20600+ entries in 0.008s
mircea_popescu: and looking back, wasn't that much trouble at all. just needed to be done. 20 bux, whassat.
mircea_popescu: afaik none of the other various pretenders managed as much.
mircea_popescu: in other MCGA, yest spent lunch at table with three girls, at upscale italian place where there were three girls total. on the left, tableful of dudes. on the right, tableful of dudes. nobody said as much as zip, though i was openly playing with tits over cacciucco.
mircea_popescu: there's absolutely no excuse for having "urandom" as a kernel signal. applications that both a) care about entropy debit over time and b) can get away with substituting shit for entropy should simply manage their entropy/shitropy interface in a dedicated thread. let it read from /dev/random, add however many bits of 11110000 they want whenever they want to and vomit the resulting cesspool as the app that spawned them demands.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there shall be ONE random. and if there isn't one, throw the shirt iron out with the garbage. and if there's "two", throw the "engineer" responsible out with the garbage.
mircea_popescu: (but, importantly, /dev/random === /dev/urandom is a fundamental ideological patch. fuck the fucking idiocy!)
mircea_popescu: i'm naively assuming it wouldn't, but in fairness haven't actually looked into the gnarl.
mircea_popescu: i don't get it. you have one (kernel) reading from tty putting it into /dev/?random ; and however many apps reading from there as now.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ahaha, ever been in a military coup before ?
mircea_popescu: so it turns out one of the greatest impediments wasn't so impending after all, huh.
mircea_popescu: "It was surreal having such a minimal and distant experience of so many places I’ve only heard about before." << ahaha pretty great line.
mircea_popescu: notably absent, the only countries with any actual future. because who'd have told these tards about 'em.
mircea_popescu: they'd better not fuck with him, these nigerio-nepalese azns. IF they know what's good for 'em.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha check him out, dude's got srs biker gear on and shit.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in "female interest" webtardation : "Areas of Interest Select all that apply. Vaginal Steaming Womb, Wine & Wellness Night Broth Lessons (individual or group) BROTHrive Membership".
mircea_popescu: it's funny how the neologisms of pantsuit are all "created last sunday", so to speak. "egotism" ? "altruism" ? meaningless drivel from the pap mills.
mircea_popescu: "Once (in those far-off peaceful days when men still had enough grammatical sense to know that the word "pacifist" does not exist, but that the less convenient "pacificist" does) " << lulz.
mircea_popescu: fwiw, the spamlulz ceased coupla days ago, #eulora prevails.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is way to add ppl to an autovoice list, +V or something, see teh freenode dox
mircea_popescu: Since I had already taken every other precaution but this to deserve their more fortunate fate, in changing my name I have, I hope, robbed my readers of their last excuse for my obscurity."
mircea_popescu: ers whose works would have been famous if only their names could have been familiarly pronounced--Polish and Russian writers for the most part, I gather.
mircea_popescu: "APOLOGIA PRO NOMINE MEO. Out of consideration (in part) to such readers as may read this book I have assumed a name by which they may refer to me (if ever he or she may wish to do so kindly) in the same manner at least twice running--a feat of pronunciation which few of my English acquaintances have performed with my natal name. But there is also another reason, considerate of the author. I have been told that there are writ
mircea_popescu: funny how rereads work! so back in 2013, i think all
http://trilema.com/2013/the-doctrine-of-total-depravity/ is "religion is bs". but today -- all it really says is that protestantism has fuckall to do with any kind of abstract faith. it was attempt to organize takeover from day one and naught else. the only protestant faith really is a sort of half-republic, "this is the instrumentality of taking over". nobody among their r
mircea_popescu: anyway, point being -- lamp's enough, don't have to turn off the chap's computor.
mircea_popescu: you know, boat crashes on amazon island. some of the sailors -- excited to be rescued. some others -- burned down rescuer ships.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the dog&man permutation duality translates escape-or-enslave dilemma.
mircea_popescu: yes well... great sf is always large scale dog bites man, imo.
mircea_popescu: "my phd in ancient history is -- the reason X civilisation died. turns out, physics subtly cvhanged, rendering environment uninhabitable for them"
mircea_popescu: this'd make a great sf-ish story : archeologist in far future uncovers remains of lost intergalactic civilisation,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is an amusing symmetry, republican machine that halts if it can't touch entropy like imperial machine that halts if it can't phone nsa hq.
mircea_popescu: not what we were talking about! still error condition.
mircea_popescu: unless there's further constraints, such as "all random numbers are 4"
mircea_popescu: though i've never seen this thing where parallel execution gets same clock value. i half suspect it's hardware fucked to not.
mircea_popescu: neither "add some entropy" nor "inline asm" strike me as bad solutions.
mircea_popescu: phf why do you even use it at all ? i mean... hash the time with a salt, that's your filename. no good ?
mircea_popescu: let me guess, this is like, the golden age of f&o&linus source ?
mircea_popescu: is a security risk. The race is avoided by mkstemp(3)."
mircea_popescu: ing whether the name exists and opening the file, every use of mktemp()
mircea_popescu: are easy to guess, and on the other hand there is a race between test‐
mircea_popescu: 26 different names can be returned. Since on the one hand the names
mircea_popescu: XXXXXX by the current process ID and a single letter, so that at most
mircea_popescu: Never use mktemp(). Some implementations follow 4.3BSD and replace
mircea_popescu: introduced in 2001. would explain why yt blisfully unaware.