asciilifeform: then when i say 'timestamps not produced by yourself are promisetronic' it will immediately click in your brain.
asciilifeform: sina: point being, you cannot rely on timestamps of any form to distinguish old packets from new and filter replays
asciilifeform: ('timestamp' has no factual meaning outside of hardware on your desk. and even there - 'fuzzy')
asciilifeform: sina: think also through the implications of 'no clock'. suddenly, chronological ordering is nontrivial.
asciilifeform: this btw is also a major feature of mircea_popescu's (non-lighthousetronic) algo, and imho important
asciilifeform: ( sans ntp and similar imperial shenanigans )
asciilifeform: in continuation of 'the best car -- is to already be at the destination' line of thought, 'the best keyboard is to simply not need to hit many keys'
asciilifeform: ( you need carpenter's clamps )
asciilifeform: 'Maltron keyboards are expensive by comparison and for many people represent a considerable investment. They are hand made from sheet materials which are formed and punched to make the shell or body of the keyboard. Cherry MX key switches are individually fitted by hand. The switch contacts are wired up into a scanning XY matrix by hand. In fact everything is done on an individual basis by hand. This does not result in a $5 product.
asciilifeform: phf: i saw maltron for first and last time in 1980s-era b00k on 'fun of computing' or sumthing
asciilifeform: i'd like to know where i can get a comp pedal that i can REST FUCKING FOOT on
asciilifeform: !~later tell btw gabriel_laddel you oughta have received the old comp by nao
asciilifeform: ~later tell btw gabriel_laddel you oughta have received the old comp by nao
asciilifeform: the ample idle hours of homo redditicus ~will~ be harvested
asciilifeform: again , whole thing could be ~fabrication. but not mine, but of ru prosecutors. https://archive.is/8Gzus << example from 2016.
asciilifeform: reportedly, the 'emplacers' regularly get picked up by police and sentenced to 20y, but this, naturally, does 0, new ones -- appear when needed
asciilifeform: the interesting bit re ru is that the dope parcels buried are so small that the operators make ~0 attempt to interfere with 'treasure hunters' who paid 0
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't clear to me that, e.g., the mit theft, involved any guile or initiative -- is simply the idiot inheritors disassembling their father's house
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-27#1675008 << this is actually more likely to sink you than simply using a very large time cushion would.
asciilifeform: ( for n00bs : 'hyperthreading' attemps to marshal 'resources unused by the current instruction' - say, the ALU during a memory fetch - into becoming, through sleight of hand, 'a cpu core' that is , while said resources are available, behaving as a cpu, executing instructions )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-27#1674906 << ht is not a legitimate concept, like, e.g., pipelining, but instead an ill-conceived attempt to speed up 'winblows as it existed at the time'
asciilifeform: hard to picture such exquisite torture implement arising through mere happenstance
asciilifeform: already you have made an assumption that is false on all extant hardware
asciilifeform: 'ohai i authenticated and now lemme say [NSA INSERTS TEXT HERE] sincerely yours, mr.chump'
asciilifeform: sina: yes. and it is not a far assumption, nobody will send plaintext wtf omfg
asciilifeform: ( and noshit.jpg, 'entire works of mankind as 1 tree' leads to 'infeasible in terms of time and computing power available' )
asciilifeform: so if you wanted to distinguish 'proper' vs 'bug' +++, you would have to make the grammar CONSIDERABLY more complicated, and transform the ENTIRE input text, and then un-transform it BACK, every time
asciilifeform: erlehmann: the +++ thing was actually a more serious problem than you might walk away thinking on first reading -- because it is physically impossible to fix it without MAKING NEWLINES SIGNIFICANT semantically
asciilifeform: but with c compiler.
