43:49 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: it still aint clear to me what commenter would consider to be a reasonable way to handle 'oops, disk evaporated mid-write' eggog.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: can always try your hand at bare-iron os and drive the nic yerself..
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-06-08 15:41:49 verisimilitude: Wouldn't the solution for Ada.Command_Line be to compile the overlooking ``main'' procedure with its own settings, asciilifeform?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: it still aint clear to me what commenter would consider to be a reasonable way to handle 'oops, disk evaporated mid-write' eggog.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the problem (just as, incidentally , in common lisp) is that standard does not always give the necessary knob.
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(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i suppose if yer already using nonstandard character sets for aplism, not much risk of anyone inadvertently reading yer proggy and 'grr, fella won't do 80col..'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: what were you trying to write ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: similar algo was used in china, india, number of places, prolly ~errywhere
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: linked for the basic binary mult. algo (which hasn't in fact changed since... ancient egypt)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: ~that~ kind of multiplier is best implemented as series of instructions. ( it worx like this . )
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: multipliers have a cost.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: 'risc' is a 1980s marketing term, w/ no well-defined meaning.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: mips, arm, x86, etc. are all traditional objects of unix idolatry.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: all of the commercially-sold archs were 'to run c', i.e. lack type bits, bounds checks, etc. but lispm is very separate conversation from 'cpu to plant linux on'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: if you dive into subj of how-and-why folx designed cpu, will see that errything has a cost. all designer can do is move cost from 1 place to another.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: in practice, the proliferation of prefix crapola more or less cancels out the 'compact'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i fuckinghate variable-length instructions.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: they're ugly, but vastly simplified implementation of pipeline (mips was 1st commonplace iron that had one)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: it's more or less a cut-down mips, near as i can tell
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: imho the unaligned-byte ops are entirely unnecessary. ( i implemented'em, cuz gcc shits'em. strictly )
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: when i wrote emulator, worked from mips co.'s official datashits. they're pedantically complete.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-05-30 10:43:11 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: fwiw , even tho, like many people, asciilifeform had to write mips emulator in school, was 'children's' mips, didn't 100% grasp the in-practice arch until wrote 'M' emulator in 2019 .
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: sadly this aint unusual -- afaik just about erry single physical mips manufactured to date, had some kinda oddity (tho, in moar civilized ones, implemented as 'coprocessor' registers )
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-05-30 10:42:17 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: nifty, rare box. which mips rev., incidentally, was in there ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: btw, verisimilitude , that proggy contains more or less full description of mips32 in the comments. ( oblig phf viewer link . )
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: fwiw , even tho, like many people, asciilifeform had to write mips emulator in school, was 'children's' mips, didn't 100% grasp the in-practice arch until wrote 'M' emulator in 2019 .
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: nifty, rare box. which mips rev., incidentally, was in there ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i admit that i generally do not focus on ideas that require conquest of known universe for implementation.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: moar consistent than all but the newest artificial clocks (e.g. leap second was introduced only after atomic timekeeping)
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-05-26 01:33:10 verisimilitude: Time has no relation to moving planets, and it shouldn't be treated that way.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: aside from the gnarly calendar, can't think of any egregiously asinine aspect of traditional euro timekeeping.
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(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: sadly no 'magic' dates. for 1st half yr of ffa, i had buncha material pre-written and queued up for fridays, but this fell apart when ran out of 'canned' and into gnarly unsolved things
(asciilifeform) spyked: verisimilitude, I'm not convinced it's just a few messages. what you want can't be achieved just by adding the additional field; checking, as it currently stands, is serialized, and you'd need to program some timers in order to have timeouts be done independently. also, I'd like to keep *check-freq* as a default knob, for feeds that are missing the :timeout.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-05-16 15:16:16 verisimilitude: Say, spyked, where's the source code for feedbot; if it's wanted, I'll hazard a look and perhaps add this waiting code myself.
(asciilifeform) Mellowlink: verisimilitude: i noticed that you posted new article related to a book review on your website. topics in that book look interesting i might give it a try.
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(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: communist party of su
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: do you know who lev termen was ?
