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scriba: Logged on 2016-09-20: [07:42:40] <mircea_popescu> http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160920/#19 << so reconfigure your head ; stop doing that, it's miserable for the republic and bad enough for you.☝︎☟
a111: Logged on 2016-09-20 07:42 mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160920/#19 << so reconfigure your head ; stop doing that, it's miserable for the republic and bad enough for you.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2016/full-loper-os-blogroll-review/#comment-119171 << queued.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-20: [07:41:28] <mircea_popescu> http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160920/#15 << not so ; the attitude as well as the possibility of success are of interest to the largest number of people speaking this language. especially if they currently don't know this. they may "proclaim irrelevant" whatever, but their green friend is interested in them.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-20: [07:35:31] <mircea_popescu> http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160920/#6 << nice! but asciilifeform consider fixing your urls, this ?p=blabla is for the dogs. and lafond i guess, but really, most yahoo thing one can do blogging.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: does your wp comments box support basic html tags (such as href)? (i know it supports them when posting comments from *within* wp's dashboard)
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: random line cited which includes some html tags.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-18: [21:26:27] <mircea_popescu> http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160918/#39 << sure. but obviously having both ends helps debug subtle corners and improves your control over the whole matter.☝︎
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: you mean join chan before cloak applied? yeah i know :/ will fix later. want to robustify things as a matter of priority
BingoBoingo: ty mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160919/#652 << remarkable how ahead of her time she was.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the failure to generate 1MB tx is promisetronic, not protocolic, though.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: imho section ix ought to link to ben_vulpes's mega-article on subj
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "dad i wanna get married" "honeybunch, you'll get old and your tits will sag and it'll suck. don't get married, it's a dead end" << LOL
asciilifeform: !~later tell mircea_popescu your new page's section IV oughta link to trb
asciilifeform: i ran into this caltrop when diffing my blocks with mircea_popescu's way back when
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fwiw, i have nfi what, if anything, is left there to see.
asciilifeform: speaking of which, did mircea_popescu ever visit town of barriloche ?
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-19: [17:19:45] <mircea_popescu> give kid as much rope to hang self with as kid can carry.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: your potential 'clean' and structurally-perfect philosophical pill will have same 0 effect as my 'dirty' one.
asciilifeform: depending on what kind of 'show' -- straight to (as mircea_popescu cited earlier) the good doctor godel
asciilifeform: precisely of the kind mircea_popescu and other sane folk decry
trinque: mircea_popescu: he is *not* replacing the underlying system and thus cannot avoid developing comprehensive knowledge of how *it* works before plonking whatever atop it and calling it something
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in point of fact, gabriel_laddel asked.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what is to be gained from ~not telling~ the kid that the dead end is a dead end ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it would if it could.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc the thread was about a pedestrian list of 'hardware we like'
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: "but you can't abstract over hardware"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> wait, literally ? cunt-0 ?! << On my box: hole0
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: that is correct. Hence enforcing a SINGLE hardware platform from which to generalize.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: the only way to learn that is by aptly named brute force.
gabriel_laddel: err, mircea_popescu about what?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how am i to know what it is on his box.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: the scary thing is that it worked.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i maintain a delousing spray strictly.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider emplacing the thing into the #t subjline
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-19: [14:52:01] <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: and bleeding'em from outside (for the sake of argument positing that they ~have~ an outside) is available to weak/poor/haremless/etc. ??
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and bleeding'em from outside (for the sake of argument positing that they ~have~ an outside) is available to weak/poor/haremless/etc. ??
a111: Logged on 2016-09-19 12:45 mircea_popescu: adlai how do you justify sticking around to yourself in that context ?
adlai: mircea_popescu: "justify sticking around"? i'm not sure i understand what you're asking
a111: Logged on 2016-09-17 19:35 mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160917/#546 << wait, did you bust some dude's face ?
a111: Logged on 2016-09-17 20:13 mircea_popescu: so i guess that's ANOTHER F for adlai ; to celebrate his first day back to "all day ircing".
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "what dat" is a pregnant americanism, as for the second sentence, you need a rewrite to parse?
a111: Logged on 2016-09-18 23:30 mircea_popescu: armed enough to be murdered for it ; not armed enough to keep angry mob at bay.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> lafond never heard how caesar died or what. << Historicaly common, but was uncommon among the fauna local to him historicaly.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "the logic of steel" wtf is he about ? << Early book of his.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-18 21:40 mircea_popescu: iirc in the early days of c-as-replacement-for-straight-asm it's exactly how compiler became a thing. "dude... fuck hardware."
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It happens
a111: Logged on 2016-09-17 19:51 mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160917/#562 << fwiw there's no psychotic ouverture of bipolar. 1st case mostly sounds as usgistan "let's call it something"/
a111: Logged on 2016-09-11 00:43 mircea_popescu: honestly, i think the people who abstract-and-code are idiots anyway. first, you do it by hand. then, you automate what you did. this way a) end up with something that actually works, and even without much design skill is well designed, by mother nature's help ; b) avoiud the trap of "i spent five engineer hours to save myself thirty three minutes of secretarial work over the course of ten years."
a111: Logged on 2016-09-17 21:07 mircea_popescu: phf to answer the "why asm" thing : because if at issue is to obtain a correct f(lisp) so as it produces the same asm as gcc(c) then we'd better have a good example of target "same asm". his approach is judicious.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu nailed.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-17 22:29 mircea_popescu: anachronism is universally the sign of an uneducated mind - in the blogger's case because he fails to account for the obvious case that "what if the only reason nothing happened is BECAUSE those people were there then ?" ; but in the general case as displayed by lamport also. it is ridiculous to pretend to science, logic and reason, and then to turn around and tell a story of the past in the terms of "here's what's left once
a111: Logged on 2016-09-17 21:14 mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160917/#1053 << you know, making a nic is not the end of the world.