asciilifeform: can easily have process invocations (e.g. compiler invokes) rather than filename-hash
asciilifeform: erlehmann: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-26#1674460 << 'redo' is theoretically neat ( at least when compared to gnumake ) but - and i studied it, since you last mentioned it - it strikes me as a near-miss attempt to invent 'v'
asciilifeform: ( https://archive.is/Tr9PF , linked within, also interesting : 'Led by IS&T’s vice president, John Charles, the ambitious reorganization began in February 2015 and aims to spur innovation through agile software development practices adopted from industry. Charles emphasizes that this is not a typical reorganization, but rather a complete transformation of MIT’s IT department. ... Many longtime employees have resigned ... Charles,
asciilifeform: 'Instead of being renumbered into publicly-accessible IP ranges, IS&T is moving all of campus into RFC-1918 10/8 addresses, and enforcing the campus firewall, which will be made up of Palo Alto 7050 devices, which are best known for their deep-packet inspection feature, App-ID.' << ahahaha so it ~is~ about zapping unauthorized nonethertardium nodes etc
asciilifeform: until IS&T suddenly and unceremoniously decided to renumber all of campus onto a private, NAT'd address space. Some buildings have already been migrated, with same-day notice, causing outages of services hosted in those buildings.'
asciilifeform: 'Ever since IS&T started to undergo "The Transformation", there has been a deliberate and systematic attempt to change Computing at MIT for the worse. Services that have been relied on for years have been discontinued and turned down, frequently without notice. Infrastructure critical to running MIT has been outsourced to cloud services during "emergency maintenance". Most of these changes had minimal impact on students and faculty,
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-26#1674428 << fwiw i carefully read all of it. asciilifeform's verdict: very much a gabriel_laddel-ization of gossipd. does 0 of the necessary work, and drags in 5+GB of liquishit deps (python, sql, some derp's crypto lib.) the amount of this that would have to be rewritten, from the ground, is 100%. not even useful as illustration of anything, because NONE of the actually complicated moving parts of a
asciilifeform: mp-en-managua: spoiler: it's a python skin on (yes, via shell, per packet..!) koch gpg
asciilifeform: goodnight js-of-mp
asciilifeform: js-of-mp: because the wrongmusic plays not at the bar, but permanently on her face..
asciilifeform: !!up js-of-mp
asciilifeform: i'll leave the flea circuses to magicians like js-of-mp
asciilifeform: problem wit htheir being poor is your being poor too ? << too poor to build perfectly impermeable membrane against'em, aha
asciilifeform: js-of-mp: was in re '10% females'
asciilifeform: js-of-mp collects plutonium from sea water. sailor - drowns in sea. both work with sea!111
asciilifeform: js-of-mp: you visited the sans- ? with.. time machine?!
asciilifeform lulzily, and almost polar oppositely of js-of-mp -- is in nyc
asciilifeform: sometimes people write to asciilifeform , 'you're a bore and pompous arse', but fwiw i have to date 0 posts about dieting. or about Eating Eggs While 3133337.
asciilifeform: erlehmann: there is an american-'patented' style of rent-seeking scam that is now being 'enjoyed' in europe, incl., as i understand, in your berlin. which goes like this : 1) import a horde of raping, pillaging orcs from some fuckhole 2) prohibit 'discrimination' against'em. now the only permitted means of excluding them from being your neighbours is... price. 3) landlords rake in the dough, because now you gotta pay not only for ove
asciilifeform: or whatever else (cad, 'gimp', etc )
asciilifeform: mod6: it is absolutely imperative that all future users of 'p' understand exactly how this thing worx
asciilifeform: this is all because compiler is maliciously retarded
asciilifeform: the INFURIATING thing is that, just as with the addition/subtraction carry bit (last month's thread), the compiler DOES NOT give us portable access to the upper word of MUL reg,reg
asciilifeform: mod6: interestingly, there is veeeeery little improvement so far, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-23#1660607 turns into 17.7 sec !!
asciilifeform: ( you physically cannot have karatsuba or anything of the kind if you cannot make FZs of several sizes. however the F remains, it is still impermissible to involve FZs of variant bitnesses in any arithmetical operation when invoking . )
asciilifeform: also can probably be simplified slightly.
asciilifeform: ACHTUNG, PANZERS! preliminary result of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-18#1672101 is that http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-19#1659220 nao takes <3 sec. which can still be improved further,
asciilifeform: ( where the 3mo limit is imposed by the practical load of food, and little else )
asciilifeform: it was enough to establish that asciilifeform is completely immune to sea sickness, for instance.
