asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so, to take example, if you found a rng that turns out to emit digits of pi -- the proof-of-weakness will be plouffe's algo.
asciilifeform: short and simple enough for even exceptionally impatient folx to read and grasp.
asciilifeform: for some peculiar reason, everybody else (afaik) who implemented a bignumtron, only did this (or claimed, at any rate) for modular exponentiation -- but not for its subcomponent ops
asciilifeform: so not only , e.g., comparison, but addition, subtraction, take same number of ops regardless of what bits are set
asciilifeform: poor ol' english folx, have not only toilet and sink in same rooms, but imperative same as infinitive verb...
asciilifeform: this generalization also exposes what exactly the 'minimal sample' is, likewise.
asciilifeform: imho it ought to return an ~algo~ for attempting a better-than-chance prediction of nth bit, given n;
asciilifeform: nah, fyootor is 'log in with your rfid cranial implant'
asciilifeform: 'San Francisco and Santa Clara County, which had asked the judge for an injunction, “have a strong interest in avoiding unconstitutional federal enforcement and the significant budget uncertainty that has resulted from the Order’s broad and threatening language,” the judge wrote, referring to Mr. Trump’s January executive order on immigration.'
asciilifeform: in other magas, https://archive.is/SaZEV >> 'A federal judge in California on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to withhold funding from cities that limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement...'
asciilifeform: 'Wells Fargo said it had fired 5,300 employees found to have defrauded customers.' << gold
asciilifeform: it isn't as if wf were a company, in the customary sense -- it's a usg organ, like microshit. 'tbtf'
asciilifeform: and now for Something Completely Different >> http://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/bitmath << one of those rare 1990s-style actually-useful www .
asciilifeform: infected chumpers -- do
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-25#1647801 << i'ma publish another db dump later today, you can use that .
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-25#1647772 << i tried this, wasted a great deal of time. you can't get an sks dump by running sks.
asciilifeform: much of the mechanical complexity of 'c machine' is items like tlb cache, and page tables in general, and mechanisms for saving arbitrary state -- to give each process the illusion of independently occupying a 1980s-style 'personal comp'
asciilifeform: the 'reflexive' liquishit is implicit in 'let's let every fungus write programs'
asciilifeform: not wrong, but not the complete story;
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-22#1647441 << the iss imploding would be quite equivalent to 10,001 'head start' kindergartens burning to the ground, with inmates & crew inside
asciilifeform: if you copied this from a b00k, it was probably somewhere near this example.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: isp who bans, e.g., purple www backgrounds, child fucking, and winblows-95 because HE WANTS TO -- is quite different animal from one who does exactly same, but because ~imposed~ upstream
asciilifeform: ( emplace iron -- yes, possible. )
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's argument is not that mircea_popescu's idea is physically impossible, but that it is absent because it is -- afaik -- heavily -ev. and not because 'world is stupid'. take, say, the moving of cocaine. it involves every bit the same types of risks, but cocaine is readily available worldwide. i suspect : partly because it is a standalone physical object -- unlike net connectivity.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the idiots handle the enemy in the simplest way -- by dying. 'human fat powered system.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: outside of reich, exactly same confiscation is carried out simply by slipping a hundy to the orc guard
asciilifeform: asciilifeform & former assoc. had this problem, laid quite thickly, because they ran (industrially) malware samples.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, https://archive.is/mevpd >> 'Some bounds checks are elided by Apple's compiler and possibly others, leading to a possible attack especially in 32-bit builds.'
asciilifeform: in Kansas, we know something about false Wizards," said the former Kansas congressman in his first public remarks as CIA director. Pompeo accused "Assange and his ilk" of making common cause with dictators as "they try unsuccessfully to cloak themselves and their actions in the language of liberty and privacy."'
asciilifeform: 'Mike Pompeo, director of the Central Intelligence Agency ... "WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service," he said in prepared remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Assange is a narcissist who has created nothing of value," Pompeo said. "He relies on the dirty work of other to make himself famous. He is a fraud — a coward hiding behind a screen. "And
asciilifeform: in other news, asciilifeform is getting samples from cn LYSO xtal grower
asciilifeform: for a supposed enemy of the empire, to host that liquishit ( incidentally it is produced in concert with traditional spammers, i have an entire mailbox that has become unusable because it takes in flashlight spam faster than it can be removed ) is a disgrace.
