asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-06#1710959 << i thought it was obvious from thread -- board came without disable jumper for wd ; when puzzled out where to put it, it ran
asciilifeform: can't get to the shell either. this is moar of a 'chineseness test' -- 'board is unusable unless you put jumper back on right-over-there'
asciilifeform: it's this idiocy that autoresets crashware 'because writing correct software is impossible' or somesuch.
asciilifeform: mod6: several folx, incl. asciilifeform , attempted, turns out that it is harder than looks at first glance
asciilifeform: ( 'trim' is the procedure whereby space marked empty by the fs, is made known to the write-levelling controller )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-05#1710808 << this, in the form of the comp that actually kills you when you die in world of whatevercraft etc, is an ancient dream. and pretty sure that ~every kid reinvents it.
asciilifeform: ( most, imho, compactly summarized in http://btcbase.org/log/2014-06-04#700916 )
asciilifeform: 13:25 < fltrz> I also have issue with trustworthiness of computers, but even more so for any future mass deployed BCI interfaces by say facebook etc
asciilifeform: 13:20 < eb3c90> I like the idea of BCIs , but not found a computer I trust enough to interface with yet.
asciilifeform: ( bonus for when PeterL realizes that mp's hash cannot actually be implemented in sane constraints... )
asciilifeform: none of that shit belongs in implementation of a fundamental algo .
asciilifeform: at any improvement was possible. Difficult though this was, they achieved it, largely by fixing their eyes on the past and refusing to notice the changes that were going on round them.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wouldja believe, it was also this toy with a sprint to jump on...
asciilifeform: it's hobbled by presuming working with... ink. i'ma guess that kanzure ain't pumping ink.
asciilifeform: if your fluid's triple point is close to room temp, can do exotic, e.g. vapourize it and condence on a cold pin point
asciilifeform: ( though last i saw it was a straight conversion from the ttl schematic, and not especially compact, might need one of the larger chips )
asciilifeform: folx who are willing to use lattice's closed shitdevchain buy the larger parts, where the dev boards are comparable to xilinx.
asciilifeform: where , you know, you gotta devote an entire comp to running a 20GB closed warez, and it does ?????.
asciilifeform: al of money. Apple CEO Tim Cook told his employees that the company is donating $1 million to the SPLC and would match employee contributions two to one. Cook also placed an SPLC donation button in its iTunes store. The company is additionally providing a $1 million donation to the Anti-Defamation League.'
asciilifeform: 'Richard Cohen, president and chief executive officer of the SPLC, was given $346,218 in base compensation in 2015 ..... The SPLC, which claims to boast a staff of 75 lawyers who practice in the area of children's rights, economic justice, immigrant justice, LGBT rights, and criminal justice reform, reported spending only $61,000 on legal services in 2015. Following recent violence in Charlottesville, Va., the group raised a great de
asciilifeform: ank accounts. It is a huge red flag and would have been completely unacceptable to any wealthy, responsible, experienced board member who was committed to a charitable mission who I ever worked with."'
asciilifeform: '"I've never known a US-based nonprofit dealing in human rights or social services to have any foreign bank accounts," said Amy Sterling Casil, CEO of Pacific Human Capital, a California-based nonprofit consulting firm. "My impression based on prior interactions is that they have a small, modestly paid staff, and were regarded by most in the industry as frugal and reliable. I am stunned to learn of transfers of millions to offshore b
asciilifeform: my current impression is that d00d's duties were not originally connected to antibitcoin detail, but to keeping 'biohackers' and other DIY types well-surveilled by fbi , dhs
asciilifeform: be stronger than what was currently available, so it’s hard to understand this post-competition weakening.'