asciilifeform: but if asciilifeform ever ~were~ to buy boat, or plane, it ~would~ be a used one, and will pay for it not only in reichsmarks but millimorts, because new is simply not on the table -- a new, e.g., sailboat thing, may as well be a starship
asciilifeform: tru!! if i needed 10,000,001 -- would be stuck paying the chumptax
asciilifeform: was thinking of transformers and other smaller items. ~100% of my comps is made of 2ndhand parts, for instance.
asciilifeform: plain and simple. ( it drives off the dealer lot, suddenly loses 10k in value, lol )
asciilifeform: newness is a chump tax.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform barely ever buys 'new' anythings. 'newness' is a chump tax.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as result, i suspect, of missing the 'silver age' etc, asciilifeform never imprinted on the various kabukis of the genre
asciilifeform: asciilifeform was born a bit too late to properly notice this with own eyes: while he ~had~ paid for compilers -- never once paid for porn
asciilifeform: ... or could simply be snow job to put the 'international komyooniti' off the scent
asciilifeform: !#s histocompatibility
asciilifeform: speaking of these, asciilifeform can hardly wait for the 'dontchaknow you Don'tImplementYourOwnCrypto!!1111' 'luminaries'
asciilifeform: sn0wmonster: trinque's wotron ( which is in use here ) gives you a complete copy of the wot on demand. how would you make this 'more decentralized' ?
asciilifeform: ( these affect everything ~but~ the comps , which are on isolated mains )
asciilifeform: emphasis on past tense
asciilifeform: well it doesn't. just like my garbage bags won't walk to the dump by themselves, even if asked politely.
asciilifeform: 'Bancor ended up reimplementing their own functions for arithmetic. That is, their own add, subtract, multiply, and exponentiation. ... The sum total number of dedicated tests for these math functions is 6. Multiplication is tested solely by multiplying 2957 by 1740.' << lulzy
asciilifeform: evidently d00d is one of the chumps dismayed by the phase transition
asciilifeform: happen first, but A is guarded by B, and C ensures that B cannot happen." This is a temporal logic proof, over a certain code path. It's complex, fragile in the face of code evolution, and totally unacceptable in professional code development. We want flat, simple invariants, maintained by following best practices. Without regard for the correctness of the student's code, we grade such cases a 2 out of 10. They ought to know better,
asciilifeform: meanwhile, among the ethermonkeys, 'they have messy code paths, don't follow best practices, and happen to work by the skin of their teeth. The code works on a good day with the wind on its back. But when it comes to corner cases, things get awfully complex. In the course I teach, when I point out such situations to students, they go into a diatribe that goes "well, you see, the problem can't arise because for it to happen, A has to
asciilifeform: sometimes also perversities (e.g. today found very nice shop lamp , of a 1950s type i already have, and picked up... walked with that)
asciilifeform back from lugging 30kg of b000kz 4km in swampfuckistan heat, lol
asciilifeform: complete with waveguides
asciilifeform: 'lilavati' seems to translate simply as 'she-playful-one'
asciilifeform: the petrol-engined things, aside from vibration ( can't use my hands for day+ after ) and acrid smoke , also made of shit, i've thrown out 2 (after attempting various orc repairs, cleaned carb etc) in frustration
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo knows very well that none of this 'hay' goes anywhere but city dump, at considerable expense
asciilifeform: ( spoiler : ultimately we are dealing with ~multiword~ ops, and the complexity of how the multing actually happens, comes into play )
asciilifeform: karatsuba et al weren't even working with computers. but wrestling with question of how much, abstractly, work, does multiplication per se entail.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is using base10 in his example but otherwise right
asciilifeform: ( we did not recurse, in this example, explicitly, but if you had -- you would have k := ceil((bitness of x and y)/2) naturally in each level of recursion
asciilifeform: i'ma work a concrete example here, so, patience...:
asciilifeform: receiver samples at the carrier freq (typically 40 or so kHz), and then processed as serial bits.
