asciilifeform: massive brutalist box in formerly empty space near washington monument
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2017/mps-wonderful-primary-school-furniture-item-idea/#comment-121385
asciilifeform: meanwhile, front page of today's beobachter was 'trump mentioned terrorism in sweden, swedes have no idea what he was on about' -- while cars burn in stockholm
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/tYLy1 << in other lulz, 'Search engine companies Google and Bing have signed up to a voluntary code of practice aimed at preventing users from visiting' 1337 w4r3z.
asciilifeform: ada proggy, speaks the protocol as defined by trb; but does not attempt to verify blocks, instead uses its 'horse' (trb node it rides) as an oracle
asciilifeform: for now it'd be useful to simply be able to ask a proper node to search mempool and recent blocks
asciilifeform reports a successful replication of mod6's recipe http://thebitcoin.foundation/trb-howto.html , 'offline' variant, using his vtron etc. took exactly 40 minutes from the instance of making an empty dir to do it in, to having <5MB finished binary in my hands.
asciilifeform: the example with the horse.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've been contemplating the correct way to make pseudonodes. way i see it is, it should still maintain a cache of recent blocks, and have a backhaul to mothership controlled by owner to request signed block checksums, and whole blocks if cache does not find; rather than accepting crapolade from randos
asciilifeform: way it oughta work is, say, 'findtx <tx>' and we get, e.g., '<tx> is nth in block B', or <tx> is in mempool', or '<tx> not seen', in all but the last case followed by hexdump
asciilifeform: actually if i did it every day, would have titanic hands and 0 complaints
asciilifeform: 'The Green Angels, she tells me, are selling a fantasy of an attractive, well-educated, presentable young woman who wants to get you high—a slightly more risqué Avon lady. Not all of the Angels are working models, but they are all young and attractive. In eight years, they have never been busted by the cops. The explanation is simple: Good-looking girls don’t get searched.'
asciilifeform laboured under the possibly naive impression that x11 was 'in stone' for eons
asciilifeform: we had a thread, where mircea_popescu suggested inserting in massive batches. i will eventually implement this. but i find it offputting that EVEN THEN the IDIOTIC db will prevent me from reading !!!
asciilifeform: because the Framedragger data set is pumped in 24/7.
asciilifeform: 'We estimate the attacker has created about 370,000 Zcoins which has been almost completely sold except for about 20,000+ Zcoin and absorbed on the market with a profit of around 410 BTC. In other words, the damage has already been mostly absorbed by the markets.'
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in shitcoinistan, https://zcoin.io/language/en/important-announcement-zerocoin-implementation-bug
asciilifeform: i am not a champion marksman, nor mega-hunter. but i do picture that duck hunt would be somewhat more difficult if you had to shoot a ~specific~ duck, rather than one from a flock; and if ducks knew how to shoot back, and call for backup..
asciilifeform: mojaheds in afghan for some reason preferred to use things other than buckshot. but is interesting to contemplate theoretically - given dispersion, how many shotgun rounds would you have to fire, from, say, 500 metres, to hit rotor.
asciilifeform: ordinary combustion, for instance. picture something like oil lamp inside clear vessel (closed air supply), very small flame.
asciilifeform: (in sealed ampoule, naturally)
asciilifeform: ite House and executives with the president’s company, the Trump Organization, out of concern that an American policy shift toward Russia could endanger its sovereignty, according to a third person with direct ties to that nation’s government.' (from lulzweek)
asciilifeform: 'As part of intelligence operations being conducted against the United States for the last seven months, at least one Western European ally intercepted a series of communications before the inauguration between advisers associated with President Donald Trump and Russian government officials, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation. ... Moreover, a Baltic nation is gathering intelligence on officials in the Trump Wh
asciilifeform: or is it simply fermi estimate.
asciilifeform: '... Marbley has held Thompson in contempt of court since December 2015 for violating terms of a plea deal by refusing to respond to questions about the coins' locations.'
asciilifeform: https://www.rt.com/viral/377259-limpopo-elections-hacking-prank/ << rt seems to have the 1st round translated
asciilifeform: btw i'm not certain if the old films are being burned for commercial reasons, or very specific cultural cleansing: you can see the faces of now-extinct types of civilization-builders, their works, in old film, in a way that is not so accessible (at least to the simple folx) from viewing static photo
asciilifeform: they are being deliberately rotted, to delete competition for modern shitfilm
asciilifeform: as for the 7gb films, they are not entirely an abuse, 650MB warez gives compression artifacts the size of a palm when watched on projector screen. the fact that nobody's made a film worth watching in ages, is separate issue.
