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cazalla: ;;later tell devthedev i changed a few things so that article is not overly promotional for altcoins or snapcard/wix
mircea_popescu: it is a pretty big part.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I sent it to Terry A Davis, perhaps he can be convinced to write Lisp...
assbot: Logged on 16-07-2014 20:32:30; mike_c: ok - compile a list of 20 blog posts from blogs.b-a that are appropriate to target. tweet one a day @ target.
gabriel_laddel: following up 20 post care package from #b-a blog roll http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-07-2014#758453 http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=EVPPZSYd ☝︎
mircea_popescu: and you bitch about the pile of turd that's c++/python software built on top of a c os ?
mircea_popescu: apparently stevieboy's idea of apt-get is a sort of mozilla
mircea_popescu: if you search for a generic term in their package manager and keep scrolling... eventually iot crashes
mircea_popescu: sooo... ipad has a memory leak
mircea_popescu: decimation a well that's a diff story. but the problem are the generous options then.
mircea_popescu: the traditional route is to pursue "sexy" mergers and go bankrupt a decade later. this is better for everyone.
kakobrekla: its a popular thing.
mircea_popescu: "I designed a 3 axis stepper-motor-driven milling machine 1996-1997 with a CAD/CAM package for a company I started called Home Automation and Robotic Equipment."
decimation: lol I tried to play dwarf fortress once, it seemed like a colassal waste of time, but amusing
decimation: The20YearIRCloud: it's safe to say that writing software that makes efficient use of 'modern' multicore chip designs is not a simple undertaking
The20YearIRCloud: Germany is trying to get their gold back as it was all held in Paris, london and NYC. Out of all the countries I think they have a pretty transparent gold program, and it's showing how dishonest the US is
The20YearIRCloud: I'm debating whether I want to get more BTC, PMs, or guns, or if I should balance what I have now a different way
decimation: The20YearIRCloud: clockless - ie no clock - a cpu which executes instructions at whatever speed its logic circuits can cycle their state
decimation: The20YearIRCloud: my opinion - silver is an industrial metal, gold is going to be replaced by bitcoin in the long run but is still a reasonable altcoin - but note that it is not independent of gov'ts with big vaults of the stuff
asciilifeform: decimation: someone did build a clockless 'arm' a few years ago, an israeli firm quietly sells it for military clients, it's a footnote mostly.
mircea_popescu: but since losethos has been mentioned : i do suspect ninjashogun is of a similar brand, without of course the technical ability.
decimation: it's not like there's a mystery about how to design an fpga
decimation: yeah that's a good point, why doesn't samsung or some chinese vendor bust this stuff up?
asciilifeform: decimation: problem is lack of fpga with documented layout, so you aren't chained to a vendor's turdware.
asciilifeform: e.g., you can lay out the equivalent of a '486' and get around that performance, but only if you have some idea of the actual physical topology of the circuit.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: do you have a link handy for the fellow who got pretty far?
gabriel_laddel: am I correct in assuming that documenting efforts in reverse engineering a particular xlinx model is illegal / will land one in trouble with usg?
asciilifeform: you can read an sdram spec by, e.g., 'micron' (i did) and implement a ddr2 sdram controller.
decimation: the problem is that one must compile a secret 'talmud' of RTL that can be written which will actually work, as opposed to being valid
asciilifeform: basically, fpga works, but all existing high-density examples are sold by scammers of a kind - who absolutely could not abide the buyer using these items as the schoolbook promised - 'reconfigurable computer'
asciilifeform: decimation: both 'xilinx' and 'altera' make the bulk of their profit by renting out the right to use 'cores' (as they call them) - libraries, to a normal person
asciilifeform: the serious fpga market (vs. 'lattice' & friends, who largely get used for minor glue logic) is a duopoly.
asciilifeform: and there is literally no alternative (other than 'altera' - who have a considerably fouler turd)
decimation: today I was using the xilinix ise - it's a piece of shit
asciilifeform: because 'xilinx' sells, by the tonne, a large fpga with built in 'ppc' cores.
