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mircea_popescu: "really, i don't use it either, but i like
to
talk about it"
mircea_popescu: html never lost
to him ;
though
the proprietary
tardboys keep
trying
to make it.
mircea_popescu: I DO NOT WANT
the images
to be part of
the samestream ; or ANYTHING ELSE. half
the
time i don't even download
the images.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-07 14:23 asciilifeform: gzip was never purpose-built for
this. nao picture if it were. naggum, as far as i can
tell, wanted a compactly-encoded binform of sexpr as standard,
to put plaintextism into its overdue grave.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-07#1766234 << no dude, he a) doesn't have any fucking idea what he wanted, which is shocking enough, but b) what he SAYS he wanted is nonsense beyond
the pale. "images could have
traveled in
the same stream!!!" says
the man whose signature says "hey, i have nigerian scam options in excess of a
trillion
that i'm not exercising, you can stop sending me more". really ? wtf is wrong with him ?
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-06-30 16:48 asciilifeform:
there exists ( in
the sense where asciilifeform
thought of it, but
then went
to dig in
the dusty libraries and discovered ancient
tomes ) a
thing called 'tta'
esthlos: I suppose I don't know,
then, what i'm misisng. but certainly I couldnt cogently argue why x86 sucks besides 'von neumann lol'
esthlos: o course, like you have been saying asciilifeform, it's epicycles. but at least epicycles are a single coherent idea! (i.e. fourier
transform)
☟︎ esthlos: but have no idea wtf my compute is actually _doing_ 99% of
the
time
shinohai: It may sound retarded, but I learned how XOR and NAND gates work by reading Forrest Mimm books and building
the shit on a breadboard.
esthlos: this question is
turning out hard
to answer
esthlos: effectively, electronics are black boxes. I know how
to use logic gates
to add, store stuff, etc., but only
the
theory
a111: Logged on 2017-11-29 01:41 asciilifeform: funnily enough adacore itself publishes a great many cut-down runtimes for various embedded boxes, e.g.
https://bitbucket.org/tkoskine/embedded-arm-gnat-rts/src . BUT
they are not usable: 1)
there is -- quite deliberately -- not one
targeting conventional userland linux 2) none of
them support exception handling, which wouldn't be a problem except
that ALL BOUNDS CHECKS ARE EXCEPTIONTRONIC
a111: Logged on 2018-01-07 08:39 diana_coman:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-07#1766177 <- I switched
to adacore at some point, when I had enough of all sorts of weird
trouble essentially; never had
that specific
type of problem
though
a111: Logged on 2018-01-07 11:29 mircea_popescu:
https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3242173964750774@naggum.no.html <<
take
this gem. "The idiot individualist with megalomania will
think
that others are his inferiors,
that people who work in groups never get anything done while he can get a lot done alone." vs "I am far more conscious in general
than other people." BITCH WHICH IS IT!!!1
a111: Logged on 2018-01-07 10:18 mircea_popescu: "but mp, work here is intended
to mean
that
the niggers can spawn a replacement society
that'll be just as good as
the
thing
they originally pillaged". "sure, and for
the same definition of just as good i could replace you all with cultured strep, how about
that."
mircea_popescu: now,
that
the whole "french people can
technology
too!" olivetti-document-format went nowhere is, i
think, neither surprising nor in anyone's estimation a bad
thing ; but divorced from
that,
the claim
that pdf-ttp would have been an improvement ?! wtf is
this guy
talking about ?
mircea_popescu: rt
to keep
the ODA and ODIF folks at bay and was a purely political stunt, not intended
to be implemented. When I went ahead and did it, I was not exactly applauded for
the effort.
The fact
that it was /vastly/ more efficient in all respects
than
the stupid character syntax was /most/ unwelcome by
the community."
mircea_popescu: would have realized
the insanity of requiring
the verbose end-tags and
the stupid syntax. XML-RPC and SOAP and
the like could have been fairly inexpensive
things. But, alas, people prefer buggy
text formats
that
they can approximate rather
than precise binary formats
that follow general rules
that are make
them as easy
to use as
text formats. Rationality is not part of
the SGML philosophy, however, and SDIF was mainly an effo
mircea_popescu: s you get when parsing ASN.1 are unforgiving.
