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asciilifeform: possibly people shit their pants when they find that an entire field has to be burned and rebuilt
mircea_popescu: all of it, however wrapped, however excused, it's the same thing : we here in white man world are incapable of doing anything useful and don't wish to see why this'd make any difference. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: the dude with fucking options and self-determinations as to who he wants to work with.
mircea_popescu: or for that matter just as recently, some german dork.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, recently, some grenoble thing.
mircea_popescu: it's all that, all the way down.
asciilifeform: the cocks thing ?
mircea_popescu: recall that schmuck with the french isp, which upon examination turned out to be 0% isp and 100% a vehicle for the inept vanities and worldviews of a few idle and overcomfortable schmucks ?
mircea_popescu: why. who the fuck are they, and who the fuck am i, and who adapts to whom ?
mircea_popescu: what, and write them emails ?
mircea_popescu: ima, dontcha know, follow the funnel they constructed, like everyone's got an apple concept store.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/these-fools-have-been-handed-a-technology-so-clever-so-disruptive-and-revolutionary-that-the-rulers-of-the-world-would-have-to-fully-unmask-themselves-as-ruthless-tyrants-in-order-to-suppress-it/#comment-123721 << this stupid bitch, can be arsed to spam trilema by hand, can NOT be arsed to read anything. everyone, including the very last hopeless african in the throes of death by innanition imagines th
mircea_popescu: "oh but mp... really... i can't do anything, not usefully, not well, not within pre-glacial timeframes, not... not..." ☟︎
mircea_popescu: but otherwise -- everything's sough. you got tits ? make money. you can code ? make money. you can draw ? make money. you "got relations" / can pr/whatever the fuck you got ? MAKE MONEY! ☟︎
mircea_popescu: the problem's the 3rd world whore's attitude, as described in that friday piece.
mircea_popescu: so... no. white man is lazy and stupid, in whatever order. the problem's not the lack of jobs.
mircea_popescu: nobody in his line of work has EVER made a bitcoin's worth in one year no matter what they did. but does he have enough sense to go... hmmm... i'll treat this as an advance, and use it to finance my supposedly useful work coming back with deliveries worth at least 10x that, because thaty's how useful i am, and see what happens
a111: Logged on 2017-10-11 20:40 BHopkins: I had to look up the current price, and the answer is yes :)
mircea_popescu: consider this schmucktard : http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-11#1724165 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: at least when i pour it into the ground, i know what i'm doing with it as i do it.
mircea_popescu: and yes, i'd much rather pour a coupla bitcents into the ground instead of paying "hiring experts" etcetera. by very far.
jhvh1: asciilifeform: RagnarDanneskjol was last seen in #trilema 1 week, 3 days, 10 hours, 32 minutes, and 21 seconds ago: <RagnarDanneskjol> Everbright Bank has, by far, the lowest entry barriers for business or tourist visitors opening new accounts.
mircea_popescu: where the fuck is the office girl ?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 22:06 asciilifeform: i discovered that mainstream finite field libs are as complicated as they are largely because they insist on growable - and, ergo, heap-allocated - nums.
asciilifeform finally did dig up the first mention of proto-ffa in l0gz : http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479552 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: has it yet been A YEAR since the discussion of hiring a motherfcucking chinese office girl was tabled ?
a111: Logged on 2017-11-22 11:41 RagnarDanneskjol: mircea_popescu I may have someone worth inviting to chan for interview in the coming days. Most of the folks I know over there are primarily oral translators, so having to look around a bit. Just got back yesterday - BJ is a real shithole but the people are adorable, lots of good duck. FYI - 'VPN AC' (Romanian) seems to be the only one working well/consistently behind the firewall (I've used many) and
mircea_popescu: the amount of jobs awaiting workers exceeds the amount of availavble workers by a factor never before seen in human history ; not even during the saudi reign 20 years ago. not even in china. nowhere.
asciilifeform can't turn up the link for some reason
asciilifeform: actually now that i think about it, mircea_popescu had a crypto bounty thing also
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's no difference. artists dun wanna work, ie ON TIME and TO SPEC and ON WHAT THEY'RE TOLD TO just like erryone else.
mircea_popescu: ie, it'd have been nice to have this item done last year as per original discussions. but whatever.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-27 22:14 mircea_popescu: course since the nsa consulting work for minigame is going to produce ada rsa, it might be an idea to have an ~ada~ tmsr crypto lib.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you personally for instance http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-27#1591437 ; to quote from teh very boardroom of minigame earlier, "<mircea_popescu> noa. evident ca idealu' ar fi fost ca tata asta sa fi fost gata facuta din 2016, cum discutasem initial cu stan. da'... sufletu'." ☝︎
asciilifeform: artist auditions are different item than the one in the q where 'fix x... get..' neh
a111: Logged on 2017-12-02 22:02 mircea_popescu: i've been trying to hire a bunch of artists for what, 5 years now ?
asciilifeform: do i know about any of this ?
asciilifeform: other than the tits
mircea_popescu: we have tons. starting with "fix your tits, get 0.02 btc" and from there on.
asciilifeform: i suppose the word has >1 meaning
mircea_popescu: the one thing teh republic doesn't lack is jobs.
mircea_popescu: i've been trying to hire a bunch of artists for what, 5 years now ? ☟︎
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: !~later tell apeloyee hey, do you want a job working for minigame ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: it might actually be the best film ever made.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-02 18:08 asciilifeform: diana_coman: you do have a point , though, an ffa that is an ideal mathematical description of every relevant bound, would look slightly different from the ffa i actually have, that has to actually run on idjit cmachine iron in something like real time.
