asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: it's also needed for any kind of serious work on bios ( incl pci cards )
asciilifeform: even nao they're pretty light on the algo mechanics . ( asciilifeform does not know if there's 0 complaint from readership because everybody-grasps-anyway, or because ~nobody reads... )
asciilifeform: !!up mp_en_viaje
asciilifeform: the one that actively milks every peer regularly, and not simply on-connect
asciilifeform: it ain't gdb-compatible, for one thing. requires windows shitware which they sold for $10k's and never afaik leaked
asciilifeform: and when i say 'complete' i mean zero-libraries, a la ffa. kernel calls for i/o, and that's it.
asciilifeform would like to see a complete wwwtron in ada. but does not have any spare arms presently for such a thing.
asciilifeform: hey you're ahead of me, i never even got comments to work at all in my copy of mp-wp
asciilifeform: ave1: 'are we lucky this is correct' implies that item was written through the arse, and only 'works by accident', this is not so.
asciilifeform: and that the python example uses both of'em, to test the entire width of the multiplier. and works.
asciilifeform: phf: in my experience the magic word is 'commercial sample for demo'. but only worx with suitcases.
asciilifeform: mod6: at no point does babysitting-and-restarting-blindly accomplish anything useful.
asciilifeform: e.g. sitting and processing tx, and simply nobody gave it any new blocks ?
asciilifeform: what would the contrary even mean ? that the low bit is on left side of the chip , vs right ? what if it turn my comp around on the table , lol
asciilifeform: 'bit order' does not meaningfully exist outside of serial lines, where a time parameter is imposed
asciilifeform: and worse, i can't even readily think of a simple pill against this inbandism.
asciilifeform: not quite empty, iirc BingoBoingo thought a few moves ahead, brought some boxes in suitcase
asciilifeform: though i will point out, for completeness, that i saw NO substantial 'behinditude' on zoolag since feeding it the pill against shitoshi's sync retardation.
asciilifeform: douchebag: do you realize that you are doing the equiv of showing up at e.g. google campus and repainting the stairs in exchange for the pennies accidentally dropped there ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the whole thread is re the impossibility of a satisfying spec of any such kind.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: let's develop your picture. because it still isn't a complete one . because e.g. knowing the magicpacket for that particular box's nic, is not 'exploit for ffa', it is for $nic.
asciilifeform: coming next, pole vaulting contest where folx hop over the trump tower.
asciilifeform: there is the element of surprise , i.e. ' i had nfi that it would do X ' . but this is subjective, and impossible to say in advance that ' you had nfi that it would X '
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or even photo, if it's reasonably compact
asciilifeform waits for mircea_popescu to scream in 'joy' when he finds that not 1 attempt at any such pgpsig verifies, on account of newline mutilation in www stack
asciilifeform: and the 'bad spec' thing is part of multilayered shit sandwich, the general principle is that complexicrud accretes; the overflows, etc. follow naturally ( with helping hand from kochs, dreppers, et al as necessary )
asciilifeform: the interesting thing re js, is that entirely ~aside~ from traditional cmachine bugolade, it gets compiled c-cstyle nowadays, in popular graphical wwwbrowsers, ( how else to churn 50MB of google crapola ) and so e.g. rowhammerism works in it.
asciilifeform: well, ~wants~ to 'make new hypertext', really it's a sad emulation. but considerable improvement over nothingatall
asciilifeform: for thread-completeness i will point out that 'who runs the craft' is a problem that exists just the same in current-day bitcoinism.
asciilifeform: fwiw a literal martian bank would probably work quite well. ( you might have to put it farther than mars, or even on a continually-moving craft , so as it could not be templar-molested by 'french king' )
asciilifeform: presumably meant the magical 'untamperable clipper chips' of the 1990s 'digital currency' derps
asciilifeform: the other fortunate bit, at least re ffa, is that it is not complicated from the ada pov
asciilifeform: i dun see how 'anti' . a release is simply a type of vpress.
