asciilifeform makes stone face, like stierlitz in '17 moments of spring'
asciilifeform: would ~strongly~ prefer to put it in a place i can physically touch, but mircea_popescu does not much like this approach, iirc he said 'dont wanna trade with the enemy'
asciilifeform: shinohai: so far, nothing satisfactory. i continue the search.
asciilifeform: shinohai: when i find a place to put it.
asciilifeform: a 'public key' is simply a snippet of code for this 'computer'
asciilifeform: the - presently nameless - pgptron - is simply an emulator for a very simple but imaginary computer which performs arbitrary arithmetic on bignums.☟︎
asciilifeform: i suppose i spoiled 'v' a month before publishing, and no one noticed it, so perhaps i ought to 'spoil' this one☟︎
asciilifeform: phf: 3 of these 4 are well underway right here.
asciilifeform: the old saw, 'you own only what fits in one hand while firing with the other' is not applicable if using two-handed weapon. because then, you own only what fits in head (and arse...)
asciilifeform: phf: the back side of this medal is that problems which require something more than poor buggerz working nights and weekends with bare hands - don't get solved.
asciilifeform: break it, by choosing a different reading of the talmu^H^H^H^Hstandard, and it dies.
asciilifeform: thereby every single program beyond the schoolbook trivium depends on just such behaviour.
asciilifeform: 'I don't care if your language lawyers tell you gcc is right. THIS WILL CAUSE PEOPLE TO GET HACKED.' << this is not hundred percent idiotic. the c programming language is specified in such a way, with sufficiently pervasive 'undefined behaviours' and nonstandardized but inescapable routines, that it is ~physically impossible~ to program in it as-specified☟︎
asciilifeform: it still beats the shit out of 'google trans'
asciilifeform: 'we are living in ameeeeerika, ameeerika, ameeerika, ... coca cola! sometimes war!' (tm) (r)
asciilifeform: and, iirc, to this day runs the swedish national telephone grid.
asciilifeform: other than this, it is, imho, very spiffy
asciilifeform experimented with erlang at great length, on multiple occasions, but cannot bring himself to use it for anything on the battlefield because 1 ) ONE IMPLEMENTATION and 2) IT DOES NOT FIT IN HEAD
asciilifeform: (i and just about everyone i know in meatspace is a 'contractor' and never sees such a thing)
asciilifeform: and ~only~ if one had been Officially registered as a full-time salaryman
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in usa, 'severance' typically means a lump sum of usd. 'unemployment' is something quite else (financed partly by a tax on the employer, partly by state, it is a meagre pension that one draws for precisely so long as one remains Officially unemployed.)
asciilifeform: catalytic cleavage of heavier hydrocarbon into lighter.
asciilifeform: binaryatrocity: and consider moving away from keybase. generate a civilized key on your own hardware, sign it with the old, and quit sharing private key with the enemy.☟︎