asciilifeform: ( if you own, e.g., 'gps' receiver, you already own an example of a device that picks up a signal BELOW motherfucking THERMAL noise!1111 )
asciilifeform: because none of the naive approaches 1) work 2) give any symptom of not working, until you're dead
asciilifeform: hypothetically i could even do it ( supposing your rsatron is mains-powered ) by observing the imperceptible dimming of the room lights, from 5km away
asciilifeform: it continues to entertain asciilifeform that ALL KNOWN implementations of rsa extant, branch-on-secretbits
asciilifeform: anyway to round out the thread -- i solved it, in the 'obvious' way, but now gotta simplify the proggy a bit, so that it becomes again readable, and also ideally would like to waste less space
asciilifeform: ( where to draw magic line, can only be found empirically, depends somewhat on machine )
asciilifeform: ( uv lamp )
asciilifeform: didja buy it in a comp shop, meant for use in those fluorescent-lit showman pcs kidz build ?!
asciilifeform: it ain't even about the monitors, but re the poettering's attempts to import the 'desktop' idiocy into linux
asciilifeform: 'Windows is the only one mainstream OS I'm aware of, that actually attempts to implement some form of GUI-level isolation, starting from Windows Vista. See e.g. this ancient article I wrote in the days when I used Vista at my primary laptop.'
asciilifeform: 'Uninitialized memory has been used as a source of entropy to seed random number generators in OpenSSL, DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD, and elsewhere.10 If accessing an indeterminate value is undefined behavior, however, compilers may optimize out these expressions, resulting in predictable values.' << bonus lol
asciilifeform: 'Applicants selected for employment will be subject to a Federal background investigation and must meet additional eligibility requirements for access to classified information or materials.'
asciilifeform: in other lullariae, http://www.vitorian.com/x1/archives/265 ( https://archive.is/LfwZH ) >> 'A 100% American Technology Company'
asciilifeform: trinque: 'pantsuit corps' like to funnel whatever profit there is into compensations for bluebloods, rather than dividends, also
asciilifeform: 'joke's on you, schmucks who sank cycles into offspring and their idiot mothers' is one variation, for example.
asciilifeform: complete with fremen
asciilifeform: d00d is simply not digestible by my enzymes, or sumthing
asciilifeform: phf: re hunter h. thompson << i really ~wanted~ to like him. but bounced off every time tried to read any.
asciilifeform: one man's imposition is another's wet dream :
asciilifeform: hence the temptation to hotpatch the meat.
asciilifeform: lobbes: dr. mengele was a saint and humanitarian compared to the folx presently in the saddle, aha
asciilifeform: aaand nao for something compleeetly different , in archaeology of dead cultures : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teDn-GTeDVs
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally reading the djb thing left asciilifeform with impression that $derp could also have been part of a 'cuck' scenario
asciilifeform: orlol had an old piece re 'philanthropy' being part of decomposition/putrefaction process
asciilifeform: but now for something compleeetli different!! >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp6ePKe6iI >> greatest imho , i shit thee not, cinematic masterpiece of our time...
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: as if it were somehow impossible to replace every ~other~ cell in the battery with dynamite
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: theoretically can get pigs to stampede, however.
asciilifeform: there is ratio of who-based-on / on-whom-imposed
asciilifeform: it gave impression of 'ice cube in the desert'
asciilifeform: 'The elected Zionist leadership under David Ben-Gurion detested the two "dissident" groups. First, because they prevented it from conducting the policy it considered right. Every time a compromise with the British authorities was under discussion, they undertook some spectacular action against the British, such as the blowing up of the British headquarters in the King David hotel, the murder of Lord Moyne or the hanging of two Britis
asciilifeform: 'i dun seem to get off the ground by flapping arms, thereby flight is impossible for man'
asciilifeform: ( think of adc sampling artifacts as similar to the pixel moire you see when old vhs camera filmed room with crt display.. )
asciilifeform: the competent folx, you will generally never hear about, unless firsthand
asciilifeform: from same rag, 'Uber Technologies Inc director David Bonderman said on Tuesday that he has resigned from the company's board following a remark he made during an Uber staff meeting that was widely seen as offensive to women. "There's a lot of data that shows when there's one woman on the board, it's much more likely that there will be a second woman on the board," Huffington said. In response, Bonderman said: "Actually, what it show
asciilifeform: 'Thousands of dreamers and schemers and developers who populate the cutting edge of computer science, most of them young, had invested in the DAO. This was real money, a quarter of a billion dollars, their money, meant to build a better version of the world, and every cent was at risk.' << gold
asciilifeform: though with emigres it was somewhat complicated, some of them were (how does one even say this in english?) 'serving out their pay'
asciilifeform: the evaporation of the buying power of said printolade, also nuked the immune systems of the chumps,
asciilifeform: 'we will carry on as obscenely obese, impudent swine who have never seen the knife!'