asciilifeform: dunno that there is any straight way to settle 'what is basic' . but rough measures of most-famous-products at company one supposedly worked at, is not imho 'cruel & unusual' puzzle
asciilifeform: hey NoSatoshisHear -- you say you read the ffa series ? in what order of complexity does modular exponentiation run ?
asciilifeform: NoSatoshisHear: keys leaking also not so exciting, they can simply swap out the key in next chip rev
asciilifeform: which is why i do not see the various diy attempts to disable the particular ME, as interesting in any way
asciilifeform: this wasn't an engineer decision, but board 'decision' ( in the sense that if board tried to decide 'no', intel would have simply been given a new board )
asciilifeform: and for thread-completeness i gotta point out that 'Until the day Bitcoin mining uses up 50%+1 of all electricity generated on planet Earth, this theoretical avenue remains open, if very theoretical' isn't necessarily guaranteed : there always remains ( because Hashing Is Voodoo (tm) ! ) the possibility of discovering shortcut to the mining process ( we had the 'satcoin' thread; possibly other variations on the theme also )
asciilifeform: to me it looks completely indefensible.
asciilifeform: btw i'll mention again a simple method to speed up sync (to a point) 1,000x or moar -- signed hashes ( a la the programmable checkpoint thread from 2yrs ago )
asciilifeform: it means, simply enuff, whatever item ben_vulpes & mod6 proclaim 'this is a trb release'
asciilifeform: it ain't 'empty', just orphanistic.
asciilifeform: but i'll agree that 'empty' is idiotic way to describe it
asciilifeform: and, importantly -- what is the node's height ?
asciilifeform: 'CTransaction::CheckTransaction() : vin empty' ?
asciilifeform: trinque: plox to describe the experimental setup ( not pedantism for the sake of pedantism, this, it's important )
asciilifeform: and afterwards, ./endian | hexdump -C
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re the 'guillotine neck vs mandible', if it ain't obvious, i'll spell it out ftr : bigendian nums look 'ffaistic' when hexdumped, i.e. correct . littleendian -- you gotta mentally flip'em.
asciilifeform: ( further reading for aficionados : http://www.yarchive.net/comp/endian.html , http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/bitfields.html )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i hatetobreakittoya, but WHOLE FUCKING pseudoengineering kompyooting thing, is 'whisperproduct'
asciilifeform: ( it ain't impossible. but i can't immediately think of an economical method )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'd like to see your algo for 2s-complement add/sub for a hypothetical box where sign bit is not the senior bit
asciilifeform: and the effect is what is desired, namely the layout is exactly the same, independent of whether the code is compiled on a big-endian or little-endian machine. '
asciilifeform: ( it was written, recall, not in empty space but for usg's contest. and 1 of the demands was 'not much slower than older hashes' )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is important to grasp what endiannessism IS
asciilifeform: i meant attempted ukrization, rather than necessarily that particular result. but yes
asciilifeform in the midst of fairly hefty conversion of '5000 log frags' to proper blogotronic text -- in re ffa . but ffa is in this respect substantially simpler item; it is not a mega-mystery how to do arithmetic.
asciilifeform: ( nao on other hand you couldn't simply roto-dial to him )
asciilifeform: i suspect that main enemy of mircea_popescu's weapons systems is tropical damp, rust. the other enemy seems to prefer 'soft' liquishit to actual action, for whatever reason.
asciilifeform: showed every symptom of knowing
asciilifeform: with the degree of magnitude faster/more capacitous comp , it is ~stupidity~, in the form of complexicrud, that accumulates fatally. and , worst of all, dijkstra knew this
asciilifeform: cable, at astonishing expense, was laid; and soon afterwards destroyed by overvoltaging. the operators had nfi that impedance exists, 'book larnin'', and were not satisfied with ~1 baud signal rate , upped the volts...
