asciilifeform: ( slightly more, or slightly less, depending on room temp )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: why not jump very high, and go to mars, aha
asciilifeform: and it wasn't, somehow, any longer a thing to which 'you simply gotta get used to '.
asciilifeform: disingenuous to compare
asciilifeform: those aristos died of stupidity-- thinking that they were exempt from having to learn about money, similarly to modern brahmins 'exemption' from crypto
asciilifeform: technical problems admit technical solutions. but i suppose political problem ( mircea_popescu simply loathes the idea , Answer Lies In The Sewers - style, ohnoez folx with modest means living rent-free ) does not ..?
asciilifeform: and hey, nowhere is it written that it even has an answer, maybe folx simply dun need gadgets.
asciilifeform: ( afaik it is the broadest and most complete survey of subj, fwiw, when was written )
asciilifeform: the only improvement currently in the worx is the scintillator thing, which should give 1000x entropy debit ( and consequently 1000x faster testing, which is significant to asciilifeform who assembles and tests EACH UNIT BY MOTHERFUCKING HAND ) but that's really it.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform is from vaguely-european-looking, architecturally, city, and simply likes the aesthetic, and considers everywhere where it ain't to be found, a monkeystan, is all.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i gotta ask how you arrived at this impression
asciilifeform: yeah if you give'em a megabux's worth, they'll probably simply swallow it
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what means 'impossible to own' ?
asciilifeform: ( 1700s ! but doesn't it look quite 'steampunk'... )
asciilifeform: or in the third column, the comp, still in its maxim/luger/pancloset phase.
asciilifeform finds the history of the shitter a fascinating thing, in that it followed in same pattern as, e.g., small arms -- i.e. went through a peak of RIDICULOUS complexity before finally simplified into modern form.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes ought complain to obummer.
asciilifeform: 'the territory is better than the map, but it won't fit in your glove compartment'
asciilifeform: in mostly unrelated lulz, asciilifeform found that 1) most recent manufacture dates of batteries sold for classic thinkpads are all ~2013 2) mircea_popescu was unfortunately wrong, chinese LiIon cells have ~not~ improved, they have cheapened further still, expected useful life of a battery is ~year (less, with heavy use)
asciilifeform: halfword, rather than word, at a time, because of the idiocy of compilers, which LOSE the carry flag (see last 4 or so threads re subj)
asciilifeform: compared performance of 'kindergarten' multiplier ( halfword at a time, uses machine's MUL instr. which apparently IS constant-time on x86 (but NOT on arm! would need test routine at warmup to establish if can use MUL ) )
asciilifeform: so next step is: once we have a sadness equation, you can take it and test its guess rate vs expected value, with new output sample.
asciilifeform: let's take a painfully pedantic example:
asciilifeform: let's take concrete example -- if i make a rubbish rng that leads 'ent' to conclude that pi == 4
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-23#1660255 << again, nobody (rather, not asciilifeform) asked for general case -- it is provably impossible (see chaitin)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-23#1660248 << this ain't the problem -- already right off the bat , sane operator knows that it is physically impossible to test for ~good~ rng, only for ~bad rng~
asciilifeform: ( the grade outputted by the 'hungrier' tests appears to be in direct proportion to sample size, and very little else; and FG, /dev/urandom, various fashionable prng, intel's mysterymeatrng, and several others, all exhibit same effect, 100% pass begins somewhere b/w 1-3GB sample size. )
asciilifeform: umd puts out a 'newspaper', also. at one time it was ~readable if a snore. today -- ~100% 'ohnoez campusrape, moarfunding'
asciilifeform: 'He was a millionaire, in Washington to toast President Trump’s inauguration. She was a maid, tasked with cleaning rooms that cost more in a few days than her monthly rent. ... her buttocks, according to a police report ... '
asciilifeform: it makes an efficient mult routine impossible in principle
asciilifeform: b. pascal, even less impressed...
asciilifeform: vampire bat cock lol
asciilifeform: which services would these be ? maybe we oughta compare mircea_popescu's part/join ticker vs his time in ar
asciilifeform: i'd rather buy that dump in timis
asciilifeform: there is, however, a logical (if you will) component . there's a school of thought among lizards - normally ted turner is the name that comes up, but only because he afaik was the only unabashed, publicly confessed adherent -- that it'd be nice, from lizard pov, to physically exterminate the (actual) free world
asciilifeform: well the implicit comparison is to refrigerator on the continent
asciilifeform: it's to be seen as ~exactly like the lavish nuke-shelters (complete with underground casino and whorehouse) americans like to build.