asciilifeform: >> http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/lBzDS/?raw=true << from the archives of asciilifeform : simple c example of The Only Driver
asciilifeform: merely cumbersome. but if contemplating a return to 'msdos with bigger addr space', it is also fitting to discuss other cumbersomes.
asciilifeform: it is possible to accomplish useful work on a box where only cpu, memory, and serial ports, work.
asciilifeform: at any rate at this point imho it is obvious that the confiscation of computing from the enemy cannot proceed on linux.
asciilifeform: in other 3-years-and-continuing lulz, https://archive.is/kGc6w >> '...I've been trying to build these style tools for around 10 years, on and off, and they have never built correctly for these targets and any attempt to put in a bug report about it is a waste of time as someone comes along states it works and closes it, even though it doesn't.'
asciilifeform: there simply ain't moar to be had ( safely, that is -- you can use a faster-slewing op amp, in this collection scheme, but you will be harvesting power supply artifacts, 'voice of america', switching transients.. )
asciilifeform: mod6: you will notice that no fg hits >8kB/s at room temp, while the theoretical max is 14.4kB
asciilifeform: 2x temporal, that is. on top of 4x spatial.
asciilifeform: if you can't recompile ( or better still, use sane proggy ) you're fucked, there is no pill.
asciilifeform: 'worked' seems to imply cynical fraud from t=0
asciilifeform: pretty typical 'parliamentarian' rot ^ example
asciilifeform: 'When a terrorist group such as the Irgun Zvai Leumi sees their key objective completed, what do they do? In the case of their use of terrorism, the Irgun came to an end not because the funds died out or support waned, but because the leadership recognized the need to move to a more democratic and non-violent strategy. In order to continue pushing for additional change, no longer would the Irgun act under overt auspices of violence.
asciilifeform: phf: i'd doubt that the existing open sores turd would do the job ( esp how 'render without gpu' is a more or less entirely untested component, 'everyone has gpu!111' etc )
asciilifeform: their attempts are a laugh, though -- their picture of 'sexy project' is about as appealing as syphilis
asciilifeform: bots attempting to process output from other bots makes for potentially hilarious (try GB log bloat...) bugs
asciilifeform: trinque: kako now runs a public pissoire , voice-for-all, complete with gimmebots, ethertards, etc., many joys
asciilifeform: 'This variant of BN_mod_exp_mont() uses fixed windows and the special precomputation memory layout to limit data-dependency to a minimum to protect secret exponents'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-09#1667688 >> gold, '...they often go through exchanges hosted outside the US... unlicensed, unregulated and unwilling to abide by basic anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations, rules that digital currency exchanges in the US and Western Europe must abide by... If Congress and regulators are serious about tackling the national security implications of digital currencies, taking on these
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-09#1667638 << i contemplated whether to show ben_vulpes ~all~ of the mistakes in his proggy, or to let him find for himself, decided on the latter ( it's a healthy thing )
asciilifeform: ( pgpdump -i gives you the modulus etc. from any pgp key; then multiply the factors : instant verification. )
asciilifeform: ( the cruncher, the mass dump submitter, and the wwwtron )
asciilifeform: incidentally, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-08#1667388 >> recall harrison, inventor of temperature-compensated chronometer, per http://btcbase.org/log/2016-03-10#1429335 ; in other contexts mircea_popescu does not even seem to find this kind of thing objectionable, e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2015-03-06#1044115
asciilifeform: !#s MPHF
asciilifeform: !#s MPFHF
asciilifeform: ( and it wants 'mphash' also.. )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's is actually the slightly more complicated one.
