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asciilifeform: every day.
asciilifeform: but i do.
asciilifeform: perhaps mircea_popescu doesn't deal in such.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-05#1477560 << and if the problem is 5-10% too big for your head? ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-05#1477534 << lel and the moron thought he'd actually collect his reward (what?) for faithfully fellating usg, censoring the docs ☝︎
asciilifeform bbl - meat.
asciilifeform: and yes, who is not with us - is either against us, or furniture. this is elementary.
asciilifeform: which france ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: moar lulz from thread, http://btcbase.org/log/2015-09-12#1271821 ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-09-12#1271361 << etc. ☝︎
asciilifeform: jurov, ben_vulpes, et al : old thread : http://btcbase.org/log/2015-09-12#1271350 ☝︎
asciilifeform: well, sure, victim has to unsheath his keyz
asciilifeform: you can also get spectacular results with multiple microphones.
asciilifeform: 30cm of air. desk, floor, etc. conduct pretty well.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what's this
asciilifeform: ^ extraction of gpg privkey via ~hour of microphone.
asciilifeform: in more interesting nyooz, the tel aviv tempest folks are at it again, http://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/6/202646-physical-key-extraction-attacks-on-pcs/fulltext ☟︎
asciilifeform: srsly the sheer lunacy baked into presuming that anyone needs or wants anything of the kind.
asciilifeform: enough said ?
asciilifeform: es taxes to be withheld by the state while providing anonymity for Customers.'
asciilifeform: 'We are building an anonymous, taxable payment system using modern cryptography. Customers will use traditional money transfers to send money to a digital Exchange and in return receive (anonymized) digital cash. Customers can use this digital cash to anonymously pay Merchants. Merchants can redeem the digital cash for traditional money at the digital Exchange. As Merchants are not anonymous, they can be taxed, enabling income or sal ☟︎
asciilifeform: jurov: i have had for many years a box running said item, and it has never oom'd.
asciilifeform: jurov: yes.
asciilifeform: (mead - inventor of GaAs FET and buncha other useful things)
asciilifeform: (quoted from book review of carver mead's 'collective electrodynamics')
asciilifeform: for GENERATIONS.
asciilifeform: i wonder how many people understand what a BLIGHT niels bohr was on his field.
asciilifeform: he laser was possible. When Townes showed them one in operation, they retreated artfully.'
asciilifeform: every CD player and long distance telephone connection, lasers today are manufactured by the billions. At the heart of laser action is perfect alignment of the crests and troughs of myriad waves of light. Their location and momentum must be theoretically knowable. But this violates the holiest canon of Copenhagen theory: Heisenberg Uncertainty. Bohr and Von Neumann proved to be true believers in Heisenberg's rule. Both denied that t
asciilifeform: 'Central to Mead's rescue project are a series of discoveries inconsistent with the prevailing conceptions of quantum mechanics. One was the laser. As late as 1956, Bohr and Von Neumann, the paragons of quantum theory, arrived at the Columbia laboratories of Charles Townes, who was in the process of describing his invention. With the transistor, the laser is one of the most important inventions of the twentieth century. Designed into
asciilifeform: in other non-nyooz,
asciilifeform: ;;later tell jurov i recently dug up your oldie, http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-December/000186.html , and had a thought: did we ever investigate why, e.g., 0.8+, doesn't leak ?
asciilifeform: 'be born more energetic' ? mega-solution.
asciilifeform: what might those be ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: oh?
asciilifeform brb doping
asciilifeform: that matters to breaking through a problem.
asciilifeform: it isn't the 5 minutes, but 'how far you can push the tachometer arrow in the absolute'
asciilifeform: as a kind of dope user (of caffeine) i will put it differently
asciilifeform: elementarily true.
asciilifeform: we had this thread also.
asciilifeform: see thread, http://btcbase.org/log/2014-08-25#808005 ☝︎
asciilifeform not mega-expert on dopes but is aware that certain types bring about excitability and amplify existing inclinations; others - torpor, lethargy, and a sort of living death
asciilifeform: observe how nobody's about to legalize the performance dopes. ☟︎
asciilifeform: seems to go pretty well with the 'dope'em up to reduce barn repair cost' program
asciilifeform: how do you figure ☟︎
asciilifeform: in very similar ways.
asciilifeform: not wholly imaginary link, each was respectively filled up with idlers who played pretend
asciilifeform: i was referring to the 'we are small and weak and please don't rape us gnomecoin folk' types.
asciilifeform: sure.
asciilifeform: and 'modest' folk in ~no cases do.
asciilifeform: everything starts somewhere. but as observer i am more interested in whether it has wheels to begin with.
asciilifeform: heavy on promise, light on protocol.
asciilifeform: rather than on account of mechanism.
asciilifeform: they gave distinct impression of labouring under a notion that 'our thing will be different because we can keep the Bad People out by being Modest'
asciilifeform: the folks with the 'modest' coins always rubbed me wrong
asciilifeform: married to a broken-down husk of a thing.
asciilifeform: it means, as i understand, 'this dun work but WE KNOW HOW TO FIX!111111 and will fix before anyone notices!11'
asciilifeform: american business folk have a term, 'technical debt', for this kind of horror
asciilifeform: ah
asciilifeform: or what that somebody else
asciilifeform: funkenstein ?
asciilifeform: i could've sworn we had a monero thread
asciilifeform: and the proponents - in denial.
asciilifeform: the 'bitcoin but no public record of movement' thing is theoretically appealing but the math was defective.
asciilifeform: had nfi it is still a thing.
asciilifeform: '11 or sumthing
asciilifeform: i thought monero was an ancient heresy
asciilifeform: lulzy
asciilifeform: ah
asciilifeform: waiiwut
asciilifeform: 'lose the other army!'
asciilifeform: defective abstractions.
asciilifeform: that ~reasonable~ behaviour requires unreasonable degree of complexity.
asciilifeform: this is what it means for 'shit os' and 'shit language'.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my contention is not that it is impossible to write proggy that behaves sanely under unix when catches SIGABRT or whatnot, but that the effort required to do so and the verbosity of the resulting code is beyond most folk.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo http://themerkle.com/egyptian-dentist-apprehended-in-bitcoin-sting-operation-in-cairo << qntra ?
asciilifeform slams head on desk
asciilifeform: the items in question were entangled.
asciilifeform: see again the mempool example.
asciilifeform: ditto process life cycle
asciilifeform: where, e.g., bignums dun exist, only big puddles of ??? that the machine has nfi re the purpose of, etc
asciilifeform: the basic plague of c machine is that forces computation into semantic soup.
asciilifeform: was always turd.
asciilifeform: iirc ff is a single threaded turd even.
asciilifeform: the medium has a will of its own.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'conscientious c programmer' is a mythical dragon of sorts, like 'honest bureaucrat'
asciilifeform: btw ada forces pointers to obey frame, interestingly. it is expensive.
asciilifeform: c machine.
asciilifeform: heap dun have frames, mircea_popescu .
asciilifeform: do you recall my attempt at forcing trb to flush its mempool?
asciilifeform: how, if you 'wiped its shit'
asciilifeform: but in this case mircea_popescu wants proggy to carry on
asciilifeform: this 'die now' business works for sigkill because it is quite obvious to os what to do to clean wholly dead process.
asciilifeform: who will clean up when 'returns whenever'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you can't do this on c machine, because it has, e.g., a heap also
asciilifeform: hey dunlookatme, e.g., 8ball, survives interruption at whatever point
asciilifeform: the result is ~certain to be barf.
asciilifeform: carry on not caring. but unix remains a pile of shit.
asciilifeform: not how it worx