asciilifeform: the sheer megalomania of 'seed vault' was breathtaking, even compared to, say, u.s. nuke network
asciilifeform: every single subcomponent has to run at ~worst case~ complexity at all times. i.e. 0**0 takes same time as (2**8192)**(2**8192).
asciilifeform: i know what the retarded solutions look like, at this point ALL of the published ones, i'd bet, i've read. if i wanted to perpetrate the same retardation, i'd simply use one of'em.
asciilifeform: see also this d00d's -- https://bearssl.org/ctmul.html -- attempt to solve the problem in the maximally backwards, utterly ill-conceived ways.
asciilifeform: shift-and-add ('egyptian') mult. has advantage that cpu CANNOT attempt to optimize
asciilifeform: a 'schoolbook' (word-by-word, using * (which will compile to IMUL instr on x86) multiplier will be faster than the 'egyptian' one. the catch is,
asciilifeform: ( overall speed would improve 2x )
asciilifeform: it's what makes crackpot-alts such perfect chump-harvesters
asciilifeform: which is a little odd, for a d00d supposedly relaxing in the company of fine whores on thai beaches
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-05-2017#1471209 << for entomologists -- typical example of kako thread , we had 1,001 of these since dragon day. read one, read'em all.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: why was nastase imprisoned ?
asciilifeform: and a comp in the shitter
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, but that is because he implemented it without thinking, sorta like doing mult by repeated addition
asciilifeform: ave1: i also suspect that it would be simpler ~and~ faster to predict the overflow by finding eldest-bit of operands
asciilifeform: if it dun involve commutes or offices or fluorescent lamps -- it's a goodone.
asciilifeform: i imagine they'll be in the 'business' of offering to 'safely safekeep' chumps' bitcoin, soon.
asciilifeform: massive scrap piles, yes, in usa, quite comparable to ye olde su
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: show experiment that suggests the 'incomplete maxwell' in the sense contemplated
asciilifeform: and 1,000,001 folx who could be author of 'mpex'.co , sure.
asciilifeform: 0 problem. but naturally invites as candidate for mpexcardano.io
asciilifeform: how to get current out of beta is ~solved problem, used industrially (small radiogenerators in implants)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: imho it is not a simple as 'there's a man who could, but he won't , because pissants tangled in his shoelaces.'
asciilifeform: then marconi joined in the newly-developed 'edison' tradition of patent trollage, by laying claim to EVERY subsequent improvement to radio, by others who came later..
asciilifeform: or idk who is best comparison today.
asciilifeform: your solution will simply get confiscated and assigned to 'respectable people'
asciilifeform: the perfect academitron is the hot-fusion reactor -- eternal 'but if only we make it 10% bigger!' chumpatron
asciilifeform: because it was ~completely described in su in 1950s.
asciilifeform: it dun look like 'people clicking', nor even attempts to.
asciilifeform: ( enumerated from old /phuctored dump )
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: incidentally i have not forgotten about your shortage of comps, i did get ye olde x61 out of storage, and dusted off, will be posting it this weekend when going to town.
asciilifeform: they ain't about to simply give up.
asciilifeform: 'thestringpuller May 18, 2017 11:27 basically from a purely logical standpoint MP’s last bastion in generating bitcoin revenue is 1) through activities he can’t talk about on the clear net (he used to be a pimp and made money that way in the RO days), 2) through Eulora which is basically just A Tale in the Desert with Bitcoin' << didjaknow
asciilifeform: 'thestringpuller May 18, 2017 11:32 @davef Dunno. Some speculated MP was broke and couldn’t warrant the losses to keep BitBet going' << didjaknow !!
asciilifeform: knuth however was aware that raster photosetter ( a la modern process -- essentially laser printer ) had become a thing, vs old-fashioned ( essentially optoelectronic version of drum printer, with template wheels )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this wasn't a 'shannonizer', but a thing that takes small state machine automaton and computes expansion of N steps 'impossibly' quickly
asciilifeform: possibly the only example of something that comes close, that i know of , is bernstein's gcd
asciilifeform: Framedragger: time-space compressor.