asciilifeform: the cable was destroyed as a result of a very typically 'anglotard' chain of errors; entirely like the microcomp
asciilifeform: you could have had an actual product, instead of the empty rubbish www
asciilifeform: and even 'Armoredcoin abides by the 'Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing''
asciilifeform: or was he behind one of the failed attempts at actual deedbot ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ~somebody~ ( him, or whoever pretending to be ) is the lowest possible cheap spammer, attempting cynical grift chiseling off tmsr, http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-23#1774586 , http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-23#1774590
asciilifeform: i admit, i was tempted, last night, to actually debug the crash
asciilifeform: apparently not ~quite~ 'ibmcompat'
asciilifeform: btw in re http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-24#1775021 , http://www.deep-shadows.com/hax/wordpress/?page_id=364 << handmade 'soundblaster'-compat
asciilifeform: betcha there's incompatible sh out there.
asciilifeform: not to mention attempts to create spurious picture of association with tmsr
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: betcha it also operates the various cardanocoins, mpexinfos, bitbetwhateverthefucks
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-22#1774420 << as i see it, it's an attempt to 'cardanocoin', i.e. quietly barnacle on tmsr
asciilifeform: in other oddities from asciilifeform's wwwtron referlog : http://armoredcoin.org << anybody here wants to confess to authorship of this ? it claims interop with trb , compliance with asciilifeform's '7laws' , etc
asciilifeform: and i'm convinced that it's a pseudoproblem. but we'll come back to this when mircea_popescu makes a compact statement of it.
asciilifeform: if compiler bug costs exploded rocket and 100 megabux -- people do in fact begin to think about audits.
asciilifeform: ( traditionally compiler was distrusted not even because thompson, but because buggy. )
asciilifeform: this has been the historic only pill for 'i dun trust the compiler' . audit the bin.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't clear to me how i can 'build on his thing' without losing important functionality.
asciilifeform: caaddr: phuctor actually suffered from 'chronic case' of empire-steals-box
asciilifeform: gnat has a deliberately brittle behaviour re the restriction pragmas -- if you use one it doesn't know about, it barfs. ( and i'm not even convinced that this is wrong. half of the appeal of ada is that it takes 'postel's law', rips off its head, and fucks the stump )
asciilifeform: the microcomputer was a massive step back, not merely technically ( that'd be fixable ) but sociopolitically.
asciilifeform: the problem with attempting to resurrect 1980s 'big iron' designs, however, is the unavailability of various formerly common ( and quite painful to emulate items ), e.g.,
asciilifeform: caaddr: re earlier, i'll say this : if a sane os and sane compiler cannot be ~small~ on a given iron, the iron design is ipso facto defective.
asciilifeform: i.e. massive turd , sufficiently complex as to be as opaque as any binturd
asciilifeform: if you want to actually do it, rather than simply pretend, that is
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: np-complete
asciilifeform: i've been tempted to replace the idjit captcha with... pehcode riddle
asciilifeform: i'm satisfied that hanbot showed mp-wp to be usable on nfs
asciilifeform: hanbot: i'd luvv a working-with-nfs patchset on mp's wp. unfortunately my own wwwism proved insufficient to make it go.
asciilifeform: hanbot: what means '10k marked spam comments' ? and didja ever post your patches on mp-wp ?
asciilifeform: not arrested : the emplaced-seekritz-in-aol-acct idjit reptile
asciilifeform: gave impression of elaborate trollism tho
asciilifeform: this prompted me to try the 'googleate own name' exercise. hilarious snoar, as always. finds 1) my www 2) buncha folx who are not related to me in any way i know of 3) lame softwarepatent from a defunkt slaveship i used to row on 4) bitcoin-otc
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-19#1773051 << where did i say 'bw is free' or that i compare with spam vps ? trinque posted a heathendom figure of 700 ( trinque can answer when he wakes up , for what bw, i presume 100/100 ) for comparison.
asciilifeform: could emplace literally 10 boxes in heathendom for that bandwidth price alone. and with 100/100 (or greater) on each.