asciilifeform: it ate, some years ago, a similar one, 'comp usa'
asciilifeform: they, unfortunately, did not have a competent set of puppeteers, and a nobel-dispensing 'international komyoonity', to put theirs on proper podium
asciilifeform: it's simply not +ev for'em.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: many lulzy finds. for instance, anthracene ( from coal ) is still the all-time champ. BUT you can't buy it in proper crystal, other than su-manufactured on 'ebay' !
asciilifeform: because assessing scummitude -- of man, or entire empire -- does not require 'eating the whole egg'.
asciilifeform: 'meat' methods in comp engineering are not objectionable because 'meat methods', approximations, but because there is ALTERNATIVE there.
asciilifeform: there sure was an empire.
asciilifeform: the one where the latter weapon is 'ecologically' catastrophic, in that it fattens the empire.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu does not see diff b/w 'getting' a d00d shot with mircea_popescu's very long hand, vs campaigning to have d00d declared 'enemy of the people' with kgb anon denunciations ?
asciilifeform: doesn't compartmentalize.
asciilifeform: psychology was simply fashionable in '50s. today -- same role filled by other stillborn disciplines.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: other point is that involvement in a 'movement' characterized by organized intellectual dishonesty -- is not compartmentalizable. it makes me question the 'activist''s entire career.
asciilifeform: quite analogous to what the familiar compiler does .
asciilifeform: Framedragger: vlsi today simply refers to the practice of auto-generating (rather than drawing by hand) an ic layout, using 'basic blocks'
asciilifeform: if folx start 'conveniencing' and auto-sending pgpgrams, it will become necessary to require outer signatures (i.e. over ciphertext) and i, for example, will simply not read messages from anyone i suspect of auto-sending.
asciilifeform: it unhygienic, plain and simple.
asciilifeform: empty tho.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ' i only implemented the standard ' has roughly same cachet as ' i was only following orders!11'
asciilifeform: why the FUCK would anyone specify 'count ATTEMPTS' rather than reads !
asciilifeform: 'The man accused of fatally shooting five people in a Washington state mall last year has been found dead in his jail cell, authorities said Monday. ... When police confronted the suspect, he froze and complied ... was unarmed and silent, "kind of zombie-like," ... emigrated from Turkey and was a legal permanent resident'
asciilifeform: still not a real comp, but you can't fit a real comp in airplane tray
asciilifeform: ( i am speaking here strictly of rngs which ~do~ eventually converge -- as defined by 100% 'pass' -- at some realistically attainable sample size. )
asciilifeform: mod6: my point was, small samples look like shit on dh, because 1000s of 'rewind'
asciilifeform: in yet-other lulz, the tardano makers don't sleep, http://ubld.it/products/truerngpro << New! Improved! with two... soldered-down shields. and oscillating voltage booster right on the pcb.
asciilifeform: it is imho interesting (and this is, yes, not the 1st or 2nd thread re subj) that the niche of 'comp that runs on batteries for month' is a niche wholly unfilled by 'modern' crapolade
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-06-30#1181883 << that one was a (small) real comp tho, phf
asciilifeform: because Not A Computer
asciilifeform: ( and the idiot made this ~impossible to do cleanly for most of'em )
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's pet for instance has a full complement of power equipment. and cooks daily.
asciilifeform: ( homeopath, astrologer, alchemist, perpetuum mobilist, can quite easily get 'nsf grant' if he sticks to the Official terminology, and -- importantly -- has the right pedigree / institutional cocksuckery )
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2017/from-the-bounty-of-the-internets-mp-was-right/#comment-121835
asciilifeform: complete snore.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-16#1644692 << i know of 0 evidence that the car vendors give any measurable fuck re usa roads. it's pure, unimpeded rape of the captive customer.
asciilifeform: from magically-unfixable ('this is the 7th replacement engine comp and now they last 2 hours only') boojums.
asciilifeform: and if rats won't chew through the 400$ soy wires, the engine comp will auto-destruct ( sop in obummer-era units ) in 5y
asciilifeform: 'I don't know what happened to Trump. Some muse he may be drugged and we would never know it and it makes sense. The world watched this man for two years to election day. And after Jan 20th, we watched him proceed immediately to walk his talk. Then... in like 24hrs... a full 180. If not drugs and mind control, there is always the secret grassy knoll footage of Kennedy's head being blown off to help Trump "get the message."'