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: ever meet folx who suddenly buy 'harley' at 50+ y.o. ? it happens so regularly in usa that it became stereotype. fella gets bored of waiting to die of old age / boredom / ballpoint pen accident...
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i've avoided boat accidents, by not having a boat, and plane accidents, similarly, but somehow difficult to get excited over this
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the 1 problem w/ that approach is that it logically reduces to 'best life is as corpse'
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I'm reminded of my article on the value of sloth and apathy, which I need to update; apathy towards goings ons has saved me more than once from unpleasant results, and sloth has saved me where apathy wouldn't've.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: it aint clear to me how spark could've helped. item was an algo, rather than programming, mistake.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-05-06 04:01:05 verisimilitude: It's bothersome to me, yes; it makes my logs less pleasant to read. In the latest item, I've told whomever's checking the feed once every two minutes to stop, and I've told people to stop for every five minutes as well. If others don't mind, perhaps a per-site setting could be added, although I understand how burdensome this could be. I won't ask it be prioritized, but I'd appreciate it, spyked.
(asciilifeform) spyked: verisimilitude, alright, makes sense. re. suggestions, perhaps it'd be useful to add that I personally let awstats do all the work for me, handling log processing and generating site usage reports. I rarely inspect logs manually, usually to see the latest weird that attackers are trying to cook up
(asciilifeform) spyked: verisimilitude: I meant that I can't solve your problem right away and I don't plan to atm (will review it in ~2 weeks from now, I guess), but I'll help with further info (e.g. feedbot's HTTP-side IP) if you need it.
(asciilifeform) spyked: verisimilitude, got it, I'll see how I can make this work. meanwhile if you can use any further info to grep -v (e.g. the IP address that curls that link), I'd be happy to help.
(asciilifeform) spyked: so... verisimilitude, if it's really bothersome for you (does it eat up a lot of traffic, or what?), I'll add this to the feature list.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-05-06 01:05:38 verisimilitude: Oh, while it's on mind, I'd appreciate if the RSS feed is only accessed every twelve hours or so; I don't update often enough for more than a few daily checks.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I just released this a few hours back.
(asciilifeform) verisimilitude: I just released [this][http://verisimilitudes.net/2020-05-05] a few hours back.
(asciilifeform) trinque: verisimilitude: do you intend to keep using sha instead of keccak, or what?
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-05-03 02:58:16 verisimilitude: I failed my goal to release part of that Ada software on 2020-04-28, but it was a soft goal; I could state my next goal, which I'm more confident in, but there's little point to it.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: btw 'let's build pyramids so standard of living doesn't rise dangerously' is ancient, long pre-dates capitalisms .
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, verisimilitude : fwiw when i read it through current-day eye, saw 'bankers'
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-04-27 01:35:39 verisimilitude: So, I've started work on my general SHA Ada library, and I expect to perhaps have part of it in a presentable state for 2020-04-28; what are you working on that may be ready within the month? Also, spyked, I read the ``Again on ``general-purpose'' tools'' and found it interesting, along with its brother article; in particular, the section on ``syntactic meaning'' brought to mind my ideas for a programming system that lacks a preference
(asciilifeform) spyked: verisimilitude: thanks for reading! sure, I'd appreciate any comments or links to articles on the subj, here or somewhere else
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: iirc ebay
(asciilifeform) billymg: PeterL, whaack, asciilifeform, verisimilitude: thank you for taking your time with the survey, just left a response to each of your write-ups
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-04-17 01:48:34 verisimilitude: I'll also answer your survey, billymg.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: meanwhile in a++ pieces from lurking folx.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: Logged on 2020-04-11 04:21:39 verisimilitude: Did you create that CLISP image, shinohai; in any case, it's amusing.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: it isn't , imho, a very deep subj.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: if yer interested in vtronics, this remains the imho best intro.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: step 1 is to learn not to rely on english.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: re engineered crisis -- in yeltsin's ru, process was called 'shock therapy' and was entirely overt.
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i do, it lives, lol, on a desk
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: ~entire 'civilized world'
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: verisimilitude: arguably the few interesting bits are already written about elsewhere ( e.g. various lizards who made bank shorting stocks, etc )