asciilifeform not yet attempted to work it out
asciilifeform: the longer the sig -- the more bulletproof, computably ( exercise for reader ! )
asciilifeform: the resulting signature is this list of signed solitonizations ( the S can be computed independently , given the original payload P; or can be packaged with the thing for convenience )
asciilifeform: and compute S xor Qa xor .... on each L
asciilifeform: not the part of usa where employed folx live, lol
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suppose it works by 'at will employment, we do whatever we feel like, incl. fuck your ear, and if you dun like it go find another plantation'
asciilifeform: ... or maybe not even. i met people who get 20 here in ye olde swamp and still have a flat to himself, rather than barrack
asciilifeform: shinohai: i had a somewhat nonstandard 'bootcamp' tour.
asciilifeform: where whatshisface 'proved' that public key signatures are impossible w/out hashing.
asciilifeform: i dun mean 'retrocompatible with usg', i mean -- with self.
asciilifeform: let's work example ?
asciilifeform: what means 'more compact construct'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: imho trinque hit upon a potentially good 'engineer cut' tho -- separation of 'fetch me this thing, that we know exists' from 'perform the following computation with these-here params'
asciilifeform: 'We submitted extensive information about our random number generator (RNG) to an independent organization. We asked this trusted resource to perform an in-depth analysis of the randomness of the output of the RNG, and its implementation in the shuffling of the cards on our platform.'
asciilifeform: sorta what the toyota example is about.
asciilifeform: sorta like that thread where asciilifeform mentioned that he'd buy a 10,000$ comp. but not same comp he has , hopefully ! but ~a~ comp
asciilifeform: Barbarossa_: see some linked examples ( near top of page , near the schems ) of other folx who verified.
asciilifeform: ( sampling artifact )
asciilifeform: is trinque familiar with 'eternity' and earlier attempts at perma-dht 133337w4r3ztronics ?
asciilifeform: ( the www people simply pissed on the problem, african-style, and didn't even pretend to solve )
asciilifeform: just same as with the phuctor example
asciilifeform: it fails because -- in the particular example i gave -- it ain't 1:1
asciilifeform: let's work out a concrete example
asciilifeform: trinque: so we're contemplating a separation of reads and writes into unlike protocols ?
asciilifeform: trinque: yer comparing unlikes. d00d with same phone # for 50 yrs != shouting to crowd containing entire iq bellcurve and going for max % who remember when they get home
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: contemplated scenario is d00d shouting propaganda, go to joepunishesmaryslowlywithabroomstickinaconcerthall.com and that turns into 123.45.67.89 etc
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-01#1709009 << so you make a mnemonizer that fits on propaganda pamphlet, wat. gotta separate 'is problem worth solving' from the 'how to solve'
asciilifeform: ( https://www.olimex.com/Products/FPGA/iCE40/iCE40-IO/ << iron component of subj )
asciilifeform: rsa is the insecticide against snoops on the wires, and likewise against enemy agents monkeying with the messages en route or impersonating source.
asciilifeform: this is a gross oversimplification but must suffice for now.
asciilifeform: when it is not merely a place to look up a physical constant when lazy, but ~more important than own logz~
asciilifeform: wherever the cows bray, is not the tru temple of pantsuit, cows are mindless. but these folx, these ~chose~ the pantsuit..
asciilifeform: palpitations? no olympics for you , no army spec ops
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-01#1708047 << i still get the ( perhaps mistaken? but not baseless! ) impression that kanzure ultimately assigns more weight to this selfsame weasel than to, e.g., mircea_popescu , on account of weasel having been anointed by, e.g., a.horowitz, and the latter still occupying the legitimacy-throneroom of his mind ( next to 'science', 'nature', warmism )
asciilifeform: complain to max planck!1!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you can get op amps with multi-GHz slew rate
asciilifeform: ( FUCKGOATS in important sense was a reverse-gear of this process )
asciilifeform: and incidentally all comps are 'analogue'. engineer just breaks his back sweating to make the analoguity cancel out before you see it...
asciilifeform: sorta how the analogue comps went away.