asciilifeform: these cardboard dwellings , they take heroic efforts simply to keep from coming apart.
asciilifeform: different кто ты по жизни jumper settings, however
asciilifeform: which is why their attempts to build cheap, effective usg navy erasers is painted as 'aggression'
asciilifeform: dun have to be 'computing', but conventional keyboard - yes
asciilifeform: ( where do i even buy a provably nonwhitened trng ?! to compare to, i mean. i tried to buy such a thing, failed. not sold afaik for any amount. )
asciilifeform: mod6: certain % of the time, test 'weak' and , rarely, 'fail' ( simply means that author of dh decided that given result falls out of uniform distrib. range.)
asciilifeform: point of toggle, is the simplicity
asciilifeform: definitely not a low-tech item tho, quite a bit moar complex than plain old analogue rng
asciilifeform: i went out to the swamp and tried to tell this to the frogs, the cicadas, dun seem to have worked.
asciilifeform: what is 'This is a quick hack of Quake ported to the Simple DirectMedia Layer library' doing in there ?
asciilifeform: what sort of 'lisp os' needs a massive c compiler ?
asciilifeform: reading the paper -- it worked exactly as you'd expect -- simple deduction.
asciilifeform went to one that used to have empty fields around, last yr, and it was now surrounded with this cardboard.
asciilifeform: but i know 0 else about CompanionCube . or the other one, whose name escapes me
asciilifeform: modern chinese gov is smarter than mao's, won't hamhandedly dekulakize, nationalize the mining farms. will instead drive them slightly farther into -ev , and they will simply be sold off to pliant shell corps
asciilifeform: btw the 'beta decay can be arbitrarily sped up in magnetic field' throws a bit of new light on just how 'strange, new' a world with roomtemp supercon would be.
asciilifeform: ( if 1890s folx had given up on airplane, same way today's grant-eaters gave up on, e.g., room-temp superconductor, could have gone quite differently )
asciilifeform: woz drew up a 6502 box with slightly reduced glue logic chip count, vs the state of art at the time. about same level of accomplishment as, e.g., fuckgoats.
asciilifeform: btw marconi was a pretty good example of 'opportunistic thief'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall naggum's (and then -- our) discussion re how computing was wrecked not so much by microshit per se (which in 1980s was not a mega-power) but by the idiot worship of gates and his lottery winner 'success' ?
asciilifeform: this is why, when reading about the early (1st 3 or so yrs) bitcoin landscape, i found it hard to feel any sympathy for the scamola victims
asciilifeform: the quoted text is hilarious per se : if i say 'invest in this High Thrust antigrav engine, with Extremely Low Energy Cost energy intake' -- everyone will laugh. but if mr.suavetalker offers a 'High Yield Pass Through ... in the EXTREMELY LOW RISK group' financial instrument, greedy idiots jump over one another to buy,buy
asciilifeform: ( most of the chumpatronic 'wonders of the world' in btc seem to have happened prior to asciilifeform tuning in )
asciilifeform: 'A SWIFT Service Bureau, is the kind-of the equivalent of the Cloud for Banks when it comes to their SWIFT transactions and messages, the banks transactions are hosted and managed by the SWIFT Service Bureau via an Oracle Database and the SWIFT Softwares. This is why we see that many of those Service Bureau also offer KYC, Compliance, Anti-Laundering services since they have access to all those transactions as their are the host for
asciilifeform: '...complainant's father is hitting her... ...he has access to long guns, a shotgun, but it was not used in this incident...' << lol!
asciilifeform: '... the complainant's dog is running around the house, strangely, as if it senses someone... '
asciilifeform: 'Once the ladder ended, it was easy to climb from branch to branch up to where the material was located. A bird had built a nest on top of the sealed container. Happily, the nest was empty: breeding season had passed. We opened the container. The item was inside. We remained in the tree for a while....'
asciilifeform: mod6: but contemplated experiment (see kcl thread ) is re something else
asciilifeform: ( http://www.mt.com/us/en/home/products/Industrial_Weighing_Solutions/AutomPrecision/High_Precision_Weigh_Modules/WX_Weigh_Modules/WXS_Weigh_Modules/WXS205SDU15_DualRange_Weighing_Module.html << the machine mentioned in earlier thread re subj. finally found the vendor link. )
asciilifeform: now unlike the $maxint mettler, this thing probably dun have a thermo-compensator; or gravimeter
asciilifeform: (dun mean it's impossible.)