asciilifeform: seems like the 'UMM' turns the thing into an exercise in breaking 'MPHash'
asciilifeform: compared to usa, coffee in ~german airport~ 'fucking incredible'
asciilifeform: they then declare 'pre-law' or 'pre-med' (these are not majors, but specific 'flavour mixins' of courses that qualify them to attempt to get into med or law )
asciilifeform: funnily enough, worst possible example
asciilifeform: if you produce 25mil of somebody per yr, that this is definitionally not any sort of elite. hence 0 attempt to seriously skin 'college grads' for their debt ( good fraction of which already condemned to life term of 'starbucks barista' )
asciilifeform: astonishing, how the militantly retarded can make what seems like simple problem -- to get raw bytes in/out of a comp -- into a near-impossibility
asciilifeform: seems to play same ecological role as winblowz -- to make linux look appealing in comparison.
asciilifeform: 'your lizard majesty, we are low on moneys with which to pay for improved NN for wiretap-to-text coverters.' 'make the victims pay' 'how?' 'sell them 'convenient' voicecontrolled toys, they'll buy voluntarily'
asciilifeform: ( theoretically -- a comp needs only fpga, a few nics, some memory, and a means of hooking up hdd )
asciilifeform: dun get quite so hot an' bothered, it's still made of traditional xilinx (which needs the massive toolchain) and still contains sdram ( for which no controller other than xilinx's , works ) but this board is actually useful -- in comparison with my existing aging 'ml501' ( as pictured in http://www.loper-os.org/?p=702 , http://www.loper-os.org/?p=797 )
asciilifeform: at one time ~million completed (yes) application forms for this, leaked, any enthusiastic entomologist can go, read.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-06#1666594 << ~anyone, supposing he has a u.s. passport, and 0 official record of judgements against him, can get 'top secret clearance' with corporate sponsorship. the filtration (i.e. who is permitted into any interesting 'compartment') comes ~after~
asciilifeform: 'Existing implementations of mmap() return the value -1 when unsuccessful. Since the casting of this value to type void * cannot be guaranteed by the ISO C standard to be distinct from a successful value, this volume of POSIX.1-2008 defines the symbol MAP_FAILED, which a conforming implementation does not return as the result of a successful call.'
asciilifeform: note, again, we cannot compare to -1, because we are using a sane language, where '-1' is not a valid address of anything, nor even a valid modular-type
asciilifeform: but it ain't a -1 to us, because we are using a sane language and it is treated ONLY as the addr of the beginning of the allocated mmap. but first gotta check for the failure. so this requires a comparison to FFFFF....[buswidthsize]
asciilifeform: if a compiler won't eat it -- it's retarded and must die.
asciilifeform: but it does appear in example snips.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: in this particular example, can debate which is the useful-stricter
asciilifeform: diana_coman: the example was written on a box with adacore's gnat; the stock gnu one is stricter, doesn't permit Foo'Image -- instead you gotta FooTypeName'Image(Foo)
asciilifeform: diana_coman: mmaps offer yet another method of glue -- theoretically 2+ processes can simply share it
asciilifeform: diana_coman: gluing in whichever direction, is pretty easy, when you have it all in 1 compiler
asciilifeform: i.e. the only kind of system that could even in principle contain room for massive-improvements
asciilifeform: the accidental-pile is the lure for improvement-hunters to begin with
asciilifeform: i.e. the thing was jumpered out 'for a reason'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: fashionable, in those days, idea, was to 'make unaging tissue' by reenabling telomerase (normally jumpered out, in most tissue). but -- somewhat unsurprisingly -- it turned out to be a 'glue the gas gauge needle to 'full'' sort of thing
asciilifeform: 'I can't imagine having kids, i worry enough about the impact of #climatechange on my cats' << loller
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu knows very well that puritan reich does not 'supply whores in paris', or even in bmore. instead it sacks inconvenient presidents, generals, etc. under the guise of 'immoral conduct unbefitting officer' for simply having been seen to fuck something
asciilifeform: ~guaranteed employment in the apparatus
asciilifeform: 'A few examples of posts that the Harvard Crimson cites are posts referring to hanging a Mexican child as “piñata time,” and posts mocking sexual assault or the Holocaust. These are all things that are part of common discourse on some terrible parts of the internet. Yet they are not part of common discourse at Harvard, or the administration doesn’t want them to be.'
