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mod6: ah right. still sux
tho.
mod6: how come
they don't publish
these
things in ascii like normal people?
mircea_popescu: could also be derived mathematically, but so far've not managed
to.
mircea_popescu: which incidentally brings us
to a very workable and very useful
tmsr definition of entropy quality :
take a FG string. flip a number of consecutive bits
to 1.
the result is your entropy quality, such as 100/1mb if you flipped 100 bits.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ie, is
the relative impact cuadratic or subquadratic ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that's another
thing i would like : a graph of
the relation of
the m-r failure rate
to
the a) entropy quality and b) margin.
mircea_popescu: it is entirely acceptable for proper keygen
to
take up
to a few hours. 200 seconds is actually exceedingly fast.
mircea_popescu: (yes
this yields keys slightly longer
than 4kb. good.)
a111: Logged on 2016-08-03 04:34 mircea_popescu: actually
to formalize
that : a 4096 bits key means a p
that is 257
to 259 bytes long ; and a q
that is 258
to 260 bytes long. end of fucking story.
mircea_popescu: where
the fuck is
that
tmsr-standard-rsa-key discussion
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no. one needs multiple planets,
the other exceeds matter.
mircea_popescu: not so. why i said do
the math : cracking 4kb key
the hard way exceeds
the universe.
this is a categorical argument, substantially different from "i could compute 2 bit key by enumeration on napkin"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well
there is
that. nor should you. butwhat happens
to 8kb keys is of ~0 interest nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: and not even 4096 bits,
there's a whole speccing discussion re
this in
teh logs
mircea_popescu: and
this nonsense of offering faux meaningless choice a la kochpgp is unwelcome and shouldn't be perpetuated. keys are 4kb and forget about it.
mircea_popescu: do
teh math, if 8kb rsa key is preferable
to 4kb rsa key,
there's fundamental problems with rsa
that make it useless anyway.
mircea_popescu: what's a 4kb keygen, gotta look for
the primes, say a few hundred emults ?
BingoBoingo unsure
that
this isn't new levels of irtellectuan int-L-evance
BingoBoingo: Our democracy however does not care
to speak at all about parallels between protagonist of film who is a "bedsheet ghost" and Klan uniform which is also "bedsheet ghost"
BingoBoingo: Other critics on said "cultural milestone": "Rooney attacks
that pie like a cake person, engineering such unusual fork scoops (she stabs
the pie at least four
times before each bite)
that I started
to wonder whether
the actress had even ever seen a pie before. We all do weird
things when dealing with grief, but I was
tickled by
the fact
that Mara’s bizarre pie-eating method still managed
to leave
the crust mostly intact."
BingoBoingo: "Rooney Mara’s character, grieving
the death of her lover (Casey Affleck), returns home
to find a pie left in her kitchen by a sympathetic friend or neighbor. As
the bedsheet-clad ghost of her beloved looks on, Mara’s character, known only as M, unwraps
the pie, sinks
to
the kitchen floor, and devours almost
the entire
thing in a five-minute, uninterrupted sequence before suddenly dashing
to a nearby bathroom
to
throw up." << Films W
BingoBoingo: At least knows
to keep butthole off of dirty cheap plastic
mircea_popescu: and yes, both gerousia and roman senate come off
the first branch.
mircea_popescu: (for
the anthropocurious :
there's
three
types of primitive civilisation known
to either
theory or practice. all
three had a female hut, where
the women did
their woman shit. one of
them had a male hut where
they got drunk and dragged unwilling sexual partners by
the hair. another had a male hut where
they mostly sat idly about.
the final one had no male hut at all, like
the chimps, and
thereby is very dubiosly a civilisation
mircea_popescu: direct calque off
the inept old woman "oh,
tell all
the young women not
to go
to
the rape hut!!!" except , of course,
the sort of girl
that'd listen nobody wants
there in
the first place.
mircea_popescu: moar win-win has scarcely ever been seen in
the history of human stupidity.
mircea_popescu: it's exactly how it goes,
too. and
the funny
thing is,
the braindead vat dwellers actually go by
that.
mircea_popescu: "that weird cult
that calls everything by unprintable names inexplicably because we
try
to run off with any other names
they use hur durr"
mircea_popescu: i also do not expect we will ever call anything outside of
the "pussygraber" "yesmeansanal" etc antipantsuit set
mircea_popescu: i eagerlyexpect
the imperial "fuckgoats" bowdlerization
mircea_popescu: funny how nobody from
the "concerned" peanut gallery is
there on
the congress floor uninvited every day, "hey guise, remember
that
time when oyu decided
to rechristian french fries ? what happened
to
that ??? I
THINK
THE USD IS WORTHLESS!!!"\
mircea_popescu: lemme guess, it conveniently makes fries on
the side ? LIBERTY fries ?
a111: Logged on 2017-07-10 14:59 phf:
https://archive.is/lyT2j << "The American college graduate allegedly beaten
to death by a gang of 10 people in Greece was an aspiring entrepreneur who was visiting
the country
to launch his own fashion line."
phf:
https://archive.is/lyT2j << "The American college graduate allegedly beaten
to death by a gang of 10 people in Greece was an aspiring entrepreneur who was visiting
the country
to launch his own fashion line."