asciilifeform: it's as reliable as the box it was slaved to, signalled when the bucked filled, to go and empty.
asciilifeform: but for 'record all jumps'
asciilifeform: lulzily enough, asciilifeform ~has the box~ -- but 0 software for it, it never leaked. box turned out to contain empty fpga.
asciilifeform: (if you do, you will have to compile pl2303 into the kernel)
asciilifeform: Framedragger: recommended sample size is 1GB
asciilifeform marvels at the 'respectable kompooter sekoority community' today doing 10,000,001 things, none of them being THIS
asciilifeform: i'ma guess that mircea_popescu was grepping compressed tarballs with plain grep and naturally found nothing.
asciilifeform: steadfast liberal voices, regularly siding with vulnerable parties -- the poor, impoverished ... '
asciilifeform: still 'crediting the empire', eh, Framedragger .
asciilifeform: but i sat down and tried to answer concrete q, who and where sets it, so far found 0 examples in anything asciilifeform used or would use
asciilifeform: logs are fragmentary but converge to completeness.
asciilifeform: ( and so is completely useless for 'seen', the knob imho oughta be fixed or removed )
asciilifeform: in other lulz >> http://newschannel9.com/news/nation-world/investigation-finds-inmates-built-computers-and-hid-them-in-ceiling-at-marion-prison-04-11-2017 >> 'Investigation finds inmates built computers and hid them in prison ceiling'
asciilifeform: it all adds up, plastic pumpkins or britney records
asciilifeform: pretty compact.
asciilifeform: is there such a thing as a variable-ratio compressor ?
asciilifeform: ( if all ac used peltier junction, this would be quite trivial. unfortunately peltier is not actually +ev in comparison with mechanical compressor. )
asciilifeform: compress as-needed, blow -- as-needed.
asciilifeform: why not continuously variable heat pumping ?
asciilifeform: the starting/stopping of the compressor and the blower is also massive waste of energy.
asciilifeform: i recommend to study very carefully the diagrams that give examples of what gates particular snippets actually get synthed into, and why
asciilifeform: can deal in 'human' concepts, that make sense on grid paper just the same as on the comp.
asciilifeform: 'it dept' of course wants full employment for perlists.
asciilifeform: it is more or less impossible in a spreadshit.
asciilifeform: to revisit upstack : present-day asciilifeform does not agree with young-asciilifeform re 'excel is what poor illiterate folx who never learned Actual Programming, suffer with'. in an important sense it is superior to a good fraction of what passes for 'actual program'
asciilifeform: and yes, there is a turing-complete basic stuffed in there. but ~no one uses.
asciilifeform: btw most of the folx reading this now own a perfectly good example of a non von neumann comp and program for same -- FUCKGOATS
asciilifeform: on a comp this rigidity does not exist ! ( when it does -- it is because of a long line of boneheads who wanted to emulate steel-cutting in all things )
asciilifeform: machine shop has no 'putting on tool', cuts -- must be planned, and reduce to simple geometries; etc
asciilifeform: folks who can tolerate unnecessarily long ooda loops when working with a comp,
asciilifeform: the people paying megabux for cage near nyse, nasdaq, either exist or are product of elaborate disinfo. if the former, it would make sense for them to carry out the -- comparatively inexpensive -- software optimization prior to buying $mil cage.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: problem is, 'database' as commonly seen in sqlworld is not 'collection of btrees, rtrees, etc.' in encyclopaedic algorithmic form, but a misbegotten attempt at ai.
asciilifeform: humidifier + ac is disaster though, damp everywhere.
asciilifeform is not and has not ever been employed as an astrologer, cannot comment usefully
asciilifeform: attempts to model brownian motion.
asciilifeform: what's it called when trump hands them the delishious-syrian-chicken after all ?
asciilifeform: meanwhile, elsewhere in the glorious monkey empire, https://archive.is/meEGA : 'A doctor trying to return home to his patients was dragged by his hands from an overbooked United Airlines (UAL.N) flight... Video of the incident posted to Twitter account @Tyler_Bridges shows three security officers huddling over the seated passenger, who appears to be an older Asian man, before dragging him on the floor.'
asciilifeform: After calling police, two officers took away the bars and gave them a receipt. ... A Northamptonshire Police spokesman said they could not comment “for operational reasons”.'
asciilifeform: if your operation seriously relies on the db, it implements custom db, from scratch, like the hft trading folks do.