There is no doubt in my mind
that if SDIF had won over
the insanely verbose
text format, even
things like HTML would have been moderately sane. Not
to mention
the fact
that images could have been carried in
the same data stream.
The world would have been a better place if SDIF had won over HTML, and if
the nutjobs who "invented" XML had been moderately in
touch with reality,
they
mircea_popescu: about 75% of
the memory
to reconstruct
the identical in-memory version of
the document.
This experiment was among
the many data points
that led me
to conclude
that SGML is insane and
that
those who
think it is rational
to require parsing of character data at each and every application interface are literally retarded and willfully blind. Also, an SDIF data stream can only represent a validated document and
the kinds of error
mircea_popescu: "By
the way,
the SGML Document Interchange Format (ISO 9069) uses ASN.1
to ship SGML documents around. I wrote an implementation of SDIF in
three days.
Test runs showed
that a major CALS application consumed approximately 40% of
the character count of
the SGML file, and with
the
then commonly available
tools
to parse and process SGML documents and ASN.1 processors,
the SDIF data stream
took around 1/200th as much CPU
time and
mircea_popescu: let's iliterately dork about literacy why
the hell not, "it's engineering" hurr.
mircea_popescu: all
the strep votes for me so evidently
the strepvolution worked. hurr ?
mircea_popescu: "but mp, work here is intended
to mean
that
the niggers can spawn a replacement society
that'll be just as good as
the
thing
they originally pillaged". "sure, and for
the same definition of just as good i could replace you all with cultured strep, how about
that."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Revolutions sometimes do work, but
their cost in human
terms is /enormous/." << no revolutin ever worked, in any sense of "work" distinguishable from "nigger got his delicious free chicken". for
the same money, "pillage works". sure, it works fine for as long as you're
the one doing it.
mircea_popescu: (think about it, what is marxism other
than
the proposition
that
the dissatisfaction of
the plebs, produiced
through giving
them more
than
they should have been given, is
to be cured by giving
them... even more! hurr ?)
mircea_popescu: im starting
to believe
the only possible definition of "postmodern man" is "he who attempts
to resolve all problems by more insistend application of whatever caused
them in
the first place and in no other way".
mircea_popescu: but he doesn't see
this, so in he falls into pantsuit sink, "getting personal about profession is
tremendously annoying" etc. no it's fucking not, jesus christ, jwz restated. have a better personality instead!
mircea_popescu: nevertheless --
that
the "open source" nonsense was made for new jersey and vice-versa (no, it's NOT
TRUE "anyone can contribute", holy shit already, what sort of crapsack world is
this
to be!),
that fare is an immature bitchlet has nothing
to do with lone programmers, nor with fucking professionalism.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in other news, anyone want
to do a wire for me ? pete_dushenski ?
a111: Logged on 2018-01-07 05:55
trinque: diana_coman: your www appears
to be down atm
a111: Logged on 2018-01-07 05:55
trinque: diana_coman: your www appears
to be down atm
a111: Logged on 2018-01-06 22:57 asciilifeform: btw if somebody wants
to write a py or pl scriptoid
that'll generate
the gpg-matching 1ffffff...blah
turdoid for a given file , he will get honourable-mention in
the next chapter.
PeterL:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-06#1766126 << so I was like "how hard could
this be?" and I am
trying
to wrap my head around what
this comes from, so I open up
the gpg source code, and bleh, code is sooo much easier
to read when it is written in ada by asciilifeform!
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-01-07 02:52 asciilifeform: ^ anybody seen anything of
this kind ? mod6 ? phf ? ben_vulpes ?
trinque: diana_coman: your www appears
to be down atm
☟︎☟︎ esthlos: issue resolved by moving
to 2016 ada
☟︎ esthlos: i will
try on eulora box once its spun up.