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mircea_popescu: trilema is created as a "general purpose for literate people", so it contains lots of mini-versions of otherwise more seriously studied topics.
Framedragger: (heheh in the beginning of that article are you basically quick-tutorialing people about the analytic/synthetic distinction (in a way)? i mean it's about the (possible existence of) truth-conditions of propositions with no reference, but it has this vibe to it)
mircea_popescu: but that's all temporary and a bandaid for a chainsaw wound. in the end, you don't see many oxcarts carrying freight today.
mircea_popescu: and as to the other thing : numbers per se are meaningless. if there's a million truck drivers in the world, and 999`990 use a truck that does 10 mpg and i have 10 people using a truck that does 12 mpg, guess who'll be selling and who'll be buying trucking companies in the not so distant future.
Framedragger: i've read quite a few articles but it's still, like, such a small amount
mircea_popescu: but in short : it's not that ~my~ endeavours succeeding ; there's no personal flair involved here, nor any magic. it's that all the endeavours of a certain type will succeed.
Framedragger: hm. i guess your notion of "adoption" is not like many others. i.e., it's not a matter of "whether majority of animals use it", but rather "whether majority of intelligent animals use it", or somesuch. because folks are also super lazy about switching from a broken thing to a more functional and better thing. case in point: much of enterprise software. (not that there may not be good gems there)
mircea_popescu: there's at least a dozen disparate, independently useful items that go into a gossipd.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger read up on v, it's worth the read. more generally, you are ideologically naive, for which reason you're perhaps missing things. for instance, when i say "add a html parser" i do not mean "introduce support for THEIR definitioon of html". rather, i mean "create our own html, and by its presence passively force them to adapt or die".
Framedragger: every time git is confused for github, a kitten dies
Framedragger: i mean let's say one wouldn't depend on gnupg or anything like that. fine. use RSA. but with the (admirable) level of scrutiny employed herein, i'd be wary of even suggesting a single implementation of RSA which would not be shitty. i mean, there is libressl...
mircea_popescu: all of them. it's a world ender.
mircea_popescu: a properly made, functioning this will turn the "browser" period over, entirely and without respite. they'll become what the bbs are.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger the ~only way you're going to end up with a web crypto api in browser is if you/someone builds the social media app discussed and then adds a html parser to it.
Framedragger: "apparently you can't EVEN DO MATH in js" << yes yes YES :/ i knowz... that's why people want a web crypto api (crypto itself implemented in browser).. but the answer to your snarky follow-up "that just adds salt to the wound" is yes.. it's doomed
asciilifeform: it had a massive, fuck-ugly kludge of int lib
mircea_popescu: lmao. i dunno why they have a page about how php sucks, and nothing about javascript. apparently you can't EVEN DO MATH in js (9007199254740993/28059810762433 === 321 is false).
mircea_popescu: a process that'd have been perfectly safe on its own becomes deeply insecure when part of "the community".
mircea_popescu: this is like the anti-vaccine. not immunity through the herd, but insecurity through belonging to a herd.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but even as a very low effort thing you know, "everyone's on aws". and they all use the same fashionable shitstack. and there's... millions of them.
asciilifeform: (even a rubbish rng can masquerade as a usable one until you interate through the epochal times)
a111: Logged on 2016-05-20 15:16 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, random guy on reddit points out to a very lulzy attack indeed. consider : you boot up 1k VMs running the same os, and upon boot-up you sshgen. how many keys share primes even if they are properly generated ?
asciilifeform: it moves +5-6 a day
asciilifeform: take a careful look at the modulus count
mircea_popescu: Moduli Waiting for Test: 20 << this is like... permanently. pretty incredible, so "the public" puts in keys at about the rate of 1 every 3 minutes for a month now ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, random guy on reddit points out to a very lulzy attack indeed. consider : you boot up 1k VMs running the same os, and upon boot-up you sshgen. how many keys share primes even if they are properly generated ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: what do you mean! it's a town so chic they put it in the name! chic-ago!
BingoBoingo: Chicago's kind of a shithole.
