asciilifeform: if this sounds perplexing, go an' pick up the language, it will take you an evening or so.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it isn't really a language with 'greybeard potential', no dark corners, 50pg. standard. if you wanted to program your interstellar ship in it, you would go to look for intelligent engineers and teach'em forth (in about a day), rather than to look for 'forth greybeard'
asciilifeform: but this is an apocryphal thing, afaik he has not published the entire thing anywhere.
asciilifeform: now! it ~is~ 'republican' in the sense where -- iirc -- moore eschews the traditional '1000 terabyte and 10x10^8 dollars' fab toolchain in favour of his own
asciilifeform: when you read it as 'slow fpga' it seems imho less appealing.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: moore's greenarray is really closer to fpga (but with hypertrophied LUTs!) than to a cpu
asciilifeform: i'm not familiar enough with gabriel_laddel_p's background to suggest particulars. but since he mentioned ternary arithmetrons, why not go and find out how many muller gates can fit in a lattice igloo.
asciilifeform: there is a multikilometre-length list of unsolved problems, undone chores.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: if you're feeling energetic, by all means, do something useful. (also there is the option of being useless, but quietly)
asciilifeform: in re degrees of certainty. e.g., earning the -10 is quite an achievement, it requires being a reliable compass of nogoodness
asciilifeform: i can't speak for others, but i actually follow the formulation given in mircea_popescu's handbook
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: pro tip: when you abuse things, they will also abuse you back.
asciilifeform: 4 jan. 2017 : ' Multiple vulnerabilities in the NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgDdiEscape and a vulnerability in the Linux GPU Display Driver kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko)'
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p really knows how to Win Phriendz And Influence People!11
asciilifeform: it is about as becoming of an adult as trying to speed up bicycle by 'vroom, vrooom, vrooom!'
asciilifeform: starting from the most nonsensical (e.g. inability to use a can opener)
asciilifeform: always reminds me of this gurl (undergrad) who REALLYWANTED!111 to be a GreatMathematician and decided to... copy the quirks, nervous ticks, of paul erdos. as described in the biography.
asciilifeform: i will also note that pete_dushenski for some perverse reason often copies this style and it is extremely taxing.
asciilifeform: this is not obvious from the linked piece.
asciilifeform: d00d just can't stop pulling own cock.
asciilifeform: upper endurance of ~5min. when reading taleb.
asciilifeform: 'It took me a while to overcome my disgust –I am still not fully familiar with the way non-risk takers work; they actually don’t realize that others are not like them, what makes people in the real world tick. No, businessmen as risk takers are not subjected to the judgment of other businessmen, only that of their personal accountant –unless they are peons in a hierarchy...' << ftr this is the allergen that gives asciilifeform
asciilifeform: betcha it's another 'banned in eu pederastylands' item
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski et al : where is the auto that still has rubber bumper ?
asciilifeform: illustration where nutter dies for a muddy puddle on the sidewalk is not very illustrative imho of anything interesting, other than possibly psychiatric case
asciilifeform: 'fiatola is no friend of mine' (tm) (r) (mircea_popescu)
asciilifeform: asking for mircea_popescu-style 'sane' programmer is rather like to ask for hygienic sewer repairman. if such a thing is possible it consists of cosmonautic-grade compartment sealing.
asciilifeform: programming as a profession is a form of contained insanity.
asciilifeform: programmers who stay sane, at least in my experience, tend to be folks who are very disciplined re compartmentalization .
asciilifeform: yes, 'anti-counterfeit' always and without exception means 'one official counterfeiter!111'
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: this is elementarily true, but not especially interesting
asciilifeform: 'About 28% of the original Bitcoin v0.1 source code remains in Bitcoin Core v0.12 (although that 28% now represents less than 1.9% of the total source lines), so the possibility existed. ' << lol!!
asciilifeform: (the ~standard~ 8ball, with the primorial from 2...infinity, grew large enough that it slows down werker run to about 5 hours ! )
asciilifeform: the barf wave, however, resulted from two werker runs that overwrote one another's working temp sets on disk. another wtf, that should not have been possible, added locking.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-08#1599168 << two separate sets of crapola. the 'factor == modulus' thing was on account of the way i made the debian 8ball, with (product of Ps of possible keys) being one, and (product of Qs...) being another. but there turned out to exist debianized mods where BOTH factors were drawn from Pproduct (or alternatively Qproduct) and gcd ended up equaling the mod, a case that was not (formerly) tested for☝︎
