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asciilifeform: i dunthink classic dec had this horror either (who the fuq! needs colour blinkies in a bios setup?!) , it's a post-compaq-acquisition box
mircea_popescu: i suspect a large part of why i like it is that i never run into this kinda problem. i had to futz about ansi terminal standards literally never.
asciilifeform: was hoping there was a simple 'vt220 rightnao' flag i overlooked.
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform is, shit thee not, engentooating a dec alpha )
mircea_popescu: historically childbearing worked essentially as ~punishment~, which is a point readily elided by modern clueless schmucks.\
asciilifeform: he report. from the age of five, i knew what is 'last round' -- the little shining key that opens in your skull (or heart, tastes vary) the door to soviet Valhalla. the pistol always seems to me not simply a personal, but an intimate weapon, a tuning fork by which one measured resolve: put its barrel to your noggin, and think, will you be able to pull the trigger when the right time comes ? the warring motherland , surrounded by foes
asciilifeform: 'i remember all of my pistols. there wasn't a single one that i hadn't blown out my brains with at least once. we used to shoot ourselves often in those days. pistols and revolvers were indispensable toybox inventory, all kinds : on batteries, with buzzing motors inside, of tin, stinking of burned popgun ribbon, ones that merely snapped, emitted at least a clanking sound, and silent ones, where the throat was called upon to imitate t
a111: Logged on 2019-01-02 21:27 mircea_popescu: anyone even remembers those things ? long strip of ticker tape rolled up, with spots of gunpowder or w/e, phosphorus in the middle, pistol had a hammer that fell on the spot made some noise and some smoke.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-02#1883983 << i defo had various as a boy ☝︎
mircea_popescu: the only problem is, kids running around with popguns are VERY easy for me to ignore -- witness the 0 import or effect of all the "bust a cap in yo ass" nigglet morons.
mircea_popescu: anyone even remembers those things ? long strip of ticker tape rolled up, with spots of gunpowder or w/e, phosphorus in the middle, pistol had a hammer that fell on the spot made some noise and some smoke. ☟︎
asciilifeform: came with buncha 'sample' dox crapola, but near as i can tell it's a snoar
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re 'homebrew crypto', there actually was a 1990s plague of commercial shitware folx who flunked arithmetic and then went to 'implement rsa', with exponent = 1 and so on
mircea_popescu: then the INSTANTLY!!!!! turns into minutes, that turn into long hours and longer days, weeks and whatever, eventually the idea forms in the precious cuntlet's brainbox that no, just because she's never heard anyone call her stupid before dun mean jack ; and all this "consensus" of silence is in the end exactly that : a consensus OF SILENCE.
mircea_popescu: biquarterly i get a "but mp, you know how you could really improve trilema readership ?! MAKE IT AN APP!!!" "why ?" "because i have unexamined headcockroaches about the influence, importance and interest of social media" "how about we put your cunt on your linkedin and see how long until someone says something ?" "FAPFAPFAPFAP"
asciilifeform: i thought it was a www '2.0' thingie
mircea_popescu: here, have a recent sample : AL_GA_Peach 26F Exploring "The message literally cuts off after whatever it is you’re. I don’t know not having all of the information is a mark against my intelligence but okay."
a111: Logged on 2014-06-04 00:08 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the buggers' traditional defense is to pretend that the event was a non-event - or, if this is impractical, to continue living in an imaginary world where they 'scooped' the story first, and all of the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
mircea_popescu: they've got a gpgcrash, a bitcoincrash, an everythingcrash. why don't you care!!!
a111: Logged on 2018-05-04 17:15 zx2c4: mircea_popescu: oh. so. "the world doesnt care about the cool hackers on the internet, but only the assholes with prestigious positions." this has been a widely known complaint for a long time
mircea_popescu: preferably on-cam. the fundamental moment of cinema is when mr talking potatohead whips out a home-brought stick of butter and unexpectedly buttseks maria schneider over her amazed surprise. naught else.
mircea_popescu: cuz that is the fucking job of the producer, i don't care what "american moron's association" "trade practices" are. as long as it's a set, and something'\s shooting, the producer's job is to rape the talent.