asciilifeform: complete with massive colour photos of 'mathematica' multidimensional plots, etc
asciilifeform: ( better, imho, picture, than simply reading the datashit )
asciilifeform: shinohai: i was playing with the ice40 ~decompiler~ -- not much use in battlefield, but does give interesting picture of how your netlist ends up sitting down on the iron
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in ic-pr0n, http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/bitdocs-8k << spiffy example of nonpdfized ( per earlier mircea_popescu thread ) hierarchical docs
asciilifeform: hey, when competitors have a habit of cutting off own heads -- almost as good as greatness!11 or sumthinglikethat
asciilifeform: gotta also recall, the crapple2 comp was nothing particularly special -- commodore cost ~same and was 10x the bang for buck.
asciilifeform: often enough the comp ( and the pathetic imitation of an os inside ) is even included in the service contract.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-31#1707920 << i was speaking of the greater, imho, puzzler, of the pre-ipod-apple product line -- the comps
asciilifeform: and then again in pocket comps
asciilifeform: ( and no, did not buy a gabriel_laddeltron. though i did mail him a lappy, because he mentioned needing a new comp )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'outer case limit' is somewhat of an oversimplification : the thing fitsinhead so poorly, that to this day i am not fully certain why so abominably slow ( other than the abstract fact of 5-6 layers of complexity doing their impedance-mismatch thing together )
asciilifeform: 'I've decided to build my own company TurtleWare. It is meant to abide by the values and principles I believe in. I have a strong sense of aesthetics.'
asciilifeform: or gives'em anything to make'em worth impersonating.
asciilifeform: you. simply. back. up. the. file
asciilifeform: in other lulzfodder from same rag ( BingoBoingo : qntra?? ) https://archive.is/jpbe0 >> 'Posters paying homage to the Confederate Army and to World War II dictators like Mussolini and Hitler line the walls of the lobby in the 39th Place condo building in the ethnically diverse neighborhood of Sunnyside. Posters in support of the National Rifle Association and President Trump cover the stairwell. Many residents in the building are imm
asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pgp.asc << example.
asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/hl/hl.html << example of one 'handmade' alternative to djvu & similar
asciilifeform: djvu is a nonturingcomplete item, rather like a multipage jpeg with asciitext ocrtrack (optional)
asciilifeform: kanzure: why dontcha simply re-create the engine ?
asciilifeform: not available? will fall off roof with comp...
asciilifeform: young fellas want to kamikaze, die with honour for the emperor's cherry blossoms, wat.
asciilifeform: did usg actually impound yer passport, gabriel_laddel_p ?
asciilifeform: ( the comp sci papers that actually mattered, plus a handful of 1990s bernsteins, are already on my hdd... )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: briefly revisiting http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-30#1706495 : i'm beginning to wonder if it was simply because of WHO asked. i can't really blame $chix for not relishing the prospect of kanzure et al riding her l337 w4r4z to stolen relevancy esr-style
asciilifeform: noncompliance with regulation for ethical treatment of tulpas, dontchaknow
asciilifeform: deliberately did not bother for this example
asciilifeform: 'Kafka then finally suggested Samsa look up DARPA deep brain stimulation, Neuralink, and AlphaGo, and suggested to Samsa that shit got real when Google started offering "predictions". And Google doesn't matter to Kafka or Samsa, but one day, something descended from Google and DARPA's current state will. Because Kafka and Samsa's heads are fucking supercomputers.' << winner!1!
asciilifeform: bbbbut d00d is rich !!1 ( question invites itself : what idjit's fortune did he inherit ? or esr-rich ) bbbut d00d works on immortality pills of cosmic significance and reads 400 pdfs per week!1 while dump old asciilifeform spent 3 months proving that multiplier works
asciilifeform: ( but let's say you HAD to. i'd use something like the microporated stainless steel filter in my shop vac : 1uM pores. refrigerator coil inside. water -- condenses. when time to clean -- blow compressed air though... )
asciilifeform: cheaper than pumps.