asciilifeform: djvu has some annoying quirks ( lossy compressor, so sometimes, e.g., И turns into Н on entire page ) but otherwise mindblowingly great tech, a scan that'd be 400M in pdf, can be 4 , and actually uses the res of whatever display you have, incl. printer, to display ~= original
asciilifeform: wavelet compressor.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's theory -- we got pdf (postscript on comp display, really) because of the barfalicious failures of the www folx ( html etc )
asciilifeform: in protest against the nonsense where people ( who insisted on using ssl, but originally this was made mandatory for users of visa ) had to pay rentseeking hucksters thousands for 'this cert will work and browsers won't complain'
asciilifeform: it is an obvious product of people who have nfi what the subject matter even is, and simply pasted fragments in microshit word together.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have nfi re the actual meaning of the linked text. simply translated.
asciilifeform: 'the real nexus of this photo is the government official with the "you've got to be kidding me" expression, who exists in a power-structure that requires solemn professions of belief in this powerful weirdo's dumb rituals (including, but not limited to, spraying electronic devices with water, and not because a computer that has been rendered inoperable due to electrical faults is incidentally and thoroughly immune to malware)' >>>>>
asciilifeform: ( recall marvin heemeyer aka 'killdozer' d00d and his encircled machine shop ? apparently rules re 'easements' are complicated. )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1657734 << apparently this is the new fecal consensus -- nyt et al running 24/7 ads 'impeach nao!111' etc
asciilifeform: 'what's the use of a comp with no command prompt' -- asciilifeform 20y ago ( and now ! )
asciilifeform: that one was to be found at, e.g., 'comp usa' ( i sometimes went there, marveled )
asciilifeform: not on asciilifeform's home planet, either -- there folx simply stole glass from work
asciilifeform: believe or not, the copies were of 2 types, the ones made by smart folx who gave a shit -- were in many cases equals, or even actual improvements (e.g. su single-chip pdp) . the others... were done by same folx who pilfer ru budget today
asciilifeform: asking folx to do honest work without 1) hard ideology + 2) public impalements ,
asciilifeform: attempting to understand how process works is for terrorists, aha
asciilifeform: hey, theoretically he also decides whether to import aztlan or not
asciilifeform: no comparison.
asciilifeform: 'OSX El Capitan. SSD + 32 GB RAM, ENS app super sluggish yesterday and same problems as OP. backed-up everything, deleted Mist and support files, re-installed. imported jsons after merging, working fine now, except for the fact that owned domains to be finalized are disappearing from the side bar. Domains cannot be finalized when typed in, mist refuses address lookup, type in a different domain and the retype the domain to be finaliz
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-16#1656947 << motherfucking 2cycle poison gas spewers. what is wrong with diesel compressor + pneumatic drill, etc, like normal people have
asciilifeform: mod6: it simply means that you store a bit as ~phase~
asciilifeform: pretty easy to implement, also. just make the flip-flop that forms sram cell, connected to clock.
asciilifeform: ideally we would also be doing all arithmetic ops on a cpu that executes both the op and its exact register-wise bitcomplement
asciilifeform: and 0 sympathy -- lived by usg intellectualproperty racket, died by it.
asciilifeform: and iirc mikado is not the emperor but the space between his doors.
asciilifeform: and yes in 'proper comp' code would be stored as an ast, and not as ascii linear turd.
asciilifeform: poorly chosen example
asciilifeform: the alternative to mid-word idiotbreaks is 'dwim' attempt
asciilifeform: meanwhile, microshit fud agency working overtime, https://archive.is/Hd2S6 >> 'Microsoft has criticized the NSA for their major role in spreading the WannaCry ransomware epidemic which paralyzed hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide. The tech giant urged governments to use and store their cyber warfare tools responsibly.'