asciilifeform: these were ~nonexistent on warez, and i never had the machine. so it was complete mystery.
asciilifeform: 'shovelware bin' in comp shop.
asciilifeform: (at one point u.s. mint ~did~ have a service where you could order dollar coins via the post, paying with cc. it led to a mass chumping of cc banks that offered 'x% back!', until the hole was plugged.)
asciilifeform: because -- elementarily -- the original components are no longer available.
asciilifeform: nfi. but i was under impression that folx expected to piss back, do not get pissed on in this way.
asciilifeform: i dun see a massive diff b/w trying to use chicken as fuckhole and as 'companion'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-16#1614456 << you patch it, like literate people; or pay the extra 10bux, like chump
asciilifeform is simple man.
asciilifeform: in other lelz, https://archive.is/TanpJ >> 'U.S. intelligence officials have withheld sensitive intelligence from President Donald Trump because they are concerned it could be leaked or compromised, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.'
asciilifeform: incidentally i realized that, sadly, trb will need a (simple) patch in order to link via 'g'. from simple fact that, by default, it does not like to connect to 127.0.0.1:weirdport
asciilifeform: in other lulz, http://archive.is/M3T2W >> 'These games do not aim to make players feel successful and powerful as conventional video games do, and instead challenge people to look at the world in a different way. Creators of the games said they were more interested in showing the complicated lives of the people and places the world has left behind...'
asciilifeform finds the ceremonial, null-summing back-and-forth components of usg political circus a mega-snore
asciilifeform: '“A really surprising thing about that letter is that the Uzbek civil society would rather the money go back to the treasury of any government, than go back to their own government,” Campbell said.'
asciilifeform: maybe i simply hate voodoo ciphers.
asciilifeform: possible improvements.'
asciilifeform: '1. Install Docker. 2. Download the docker-compose.yml file to launch the ATSD Collector container bundle.' << lel
asciilifeform: '"President Trump has made it very clear that he expects the Russian government to de-escalate violence in the Ukraine and return Crimea," Spicer said at the daily news briefing on Tuesday. “At the same time, he fully expects to – and wants to – get along with Russia."'
asciilifeform: in other lulz, 'US President Donald Trump has been tough on Russia and expects Moscow to “return” the Crimea peninsula to Ukraine, the White House spokesman told reporters.'
asciilifeform: living in the swamp -- i can easily picture this
asciilifeform: or mircea_popescu simply goes in for the taste
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is demonstrably impossible in the general case (unless you count html turd with img tags and pages as bitmaps as 'well-formatted')
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in monkeystan, https://archive.is/372OG >> 'Francis Rawls, a former Philadelphia police sergeant, has been in the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center for more than 16 months. His crime: the fired police officer has been found in contempt of court for refusing a judge's order to unlock two hard drives the authorities believe contain child pornography. Theoretically, Rawls can remain jailed indefinitely until he complies.'
asciilifeform: now i dun have an intel agency, or even dirigible, but i did read mr.t's campaign brochure and 'surrender to bitcoin' wasn't in there.
asciilifeform: china is 'black box' -- i for instance have genuinely nfi whether they nixed their equiv. of 'elbrus', or merely hid it. (and i know of nobody showing any symptom of publicly having half a clue re subj)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: pygmystans where foreign devils set up conveyors, made of imported devilstuff, for pygmy to slave at, are not 'industrial base'
asciilifeform: 'Just as major tech companies have accepted they have a social responsibility to combat piracy online and the illegal sharing of content, they also need to help address the spreading of fake news on social media platforms.' << didjaalsoknow.
asciilifeform: in other 'neinneinneinneinnein!'s, https://archive.is/q7bf1 >> 'Fake news is “killing people’s minds” according to Apple boss Tim Cook, who is urging the Government to launch a public information campaign to counteract the problem. Mr Cook called for a an awareness campaign similar to those which alerted people to health epidemics such as AIDS in the 1980s and environmental issues including the ozone layer in the 1990s.'
