asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thing is that you also have to 'rebuild table' when various other things happen - orphaned chains (phorkletz!), the idiot malleation thing, and possibly other
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is like saying that all problems are O(1) - true! if you already know the answer!
asciilifeform: i know more or less nothing about mircea_popescucoin, but from what i recall, the item he has now is the result of having attempted this very 'c0d3rz are fungible and 10s of k usd actually buys something' thing in the past, and ended up with... this
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu seriously thinks that he can get a monkey to correctly re-engineer the entire orchestra ?
asciilifeform: 'Well, as far as I could tell circa 2009, this programmer took my code and disabled 95% of the capabilities that I put in it. He then put his version on sourceforge and used my name for it, MockMMA. What did he do? He did some data structure translation and attached the parser superficially to the Maxima system back end so that individual commands like _Integrate_ worked to call Maxima's _integrate_....'
asciilifeform: 'While I'm pointing to old software, here's where you can get a free copy of the final (1982?) university release of Franz Lisp Opus 38.92 for VAX. I don't know why you would want this old stuff, but the university software distribution office has closed and they left a copy with me.'
asciilifeform: t has the advantage of being totally open (full source code). One can manipulate polynomials in several variables over the integers, rational functions, and a variety of other mathematical objects. Manipulations include simplification, differentiation, integration, evaluation, pattern matching, etc.'
asciilifeform: '...a Common Lisp package and libraries called MockMMA. see the directory for a recent revision of this Mockmma. This version is more directed to being compatible with the source-forge program Maxima, even if Maxima is being run in GCL, a Lisp dialect lacking in full upper-lower case control. (This is a disadvantage because Mathematica uses many mixed-case identifiers). To the user, this somewhat resembles Mathematica (tm), bu
asciilifeform: and even this was an almost exact copy of the... last time.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: snore. see earlier thread re: figurehead queen. mr o decreed merely that old laws are to be (shock!) enforced.
asciilifeform: wake me up when moscow is air-supplying oregon phortress of phreeeeedom with SAM rockets, food, and cheap whores every 48h - like usg is resupplying kiev☟︎
asciilifeform: and even then likely you get to say hello to the cathars.
asciilifeform: because ~will~ is not enough. you ALSO need brain, and resources.
asciilifeform: nobody even gave enough of a fuck to bet...
asciilifeform: as a very wealthy usg-dod consultant once said to me, 'i don't give a flying fuck whether it is the democrats, the republicans, or the lesbians, who win'☟︎
asciilifeform finds it lulzy that mircea_popescu and perhaps other thinking folks outside the razor wire believe that the ceremonial usaschwitz kommendant elections are actually ~about~ something. in actuality, they are rather like the fighting of certain ruminants, e.g., mountain sheep, whose horns are set at such an angle that they cannot harm one another
asciilifeform: he uses 'glock 19' instead of gearshift knob in car ?
