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valentinbuza: I say
that ACS (Automatica si calculatoare) did not have a crypto course until last year.
valentinbuza: it's nice for CS students
to have such opportunities as math universities dominated* crypto scene.
valentinbuza: Because our students did not have any background on crypto. He chose
to repeat material from "Introducere in criptologie", a course for 4th years undergrads.
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated valentinbuza 1 << Ro kid, studies advanced cryptographies and
things.
mircea_popescu: !!rate valentinbuza 1 Ro kid, studies advanced cryptographies and
things.
valentinbuza: I have some clarification about choudary dude. He is a recent professor (1 year) at our university.
The course is called "advanced" because from
this year onwards will be advanced material.
valentinbuza: valentinbuza = valica, we
talked a few days ago
phf: showed it
to my girl in
the morning, she said something along
the lines of "bless your heart"
jhvh1: phf:
The operation succeeded.
phf: !~later
tell spyked damn you, i spent an entire night playing slither.io
mircea_popescu: this is like 9 yo
telling you
that
the bath dissolved her snatch. you can't corrode just
the seam, as a concept, leaving behind
the item without a seam can oyu.
mircea_popescu: well since
the pot is still
there, how'd
the seam vanish from corrosion.
mircea_popescu: but ifg you look at
the 1k pre-bc greek cauldrons,
the similarity
to 1500 ad english castle pots is striking. just...
the metal is about 100x finer in
the ancient case.
mircea_popescu: anyway, funny
thing re bronze : it needs
tin. as far as ancient world is concerned, copper was uberabundant (cyprus) but
tin was either england or anatolia
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
they had cannons, just didn't use
them as cannons because no gunpowder.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact
there was NO item more advanced in 1700 england
trhan
there was available in 200bc athens.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform could have refined it once started, much like
the english did.
mircea_popescu: for same applications as historically -- mining first,
then crop/textile processing,
then boat power.
mircea_popescu: you don't need symmetrical parts
to make steam engine.
mircea_popescu: they DID make some bronzeamphorae. but had no idea what
to do with it.
mircea_popescu: consider,
they made bronze statues. and had very advanced pottery.
mircea_popescu: but
the greeks had
the metallurgy
to introduce
the early steam engine, just like
the english did.
mircea_popescu: maybe,
though really, it was cost effective in 200bc.
they were just dumb.
mircea_popescu: the problem with
these "breakthroughs" and "genius inventions" in
the industrial setting is
that
they're generally ancient lore finally dug from under
the mound of economical impracticability.
mircea_popescu: not new, either. only became cost effective recently, but otherwise
this is 1960s
tech
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the idea of forced ion exchange so
the surface gets potassium-doped and
thus micro-tensed and somewhat stronger is not bad.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu:
The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: !~later
tell spyked corning gorilla glass is just alumino-silicate glass made by corning.
there's a bunch others.
think of it as cheap bohemian glass,
that
thing we had
the 10kg fruit bowls etc, "cristal".
that's leaded,
this is aluminized.
mircea_popescu: there is ~no possibility~ of such a
tging as reputation among africans, shamanists, idiots, "what good are square roots" and other sub-human non-people.
mircea_popescu: ussion" underneath any scam whatsoever will readilty vindicate
this point.
mircea_popescu: !~later
tell spyked
http://thetarpit.org/posts/y03/062-greenspan-assault-on-integrity.html <<
the problem with
this view is
that
the pantsuits correctly intuit
that all
the imbeciles
they enfranchised are sitll imbeciles. consequently it would be no harm
to a business' reputation
to sell
them iguanas on a stick and call it prime beef.
they will never know ; and casual perusal of
tardstalk "investor" as well as "community disc
☟︎ phf: that's a good kind of spy bus
though, back when names for
things were innocent. it's not like some kind of "Putting You In Control Bus!11(tm)(c)"
phf: well, it's
the prototypical "mud ball"
phf: but i agree on
the overall points,
though moving forward from cadr wouldn't be so much backporting, as "writing in
the missing bits"
phf: fyi if you actually
try running b parker's code you'll notice
that it's not actually anywhere near working state.
phf: (cadr is what all
those mit alumni were
trying
to commercialize at symbolics and elsewhere)
phf: there are extant lisp machines
that have both hardware documentation and system sources, for example MIT's CADR, but cadr specifically predates symbolics by a dozen of years, was developed by academia, so it's nowhere near as advanced as genera
phf: in a sense
that it's a massive code base
that works, but if you want
to have full ownership, you'll have
to fill
the source-less bits yourself
phf: so now you're stuck with bitcoin, AND you also need
to write say 20% of it from scratch while conforming
to existing protocols
phf: i'm actually not even sure how much code is
there, but what's critically missing is
the low level bits
that
talk
to hardware
phf: yeah, i fat fingured enter before making
the entire point
phf: but it doesn't have all
the source code.
phf: genera is
the software layer
to ivory's hardware, it's usually what people are
talking about when "superior development environment!11" etc. symbolics architecture is crufty idiosyncratic, so
taking its hardware without also
the software doesn't make sense
phf: fwiw, if
the goal is
to put an existing lisp machine onto an fpga,
then i don't
think macivory is a particularly good
target.
the goal would be
to run Genera, which is severely lacking sources for critical components.
☟︎ jhvh1: BingoBoingo:
The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: !~later
tell r0nin- I don't
talk privates with stangers
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo so what's
the story, is flake making it in az ? << My lulz scroted crystal ball is hazy at
the moment
BingoBoingo: <r0nin->
tahts why you go
to US and see everyone in new BMWs << LOL, which US are you smoking?
mircea_popescu: well in
truth it was kind of a single name for many random items
mircea_popescu: generation of kids who all loved legos and
their world is more fragmented in stupider ways
than
the 1600s mercantilist world. wtf.
mircea_popescu: if i decide
to reconfigure my car into an electric generator or a super strenght fridge or lawn mower or helicopter, I SHOULD BE FUCKING ABLE
TO.
mircea_popescu: the correct move is
towards a |ing of hardware, and of software, and everything else.
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the point being
that competition should happen on narrower elements.
spyked: yeah, but must still be of some use
though. I don't know if
there's even a genuine Lisp machine in ro
mircea_popescu: they're
the ~copies~ of minoan vases produced in syria, not
the actual minoan vases.
mircea_popescu: this is artisanship, after a fashion, but not
to be confused with
the genuine article imo.
mircea_popescu: spyked see,
the
thing with orc lands is
that
they have
this. borz, chechen made smg.
the egyptians made engine parts
to VISUAL spec, by hand. i saw
this. guy here offered
to produce a replacement pressure hose for me, by visual inspection.