asciilifeform: also pretty sure that growth in reservoirs is a solved problem ( circulator + uv lamp ? )
asciilifeform: and now mircea_popescu knows how impedance mismatch in , e.g., memory allocators, worx.
asciilifeform: we are looking at attempted bamboozlement, rather than true domination.
asciilifeform: but of the megalomania implicit in taking a serious interest in planeteering, per se
asciilifeform: your solar redirector, kanzure , what will the targeting comp run on ? same micropython as your electroporator ?? on what iron ? nsa-intel ?
asciilifeform: at risk of digressing, i will note that it is gut-bustingly funny that people who cannot produce a comp that doesn't crash, prattle on about planet-reshaping wunderwaffen
asciilifeform: 10:13 < kanzure> someone is complaining "$1B to fix climate change is too cheap and nobody is going to believe you"
asciilifeform: because empty skin of a man .
asciilifeform: they simply.
asciilifeform: as is 'listen for magic poke-arbitrary-addr packet-indistinguishable-from-icmp-ping', etc
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-30#1706243 << could be ordinary stupidity, could be -- wrecking. i can easily picture the derps campaigning for 'let's have btc amts as rationals!' so that eventually a tx weighs 100MB ( in which to represent the ever-cancerously growing ratio )
asciilifeform: pumping is the classical recipe for 'add N lasers'
asciilifeform: ( most obviously -- to pump a larger item )
asciilifeform: consider why one even cuts with laser, and not with gigantic lamp and lens
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-30#1706103 << funnily enough, exactly same as my view of computer.
asciilifeform: for some reason ( afaik ) 0 attempts in this direction, to date.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-30#1706129 << see elso emperor qin shihuangdi's mercury pillz
asciilifeform: and why is the design for item that simply charges a cap to known coloumb charge, and zaps a millilitre tube, moar voluminous than, e.g., that of FUCKGOATS..
asciilifeform: i made use of his work re sensitive amps. however must note that his original objective was.... listening to earth-devils, or sumthinglikeit
asciilifeform: aite. ( there's a still-appreciable population of folx who actually go in for 'wet computer' nonsense. )
asciilifeform: !#s computers you can't program
asciilifeform: devils move , at room temp, but that's why you crystallography'em
asciilifeform: couplea shades ~below~. you couldn't stay in business as a vacuum repairman with this type of empty skullcase.
asciilifeform: 'But I am more concerned about drugs, like methamphetamine. I think meth might be easy to synthesize at biologically active quantities with existing technologies. Why is this a problem? I'm not into drugs myself, but there are dangers. They are probably going to do it with a $40 yogurt maker, you do the engineering in a yeast... then there's a problem. This is someone who .. thoroughly deskilled at this point. It takes no effort to m
asciilifeform: 'I would consider it irresponsible to sell a potentially dangerous composition of matter to someone who you don't know or haven't met. It's just bad judgement. Most of the people on that list are either folks with a history of exclusion for various fraudalent activities, either domestically or internationally, or people who might potentially being terrorists kinda environment, or folks who have published in North Korea, or who have p
asciilifeform: 'For example, National Institutes of Health database which has a great list of compounds and sequences that are suspect, it's wonderful to do searches against it. But you're not allowed to do them during the business day because it puts too much pressure on their servers, so you're supposed to do that after hours.' << ahahahahaha
asciilifeform: 'We had Secretary Clinton appear, and she's an international celebrity. We were showing that this is important to the US. '
asciilifeform: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/fbi-diybio-2012/meg-flanagan-department-of-state/ << lol, complete with clitler ref
asciilifeform: how are the chumps to find your identical-to-1,001-other-turds, without remembering $magicword.
asciilifeform: kanzure: now, here's 1 cnc tool for which you ~don't~ need rigidity -- electrolytic cutting head. was tried in su, and still (!) in production today, but 'industrial' scale. would be interesting to see compact version thereof. ( see old log )
asciilifeform: e.g. 'mp is powerless, SEC left him alone for its own reasons' etc
asciilifeform: because i am an engineer ( for bread -- reverse-engineer ) , not an emperor
asciilifeform: kanzure: mp insists that he 'has no goals', but i've got a few. one of them, is a 100% nato-free workstation comp.