asciilifeform: but meanwhile, elsewhere in vast monkeystan, https://archive.is/lJxIm >> 'The indictment against Tverdokhlebov is based entirely on the years-old chats, with no hard information about specific thefts, suggesting that the feds are using it as a wedge to try and pry more evidence from Tverdokhlebov’s arrest and the search of his computers. Over government objections, a magistrate judge set Tverdokhlebov’s bail at $100,000 last week
asciilifeform: http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/cpu-development/x86-open64-compiler-suite << still has (what purports to be) the circa-2013 tarball.
asciilifeform: http://www.open64.net << one of the few actual competitors of gcc (started life as sgi's compiler, published openly, retargeted to x64) VANISHED
asciilifeform: srsly forfuckssake if routine cannot be JMP'd into, i want it GONE FROM THE MOTHERFUCKING BINARY
asciilifeform: but pointing out that the 'camel's nose' already long ago entered on any box where running, e.g., 'steam', is contemplated.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: temper the excitement, it's a parachute, not a plane
asciilifeform: Hasta Siempre, Comandante !
asciilifeform: '¿Qué es El Laboratorio C? El Laboratorio de Electrónica "C" es una dependencia adscrita a la Unidad de Laboratorios de la Universidad Simón Bolívar, cuya función principal es la de prestar colaboración y servicio para la realización de trabajos experimentales de docencia, investigación y desarrollo, tesis de grado y el mantenimiento de equipos, en el campo de la electrónica, telecomunicaciones, control e informática.'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-10#1613048 << you get ~all of this for free JUST BY DUMPING TCP
asciilifeform: ( who conveniently used a spampay and now conveniently trackable )
asciilifeform: i gotta wonder, what prompted this line of thought
asciilifeform: they simply went to it, like 19th c irish emigre to the bottle and the railroad.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'apps' ain't 'the empire' tho, they're panem et circenses
asciilifeform: ( and, unsurprisingly, lives and dies by linux's attempt at userland process separation )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just when you thought this can't get any lulzier: '...resource exhaustion issues which can be triggered only with crafted patterns (either during compilation or execution) are not treated as security bugs.' ( https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Security%20Exceptions )
asciilifeform: 'We found a few extended regex expressions in GNU libc that will crash or abort the execution of regcomp or regexec. For instance: \a?{1,32767} will immediately exhaust the stack calling calc_eclosure_iter in the compilation. A small variation of this regex is: \a?{0,32767} will consume a very large amount of memory: it seems to eat 16GB in less than a minute. It is also possible to exhaust the stack memory trying to parse...'
asciilifeform: 'Another unsuccessful rocket torpedo inventor was Patrick Cunningham, an Irish immigrant who earned his living as a shoe maker and repairer in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Samples were tested for several years at NTS but the short range and wholly unpredictable trajectory destined this weapon for the scrap heap. However, in one last fling of exuberance, Cunningham fired his torpedo down the main street of his home town; it roared along
asciilifeform: (though for n00bz i will point out, c compilers as a class did not get much play in the z80 days, because everybody programmed in asm (well, in codes, most folx asmed on paper , by hand)
asciilifeform: mno. went to his house, and burned it to the ground, and fucked his daughters' neck stumps.
asciilifeform: ~0 endowments in umd. it is funded by extorting md state treasury, and secondarily by milking chumps.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-07#1612238 << 'trump's' usg is rather like that ameriexpat d00d's bangkok pub. that is, 'his' to ceremonially sit on.
asciilifeform: 'We will provide you with all available protections under the law and in accordance with the guidance provided by the State Attorney General: We will not release information on immigration status of our students, unless required by law. We will not share student information with Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) officials without a court order. We will not permit ICE officials to enter campus buildings to search fo
asciilifeform: this is why i did not make FUCKGOATS a usb device in the usual sense. and did not give it any 'test mode command' or in fact any way to manipulate its state from the connected comp at all.
asciilifeform: consider a very simple example, the debian keys. prior to when i added their factors to the 8ball by hand, only a handful of them popped.
asciilifeform: mccain is almost a human embodiment of usa per se. destroyed several jets through, legend has it, militant incompetence with ~own hands~, and by some accounts - entire battleship. result: promotion. (father was an admiral)
asciilifeform: in other lulz, clitler is bak! : '“Despite all the challenges we face, I remain convinced that YES, the future is female,” Clinton said in a videotaped message to the 2017 Makers Conference in California. Makers is a storytelling platform for raising issues impacting women.'
