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thestringpuller: "RAND_poll seeds
the random number generator using a system-specific entropy source, which is /dev/urandom on UNIX-like operating systems" << so openssl default is PRNG??? RE: "The urandom device may lack sufficient entropy for your needs, and you might want
to reseed it immediately from /dev/random. On Unix and other operating systems
that provide
the block device, you can use RAND_load_file
to load directly from /dev/random."
mircea_popescu: openssl can't be
trusted
to actually use entropy in
the first place.
a111: Logged on 2014-08-12 02:19
TimSwanson: Because
that's how normal debates work
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Mine
thankfully does not. Selected
text
taken from catalog faq
BingoBoingo: Question: How do you reverse a ratcheting
tap and die handle?
jhvh1: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: "oh but mp... it puts my kids
through college. i got dental!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform $idiots here
takes values from {set of dorks working for usg
thinking dicking around with freenode connectivity does something}
mircea_popescu: imagine what $idiots could accomplish if
they put all
this pointless labour into actually doing something useful.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-18 20:20 mircea_popescu: it's i realise now, directly
the problem -
the snippetage. IF a language/method/package/abstract-item-whatever has a lot of "copy paste
this snippet" built around it,
then
the useless worms
that opened up and swallowed
the immense productive assets and limitless human ingenuity existing in america recognize it for
the business-world equivalent of
their schooldays :
THE HOLY CLIFF NOTES!!1
mircea_popescu: smatterings of "just because x I SHOULDNT HAVE
TO y" now and again
mircea_popescu: and "i just want
to" is
the mantra humming along, all of it.
mircea_popescu: functionalistic culture. "i don't have
to understand how fridge works as long as i know which door
to open" is
the first step
to "and
then i made
the hay airplane but presents didn't drop from sky" after all.
mircea_popescu: and so
they attempt
to built a career
through
the process and in
the manner
that built
their "education".
mircea_popescu: it's i realise now, directly
the problem -
the snippetage. IF a language/method/package/abstract-item-whatever has a lot of "copy paste
this snippet" built around it,
then
the useless worms
that opened up and swallowed
the immense productive assets and limitless human ingenuity existing in america recognize it for
the business-world equivalent of
their schooldays :
THE HOLY CLIFF NOTES!!1
☟︎ mircea_popescu: whereas "copy
this code snippet
to do json bro" is EVERYWHERE.,
mircea_popescu: same principle.
TO
THEM
they might as well not be
there, because in
the abstract
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall me
trying
to comprehend lisp and saying
the documentation is absent ?
mircea_popescu: but irl,
they just happen
to be items with vast online documentation. so a lot of dung
to snatch, as it were.
mircea_popescu: i suspect everyone kind-of knows
this which is why specific items such as "mysql" or "xml" or what have you are so heavy
tinged with aversity pheromones.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, yes, I
think asciilifeform is quite right
there - I *saw* "programmers" doing exactly
that in fact
a111: Logged on 2017-02-18 18:09 ben_vulpes: footnote 3 is a gorgeous little sentence, i don't
think i've ever seen
the like from a native english speaker
mircea_popescu: but it's ok,
they pay
their debt
to society by answering questions on experts sex change.
mircea_popescu: anyway asciilifeform has it,
the basically scour
the web for code snippets much like dung beetle.
mats: somehow not surprised both whiners
that appeared on
tv are black...
mats: you'd
think VA employees could distinguish .mil culture from a
threat of workplace violence
thestringpuller: it also happened recently iirc with
the konami-kojima incident (wherein konami stole his Fox engine)
thestringpuller: diana_coman
the sad
thing is all
the good gamedev code is sealed, especially after
the mid 2000's renderware incident with EA.
ben_vulpes: !!up
tarciboy who's your daddy and did he accomplish anything with himself?
ben_vulpes: footnote 3 is a gorgeous little sentence, i don't
think i've ever seen
the like from a native english speaker
☟︎ mod6: "they have oatmeal in
their heads"
diana_coman: and yes, fwiw I don't
think
they bothered with having anything in
their heads, not by
the looks of it: hey, it WORKS, right?
diana_coman: mod6, "tight coupling" would be a very ....british way of putting it: I
think
trinque has it
there with "rat king"
ben_vulpes: ahaha diana_coman i salute you
that is some serious archaeology
trinque: qt
thing itself was an abominable nightmare of a hacked
together carve-path drawing
tool
trinque: but also
there were plenty of idiots
that could not
think clearly about
the problem in
the abstract either, i.e.
there is a board, it is
to be carved along
these paths, so on
mod6: as far as
this knot of ps, or
the qt
thing?
trinque: and asciilifeform is right
that
the sheer mass of
the
thing made it impossible
to lift into one's head
trinque: I worked on a very sad qt project once upon a
time
mod6: the graph, suggests,
to me,
that
the entire
thing is very
tightly coupled.
trinque: and
they just let people walk around like
that!
trinque: imagine
that
this
tangling of classes happens in
the sinner skulls before disgracing code
diana_coman: aha, I had a bit of a look at ada but sadly no
time
to properly play around with it; I'm looking forward
though
to your ada implementations
diana_coman: hopefully won't end up
thrown
to
the lions
though :))
mod6: i
think
that kinda illustrates what you need
to contend with.
mod6: nice call graph
too.
mod6: well, someone may suppose
that you'd rather smashed in
the head with a simple rock, or
this here complex ax head.
diana_coman: I suppose I should be grateful it is done with numbers straight rather
than pointers
too
mod6: some nasty
type of pointer arithmatic or whatever 'eh?
mod6: my mind reels at what
the whole slot location mechinism.
mod6: so ya, sounds like
there is really no design pattern, or at lesat not a discernable one 'eh
diana_coman: sure,
they have classes and classes inheriting classes and so on and so forth, but as
to
the reasons for inheritance...
mod6: it sounds like
this is /far/ from such a design.
mod6: from
there, you would extend
the abstract hat, and provide whatever implementations required, including whatever x/y points or whatnot
to draw
the
thing...
diana_coman: it really
took me months
to accept
the evidence
that "abstract" is something entirely unknown
there
mod6: my mind boggles at how
they even have
this setup. for instance, in my mind, if you were going
to have say, 30 different
types of hats in
the game,
there would be a simple, abstract hat class.
mod6: i just read your article, nice write up. I'm stunned at what you're saying
there.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo is zcash even big enough
to warrant qntra ?
mircea_popescu: hopefully
this starts popping up in "rape" cases : your honor,
the seminal fluid was already mostly absorbed by
the alleged victim's uterus.