☟︎ shinohai: Maybe new owner is busy znorting
the profitz ?
BingoBoingo: Well, gotta remember post-modernism and "social justice" were
the actual KGB/Soviet plot
to undermine west
mircea_popescu: in
the same vein,
the early 1900s investigations into
the meaning and structure of number resulted in a correctly complicated notion, from riemann functions
to cantor's sets and so on.
this is at great variance with non-fields like "artificial intelligence" or say alf's favourite, postmodern qm (say string
theory or w/e) -- which evidently are incorrectly complicated even if it's not always evident where exactly.
mircea_popescu: "if you're going
to complicate -- complicate like latin, don't complicate like puritan society or any other barbarian non-people"
mircea_popescu: and re latin : it should be noted
that it was by no means a maximally simple, or a maximally adequate-to-human-experience language. it was however ~correctly~ complicated, which
to date is its foremost value.
mircea_popescu: anwyay, perhaps best historical example of
the "problem -- ill posed" bit is
the history of
the sewing machine.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> dun
talk smack about
the pole dancing and stilt wearing crowd until you greco-roman wrestle a coupla.
they're NOT
THAT EASY << Original Sport!!!
ben_vulpes: whoreticultural
trip report: ranier cherries are amazing
this year
trinque: nobody's asking you
to compute in your home in $standardLang; fuck in perl and shit in brainfuck, but speak something civilized in public.
trinque: blind spot right where one node
talks
to another
trinque: this goes right along with his "omg social skillz"
thing
a111: Logged on 2017-07-09 16:14 asciilifeform: i dun get
the fixation with 'universal db language for all walks of life'
mircea_popescu:
http notably gets
this half-right :
there's no such
thing as an error message
the server ever expects
to see from a client, such as i dunno, "this page has porn on it, unacceptable, send me another version" or whatever.
mircea_popescu: i am ok with chunks of machine word size, ie, quantify data by n bits rather
than by 1 bit.
phf: well,
then you're basically in
the whole "nobody's ever going
to need more
than 64bytes of block size!!1"
mircea_popescu: phf i would be friendly
to
the notion of a machine word yes.
phf: unless by decree you say
that "numbers are packed in 64bit blobs"
phf: arbitrarily sized numbers are a variable sized
type. gotta figure out ~some~ way of packing
them. you're essentially left with
type
tagged size variation (if a byte is 0,
then next struct is 8byte, if a byte is 1,
then next struct is 16byte), but at
the end you still will end up falling back
to "read
this number
to know how many bytes
to read"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i don't care if it's a "gui" or a
telex or whatever it may be.
mircea_popescu: or
to put
this belaboured
thing in different words : if your data exchange protocol includes
the concept of "error message", you do not in fact have a data exchange protocol.
mircea_popescu: and if asked for "bitcoin block", i do expect
to be asked a number according
to
that exact
type.
mircea_popescu: but
the problem becomes really complex when you consider "bitcoin block index" is as of right now "positive integer under 474974", and won't stay
that way for long.
phf: i also doubt
that's what we'll ultimately go
to. wire/remote is
tied
to cmucl, and nobody's going
to untie it
phf: well, wire/remote is cavalier with byte packing, it knows how
to pack various sized
types, but variable sized stuff is probably not
the most bullet proof (i vaguely suspect it's similar
to bitoind, i.e. <typetag><count><item><item>...
mircea_popescu: so more like all-exposed-functionality) -> ((gossipd:all-message-since "give me all
the gossipd message since a certain
timestamp") ((timestamp fixnum positive "timestamp (in seconds since epoch) since which messages") ...))
a111: Logged on 2017-07-09 16:19 phf: (all-exposed-functionality) -> ((gossipd:all-message-since "give me all
the gossipd message since a certain
timestamp") ((timestamp fixnum "timestamp (in seconds since epoch) since which messages") ...))
mircea_popescu: moreover, and here's where it gets biting : if we go with
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-09#1681006 ; which i expect we should, you can end up with implicit
types. "you asked me for
the 999999th bitcoin block, fucker". what about
that ? you will need bounds adnotation yes ?
☝︎