asciilifeform: ^ was mega-wunderwaffen incidentally. ~impossible to intercept if used correctly.
asciilifeform: bsence of a round in the chamber shall be performed strictly while placing his pistol to his own temple. the verification of the fulfillment of this order is entrusted to the unit commander. Chief of staff of .... '
asciilifeform: lse in, and they’re not going to do that.” (In Aristocrat’s statement to WIRED, the company stressed that it has been unable “to identify defects in the targeted games” and that its machines “are built to and approved against rigid regulatory technical standards.”) '
asciilifeform: this gun didn't fire back when the ranchers were derping; or when obummercare; or when 9/11, dhs; when waco, rubyridge; when income tax imposed; etc.
asciilifeform: 'Four states sue Trump administration over 'un-American' travel ban -- New York, Massachusetts and Virginia joined Washington state in launching legal challenges against executive order that wreaked havoc at airports at the weekend'
asciilifeform: 'i like getting megabux to fantasize about quantum comp'
asciilifeform: in very other vintage lulz, 'As Technical Lead on a Air Force major command and control system, our initial implementation used textual representations for all the messaging between the distributed workstations and the central server. This got us a working product much faster than dealing with binary representations since the workstation and the central server hardware were so contrary to each other...'
asciilifeform: 'Swedish Deputy Prime Minister and Climate Minister Isabella Lövin appeared to mock the Trump administration with a photo of herself surrounded by women as she signs a climate law.'
asciilifeform: i've nfi. but would be surprised if he is not 'made example' of, to remind other carmacks that anal virginity can be sold ~once~
asciilifeform: a fat balance in an 'international komyoonity'-compliant fiatola bank is quite like, e.g., fleet of winblows boxen, or iPnojes, etc. -- a golemtronic appendage of usg, rather than instrument of the supposed owner
asciilifeform: guilt,” anti-feminist organization. When NYC Antifa began to share information about members of the group with their employers (in many cases leading to job loss), McInnes urged the Proud Boys to attend an Antifa concert and ‘wreck the s–t’ of the ‘f–gots.'”'
asciilifeform: '“Come to Kimmel, Rosenthal Pavilion to let NYU know that we will not stand for bigotry, racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny on our campus,” the event page reads. “Gavin McInnes has a long track record of using incendiary language to attract media attention and frenzy…Most recently, in December 2016, Gavin McInnes launched an informal group called the Proud Boys, an “anti racial
asciilifeform: the one 'quantum comp' that is a reasonable possibility is the perpetuum mobile sort. where, e.g., a class of weak (i.e. cheaply breakable from birth, or from a few published signatures) rsa keys is discovered in the dungeons, and dressed up into a 'we haz magical rsa breaker box, go switch to $shitcrypto'
asciilifeform: 'One softfork, which would activate ASAP, would assign an OP_NOP to OP_LAMPORT (or whatever QC-resistant crypto will be used). Everyone would be urged to send all of their bitcoins to new OP_LAMPORT-protected addresses.' << lel, did d00d learn of lamport's sig algo from pediwikia, or wat
asciilifeform: '...there is a possibility that security researchers will be able to break ECDSA-protected bitcoin addresses in the future. If this were to happen, they could gain access to the coins belonging to Satoshi Nakamoto, and dump them on the market...' << why does it follow that 'let's dekulakize satoshi' but not someone else?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-03#1611088 << there is not a simple and hygienic way of doing this on linux
asciilifeform: (if password is entered into the same machine as where the key is stored, a patient enemy simply has to remotely listen for a while, rather than walking away with machine like illiterate orc police)
asciilifeform: btw dream-mp 'never took it off', had the long black thing on his right hand in every dream-trilema photo, etc.
asciilifeform: !#s mpb
asciilifeform: in related lulz, http://archive.is/8rU8I >> 'LOUISVILLE — It's official: The military convoy seen flying a Trump flag in Louisville on Sunday belonged to a Navy Special Warfare unit, and the flag was "unauthorized," a Navy spokeswoman said.'
asciilifeform: ''President Trump early Thursday threatened to cut federal funding to the University of California, Berkley after violent protests broke out on its campus Wednesday in response to a planned appearance by a far-right commentator.'