asciilifeform: e.g. '100/100 Mpbs Symmetric: 3037 USD monthly'
asciilifeform: pretty sure e.g. inmarsat costs comparably
asciilifeform: briefly to return to http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-19#1772934 , what motl and most other similar are, is precisely this : the unwanted oscillator. ever see a street lamp that flickered, on, off, on , off
asciilifeform: motl is a loaded die tho. q is, loaded how. and does it have clinical implications for others.
asciilifeform: it ain't an rng if i can compress the output .
asciilifeform: from his commentreplies, also gold, e.g. '...People who despise Western national fiat currencies are dirty fucked-up commies of the same kind that has plundered my country. I just won't ever support their goal, they're scum for me. Do you get it? Relatively to these important things, whether the replacement is called Ripple or Rouble is just a technicality. It's the same shit except that rouble actually works as a viable currency for
asciilifeform: the 1 item that still ~worx to spec in usa : roads. sorta like bread in ye olde su. it is a symbol of imperial 'mandate of heaven'
asciilifeform: ( and yes i have a manometer , and one of those small pumps )
asciilifeform: lotta chumps seem to reliably sign up
asciilifeform: speaking of current-day cruiseship chumpatron
asciilifeform: i respect folx who do honest work, even on particle zoos. just as i respect that cataloguers of rare birds in the jungle ; it is not a wholly pointless thing. but it is not comparable to heaviside, who walked into a room with 22 equations and came out with 4.
asciilifeform: the use of comba , and in fact of ANY multiplier that compiles into having a x86 MUL instruction anywhere in it, is unsafe on intel celeron. and ppc32. and possibly ppc64.
asciilifeform: i'll give concrete example. :
asciilifeform: compiler, etc., machine.
asciilifeform: upstack re the impossibility of translating the safety of an ada program's nearby-modifications-phasespace to c -- i suspect that mircea_popescu's thesis re 'files are not separate units' not only is troo, but does not go far enuff :
asciilifeform: sorta the situation for which we even have word 'compilation'
asciilifeform: the result, however, is not in any sense 'translation', it is more of a compilation.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because it was reimplementation, rather than translation.
asciilifeform: no, the 'translate code in attempt to understand' item
asciilifeform: and i will say, ftr, that invocation of ANY ffa components on ANY overlapping segments, is an abuse. and there is not in fact any way to guarantee correctness , if such a thing is permissible.
asciilifeform: and if not, not. that simple.
asciilifeform: i'll repeat, i do not ask for a v that understands 'essences' or makes any such attempt.
asciilifeform: nuffin in ffa is an import, in classical v, or in asciilifeform's ideal v
asciilifeform: it ain't an import.
asciilifeform: neither 'is' the other. just as drawing of kalash is not a kalash, you cannot fire it. and conversely, physical, firable kalash is not the drawing, the parts are wherever they are in the tolerance range, to make more from the 1 example you will have to redraw the drawing and determine the tolerances.
asciilifeform: because any given item can have 'simply appeared'
asciilifeform: without attribution , it is impossible to determine who even ~is~ the mole.
asciilifeform: ( compactness both of the diff and of the wholes that were diffed. )
asciilifeform: interested in the most compact accessible diff representation.
asciilifeform: i'd like to revisit upstack , http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-18#1772421 << this is somewhat of a misconception. asciilifeform did not salivate over a 'programmer's paradise' when wrote v. on the contrary. v , as he pictured it, is a weapon of rodenticidal war. specifically to ferret out and neutralize not only the compromised people, but the politically unreliable and the dubious of whatever type. hence the focus on attribution, and
asciilifeform: if 2 strings are bitwise-identical -- they are the same. if mircea_popescu in his own house insists that trained gurlz with magnifying glasses compare them, before he will consider them to be same, that is his biznis
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is no way to weasel out of the fact that the info is available, but simply ignored by ineptly made vtron.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-18#1772483 << it's still annoying that , if i import it, and then years later query 'origin' of something, it only can trace back to my own genesis. and not to birth.