asciilifeform: supposing it were cheap, but, even more importantly, SMALL
asciilifeform: or compact electron microscope.
asciilifeform: how about find the reason, kanzure . sell some diodes. sell something useful. elsewise it looks very strange, you come here for no apparent reason than to insult, 'y'all idjits, noise, yer products, all fake, mp is powerless dolt just like me and my shilliconvalley catamites' etc
asciilifeform: other than a usgcomplianceshitcoin.
asciilifeform: so not sure what is the improvement, other than a slightly less-breakable setup.
asciilifeform: 15:06 < kanzure> uh, my complaint about lasers isn't about the laser itself, but rather the optics usually associated (or, in cases where i need to maintain a co2 tube, i also mean co2 tubes)
asciilifeform just made it through entomological swarmpile http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1704882 -- was really sumthing
asciilifeform: pretty sure that the curative asteroid would also leave behind a few blind,deaf crapple campus janitor, to tell tale.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey, why would they want to study it! can simply 'unhappen' it. i suspect they will not even flinch when we start formatting their hdds
asciilifeform: '16:38 < jrayhawk> he needs verifiable/falsifiable examples, but i think i have already stopped caring' << winner
asciilifeform: ('utxo set' is a broken concept, thoroughly and to the bone : it implies that it is somehow acceptable to forget the history of all coin, i.e. the thing that proves that EVERY bitcent actually came from blockrewards as-specified, and not from magicking into existence a la fiatola )
asciilifeform: no 'prunings', no 'simplified' nonsense.
asciilifeform: 'safety improvements' didjaknow !
asciilifeform: lk about Bitcoin. We had many informal discussions amongst ourselves about topics such as mining decentralization, evolution of the Bitcoin protocol, safety improvements and progress for both soft- and hard-forks...' didjaknow!!
asciilifeform: 'Over the last few days, some Bitcoin developers and miners got together for a social gathering to improve communication, friendship, and to do some California sightseeing. We talked about where bitcoin is and where bitcoin is going. We learned a lot from each other. We also visited Stanford to attend a cryptography talk to learn more about potential improvements for Bitcoin, as well as the Google campus to give a presentation and ta
asciilifeform: kanzure: mpex is mircea_popescu's emporium.
asciilifeform: it does read quite like an nsalogical compartmentname, dunnit. REALITYWINNER.
asciilifeform: the 'we can create 10bil plates of shitburger to go with the vouchers if only we KomyoonityOrganizeStoneSoup correctly' is simply slightly moar elaborate version of same.
asciilifeform: it's zeta, comes and impales your entire fucking village to make the point that NO, you can't model it.
asciilifeform: kanzure: the alternative is amply illustrated in the logs : effort of actual people, without any trace of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-07#1640325
asciilifeform: otherwise we'dve simply put mongeese through blender.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the competition used goats. afaik eventually went broke, 0 result.
asciilifeform: kanzure: reactor was pointedly not the problem. the trait simply wouldn't stick.
asciilifeform: so logical -- a la 'dumpster', 'xerox'.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: thiel's catamite. he even bought him a harem, so he can pretend 'just like mp!'
asciilifeform: the number of coolies illicitly removed from their chinese rice field and paid to 'publish or perish' cock-pulling adventure in usa, has 0 impact on anything.
asciilifeform: tempus fugit..
asciilifeform: kanzure: i and ~50 other folx, lost jobs, because it proved ~impossible to persistently force $valuableprotein secretion in ecoli
asciilifeform: i'll also warn that neither mp nor most of the folks here, engage in 'private' conversation with folx they do not know.