asciilifeform: linked one is a simple pkzip clone.
asciilifeform: ^ www that had the dumps from tardstalk, 'adultfriendfinder', buncha others
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: looks from http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0497a/CIHDDCIF.html that arm, for example, behaves exactly like x86.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-01#1610604 << ftr none of the currently sold chips are in any important respect different from x86 re arithmetic.
asciilifeform: it is neither simple nor particularly cheap.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no pointer contemplated, just knuth's trinary arithmetic scheme, familiar from kindergarten.
asciilifeform: (you can elegantly implement with 2 ordinary binary registers, and use 4th state to store propagating-eggogs, aka NaNs)
asciilifeform goes to the b00kz room to fetch 'ada 2012 rationale', to learn whether he is complete moron, or wat.
asciilifeform: for addition, this is actually simple on most chips, there is a 'carry' flag
asciilifeform: in this example. and it gotta signal the overflow.
asciilifeform: y is of the constrained type contemplated.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you write down a statement that is logically impossible to transform into compiled code, per the ground rules, it is a compiletime eggog.
asciilifeform: comparing to 0xffffffffffffffff is not what the program stated, in the example. and since the compiler is sane, it does not substitute a semantically variant statement to what programmer wrote, under any circumstances.
asciilifeform: it isn't a compile-time static thing
asciilifeform: how do you compare to a bound that needs moar bits to represent than the number you are comparing ?
asciilifeform: pick a cpu, any cpu, let's work example ?
asciilifeform: by comparison to a constant.
asciilifeform: it implements it in the only way that is guaranteed to be invariant, and run in constant spacetime, on all iron.
asciilifeform: (a set of comparisons gets inserted by compiler on any operation that could result in walking out of the bounds)
asciilifeform: they are necessarily implemented on top of machine fixints.
asciilifeform: think: you can cmp rax, 0xffffffffffffffff . but you cannot cmp rax, 0x10000000000000000 , it dun matter how much you want to.
asciilifeform: we are looking at a real engineering constraint, flowing from the broken way in which c-machine implements the ring of integers.
asciilifeform: as for mempool messages, we have , in current trb :
asciilifeform: and the 'doctor, it hurts when i do that! --- so stop doing that!' option is NOT available, as bitcoin's protocol mandates a 'compactsize' variable-bitness integer idiocy that maxes out at unsigned 64bit. ( see http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/serialize.h?v=asciilifeform_add_verifyall_option#0192 ) .
asciilifeform: this is not as simple as 'gcc suxxxxx, let's fix gcc'. because i have nfi what The Right Thing looks like here.
asciilifeform: likewise default assumption in ada world is that there is not necessarily a heap. (safety-critical proggies typically use NO HEAP EVER)
asciilifeform: as per ada standard, in order to have a constrained type (e.g., type foo is range 0 .. 10; ) the compiler must find a X such that X is representable on the machine as a fixint, and range of X is larger than asked-for range
asciilifeform: i've been pondering subj for ~hour nao; it is not entirely clear that '100% machinewordsize-independent arithmetic' is compatible with 'zero-surprise compilation on all machines'
asciilifeform: and to top off the lulzfest, http://archive.is/jMArA : 'Microsoft Corp said it has been cooperating with the Washington State Attorney General's Office, which is suing in federal court to stop President Donald Trump's order restricting immigration from several Muslim countries.'
asciilifeform: removal, but if Pence and half the cabinet declared Trump unfit, even a Republican-controlled Congress would likely fall in line.'
asciilifeform: in other monkeystan chatter, 'Pence is sane enough to oppose rash acts involving, say, the evisceration of all U.S. military alliances, or America's first use of nuclear weapons - and presumably, if things got bad enough, other Trump cabinet members might also be inclined to oust their boss and replace him with his vice president. Congress would have to acquiesce in a permanent 25th Amendment
asciilifeform: 'Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in tcpdump, a command-line network traffic analyzer. These vulnerabilities might result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.'
asciilifeform: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/30/business/the-executive-computer-what-a-more-powerful-pen-based-computer-can-do.html << vintage propaganda re subj
asciilifeform: it got me into badhabit of 'comp in bed'
asciilifeform: 'ncr penpad', from dumpster
asciilifeform: 'Impeachment is gaining ground because it is the only way to get him out, and because Republicans are already deserting this president in droves, and because the man is psychiatrically incapable of checking whether something is legal before he does it.'