asciilifeform: ( i considered lispism, rejected for the given application strictly on account of moving-parts-count , 'p' gotta have parachute-level simplicity )
asciilifeform: ( you have to satisfy the compiler that it has exactly same 'life' as the item pointed-to. and in practice this is quite difficult. )
asciilifeform: ( spoiler : you can trivially implement linked list without -- properly speaking -- pointers, but with integers, this also came up in the earlier 'lisp in ada' thread )
asciilifeform: didn't that nonsense implode..? or was that z-somethingorother.
asciilifeform: afaik gold star champion , aha.
asciilifeform: how is mpexcoin doing tho.
asciilifeform: (possibly he had other temp name, i cannot now recall.)
asciilifeform: it was made by phf , address all complaints to him!1!
asciilifeform: fromloper: if he gave it out, potentially someone else could bid on the support contract ( under american law, all contracts are theoretically publicly biddable . lockheed et al simply contrive to set up situation where no one else ~can~ perform a given contract )
asciilifeform: some people spent $10k's on their collections of bolixiana. and imagine that these will become worthless if an accurate fpgalogical emulator appears. and for all i know , this is true. i simply don't care.
asciilifeform: ( for n00bz to the subj -- fep was an entire comp, mc68k, embedded inside bolix lispm, handled i/o and certain aspects of eggogology )
asciilifeform: for all i know, the one and only path to e.g. a room-temperature supercon, was found at one of the reagan scamola firms, and died with it, also. i simply do not know about it.
asciilifeform: there is an entire graveyard of these; it simply so happens that i am only interested in the lispm-flavoured ones
asciilifeform: to be fair the company was not really a honest commercial co, moar like one of those unofficial usg research institutes, they proliferated under reagan and died with him
asciilifeform: ( in usa for some reason it is traditional for ceo to be paid mega-bonus even when the company tanks )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-17#1771995 << in these pages however all i see is claptrap re 'racism of trump', 0 about lispm
asciilifeform: fromloper: it is not a complete arch description, you cannot write a working emulator with it ( or even make the existing snap4 not-crash )
asciilifeform: if gcc actually puts in the 'jump-likely' . currently i have nfi whether it does.
asciilifeform: i can't picture how without a megatonne of conditionaljumps. but maybe just failure of my imagination.
asciilifeform: apeloyee: neato. gotta wonder how this is implemented tho.
asciilifeform: it's simply an arithmetic-free version of want().
asciilifeform: you can trivially show that any attempt to walk under or over the stack, would have to involve a null-dereference.
asciilifeform: currently it actually seems to me , to be cleaner -- in that its correctness proof is simpler, does not use arithmetic at all
asciilifeform: or for another example, take the ugliness and 'pointericity' of the traditional 'pivoting' form of karatsuba. which i killed by forcing all FZ bitnesses to be powers of 2.
asciilifeform: ideally so as to maximally compartmentalize and document the ugly
asciilifeform: ftr several different items in ffa seemed to me to be 'five-angled heptagons' (starting with how to compute the asm-less addition carries) until i solved'em
asciilifeform: ideally could somehow get rid of want() tho, AND not rely on implicit bounds checks
asciilifeform: so what would empty stack look like , in this variant ?
asciilifeform: well it'd turn a pop from empty stack into a range-dipping eggog instantly
asciilifeform: i'd like to resolve the apparent contradiction between 'all possible SP positions are valid dereferences' and 'stack can be empty'.
asciilifeform: can you think of a way to have the range of SP and of Stack be the same, but to still represent concept of 'empty' ?
asciilifeform: No_Implicit_Conditionals is working as described on the box : https://docs.adacore.com/gnathie_ug-docs/html/gnathie_ug/gnathie_ug/using_gnat_pro_features_relevant_to_high_integrity.html#controlling-implicit-conditionals-and-loops
asciilifeform: ffa itself is a sort of tightrope walk, an attempt to 'и рыбку съесть и нахуй сесть' . it isn't actually possible to make all of the routines able to take every conceivable kind of compile-time abuse ( which i'd argue overlap of arguments, is ) without conditional jumps.