asciilifeform: 'At least 10 students who had been accepted as members of Harvard’s Class of 2021 have already learned an important lesson about real-life consequences for online behavior. They had their offers of admission rescinded after the college learned that they had been posting wildly inappropriate memes on a private Facebook group. Here, “wildly inappropriate” means any combination of racist, bigoted, sexually explicit, or violent.'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-06#1666470 << traditionally there is a chumpatronic component, even in the immediate term : the thing has to 'vest' (if you don't work at $firm for X years, it matches 0 )
asciilifeform: it was tricky enough to make 'republican rng', an item closer in order of complexity, to a knife or a fork, than to a comp
asciilifeform: no republican comp, either
asciilifeform: ( reasonably compact )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-06#1666349 << spoken like a true 'my comp is ipad with keyboard' fella.
asciilifeform: not if you actually ~work~ with the comp.
asciilifeform: the important bit is that it has to be done on a ~virginal~ gentoo
asciilifeform: 'The use of Git and SSL/TLS sets a very high barrier for in-flight tampering. This is not the point of discussion.' lel
asciilifeform: 'chromium', 'wine', 'gimp', 'wireshark', other commonplace items.
asciilifeform: this is a little bit like complaining re ants, when kitchen has not been cleaned since reagan
asciilifeform: they've become ~impossible to distinguish from one another, even in principle. like viagra spams.
asciilifeform: it's the umpteenth 'let's bolt safety to c machine by compartmentalizing processes REALLY!!11 well with proprietary iron' attempt, mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: re 'small', my ffa example ( linked earlier ) is illustrative. basic bignum arithm stack, works on any machine bitness or endianness
asciilifeform: intel-proprietary crudware; faux process-separation ( quite impossible on x86 arch ); megatonne of crud; typical academitard snorefest
asciilifeform: 'Muen uses Intel’s hardware-assisted virtualization technology VT-x as core mechanism to separate components. The kernel executes in VMX root mode..' << lulzy liquishit
asciilifeform: herbijudlestoids: i'm not particularly interested in aiding & abetting microshit's attempts to embrace&extinguish ada
asciilifeform: in such a way as to judas goat the authors of said code to rewrite it such that it DEMANDS the new 'improved' compiler.
asciilifeform: and malicious idiots can break a compiler, while still technically not violating the standard,
asciilifeform: the basic idiocy of c world is that there is permitted to exist a gap between written standard and the actual implementation programs rely on
asciilifeform: ( it is physically impossible )
asciilifeform: and the compiler cannot possibly infer this.
asciilifeform: or that glibc imports drepper's 0days for you
asciilifeform: he prefaces always with 20+min of 'if you have a computer, you have relied on Things That I Wrote' etc various nonsense re own mega-significance
asciilifeform: it not only worked, but -- afaik -- remains the only 'optimizing' compiler of nock to x86
asciilifeform: ( mr. mold advocated for 'patchwork states', which were -- best as anyone could tell -- a miraculous resurrection of 16th c. italian provinces, somehow balanced in mutual non-nukeability . but in 'urbit' he implemented a reich, with central control and total dependence on the 'palace' )
asciilifeform: i bring it up because it was another d00d who advocated 1 set of principles : and implemented a very other in code
asciilifeform: i'll use a tabcompleteless shell after i start shitting in holes in the ground.