asciilifeform: oddly enough, the biggest conundrum in 'make a microwaveable comp' seems to be... the power switch
asciilifeform: and also they have large (comparatively) plugs, which means a ~1cm hole in shield enclosure.
asciilifeform: 'The usual advice given on the forums now is just to start Gimp running and then leave it alone - don't even touch the keyboard or the mouse, just get up, walk away and go do something else for at least an hour.(Yes, really!) When you come back, Gimp will probably be up and running and you will then have no further problems.'
asciilifeform: in other shitwares, https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list/2015-October/msg00047.html
asciilifeform: afaik smartphone caught on ~because~ lusers like taking photos of own arse; rather than imposed so that such.
asciilifeform: ( mircea_popescu uses 'c' and 'cpp' interchangeably, but they are quite different , the way heroin and cocaine differ , though both are simply 'dope' to the uninitiated )
asciilifeform: '...the nature and seriousness of the danger to any person in the community that will be posed by the release, it's clear that the Government sort of paints the Defendant as a walking encyclopedia of classified information. I don't know if that's completely correct, but I do know that he had access to all of this information, and I credit him, and I certainly am glad we're not sitting here talking
asciilifeform: but facts such as 'no one is making more Actual Computer nor is anyone likely to in next century' add up to this picture imho.
asciilifeform: nobody's making moar bitcoinatronic comps.
asciilifeform: lamportian problems with clock.
asciilifeform: frag-entropy, like other systemic problems with traditional bitcoin, is simply a result of misaligned incentives.
asciilifeform: !~later tell mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-27#1608577 << here's one crackpot method: implement 'gravitation'. analogously to physical one. i.e. an agglomeration of coin is worth ~more~ than selfsame coin in fragged form. quantifiably, in some straightforward way.
asciilifeform: chumps still gotta drop in moneys, neh
asciilifeform: my objection is not 'davout Broke Trb oh noez!!' but to the thought process that might lead an otherwise literate d00d to contemplate a 'reference' that lacks vital organs as a valid thing
asciilifeform: ditto trb-minus-mempool.
asciilifeform: but to rewind: i do not object to davout mutilating his own personal trb however he likes. however i do object to calling a trb-minus-any-wallet a 'reference implementation'.
asciilifeform: killing gavin's remote backdoor is not comparable, it was a necessary part of 'first do no harm'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: implementing sane wallet is easily a man-year.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because if folx must ruin bitcoin via discontinuity ('you can always dig up historical code laters'), non-exhaustive pseudo-reference implementations, etc. i'd rather they understood what they were doing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is impractical to make as drawn here.
asciilifeform: happened, for good or ill, with cpu cycles ('why the fuck there is a computer in my flashlight' thread), plastics, LED, etc.
asciilifeform: going strictly on industrial gold for this example
asciilifeform: how is '1 satoshi per cockroach' an improvement vs '10 lords with 10'000 btc ea.' .
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: you got considerably farther than i did, in re mp-wp
asciilifeform: also i admit to a deep curiosity, the folx itching to dump the wallet without offering a new one, what the hell are you lot transacting WITH ?
asciilifeform: trinque: sbcl is not a reference-implementation of anything.
asciilifeform: excellent example of 'what to cut'
asciilifeform: the even faint implication that i ought to so much as consider heathen nontrb wallets.
asciilifeform: srsly davout , trinque , you would compare 'verifymessage' to winblowz #ifdef crapolade ?
asciilifeform: that enemy shoved in as attempt to exploit the node.
asciilifeform: or somehow this was implied in my patches ? (where, note, i cut out entire useless subsystems, and shrank memory drain eightfold ?)
asciilifeform: archaeology is not always about 'important' people.
asciilifeform: why not also cut out mempool ? 'oh we'll make new one LATERZ!!!! PROMISE!'
asciilifeform: but in latest lulz, http://archive.is/8G35m >> 'O’Grady was mistakenly identified this week as a Secret Service agent (also named Kerry O’Grady) who is under investigation for posting a statement on Facebook that appeared to indicate she preferred jail over being shot and killed for President Trump.'
asciilifeform: imho could easily live a new life as non-radiating ('tempest') connector between crypto gear.
