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asciilifeform: punkman: i'm a fan of the man's cryptoanalytic work. but the sv-popularity of his cipher primitives is concerning
asciilifeform: punkman: quite a few things
asciilifeform: (srsly who the FUCK uses 'salsa' etc)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382579 << this is a mega-l0l, worth reading! turns out, one day they decided to play 'obfuscated c contest' at ft meade ☝︎
asciilifeform: then yes.
asciilifeform: i remember very well the smoking ~boards~
asciilifeform: i am specificially thinking of ~ic~ rather than ~board~
asciilifeform: or just 'took the money & ran'
asciilifeform: yes but any public intel suggesting a taped-out total dud ?
asciilifeform: nor wanted to be.
asciilifeform: but i - obviously - wasn't there.
asciilifeform: afaik there were none.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: if this were so, there would have been many asic co. sunk by a taped out dud
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the whole racket stood on a solid column of chump, and was designed around such
asciilifeform: i've always wanted to do a bit of microscopy on those, see if there was a set of magicks for re-enabling the 'accidented' cores
asciilifeform: aha.
asciilifeform: (they never got the wear circuits to behave plausibly like a real-life bathtub curve, either. so the things would routinely ship with varying number of working hash cores, etc)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382561 << this seems like a deviously clever notion until you recall that most of the asic miners were - quite likely deliberately - not built to last ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382549 << this looks disturbingly like BingoBoingo's material ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'who has been in the army, does not laugh in the circus' (tm) (r) (su) ☟︎
asciilifeform: l0lzamins
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382456 << ick ☝︎
asciilifeform: (add what belongs in the pool to a new pool, then nuke what remains. also defrags...)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382433 << all i really want presently is to dump mempool. and to have some means of removing ANYTHING whatsoever from it. because if we had this, we COULD semispace-garbagecollect. ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382439 << i thought we had this ? ☝︎
asciilifeform played with a bag of empty shells of those, as a boy
asciilifeform: more than century.
asciilifeform: oldest rifle cartridge still in mass use.
asciilifeform: notice the very archaic flanged shell and rimmed bottom on the last
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://s242.photobucket.com/user/Akalvarez_2007/media/PANA0003.jpg.html << sov-new (ak74), nato-new (m16), sov-old (ak47), nato-old-fullsize, sov-old-fullsize (mosin, and all ru squad guns, 1890s round)
asciilifeform: today as in '70s the man-portable small arms fire the 'intermediate' things and the squad guns - the 1890s longer one.
asciilifeform was very very confused until realized that mircea_popescu is counting the ~length~ of the shell !
asciilifeform: well also because did not go to kindergarten, never learned concept of suppressive fire
asciilifeform: and wake me up when they ~make~ a tank.
asciilifeform: spiffy firewurx.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382542 << ukrs are apparently really good at shooting into 1) air 2) earth 3) defenceless farm houses. who'dhaveknown. ☝︎
asciilifeform: point^
asciilifeform: hey it worked for the 5000yr egyptianreich!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: modern usg is going for 'eastern despot' caesaropapism.
asciilifeform: depends how ?
asciilifeform: only because the beast is immunocompromised
asciilifeform: (except when he does, e.g., obamitler)
asciilifeform: lucky we are that 'hi guise im ceo' has no army and no navy.
asciilifeform: so mircea_popescu doesn't have an argument against gosplan ?! other than not liking the colour & shape on purely aesthetic grounds?
asciilifeform: i'm trying to grasp how it isn't an argument for gosplan tho
asciilifeform: same thing, no ?
asciilifeform: is it the '1024 chickens' idea ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382242 << tell a bit about the concentrated thing ☝︎
asciilifeform: aha, which is why lulzy
asciilifeform: this is not curable.
asciilifeform: i am picturing, one day measured value of plank's constant shifts, mircea_popescu goes back to sleep, says 'this shift was implicit all along, could not otherwise happen.' and will sleep until the very integers get up and walk around.
asciilifeform: or we'd have a... new idea
asciilifeform: and i suppose the egyptians must have known this
asciilifeform: (the former wrote a whole mega-l0ltron re: same, 'i am a strange loop')
asciilifeform: aha, as pictured in hofstadter and minsky
asciilifeform: ah!
asciilifeform: so why the german goes bald ... ?
asciilifeform: in a car otherwise full of dour folk making angry eyes
asciilifeform: or at least a black fella singing loudly along to his headphones, without a care
asciilifeform: speaking of 'indistinguishable from monkeys', i observed that approx 1 train car in 5 has a loud, rambling nutter in it
asciilifeform: l0lz!
asciilifeform: not bifurcated far
asciilifeform: sure as hell, monkey has one fuck mode
asciilifeform: i'd put the bifurcation as the whole of the man-monkey divide
asciilifeform: the b00kz become associated with thing-that-anchors-you, i suspect
asciilifeform: i suspect that i will go the same
asciilifeform: my father had a world-class library, left it behind, today cannot stand the idea of amassing any such thing
asciilifeform: interestingly, never happened when i actually was involved in academic racket
asciilifeform: personal first
asciilifeform: (at wurk)
asciilifeform: unrelatedly, not long ago had a brain-melting mindfuck, browsed maths crud on 'amazon' rec list, and noticed b00k, 'wait a sec, where did i see the author' - turns out, in email box
asciilifeform: i might get eaten as a snack on said planet, but it'd be almost worth it
asciilifeform: followed by a good ol'fashioned chess-boxing match on weekend.
asciilifeform: this being said, i wouldn't mind visiting limonov's (or mircea_popescu's for that matter) planet where folks practice bare-handed head-chopping from sunrise to noon, and measure neutron cross-sections, compose symphonies, after dinner
asciilifeform: wake me up when the he-men create so much as a 'aa' battery.
asciilifeform: the totality of the record.
asciilifeform: has same to stand on as 'communism results in misery' etc
asciilifeform: as amply confirmed experimentally as anything i'd care to think of.
asciilifeform: thesis is that 'the spartan speaks with his sword', untempered, results in goatfuckistan.
asciilifeform: and the sheer mega-virility of pashtun can be likewise measured in 1,001 ways.
asciilifeform: aha
asciilifeform: (no, i did not see one with naked eye.)
asciilifeform: in approx same way and to same degree as i know that electron exists.
asciilifeform: this is also how we get http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1381984 ☝︎
asciilifeform: wai wut? up to whom ?
asciilifeform: *say anything
asciilifeform: i cannot say to this, but only take off my hat.
asciilifeform: i suppose if asteroid cleaned everybody's clock but the hydrothermal vent microbes, mircea_popescu would (from his dirigible!) still say, 'nothing novel, planet still crawling with whatevers, snore'
asciilifeform: spiffy
asciilifeform: aha
asciilifeform: on trilema ?
asciilifeform: 'the 80th latin' or what was it
asciilifeform: and asteroids.
asciilifeform pictures mircea_popescu blasting off to mothership, tells chums 'this planet is a mega-snore, nothing ~ever~ changes there, let's get outtahere'
asciilifeform: and my arse still takes up space in 3 dimensions, big whoop
asciilifeform: and i suppose 'human processes' didn't change a lick since pharaonic egypt. aha, right.
asciilifeform: i can boot up fortran and set 1 to equal 2 also.
asciilifeform: i know full well that mircea_popescu can arbitrarily redefine 'a thing' for there to be none.
asciilifeform: telegraphy ?
asciilifeform: so we're stuck guessing.