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mircea_popescu: esp because correctly written, with tests etc. so can meaningfully do ffa-eucrypt vs mpi-eucrypt as a benchmark.
mircea_popescu: but the fact that we have the eucrypt item is very useful inter alia especially for such simulated-userland-tests for core libs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it doesn't ; nor will it, because what truly brings serpent in is the ~space~ not the time problem. ie, because of padding, straight rsa doubles message bulk, which is a major problem for online game.
mircea_popescu: right. a mpi-eucrypt vs ffa-eucrypt head-on will be interesting to see.
mircea_popescu: but rather, from what i understand, is taking finishing touches re reproducible builds, consisting principally of hunting for "Where does it piss in date or w/e ruining my sigs"
mircea_popescu: point being : de-sslification of bitcoin is not stalled on this. it is stalled on prior de-sslification of cuntoo, which as such doesn't yet exist, which is not really stalled on this either.
mircea_popescu: the ~algo~ tho. not specifically for v trees, but it strikes me there doesn't exist currently a bin differ ~at all~.
mircea_popescu: maybe it;s not as wrong as all that. did you ever make that thing ?
mircea_popescu: he promised to ask you for an item ? or is this ada n-w published somewhere meanwhile ?
mircea_popescu: this about concludes the state of affairs ; i'd like nothing more than corrections, disputations &c by they involved.
mircea_popescu: so, phf : how about you start clearly communicating yourself, beginning with a complete, correct and true to life adnotation of said discussion in your own hand, because this "ima go meditate on things until everyone involved forgot what i was meditating on" isn't a workable approach to intellectual life.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: l i have not the faintest what even came of the long avoided but eventually unavoidable discussion.
mircea_popescu: i do not know, as i sit here, what the conclusion of the
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-19#1881988 discussion was, three weeks later. the man sits among a republic built on a certain methodology, aims to quietly use the exact ~other~ methodology, makes no prior mention of this, candidly references the latter as if it worked notwithstanding how howlingly it failed to work to date, on and on in this vein and at the end of it al
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: which leaves phf ; who's doing an excellent job maintaining very elegant and well done extant infrastructure, and a very terrifyingly poor job at communicating himself.
mircea_popescu: but really, it serves no one to let me suspect. i should know.
mircea_popescu: ave1 is, i suspect, silently working on gnating things -- which is fine and valuable except for the silently part. there's this tendency of lone wolf scientist to not properly report failures, out of an imaginary saving of time and resources this permits. it must be said that NOTHING could be further from the truth, nothing at all -- there's more to be gained from a properly reported failure to find than out of ten shiny succ
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: let's just say it's my considered oppinion "difficulty in reconciling" such is almost never actually due to said saeculum.
mircea_popescu: spyked is evidently trying, hence feedbot, but evidently having trouble reconciling saeculum, which i'm going to let stand as such on the grounds that he's new -- even though experience shows that as a dubious idea [for all the eg one could possibly need witness how asciilifeform 's still in the swamp, so many years later].
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lobbes recently unveiled actionbot, which works fine, and is evidently putting all time he can into paying off technological debt he's responsible for if not necessarily guilty of. nothing wrong with this, and it can stand as such.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i have no idea what ben_vulpes is doing these days, if anything (other than maintaining his logotron, whatever that takes). i would like to hear.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron seems lost in a bucolic paradise slash midwestern parochial nightmare of his own choosing. nothing wrong with this either, and unless i hear any better that will be the conclusion.
mircea_popescu: other than this, mod6 is taking time off, since mid-november. nothing wrong with this, but i'd like to see some conclusions at some point.
mircea_popescu: finally, asciilifeform is working on rsa-based ssl-ism replacement (notwithstanding he ~seems to be~ working on any and all wank on the "side" during spare time he doesn't have and all that), which we want so we can finally move bitcoin off sheer cretinity and into cuntoo (and which is principally why we want sane db also, but as i said -- yet immature).
