asciilifeform: phf: is there a reason you're allergic to sbcl and will try even payware before it ?
asciilifeform tried allegro and lispworks in '09, was not esp. happy.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: based on what ? magic 8ball ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it costs about two or three days of the programmer.
asciilifeform: and incidentally if it's the crippleware version it will fail to allocate when you reach the cripplement limit
asciilifeform: phf: you went straight there from cmucl ?
asciilifeform: and the 'poor man's dynamometer' of phillips screw - no longer essential
asciilifeform: anyway the description given is off, phillips screw was used precisely because it slips when torqued up. 'torx' and similar - do not. they were introduced when dynamometer (torque wrench) became standard at conveyor.
asciilifeform: in other 'news', heathen 'rng design' folk write what aaaaaalmost looked like good intro to subj, https://forum.stanford.edu/events/2016/slides/iot/Ben.pdf , until the mindfuck 'Want to keep generating entropy bits without needing to keep powering the HWRNG Use HWRNG to seed a PRNG (AES counter mode)...'
asciilifeform: ain't nothing wrong with being old, other than the obvious minuses
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes et al: what happened to actually instrumenting with valgrind etc, as i described in agonizing detail on the ml last year ? the linux footprint thing is not very useful.
asciilifeform: we all have materials table on the wall, just as mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: coming next, surely, public atomic dirigible rides!1111
asciilifeform: 'The long-planned participatory (shall we say) sculpture by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan — a fully functional, solid 18-karat-gold copy of a Kohler toilet, an over-the-top apotheosis of wealth — was installed in the humble restroom on the fifth-floor ramp of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum late last week and will be open for business to anyone with the urge on Friday...'☟︎
