asciilifeform: it isn't used in bitcoin, no.

asciilifeform: forget after which date

asciilifeform: punkman: zlib is only demanded by the retarded version of boost

asciilifeform: so everything but the std libs is statically linked in

asciilifeform: [detail snipped]

asciilifeform: 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [ld-linux.so.3]

asciilifeform: 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6]

asciilifeform: 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libgcc_s.so.1]

asciilifeform: 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libm.so.6]

asciilifeform: 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libstdc++.so.6]

asciilifeform: 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libpthread.so.0]

asciilifeform: 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libdl.so.2]

asciilifeform: Tag Type Name/Value

asciilifeform: Dynamic section at offset 0x3f3874 contains 32 entries:

asciilifeform: $ armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi-readelf --dynamic bitcoind-armv5-bastard

asciilifeform: mod6: did check the elf

asciilifeform: mod6: odd. because i ended up with proper static linking

asciilifeform: just what the doctor ordered for proggys whose behaviour (and error modes) must follow rigorous spec, or user - dies.

asciilifeform: ^ without requiring a bulky 'runtime'

asciilifeform: buffer overflows, pointer fandango, etc. - are impossible

asciilifeform: (in traditional implementations)

asciilifeform: for instance, all error messages refer to a page in the rationale book

asciilifeform: there are interesting things to be learned from the ada approach, if you can pinch your nose and get past the 'ick factor'

asciilifeform: you more or less have to present a smoking cratered cpu to make others believe in 'it was the hardware'

asciilifeform: because it can be reliably blamed on softs.

asciilifeform: situation today is that most folks would not even notice a promise broken by hardware

asciilifeform: in being tremendously unpleasant to work in

asciilifeform: it is more or less the antithesis of the 'hip language'

asciilifeform: i advise folks to learn enough ada to understand why something quite like it is necessary.

asciilifeform: (no big surprise to folks accustomed to gcc)

asciilifeform: thing is mainly architecture-agnostic, interestingly

asciilifeform: an ancient usg

asciilifeform: or rather, the ada component of gcc is based on the ancient usg-commissioned thing

asciilifeform: decimation: actually - they do

asciilifeform: avionics, power plant controls, the like - systems whose failure reliably produces piles of corpses and messy 'pr' - are still very heavy on ada.

asciilifeform: decimation: usg, interestingly, did not entirely abandon. but under pressure from microshit (primarily) relaxed the ancient laws

asciilifeform: (pet peeve of mine - 'lisp' (or worse, the '60s-ism LISP) is a hopelessly nonspecific term that encompasses languages that differ from one another far more even than 'algol' differs from 'c')

asciilifeform: and yes - ada.

asciilifeform: common lisp

asciilifeform: two and only two.

asciilifeform: who wants to laugh, but there are precisely two programming languages in existence which are 1) standardized and 2) you can -actually write complete systems- using -the language described in the standard-

asciilifeform: 'hello world'

asciilifeform: if not about gnat, the overall state of decay.

asciilifeform: ^ does anyone other than me care

asciilifeform: re: gnat: 4.6.4 builds but actually attempting to use yields 'gnatgcc: fatal error: -fuse-linker-plugin, but liblto_plugin.so not found'

asciilifeform unable to think of, much less find on net, any possible justification for this

asciilifeform: some demented builder

asciilifeform: *what

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: who sells this? and can you describe that it looked like ?

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: wai wat !?! where did you see a freezer with an air inlet hose, and can you swear that you were sober ?

asciilifeform: unrelated, gnat-gcc-4.6.4 does in fact build.

asciilifeform: (when else does fat of the prisoner play a part)

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i expected the 'request' to be for hanging rather than electric chair, or the like

asciilifeform: or if kitchen gas - then yes

asciilifeform: his gas bill will be complimentary of usg

asciilifeform: qntra article << wai wat, there are/were actual companies registered in virgin islands? not merely mail boxes for sp4mz0rz ?

asciilifeform: but how much

asciilifeform: presumably

asciilifeform: punkman: 50eu per head << what are they worth, approximately ?

asciilifeform: put the bull back in his yoke

asciilifeform: when it sums to harmless.

asciilifeform: by wishing really hard ?

asciilifeform: how do you suppose they line up the pliant judges

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: or a judge that 'needed to have problems' for some reason unknown to us

asciilifeform: ^ l0l!

asciilifeform: 'The attorney for Charles Plumpp said Weisenberger arrested and jailed her client, who is African American, on the nonexistence charge of "roaming livestock."'

asciilifeform: mats: you just met this ?!!

asciilifeform: in as much as he too would rather be elsewhere - aye

asciilifeform: though, strictly speaking there are two activities (the other being that of the meatpuppeteer, of course)

asciilifeform: aka meatpuppetry.

asciilifeform: ^ the activity shown in the chinese photo, in particular, yes.

asciilifeform: wat

asciilifeform: 'nethack' and other 'roguelikes' (anyone recall 'angband' ?) are sorta timeless

asciilifeform: thestringpuller so usa-centric

asciilifeform: 60s - solved gnarly integrals for phun

asciilifeform: 70s - 'advent'

asciilifeform: 90s - scarcely clutch

asciilifeform: 80s - rogue

asciilifeform: wai, where

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: at the dentistinquisitioner's

asciilifeform: srsly, i'm pretty sure i've had that very gag in

asciilifeform: or drill

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: no cock in the photo

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that just looks like an ordinary day at the dentist's.

asciilifeform: not many birches in gringolandia though

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: need the right thickness.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: birch works too

asciilifeform: and the arse it was born to slide into.

asciilifeform: think about that tree.

asciilifeform: ever time you sit down and submit a patch to something-or-other, knowing that it might silently break proggys used by actual people,

asciilifeform: (the stump, that is)

asciilifeform: that will one day be cut down, at around two metre's height, and sharpened.

asciilifeform: ^ message to all shitgnomes: somewhere, in a forest, a pine tree is growing

asciilifeform: ^ yes, apparently documented bug

asciilifeform: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536124

asciilifeform wonders if he's the only fella here who has never rage-smashed a keyboard, pNohe, pNablet, ..., etc

asciilifeform: iirc, mircea_popescu is also a 'smasher'

asciilifeform: cazalla: for our edification, care to describe the burst of anger ?