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mircea_popescu: so after reich and slavski, stalin executed slansky, and malenkov beria
to no longer bother him with
the brush.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it is customary
to sing
them like i
tell jokes : about
the persons present.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform problem with
these items is
that
they are one step removed from gypsy fare.
the words change.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hard
to date, but between 1946 and 1958 or so.
mircea_popescu: granted disagrees with boneheaded
traditions identifying
the latter as
this guy who was you know, active
throughout
the 70s and 80s.
mircea_popescu: now, i'm pretty sure i got
them right, esenin's wife and yaroslavski. but old ro guard disagrees,
mircea_popescu: i just wanna be able
to decode five syllables on an ancient rca record.
the man says, in romanian phonetics, "raic si slavski"
mircea_popescu: well,
the interest of
the historian is not you know, ethical.
mircea_popescu: well, whether
this is
true or not, at
the
time my guy wrote it hadn't happened yet.
mircea_popescu: now, your argument here is
that
the last
two got hung but
the first escaped ?
mircea_popescu: stalin, by for instance daring mention
that
trotski was you know, minister of war, rather
than consumate conspirator.
mircea_popescu: ok so, for summation :
the objection re
the gazette was
that it said something about rosa luxembourg (as
the habit was
to glorify
the
three l's, and stalin wanted it broken) ;
the objection re ryazanov was
that he
typified a sort of marxist-leninist scholarship
that was stalin-indifferent, stalin didn't like. and
the objection re yaroslavski was
that his original, 1920s item reflected a history not sufficiently flattering for
mircea_popescu: david, born goldensomething or
the other. guy died in 38.
mircea_popescu: 3rd event, for
the pattern : stalin personally wrote against
the whole staff of proletarian revolution, for "trafficking
trotskism". aye or nay ?
mircea_popescu: problem compounded by
the fact
that my only interest in
the matter stems from an obscure mention in an post-war anti-soviet propaganda song by some guy i studied.
mircea_popescu: sorry asciilifeform . all i have are my own notes, which are as all hand notes useless without hte backing of
the library of origin (in
this case,
the universitary library of cluj).
teh interwebs dun seem
to have a "here's
the list of
trotsky letters".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well
this may
take a little, where
the fuck does one find
this shit online.
mircea_popescu: oook, i found reference! lyova wrote
to
trotsky on 19 nov 1937, and
trotsky replied jan 22 next year,
they are discussing
the stalin ban on
the yaroslavsky item!
mircea_popescu: the original item was called "History" not "victory".
this looks like a 60s reprint maybe ?
mircea_popescu: well nikita also wrote cannonical obit of stalin, but
the point is, he did fall at some point in
the 30s, his historia was indexed, and so on.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how far does
the disagreement go ? y. wrote a likbez on bolshevic orthodoxy
that stalin found extremely apt in 1940, and
then full of heresies in 1943. aye or nay ?
mircea_popescu: wouldn't be
the first
time romanian history of
the urss diverges from russians' own idea.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-30 18:36 mircea_popescu:
try and find any fucking concrete detail of anything. "global warming!!" yeah, and
the measurements are where ? "MTA investment!!" yeah and you did what ? "stalin purges" who ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but it's not in fucking english,
the language of
the premiere science engineering shitheads in
the world, now is it.
mircea_popescu: cuz fucking obviously,
their windows notepad croaks if confronted with a 100mb csv, whereas
their windows media player plays
the uhhhhs and ummms just fine.
mircea_popescu: "oh but mp, a list of 20mn names would be
too long, here's instead a 1.2gb video version of me going uuuuhhh ummm in a concrete cell with plastic loose wallpaper!"
mircea_popescu: they could be
tachyons for all
the fucking difference it'd make, came from
the future and going
to disappear into
the past.
mircea_popescu: try and find any fucking concrete detail of anything. "global warming!!" yeah, and
the measurements are where ? "MTA investment!!" yeah and you did what ? "stalin purges" who ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: FUCK YOU!!! details are for
terrorists! Stalin killed 20mn people and
they had no names!
mircea_popescu: you wanna know which fucking slavsky he supposedly strangled, as it's not
the yefrim director of medium machinery ministry, who survived
to
the 80s ?
a111: Logged on 2017-09-30 18:26 asciilifeform:
the continuing lulzy part is how everywhere on
the net you will find 'constant
time crypto libs are available', 'it's a solved problem', 'this reduction routine is constant
time', and all of it is liquishit and doesn't stand up
to 30 seconds of examination with naked eye
mod6: eitherway,
thanks for
the
tip.
mod6: <+asciilifeform>
the sane approach consists of isolating all of
the unixoid crud in separate .ads/.adb , make it compact. << ah,
this is even deeper
than i have it for sure.
mod6: anyway, it's been pretty cool
to see
this
thing come
to life. im now in
the process of building
the big map of vpatch->srcfile->{hash_a, hash_b}
mod6: <+asciilifeform>
the cost is,
then you gotta make'em behave adaistically << yeah, my approach now seems sane. might be a bit expensive
tho. so, if
there's a better way
thats still 'sane', will
try
that and report back.
mod6: but am flexible. my basic aim is
to write
the code, keep it as
tight and functionally appropriate as possible,
then
tune it later.
mod6: ya. i was looking at your stuff
to sort of guide me a bit.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-30 16:04 mircea_popescu: i
thought mta ran on public funds.
mod6: anyway,
this is all just experimental stuff. no worries.
mod6: but as far as I can
tell,
there is no way
to do
that in ada.
the general
thing i've seen out on
the web is
that you must write
the output of
the shell command
to a file,
then read it back in.
mod6: for example, I do a bunch of
this in perl: @result = `gpg --bla --bla`; foreach(@result) { }
mod6: if anyone knows how
to do
this, let me know.
mod6: Another
thing worth
the mention is
that my ada-vtron shells out
to gpg - which adds some
time as well. one
thing I
think
that would help is if I could figure out how
to capture
the shell command output directly back into
the application instead of having
to write
to a file,
then read
the file back into
the program.
mod6: Anyway,
there is some hope here perhaps -- got a long way
to go.
mod6: Doing such, avoid use of
the heap. And
there is quite a bit of manipulation I have
to do with
the strings. So
that adds some cost, because I'm basically doing
the parsing on my own. I'm not using any weird 3rd party libs.
mod6: Basically when working with Strings.Fixed I end up making arrays (of fixed size) of strings (of fixed size), need
to use caution always
to not continue
to iterate if
the string at a given index is filled with ' '.
mod6: To close
the loop here a bit,
the vtron stuff I've been doing in ada is a lot faster now
than it was -- just needed
to get some better loop control.