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diana_coman: hm,
I don't yet see it that way but it'll become clear one way or another quite quickly
mircea_popescu:
i doubt the problem's etiquette. seems to me much deeper issue than that, civillian pantsuit expects anything can be taken in "at his own rate" because his personal golden veal promised him there will never be such a thing as the calling in this world.
mircea_popescu: and more generally, if it's a "oh, #trilema is item #608 on my list of 1850 vaguely maybe interesting items
i found on the internet, among which
i read to pass the time waiting for the bus or w/e" sorta affair forget about it altogether, there's 0 interest in supporting that kinda imbecility/pluralism/skepticism.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-12-16 10:22 amberglint:
I have a copy if you are interested in it
mircea_popescu:
i suppose the question might be a little like "why are they all in flip flops, terrible design, utterly inconvenient, how the fuck is every dumbass on fetlife amange to pick em". ie, "pick nothing, it's what they had at the store. ALL they had at the store."
mircea_popescu: if this is the result of some kind of signalling,
i'd like to know what the fuck.
mircea_popescu: no what
i'm saying is : poor & stupid kids in peripheral village somehow picked same bit of entirely indistinct and utterly useless&dysfunctional flotsam as ibm.
phf: asciilifeform, yeah
i just included the patches in case there's something interesting there (
i don't know what the overlap of patchsets is between machines)
phf: (there are some other hacks in genera-src, but
i don't want to investigate at the moment)
phf:
i think he took a bunch of macro photos of random parts, and wrote a zmachine version 0 emulators, which in itself can be noted, if the rest of it wasn't so obnoxious
phf:
i bought a barely used eizo cg243w from a russian guy. it was one of his last possessions (no work and didn't want to become a "corporate whore"), and he talked about how quality of everything went down and keeps going down and that you really only can trust 2009 hardware at the latest.
i wonder if there are more people like that hoarding their prized bolix, but without yet hitting the necessity to sell one.
phf: asciilifeform, that's entirely my impression. the xl that
i bought went at asking price, because ^ wasn't bidding, the rest of them were bought by the same guy, and he was bidding against a handful of desperados.
i suspect that the whole thing was a fluke, or rather the Rembrandt market was a combination of luck and skill on the part of dks
a111: Logged on 2014-01-19 19:38 asciilifeform: as a boy,
i read about an 18th c. book, 'Triple Power over the Forces of Hell'
mircea_popescu: precisely.
i have regular bowel movements that do not tend to interfere with my daily life ; but even so
i still spend most of the day doing other things.
mircea_popescu:
i've yet to encounter, this fabled wonder of the ages, the thinking man.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of variety out there, "
i have a cuck,
i'm marrying him" doesn't even top the scale.
mircea_popescu:
i thought we previously agreed last time any actual design work went into computing the year was 1979
mircea_popescu: Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc, just because he wants speed. << "
i asked him, he shrugged his shoulders and went 'well, at least my machine won't fucking take over the world.'"
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-15#1880894 << thinking of this and the whole sns/hp nonstop etc thing :
i suspect a large chunk of the way things went may be driven by a (naive, and not necessarily spoken) "what if machine becomes sentient and you cant' turn it off" phobia.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-12-15 05:39 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-14#1880861 << incidentally, if and when this pays off (which
i suspect it will), shall be lulzy to see the "oh, didn't happen, we did it first bla bla bla" morons.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-15 00:35 asciilifeform: incidentally,
i had potentially interesting notion: a modern-day digicam ccd, of e.g. 25 'megapixel', is just about dense enuff that one could take a meaningful xray of the ivory die, if one could be found that responds to xray..
a111: Logged on 2018-12-14 22:58 asciilifeform: ( didn't exist ~5y ago when
i last contemplated doing all of this )
a111: Logged on 2018-12-14 22:49 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu:
i'ma prolly end up xraying with own hands,
i dun trust heathen derps with the jools
danielpbarron: huh?
i am part of "a true church" -- idk where you got the idea
i left
phf:
i.e. get macivory working outside of macintosh context
phf: so you want to make a replica that plugs into same hardware?
i thought you'd want to do a fake mac harnes first?
phf: well, you'll still have to xray some, because
i barely have anything on macivory, but
i'll go over the scans this weekend.
i actually have (miracle of miracles) free weekend coming up
phf:
i still remember one of the cobol guys pulling out random bits from it on day one and going "
i can just pull a bunch of things and it keeps working"
phf: well,
i appreciated it in theory, didn't have enough active drive to grok it, nor the necessary background
phf: asciilifeform:
i worked on tandem for a bit (known by then as HP NonStop),
i appreciated the architecture, but entire software stack was cobol
BingoBoingo:
I dunno if that will work with your Russian physiology
mircea_popescu: but "here's the 256 serpent keys
i want you to pick amongst" is not.
mircea_popescu: do they check and signal when queue is fuller than some percentage <<
i expect the task manager will have to do this. not the wrapper, no.
mircea_popescu: "
I'm not even sure whether a sender/receiver should be in fact part of smg_comms" << while this has merit,
i'd still keep them in.
diana_coman: my implementation is just a bounded queue fifo, 1 item at a time in /out; and yes,
I looked again at Ada's standard stuff and
I could use
I think a bounded_synchronized_queue container but then it forces me to put/get full structure
diana_coman:
i.e. yes, it could have been implemented as mircea_popescu describes if
I didn't aim for this specifically
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, the way
I implemented it it's as asciilifeform says but the reason it is *this* data structure is because of intended use so linked to above
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, that's precisely why
I made it that way;
I suppose it's not clear there at all but yes - because processing of rsa/s is meant to be easily and entirely separated physically, aka machines
mircea_popescu: hm.
i suppose this is okay, really. scalable enough, if eventually we decide to get a s and a r machine, they'll just have their own queues and that's it.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman yes, certainly should provide whatever diagnosis tools and equipment you want.
i don't want to fill that in yet, it'll... come to you, as it happens :)