mircea_popescu: hey, "nobody watches pulp fiction because [some anon schmuck claimed she was raped by] Weinstein", i actuallty heard this said (by some girly who never saw any movie worth the mention in her ~~~entire~~~ coupla decades. they say this, too, like it's a thing. "my whole life". )
asciilifeform: it also seems to coexist with a cohort of folx hired in '60,70s,80s, greybeards, who actually built some working stuff
mircea_popescu: no, we're talking of "we're all in this together and women may even be a part of it and we're not even gonna call them tailhookers, invent pompous nonsense like 'hr' and seat everyone at a table" bs.
mircea_popescu: it's a democracy, dood, it has no conception of hierarchy.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-02#1883888 << the sores of the boobytrap leaked same yr, it was mightily disappointing ( no fancy trojan, but instead a little thing that sent back victim's external ip / winblowz ver / nic addr / etc, sorta like what microshit itself sends out when winblowz crash ) ☝︎
asciilifeform: the 'uncut' gmp is not afaik used anywhere in our mechanisms, with the exception of phuctor, where a (patched) variant is used for bernsteinization
trinque: but yep, will get a build out without sslism and see what happens.
trinque: afaik they're just displaying the rdns in deedbot's case, isn't a cloak
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-02#1883857 << i suspect you might be able to get a plain connection going ; worth checking. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, could be a little bit of both
asciilifeform: apparently Only A Terrorist (tm) would want to raise number to ~even~ power.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the 'export ban' list is a hilarious read. ~nothing is ever removed from it, most of the thing was written in '80s-90s, and contains such items as fpga (afaik none are made in usa or have ever been, but somehow this dun stop the clowns) , and in practice seems to be used as 'lettre de cachet' against undesirables.
asciilifeform: if one absolutely insists on that feature, prolly Right Thing would be to patch bot so can hang off a znc ( i tried this with own hands, but failed, the existing item is apparently tailored to fleanode-direct connection )
trinque: probably the thing to do is a) rip out the tls part and b) get deedbot hosted on cuntoo
asciilifeform: mats: i haven't built anyffing useful from ice40 with own hands yet. but, interestingly, when bought a 'scsi2sd' device for replacing disk in bolix box, found that author in fact used ice40 for the job ☟︎
mats: and a special thanks to phf for his great www logger! i use it every other day
lobbes: Besides that, I agree; I've yet to meet a recruiter who actually knew the job they were filling. For the most part they are just checking boxes on a list of 'keywords' the company's $hr-department gave them (and half the time that hr dept is also blindly following this list)
a111: Logged on 2019-01-01 04:15 Mocky: i've just started looking in charlotte recently lobbes. Other than passing on your resume if you're deemed worth, not sure a recruiter ever does anything on behalf of the the candidate
Mocky: i've just started looking in charlotte recently lobbes. Other than passing on your resume if you're deemed worth, not sure a recruiter ever does anything on behalf of the the candidate ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2018-12-31 03:42 Mocky: I think my employability is pretty close to epsilon. I may end up removing asbestos for 18 bucks an hour. This is going to be a setback.
lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-31#1883793 << Mocky, if you feel like moving to the cardboard-cutout city of charlotte there's a glut of 'high paying' 'move these meaningless bits around for robo hitler' jobs . If you want I can give you a recruiter contact that worked for me ☝︎
lobbes: And while I will continue the above described archive process, right now I have too many irons in fire to work on making a proper archive.is substitute. (Imo, this'd be a perfect area for an hero to step in)
a111: Logged on 2018-12-28 01:51 mircea_popescu: for crying out loud, a virtual machine running firefox just to do what lobbesbot does atm in case archive.is croaks ?!
mircea_popescu: no, this is a legitimate function of rum!
mircea_popescu: yet there it sat, because really, who the hell drinks instant cocoa. until a few months ago, i can't even recall when, we bought a popsicle kit. which, you know, take bimbos out to plastic joystore, what are you going to end up with, makeshift dildos and popsicle sets.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in better living through technology : illo tempore i had bought a tin of (actually very delicious) instant mint cocoa. cuz we were doing the whole check out the wonder of colonial goodies, and we pretty much brought all the britt things (fine brand of local chocolateria).
mircea_popescu: besides, it's new year's. give it a week or two neh ? time's now to get drunk.
lobbesbot: Mocky: Sent 4 days, 6 hours, and 41 minutes ago: <hanbot> eulora bot feature request: ability to reject mining claims by type. for instance mining bn costs me moar than merely striking it with a tool; i've gotta sink materials into it, whereas the resulting bn isn't worth the cost of those materials to me atm. 'ignore bn' or somesuch would be really useful.