asciilifeform: anyone naturally can cut up into whatever pieces. the issue is how is it structured on asciilifeform's desk.
mircea_popescu: nothing keeps anyone from taking source either
asciilifeform: ( btw nobody yet asked why ffa is now a standalone-built static lib, rather than as before , a set of sources to be simply dropped into other projects. answer is -- binary audit )
asciilifeform: and solely knuthian divider for the modulus op. etc.
asciilifeform: but there are already plenty of haskellists writing nonsense. asciilifeform wanted an actually usable fits-in-head item.
asciilifeform: and if i were a haskellist and writing with an eye toward ~machine~ proof, rather than fits-in-head, i probably would have written one.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: you do have a point , though, an ffa that is an ideal mathematical description of every relevant bound, would look slightly different from the ffa i actually have, that has to actually run on idjit cmachine iron in something like real time. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: so generic -- gone. ( also shrinks the binary, a bit )
asciilifeform: but it turns out that it is not possible to have a standalone static lib containing an uninstantiated generic, in adaworld
asciilifeform: the genericunit allowed a given running instance of ffa to know the actual ffawidth desired; and to have stricter checks on arguments
asciilifeform: the latter required finalization and for FZ to be a struct rather than bare array ( finalization massively bloated the binary; whereas structization massively bloated the src )
asciilifeform: readers may recall that originally ffa was a 'generic unit'
asciilifeform: now for the sad:
asciilifeform: a value of type FZBit_Index cannot be assigned a value greater than machineaddressspace/wordsize without 9,000 other things being unfathomably broken
diana_coman: k, thanks
asciilifeform: i did not do it because it adds runtime overhead ( the bounds get checked , and even in inner loops ) without preventing any kind of problem that can happen in reality
asciilifeform: diana_coman's observation would make sense for narrowing the type of FZBit_Index .
asciilifeform: Indices is the root type for ~all~ possible indices, of anything.
diana_coman: uhm; my understanding is that Indices is in essence the type for bit-level indexing; sure some values overlap but you can't have in same fz same number of words as of bits unless wordsize is 1
asciilifeform: theoretically a word count of a number equal to the number of words in machine's memory, is legal
asciilifeform: 1 .. Indices'Last is simply a way to say 'exactly same as Indices, but 0 is forbidden'
mircea_popescu: the "think of it as heat" mental experiment imo has the great advantage of clearing the mind of all sorts of bizarro world "nsa is cool" assumptions about "electromagnetic signature", a magical property of radiation to "know who its daddy is" or somesuch
mircea_popescu: but the fox is still big.
asciilifeform: whereas most of what folx think of as traditional radio spectrum, goes around corners, terrain, moar omnidirectional flavour
asciilifeform: also depends on wavelength. uhf (10s of GHz) line-of-sight beams behave muchly like laser, you gotta know exactly where it is and sit down into the path through air, no bigger than train tunnel, to listen
mircea_popescu: (teh carrier, 8x8 artillery truck uses a 40-L diesel engine or somesuch)
mircea_popescu: 9 truck convoy > sand dune.
asciilifeform: errythingdepends, i'd expect, on the relative 'sizes' of fox vs forest trees.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the general point here being that fox hunt a LOT more difficult than everyone ever expects, be it alf, pentagon, etcetera.
mircea_popescu: this was you know, the desert. what's in the desert.
asciilifeform: similar trucks
mircea_popescu: maybe also much shittier trucks.
asciilifeform: the ho chi minh truck search iirc worked better because smaller background.
mircea_popescu: if there was something to try, it was tried.
asciilifeform: mention of 'fox hunt' thread led me to think that the iraq memory were re rf triangulation, rather than search for ir-glowing truck engines from aerial camera
mircea_popescu: (lantir = infared targetting and navigation item)
mircea_popescu: but huge thermalwise.
mircea_popescu: if that is small there is no big,.
asciilifeform: not really comparable to what iirc prev thread was about, hypothetical kW sw transmitter in usa suburbia wastescape
mircea_popescu: a 12 meter rocket + the semi truck carrying it x3 + tankers + c&c + meteo etc ?
asciilifeform: pretty 'small' target tho.
mircea_popescu: (amusingly, pentagon went in with the same expectations ; but never actually managed to land a hit)
mircea_popescu: and we're talking 100s of airborne detectors, latirn, synthetic aperture radars, the works.
mircea_popescu: too much like normal trucks, too burried into em background.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-04 15:47 asciilifeform: incidentally, rf 'fox hunting' is at this point a traditional sport in ru, and the 'fox' is always found .
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-04#1732934 << re this entire discussion, helpful graybeard points out that throughout the 1991 A-10s/F15s patrolled iraq trying to spot the scud TELs, but ~never managed. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yes, all bugs are in the pie since the baking.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the bricking was never contemplated outside of something like http://trilema.com/2016/the-necessary-prerequisite-for-any-change-to-the-bitcoin-protocol/
asciilifeform: not really new , was already quite painfully there in '14
mircea_popescu: but there's definitely TWO known bugs in bitcoin now. to the ancient and oft discussed here node-miner split, we are to add this new one, pow-centralization.
asciilifeform: so what if sha2 chinese die, if fpga-chinese immediately take their place.
asciilifeform: it isn't even clear to asciilifeform that there is any such thing known as a good pow
asciilifeform: ( i fughet for when scheduled, and by whom, mostly slept through this )
mircea_popescu: this then gives incentive to those eternal "powerful groups with economic interests antithetical to competitors and consumers" from http://trilema.com/2012/in-re-hein-hettinga-et-al-v-usofa/#selection-39.349-39.463 to drive integration of PoW with the predictable result.