asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-13#1582456 << i sleep ad lib nao, thus far using it to make s.nsa output solidity rather than getting flattened in esoteric vehicles, but who knows, might go and do the latter also at some point☝︎
asciilifeform: davout: while you're awake i gotta ask, unrelatedly, re earlier thread! are decent joysticks for flight sims extinct? you're just the fella to know the answer
asciilifeform: incidentally iirc someone wrote somethign vaguely like slime for vi, someone with stronger stomach than i oughta try it, see...
asciilifeform: autoindent is intensely language-specific
asciilifeform: that being said, 'hell is other people's' elisp...
asciilifeform: apparently i somehow built this again.
asciilifeform: mbers, punctuation, line feeds, control characters... Everything. But despite the utterly cryptic nature of it, it was good. It was very good. ...'
asciilifeform: 'A language designed to live in the paper-tape world had to have some major constraints. First, paper tape is slow. Really slow. And punching tape is a miserable process. So you really wanted to keep things as short as possible. So the syntax of TECO is, to put it mildly, absolutely mind-boggling. Every character is a command. And I don't mean "every punctuation character", or "every letter". Every character is a command. Letters, nu
asciilifeform: possibly no one will believe me, but unlike most 'ideological' emacsists, i do not abuse it as irc client / wwwtron / reactor controller / etc
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-12#1582363 << same thing threads were supposed to achieve in bitcoin. idiot unix supplies such worthless nonblocking i/o system that threads in unix proggies (discounting actual number crunchers) exist largely so that they can sit, sadly, waiting for blocking i/o...☝︎
asciilifeform: and elpa! l0l! the 'your shitplugin has 1,001 shitdeps' repo!
asciilifeform: 'There’s unanimous agreement that Emacs needs better support for concurrency, and indeed over the last few years Tom Tromey (of ELPA fame) and others worked ....' << orly, unanimous
asciilifeform: (usb per se has absolutely imho lethal problems but i would count the horrid plug dead last on the list of these)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'new usb' is symmetric but i suppose it is too-late.
asciilifeform: phf: pcb has track thicknesses, and also meanders (tracks whose shape is hard-specified)
asciilifeform: (nobody wants to look at a 128bit bus as motherfucking 128 lines running in parallel!!!)
asciilifeform: phf, mircea_popescu : that's aaaalmost all of it. you also need, in especially large schematics, to collapse buses into single, thick lines (in 'eagle', normally blue, but it does not matter, so long as distinct) and the leadouts from said buses are normal nets, which are marked.
asciilifeform: (think, recall children's game of 'help the mouse find the cheese' ? that's what a shit schematic looks like)
asciilifeform: so you want to lay the lines so min cross.
asciilifeform: crossing lines make for a turdalicious schematic
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's an elementary case of travelling salesman
asciilifeform: phf: i had very spiffy planetarium for msdos, but sadly forgot what it was called
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is a related and important (to rsa) mathematical problem, of 'how many bits of modulus give your guaranteed polynomial factoring'
asciilifeform: trinque: ...not the titanic you wish you had!