asciilifeform: as it is, sql db is a very effectively opaque black box, full of liquishit, that reliably generates full employment for millions of 'perlists' who memorized the trivia.
asciilifeform: re lisp state -- not sure this is doable on unix -- how do you dump and restore textual representation of posix threads ? fd's ?
asciilifeform: whatever 11isms are properly implemented (with 0 special cases) in 4.9 -- fair game
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: my contention was that it must compile with < 5 .
asciilifeform: (they eventually resorted to 'credit card' and ended up simply making a titanic black hole for entire ~industry~ to fall into, when it finally imploded)
asciilifeform: they built something quite like a proper comp.
asciilifeform: let's have expansion re the sense contempated by mircea_popescu then
asciilifeform: my contention is simply that they failed to ~resolve~ their problem , in the sense of achieving item#2 from my http://www.loper-os.org/?p=305 essay
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is quite impossible to 'unconsider inconvenient problem' in a thread about bolix
asciilifeform: phf: a bolix-style machine that -- hypothetically - could have cost-competed with the 'i can't believe it's not butter' state of the art, would imho count as 'resolve'
asciilifeform: fairly primitive, early attempt, but -- not continued.
asciilifeform: attempted - yes. resolved - no.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my understanding was that greenblatt and noftsker had serious disagreement re how to actually do business. (noftsker favoured external capital, and founded the -- temporarily -- successful symbolics co; greenblatt -- the very soon dead lmi, and believed in 'lift by bootstraps', no external capital.)
asciilifeform: then, quite unlike now, new type of comp had to be made by hand from ttl chips -- few gates each; and connected with semi-reliable wrap wiring. it was quite impossible to offload this to 'brute labour', you had to intimately understand how the thing works in order to debug in any way.
asciilifeform: yes, some folx are friends with chumpatronicist, or bank robber (stalin et al), who will give them a little dough out of whatever private reason of his own.
asciilifeform: you are comparing bezzletrons, that run on pixie dust, to hw makers , who ran on 100% turkey dollar ?
asciilifeform: the reality, even if mircea_popescu doesn't subscribe to it, is that there may very well be more than two types of people alive, and not simply ubermenschen (exact clones of mircea_popescu , presumably ) and untermenschen ('socialists' or anyone who substantially differs psychologically from mircea_popescu )
asciilifeform: why there was >1 power in 16th c italy. why not everyone simply in florence, lol.
asciilifeform: or do my hands simply grow from arse ? or ?
asciilifeform: ( iirc it was because he went 'let us have our king from among our ~own~ number, why this imported viking lord ' )
asciilifeform: in fact the piss ui from this thread, clim, franz lisp, whole shebang of barbarian yurts decorated with smashed roman mosaic, were results of later attempt to 'repeat in garage' regardless
asciilifeform: the other idiocies follow from 'we can make roman aqueduct in empty field, and with 0 book-larnin', and it will be Just As Good'.
asciilifeform: i like him just fine, hence attempt to educate.
asciilifeform: 'Buying a cup of coffee is not a micro transaction' 'SegWit and LN and you can buy coffee again. That simple. You are choosing power and politics over coffee.' << lol
asciilifeform: stole entire algo, as described here, lock stock and barrel; implemented in shitlang
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-07#1640411 << lol, gasenwagen! , compare >> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdGLqV_WEAAEIrz.jpg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on contemplation, cars may not be a very good hiding place, they ( esp in usa ) routinely move through chokepoints - toll archs, and these are already equipped with camera and radio receivers
asciilifeform: (gru knew this simple fact in 1950s. don't morse by hand, morse with paper tape rolled by clockwork, over in 1s or so. apparatus fit in suitcase.)
asciilifeform: phf: all of the linked examples thus far, fit this pattern
asciilifeform: ( in the minds of the perpetrators, probably the operative historical example is hurd )
asciilifeform: ( could be impractical -- we all die before answer is emitted -- but that ain't 'dumb' )
asciilifeform: trinque: can i , purely using sql query, force it to not attempt write ( and -- importantly -- to take no locks ! ) if an item already exists ?
asciilifeform: maybe -- could. but i do not see how it can be done without losing something important.
asciilifeform: imho to even suggest such a thing, betrays a very serious misunderstanding of the concept. dumb humans are in every respect an inferior version of the machine. the only thing more agonizing than programming comp, is programming dumb humans.