asciilifeform: i'm assuming you want a specifically x86 variant for something.
asciilifeform: a few hundy of 'ebay' parts.
thestringpuller: ;;later tell nubbins` let me know when a good time to discuss a second order with you. i think we may have sold all 6 shirts.
asciilifeform: i've been trying, and failing, for some years, to get a hold of one (just one!) on the junk markets
decimation: I wish I could just connect a pipe from the sse register to my own fpga machine
asciilifeform: so, they'll update a pdf turd.
assbot: Logged on 01-10-2014 03:14:52; asciilifeform: so there is a mostly unwritten 'talmud' of differences between intel's manuals and the reality.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I'm at a loss for a better name. ALGOL, ~algol or algol is fine with me. Even their honorable ancestor was part of a fruitless evolutionary tree.
mircea_popescu: unfortunately ubiquitous crud like www <<< there's a major paradigm shift underplayed here. for approximately 1980 (kiler micro) to 2009, the ONLY utility of computing was www. with bitcoin, the www is a minor point, other things are major points now.
asciilifeform: this dignified the crud with name of a mostly honourable ancestor.
decimation: indeed, for instance from the yegge article: "We retired Mailman. That's because we have the Quality With a Name — namely, Suckiness. We suck. We couldn't find anyone who was good enough at Emacs-Lisp to make it work. "
gabriel_laddel: decimation: re, the problem with lisp... this isn't CL's problem, and not a real problem anyway. Compare to writing ~ALGOL on c-machine.
cazalla: btw, dude that runs that ezybit ran a now defunct seo company lol
penguirker: New blog post: http://qntra.net/2014/10/bitcoinezy-claims-ezy-bit-is-a-one-stop-shop-for-new-users/
asciilifeform: (his gizmo comes with a 'talk with god' proggy)
gabriel_laddel: It's a pity Terry doesn't frequent #b-a
mircea_popescu: i like how the b-a search function is self healing. not found anything ? try again!
assbot: 0 results for 'terry a davis' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=terry+a+davis
gabriel_laddel: !s terry a davis
mircea_popescu: it's not even a felony, it's outright treason.
asciilifeform: the whole concept of vast galley of slaves, fungible, working on a massive codebase, is fundamentally braindamaged.
ben_vulpes: marginal hires have a hard time hacking it in lisp shops.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel in practice that sort of manager is a dictator.
asciilifeform: one problem - there is not actually a programming language called 'lisp'.
mircea_popescu: "(yeah, there are a bunch) are going to have to realize that if Lisp is ever going to be massively successful, it needs an overhaul. Or maybe a revolution. Contrary to what some might tell you, it doesn't need a committee, and it doesn't need a bunch of money. Linux proved exactly the opposite. Lisp needs a benevolent dictator. Lisp needs to ditch the name "Lisp", since it scares people. And Lisp needs to learn from th
mircea_popescu: saying that the only thing this apple's good for is the pigs doesn't amount to a suggesting feeding the pigs.
assbot: Logged on 10-10-2014 00:22:32; mircea_popescu: the only conceivable purpose i can see for government would be to allocate limits. you want to write a facebook ? register with govt, get a 10k line/250kb limit. if you overrun it you get shot.
pete_dushenski: and ima a be off to the racquet club!
