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asciilifeform: (for folks who want a more 'upbeat' figure as an example for a leaf of living matter inside bureaucratic garbage compactor - try korolev.)
thestringpuller: i backed my trilema cookie up via gpg on a bunch of sites like dropbox
nubbins`: "Provincial budgeting has been off by an average of $800 million a year over the past seven years, largely due to inaccurate oil projections."
nubbins`: same outlook as social insurance (social security for yanqis), but from a different angle
nubbins`: govt coffers in a bad way as well: http://themuse.ca/2014/04/02/debt-and-unfunded-pension-liabilities-threaten-provinces-finances/
nubbins`: ok this was actually a couple years ago
nubbins`: i expect to see them vanish as a concern in my lifetime
mircea_popescu: meanwhile after 20 iterations of this, one every year and a half,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'build $widget-prime and try to pass off to chumpers as genuine $widget' <<< what else is the 80/20 software engineering approach than "build 80% of a functional program out of 20% of the budget and then try to pretend like we're selling it for "half price" ?
mircea_popescu: decimation: "NSA as an institution, however has become a TQM believer, born again in the gospel of Deming" <<< im not even sure anyone groks the botomless pit of lulz this otherwise truthful statement contains.
nubbins`: a polimedia venture
mircea_popescu: i guess we get to know what solipsism really is. turns out mp really doesn't give a shit as long as he himself can see his website.
nubbins`: anyway canada post says tomorrow, but i don't think a package is gonna get from a sort facility in nyc to your door in a day
nubbins`: incidentally, korg released the schematics for the synth as well as a couple others
nubbins`: has MIDI functionality built in, the only thing they didn't do was wire up a DIN port.
nubbins`: it's got a tiny chip inside to control a sequencer
xanthyos: made it like it was a huge issue to change my key now and i'm not up for it
ben_vulpes: clearly cohesion in operator interface was not a design goal for this machine.
nubbins`: coulda just put the dots there for a laff, i guess
nubbins`: what a beast
ben_vulpes: now that's a lathe
asciilifeform: nubbins`: knobs << yet another reason to own a lathe.
nubbins`: it was sound amplification that introduced me to the joy of a well-made knob
xanthyos: on a slow machine
xanthyos: i'm trying to generate a key now
Apocalyptic: why on earth would you generate a key outside of your system ?
gribble: (echangekey <keyid>) -- Changes your GPG registered key to <keyid>. <keyid> is a 16 digit key id, with or without the '0x' prefix. We look on servers listed in 'plugins.GPG.keyservers' config. You will be given a link to a page which contains a one time password encrypted with your key. Decrypt, and use the 'everify' command with it. You must be authenticated in order to use this (1 more message)
Apocalyptic: xanthyos, there's a ,,echangekey gribble command to change the associated key to your WoT account
xanthyos: blame danielpbarron for setting me up with a keybase.io gpg key when he recruited me
undata rolls up his newspaper, thonks a keybase.io user
undata: not bad terms for a loan between friends, otherwise...
xanthyos: last time i signed a contract the signature was around the whole contents
punkbot: ben_vulpes: Error: '<link' is not a valid http url.
xanthyos: ben_vulpes: i just googled "endeedify" adn the only 2 results were from assets log. i plan no endeedification for a .001 poker tournament
xanthyos: ;;rate thomas_d 2 really good at poker and gpg contract signing for a new guy.
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah, ssd's are a good example. and note that nearly all manufacturers neglect to make clear how they are driving their flash and what kind fo flash it is
asciilifeform: but i (or anyone else here) could sit for a week, coughing up examples of this, and not come close to running out
asciilifeform: where increased densities are presently being achieved in a way which guarantees a speedier death through ion migration
asciilifeform: one example, randomly pulled out of a hat, is 'solid state hard disk'
decimation: in fact, there's a parallel between the 'cisc' vs. 'risc' efficiency argument you make (efficient at what?) and the demingites (we make your people more efficient - details unimportant!)
decimation: "NSA as an institution, however has become a TQM believer, born again in the gospel of Deming"
xanthyos: ;;rate thomas_d 1 known on tinychat for a while. seals with clubs player.
mircea_popescu: a much better caption would be minsky with his eyes closed.
asciilifeform: i have personally only taken a swim in the larger tank, the former
mircea_popescu: not a matter of "permitted" per se.
mircea_popescu: ok, let me put this in a different light.
asciilifeform: about on par with a receipt for pizza at the office.
asciilifeform: (an internal report marked 'confidential' should be regarded as a public document for the purpose of this statement.)
asciilifeform: at any rate, i can imagine only with great difficulty that a usg cryptologist of any actual stature (that is, creator of, or even privy to, a 'crown jewel') would be permitted to make public so much as a newspaper ad for a dog walker, much less a document pertaining to his profession.
mircea_popescu: it is functionally impossible to make a release that works for *any* evnetual readers.
asciilifeform: reading the ancient 'cryptolog', i can almost hear a tone of voice
mircea_popescu: "we have a this which works and a that which sort-of works and is more expensive"
mircea_popescu: the reason the remnant is so insistent on "real world" vs "trolls" perhaps follows a simple calculation
asciilifeform: and how many of these chumps are chumped in a lecture hall, and not with paper?
