asciilifeform: unrelatedly : hey mircea_popescu , didja have a torrent tracker ? i seem to recall in the log ( tho cannot find. ) or was it an in-house thingie strictly.

asciilifeform: incidentally i'll add that most published heathen ada proggies use c-style heapism, it isn't banned by the lang per se.

asciilifeform: Mocky collected the whole, iirc, set, i'ma link ftr to http://mocky.org/Log-Reference-Why-Ada/ .

asciilifeform: ( e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-26#1662671 , and other examples i documented in 2016-7 l0gz ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: i wonder if the fella knows just what's behind the door he's walked into.

asciilifeform: i admit that i'd be delighted to see apeloyee return ; he was '9000 level' useful d00d.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fwiw i do not know whether he tuned out entirely, or lurks, or which.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can count on fingers of 1 hand how many times i dig up on 'lone man net' sumthing useful, in a yr

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i won't know whether the 'constanttimeism litmus' actuallyworx, until i dredge up an iron where it outputs negative

asciilifeform: that thing has stupendously loud hdd, incidentally -- i can hear it from three rooms.

asciilifeform: when i started with adaism, i initially found the preservation of indexing in array-slices annoying. but then saw the wisdom, it whips programmer into having a much firmer grasp of wtf he is doing. ☟︎

asciilifeform: diana_coman: when you read ch10, you will find that i had to rewrite some of the basic arithm logic, so as to remove dependence on indexing.

asciilifeform: if diana_coman et al find instance where i deviated from said convention ( and not fixed in current spearhead ) -- i would like to know about it.

asciilifeform: imho the de-facto convention i proposed is reasonable tho -- if the array is a local creation, and its indexing is known, then to refer to it explicitly is permissible. otherwise, not.

asciilifeform: diana_coman: in fact i did ask; and happy to have it.

asciilifeform: i took the approach where i built the thing maximally-compactly, and then proceeded in direction of 'now let's make it go in less than geological time'.

asciilifeform: as i've said previously, ffa post-ch6 is largely an 'uglification' to buy usable performance on pc.

asciilifeform: diana_coman: where at all possible, i tried to use ~simpler~ algo than what was given by knuth. e.g. karatsuba without moving pivots.

asciilifeform: ftr i very much appreciate all nitpicks, even purely stylistic ones, an explicit objective of ffa is to be not only bug-free but entirely clean of sharp edges, to the extent possible on the available irons.

asciilifeform: given as the fella didn't end up sticking to republic, i dun expect we'll ever find out. ☟︎

asciilifeform: this, i do not know

asciilifeform: diana_coman: i fixed the links by hand, there were only a handful.

asciilifeform: but i'ma have to fix the links.

asciilifeform: diana_coman: i'ma have to fix by hand.

asciilifeform: diana_coman: hm , i thought phf had the older ones still in there

asciilifeform: aalso i spoke too soon, it stops mid through boot, dun see cd drive. ☟︎

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

asciilifeform: i only run into this when i pull ancient cursed irons from the dark depths.

asciilifeform: was hoping there was a simple 'vt220 rightnao' flag i overlooked.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-02#1883990 << fwiw i dun distinguish the 2 kabikus, both -- snoar from asciilifeform's pov ☝︎

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

asciilifeform: the spring in toy 'nagant' notably, was quite possibly stiffer than in actual nagant which i fired many yrs later

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-02#1883983 << i defo had various as a boy ☝︎

asciilifeform: came with buncha 'sample' dox crapola, but near as i can tell it's a snoar

asciilifeform: i've actually found decent (not constant time, but didn't need, it only checked sigs) rsatrons in malware samples -- kB or so of asm. it aint exactly mystery, how to bake

asciilifeform: what 'jobs' made of << i'm still stuck in 1990s, where they're 'made of' winblowz bugs..

asciilifeform: i thought it was a www '2.0' thingie

asciilifeform: until nao i had nfi there were ~app~ lol

asciilifeform: ok i cannot resist to bite; how does this work

asciilifeform: imho e.g. diddled pgp rng, is moar interesting than firefucks buffer overrun, the latter is used 9000/d but for whom is used the former i have nfi, it hasn't publicly leaked.

asciilifeform: eh the notion there from start was 'goodstuff is used sparingly'. but i've nfi where used.

asciilifeform: at some point i'ma do the bernsteinizer in straight asm. ( but this is ~9000th on the list of things-to-do atm )

asciilifeform: at some point if i can be arsed to read their sores, will find out what, specifically.