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mircea_popescu: no but he has a point : if you're going to throw up might as well because "pidgin"
mircea_popescu: we're stuck discussing it with them one at a time. like education.
mircea_popescu: ascii_rear> most civilians i've introduced to vtronics had problems with, initially, this << the problem here is that the only reason why is not obvious is because of issues in the reader's head, and a general treatise to address all possible personal issues can not really be made.
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2016 15:33:02; polarbeard: mircea_popescu, asciilifeform, ben_vulpes, mod6: a backport for sendrawtransaction rpc command,
ascii_rear: and yes, eternal comp.lang.lisp holy war re: it constituting a heathen small language within cl
ascii_rear: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-02-2016#1398850 << 'loop' is a macro, you can read the source in steele's cltl2 ☝︎
ascii_rear: ben_vulpes: good 'v' summary - but i'm still waiting for somebody to crap out a treatise re: the philosophical 'why' of it ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "Stan's program makes excellent and judicious use of global state, but I am nowhere near disciplined enough to do the same to good effect" << a simple trick [expert programmers hate] to achieve this is you know you can map state on paper for a while until it's learned.
mircea_popescu: "Stan delivers a beautifully terse toposort implementation here. He leverages language features in both data structure and control flow, and the resulting code is terse and readable." << too much terse!
phf: as far as what it does i hope formatting in the paste above makes it more readable. for each line that starts with --- or +++ awk extract the filename and runs shasum on the file, then prints the new diff line with shasum included. for other files it just outputs whatever's there. so it's a filter that transforms mentions of diff'ed files into diffed files + checksum
phf: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-02-2016#1398750 << http://paste.lisp.org/display/306741 i thought i posted this before, but there are two fixes required on mac os x, sha512sum needs to be replaced with shasum -a 512 (and on openbsd with sha512). since awk can't find the command, it always goes for false. second fix is that you need to explicitly close the external checksum command, because bsd awk doesn't. instead it keeps all ☝︎
polarbeard: mircea_popescu, asciilifeform, ben_vulpes, mod6: a backport for sendrawtransaction rpc command, ☟︎
mircea_popescu braces himself for a bunch of people doing riding shots of themselves next.
mircea_popescu: guy sounds like a competent lawyer. (and yes, contrary to the view commonly held by people who have no idea, there exists such a thing as competent lawyers, it's an intellectual field like any other and just as capable to contain "lovely gems and brilliant coups" as the field of mel is.)
mircea_popescu: "In TFC, Alice enters her message into Tx.py running on her Transmitter Module (TxM), a TCB separated from network. Tx.py encrypts the message and signs the ciphertext. TxM then relays the packet to Network Handler (NH) through RS-232 interface and a data diode."
assbot: The SOPS, or what might you expect from government clerks on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1W2eQRJ )
mircea_popescu: this is not a bad idea, is it! imagine if all conversation between dudes was either absent (such as is traditionally in westerns and other tough-man stuff in the style) or otherwise entirely about "booze bitches blunts" as in the usual dudefare.
mircea_popescu: "The Bechdel test (/ˈbɛkdəl/ BEK-dəl) asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man."
mircea_popescu feels like he's 5 years old all of a sudden!
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-02-2016#1398769 << what's space-noir mean here ? http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-02-2016#1398771 << da fuck is a bechdel test ? ☝︎☝︎
punkman: "Subgraph Mail is a new desktop email client written from scratch, with its own implementation of OpenPGP built-in." that will surely end well "
ben_vulpes: i'm still a dumb sucker
deedbot-: [cascadian hacker] V-tronics 101: A gentle introduction to The Most Serene Republic of Bitcoin's cryptographically-backed version control system - http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2016/02/07_v-tronics-101-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-most-serene-republic-of-bitcoins-cryptographically-backed-version-control-system.html
ben_vulpes: well that's a helluva shortcut
ben_vulpes: adlai: a) i am annoyed that someone has coopted your 3 letters of tab completion and never says anything in here b) monthly averages and standard deviations of transaction fees as percentage of total miner subsidy would be far more informative
ben_vulpes: > sending a supremely strong message to all
adlai: BingoBoingo: it's just a single letter, they're even adjacent on dvorak
assbot: Coccinellery: A gallery of semantic patches for use with Coccinelle ... ( http://bit.ly/1TM0MgC )
ben_vulpes: and 'loop for black belts' has a limited set of recipes.
adlai: ben_vulpes: (loop for a = 10 do (stuff :to a)) ?
punkman: is it different than setting a regular variable?