asciilifeform: if question specifically concerns 'animal magnetism' - difficult to answer. most of the chumpatronic work involved, i doubt would win from this stratagem. i, for instance, have never (to my knowledge) been within musket distance of a live cryptographer (of whatever variety)
xanthyos: a person printing machine like from kafka's "in the penal colony"
asciilifeform: not being one of the designated chumps in question, i'd ask for a subverted greybeard. but i am not a doctor of chumpatronics, and may be naive here.
mircea_popescu: a nerdcore is roughly what "academia" is : adding words to specified idiocy to make it palatable. it's not a buncha derps, because CORE.
asciilifeform: what'd a 'nerdcore' anyway
mircea_popescu: supposing you have a person printing machine, can make them up to spec.
mircea_popescu: would you hire a man or a woman for this task ?
mircea_popescu: here's a q for you asciilifeform : if i were the big bad and you were my officer in charge of fucking nerdcore up, and the strategy was, "inject a person whom on the basis of sheer animal magnetism can be used to steer things ways",
mircea_popescu: "Don Beaver (Penn State), in another era, would have been a spellbinding charismatic preacher; young, dashing (he still wears a pony-tail), self-confident and glib, he has captured from Silvio Micali the leadership of the philosophic wing of the U.S. East Coast cryptanalytic community."
mircea_popescu: well the general idea is to spend a while reading the logs
Apocalyptic: <thomas_d> Do you usually need to wait a little while after exporting cert to server? // yes you do
thomas_d: I should introduce myself anyway my name is thomas dick I'm a noob
thomas_d: Do you usually need to wait a little while after exporting cert to server?
asciilifeform: 'Desmedt referred to a letter written by Marty Hellman criticizing NIST. I had all but forgotten about Hellman; he has not been active on cryptologic scene in many years, and I've always had doubts about his moral principles (by contrast, I regard Rivest as being above all this dirt).'
asciilifeform: it is by no means a complete picture, but gives the general idea.
asciilifeform: but even a gift of a solid gold toilet is no guarantee that the recipient of said gift won't prefer the kitchen sink.
asciilifeform: jurov: it is always possible to crap in the kitchen. but folks who own a toilet, typically do not.
jurov: okay i did not mean lisp as such, but the architecture as a whole
asciilifeform: native os was implemented in 'zetalisp', a symbolics-proprietary predecessor of modern common lisp, yes.
asciilifeform: sorta how a unix box with dynamic libs wishes it worked
asciilifeform: i cannot say for certain what these things would 'weigh' on such a machine, but can definitely bet that they would weigh considerably less (in terms of code complexity or sheer physical space) than on modern arch.
jurov: i once read a piece on what everything is expected of today's text input field - clipboard handling, mouse selection, bidi input, undo/redo, font redering,...
asciilifeform: there is a kind of 'bezzle' or, more precisely, 'dekulakization' dynamic involved, where cpu designers are really labouring to extend the life of idiot software ecosystem
asciilifeform: so, as described in my 'going nowhere' article, the modern winblows pc is in fact less efficient for virtually any practical purpose than its predecessors two decades earlier, despite a titanic amount of effort poured into the cpu micro-optimizations ☟︎
asciilifeform: for folks who are mystified by this thread, a 'risc' (reduced instruction set) cpu is typically one where 'instruction set fits in the back cover of your textbook.'
asciilifeform: x86 is a cisc (interestingly, the internals of modern x86 compatibles are pure risc, with emulation layer for the ancient crud baked on)
asciilifeform: kakobrekla is posting through time warp from 1985? i don't recall seeing 'risc' or 'cisc' mentioned on a crate, since, i don't know when
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: name a 'cisc' (that is, 'complete', or, in more practical terms, optimized for hand-written asm that is a minimum of pain to write -and- read) chip designed in recent years.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: but if you're thinking about the ancient 'risc vs cisc' debate, it isn't really any kind of contest today, as there is no architecture of past 20 yrs. or so design that could really be classified as a 'cisc'
ben_vulpes: if as you suspect it has to do with the cooccurrence of running out of memory and writing to bdb, i'll have to let it run for a while
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: got a wedge?
asciilifeform: or even 'a scanner darkly.'
kakobrekla: cant trust a redditard
mats_cd03: i wonder if kako has a proxy for assbot
mircea_popescu: * cazalla was raised a joho << o.O
punkman: mpex is a much better target
cazalla: you're not a threat, you're are like the buzzing of flies
bitbethelp: when operating a website you need to consider advanced persistent threats, such as yours truly
cazalla: bitbethelp, having a beer, cunt!
bitbethelp: here's a tip: people who want to get paid send along an address, like that dd4bc tard
punkman: bitbethelp: are you also the guy that claimed to have a bitbet hack a while back?
BingoBoingo: Oh well. It was a good run.
bitbethelp: just so you know, dd4btc is a tard
cazalla: once i hit my teens and refused to go and was willing to take a beating if it meant i could play doom, domino effect kicked in and family stopped going
cazalla: rare here as well, when i was around, my parents each lost a brother within 6 months so that opened the door for the jws to get their hooks in with the paradise earth bullshit
cazalla was raised a joho