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mircea_popescu: the problem with one's preoblems is that they rarely have the decency.
mircea_popescu: it is entropy* conserving, where entropy* is a special "entropy-colored-for-meaning", but this isn't useful.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: consider the sets P {1,2,3,4} and E {1,2,3,4,5}. now, the function taking all numbers <4 to themselvews and 4 to either 4 or 5 with 50-50 probability IS in fact reversible (because E5 and E4 are directly P4). is however not in fact entropy conserving.
mircea_popescu: i can reverse it, cuz P4 or P5 are E4 so i need to now nothing.
mircea_popescu: consider the sets P {1,2,3,4} and E {1,2,3,4,5}. now, the function taking all numbers <4 to themselvews and 4 to either 4 or 5 with 50-50 probability IS in fact reversible
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this isn't much of an argument, let alone "proof". + and * also conserve entropy, yet y=x/2 - x/2 +4 does not.
mircea_popescu: using the words is worth nothing ; if not used by a lord they're powerless.
mircea_popescu: hey, people cca 1400 made big deal of "purity" as well.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that's a good idea incidentally. lotta stuff we invented last tuesday and in the brief interval became seemingly "older than dirt" / "in kindergarten!!!" is in fact entirely unheard of outside the walls.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the likely reason they don't publish scratchwork is that before republic, nobody had any fucking idea how to do intellectual work. q is a lot like asking "why would doctors not wash hands". because before someone told them to, they didn't, that's why.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cuz emancipated nation of africa rubber producers ? nfi.
mircea_popescu: "wait, what do you mean we're just another spammer vying for your attention with all the others ?!?! but we don't tape papers to trees, we tape them to luggage insides!!! GOTTA COUNT FOR SOMETHING!"
mircea_popescu: "oh, this piece of paper ? VERY!!!! different from what buskers/joefish/.whatever hand out. THIS ONE HANDED OUT BY BLUE USG!!! BIGGEST THING IN IMPORTANCE!"
mircea_popescu: well yes, but security theatre is specifically there to give some spam fliers the appearance of a loftiness they do not merit.
mircea_popescu: see alf, your eternal "IT IS JUST A TRICK" works both ways lmao.
mircea_popescu: women, right ? built themselves the femstate, magically don't understand why a) it dun work and b) nobody likes them still.
mircea_popescu: whole empire is a collection of superficialities. "car" is defined similarily.
mircea_popescu: cuz the correlate of "french secret services accidentally sms terror suspect" is necessarily SOME KIND OF LIST. cuz that's how you build an empire, you make lists.
mircea_popescu: this is the other one. just about the only way to get on it is to be a potential "embarassment" in the sense of, "we X are following this guy, why are you Y letting him know".
mircea_popescu: rness of life in general and etcetera). because hey, whynot.)
mircea_popescu: (yes, there is a do-not-disturb list, also, where they put people mostly for the above stated reason (it "wouldn't be fair" to put the inca elite on it, CORRUPTION!!!). as evidenced in these very logs, the process is just as trivially hackable as any other piece of imperial software -- asciilifeform gets the benefit of being a kronprinz without having as much as met this AllMother (and while bemoaning the whole time the unfai
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cuz they figure "you'll lead them to the terror cell" or some such nonsense.
mircea_popescu: i have 0 expectation it will do anythingf besides create a lot of idle wank in "law enforcement" circles.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "color their bits", the 2019 version of 1970s "grab 'em by the pussy."
mircea_popescu: i suppose the ~usecase is where dorks think they have a right to look into your bags because you are crossing a "border".
mircea_popescu: item could have a certain artful oldschool-cool air about it, if the key was dips.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's a q : how feasible/costly would it be to have an array of tiny switches ? say 32x8 ?
mircea_popescu: of course, microcode patches happen in the wild, so it's not entirely meritless.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, don't you remember this thing ? some dood went off deep end, that there's a cvasi-magical virus in his usb stick. cca 2015 vintage logs
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Firefox 50.0 32-bit on Linux << should be easy enough to test
mircea_popescu: is this more of that romanian fellow's "magical usb stick aliens" ?
mircea_popescu: |\n suppose you start by introducing yourself and showing the minimum awareness of republican process of using sane fucking pastebins.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather hang the moron flattering himself with "enemy" that tried to lose me a disk than either of these.
mircea_popescu: i don't even think there's anything wrong whatsoever with studying the damned thing. my reservations were strictly around investing any kind of "this is te republic's encryptodisk" flag on it\
mircea_popescu: i certainly see the point re "explore the space" ; and yes a serpent implemented as both eulora workhorse and verilog is better studied than just former.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so did you measure throughput of this thing ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform basically, if it fits in 1/3 of the chip ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it was just a throway oneliner ic ame up with while walking off a steak, sadly no more there.
mircea_popescu: i wont cry if every once in 256 cases you do an extra oaep that 50-50 might've not been needed.
mircea_popescu: ehehe " but really, why sweep the pink flamingos under the rug". spyked's like all smooth an' shit.
mircea_popescu slowly rediscovering ottoman 15th century techs here ;/
mircea_popescu: kinda half-considering starting jewelry workshop for slave labour... that'd be so great.
mircea_popescu: i wish i knew how they did that, incidentally. undentable fucking enamel.