Mocky: I think my employability is pretty close to epsilon. I may end up removing asbestos for 18 bucks an hour. This is going to be a setback. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> lol, yet ~another~ war the us lost ? << Well this war is US+Israel, but it seems the only think that was keeping it a war was the US being there.
mircea_popescu: tl;dr : "that" is a gramatically incorrect way to start a sentence, rando nobody "makes money" out of "her" [terrible quality] pornos and assorted hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: was there a more spurious empire in the history of africa ? i get it, niggers can't compete with humans. but even among the chimps, they're competing ~the wrong end~.
BingoBoingo: It was a god damned Pichi asking for una moneda para comer algo.
BingoBoingo: In other news, one of the fucking Pichis tried walking a database. This morning I was in the shower when the Porteria Electrica rang. The voice on the other end had a thick accent I couldn't understand, so I offered "un momento", put on clothes, and went to the door of the building...
asciilifeform: ( presumably there's a pair of contacts that gets an uart, haven't found it yet tho, it's a low-priority thread )
asciilifeform: in other lulz, asciilifeform recently disasmed a raid card fw turd ( of the type found in dulap, s.mg, and several other boxes asciilifeform built ) ; turned out that it's ~little-endian ppc~, which i had nfi even existed; and on top of this, built in ~cpp~, which is also a 1st on my watch in re fwturds
trinque: I've got a weechat built in my homedir too, so no rush or pressure on putting it systemwide.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Is tmux a thing that makes sense on the shared hosting server?
BingoBoingo: <trinque> http://pizarroisp.net/2018/03/23/pizarro-shared-hosting-a-screaming-deal-for-0003-btcmo/ << also says here you'll provide a weechat << I'll add reading through the old posts to the to do list.
trinque: http://pizarroisp.net/2018/03/23/pizarro-shared-hosting-a-screaming-deal-for-0003-btcmo/ << also says here you'll provide a weechat
BingoBoingo: trinque: I have not set up a Weechat before. If the hosting lacks something weechat needs, I can consult with asciilifeform to remedy that so you can get weechat running. I but I am not familiar enough with weechat to do setups for customers myself at the present time.
trinque: BingoBoingo: at your convenience may I have a weechat in my shared hosting account?
mod6: Then can re-evaluate/re-test a bit if it's helpful.
asciilifeform: it's sorta like a 'run mile' time 'wearing gasmask'. but dunhurt, wainot, paste
mod6: Haven't had a chance to build it yet. I will do so, and a cuntoo when I get a chance.
mod6: The one caviat about the timings is that I had to take out some of the inlines and pragmas to make it compile correctly. my GNAT 2015 version seems to have some funkyness to it -- we've actually discussed this before. Wanna just see a wotpaste?
billymg: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-27#1883449 < quick update: using diana_coman's keccak-compatible v.pl, the vpatch i posted before pressed without issue. will write up a blog post with details on the patch, and another post with the patch for the svg file links ☝︎
asciilifeform: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.3956 << lol, they're a bourbaki apparently.
asciilifeform: ( via http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Finding_primes , a www about http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-07#1733382 , but somewhat poor snr... ) ☝︎
BingoBoingo: More on the riot in Malvin. This is what happens when a country likes sports, wants to compete on an elite level regionally, and can only field two teams: https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/imm-hara-una-denuncia-penal-por-disturbios-durante-festejo-de-navidad-en-malvin-20181228202844
asciilifeform: ( i.e. sequence where only ADD, SUB, MUL, SHR/SHL, MOV, all the way from head to toe , a,b,c in, a^b mod c comes out )
asciilifeform: the other thing, if one is writing a proggy where only 1 ffawidth is used, it is possible to unroll all of the loops, derecursivize karatsuba, etc. and get straight line of instructions
asciilifeform: you may find it interesting that asciilifeform's 1st shot at barrett managed to have a subtly fatal mistake in the proof, and correspondingly a proggy that failed on <0.1% of input space.