ben_vulpes: adlai: do you know how to rebind a var to a specific value at the beginning of every iteration through a loop in cl?
punkman: perhaps a token-replace operation, but then we are venturing in ascii's "turing-complete-diff"
punkman: mats: there is a SyFy thing called The Expanse nao << possibly the only SyFy show I didn't stop watching mid-episode
mats: TIL ppc macs had a Forth shell by way of 'OpenFirmware'
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-02-2016#1395703 << so here's what my (unreleased, v2) vtron does: it grabs all patches and all sigs, merges them into an alphabetically sorted list, and then munches through that list attaching sigs whose name matches the previous patch to that patch. is this a blindingly stupid thing to do? i realize that it depends implicitly on the naming convention, but would like to hear about other unrealized ☝︎
ben_vulpes: perhaps though i would jump out of a plane with a mispacked parachute?
mircea_popescu: and in random tardstalk craft, "Stop posting that I am a scam or it is simple I can have my lawyer visit your site and send you a size and assist letter not to be slandering."
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2016 00:25:13; ben_vulpes: asciilifeform, mod6: if pressing is intended to be curated by patch selection in the patches dir, seals in the sealsdir and keys in the wotdir, why does "press" need to take a head?
mircea_popescu: "Beginning on October 3 and continuing through December 18, 2015, an unknown party accessed without authorization two cloud providers used by Gyft. This unknown party was able to view or download certain Gyft user information stored with these cloud providers and make a file containing some of that user information.
adlai: ultimately, it doesn't matter in quite a similar manner to how past orderbook data doesn't matter
adlai: hmm, this is a bit confusing of gribble: block #397151 still uses the same difficulty. it determines the next difficulty, but the first block using the new diff is 397152
phf: asciilifeform: nobody gives a shit re unpaid leave << maybe when begged for day at a time, but try taking a week of unpaid leave ~explicitly~ for vacation, and you're going to find yourself in "conversation" with hr pretty fast. putting that in contract is even trickier. it's a control issue, first and foremost
danielpbarron: well they don't come with 'b-a' in the name with content about blockchains
assbot: b-a ... ( http://bit.ly/1K5SNce )
ben_vulpes: http://b-a.shithouse.tv/
mircea_popescu: a bit like how well traveled washington was. fucker slept in all beds ever found in new england.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's pretty flattering, in honesty. look at all the things i have time to do in a day!
mircea_popescu: shinohai <<< am I only person that thinks this is a horrible idea? << i can't discern what the idea is supposed to be. glorified vps ? 9.95 a month sorta deal.
shinohai: https://sandstorm.io/ <<< am I only person that thinks this is a horrible idea?
ben_vulpes: not a pressing question.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform, mod6: if pressing is intended to be curated by patch selection in the patches dir, seals in the sealsdir and keys in the wotdir, why does "press" need to take a head? ☟︎
ben_vulpes: mats: the expanse is a surprisingly high-quality-for-such-a-low-budget scifi flick
mats: there is a SyFy thing called The Expanse nao
asciilifeform: nobody gives a shit re unpaid leave
phf: oh, a funny thing from last years interviews. i ask for a month vacation time (since 2 weeks is standard here, i just say 2 weeks pto and 2 weeks unpaid leave) written in the contract, so that there aren't any questions. during one interview guy was trying to convince me how that's bad for company and how it's a crazy thing to ask for, finally at the end he started complaining that he's been there for 5 years and was promissed friday
phf: at my old jobs i used to seek out talanted devs, and during weekend drinking convince them that they should go demand a raise, it worked couple of times. those who would listen will immediately start moving up the ladder, "who would've thought". some people still reach out and tell me about their salary fights in the "i tell them go fuck themselves" kind of terms. warms my heart
mircea_popescu: then they call back and well... it's a 5% more nao. just to get the message across.
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 13:43:34; pete_d_out: "Moreover, employers may feel they can lowball applicants because they believe there is still a surplus of qualified candidates.
phf: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397760 << when i was interviewing last year, was straight up told by several different companies that i should adjust my rate because i won't be able to compete in the market (that's a direct quote from on of the hr people). one company we went through several phone calls where different people were telling me that the salary requirement is a bit high, but maybe we can work something out ☝︎
mircea_popescu: there's 73393 of them A's, so i imagine there's some browsers out there that don't do bounds checkingproperly ?
