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mircea_popescu: phf yes, i am very happy with it. guy even includes a formal scheme of what the proof should look like, for the benefit of the titrated tykes.
mircea_popescu: Abstract. It is often claimed that the security of theoretical quantum key distribution (QKD) is guaranteed by the laws of physics. However, this claim is content-free if the underlying definition of theoretical QKD is not actually compatible with the laws of physics. This paper observes that (1) the laws of physics pose serious obstacles to the security of QKD and (2) these laws are ignored in a
phf: asciilifeform: it's not a good kind of tick
phf: used to be you get a little tick mark in red from your teacher for that sort of writing
mircea_popescu: and exactly continuing "shaka-maka is a major deity of great power"
mircea_popescu: "poor black mothers are a key resource in the public money spending field of social services"
mircea_popescu: "entanglement is a key resource in the research field of quantum information"
asciilifeform: you don't, it's a sc4m
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'quantum crypto' is a marketing term for that thing where you serve up random bits for otp using 'entangled photons'
mircea_popescu: if the dumbass thing weren't a pdf, i might have made a trilema blast piece. which perhaps explains why it is pdf.
asciilifeform: phf: seveneves was a misery ☟︎
phf: "Is the security of quantum cryptography guaranteed by the laws of physics?" i have no expertise to make a comment on it though
mircea_popescu: as a "bottom bound" sorta thing, sure.
DianaComan: no, but I use my bv as a baseline
DianaComan: a pain, but still
mircea_popescu: <DianaComan> and seeing how that compares (as results ie money) to those of the other players << this'd work if we even had any sort of a valuating function!
asciilifeform: i also played it on demo-mpex for a while
mircea_popescu: of course jurov was working at a lisp-based text version of teh client.
DianaComan: asciilifeform, the playing part is a. figuring out what is what and b. crafting your strategy and seeing how that compares (as results ie money) to those of the other players
DianaComan: well, there is a lot to be said about intelligent mining/exploring too for sure
mircea_popescu: it'd be pretty epic you know ? actually a very good ground for ai development, cuz so formalized and well scored.
DianaComan: no, not really because the bot by itself is basically a dumb robot
mircea_popescu: everything is a "bot vs bot" thing in that sense.
asciilifeform: so it's a bot-vs-bot thing.
mircea_popescu: DianaComan wrote a very dependable little fellow.
asciilifeform: i could dig up a 4:3 panel and a gpu.
mircea_popescu: a right the 3d.
asciilifeform: i haven't a 3d card. or a 4:3 display. or time.
mircea_popescu: it's a wonder you don't play eulora, for these reasons.
asciilifeform: hey i played chess against self as a boy.
phf: in earlier years i wrote a scripting language where processes will go mad after running too long, i.e. each operation had a correctness probability that will be logarithmically adjust based on thread's age. a boolean expression that returns true at 1, will return false 30% of time at .7, etc. i vaguely suspect something like that was used to write eulora server
mircea_popescu: so the problem there is : me and her, crafters of different skills, are trying to figure out how the game computes the output quality of a crafting process.
mircea_popescu: was in the log, a second.
phf: asciilifeform: well, you don't have to go to that extreme, you can just import a symbol from own package and shadow cl:+ but that's not to be confused with builtin mechanism of "this function dispatches on many types"
mircea_popescu: "are they on a plane ?" "fu!"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: crapping out a shitlang and conning naive schmucks into writing programs in it is a time-hounoured way to cheaply score pseudo-relevance. sorta like a comp sci version of altcoinism.
mircea_popescu: "uses a somewhat mainstream syntax rather than sexpr"
mircea_popescu: "I have recently looked at Julia, a new programming language developed at MIT that promises to be a dynamic programming language that is suitable for scientific computing with a high-performance implementation. "
asciilifeform: a shitlang.
asciilifeform: i.e. a shitlang
BingoBoingo: phf: It desperately needs a followup addressing the 20th century evolution of the thing and the obfustication that was heaped upon it.
BingoBoingo: phf: Thing was a reaction the the civil war and proposed as a solution to avoiding civil wars while still allowing everything to appear contentious
asciilifeform: ^ a 'newsweek-satoshi job' re truecrypt
asciilifeform: https://mastermind.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side << lulz
BingoBoingo: phf this social engineering strategy has a long history in USG kingdom. Invented by "St Louis Hegelians" who then moved to Harvard and infected USG. Favorite means of USG for getting desired outcome by letting crowd pick the narrative for how they got there.
phf: should be in quotes, a hypothetical jedi mind trick brought to you by usg
phf: run on a small nuclear reactor
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: this is not a box that gets turned off.
asciilifeform does not recall breaking such a part
mircea_popescu: well, young women. a bad habit, but very anglo.