diana_coman: that's precisely why the slow pace - I need a bit of fresher mind to get back and read through the rest of ffa
a111: Logged on 2017-10-08 00:20 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-07#1722411 << 1 ) ffa is closed form. i.e. it CAN be written as a number of nand gates, with a 'funnel' at the top, to which you present a,b,c, e.g. 4096bit, numbers, and at the bottom in a little cup you get a^b mod c , and with NO UPWARDS FEEDBACK FLOW of information , i.e. answer comes after same interval of time always, and with strictly downwards signals.
asciilifeform: btw there's a 'seekrit' 30% linear speed boost if one uses unrolled combas.
BingoBoingo: Meanwhile in local lulz, confiscated drugs liberated from the police in motorcycle snatch and grab https://www.teledoce.com/telemundo/policiales/en-san-jose-robaron-145-envoltorios-de-droga-que-habian-incautado-a-un-hombre-minutos-antes/
a111: Logged on 2016-11-26 19:16 mircea_popescu: and in other news, a... bar. http://68.media.tumblr.com/95befa3bb9c2e4fac4f3dfb4a94b23e6/tumblr_mrxj9415lX1sfcru6o1_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: !A V[FFA Ver: ]#
asciilifeform: !A V_[FFACalc Ver: ]#
asciilifeform: my reasoning is 'must pick a number, distinguish item from the endless moron march of firefox etc'
asciilifeform: let's say scout reported a 1k-man garrison in the point of origin. and nobody knows precisely how many hauptmann fuckface will be sending.
mircea_popescu: my objection inter alia is that this is not satisfied here ; makes us look like a bunch of retards.
mircea_popescu: the fundamental promise involved in the concept of number, as a scalar measure of something
mircea_popescu: in short : "why not say the magic number 3 ?" "because maybe i need to fix a typo, and i dun wanna lose 1 out of 3 for this, but i do wanna fix it" "so how do you know 1 in 255 is ok to lose for this ?" "um http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-18#1686299 " ☝︎
mircea_popescu: right. and such a thing as typos in those comments is possible. this entire line is the result of your ineffectual sideswiping.
asciilifeform: imho the haskellism where 'program carries proof' is generally a sad thing and results in soup
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's more than that : a) that there's such a thing as a correct program ; b) to which one can converge ; c) in a finite number of itemized steps ; d) the count therewhich can be known in advance.
mircea_popescu: the vpatch that adds a "except if number is 5577, math doesn't work for 5577" is a VERY different patch from the vpatch that adds "here's a sentence ended by a comma turned ended by a dot instead"
asciilifeform: the declaration i want to make with 'kelvins' is that there is such a thing as a correct program.
asciilifeform: a patch in the context is a vpatch.
mircea_popescu: the larger problem is "what is meant by a patch". i doubt the item can survive ~even one~ major alterations. meanwhile "hey, you spelled theyre with an apostrophe" needn't be counted (but need be fixed)
asciilifeform: at some pt you gotta make a cut where you dun have exact logical support for precisely what cut.
mircea_popescu: only because someone had a fucking clue ~before~.
mircea_popescu: looky, management is a rational activity. there's nothing wrong with hanging kids for having failed to master spanish in two weeks -- just as long as you can answer as to how you came up wih the two weeks.
asciilifeform: i.e. 'if this thing needs >255 vpatches after today, then asciilifeform is a tard and somebody else ought to do the whole fucking job over'
mircea_popescu: i'm not even sure how that kelvin thing's supposed to work ; notably bothj knuth and mod6 attempted it, but the problem with starting with a number is that you don't know what to pick.
asciilifeform: ( which reminds me, i still have a bolix post queued on conveyor )