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asciilifeform: sion of the story asserts that the Auto-Icon does vote, but only on occasions when the votes of the other Council members are equally split. In these cases the Auto-Icon invariably votes for the motion.'

asciilifeform: 'Not surprisingly, this peculiar relic has given rise to numerous legends and anecdotes. One of the most commonly recounted is that the Auto-Icon regularly attends meetings of the College Council, and that it is solemnly wheeled into the Council Room to take its place among the present-day members. Its presence, it is claimed, is always recorded in the minutes with the words Jeremy Bentham - present but not voting. Another ver

asciilifeform: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/who/autoicon << apparently

asciilifeform tries, fails, to recall the name of the british prof who had himself embalmed and wheeled into faculty meetings long after his death

asciilifeform: ... are there any published recordings of knuths's organ ?

asciilifeform: l0l quite likely

asciilifeform: try mgu

asciilifeform: i dun think they have a millenarian cliff at s.

asciilifeform: moar of a centenarian imho

asciilifeform: l0l!!

asciilifeform: ^ linked for photos

asciilifeform went on a literate prog kick some years ago

asciilifeform: http://www.literateprogramming.com/cweb_download.html << very spiffy

asciilifeform: etc

asciilifeform: and builds as readily on tinycc as on gcc.

asciilifeform: solely #include "..."

asciilifeform: as in, no #include <...>

asciilifeform: only if the thing is entirely self-carrying.

asciilifeform: 'this parachute, i wrapped myself. signed, prv. xxxxx.'

asciilifeform: but literal.

asciilifeform: when i say 'program is to be read', i do not mean in a metaphorical sense of 'most of it' or 'the important parts'

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: as in when the thing gets planted on a micro we change 3 lines.

asciilifeform: as in all of it

asciilifeform: realize, i've been working on the abolition even of libc from the mix.

asciilifeform: and this is an example to follow ?!!!

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform retches

asciilifeform: your unix box doesn't have such a thing. and neither did mine. or anybody else's.

asciilifeform: phf: the 'translation is trivial' is the mega-mistake. go and bake, e.g., a sane allocator.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in a very loose sense

asciilifeform: phf: but skipped straight to the c on account of realizing that 99+% of the work is precisely in getting this to behave sanely

asciilifeform: phf: i actually started where you are now

asciilifeform: ah

asciilifeform: gpg didn't use openssl for anything

asciilifeform: already there.

asciilifeform: 'i wrote enough in c to be able to prime gpg machinery and send packets over the wire' suggested callout. but why not wait till phf wakes up and clarifies.

asciilifeform: 'callout' means something particular, customarily

asciilifeform: that's what i turned mpi into.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: but not separate process.

asciilifeform: (statically linked lib)

asciilifeform: standalone in the sense mpi was in gpg.

asciilifeform: try to understand why, on your own

asciilifeform: phf: and i specifically didn't go with cl because this thing CANNOT cons

asciilifeform: phf: callouts to gpg are a dead end

asciilifeform: supposedly, la guerra del futbol was the last engagement of piston-engined fighters on both sides

asciilifeform: before 'seriously'.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ergo usa sport folks have a long way to go.