mircea_popescu: i don't mean circumcision. i mean the split that usually happens in uncircumcised males once they get into their own and vigurously fuck a damsel.
mircea_popescu: i still have my foreskin attached, also. i am untouched by worldly corruptions as a young babe!
mircea_popescu: i'm a coffee coneisseur by ricochet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know the feeling. i drink coffee like i smoke, a pot a month. but i am blessed with the company of oyung ladies that are crazy for the stuff,
asciilifeform: actually a few folks here have such things
phf: i briefly dated a jamaican girl in college whose grandfather had a coffee plantation, they sold most of it to roasters but roasted some for artisanal resale. i don't know if that was necessarily "best" coffee, but that's certainly not coffee i can forget
trinque: asciilifeform: gotta get yourself a french press for the desk
mircea_popescu: can almost picture a bonbon in a tiny tub, rubbing his back with a tiny brush...
asciilifeform: davout: this is not even what you probably think of as 'american coffee', this is a level down still
phf: my building has a coffee machine downstairs, that is loaded, daily by a mexican team, with fresh beans bought from a reasonable supplier. the coffee is passable, but perhaps sounds like mana from heaven compared to "kurig" ors
phf: asciilifeform is like a study into usg foot soldier culture, sometimes i feel like he relishes in the role
asciilifeform: there are a dozen types of shell, but the taste is always same
asciilifeform: well around here it comes from machine that takes plastic cartridges full of ??? and pisses out a dark and motor-oil-smelling fluid
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asciilifeform: the c/unix malloc, that pretends to give you arbitrary blocks of N bytes on demand in O(1), is a pernicious fraud.
asciilifeform: mod6: aha, essentially a traditional allocator with several distinct types of fixed-size blocks
asciilifeform: <asciilifeform> there are precisely TWO known sane approaches to programming a computer.
asciilifeform: as i described in #b-a
asciilifeform: i wrote a good bit of this
asciilifeform: (spoiler: ada aggressively promotes sanity, in particular here the item described by mircea_popescu roughly a year ago, which is that a program must occupy EXACTLY its maximal memory footprint at all times)
mod6: <+asciilifeform> as in, re-use the blocks sanely. << ok so we'd have to therefore keep a 'free list' - a list of objects/items that have been deleted and are "recycled" and may be used again or I suppose we could then call 'Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation' on an item in the free list to shink the list thereby reclaiming the memory.
asciilifeform: in other nyooz, the immunocompromise thing was accurate, already folks who oughta know better, on old planet, asked me if i'd host a powerranger idiot repo 'for trb'
mircea_popescu: the animal's overfed to cirhosis over a few weeks, in the traditional process
mircea_popescu: no bird actually has a cunt, but what do the finns know.
mircea_popescu: did we ever say the finnish proverb is "even pigeon has a cunt" ?
asciilifeform: (to finish off the 'broken hearts' - they let you defrag a memory without actually moving anything.)
mircea_popescu: what is the fucking point to have a tool that spells worse than the human.
asciilifeform: well yes, fella falling from the empire state building is a bit occupied, too busy to build a chute.
mircea_popescu: who really needs to build a girlfriend, also can't.
asciilifeform: i will point out that it is possible to build a physical machine that behaves as if it were possible to have multiple memories, and auto-defrags the space
asciilifeform: but this defeats a good chunk of the purpose of using ada to begin with.
asciilifeform: for incorrigible c-smokers, it has a 'unchecked deallocation' thing that you can re-enable, at your peril.
mircea_popescu: you know "me", i'm a coder. i'd do anything rather than think.
asciilifeform: and don't ever allocate a block you have no intention of re-using in its birth size.
asciilifeform: fwiw i have pretty close to a working bignumatron in ada.
mike_c: yes, baby is a bit bigger, and new job is settling in. life is manageable again (or will be once I've caught up on trilema + logs)
mod6: yah, there's a lot of stuff. trilema will probably get you caught up as a readers-digest
mike_c: heh, sponges. I've got a lot of log reading to do..
mod6: could require a true hardfor
mod6: btc has to work better than a 767
mike_c: oh, wow. considering a rewrite?
mod6: alf and mp came up with a thing called 'V'
mod6: werd. glad you're catchin a break a bit. last we talked you were mighty swamped with stuff.
mike_c: not much up - I got my life settled a bit and came back and have been working my way through the shitstorm that hit around here.
mod6: anyway, re your ddt comment, seems to be an analog for "a hole where the night creeps in"
asciilifeform: mod6: arithmetizing what the events of today would look like on a gossiptronic net.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> now i could be wrong, perhaps it ~won't~ become a magnet for the vermin that were previously shot on sight << already is!
trinque: if C-M-\ isn't a hair from C-M-Backspace...
asciilifeform goes off for a scale model version of this
mircea_popescu: anyway, ima be taking the sluts to a nude promenade, bbl.