asciilifeform: it is difficult not to be reminded, reading this, of the legends re: icbm cables with differing pin counts being pounded in with a sledge (from ru literature, obviously pertaining to sov rockets, but i'd be surprised if similar legends did not circulate in usa)

asciilifeform: punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-05-2014#678174 ☝︎

asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autovon#/media/File:66a3aDTMFpad.jpg << the button. upper right hand of photo.

asciilifeform gives up trying to unravel this mystery, goes back to actual wurk

asciilifeform: and how does it relate to what some idiot sow did ?

asciilifeform: is this a reference to the old AUTOVON 'flash override' button ?

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-11-2015#1319205 << what in the name of beelzebub is a 'crash override' ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'ouija' board ?

asciilifeform: how did they go about, i might ask, 'determining why the man did not attach it' ? with a seance ?

asciilifeform: 'The character Judas hangs himself in the musical, but the harness protects the actor. Investigators were trying to determine why the man didn't attach it.' << good timez

asciilifeform: 'Fareweel, ye dungeons dark and strong, / Fareweel, Fareweel tae thee. / MacPherson's time will nae be lang / On yonder gallows tree. / Sae rantin'ly, sae wantonly / Sae dauntin'ly gaed he / He played a sprig and danced a jig / Below the gallows tree.' (tm) (r)

asciilifeform: (so many puzzles. e.g., is a 'long drop' hanging typically also filmed with a doctored noose? or a dummy ?)

asciilifeform: (properly hanged, that is)

asciilifeform: i'm also at least vaguely aware of at least one case where a prisoner arranged to be hanged on a theatrical stage, as part of a performance

asciilifeform: i find the subject of 'theatrical noose' interesting. how does it work? are there multiple schemes? have there been notable historic snafus with this device ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-11-2015#1319176 << when i ran into the linked film, i sorta assumed that something went wrong and at least one of the gallows birds really did hang properly. was very disappointed to learn that this was not so. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-11-2015#1319173 << nein ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you've got mailz

asciilifeform: for the next go-around.

asciilifeform: i can almost picture some underground phaktory cranking'em out.

asciilifeform: in hk or teheran or kiev, wherever

asciilifeform: turned out that usg's cia and dept of s. only had so many bag lunches to pass out to idiots sitting and blocking streets

asciilifeform: same place as the hongkong attempt 6 mo. ago, presumably.

asciilifeform: where did this go, anyway.

asciilifeform: '09.

asciilifeform: is next condition 'brown' ?

asciilifeform: 'yellow' is, one might suppose, wet pants ?

asciilifeform: 'Inasmuch as, you are one of the most influent persons in one of the most talented community (Hackers) in the world, I humbly ask you write about Iran and what’s going on there. Please tell the world that Persian people are fight for freedom ....'

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-11-2015#1319015 << here's to wishing our newly made 'orange revolutionary' a speedy meeting with headzoff.com ☝︎

asciilifeform: congrats mod6

asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfpq5dKnYJs << interesting sport - fake hanging ☟︎

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it is very interesting in all the wrong ways

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: consider reading the src to gpg

asciilifeform finally home

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

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asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317131 << might want to patch trb's version thing instead ☝︎

asciilifeform: jurov: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317133 << out of curiosity, what are you using the usg client for ? ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: does have that flavour, doesntit

asciilifeform: why not 'cockfriend'

asciilifeform: or lay eggs.

asciilifeform: guess what, i don't give milk either.

asciilifeform: ^ aha this is a good picture of www programming.

asciilifeform: ditto

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: at any rate, i must confess that i don't do www or ipnohe for any amount of pay.

asciilifeform: not interested in indenture.

asciilifeform: no but ty.

asciilifeform: or wake me up if folks start paying for sunlight, aha.

asciilifeform: ty.

asciilifeform: prolly the former

asciilifeform remembers very well what ben_vulpes's shop makes, from hanging out at c3.

asciilifeform: i suppose this means that ben_vulpes is also ready to port to supernintendo.

asciilifeform: congrats ben_vulpes

asciilifeform: not looking for indenture with quarter. more of an old-fashioned thing-with-deliverables

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform cannot compete with coolies either in cost or in enthusiasm

asciilifeform: will port to supernintendo if someone wants.

asciilifeform: do.

asciilifeform: or 'determine if this hdd is able to serve up diddled boot sector.'

asciilifeform: eh i do items like 'port $proggy to $toaster'

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: i think i met ben_vulpes somewhere

asciilifeform has been, perhaps, out of bed for too long

asciilifeform: ah

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: l0l srsly, 10%?!! what are they, legless cambodians, hanging in nets ?

asciilifeform: (don't guarantee any arbitrary allocs whenever, but only bignums and only in strictly defined progression)

asciilifeform: and the only promising heuristic thus far is a somewhat mircea_popescuine one - namely, to de-generalize the problem

asciilifeform: this is one of the problems i've been fighting with for perhaps a year now.

asciilifeform: and rides on top of the system malloc at the same time (yes)

asciilifeform: (which has fudge factors, even, yes!)

asciilifeform: if you want to laugh, cry, read the one in gpg 1.4.10.

asciilifeform was researching this very this

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in so far as the code is c code and the allocator needs to return contiguous regions of ram, you end up with malloc.

asciilifeform: when you desperately need speed / compactness, you use 'cdr coding' which is a cheat whereby you set a bit in the former word which signifies 'next is not an address but actually the next word.'

asciilifeform: at any rate, the correct way to build memory is - cons cells. as in, every addressable unit actually contains a word followed by another which acts solely as an address of 'next word.'

asciilifeform: *the lispm

asciilifeform: like so many little wormholes.

asciilifeform: but at the obvious cost of... well, having such things kicking around.

asciilifeform: it abolished the need for actual continuity in allocated segments.

asciilifeform: (these were magical bits that one could set in any memory word, that would cause it to transparently redirect to another word)

asciilifeform: because the pc, unlike the lisp, doesn't have 'broken hearts'

asciilifeform: it still creates contiguous swaths

asciilifeform: (if you own that particular type of iron)

asciilifeform: for so long as somebody can lead you to walk contiguous path in ram, you can rowhammer.

asciilifeform: no such thing on the pc.

asciilifeform: was looking at ancient 'malloc's

asciilifeform: which is actually how i found this thing at all.

asciilifeform: which is absent.

asciilifeform: and you need a memory allocator.

asciilifeform: no way to weasel out of it, if you want to keep up with the blockchain.