asciilifeform: long ago, allfather odin made a planet with mircea_popescu on it, and everything else was female, except for a tall and mighty stone. but eventually lichens ate away at the stone, it cleaved into two concave pieces, and they too were female.
asciilifeform: eh it's less screamingly ridiculous than our present day !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc author was a bloke
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: author clearly did not know the future, unlike mircea_popescu ..?
asciilifeform: (where the language makes it quite feasible to check the consistency of the system's state at however many points and cleanly seppuku if it falls into a 'must've cosmicrayed')
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-27#1458429 << rad-hardness via software is surely an absurdity, if contemplated in the sense of 'lead shield', but it really doesn't hurt to handle various 'can't-happens' a la ada.☝︎
asciilifeform: and the more idiot 'cocklets' grow up on the mit-flavoured 'we must experiment and do basic science to learn how libraries work, fuhgeddabout first principles' curriculum, the moar of this there will be.
asciilifeform: dantup's breakage zoo is sadly typical, for ~20 yrs straight.
asciilifeform: and walrus 2 .. N will overpower walrus-1 ahaha lolno.
asciilifeform: 'The Dual_EC_DRBG RNG was later reported to probably contain a backdoor inserted by the National Security Agency, while the other three random number generators are still considered secure' << are we at the circus ??
