asciilifeform: from shinohai's link , 'Microsoft, Intel, banks form Enterprise Ethereum blockchain alliance'
asciilifeform: re upstack -- i actually have here an earlier mips from imagination co. -- it is notbad.jpg (tested back in the day as potential pogo replacement)
asciilifeform: ...Supermicro's support site—and that firmware is still hosted there.'
asciilifeform: in yet-other western tech, https://archive.is/YcSdC << 'A mid-2016 security incident led to Apple purging its data centers of servers built by Supermicro, including returning recently purchased systems... ... A source familiar with the case at Apple told Ars that the compromised firmware affected servers in Apple's design lab, and not active Siri servers. The firmware, according to the source, was downloaded directly from Supermicro's
asciilifeform: but same idiocy, on ~every~ 'mainstream' www.
asciilifeform: incidentally, i gotta wonder, who specifically is responsible for the 'fourty-one things THEY DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW about $idiocy' crapolade that has displaced ~all other ads on www ? it even exists in ru .
asciilifeform: was thinking of the inmates, not the jailers
asciilifeform: the two groups described virtually never meet , in usa, they have separate lolmarts to shop in, separate fishwraps to read, etc.
asciilifeform: at one point it was possible to distinguish, at the very least, dextro- from laevo-rotary cockroaches - e.g., the 'ten things canned ammo vendors don't want you to know! and the forty methods of instant prayer healing with colloidal silver!' -- vs -- 'save AFRICA!!1 from climate!'
asciilifeform: to 'civilian' -- 'ew, bugs'; but to the d00d who has to pick the right type of organophosphate to spray -- they are 1,001 species.
asciilifeform: this is what 'for entomologists only' is about
asciilifeform: if some women grew from girls, and others - from abused iguanas, we would probably keep around a word to refer to the 2 types
asciilifeform: dunno that all of the barbarians had ~same~ barbarism, tho. and you need a word to refer to the differences.
asciilifeform: i'm still trying to puzzle out if i even disagree with mircea_popescu , upstack
asciilifeform: if i had to pick between, e.g., jonathan swift's, lice, or the life of homo walmarticus, it would not be a hard choice to go with the former
asciilifeform: 'lice are fact of life' is a notion, not merely the absence of one
asciilifeform: the habit that guarantees the louse, however, has no mass.
asciilifeform: the louse is small, but mass, he has.
asciilifeform: just earlier mircea_popescu had a thread re 'in 1970s chix did not yet wash properly' -- this is distinct from 'cultural mainstream' ? how so
asciilifeform: you can make a true statement about it -- e.g., 'eisenhower era's american mainstream did not include tulpas and transpuppies; obummer's -- does'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: did not only not care to sit and watch, but to listen, hence went elsewhere. which from ben_vulpes's description, he is doing also, but from wife, not from drills
asciilifeform: from where he will get it? time machine ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: at one point city was digging up water pipes on my street, drill all day long, i would go elsewhere. how is this not 'escape' ?
asciilifeform would not believe that this is a thing, if he had not worked with at least a dozen of d00dz who admitted to it
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: aaah so the usual wife-escape lol
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes's 'how do i get rid of my rubbish in this shithole where city charges 10bux/pound' reminds asciilifeform of asciilifeform's shed gymnastics. in that both are problems that 'sane folx' would solve by... moving
asciilifeform: iirc they were a bush-ii-era headline
asciilifeform had nfi that ^ folx were still in business
asciilifeform: in other lelz, 'PARIS - A sniper mistakenly fired his weapon during a Thursday speech by President François Hollande in southwestern France, slightly injuring two people, according to a regional official.'
asciilifeform: so, for concrete example, a verifier that runs in O(1), is 'ideal', it is definitionally impossible to beat O(1).
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'ideal' objects are at least in principle ~possible~ in programming, it is sorta the ~only appeal of the work at all .
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: keep in mind, it's ~a possible~ trb-i, not ~the~... thing's quite certainly still in 'matrix mechanics' stage of life, and who knows, for how long.
asciilifeform: hm, now that i think about it, when using mircea_popescu's algo, you take your current chain to be the linearization. and if your chain gets orphaned, you consequently get a new linearization.
asciilifeform: you can't simply 'administratively' declare a tree to be a chain. gotta specify a linearization that works on ~all~ possible states of the tree.