asciilifeform: partially ( for array copies ) . but it gets nuked by No_Implicit_Conditionals.
asciilifeform: afaik it isn't actually possible to write overlap-safe routines without implicit (or otherwise) branches
asciilifeform: the cost is small in comparison with the mod-exping per se
asciilifeform: prolly FZ_Mod_Exp oughta accumulate Product in a temp, and shit it out in 1shot in the end, like FZ_Mod_Mul.
asciilifeform: it is not my place to make every possible mutilation of the program, safe. ( and is quite impossible )
asciilifeform: could just as easily not, with temp buffer. but why.
asciilifeform: the proper way to enforce 'no access to Stack(0)' would be to constrain Stack_Positions to 1 .. Height. but this leaves no way to represent an empty stack.
asciilifeform: the ssl derps i'll leave without comment. but the other great hero : 'Over the last 20+ years, Hugo contributed to Internet standards from the early days of IPsec and IKE to the current work on revamping the security of TLS for its "next generation" version, TLS 1.3. He is also a co-designer of HMAC, the widely used message authentication and pseudo-random function. More recently, he designed HKDF, an HMAC-based key derivation functi
asciilifeform: this'd be quite trivial to implement, but afaik nobody has.
asciilifeform: phf: re suspend-to-ram -- 1 of the things i still dunget, is why there isn't simply a compartment for sd card in the back of the box ( any of'em, old or new ). let's say after lid closed for 10min, it'd write the ram to the sd. if battery alive -- does nothing. but if dies, then when dc plug reinserted, load back from sd.
asciilifeform: ( the 'real deal' tool is the ir lamp thing, looks a bit like a photo enlarger, with pre-heat bed underneath. i dun have one. i only have the hot air hose. which relies on your bare hands and ir thermometer to follow reflow curve, which is why my success rate is 20-30% , i suspect )
asciilifeform: thing is as reusable as a tampax.
asciilifeform: pulling components from su appliances was a bitch: that red varnish
asciilifeform: 'VLSI, by the way, in amongst their many other products, made chipsets for quite some time. Their last chipset would be one of the very few 75MHz capable Socket 7 designs. Like all the independent chipset makers, their market share would suffer greatly because of Intel's push to extend their CPU near-monopoly into chipsets as well and, unable to compete with Intel on even terms, they stopped trying. VLSI merged with the giant Phillip
asciilifeform happened across the site when researching vintage components for a dos box that he was building.
asciilifeform: from yesterday's 486 lulz item, others : http://redhill.net.au/b/b-92.html >> '...you could buy almost anything in XT days; this was long before the dead hand of monopoly crushed the innovation and the creativity out of the PC industry. If you can find an old copy of Byte or APC or even Popular Computing, from 1984 say, or even 1989, spend a half-hour reading through the small ads in the back—you will not believe how much choice th
asciilifeform: also asciilifeform was thinking, su ~had~ 'gutter', was simply implemented somewhat differently
asciilifeform: dijkstra's -- imho well-founded -- pov was that computer became the domain of the half-educated, the hucksters, and the miscellaneous scum, because what passed for thinking people, ~surrendered~ it to them
asciilifeform: 'the vast majority of the mathematical community has never challenged its tacit assumption that doing mathematics will remain very much the same type of mental activity it has always been: new topics will come, flourish, and go as they have done in the past, but, the human brain being what it is, our ways of teaching, learning, and understanding mathematics, of problem solving, and of mathematical discovery will remain pretty much th
asciilifeform: bitcoin, gpg, show every symptom of authorship by programmertards, rather than academitards -- quite different types of 'shambling walker', as far apart as typhoids and lepers
asciilifeform has been tempted to go ever since reading http://lib.ru/MEMUARY/CHECHILO/bajkonur.txt yearz ago
asciilifeform: and yes his example snippet ~will~ barf. and no i won't spoil the puzzle by saying where and how. and no it is not hard to make 9000 similar examples.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-16#1770913 << impatience is a sin, apeloyee . ( apparently restatement of http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2051&cpage=1#comment-18606 thread ? )
asciilifeform: 'How could the board run with cache enabled in BIOS but without any cache? Simple: the manufacturer had reprogrammed the BIOS to permanently disable external cache no matter which way you set it, and to report "256k cache enabled" during the boot sequence no matter what.'