asciilifeform: the performance wins described in this thread by Framedragger and trinque can only come at the cost of 1) massive increase in complexity, and in particularly state 2) loss of immediate linkability of freshly pasted keys.
asciilifeform: given that i found that various otherwise reasonable people are willing to make all kinds of compromises
asciilifeform: this is not even to mention the complexity cost.
asciilifeform: CompanionCube: inevitably
asciilifeform: it isn't merely 'hash is computed', it shows if anyone else at any point in history ever had the mods.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: why are you regarding the added complexity (100x what i have now!) as 'free' ?
asciilifeform: Framedragger: think about how much complexity in the liquishit we call 'modern comp' comes from these attempted modularizations.
asciilifeform: instead of working-but-complained-about.
asciilifeform: aha, nice, but not compatible with queueing.
asciilifeform: the wikilicks dump?
asciilifeform: the problem is that there is simply not enough db 'bandwidth'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-07#1639647 << in point of fact this is not simple -- right now the thing is wholly reactive -- proggy only runs per request. and is written in a lang having no actual threading...
asciilifeform: elsewhere: 'the swamp drained trump, and all is back to normal'
asciilifeform: if empty -- yes
asciilifeform: not because everyone is training for olympics. but because cheapo.
asciilifeform: '"Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children," President Donald Trump said in remarks from Mar-a-Lago, his family compound in Palm Beach, Florida. "It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons," said Trump...'
asciilifeform: 'Our award-winning suite of K-12 safety and compliance programs includes solutions for staff training,accident tracking, SDS management and bullying/incident reporting.'
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/OhvSO/?raw=true << from mircea_popescu's dump, for convenience of pr0ncam viewers.
asciilifeform: looks like this brings us up to date re the dupemod champs.
asciilifeform: ( it suggests that mircea_popescu's sql dump isn't 7bit clean )
asciilifeform: simply pointing out, '^@' is terminal barf, not contents
asciilifeform: yourthing | hexdump -C
asciilifeform: what's the hexdump look like ?
asciilifeform: it doesn't even have a concept of sane process interruption + resumption.
asciilifeform: CompanionCube: and http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-29#1634398 .
asciilifeform: CompanionCube: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-24#1632313
asciilifeform: and the company is on track to make a profit in the second half of 2017. Its employees have worked to significantly cut the cost of producing its signature devices, microinverters that take DC, or direct current, power from solar panels and transform it into AC, or alternating current, power for homes.'
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/k58t9 >> gourmet liquishit, e.g., 'The energy tech company with 350 employees has reported annual losses every year since it went public in 2012, including nearly $67.5 million worth of red ink last year. Since September, it has gone through two rounds of layoffs and raised about $26 million by issuing new stock and bringing in two major investors. Enphase officials say with confidence that a turnaround is underway
asciilifeform: 'February 16, 2017 ... Enphase Energy, Inc. (ENPH), a global energy technology company, today announced that it has refinanced and extended its term loan facility with certain funds managed by Tennenbaum Capital Partners ("TCP") from $25 million to $50 million.'
asciilifeform: aseriousgogetta (~Kimberley@ip-64-134-144-245.public.wayport.net) has joined #trilema << hey mircea_popescu , can haz hammer ? every time that monkey's connection cycles, i feel like a chimp is throwing shit in my face
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-06#1638799 << i put this in ~year ago, noticed that ~nobody respects 'robots.txt', and promptly forgot about it...
asciilifeform: (i.e. it is legitimately isomorphic to the traditional form, there is nothing 'lossy' about this 'compressor')
asciilifeform: also betcha that when compressed ~properly~ (i.e. as asciilifeform described 2wks ago) it'll be not even 40G.
asciilifeform: 'I regret to announce as cofounder of Matchpool that I am leaving this project. I was involved in architecting Matchpool, writing the white paper and writing the first draft of the smart contracts. I was not involved in the implementation of the ICO. I have asked internally what is going on with the funds you sent to Matchpool, but have not received a satisfactory answer....
asciilifeform: the chumper pays upfront, iirc 1/4 of cost.
asciilifeform: simply submit http://IP_ADDRESS/home?locale=en for ea.
asciilifeform: from this , and with a bit of legwork, could find out how much chump -- and u.s. treasury -- paid for this nonsense.