BingoBoingo: I think they just have a dumb statue there though.
mircea_popescu: this means, a marathon, not a sprint ; and most things "people generally" count as a marathon here are still a sprint
Framedragger: "i just want a secure social site right nao"
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: thanks, appreciate it. but damn does it depress me a bit, then
mircea_popescu: strictly a matter of numbers, any 800 vote / 300 comment thread is exactly equal to any other.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-20#1469286 << BingoBoingo will be delighted to learn that when my father was a boy, his father bought a petrol-powered refrigerator. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: shinohai: Imma have to chop this up a bit moar.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: correction, When plea out, you aren't a militia hero anymore
Framedragger: i want to write something like this, but dread the fact that i would have to review a shitton of shitty attempts. one approach, i guess, is to just dismiss those attempts, come up with a sane and straightforward design, and implementing without too much fuss...
Framedragger: http://trilema.com/2015/a-proper-social-site-for-the-bdsm-community/#comment-117298
mircea_popescu: it's worth a lulz tho. they have to catch bbc or else it may be the case they should fire.
asciilifeform: uk is a joke, as described in l0gz
mircea_popescu: fun factoid : the (only!) uk sub actually has a... mile long aerial in tow.
mircea_popescu: yeah, well, that's where the pain starts : it'd be a wonder if the whole nato fleet can launch a coupla dozen simultaneous.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter - a nuke IS a fucking beacon. thermally even!
mircea_popescu: how hard do you think it is to put a missile in its path ?
mircea_popescu: point remains, the item is in the air for half an hour, during which it is a larger source than anything in the sky in about a third of the spectrum. it weighs a hundred fucking tons, and is about as maneuvrable as a dead whale.
mircea_popescu: if memory serves, it goes for 10k kms at a top speed of maybe 20k km/h
mircea_popescu: what, this is a submarine icbm ? travels underwater ?
mircea_popescu: yaya. the mechanics of the thing are against them. you have a very visible (really, in the right spectrum it blots out the sun), slow moving large object. doing what.
deedbot hands you a broomstick.
asciilifeform: i've wondered often who precisely they paid, and how much, to set up even a basic 'first 6mo of trb'-level framework for them of understanding how the shitsoup even worx
asciilifeform: i'd be curious, though, to meet a usg fauxtoshi who is willing to endure 5 minutes of my questions re trb src.
mircea_popescu: look, you're theoretically arguing about things in such a vague distant approach it's not worth the skinning.
asciilifeform: pay, e.g., dan boneh, perhaps, to convincingly play a satoshi
asciilifeform: wants a craaaaaaaaacker
asciilifeform: (and who in his right mind would strike any kind of agreement with a gavin or a preet!)
asciilifeform: and i don't see this 'quit and submit' thing ever being a thing
mircea_popescu: they had gavin and all it took was a trilema post to turn him from st peter to a sort of dan quayle. it's not the sort of thing the grunts like to face.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the ants perhaps desire a stalingrad.
shinohai: I'd ask BA for a quote for Qntra, but he blocked me on twatter
asciilifeform: (7y is a plenty long time to set up nsa mine, neh ?)
mircea_popescu: the chinese are in a similar position mutatis mutandis etc.
asciilifeform: [various derpage re july halving] << can somebody explain why this halving is supposed to be a mega-apocalypse vs the LAST HALVING ??
asciilifeform: 'Even though core says they are ok with a hard fork to 2MB (they have it on their own roadmap, just very far in the future), they refuse to prioritize it. They prefer to withhold something that could help the network now...' << these folks never give up
shinohai: "Whose a pain in the ass now bitch?"
shinohai: testing a file upload script since I'm ditching imgur for good.
shinohai: Went fishing with mircea_popescu , cayght a beauty: http://btcinfo.sdf.org/uploads/TRITON.jpg
trinque: phf: to implement a $s
hanbot had to double-take whether there was "unilever" printed over a local "pizzalomo" ad on a building the other day
hanbot: <BingoBoingo> ^ Qntra Farm Report is back! Eat Moar Monsanto! << is there anti-monsanto graffiti in the us, btw? common theme here. also, "go home obama", from a few months ago.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'vox' article linked because it is a handy illustration of how usg 't-cells' attack whatever foreign object. mr mold is getting same treatment, for nth year in a row now, as phuctor for past yr. i.e. sprayed in coating of 'pre-discredited, move along' claptrap
mircea_popescu: this is pretty well known, sure. actually screaming on a reasonable frequency will get recent mommies all lactating in a social setting.