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the monkey house, https://archive.is/LS3sn >> 'And by the way, I think we can successfully make Zcash too traceable for criminals like WannaCry, but still completely private & fungible' -- zooko (perpetrator of subj scamcoin)
asciilifeform: and average american stomps >1 cockroaches before dying of boredom
asciilifeform: well yes, like every other attempt to revive wholly dead cultures
asciilifeform: but important point -- without it , you are a zulu. regardless of what else you might have.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform had a 1958 'britannica', made in usa, that he fished out of a dumpster as a boy. it was superb, as far as encyclopaedia goes, about on par with famous большая советская энциклопедия . but today it lives packed in a crate.
asciilifeform: srsly perplexing example of 'lost tech'
asciilifeform: and yes - turbine is probably the most well-known example of recent qualitative jumps in what can be made, from advance in metalworking
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu linked once to an interesting example of this
asciilifeform: looks like it was made in example of 1 .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: by same token as your reasoning above, my comp is a turbine engine ( has turbine fan in it , hey )
asciilifeform: why not do same test by attempting the original ( now - public ) remote diddle ?
asciilifeform: idea , however, is that it will run blox past trad trb ( netless , mempoolless trb ) as 'final court'
asciilifeform: doesn't importprivkey do this ?
asciilifeform: i dunno that there are private-companies in usa above cafe size
asciilifeform: i suspect it is because lamp -- was weak ( i used PROM zeroizer with the tray ripped out )
asciilifeform: 'WASHINGTON FedEx said on Friday it was experiencing issues with some of its Microsoft Corp Windows systems in relation to a global cyber attack that had disrupted hospitals in England and infected computers in dozens of other countries around the world. "Like many other companies, FedEx is experiencing interference with some of our Windows-based systems caused by malware," a spokeswoman said in a statement. "We are implementing reme
asciilifeform: in other lulz, 'FedEx experienced interference with some of our systems which caused disruptions to the FedEx Express Memphis Hub sort operations. We immediately implemented contingency plans to minimize the impact to our customers. We regret any inconvenience this has caused.'
asciilifeform: lol in what camp are there white chix.
asciilifeform: ibm employees, presumably
asciilifeform: ad hoc classification marking ( private corp in usa does not use official ones when not working in Official compartment )
asciilifeform: phf`: laser cutter is absolute champ in this regard. 'smells like fireplace, like home!' and then somebody puts in plastic sheet...
asciilifeform: and guess what else is customary : 0 mentions of south kr's half century history of repeatedly attempting exactly subj
asciilifeform: 'Improved std::locale support for DragonFly and FreeBSD, thanks to John Marino and Andreas Tobler.' didjaknow this was needed.
asciilifeform: and is in fact UNDERGRAD project, to implement
asciilifeform: ( in asciilifeform's experience, nda in 100% of cases exists to hide screaming incompetence , astronomical prices, stolen material, or often all 3 )
asciilifeform: no magical whatevers, just basic clay out of which to make the comp.
asciilifeform: not an example to be imitated, imho.
asciilifeform: 'Conexant's MicTray64.exe is installed with the Conexant audio driver package and registered as a Microsoft Scheduled Task to run after each user login. The program monitors all keystrokes made by the user to capture and react to functions such as microphone mute/unmute keys/hotkeys. Monitoring of keystrokes is added by implementing a low-level keyboard input hook [1] function that is installed by calling SetwindowsHookEx
asciilifeform: also ftr imho 'sync in the wild' is a waste of time, it simply doesn't work, 'wild' contains ~no nodes that actually serve old blox on request.
asciilifeform: in other not-quite-noose, http://www.falcon-net.org << usg '1000X faster! bitcoin backbone!' chumpnet
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-10#1654291 << example. v. bout had considerably moar than half mil. it bought him 25 yr visa in usa.
asciilifeform: but simple observation that ~actual~ oppositioner will not be permitted mansions and titles inside the reich he is nominally opposing.
asciilifeform: mod6: old comment zapped; new one emplaced
asciilifeform: official compiler opened... month ago?!
asciilifeform: ( was the original never openly published ? or simply dun work on anything today ? or wat. )
asciilifeform: 'Since 2014, 34 Dutch investigations, including those involving attempted assassinations and international drug trafficking, have involved PGP phones, according to Politie. "Police and prosecutors have evidence that the main suspects knew their products and services primarily used by criminals for such offenses," the Politie announcement reads.'
asciilifeform: but meanwhile, in the world of tardanology : https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/dutch-cops-bust-another-pgp-blackberry-company-for-alleged-money-laundering ( archive.is fails ! srsly the load-from-single-ip thing is monumentally retarded )
asciilifeform: why not simply eat the rifle.
asciilifeform: i kinda assumed it were a composite picture.
asciilifeform: sounds like an attempt to make 'dumdum' without the bad pr ( but why?? )
asciilifeform: ( impervious to slashdot, reddit, and at least 1 organized ddos )
asciilifeform: but admittedly i don't mp-dns.
