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mircea_popescu: i can already picture the reaction "folks" will have to anything, from you going naked in the street to you making chirality engine.
mircea_popescu: just gotta get clear where it's headed and what we want.
mircea_popescu: find a way to do it in ternary you won a major engagement.
mircea_popescu: the damage is immense - imagine, now they gotta learn ternary to even approach this!
mircea_popescu: the value is relatively small - oh noes, enemy is gonna mess up our code ? so yoy mean like on github ?!
mircea_popescu: IF we are ever going to do this, THIS is the place to test it.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside the technical talk, understand the high level strategic considerations.
mircea_popescu: if i put two registers together, have i now made a trinary register ?
mircea_popescu: i understand that. why is this machine of mine binary!
mircea_popescu: so you mean my p4 will take 0.03 seconds instead of the 0.00007 ?
mircea_popescu: perhaps. i dun see it yet, but this is mostly because i am not a coder myself.
mircea_popescu: is that if you set it to what ? sha512 ? little alf v2.0 will come in here and fuck your skull in 20 years
mircea_popescu: the huge problem tho, and im sure you have also been thinking on this on the quiet
mircea_popescu: and if key X took a fart in gimp-v-0.9 big deal, this won't see it anyway.
mircea_popescu: 99c53387aa14a176190880cb00c97fc950133f5af10f3ac is "gimp-v1.0" whereas 9cfb1fc045b401102d02b4ddf581efc7d84e810df28bf80 is "bitcoin v 1.8"
mircea_popescu: exactly. more importantly considering what this gives us :
mircea_popescu: you must also be able to describe which "version" you aim.
mircea_popescu: do not sign in the manner of v stuff you don't intend to be in v
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how would that be in "random signed crud" ?
mircea_popescu: how do you know when you've tried it ? what shape was it ? etc.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, THIS is where good math would show before biotech
mircea_popescu: but one thing people DO NOT appreciate is that if i had to find the "lost meta-engineers" alf wants to have been in software\
mircea_popescu: they actually have a liquefaction process (in the civilised world, not in the us) that significantly reduces the intellectual relevancy of this
mircea_popescu: that's all there is. now you gotta know an infinity about the fluid.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is on account of refineries being pipes, with turns.
mircea_popescu: the only marketable xx item in the us is, "15 yo runaway".
mircea_popescu: and notice that it was interestinfg to them PRECISELY because a) he did what they don't do (go for a woman) and b) it blew up in a way threy like.
mircea_popescu: jurov the only example i can think of is bingoboingo's fake story
mircea_popescu: if homo redditicus would pay as much as five borrowed dollars for "a woman" the us would look like argentina.
mircea_popescu: "woman" as in, overweight, with college debt, with bad habits, with the entire baggage of having watched as much as 5 mionutes of for-women tv is worth less than a pig.
mircea_popescu: but the woman is an unwelcome addition to the resources.
mircea_popescu: are you kidding ? "chix" in the sense of "out of the street human female" were replaced cca 2005.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so it's not really half ton unmovable cabinets.
mircea_popescu: it is written in unmovable half ton steel cabinets, which makes it ok.