asciilifeform: and pretending otherwise would, imho, be counterproductive
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the point i was trying to get across is that we are nowhere near a point where folks who are not #b-a regulars can really get into the true meat of the matter
asciilifeform: incidentally there is nothing shameful in writing a commentary to another fella's patch
asciilifeform: but sadly i work in uranium mine and - not so much time, energy.
asciilifeform: i would dearly love to write a lengthy treatise to the ml on every single occasion
asciilifeform: srsly context was in the log. and the first time anybody asked, i linked to it.
asciilifeform: since ben_vulpes is unhappy with this pattern, the next time ~every~ therealbitcoin node grinds to a halt on account of some shitgnomery, i won't be staying up at 3am releasing a patch.
asciilifeform: folks who somehow thought that the ml has meaning outside of #b-a, and happened to show up and read ml in precisely the wrong three minutes - may have scratched their head in frustration
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: folks who were reading the fucking log, had zero problems.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the funny part isn't that folks didn't go straight there, but that 'here is a pill against your headaches from last month+.' '.....'
asciilifeform: 'srsly, how hard to build reactor! dig some shit out of the ground, rearrange it a bit'
asciilifeform: 'any other' only works like this if you're mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: never seen the horse with own eyes, and don't expect to live to.
asciilifeform: if it were mozart - i would see the other perspective, yes
asciilifeform: we aren't getting mozart for the bargain, no
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thing is, you gotta contend with the fact that to many folks, 'copyright' ~means~ britney and microshit
asciilifeform: the sensory bubbles in which u.s. folk walk around in at public places are astonishingly fine
asciilifeform: i can sit in a restaurant in dc with pet and loudly consider 'let's bring back hitler and make him 300 metres tall and feed him prime jew rib' and no one notices
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu and the 4 other mircea_popescus are watching the good shit, while from my perch it looks like the entire western culture went poof
asciilifeform: for all i know, this happened already long ago
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'textbooks' in this case being - once you reject the outright drivel and pediwikia printouts - dour and very terse, encyclopaedic overview of the basic maths, typically
asciilifeform: and ~still~ had even chances of blowing own head off
asciilifeform: yet virtually anyone who has ever done it, had to saw open six different existing incarnations and study
asciilifeform: and rsa is ~much~ simpler than, e.g., bitcoin.
asciilifeform: if you think that you can do it from a textbook, think again.
asciilifeform: onlooker: consider, for instance, the predicament of somebody trying to correctly implement plain old rsa algo.
asciilifeform: just to get a feel of what it is like
asciilifeform: n6: please consider reading kernighan and pike's 'the unix programming environment'
asciilifeform: n6: trying to get hand-fed through this gnarly and unpleasant process will be frustrating both to you and to others
asciilifeform: n6: you will have to think and study on your own for a while.
asciilifeform: n6: since nobody else is standing up to do it, i will tell you the bad news: it appears that you are not yet ready for a source-based linux system