☟︎ mircea_popescu: other than maintaining the deedbot infrastructure, trinque is working on cuntoo, which is a rather large piece and it taking a [difficult to predict] while is not by itself the end of the world ; but i'd like to see some roadmapping, tentative and subject to change as it may be, lest the effort degenerates.
mircea_popescu: hanbot is working on the mp-wp tree, and manages as she long has a rather largeish wetworks i'm not going to get into the details of.
mircea_popescu: so, she'll be doing client work with her own two hands, something i had every intention to avoid ; and we'll be looking at integrating cuntoo on the server side later on. there's some db work in the hopper also, but that's even further on the maturity vine.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: diana_coman is working for s.mg ; we've recently had this exact talk and revised our plans. originally the idea was to have moved over to cuntoo, and do support work for community-driven effort at a new client. the latter completely collapsed over the shocking weakness of such community ; the former's at best delayed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yet -- it is not my business ; so i'm just going to count it as such, "working on pizarro" without further inquiry (and with the firm expectation that someone IS doing all that).
mircea_popescu: so : as far as i know, bingoBoingo is working on qntra and on pizarro. he's doing a very fine job with the former ; i'm nonplussed with recently discovering just how broken the latter's mp-wp offering actually was ; moreover it seems to me from a distance pizarro's still financially and customer-wise entirely dependent, ie as close to failure as you can possibly get without spelling it out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: foremost, the lordship is not a state, but an activity.
mircea_popescu: well, meanwhile it's the 5th day of this fine new year, and it occurs to me it might be a good idea to discuss some things, lest april coming around this year like any other year be perceived as some kind of subjective surprise, rather than the objective necessity it ever is.
mircea_popescu: "Python ints don't have a fixed number of\ndigits." priceless. especially for the 000a intercalation.
mircea_popescu: well, i got other firepits to attend to, but what a great logmorning this has been!
mircea_popescu: think about it, if it converged in more than 2^B turns, then you'd have a B bit number contain B+k bits of information.
mircea_popescu: did i mention i like your treasure trove finds a lot more these days ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the pedantery wherein he explains how "substraction really adition because transform and add 1" is so fucken cute... when is this, 1920 ?
mircea_popescu: "At each subsequent stage, the next number is the last N plus the last Z ; carries out of bounds are ignored ; if anything's ignored the next number's an N, otherwise a Z. " to take it out of the idiotic format.
mircea_popescu: and why the fuck does he use ~substraction~, could have used addition instead for same exact money.
mircea_popescu: lol. right. "addition" my foot. why the fuck do scientists misuse terms of art. "addition over finite field"!="addition"
mircea_popescu: lol. eh, i got some of those kitten scratcher things, can drill microholes on the cheap.
mircea_popescu: that is HOW the thickness of the sheet protects you from neutrons -- the thicker the sheet, the lower the loss into you. because that power law.
mircea_popescu: same would be true of electrons, too, except for the braking, which makes 99.x% of the energy of those NOT energetic enough to go through... take your picture.
mircea_popescu: if there's one meter of steel and two meters of you, 99.x% of all neutrons energetic enough to go through the sheet will ALSO be energetic enough to go through you
mircea_popescu: but all the classical films include "bottom of this here mountain" because do the math, one single electron can produce enough gamma to fry an egg
mircea_popescu: you can afford to make plate thick enough to neuter those.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly. fundamental reason why shelter ~= useless
mircea_popescu: (ie, you are MORE likely to die for being behind sheet lead/steel/whatever than not. because high energy electron won't hurt you at all -- or even see you -- but the tons of gamma it spews as the metal plate decelerates it WILL fucking fry you)\
mircea_popescu: (likbez : problem with nuclear shelter is that Bremsstrahlung. but with this... well... make it go away)
mircea_popescu: one day my car mechanic is going to come into this room, pour a quart of oil into the box, and make a whole new os this way.
mircea_popescu: this is worse than "czech glass, dummy. if you polish it like-so.." ftr. much, much worse.
mircea_popescu: i'm totally like one of those old war veterans upon hearing of new weapon