asciilifeform: i have deeply nfi whether the chix are simply weathervane, or make weather
asciilifeform: iirc was spotted in prb chat , harping re evil ol' mp&co, as recently as april
asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform found that there WAS a standard for sram simms -- http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Projects/DSP_Expansion_Ram/JEDEC_64_Pin_SIMM.pdf -- and that vintage examples survive
asciilifeform: !~later tell ben_vulpes feature req... counter of empty blox in past 24h. can haz?
asciilifeform: 'an upstart company — especially one that’s deliberately isolated and adversarial — would have trouble competing with providing the type of service that Cloudflare, or its similarly massive competitor like Akamai, can' lolx2
asciilifeform: 'Cloudflare — a web services company known for never banning anything — dropped the Daily Stormer in a fit of pique' << lol!!
asciilifeform: incidentally there is a very spiffy tool ( that i dun currently have one of ) for such occasions, that runs on... distilled water and many many amps of dc
asciilifeform: ( trump ! )
asciilifeform: ( hg can semiconduct but not under the conditions contemplated here )
asciilifeform: the only thing this method has to recommend it, is that it is utterly insensitive to environmental conditions and to variations in components.
asciilifeform: works at any temp where hg is liquid.
asciilifeform: you work the device by simply passing it from hand to hand.
asciilifeform: in other quasi-noose, here's a simple electric rng suitable for very low bit-rate application ( e.g. walletrons for sig nonce ) : small mercury tilt switch, gates clock signal to counter, and a flipflop. when the latter toggles, the counter value is forwarded to a register; every 2 shots end up vonneumanned and xor'd into the output reg.
asciilifeform: goat will go to the soup pot still thinking of man as simply a vertical goat, 'and if the cards had fallen differently, it'd be him under the knife' etc
asciilifeform: in other lulz, http://archive.is/948EL >> '...the government knew that the firms were on the edge of massive profitability and that they were in fact not insolvent. ...They did it to steal the profits from the company -- which means they stole the shareholder's property to fund other things - including Obamacare.'
asciilifeform: the reason why mike_c's node appears 'stalled' is that it stopped fetching blocks. trb's block sync behaviour is unspeakably moronic, it will attempt 'long sync' ONCE, on warmup
asciilifeform: i.e. accepts connections, processes mempool tx ( which, if said tx relies on a yet-unseen block, WILL be rejected, and will look exactly like the snippet mike_c posted, and in fact most of the debug log of a syncing node WILL consist of these )
asciilifeform: if trb node is not fetching blocks, but is not showing symptoms of 'black hole'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-22#1702394 << it is zoolag, it is resyncing, and ( i assume everybody knows ) it is ~impossible to usefully connect to a trb node that is syncing
asciilifeform: r0nin-: 'rome had..' how ? martians landed , imposed ?
asciilifeform: spyked: more fundamentally, it is ~impossible to write a nontrivial c proggy without pointer arithmetic, and it is ~impossible to meaningfully prove the correctness of a nontrivial program involving pointer arithmetic.
asciilifeform: the ~actual~ purpose of the attempted 'frameworks' is to drill into your skull and install the idea that nullcipher, diffiehellman, aes, are acceptable things to exist in this world, and can be pushed as 'cryptography'
asciilifeform: a 'standard' that consists of 'go and implement whatever you like' is not a standard in any meaningful sense.
asciilifeform: tls is not the standard of comparison.
asciilifeform: 1980s chips were jewels not because of any magic, but because the option of bloat was simply unavailable to hardware designers then.
asciilifeform: when saw that the ~original~ src was a pile of shithacks, lost interest in anything but the electron microscopy path ( like it or not, 1uM process folks were ~forced~ to make compact description )
asciilifeform: tldr : a serious sanecomp board would feature a , say, 16 x 16 ~grid~ of ice40-8k.
asciilifeform: on top of all this... betcha the canonical ref implementation is in overflowlang.
