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a111: Logged on 2017-08-18 23:01 asciilifeform: 'That followed
the General Services Administration removing Kaspersky from an approved-vendors list in early July and a congressional push
to pass a law
that would ban Kaspersky from being used by
the Department of Defense.'
shinohai: Lulzy: "U.S. moves
to ban use of Kaspersky software in federal agencies amid concerns of Russian espionage"
phf: came
to moscow
to free up
time, found out most
time is
taken up by reading logs
mircea_popescu: phf goes
to moscow, is
to find ivory micrograph and bdsm club photograph, instead stuck in hotel room reading up on logs
phf: asciilifeform: i haven't had a chance
to meet with zeptobars guy yet, but will do before
the end of my visit
mircea_popescu: induction coil, somerthing. (mobos still have
them for instance)
phf: in
the 90s
the exhibit of denisyuk
technology was basically a
tiny room, with a handful of original prints and
the "holographic device", displayed with a working laser. was a kind of mecca for certain kind of person, mandatory for a visit when you're spending a day in vdnh
phf: a kind of semipermanent "look into
the bright communist future" exhibit
a111: Logged on 2015-02-22 05:59 mircea_popescu: is shamir still working on
those light machines ?
phf: either of you mind digging up
that
thread?
mircea_popescu: now
THIS would be quantum-ish computer
that kinda-might-work
phf: asciilifeform: yeah, it was a very niche
thing. a sort soviet retro future exhibit
that somehow survived
through
the 90s. i don't quite remember what else was
there, plasma globes, various magnet accentuated magnetic liquids,
that sort of stuff
mircea_popescu: it is in fact (the method described) an application of laser interferometry, which is precisely how you'd do
the
tower-of-light solver.
mircea_popescu: it only has
the appeal of
the unknown, as in who knows what pie we find
turning over
this pot.
mircea_popescu: not all
truths are useful and not all usefuls are
true.
phf: that exhibit back in
the day.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 20:00 asciilifeform: some folx make holographs
today, in
their cellars, it is i suspect
the same attraction. rather like colour film in 1930s
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713800 << one of
the appeals of VDNH back in
the day was a
tucked-in-the-corner collection of Denisyuk holograms. so i went
there again, place is almost a shell at
this point, BUT one of
the buildings was
taken over by polytechnical museum, not only did
they make a rather nifty science (without quotes!) museum but
they also preserved all
those old holograms. i suspect i wasn't
the only one who loved
☝︎ mircea_popescu: that part i believe ; but as
to
the science rather
than
the engineering of it.
mircea_popescu: and so in
these
terms,
the question becomes "if you substract nothing from something an infinite number of
times, what're you left with ?"
mircea_popescu: of course
the computronist would
think mod 0 is "an op
that dun
terminate". but in any case,
the "divide by x" approach
to calculating a mod is just shorthand, not fundamental. mod is defined in
terms of substraction (take x and y, substract y from x until remainder sub y), has nothing
to do with multiplication side of
the number ring.
mircea_popescu: this is because of set
theoretic considerations whereby increases in
the mod parameter increase
the pile of possible results, eg mod 2 is 0 or 1
mircea_popescu: fwiw, in my universe mod 0 is defined, and has
the value 0.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 17:31
trinque: divide by zero joke; I'll show myself out
phf: i missed
that somehow
mircea_popescu: phf you know, for all
the foibles, 1970s pop icons DID
try a sort of very brusque, uninformed and "hi i come from
the
trailer park" alf-boat. hence cocksucker blues and
the large
touring busses.
mircea_popescu: yes, but putting
that in
the log is like putting
the goop in
the woman. so much fun
to do you keep doing it.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 18:31 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713471 << and be part of an actual car (submarine-hellicopter) with
the generator in
the
trunk and
the bitchez sunning
themselves on
teh roof ?
mircea_popescu: ie,
there's nothing capitalist about it whatsoever ; capitalism does order
the disordered symbols in similar manner as longhand does, as an act of civilisation and a point of manifest superiority pointedly absent from
the work (or generally ustardian mentality
today)
mircea_popescu: also lulzy, in simiular vein,
though i wouldn't for a moment call it "capitalist hell". it is pure and simple collapse among
the symbols, as
typified in
teh elevator scene.
mircea_popescu: (no,
the present socialism isn't
the first
to run headfirst into
the female brick wall. who could have predictered!)
mircea_popescu: afaik "fuchsia herring" never gained coinage in ru, but honestly it's a much better name for "black chicks code"
than "black chicks code"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "and
then newton sat down
to write
three laws" exactly it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a pity all
the cancerous fags passing for comedians in pantsuit circles are crowding out
the real
talent which might be writing exceptional xharms pieces on
the basis of current idiocy.
mircea_popescu: you can not mark
them for
the latter, i guess, but
the point must be made
that no, NOTHING EVER STOPS.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform imo it's very fucking stupid
to show kids how
to do plain division by hand, but
then NOT also show
them how
to do square roots. it fucks up
the whole purpose ofd
the whole
thing, paring down a
tree branch
to a single item.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: (translate <source language> [to] <target language> <text>) -- Returns <text>
translated from <source language> into <target language>.
mircea_popescu: (it didn't help
that it was in
the
torah of
the
time, as per saint habarnam gospels, "only blockprinted")
mircea_popescu: because srslty now who
the fuck block prints if
they ever went
to school..
mircea_popescu: after which we had kid council, decided guy is not really a
teacher.
mircea_popescu: and he proceeded
to blockprint. which was about as shocking as if he had
taken off pants in class.
mircea_popescu: da fuck is wrong with people
these days, i do not know, but i do recall as early
teens, 12 yo or so,
there was
this very exciting moment in school when
they imported AN AMERICAN!!!
to do some english classes.
this was you know, wild wild stuff at
the
time.
mircea_popescu: very evidently what it does. at least
to
the sort of people who learned how
to write in longhand and do square roots by hand
mircea_popescu: is
that 100 or 150 related
to a particular bitsize ? 8096 ?
mircea_popescu: and since i've
this piled in here :
to ~multiply~ 349087340 by 3059056 : you create a list 22 items long,
that is 29 + 22 bits wide, and you proceed writing down 1 0100 1100 1110 1010 0110 0110 1100 in it bit-shifted 22
times, nulled on occasion.
then you add
these
terms. right ?