asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-02-2016#1400409 << 'levels' have no useful meaning here. any two patches that don't take a file with hash H and try to transform it into two disparage H' and H'', can be pressed together. ☝︎

asciilifeform: or somethinglikethat.

asciilifeform: 'thou shalt not rely on the splinters on the chair legs being just-so'

asciilifeform: i see mircea_popescu's point here

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nothing at all. this feature isn't even interesting.

asciilifeform: where i wrote the routine, which sorts by ascii and then by flow.

asciilifeform: by protocol.

asciilifeform: because it isn't absent if i nail it down.

asciilifeform: otherwise we call it something else, wtf, mechanical girlfriend

asciilifeform: the notion is that a tool ought to behave maximally predictably.

asciilifeform: and i can't fathom why mircea_popescu would.

asciilifeform: i do not want knife with a will of its own.

asciilifeform: trb is alive, v is a knife.

asciilifeform: if wanted alive, would buy a cow.

asciilifeform: do you ?

asciilifeform: i don't ~want~ my computer alive.

asciilifeform: hows that

asciilifeform: other than archaeologists.

asciilifeform: it is relevant to nobody anywhere.

asciilifeform: but imho linking to the ancient 0.5.3 by default is lunacy.

asciilifeform: lxr has a several month-old bleeding edge v.

asciilifeform: because otherwise heisenbugs.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because anything that can be deterministic, should be.

asciilifeform: fuck unspecified.

asciilifeform: random ?

asciilifeform: sorted by file handle # ?

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-02-2016#1400386 << and you would rather have what ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: fuck x86. with red hot bayonet.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: a good chunk of the weight of all of these is 1) battery 2) cpu heat pipes -- for all of which, you can thank idiot intel/x86.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: where

asciilifeform: (0.5.3.1)

asciilifeform: no good ^

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-02-2016#1400348 << this goes to the ancient turd, still has, e.g., irc in it!!111111 ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform has an original 'air' that is still pristine

asciilifeform: or does it start coming apart by its lonesome after a few yrs

asciilifeform: whaddayado with it? hammer nails?

asciilifeform: l0l ben_vulpes, how is your rusting aluminum anchor

asciilifeform: in the end, everybody gets both

asciilifeform: just observing that neither i nor the other million chumps are enthusiastic coprophagics, we were simply given a menu of shit and broken glass, and picked shit

asciilifeform: ty mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-02-2016#1400329 << l0l, mircea_popescu must think that my lunch money alone keeps crapple alive ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: finally my lazy arse has 'irc bounce'

asciilifeform: and, speaking of which, bbl.

asciilifeform: the aluminum anchor.

asciilifeform: and then there is the other box, for work.

asciilifeform: i have a workstation, it is for doing things i actually give half a fuck about.

asciilifeform: this is sold by... one vendor. ☟︎

asciilifeform: i just need a motherfucking knapsack unix box that never has to be powered down, hotplugs displays, and '4k' lcd.

asciilifeform: i don't like, need or want the graphics, the idiot skeumorphisms, the 'ease of use', the payware, or the compatibility

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i've never met a crapple user who despised it as much as i did.

asciilifeform: nah thats what ipnohe is for ☟︎

asciilifeform: in fact, it is for running & building entirely posixy things

asciilifeform: incidentally i don't develop for crapple nor ever intend to, and still stuck with it

asciilifeform: !s gravity well

asciilifeform: aha, thinkaboutit

asciilifeform: actually the usa trap is quite similar

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-02-2016#1400258 << what stockholm. It's the only working portable comp vendor. ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11061111 << lulzy, full of folks crying over linux circa early 2000s

asciilifeform: if i need a unix box with lid suspend, stuck with crapple. ditto re: sane handling of hotplugged external displays. and 1,01 other items.

asciilifeform: vs the supposed alternatives - works

asciilifeform: (and note, if, satan help you, you need a laptop comp that ~actually works~, or a pocket terminal that doesn't resemble an infested xp box, there is very much no alternative)

asciilifeform: re: 'apple fans coming to hate apple software', this is when folks learn that ~liking~ is optional: you use a sov institution because ~no alternative~

asciilifeform: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CavCl3PWcAEuJ_7.jpg << paulgrahamocalypse??!! ☟︎

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: in light of rumour of usg buying up cheap old asic

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-02-2016#1400214 << this may actually be a rational thing to do - scorched earth ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-02-2016#1400212 << recall, you can find my aws banhammer on the ml. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-02-2016#1400190 << trivial - if trb marks a tx nonstandard - it is nonstandard!11 ☝︎

asciilifeform: if this thing were an actual multithreaded proggy, we could drop the priority of vermin instead of dropping'em entirely, but we have what we have.

asciilifeform: where, say, 0 is maximally permissive (disables malleus, even) and 10 is 'any sign of deviation from trb conventions --> permaban'

asciilifeform: but overall it would make sense to have a lenin knob

asciilifeform: ergo it ought to be a selectable thing, ideally.

asciilifeform: this would walk the razor's edge of danger, in re splitting trb into own parallel universe, however

asciilifeform: 'who is not with us, is against us' (tm) (r) (lenin)

asciilifeform: and http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/main.cpp?v=asciilifeform_add_verifyall_option#0312 , etc

asciilifeform: who's for a 'malleus II' that nukes, e.g., idiots spewing http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/main.cpp?v=asciilifeform_add_verifyall_option#0316 ?

asciilifeform: soooo

asciilifeform: btw recall, rms never forgave the destruction of its

asciilifeform: wai wut

asciilifeform: logical.

asciilifeform: but somebody ought write to bernstein.

asciilifeform: same reason, i expect, as taleb

asciilifeform: it is a mega-conundrum, in my mind, i know for a fact that there live at least half a dozen people who could, potentially, supply intelligent commentary. but none of them i expect to appear here.

asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu feels like hammering in the point, he could even offer a prize for breaking aes

asciilifeform: many many eyes! (tm) (r)

asciilifeform: reading the block cipher thread, on shitdot, and, mega-unsurprise - not one interesting thing said.

asciilifeform: this is more like 'paint snow'

asciilifeform: naggum understood this, i think, when it was too late

asciilifeform: the sheer and obvious futility of the standardization process, as it existed then and there, selected against the smart, the intellectually honest, and in general anybody 'with theorems to prove'

asciilifeform: the process whereby we got the cl standard is every bit as ugly as the standard itself

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not so much the result of pitman but of the subject

asciilifeform: !up ascii_butugychag

asciilifeform: !up ascii_butugychag

asciilifeform also bbl.

asciilifeform: there was not the hard caste delineation.

asciilifeform: or somethinglikethat

asciilifeform: because it was palpably made of 'folks who smell of vodka just like me'

asciilifeform: panic in the face of what is seen as infinitely powerful devil

asciilifeform: delusional parasitosis is built from two basic components - collective 'tooth-licking' (as naggum called it), where buncha folks happily 'folie a deux' together 2) palpable powerlessness, 'no microscope anywhere can possibly see the bugs', etc

asciilifeform: lulzily i was actually in the midst of prototyping a simple bios diddler when that came out