asciilifeform: i consider system lacking tab-completion to be unusable
asciilifeform: if it means simplicity+reliability
asciilifeform: but on the other hand it is a very small cpld, and runs a pretty simple state machine, whose honest function is verifiable by the operator with reasonable effort
asciilifeform: ( output has peridic component !! -- the start/stop bits )
asciilifeform: when you have stampedes in the capital, you ( ruler/civ1player ) Have A Problem ; just as d00d with tumour that is large enough to be palpable, has problem
asciilifeform: do perons appear in empty vacuum tho
asciilifeform: i'd suppose that mircea_popescu is there for the good weather, not for the company of tree-dwellers
asciilifeform: 'On the heels of last year’s closure of chip manufacturer Intel‘s assembly plant in Costa Rica, the company announced Monday that it’s opening a new Client Computing Group (CCG) in Costa Rica. The new unit will be responsible mostly for developing tablets and PCs.' (2015)
asciilifeform: 'The Intel® Teach Program helps teachers integrate technology into their classrooms to enhance student learning. In Costa Rica, the Intel Teach Program is coordinated in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Education, was implemented by the Omar Dengo Foundation, and now is executed by CECC-SICA.'
asciilifeform: half of'em are nearly empty, but for corn field and rocket base
asciilifeform: it is tempting to think of inflation as a scalar, but it isn't a scalar.
asciilifeform: ( there were attempts but pc arch made it very painful to do this )
asciilifeform: to move the complexity into proggy.
asciilifeform: if you can't put it on rubber stamp -- it sux. if can't print on business card in b&w -- useless. if won't read after a week glued to a light pole -- useless. if won't read after bullet hole in it -- useless. etc
asciilifeform: reading simply consists of waving the wand across the page, in various directions, for as many swipes as it takes.
asciilifeform: take payload, cut into J pieces, which turn into K, K > J raptorola packets ( each with simple checksum, so machine can ignore smudges ) ;
asciilifeform: it'd be even more jawdroppingly spiffy if i could get 16kB cut into a rubber stamp !
asciilifeform: ( and, importantly , optically, rather than promisetronically )
asciilifeform: unrelatedly, and continuing thread http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-01#1664215 -- it'd make print-rsakey-on-cardboard simpler, also, to read off
asciilifeform: imho the correct implication, is excrement-packaged-for-human-consumption, rather than just any ol' pile-o'shit
asciilifeform: trinque: my thought was that if you want that toyota to run in 2040 you will probably have to buy the factory that made the, e.g., oxygen sensors, ignition comp, whatever digital crud (and its analogue tendrils) that the thing demands in order to run
asciilifeform: ( you will get new comp for them where ? new chemical sensors ? )
asciilifeform: 'The newest Lexusesiv in particular have the most (Hashem-) forsaken hvac/audio computer systems WITH A MOUSE.' << lol!!!
asciilifeform: ( async-with-handshake simply does 'if i don't get handshake, i won't send' )
asciilifeform: 'synchronous serial' is simply a thing like rs232 but with 2nd pin, for clock, and then machine knows when to read off the bits.
asciilifeform: by same token your comp is also 'ideal dc'
asciilifeform: first test however is always 'ent', you can see in pete_dushenski's sample that ent immediately produces barf
asciilifeform: a 1G , say, sample, should have nearly flat histogram
asciilifeform: well lincoln's empire not yet rm -rf / 'd yet
asciilifeform: so much easier to turn over a statue than to actually accomplish something other than being piece of shit
asciilifeform: 'Generating large amounts of truly random data is expensive. Fortunately, truly random data can be simulated by pseudorandom data produced by a stream cipher from a much smaller key. (Even better, slight deficiencies in the randomness of the cipher key do not compromise security.) The literature contains several scalable ciphers....' -- djb et al
asciilifeform: the practical consequence of this is that when it was connected to TWO of'em, they could easily end up with different impressions of what they saw, breaking 'yokeability')
asciilifeform: which in fact can be built to validly transition from every possible state to another valid possible state ( see the adder example earlier. )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-31#1663919 << screamingly bad example -- all current ps lack the switch, and in fact designed to make use of 90-300volt, wherever in the world
asciilifeform: !#s chumpatronic
asciilifeform: erlehmann: no c; no dynamic memory allocation; no unchecked buffer accesses at all, anywhere; no libraries; no dynamic linking; no 'idiomatic' idiocy; and most importantly, no more than few thou. line.
asciilifeform: 'p' is simply a calculator, a la 'bc', on top of it