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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for all i care he can make it work on a forth machine
mircea_popescu: (granted, an 80 yo man, i'm not serving a challenge - merely wondering)
mircea_popescu: i'd be veri curious to see a forth implementation of eulora client.
mircea_popescu: "But I'm game. Give me a problem with 1,000,000 lines of C. But don't expect me to read the C, I couldn't. And don't think I'll have to write 10,000 lines of Forth. Just give me the specs of the problem, and documentation of the interface."
mircea_popescu: not really realised much of the settlement, from what i gather, but nevertheless, people love to dream.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you lose, i got your own damned rng chips here.
mircea_popescu: but you know, just because you like a girl's tits is no cause to think she's got the worlds best hairdo.
mircea_popescu: rather than some sort of technical accomplishment per se.
mircea_popescu: and ALSO, i buy the theory that the principal reason chuck moore is mentioned by name is a successful eight digit settlement iwth intel
mircea_popescu: i was unimpressed reading about it originally, and i stay unimpressed.
mircea_popescu: "Then the 18 bits of the GA144. Don't be impressed. It is a stupid design error. At the time 18 bits static memory chips where in fashion." << i happen top buy this btw.
mircea_popescu: now you know what it feels like to be a cool kid, asciilifeform >D
mircea_popescu: first time i hear about this. consequently, i shan't be going.
mircea_popescu: the malnourished, inept population of the coast towns is so fucking ridiculous it'd be rather easy.
mircea_popescu: " As such, 5 of the 56 field offices operated by the FBI currently lack a computer scientist assigned to that office's Cyber Task Force."
mircea_popescu: 2. Next Generation Cyber Initiative (Next Gen Cyber) received USD$ 400.6 mn in Treasury funding in 2014 alone, which was used to employ 1`333 full-time positions including 756 agents.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "ddos" is you know, best effort kinda deal. just because you can't get through in 5 tries doesn't mean every one of the 50k or whatever many tries also failks.
mircea_popescu: so wait, are we upon meditation now unaccepting the previous consensus-y spot ?
mircea_popescu: what, now you're oBLIGEd to sign shit so people can use it ?
mircea_popescu: "Bacteria have no junk in their DNA. " << very false, actually. percent-wise, the junk-in-dna is perhaps the most stable parameter of life in general
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ok. i both read this before and i broadly agree with the man.
mircea_popescu: "Good Forth programmers reportedly don't use much of those. Good Forth programmers arrange things so that they flow on the stack. " this is mel redivivus innit. most pessimum!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform truth be told : do you find this interesting for any other reason than the vague whiff of a promise of perhaps allowing you toi make btc chips /
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i have to know the ascii value of ) to code in forth ?
mircea_popescu: "My VLSI tools take a chip from conception through testing. Perhaps 500 lines of source code. Cadence, Mentor Graphics do the same, more or less. With how much source/object code?"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo chetty spent two years for a result in parts no different.
mircea_popescu: but it does seem to me very much akin to a "hey, if you salt a fresh frog leg you can electrocute it into moving". cool! but instead i order my slaves to read and summarize for me!
mircea_popescu: problem is sapper keeps trying to change profession into me
mircea_popescu: sit there and debug off-by-one errors in a pile of asm ?
mircea_popescu: why would i make a "construct" in the language that does i+2
mircea_popescu: "If you can write 'if' in FORTH, then why restrict 44 yourself to the usual if/while/for/switch constructs? You want a construct that iterates 45 over every other element in a list of numbers? You can add it to the language."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some nodes may be like that, but it's necessarily going to be the exception not the rule
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform [...] microhammer << was just an early suggestion, no one's married to it.
mircea_popescu: jurov ie, like being in procust's bed, crushed by a giant to fit.
mircea_popescu: pruning the tree of all ulteriors that depend on an unclicked patch
mircea_popescu: and opbvciously, with a checkbox "allow this antecedent"
mircea_popescu: i knew this was a tooling problem mostly. pretty much 99% of all that's needed is already here.
mircea_popescu: trinque and with a bonus "click here for this patch" and "click here for this patch + all its antecedents" spew.
mircea_popescu: so basically ml as restateds + grapher in the sense of the above, svg (clickable) is really the definitive word on this ?