PeterL: my sister-in-law started leaking after spending a day at the maternity ward when my daughter was born, she had weaned her kid about a year before that
asciilifeform: thing is a variation on sweat gland, after all.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-17 21:54 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-14#1466468 << important question that perhaps only mircea_popescu could answer: is there a 'background lactation' ?
mircea_popescu: whatever be the case. PeterL presumably has a very legitimate need for it, being in the business of organics. these schmucks making advanced clays however... not so much.
mircea_popescu: look. a tv host can not be anything.
mircea_popescu: he read unspecified "central texts" and references some william buckley. who the fuck is william buckley ? turns out, a tv show host.
a111: Logged on 2013-11-13 14:20 asciilifeform: we had a beautifully-educational incident with DMSO
mircea_popescu: or maybe dmso was really too toxic (that thing is a riot) and thf acvtually dissolves borones and so ...
mircea_popescu: note how they stand : thf, massively used, because relatively safe - million tons produced a year or such. yet, dielectric < 10
asciilifeform: (aggressive solvent, a place where i used to wurk had massive tanks hooked to dna synthesizer, to clean the pipez)
mircea_popescu: unless, again, the dielectric is a major part of what "better" means.
asciilifeform: it was so that 'hey i have a tank column here and berlin is 50km away, i need moar neutrons and less thermal'
asciilifeform: incidentally, iirc the 'enter constants before launch' thing was originally 'dial-a-yield'
mircea_popescu: right, and im well persuaded the current item is just a glorified enigma machine
asciilifeform: it wasn't a security-by-obscurity thing
asciilifeform: originally there wasn't even a chip, just analogue knobs.
mircea_popescu: and then have a physics team to sort outputs in order of likelihood and a cs team to rebuild the chip from scratch.
asciilifeform: which is a good chunk of the work of building the thing to begin with.
mircea_popescu: i put this chip on a breadboard, and feed all possible input combinations to it, note down all that comes out.
mircea_popescu: sure. so you have a chip, that takes say 4 inputs, and generates say 3 outputs.
mircea_popescu: it's a black box circuit, i measure all its outputs for known inputs.
mircea_popescu: the notion that you can make a) a physical object that b) does something and yet c) is safe in hands of adversary is so fucking lulzy.
mircea_popescu: do the calcs on it beging anywhere close to a critical core if bored one day. "electron gas" exactly.
mircea_popescu: there, the official free world reconstruction of "fogbank" : B4C foam with a xe-135 filling.
asciilifeform: which is why anyone with usg 'ts' reading the logz is technically in a state of sin, and subject to disrobing, unless specifically blessed by u.s. DOE 'q clearance' pope.
mircea_popescu: and since it's gas-based, prolly heated by means of the gas being a neutron poison. xenon.
asciilifeform: the H-bomb. It symbolizes the banality of evil which is the essence of the whole H-bomb business. Workaday people doing workaday jobs building doomsday machines based on 1950's technology, while civilization marches bravely into the new millennium, oblivious to the death sentence imposed by a secret technology involving plastic foam. It calls to mind the most famous line from The Graduate, "One word: plastics."'
asciilifeform: Errata, which I dubbed "exploding styrofoam," the corresponding phrase would be "a gas of electrons." The implosion of the secondary is driven by matter pressure, not radiation pressure. Incidentally, Dow Chemical complained that Styrofoam is a trademark, like Xerox, and that nuclear weapons do not contain Styrofoam. Point conceded; the foam is generic. ... I like the idea of a nuisance material, plastic foam, as the real secret of
asciilifeform: 'In the one-page Errata in the December 1979 issue, I explained that the turkey in the oven is a plastic "channel filler" which captures x-ray energy and explodes with enormous force, purely as the result of getting very hot very fast (ten million degrees in half a microsecond). In the original H-bomb article, I had described the conditions inside the radiation channel in terms of "a gas of photons." For my revised explanation in the