asciilifeform: the thing shows 0 symptoms of any other 'goals'.
asciilifeform: it's the wolframalpha problem -- doing a proper job is ai-complete. so attempting the job at all results in a duct tape perlism that 'works on a good day', when the wind is just-so
asciilifeform: 'Obama left behind “hints of a progressive legacy,” but very few permanent accomplisments' << oh hey wapo dun dictionariate either
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i also suspect that your model is incomplete : usa does not lack a gutter
asciilifeform: i mean, it ain't as if 'hamplanet' is caused by begbug-scarcity.
asciilifeform: and in particular 'In light of recent hate bias incidents on the campus, the committee decided to remove "Intentionally and substantially interfering with the freedom of expression of others" as a listed prohibited conduct as it sends the "wrong message," said Director of Student Conduct Andrea Goodwin.'
asciilifeform: chopper could, theoretically, do 'pinpoint' needlework , that fixwing could not, e.g. limpet onto ~particular~ car
asciilifeform: address all complaints to usg dept of state , who sends the model airplane kits to the orcs.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the americircus, http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-08#1767259 <<< >>> http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/fW7se/?raw=true ( orig https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Damore-Google-COMPLAINT.pdf has photoexhibits etc )
asciilifeform: but if you to compute the particular output expected for S1, S2 in advance, you gotta specify the clock freq, and run fg.v in e.g. 'verilator' . and it takes a while. )
asciilifeform: re earlier, 'The vulnerability described here is caused by Linux kernel behaviour change in the syscall API (returning relative pathnames in getcwd()) and non-defensive function implementation in libc (failing to process that pathname correctly). Other libraries are very likely to be affected as well. On affected systems this vulnerability can be used to gain root privileges via SUID binaries.'
asciilifeform: qc i suspect will be to current-day usg as immortality pill was to chinese emperor qin shihuangdi
asciilifeform: ~none of their behaviour rises to the complexity of, whatever, cat, dog, rat. perl script.
asciilifeform: phf: d00d is paid for simple job. he did the job, moved on to next item on conveyor
asciilifeform: and incidentally, all you want for padding is a n-bit-to-n-bit hash; and if rsa itself is strong, than simple modexp ( or , if you like, two, 1 the normal way, and then 1 of the output bits, reversed ) is a satisfactory hash for paddings.
asciilifeform: ^ complete with win .exe 'wallet' , a la yesterday's archaeological thread
asciilifeform: 'Women coin will become the ultimate business coin for women. We all know that this altcoin market is mainly operated by men, just like the entire world. We want to stop this. From this moment on everyone should keep in mind that we women are as important as men. This is why Women coin project has been formed. ... We want to bring the female standard of importance under the attention with every WOMEN coin trade. Also we want to get w
asciilifeform: point is not that resonance is physically impossible, but that enemy cannot win by ever betting on a particular one
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: almost definitionally, if yer rng is any good, it won't be pumping any resonance anywhere
asciilifeform: possibly even use it perversely to perform certain computations quickly.
asciilifeform: i still dislike having to use toolchain from hitler to compile the bitstream. and thereby the current fg is the last time i use a xilinx in a product.
asciilifeform: it is also unusual in that it accepts no input from the computer
asciilifeform: apeloyee: the most immediate risk is that 'ice' series simply goes out of print. like anything else.
