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mircea_popescu: this may then explain "insane" choices such as boggle naggum.
mircea_popescu: it's certainly evident in period napkin notations (because yes, stuff like asimov's productions are "the napkin doodles of scientific work") ; and strictly speaking there is exactly no difference between "sentient machine" and "metastable strange". that's exactly what sentience fucking is, metastable strange.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-15#1880894 << thinking of this and the whole sns/hp nonstop etc thing : i suspect a large chunk of the way things went may be driven by a (naive, and not necessarily spoken) "what if machine becomes sentient and you cant' turn it off" phobia.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: this whole "mate within age group" thing the anglos got going is really hurting them.
mircea_popescu: not 10%. >90% of them about evenly split between the indolent imbecility of silence and aggressive stupidity of the "wut".
mircea_popescu: (you don't have detectors that fine, you'll get 8 months' worth of noise. but anyway.)
mircea_popescu: yeah, totally what you want is 8 months sunbathing for your bolix.
mircea_popescu: right ? buncha moron/anal princesses discovered the ultimate precious stones.
mircea_popescu: it's a thing. when you're going "meh, ima use a dental kit" you're being one kinda lulzy. when you're going "a-ha, ima make xray out of old tv tube and camera sensor" you're being ANOTHER kind.
mircea_popescu: there's also the what to discard, what not to have in there at all (yes there's such a thing as xray mirror, also some plastics are no good, and so on).
mircea_popescu: do me a favour and read "x ray hygiene" as a thing, it's not a one liner.
mircea_popescu: because "people" aren't a thing, it's a catchall phrase including anything and everything, and mostly nothing by mass.
mircea_popescu: what's not being discussed is the problem of space debris. but yes, unsurprisingly enough and predictably enough the end result of "people can now go to space" was "earth now looks like a ball of burata looks once the mold can '''go to space'''. ie, surrounded by a skirting of debris,"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it all started with the gps -- there, MUST have multiple sats for multiple positions. but "if there -- everywhere", so now the method is "just launch seven".
mircea_popescu: since we're apparently all into bolixology or w/e you'd call it.
mircea_popescu: hey, wasn't proclaimed the golden veal. merely worth documenting.
mircea_popescu: tbh, a recuperative scholarly series on sns would be most apt use of scholar's time.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but "here's the 256 serpent keys i want you to pick amongst" is not.
mircea_popescu: eg, client can (and well behaved client is expected to) send multiple serpent keys upon first connection.
mircea_popescu: do they check and signal when queue is fuller than some percentage << i expect the task manager will have to do this. not the wrapper, no.
mircea_popescu: not like can't separate later. but generally speaking the tendency of v-trees is integration.
mircea_popescu: "I'm not even sure whether a sender/receiver should be in fact part of smg_comms" << while this has merit, i'd still keep them in.
mircea_popescu: ok, so the idea here is, that while maintaining different code on different boxes is costly and undersirable, nevertheless that is mitigated by the relative ease of the genericization/prototyping mechanism in ada ; whereas single queue model, as logically tempting as it may be, is costlier than it seems (not necessarily because insertion can't be o1, but still, machinery involved).
mircea_popescu: and then if we get two boxes, there's gonna be an allocated and always-empty queue on each of these.
mircea_popescu: well, serpent processor wants a serpent item to process.
mircea_popescu: yes. diana_coman mind explaining how this works ? so, queue has 55 elements, 22 of which rsa packets. now what happens ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform afaik you can "get top X" rather than "get top" neh ?
mircea_popescu: but re your q : these 6 workers pick rsa from queuer ; and these 3 pick serpent from queue.
mircea_popescu: this machine for serpent, this machine for rsa, is the model here.
mircea_popescu: two kilobytes are two kilobytes. the advantage of doing it the way she does it is that if you get two machines later, you can run this code unmodified. the disadvantage is absent, because two kilobytes are two kilobytes, what do yo ucare if "separate"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, counterintuitively hers is the right cut.
mircea_popescu: hm. i suppose this is okay, really. scalable enough, if eventually we decide to get a s and a r machine, they'll just have their own queues and that's it.
mircea_popescu: "this is needed for the same reason as the generic at UDP lib previously - to allow one to store Serpent messages or RSA messages while maintaining them clearly differentiated" << why are you putting ducks and geese in the same line though ?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman yes, certainly should provide whatever diagnosis tools and equipment you want. i don't want to fill that in yet, it'll... come to you, as it happens :)
mircea_popescu: in the other line, have you played with ada threads any ? are you friends ?
mircea_popescu: "wtf does he mean ignore, isn't that just resend???" sorta thing ?
mircea_popescu: like an airport where it never snows, just meteors fall now and again. snowplows not useful.
mircea_popescu: "there are not enough errors you can fix for the machinery to fix errors be worth having around".
mircea_popescu: i guess this is a spot you;ll have to proceed on faith,
mircea_popescu: and this is a fundamental assumption baked into the udp spec etc.
mircea_popescu: no, what i'm saying is that with udp it is ~never worth "Retrying" in the tcp sense.
mircea_popescu: "returns" in the sense of "return error, let machinery stop"
mircea_popescu: diana_coman if the socket is in fact closed, your program dies, there's no twowaysabout this.
mircea_popescu: but i mean... if the socket's closed the wrapper returns neh ?
mircea_popescu: well what could the wrapper possibly do other than resend ?
mircea_popescu: "logical" connection how shall i put it. path ? line ?