framedr_ghetto: mircea_popescu: glasgow. eh, i'll be outta here this month next year, i think. weather and, you know, the whole wanna-be-empire-failed-island thing..
framedr_ghetto: mircea_popescu: it rejoins if it loses connection to freenode; it tries to re-self-voice if it detects it does not have voice anymore. it does not rejoin chan if it gets kicked. will be fixed.
framedr_ghetto: mircea_popescu: you in rome for real, or some elaborate etymological joke?
a111: Logged on 2016-09-17 06:31 adlai: the definition isn't watertight yet, since it counts somebody who starves due to famine as crazy... but then again, mircea_popescu counts poor somalians as stupid, so ~shrug~
a111: Logged on 2016-07-11 12:27 mircea_popescu: "If you are white, no positive, active role is left to you. Either you accommodate yourself to the unreasonable, or you play out your life in some futile back alley. You are doomed to this by the disgraceful history of your kind. Maybe it's fair, maybe it's not, but it is the way things are." << from another schmuck with a nobel prize.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ~built~ to be maximally static.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: poor model. dynamic system, like jet fighter, not static, like bridge.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-17 04:45 adlai: i thought the EFF was suing mircea_popescu
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 23:24 mircea_popescu: get in touch when you're here, i'll send someone to pick you up or such covertress .
a111: Logged on 2016-09-17 04:40 covertress: mircea_popescu: i regret to inform you that i will not be attending our dinner 26-Sept
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so - lulzy if you 'get lucky'
a111: Logged on 2016-09-17 04:24 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu et al: in other not-quite-noose, 'To every pair p, q of distinct primes there correspond 9 positive integers x no larger than pq such that x^c ≡ x mod (pq) for every odd positive integer c. Therefore these 9 messages x are unconcealable in any Rivest-Shamir-Adleman public key cryptosystem which has the product pq for its encoding modulus.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: interestingly enough, we had this thread prior to the 'block ciphers don't even exist' thread.
asciilifeform: let's do what mircea_popescu asked and work a concrete example.
asciilifeform: cue mircea_popescu: 'it works great on my t40! 640x480 is enough for anyone'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a good chunk of what i've done here since showing up is to try and fill in the gaps in the 'pioneer with arrows in his back' part of my www.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is documented, and you won't like it at all, e.g., here -- http://developer.amd.com/resources/developer-guides-manuals
phf: mircea_popescu: i missed the point
phf: mircea_popescu: well, from that perspective "no threads!!" is kind of irrelevant, because it's just less things to try and get operational on raw hardware. pretty sure nyef had to pull threads from sbcl when trying to get it running on raw hardware..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it dun work because, again, pc arch is retarded. the processors fight over the bus.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: believe or not, i thought of this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: understand, addition there is no longer 'ADD rax, rbx' but a pound of type bit checks and possible code paths on failure or type-promotion etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the two are really not comparable.
phf: mircea_popescu: people basically come to same conclusion, and then when it comes to putting in "2 years of living from inside an os without youtube" balk
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: try to understand that linux is barely a thing at runtime. whereas a lisp os has to make up for 10,001 idiocies of the hardware, e.g., lack of garbage collector, lack of type bits in every (yes) machine word that get tested on every (yes) arithmetic operation, etc.
asciilifeform: but mircea_popescu has it, the sane approach involves 0 c and 0 unix, and i came to this conclusion in '07.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they're dead ends.
phf: mircea_popescu: the real reason it's not been done is because it's fucking hard and nobody cared enough to spend the necessary man years
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the hardware is very literally shit. e.g., ever heard of acpi ?
phf: mircea_popescu: problem is that when you do a execution like ./foo on unix, ~unix~ expects "foo" to contain certain bits and do certain kind of work to appease unix upfront. that work is specific not to "x86" but to "linux v 1.1.2, compiled on full moon, by three blind monks"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is gonna be the fpga thread all over again, isnnit. fact is, the 10,001 man-years are not available, and certainly not six times every morning before breakfast.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the difficult part is 'which skank.' it isn't 1988 and there is no standard pc arch.
phf: mircea_popescu: that's not what the layer between os and lisp does in the case of sbcl/cmucl. it explicitly doesn't do primitives, because those are, like you said, written in lisp, that's compiled into native bytecode (using VOB's, i.e. chunks for assembly)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's the easy part
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in this context, folks often say 'vm' when they are really describing emulator of a sane cpu arch.
asciilifeform: aaaaaand this is how mircea_popescu arrives on the island where i sat in 2010.
phf: mircea_popescu: what would be the correct approach?
phf: mircea_popescu: so in order to bridge the gap between the two you need knowledge of both patterns. cmucl has knowledge of its own, it doesn't also want to have knowledge of all the shit that goes into gcc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we had a thread, but it would appear that original author of subj went into the jungle and never came out, so i dug out copy, https://web.archive.org/web/20111227150315/http://www.stripedgazelle.org/joey/dream.html << scheme r4rs interp. written in asm by hand.
phf: mircea_popescu: cmucl's assembly has a different pattern in order to support all the tricky-in-c-trivial-in-lisp code behaviors
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the equivalence, in practice, is a null - different structures take vastly disproportionate effort and moving parts to implement, depending on machine design.
phf: mircea_popescu: an assembly that result out of compilation is the problem
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: getting 10,001 pyramid slaves to hand-compile the compiler into asm with ~guaranteed same semantics~ as the original, isn't even a financial problem, it is problem with 'planet hasn't this number of people who can meaningfully participate'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do you recall the 'gnat is built with gnat' thread ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-02-05#1007663 ☝︎
phf: mircea_popescu: there's machine code in cmucl, the problem is bootstrapping.