asciilifeform: ( compare 169MWh over 5 yrs, cost from ordinary grid, to whatever 126 of these things cost... )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they're all, so far, examples of http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1733
asciilifeform: 'President Donald Trump reorganized his National Security Council on Wednesday, removing chief strategist Stephen Bannon from a key committee and restoring the roles of top intelligence and defense officials...'
asciilifeform: 'Washington (CNN)Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's chief strategist, has been removed from his permanent seat at the National Security Council, multiple sources tell CNN, moving the council into a more traditional structure.'
asciilifeform: in other noose, trump fires bannon...
asciilifeform: (yes, you will need a stack of disks, what, 15 dvd ? that ain't so much. and it compresses pretty well.)
asciilifeform: (complete with plush trident, no less.)
asciilifeform: a stamped aluminum cd is second only to mask rom in longevity (i have cd 30+ yrs old) and immutability.
asciilifeform: prior to it , i had a massive parallel port thing that needed two dozen jumpers moved when you changed chip types, and only really worked well from an emulated dos session.
asciilifeform: it's a thing that has 2 modes, 'ahci' and 'legacy' (or 'compatibility')
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: mine had an empty pad where the raid oughta be, so i have nfi
asciilifeform: if the sun were still shining on the brit empire, and 'no shit , the monkeys are monkeys, we simply haven't gotten around to rendering them for meat and occupying the valuable lands' -- this position would be tenable.
asciilifeform: represents one of the possible 'magnetic poles' for a small, unimportant country living next to great empire
asciilifeform: CompanionCube: are you familiar with 'juche' ?
asciilifeform: CompanionCube: same reason bush did ?
asciilifeform: 'wanna know the output? run this massive turing-complete barrel of shit'
asciilifeform: it wasn't cheap, or simple, or +ev.
asciilifeform: i don't actually know of a sane way to do this job. which is why i have not ever attempted to do it.
asciilifeform: (turn off js, and the text -- vanishes. store the js without executing -- the archive READER will attempt to load it ! from enemy ! )
asciilifeform: that'd be the naive implementation , yes
asciilifeform: Framedragger: imho it is tricky: you can't simply 'curl' or 'wget', gotta somehow render crapolade if caching heathen sites
asciilifeform: the traditional notion is 'ecdsa breaks ? folx who have hash-only outputs can simply use them as lamport signatures'
asciilifeform: or the xray-from-scotchtape thing. (minor find, but exemplary of 'ru untermenschen can be safely stolen from')
asciilifeform: this defense is simply not available, Framedragger , 'we didn't know'.
asciilifeform: tx replacement , and the mere contemplation of 'pruning', are a carefully crafted enemy rot weapon.
asciilifeform: http://computers-are-fast.github.io ( linked from the loltron ) <<<>>> http://www.loper-os.org/?p=300 .
asciilifeform: it ain't sarin, however, does little simply by touching.
asciilifeform: 'hey i signed up for jumping under tanks, not for into volcano'
asciilifeform: 'and today, chicklets, we will learn how to properly jump under a tank'
asciilifeform: trinque: probably why threads re thompsonism tend to focus on gcc : it is THE failure point
asciilifeform: you don't 'lose a man' via debianization, you lose -- potentially -- entire empire.
asciilifeform: if you have a thing-walled gm tube, you don't need a 'tritium lamp', even, can use a box of 'diet salt' (where it has K instead of Na, and ~0.01% of natural K is K-40, beta emitter)
asciilifeform: it'd be pretty simple experiment. take tritium lamp (buy wherever pistols are sold, moneyed folx often use tritium glow sight)
asciilifeform: 'gotta support 10,001 incompatible but otherwise equivalent shits' is a serious hell. it plagued armies in ww1 ('hey a trainload of ammo just came. but none of it fits our 7 types of rifle, it's all for that 8th'), the sov icbm forces ('we have parts but not for these 4 types of rocket, they are for 5th') etc
asciilifeform: it was an instance of exactly same thing. ANY attempt to paper over 'i have nfi what the user has, let's support 10,000,001 possible braindamages' ends up looking like autoconf.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: it was picked as example !
asciilifeform: to expand: say your proggy uses, i dunno, pthreads. wants to know where to find the header. WHY does this turn into a MB of scriptolade liquishit ? rather than a 1liner, that tries to find it and if not finds, prompts the user ?
asciilifeform: a fix for a 'problem' that simply does not exist on a halfway-wellmaintained system.
asciilifeform: hey i deautoconfed gpg's mpi lib 100%