asciilifeform: ( i dun recall whether mircea_popescu revealed whether this is troo in egypt, also, come to think of it )

asciilifeform: diana_coman: ikr? it's the last thing i'd think of pitching to dar-al-islam ☟︎

asciilifeform: diana_coman: hmm, from my reading seems that they won't pay anybody for 'which screw' , gotta also supply a physical talisman they can hang on wall

asciilifeform: diana_coman: which item in your 'shelf' contains the most recent keccak , to go from ?

asciilifeform: js is used pretty much entirely for mircea_popescu's linkable-text-selection thing

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: imho yes

asciilifeform: ( for the impatient : http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/trb/snap_546400.txt ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i had one of these not long ago !

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: stalin pioneered

asciilifeform: Mocky, mircea_popescu : the 'professions not given driver license' thing dun make much sense imho; why not much shorter list of who ~is~ given, 'titled baron', 'ceo of co listed on exchange', 'fuhrer', etc

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ar is still historical puzzler to me -- they sprayed and sprayed, and no end of roaches; what was the issue, notenuff spray ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: trad in ru also

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: by all accts, typical escape in su proper was during conveyance . prisons had well developed systems of stoolies, capos, cells packed like sardine can, not much lock fiddling there.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: capital-B thief ? or lower case

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: possibly naively, i pictured that the clink is the 1 place that regularly frictions against actual-human folx. but whoknows, after N gens of reddit, this.

asciilifeform: meanwhile, upstack, http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-19#1863739 , http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-19#1863746 >> nao perma-mirrored! >> http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/bolix/amberglint_macsyma_pill.txt , http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/bolix/amberglint_ns_pill.txt ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: diana_coman: the american folx indeed define loosely ; they build wooden fence tho, not ferrocement

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/liO9c << subj.

asciilifeform: i guess 'less than that' if yer a gurl and mircea_popescu likes yer bust, or how else.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey, coke will merge with pepsi, lion with lamb, such it was written in sybiline prophecy or wherever.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is theoretically possible to write 3600 emulator without much brain work, the instr set is (mostly) described in their 600 (!) page patent. but there's very little to be gained from doing so, the 3600 arch is before they cleaned all of the mit shit-hackolade out of the thing, it has million idjit warts inherited from when the thing was a refrigerator-sized dumpster of 74xxx discretes

asciilifeform: and of course there is a mircea_popescu to laugh, cuz it's pretty laughable state of affairs

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik nobody's even picked up enuff frags with which to make even half of a serious attempt, at that

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: by my reckoning, the actually valuable and not-yet-leaked stuff, is in 'indiana jones' warehouse, behind http://btcbase.org/log/2015-06-10#1158785 , rather than on swiss cheese php www etc ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fortunately errybody present speaks human langs, and knows that mircea_popescu was trying to say 'can can'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: d00d did spill that he dun keep 'crown jewels' in his house.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik amberglint is the 1st digger to actually share , normally bolix folx avoid asciilifeform like the plague, as detailed in old thrds, for whatever psychopathological reasons

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope, tho possibly phf might , he appeared during prev bolix/ivory thread

asciilifeform: !Q later tell trinque i was learning from db dark arts, in yer http://btcbase.org/patches/logbot-genesis#L186 , and wondered re the orig logic behind the uuid-ossp / gen_random_uuid() item ( vs the ordinary 'serial' ), plox to enlighten asciilifeform

asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu were to park his merc in johannesburg, orcs might steal the tyres, but not the cunt (can only borrow..)

asciilifeform: unrelatedly, while mircea_popescu is awake -- mircea_popescu do you still have a 'mpb' noad running on public net ? would like to try my exerciser on one

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only this, but if folx build on the right slab, they can get 9000x less complex proggy in the end

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the mmap thing is major labour-saving item, lets you fughet about db etc, you define the data structure you want and it gets persisted to disk / loaded as-needed into ram, transparently to proggy

asciilifeform: i expect e.g. diana_coman will eventually need mmap

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: reminds me, i prolly oughta genesis 'horsecocks' aka mmap-for-ada

asciilifeform: chinese examtaker , or the '2030' people mircea_popescu linked, resemble 'fast comp but without rng'

asciilifeform: Mocky: yes it's an imaginary object. q is whether 'imaginary like devils' or 'imaginary like electron cloud'. i favour the latter, mircea_popescu , i think, the former

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i obv dun have a reductive model, and dun know of any honest people who ever claimed to. but this is somewhat diff thing than 'to even try model is waste of time, it's rngolade'

asciilifeform: some lions can be trained to play 'tetris', others, no matter how much stick and cookie, not, mircea_popescu of all people i expect would know this

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: near as i could tell, d00d had plenty of native intelligence. but grew up in the circus, and so knows nuffin but idjit acrobatics.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but are these born ? or bonsaikittened into existence

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how's that ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-12#1824129 , http://btcbase.org/log/2013-12-15#422041 , possibl in between ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^ in there somewhere

asciilifeform: ( my model dun differ so much from mircea_popescu's, aside from where i lump the digg & reddit waves together in lump element, afaik they consisted of largely same lost souls )

asciilifeform: imho biggest surprise re mircea_popescu's fetlife dig is that any actual chix turned up at all. i wouldn't have expected there were any.

asciilifeform: hmm, possibly ben_vulpes knows the troof re what vaccines still given in usa to schoolkidz.

asciilifeform: if node answers, it gets asked version, then getaddr, then given 10sec to issue 'inv' (for tx observatory), then (not baked this yet) gets asked to provide a block from known_blocks.

asciilifeform: when idling, N (parallel) threads select probe candidates from 'nodes', with highest priority given to 'untried', followed by 'live', followed by 'dead', in the latter two cases probed if and only if 'time_probed' is > hour ago

asciilifeform: ^ and if anyone has a handy dumpblock-derived list with which to populate known_blocks , plox to sign & post, otherwise i'ma bake one laters

asciilifeform: ^ comments from db experts welcome ( trinque , ben_vulpes , mircea_popescu ? )

asciilifeform: rain ? was mircea_popescu flyin' in a gilder or wat