asciilifeform: because your mp-wp lives on conventional static ip box.
asciilifeform: the attempt to load random crapolade, somehow triggers this.
asciilifeform: ( meanwhile : http://www.loper-os.org/pub/pgp_fix_cribbed_from_mp.vpatch << tentative . )
asciilifeform: or ampersand fucks you
asciilifeform tried just now transplanting mircea_popescu's get_comment_text() from comment-template.php into own www
asciilifeform: http://asciilifeform.com << asciilifeform's mp-wp test install. comments dun work...
asciilifeform: mod6: diff the hexdump -C outputs
asciilifeform: from same rag, 'President Trump’s sudden removal of James B. Comey as director of the FBI sparked immediate fears among legislators and others that the bureau’s probe into possible collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign might be upended now that Trump himself can handpick its new supervisor.'
asciilifeform: 'President Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey on Tuesday, at the recommendation of senior Justice Department officials who said he had treated Hillary Clinton unfairly and in doing so damaged the credibility of the FBI and the Justice Department.' << lol!
asciilifeform: in other lulz : https://smpake.com/tmp/1494143304871.jpg
asciilifeform: to insist that it is from 'lack of company' always , is disingenuous.
asciilifeform: it is possible that solitary prisoners go mad from simple boredom. notice that nobody is ever imprisoned in a library.
asciilifeform: mustn't permit cheap , satisfying pharmasuicide to compete on level market with expensive, frustrating, slow konsoomer-goodz-suicide.
asciilifeform: in other not-quite-noose, apparently it is impossible to a) portably b) open a file for UNMOLESTED (e.g. no 'magic' char interpretation) i/o c) detect EOF.
asciilifeform: massive lulzmine, complete with -- yes,i shit thee not -- 'rust'
asciilifeform: in yet-other, lulzier-yet lulz, https://archive.is/wRzSJ >> 'Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager whose shooting death by a neighbourhood watch volunteer in 2012 prompted a national debate over racial profiling and civil rights, will be awarded a posthumous university degree in aeronautical science that reflects the 17-year-old’s dream of becoming a pilot before he was killed.'
asciilifeform: not esp. good pr, and accomplishes 0
asciilifeform: they didn't simply 'hang the poor' tho. ~uppity~ poor
asciilifeform: simple, you pick him up before hanged, 'this is my brother'
asciilifeform: turns out, there is a simple electrical hijack that is now used against expensive autos,
asciilifeform: steal directly from importer!111
asciilifeform: btw anybody other than phf` and mod6 built the example from earlier ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: rsa thing is complete other than the exponentiator -- currently on asciilifeform's desk, on grid paper..
asciilifeform: 3 ) trivially boosted to almost any bit rate you might want, by simple expedient of putting 'test capsule' from geiger kit in the box...
asciilifeform: at the amplification needed, ccd is ~100% own noise
asciilifeform: ( and if you see a head-on collision coming, can gun the vertical thruster and try to jump over it... )
asciilifeform: you can. can also empirically see. iirc maxed at 2.
asciilifeform: they already lost'em in pocket comp space ( to arm, which is still centralized/nato design, but tottering control )
asciilifeform: so equally painful as making new comp from 0.
asciilifeform: impedance.
asciilifeform: they have ball grids, and 0.01mm dimensional tolerance, and impedance match, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not a socket-f interposer, certainly. we're talking about a pretty hefty and expensive (impedance-matched, etc) thing.
asciilifeform: what lacking 'plug and play' is there to complain about in a box with all peripherals soldered down ??
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-07#1652670 << why is he THERE?! lemme guess, d00d thinks he can 'beat the house', eh. of such folx is the bread and butter of chumpatronics, made.
asciilifeform: so the amount of sympathy i have, is 0.
asciilifeform: funnily enough i have an intel xdp probe and even one of their seekrit dev boxes (complete with 'not for sale' sticker)
asciilifeform: decompiles ok , though, so you can crack it without breaking a sweat if you felt like it.
asciilifeform: update your gdb and follow the examples on my www.
asciilifeform: also paste the complete barf plz, it got cut off
asciilifeform: 'This is what nobles do. The Duke of This or the Baron of That, the King of France or the Holy Roman Emperor, they called themselves warriors but actually they were just armed and heavily armoured thugs. If they weren’t leading their men up the hill to their death, they were leading them in the slaughter of the enemy. Sometimes in these battles the nobles died too. But in the middle-ages, in the so-called Age of Chivalry, while the
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/H2ASf/?raw=true << example of how to use it.