asciilifeform: ( implementation becomes an underhanded-C-contest in concealing the fact of ~any~ box running the idiocy reverting to nullcipher on demand )
asciilifeform: as for diffie hellman, it is nsatronic , and this is fairly well known at this point ( whether because timing side channel, primes-which-ain't, and other sabotage of concrete implementations- or more fundamentally broken - is unknown )
asciilifeform: ssd also more , obviously, compact, and lower current. e.g. zoolag is approx the size of my fist. and runs from a wall wart.
asciilifeform: even to 'empty' addr ( would you share an 'old' pgp key?! )
asciilifeform: disclosing privs to empty addrs proves ownership to whoever finds them.
asciilifeform: dumping shitforkolade is in that sense a very private work, more than, say, proctology
asciilifeform: ice40 leaves a great deal to be desired ( it is VERY small, comparatively, and doesn't come in a no-flash version, and who knows for how long it will remain in print ) but is by far the closest thing that currently exists to the sane fpga.
asciilifeform: ( in modern ru mil production chain, they still mandate ancient orcish pinouts and case dimensions, supposedly to prevent substitution with cheap imported chip with name sanded off )
asciilifeform begins to suspect that these folx simply got a hold of american raw dies and make a killing mounting them in sov-era specced ceramic cases with gold pins, and calling it 'new production'
asciilifeform: 'для проектирования используется САПР ф.Altera − MAX+PLUS II или Quartus II' << pfff yea suggests brute force 'crystal, complete with 'when you care enough to steal the very best' easter egg banner' copy.
asciilifeform: phf: i am not convinced that cpu arch CAN be improved on incrementally.
asciilifeform: phf: what you & dks et al observed is called complexity shitstack collapse.
asciilifeform: sane comp is to be a fully granular description. i.e. if you can still get transistors, you can still build ENTIRE THING. no exceptions.
asciilifeform: ( and yes genera used it and yes you need it for historically accurate ivorytron. but dun belong in sanecomp. )
asciilifeform: spyked: consider, the amount of arbitrary stupidity you import even ~by having pci bus~ is gargantuan
asciilifeform: spyked: i tried this, it's a dead end because papers over idiot hardware rather than replaces. and does not yield hardware sovereignty-- you are at the mercy of the chipmaker's continued making of 100% compatible cpu & peripherals
asciilifeform: the other aspect, vlm is a massive bucket of c liquishit, and not at all a compact description of the arch
asciilifeform: a sane comp is a box with NO unix in it, anywhere.
asciilifeform: ( for one thing, bolix is comparatively small, quasi-logical, and nonmoving target )
asciilifeform: 'After his ouster from the West Wing on Friday, ex-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon declared the Trump presidency that his brand of populist, right-wing conservatives helped make a reality is "over."'
asciilifeform: losing global battle << waiwat did somebody cough up a non-phdassemblyline nonmicroshitian comp while asciilifeform slept ?
asciilifeform: 'The FBI has been briefing private sector companies on intelligence claiming to show that the Moscow-based cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab is an unacceptable threat to national security...'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not valid comparison
asciilifeform: the cost of wanted-computer is still in usd. sadly.
asciilifeform: for the brief time when it was still competing with sun, hp, zombie of sgi
asciilifeform tentatively impressed, looks fwd to taste
asciilifeform: also lit search came back with an equally obscure recipe for a 10% or so faster comba ( tldr : compute the square (diagonal) digits in a separate walk, and add them to the result of the nondiagonal pass , at the end )
asciilifeform prolly oughta start simply carrying a sack of fg everywhere he goes
asciilifeform: but instead we can simply let Karatsuba_Term return the carry, and say c1, c2, c3 and in the end we ripple out c1+c2+(-1^subtractenable) .
asciilifeform: e.g. https://qualiacomputing.com/2015/05/22/how-to-secretly-communicate-with-people-on-lsd/ >> 'About 18 months ago I had a really cool idea: What if we could communicate with people who are high on LSD in such a way that sober people can’t understand?* I call this idea psychedelic cryptography (PsyCrypto for short).'