asciilifeform: it is an ancient (iirc 1980) and cheapo (plentiful, pre-crimped fibers in various lengths , for pennies) cable standard, at one point was used for high-end speakers
asciilifeform: 'Let us hope this gives the WF the resorces it needs to complete the Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces which is not yet ready for the Community to vote on after having been suggested at Wikimania 2015'
asciilifeform: where groceries are grown -- imported agri-machine parts, petrol.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: wasn't re embargo, but re ease of subjugating ~any part of usa simply by cutting off shipments of imported cheapolade to it.
asciilifeform: but usa, like any mega-empire, had a motivatory idiology for the rubes, and said ideology is sinking, because the necessary chumpatronic rewards are increasingly unavailable.
asciilifeform: it ain't, apparently, 'easy'. i know of 0 historical examples of 'civilization comeback'
asciilifeform: as for 'iraq as 51st state', we saw result of this attempt in 2003-present, neh..?
asciilifeform: betcha it is stamped 'china'
asciilifeform: manhole covers are stamped 'india' where i live.
asciilifeform: (i have not succeeded in locating a working example of xerox-interlisp lm, for sale at any price by anyone)
asciilifeform: aha. but in that case, no comp trader showed up, only metal recyclers.
asciilifeform: empty shelves. (unless you count freescape corp.'s ridiculous 50bux/chip clone.)
asciilifeform: it is simply one manifestation of the 'markets are not magical' thing.
asciilifeform: in turn it is also why i have an interest in a hypothetical nonbignumtronic (i.e. lamportronic) 'trb-i'.
asciilifeform: i will attempt capacitor replacement, after the new board is up
asciilifeform: so how does the example work, plox to elaborate
asciilifeform: folx who will not tie the camel -- deserve no sympathy.
asciilifeform: and betcha they still prosecute folx who diddle scales when selling goods by the kg, or alter petrol pump, etc
asciilifeform: the bezzle is an example.
asciilifeform: we simply do not have the granite-world. and if we ever get it, it will be from 1,001 years of living in wooden one.
asciilifeform: in principle, strong d00d-with-shovel is exactly same as bulldozer. but in practice he is not, and bulldozer changed the type of construction that can be reasonably contemplated.
asciilifeform: ~amplified~ intelligence.
asciilifeform: (operating room is not even best example. ever been to what is in usa called a 'type 4 lab' ? the kind with air lock.)
asciilifeform: Framedragger: use example of 'women you bought coffee from' if better fits.
asciilifeform: this is one of those things that looks feasible because the contemplated case is 'the same people i work with now, but in different costumes', rather than 'cacophony 50 yrs from now'
asciilifeform: v, for instance, is a classica intelligence amplifier. (if mircea_popescu recalls, asciilifeform resisted actually ~writing~ it, and said, approx., 'a reasonable person ought to be able to Do All Of This In His Head')
asciilifeform: ('intelligence amplification')
asciilifeform: swamps, if we must use this analogy, can be filled.
asciilifeform: if you try an' have both, everyone simply fragments into 1,001 'tulpas' and an unsullied and 'never wrong' ceremonial kinglet.
asciilifeform: because unfortunately lenin was right when he wrote 'we build new world from the planks of the old shithouse we blew up, not from imported brick'
asciilifeform: trinque: see the 'wife vs cow' example
asciilifeform: of course we get to hear from the successful mircea_popescus, rather than the 'emperor nortons' who were SWATed like flies.
asciilifeform: quite believable. my understanding is that '65s-'75 usa was undergoing a 'british empire' moment where 'youngest sons' of the elite had 'lack of breathing room' and went uppity, and threw a bit of tantrum before being reabsorbed, bill ayers style, into specially-created 'church' bureaucracies
asciilifeform: this is impossible to arrange even deliberately.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i find broken ~search~ particularly infuriating, because it is so easy to make a working (i.e. grep-compatible) one
asciilifeform: 'Why haven't you embraced Bitcoin to get away from the restrictions of the banks / credit card companies? - We used to accept bitcoins through Coinbase. They dropped us a year ago because we are a kinky site. No joke.'
asciilifeform: wtf is the point of making umpteenth centralized arsebook.
asciilifeform: but backup is of very limited use when you've nothing to compute on.
asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform's main comp has finally released magic smoke.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, http://archive.is/j41JR >> 'A group of at least seven protesters, apparently with Greenpeace, are scaling a crane in downtown Washington DC in protest at US President Donald Trump. ... the protesters unfurled a 35ft by 75ft banner reading “Resist,” 270ft above the ground. '
asciilifeform: usg ministry of chumpatronics ?
asciilifeform: ideal eraser is probably a 'belt and suspenders' approach, where the wire is pulled through neodymium magnet (with hand crank backup) but meanwhile a pancake magnet is lowered onto the spool (for rapid, though imperfect, erase, in case there is not time to wind the entire tape) and at the same time current is run through the steel wire, if a current source is available.
asciilifeform: hey it's how they abolished conscription. put folx from unemployment queue in uniform.
asciilifeform: 'will Quantum Computing be to Cyber warfare what Nuclear weapons have been to kinetic warfare? And if it is, how can the U.S. DoD establish a world-wide, non-proliferation security regime?'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: rather, what does the build chain look like in this example ?
asciilifeform: !~later tell phf do you know of any public cl implementation where all os-specific liquishit is reasonably compartmentalized ? (it isn't in sbcl, cmucl, or ccl, and did i miss anything..??)
asciilifeform: and given as the good being sold is fundamentally chumpatronic, not mega-surprise.
asciilifeform: there is afaik no useful reason to migrate, dnsism is a straight 'strip mine' business model (lure in chumps, then turn scammer and fleece'em) afaik.
asciilifeform: 'Western Union Co, the world's biggest money-transfer company, agreed to pay $586 million and admitted to turning a blind eye as criminals used its service for money laundering and fraud, U.S. authorities said on Thursday. Western Union, which has over half a million locations in more than 200 countries, admitted "to aiding and abetting wire fraud" by allowing scammers to process transactions, even when the company realized its agent
asciilifeform: empire eaten and digested long ago.
asciilifeform: which nonsense. (traditionally) the handlers don't even let near the wheel, anybody who showed symptoms of having so much as latent ability to tell usg to pack it
asciilifeform: 'Flights full of women are marking their way to Washington, D.C. for the Women's March on Washington. On social media Friday, many people tweeted photos of airplanes predominantly filled with women on their way to D.C. The Women's March, which was planned to demonstrate solidarity following the election of Donald Trump, will take place on Saturday in D.C., and sister marches are planned for all 50 states and in 32 countries around t
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/euCva << 'The DC Human Rights Act makes it illegal to discriminate against more groups than are protected under federal law. Protected classes in Washington include not only race, religion and sex, but political affiliation as well. “Right off the bat people are asking if we deny the so-called 'alt-right,' and they are held out to be Trump supporters, are we denying based on political affiliation?” Rome said. H
asciilifeform: so, if it's an x86 box, this means that no opcode executes on it, from cradle to grave, that didn't come out of (hypothetical) compiler with mandatory bounds/type checks.
asciilifeform: mod6: theoretically. but, as phf observed earlier in this thread, certain entirely necessary things are impractical to retrofit to it (e.g., bignum)
asciilifeform: mod6: scheme is neat on paper (~50 pg. exhaustive spec! at least before the poetterings got to it in rev. 6) but you will find that it is ~impossible to program in the language that appears in that document
asciilifeform: mod6: likewise, there are cltrons (e.g., sbcl) that -- at least in theory -- can compile selves to x86
asciilifeform: and conceivably one could hand-compile tinyscheme.
asciilifeform implodes.
asciilifeform: 'meat' in asciilifeform's shorthand is simply any nonmaskable interrupt from meatspace.
asciilifeform: ~somebody~ has to have 1) attempted this 2) not burned all of his work in fireplace in disillusioned despair
asciilifeform: but is unsuitable for different reason (it has no compiler, is a c proggy, cannot compile self)
asciilifeform: it's enough to operate a very basic comp.
asciilifeform: and i have 0 sympathy.
asciilifeform: y'know, this is how folx end up on a scaffold with mircea_popescu pissing down their neckstump
asciilifeform: looks like honest attempt at a glider, possibly
asciilifeform: and no, cf card is not anachronism, it runs in ata-compatibility mode
asciilifeform: maggots dun have plans, or objectives, they simply eat.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and picture if it had been on your actual comp.