RagnarDanneskjol: I met caleb chen from ccn last weekend - seems like a nice kid and is fully cognizant of his site's derpidity - people are still eating it up, so he's all 'fuck it' - no incentive to do otherwise (besides lost dignity). apparently they have like 40 part-time writers 'on-staff'
asciilifeform: quite a few are stable at 0...
mircea_popescu: well, luckily you're not a codger, so who knows what the future brings.
mircea_popescu: "Perl will be gone soon, too. That's because a new language called Ruby has finally been translated into English."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd rather sit in a hazmat suit and read good prose than live in a meadow of paper.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: off like a bandit.
mircea_popescu: lol i stand to make a pretty penny there, don't i.
pete_dushenski: also the gap between brk-a and btc narrowed by, what, 5% today?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 10k line/250kb limit. if you overrun it you get shot << chuck moore (of 'forth' fame) seems kinda in favour of this. as am i. a kind of 'environmentalism' i've been advocating for many years (intellectual pollution doesn't blacken mere lungs. it makes everybody - stupider. measurably.) ☟︎
assbot: How A Bigger Blockchain Is Less Secure And Why Block Size Ain't Gonna Increase Any Time Soon | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski there, enjoy one more then. http://contravex.com/2014/10/07/how-a-bigger-blockchain-is-less-secure-and-why-block-size-aint-gonna-increase-any-time-soon/#comment-29734
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: ty for another comment! that post deserves a plaque for the names it's attracted.
asciilifeform: slightly different situation here. btc user without full node is just as likely to be walking around in a barrel, deluded by dope into thinking he's driving a car (like the characters in s. lem's 'futurological congress') ☟︎
pete_dushenski: "i have a car" (on lease for 48 months)
pete_dushenski: not, i suppose, as opposed to saying "a wife has me"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how does one say "i have a wife" ?
asciilifeform: (or at least, having a very good friend who does)
asciilifeform: how can one even make, with any serious logical certainty, a statement like 'i have one bitcoin' without running a full node?
mircea_popescu: (there's an extra bit in there, where people with a lot of exposure, financial, intellectual, emotional, w/e also run full nodes - but generally they also won't be following patently insane notions a la "let's make the blocks infinite")
asciilifeform: (short version of 'the camel' - prospective 'comp sci' students were given tests on basic things, e.g., 'a = 1, b = 2, a + b = ?' - and they separated into 2 groups, ones who had correct answrs. or at least consistent misconceptions - and ones who did not. the latter - turned out, unsurprisingly, to be unteachable.)
pete_dushenski: thankfully, i had made a back-up but i was pretty choked for a minute cuz the auto-save didn't include that last article about gavin's retardation
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: lol funny you should mention that… i was toying around with that this morning, trying to add a second sidebar column a la trilema and… i fucking borkt the whole thing.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski wouldja consider adding a recent comments list ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but three or four of his posts add up to a sort of treatise on perl
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: naggum never wrote a full anything, afaik, apart from 'a long and painful history of time'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did anyone write a full analysis of it, or just mention it in passing ?
pete_dushenski: "Gavin has done quite a lot for the bitcoin project, and is one of the few people who can credibly represent it to lay people. Still, I agree with the Romanian school inasmuch as the blockchain increase seems unnecessary and potentially disastrous to me. It’s inviting a fork that will not be honored by a large portion of the current hash power, and the current wallet balance. Thus it is a Bad Idea. What about side
pete_dushenski: this one by "zeke" was decidedly luzly from a few angles:
pete_dushenski: hmm. let me see if i can dig up a quote or two worth repeating...
pete_dushenski: mod6: ya, it was a fun last 48 hours :)
mircea_popescu: "Perl has the best marketing in the world. You could write a book about how brilliant their marketing is. Sun has marketed Java with money, and Perl is almost keeping up, popularity-wise, purely on the on sheer marketing brilliance of Larry Wall and his buddies. Folks at Harvard Business School should study Perl's marketing. It's astonishing."
mod6: saw a lot of action on your blog about that topic btcpete
pete_dushenski: TheNewDeal: surprised they didn't make a pitch to increase the blocksize limit << lol
mircea_popescu: a nm
mircea_popescu: the only conceivable purpose i can see for government would be to allocate limits. you want to write a facebook ? register with govt, get a 10k line/250kb limit. if you overrun it you get shot. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: through a string of perl ?
mircea_popescu: no. i mean the fact that you have a string stored, and an apparatus to retrieve and use it in place.