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the depths of cthonian horrors, https://qualiacomputing.com
asciilifeform: re shells, lack of completion is the kind of screaming imbecility for which there is no justification-- you're already sitting in front of a machine, it could be doing 100% of the algo-trivial brute work. rather than 90% - worst of both worlds, bulldozer that still leaves you with 2hr of shovel.
asciilifeform: but answer is , digging a hole for 2hrs is sweaty work, but it isn't a thorn in what would otherwise be a flow state, the way missing tab complete is.
asciilifeform: there is no guarantee that pumper will live long enough. but certainly no one lives long enough for the shamanic spells to work either
asciilifeform: other -- is to pump muscles
asciilifeform: the other observation is that the chukcha's reliance on his 'naked five senses' is absolute -- 'physical object' in his threadbare skullcase always trumps 'insisible' items, 'just number'
asciilifeform: or whether simply stuck playing pretend, to delay eating nagant when they sit and think
asciilifeform: hey, digging up obscure derp from the depths of the refugee camps, could take time!111
asciilifeform: enough so that i barfed in attempting to read'im
asciilifeform: ave1: knuth has a number of examples of 'derecursivizations'
asciilifeform: ave1: it can be made quite trivially from the one i have. but increases complexity and so i have not done this.
asciilifeform also entertained that this is almost the exact arg of mircea_popescu an' asciilifeform re mphf, originally, but with the sides reversed
asciilifeform: idea is not to impress, but to cauterize
asciilifeform could perhaps qualify as a championship miser if he were richer
asciilifeform: mno. observation was re concrete cases where it is impractical to change a key. say, the parasitic radio item.
asciilifeform: ( consider, if changing keys were painless, we could use lamport's method )
asciilifeform: sorta why i put the effort into crafting a demonstrably bug-free constantimetron, first thing, rather than 'let's use gnu gmp with massive keyz'
asciilifeform: the other argument is impact of leaked bits.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: parallelizes linearly, if one is impatient.
asciilifeform once met the d00d in saeculum . not impressed.
asciilifeform: 'MAS DE 15 AÑOS DE EXPERIENCIA AL SERVICIO DE LA EMPRESA'
asciilifeform: it doesn't impact the type of key you can use !!
asciilifeform: imho using anything less than the longest rsa key you can physically get away with on the hardware of your time, is simply nonsensical -- like using smaller bullet on enemy than you strictly must
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-16#1698809 << hitler is entirely central to the post-1945 'world order' , far more so than he ever was to own attempted empire
asciilifeform: of course, arguably if you can actually DO this, you will probably lose interest in the mphf method per se
asciilifeform: was more of a philosophical observation : that mphf is not turing-complete ( in the same way 'p' is not. deliberately )
asciilifeform: (i.e. if you, yourself, already computed H(x), then you know how many turns of the crank it took. and can pass that number along.)
asciilifeform: ~after~ a mphf (or similar) hash is taken, the time and space required are known.
asciilifeform: i dun see this picture, where we GOTTA take a shit into this here fine vase, 'or empire will'
asciilifeform: if i specify a pubkey for myself with 65536-bit public mod, then other people can simply decide that i'm an arse and that verifying my sigs isn't actually +ev for them
asciilifeform: this is true. but my original point was that it is impossible to verify the correctness of a list of primes other than by same procedure as generates one.
asciilifeform: but imho incomplete.
asciilifeform: mod6: the three snippets are a pretty good, imho, intro course to 'you can have a useful, statically-compiled lang without promiscuous pointers'
asciilifeform: you can't use ada's array concatenation feature either, to cheat, because i banned it. it introduces implicit jump.
asciilifeform: they're temp copies of the multiplicands
asciilifeform: they're the foundational abstraction that makes the thing compact and readable
asciilifeform tries to count how many 'improved' versions he wrote, and then discarded...