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gribble: B,TMSR~ Block Cipher Competition on Trilema - A blog by Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/2016/btmsr-block-cipher-competition/>; China's TMSR Program Presenter: <;' target='_blank'>https://public.ornl.gov/conferences/MSR2015/pdf/10-China's%20TMSR%20programm_HongjieXu.%20pptx.pdf>; Letter to Morgen E. Peck, freelance writer | Contravex: A blog by ...: <http://www.contravex.com/2016/01/29/letter-to- (1 more message)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well the whole result here is that ~your~ 10 btc can wait for a better day.
mircea_popescu: your bias-less rng shits out n/2 ones. they go against a message containing 3/4n ones. they will flip n/2 items in the message, 3/4 of which being 1s and 1/4 being 0s. you thus end up with 3/8 old ones + 1/8 ex-zeroes for a grand total of exactly 1/2 whoa. ☟︎
asciilifeform: (answer, for the thick, is that your rng, if it works correctly, is EXACTLY as likely to shit out a string that xors yours to 'kill stalin at midnight with table leg' as an equivalent length string of zeros, or any other.)
mircea_popescu: let me try a different aprpoach, maybe that's more comprehensible.
asciilifeform: i realize that it cries against every mathematical intuition, but with correctly functioning otp, it makes not a whit of difference what your plaintext is.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu finds a coin on the sidewalk.
mircea_popescu: thus nth position in otp xor nth position in ciphered a must yield n and in ciphered b must yield 65535-n
mircea_popescu: now, 64kb aren't that much, and the structure chosen is literally the simplest thing available for ease of implementation. nevertheless, a little DOES leak even so.
asciilifeform: unless you are a telapath, there is nothing useful you can say about a bit which was flipped with probability 0.5.
asciilifeform: imagine you find a coin on the street.
asciilifeform: i invite the curious log reader to play the game mircea_popescu proposed with single bits, with a friend
asciilifeform: incidentally, the main reason i'd like a referee, is so that everybody knows that my random 'pads' were generated independently of mircea_popescu's challenge strings.
asciilifeform: 2) i xor over each of them with 1MB from a cardano rng.
asciilifeform: i will suggest a handy recipe:
mircea_popescu: ok i guess ima have to figure out some way to hm. hey asciilifeform , how about this deal : i pay you 10 btc of my eventual winnings, should they exist, but you make the messages and show the result. i dun have a compiler ready and nfi how you generate the described messages in bash
asciilifeform: does mircea_popescu want a free 10b or not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : Let message A consist of individual bytes counting down from FFFFFFFF ; let message B consist of individual bytes counting up from 00000000. Let the enemy xor one of these two against a random, unbiased OTP of the same length and supply the enciphered result. Take that result, and count the instances where byte n is larger than byte n+1. Take that result, and count the instances where byte n is larger t
punkman: asciilifeform: why, would padding be a problem?
thestringpuller: and this is what #b-a is the most amazing channel on freenode
asciilifeform: gotta be a statistically standing result.
mircea_popescu: why does there have to be a referee ?
asciilifeform: crc is built to survive a small fixed percentage (typically 1 in 9) of flipped bits.
asciilifeform: if you would like to specify this game in a way that doesn't reduce to gambling on coin flips, i will play.
mircea_popescu: and if the plaintext is long enough, this is equivalent to a requirement of minimal bias in the otp pad.
mircea_popescu: how biased the otp needs to be is part of the crc spec, for instance "every 8th bit may be a 1" etc.
mircea_popescu: let me put it this way : stuff like CRC, or ECC etc, exists fundamentally out of "we guarantee you can recover the plaintext after it has been otp'd with a pad which is AT LEAST this biased"
mircea_popescu: if you're making 1 mb of 01111110 and 1mb of 10000001 and then otp them against a random pad
mircea_popescu: you pick one of two lengthy, structured plaintexts i provide, you encrypt them with a biasless, purely random rng, and i decide which of the two you picked.
mircea_popescu: there is another way to die using otp, and that way is to use a lengthy biased message the enemy knows most of.
asciilifeform: ergo the linked thread, where i posit that an ideal otp is actually a physical object which brings the bits somehow into existence one at a time
asciilifeform: (the latter is a common concern in all crypto)
asciilifeform: another is to have anything other than a true physical rng generating the pad.
danielpbarron: if it works as a board game it probably works on a touch screen, is probably a good general rule
mircea_popescu: a ok then.
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1398069 << my account was created when you needed a college email address to register, and I can tell you it was never cool. I'm pretty sure I got more use out of livejournal even ☝︎
mircea_popescu: this is actually usable to describe a lot of the plain text, and exponentially more so when i know that debug.log tends to contain a lot of "connection" strings.