asciilifeform: ^^^ mod6 , ben_vulpes , trinque , et al -- complete gnat magics ^^^
asciilifeform: mod6: i'ma post example when i get back to cockpit
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was suggesting a simpler thing than 'incompatible with internet' -- 'incompatible with intel's built in bus diddler logic'
asciilifeform: 'Whitelist-only networking may help contain the vulnerability, provided of course that it's not implemented on Cisco equipment.' sounded like it was about lan filtration, so not same idea
asciilifeform: Framedragger: i observed, in old thread (where? not found yet..) that one cheap counter to boobytrapped x86 would be to make an incompatible Gb nic.
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu recently discovered that you gotta buy a colo if you want to emplace something as small as even a FUCKGOATS
asciilifeform: https://pinspb.ru/79 << seems like they only take ru-only spampaypals tho
asciilifeform: 'On Wednesday, large chunks of network traffic belonging to MasterCard, Visa, and more than two dozen other financial services companies were briefly routed through a Russian government-controlled telecom under unexplained circumstances that renew lingering questions about the trust and reliability of some of the most sensitive Internet communications.' didjaknow.
asciilifeform: and so conceivably side channel remains ( not only current per se, but how does cpu current consumption affect clock jitter? betcha it does. and afaik 0 public discussion of this, exists. )
asciilifeform: also irritating is the fact that, while we have constant-time routines, it is impossible to guarantee constant-current (yes)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^ runs in SAME space, and same order of complexity , as the old routine...
asciilifeform: and diana_coman holy SHIT is that method 1001x moar complicated than mine.
asciilifeform: in this case, detecting overflow simply during the addition stage, works : 0110 + 1100 sets the carry , because result is 10010.
asciilifeform: i'll review, for the l0gz, the 'ancient egyptian' mult algo, which is the simplest practical, and illustrative of the difficulty of determining overflow ~while doing the mult~ in fixed space.
asciilifeform: let's formalize the problem statement. N is integer, N>1 . x, y are int, 0 <= x < 2^N; 0 <= y < 2^N. determine an f, such that f(x,y) is true iff x*y >= 2^2N ; such that complexity of f is less than that of * operation.
asciilifeform: 'This paper presents efficient methods for performing unsigned or two's complement integer multiplication with overflow detection or saturation. ' supposedly.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: let's, for simplicity, take 3bit regs :
asciilifeform: aha. who the hell knows what a grown-up german empire could've been like.
asciilifeform: however peace treaties between megaempires are a lul.
asciilifeform: every civilization gets ample warning of death. nobody cancelled death yet.
asciilifeform: for physical human to employ, at any rate, yes, quite verboten
asciilifeform: 'If I employ a gardener, I have to earn £3 for every £1 he can actually spend, because everything is taxed twice, first as my income, then as his.' << not only still true in today's reich, but today it'd be 10 : 1 .
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-29#1649794 << hatetobreakit: an algo where you can do this (e.g. the egyptian mult in my example) IS a fixtime algo. that's what they are..
asciilifeform: i bet most of these were simply never scanned.
asciilifeform: phf: egyptian algo is , afaik, the simplest that's at all practical
asciilifeform: 'It is the most advanced and secure instant messaging protocol to date. This is why the designers got an award in front of a conference full of seasoned cryptographers and security engineers a week back for improving Real World Cryptography. ' << from turd in earlier thread. that thing is ~bottomless lulzmine.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: how do you intend to distinguish this situation from impostor ?
asciilifeform: he can also log into your box, say, and impersonate ~that~ way.
asciilifeform: describe, for my enlightenment, the actual algo contemplated, Framedragger
asciilifeform: and in the end, 'We acknowledge that the issue exists and will work towards fixing it. ... I will say this very clearly once again: there is an avoidable security flaw in the Tox handshake. This is not something someone made up. The effect is that if your secret key is stolen, an attacker can impersonate anyone to you. We will fix this issue, most likely by adopting Noise for handshakes.'
asciilifeform: 'You might benefit from a bit of humility before comparing your protocol to OTR and SIGMA, both of which were groundbreaking works created by experts, as opposed to a slapdash protocol...'
