asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and guess what i do here at rupture farmz!
asciilifeform: phf: you need a man willing to pull the pin, yes. BUT you ALSO need the pin !
asciilifeform: 'the best time is 20 yrs ago, 2nd best - today'
asciilifeform: phf: this goes back, again, to mircea_popescu's human-element. see the 'pulling the pin' thread from 2 wks ago
asciilifeform: though an argument can be made that the quality of human material available in practice is ~considerably~ below what was around 100, much less 2000y ago.
asciilifeform: (incidentally this is an actual thing, and a decade ago i actually thought that i invented it, but then learned that it was cristina cifuentes's thesis)
asciilifeform: that is, if i want to run it on an arch that gets auto-genned on my fpga every morning, i oughta be able to.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is the basic principle of 'specificity of diddling' (for fuck's sake it needs a name)
asciilifeform: 'Я тебя не трону, а в душе зарою И прикажу залить цементом, чтобы не разрыть.' (tm) (r) (vysotsky)
asciilifeform: i actually REMOVED the asm optimizations from my fork of gmp, for instance.
asciilifeform: phf: definitely not the latter, x86 is to be killed and cement poured where it is buried
asciilifeform: 9 or so of the remaining % is because you get static memory (no consing, no gc, FORCED to intelligently allocate).
asciilifeform: if this were available somewhere else, i would look into the somewhere else.
asciilifeform: 90% of why i like ada is that it 'compiles like c' (i.e. without massive runtime or bytecode claptrap in place of ida-able binary) WHILE having bounds-checked array accesses etc.
asciilifeform: (i can't fathom ~why~ you would, but yes, you can)
asciilifeform: in other 'news', in my dream, mircea_popescu was camping in a tent in my house, and reading a dead tree copy of the logz summarized by somebody or other, and it was a thing on ancient yellowed paper, he cursed and spat and in the end tore it up and started smashing things, then went out the door and started firing some sort of energy weapon at the trees
asciilifeform: i regard it as a mircea_popescutronic question.
asciilifeform: (the issue of whether the muscle exists, to do this, is a separate question. the above is simply re the political aspect of whether it is a thing that is even to be contemplated.)
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu i had a notion: if we're no longer holding the 'father's pistols' line, is there any good reason not to replace openssl in trb with, e.g., ada bignum ?
asciilifeform rarely forgets anything, but is permanently behind schedule in 40 different places
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have not forgotten the broadcast! it will appear tonight.
asciilifeform: 'EC-Council, the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based professional organization that administers the Certified Ethical Hacker program, started spreading the scourge on Monday.'
asciilifeform: 'For the past four days, including during the hour that this post was being prepared on Thursday morning, a major security certification organization has been spreading TeslaCrypt malware—despite repeated warnings from outside researchers.'
asciilifeform: 'He also hit himself repeatedly with a nail-studded paddle and inserted wool doused with lighter fluid into his anus and set it alight.' << l0l!
asciilifeform: according to one version, the turks invented the mass gassing (they marched a buncha armenians into a cave and lit fires)
asciilifeform: phf: iirc they were going to, but then went in and barfed and broke out the ddt
asciilifeform: civilized folk eat their babies raw, everybody knows!1111
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: part of their mythology is that cn disassembles miscreants for spare parts (afaik this is not untrue, but the scale of it is exaggerated for effect)
asciilifeform: the pro whiners typically orbit the few km radius of white house and other places where bureaucrats and tourists can be found
asciilifeform: the latter, dress in yellow and set up stands with pictures of dismembered corpses, etc. and nondescript trucks with caption 'organ collection' etc.
asciilifeform: we have professional tibet whiner squads here in washington
asciilifeform: 'The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation of Tibet.' << barfalicious
asciilifeform: whining re cn demolition thereof - no.
asciilifeform: still more usable than crapple, where i was unable - despite many weeks of sweat - to get very very basic things running (e.g., a locally-built gnat, or a mips-gcc toolchain)