asciilifeform: apeloyee: they could in principle try intel-style fascism with built-in rsa sig verifier or the like. but afaik the only vendor to date to attempt any such thing, was xilinx, and it wasn't even in earnest
asciilifeform: so yes, the only reason why anybody sells ice and 95xx -like 'sea of gates' at all, is that for 'glue' (simple boolean functions of signals, for e.g. bus decoding, addressing, simple i/o multiplexing) is that you can't actually do it reliably with the non-seaofgates devices
asciilifeform: the smaller ones are 'sea of gates' as they are intended to be used for glue logic, and emphasize predictable path timing ( the analogous xilinx series is the 95xx , as used in FUCKGOATS )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-11#1769036 << this is correct, it simply doesn't have enough LUTs to store even the 2 operands, not even speaking of result. however xilinx is a dead end : because it is 1) nonhomogeneous 2) they switch the internals regularly, specifically to prevent a reversing from being useful in the long term. see old xilinx threads in the logs for detail
asciilifeform: i ended up buying a full set of carpenter's clamps, and keeping'em around just for it..
asciilifeform: phf: i even suspect that it is possible to improve the cornall design with... randomized scan. i suspect that the sequential scan, sets up resonances.
asciilifeform: there was an ancient link re carnival and casino-flavoured chumpatronics , where a historian of the subj observed this
asciilifeform: 'superlinear' (to continue earlier thread..) chumpatron just about always has this property, of convincing the mark that he 'got something over' the orig perp
asciilifeform: it's a simpleenuff item that there's really 0 excuse for not making own.
asciilifeform: in that it is a resident infection in chump's head. rather than a 'nyahaha, i sold you a cutting board painted as ipad, and i'ma run faster than you can catch'
asciilifeform: any ponzitron, for example.
asciilifeform: to round off the crackpottery, 'superlinear' is when the chumps deposit their dough, but afterwards ~go home to get more~, to bring friends, etc.
asciilifeform: i.e. every chump gets scammed for whatever pocket change he was going to spend on a flashlight that day
asciilifeform: not quite. ( i thought about discussion the difference in the orig chumpatron article, but cut it ) : there are , to borrow from algorithmics, 'linear' and 'superlinear' chumpatrons
asciilifeform: picture a chumpatron where 'you gotta have THIS here magic chip to mine...'
asciilifeform: shinohai: pretty speshul, complete with msword-misformatted 'whitepaper'
asciilifeform: the latter, in so far as i can tell, is ~complete rubbish
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768306 << it was a kind of tor, i.e. usg-engineered transparent 'tool for opposition' . d00d presumably was showing symptoms of blowing the idiocy up, got nailgunned.
asciilifeform: this is not hard to do ( with e.g. the classical 'rewrite the low bits of r,g,b' algo ) but not clear to me what it accomplishes
asciilifeform: this is tempting me to excavate ancient emacses..
asciilifeform: eventually prolly implement
asciilifeform: cute little thing. even has battery compartment ( for if mains give out , to finish birthing the buffer... )
asciilifeform: theoretically this beast will print straight from a (downclocked, change 1ln in fg.v) FUCKGOATS ~sans computer~
asciilifeform: in other oldies, seiko's 'DPU414' thermal printer, can be had for <fiddybux, and not only prints 80cols x infinity (continuous tape) but knows how to eat rs232 and... print hexdump (up to 19200 baud)
asciilifeform: without an ada compiler at all.
asciilifeform: it is a simple guide to the making of sane arithmetron. that can be hand-compiled with reasonable effort to whatever arch.
asciilifeform: i'll observe that i can't yet buy a conventional-comp-that-is-waterheater either, even though it'd be quite handy ( i already have multi-kW water heater item )
asciilifeform: if you read ch4 you'll know all there is to know about it, it's simple, like kalash
asciilifeform: ( recall, PeterL verified empirically )
asciilifeform: btw supposedly in usa these 'beauties' with delusions of femality, regularly get themselves savagely beaten/knifed/floating in river , when attempting to act on said delusions with street demographic that takes кто ты по жизни seriously
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes has it; 'whisper' was not prompted by a secret dislike of asciilifeform's of people who start with 'b'