asciilifeform: Framedragger: how, precisely, is any bignumtron possibly turing-complete ?!
asciilifeform: plenty of room for improvement in phuctor.
asciilifeform: looks like latest copy, is simply same, but with new endorsers.
asciilifeform: ( and i will note, all -- afaik -- implementations of bignumtron, fail this litmus )
asciilifeform: kyoto cl. clisp. franz. lispworks. scineer. (last one - i never tried, cannot say with certainty how standard-compliant)
asciilifeform: the saddest thing about ada is that there is only one. ( only one properly-specified, multi-implementation typesafe language that can build for small (kB ram) as well as large systems . )
asciilifeform: ( and i did not even post any example of use, much less a makefile. so we have here a fella who definitely does his homework ! )
asciilifeform: 'Can’t attain the security property against attacker who compromises the kernel, but some people worry about theoretically approximating it for some reason.' << this kernel fixation.
asciilifeform: complete with link to 'factorable.net' in place of phuctor.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: re earlier thread : i looked far and wide to possibly buy rng to compare with -- and found nothing worth buying ( no, i won't compare with whitened; i won't pay 20,000 $+ for a box of schematicless ??? ; etc )
asciilifeform: no complaint on my end.
asciilifeform: mod6: the thing to compare against would be another UNWHITENED rng.
asciilifeform: mod6: one of my chronic irritants re testing fg is that i have nothing whatsoever worth comparing against.
asciilifeform: no optimizations of any kind whatsoever. ( in fact, pessimizations, e.g. comparisons all take same amount of time regardless of where difference is, or whether there is one. addition of 0+0 takes same time as, e.g., 2**256 - 1 + 2**256 - 1 . etc )
asciilifeform: the other principle is simplicity above all else save correctness.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: end goal is specifically something that specifically mircea_popescu could read, while emptying a glass of rum, without any booklarnin' required. and grasp it.
asciilifeform: the second -- sets the maximal number of computational steps.
asciilifeform: note that 'fz' size can be whatever you like. it simply has to be set at warmup time.
asciilifeform: ( expensive in complexity , rather than cpu )
asciilifeform: this seems like masochism except when you realize that 1) compiler does not give you access to carry flag, portably, or ever will 2) carry flag is a non-mathematical (external) abstraction that cannot be SPARKized
asciilifeform: Shift_Right(N, pos) shifts right n positions. (compiles to, e.g., SHR RAX, 1 ) etc
asciilifeform: phf: it isn't global, it is part of the 'generic' definition (analogous to cpp template.) will become apparent when you read entire thing.
asciilifeform: paste is not a complete proggy, but excerpt, to put the arithmetical statement in context.
asciilifeform: deceptively familiar-looking to ~every schoolboy. however most programs a n00b writes -- end up not compiling.
asciilifeform: 'The advertised unit is a keychain that plugs in through the headphone jack of a mobile device, meant to interact closed-source app to provide impenetrable crypto. This crypto is said to use a one-time pad (OTP) system. The design, photos, prototype, and social networking vibe feel all too similar to the vaporware you’d expect a San Francisco based startup of 5 college students to poorly slap together and unload to unsuspecting ven
asciilifeform: 'He recruited a former hedge fund salesman named Kyle Ferguson as co-founder and launched Wags Lending, thinking dog leases would mark just the first step in a vertically integrated pet-financing company that would eventually include food deliveries, chew-toy subscriptions, and veterinary loans. Then their point-of-sale lease financing became a hit, and they decided to double down on it.'
asciilifeform: the unspoken corollary, is that sometimes there is ~no~ speed-critical component. at which point you can optimize for something else entirely.
asciilifeform: usg is involved -- so naturally $1k bedpans, $200k bedpan-emptying-specialists.
asciilifeform: 1) collect btc from chumps 2) 'get hacked' 3) profit
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unfortunately the d00d is quite correct in his description of the mechanism. gprof doesn't work in the obvious, sane way ( a mechanized version of what i did -- per-routine timer ) but using randomized sampling.
asciilifeform: and fwiw i did not use gprof when i determined where to put the timer -- i used an actually clueful initial hypothesis, and an outer timer ( on ProcessBlock, which was the item of interest ) to compare the output of various inner ones against.
asciilifeform: possibly the pi example was a poor one -- no ~automated~ tester, will ever find it, unless specifically made to