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: gotta compare samples of ~same size.
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
asciilifeform: lemme show you an example, erlehmann
asciilifeform: you presume puddle of liquishit complexity, erlehmann
asciilifeform: the implication is that it is acceptable for processor to be vulnerable
asciilifeform: example : full adder.
asciilifeform: erlehmann: 'validating input' is idiotic - a sanely designed system simply contains no physically possible perdition state to be led into.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was quite certain that djb is gone for good when 0 replies to multiple attempted reach-outs re phuctor.
asciilifeform: in recent sads, 'Our batch prime-generation algorithm suggests that, to help reduce energy consumption and protect the environment, all users of RSA—including users of traditional pre-quantum RSA—should delegate their key-generation computa- tions to NIST or another trusted third party. This speed improvement would also allow users to generate new RSA keys and erase old RSA keys more frequently, limiting the damage of key theft.'
asciilifeform: finite tapes technically ain't turingcomplete
asciilifeform: on the contrary, any literate fella using a decompressor , expects
asciilifeform: so we have him, who won't test (phree!111) sample of FUCKGOATS...
asciilifeform: even at ye olde backwater u. of maryland, there were persistent rumours, of profs who found, with simple perltron, gigantic cribbed segments of homework, and then ordered to forget-whole-thing by the dean, because perp was a blueblood
asciilifeform: whereas still a few elderly 'enemies of the people' left in the comp faculty, who do
asciilifeform: meanwhile völkischer beobachter does not disappoint , https://archive.is/ja4zY >> 'At Brown University, more than half the 49 allegations of academic code violations last year involved cheating in computer science. ... At Stanford... as many as 20 percent of the students in one 2015 computer science course were flagged for possible cheating'
asciilifeform: theoretically one could ionize the liquishit in a gigantic arc lamp, even. but even this, is harder than it looks
asciilifeform: ( everyone who has cultured something -- knows this. exhausted culture soup goes into vacuum flask, which gotta be killed before you can empty into waste drum, and often this proves harder than expected )
asciilifeform: and ftr 70kgs afaik gives 0 trouble to a healthy d00d, whether in chick or knapsack or comp (e.g. my lispm)
asciilifeform: what does a 100kg chick look like after ? does skin hang like sad, empty dirigible ballonet ?
asciilifeform: (and everybody else is simply screwing around in microshit 'excel'.)
asciilifeform: if contemplating 'who is actual country' based solely on where the yet-untungstenated physical au lives, possibly only cn is now 'country'.
asciilifeform: mod6: ~7 is the rated output at room temperature
asciilifeform: wotpaste hexdump -C of above
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: post a sample of what came out of your hexdump -C
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: compare with the photo
asciilifeform: but i suspect that it is already written, somewhere, i will not attempt to reinvent bicycle.
asciilifeform: dun worry mod6 , soon you too will be jaded and not ever again impressed with ~anything ..!
asciilifeform: mod6: possibly it needs to be simpler, then, intent is that no 'awe' should result from reading it, it oughta be screamingly obvious
asciilifeform: mod6: morale improves, at least in my experience, once you begin to write working proggy from 1st try, after period of banging head against compiler
asciilifeform: ( gotta prove to the compiler that pointer under NO circumstances can wander 'off the reservation', and it will reject certain obviously 'to naked eye' valid uses, and you will tear hair out )
asciilifeform: pragma Restrictions (No_Implicit_Heap_Allocations);
asciilifeform: ( because it can in fact be invoked in ~arbitrary places, and with params not predetermined at compile time, unlike cpp template )
asciilifeform: ada generics are interesting, they are not like cpp templates, not mere string substitution -- the thing actually has to prove correct for any legal invocation, anywhere
asciilifeform: ( the apotheosis moment of segway was when the chump who bought the co from the original sc4mz0r, finally drove his personal unit off a tall cliff ! )
asciilifeform: roof -- imploded
asciilifeform: looked exactly like the tin can children put on steam kettle and then into ice water, to watch implode
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: walking on new street not long ago i saw an old tin shed that looked as if it had ~imploded~
asciilifeform: post. example. of something you tested. and the test result.
asciilifeform: link to example of 'good stuff' ?
asciilifeform: word 'test' implies a result..
asciilifeform: and betcha he ain't touched a stinkin' comp since '92
asciilifeform still finds it interesting that g_l did not ask re the rng sample .
asciilifeform: 'Facebook is the third of what is probably a quartet (or quintet) of the destruction of the innocence of computing. First was viruses, second was malware, third is facebook. I suspect fourth will be related to control of networking itself, and fifth will be licensing of high level computer ability. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.' << mega-lulzy, ty Framedragger
asciilifeform: http://nosuchlabs.com/fg/nosuchlabs_FG_1024MB_phreesample.txt , http://nosuchlabs.com/fg/nosuchlabs_FG_1024MB_phreesample.bin .
asciilifeform: honest rng maker has 0 to be afraid of from posting arbitrarily large sample.
asciilifeform: (supposing the comp were gentooable, rather than 'chromebook' etc liquishit)
asciilifeform: now if this were a comp, WITH A KEYBOARD, that ran for month+ on 1 battery charge -- then yes, it'd have a point
asciilifeform: cryptocompromise as a 'manageable risk' under any scenario is imho lunacy.
asciilifeform: while we're on subj, i'll say that there is probably a good reason why most commercial faux-rng makers don't offer a sample download.
asciilifeform: no thread re rent is complete without this mega-insight.
asciilifeform: incidentally pretty good analogy -- a handful of very rich ~and eccentric~ folx had personally-owned pdp8, say; but many in fact thought 'computer is neato, but only good for accounting, i'll buy one for office', just as mircea_popescu immediately went 'yacht is for whoring, wtf, idiot, to think of living in one'
asciilifeform: think, e.g., 1970s micro comps.
asciilifeform: and sea temp.
asciilifeform: pycrete battleship lasts for months at room temp, unplugged
asciilifeform: sometimes 'pay so much' simply because this leap not yet made in $domain.
asciilifeform: microshit's rng has (as of xp3) 0 hardware component.
asciilifeform: all them folx who skimped on 'test p-1 and q-1'
asciilifeform: but there is nothing physically impossible about these.
asciilifeform: the up-side : 1) incomparable ( at least i cannot describe it in words ) feel of 'click' 2) theoretically eternal board. there are NO electrical contacts exposed, it works on electric fields.
asciilifeform: oh and i oughta mention, getting the thing together requires woodworker's clamps and just-so nudge'shove, takes 5-6 tries, during each of which all 122 keys fall out and separate into spring, anvil...
asciilifeform: is even in principle possible, or worth contemplating
asciilifeform: btw orlol never mentions kingstons, and imho they are the most important control on any serious boat!111
asciilifeform: 'wtf, this thing is empty'
asciilifeform: there is also some variation in the analogue components.