asciilifeform: it is very easy to produce tests like this, cuz ffa tapes can (elementarily) print ffa tapes. ( this is essential, is how e.g. key genning worx )
asciilifeform: ( and yes i'll be surprised if we dun find that somebody has a box with rotten nonecc ram , or similar, and exposed by this. )
asciilifeform: the correct answs to the test patterns will be same regardless of how modexp is performed, today or 100y from nao. so handy test.
asciilifeform: i dun presently own any examples of the last two mentioned irons, so gonna need some help (anybody have a ppc?)
asciilifeform: on utterly defective iron (under cosmic rays??) they will print eggogs, cuz answer of some modexp somewhere dun match the given.
asciilifeform: on defective (i.e. non-constanttime iron mul, or any other similar defect) they will give variant runtimes.
asciilifeform: on proper (i.e. constanttimeistic iron mul) irons, 'uniform' and 'slid' test vectors will give same (to within timer jitter) runtimes when fed to ffa (of either ch13 or ch14 variety.)☟︎
asciilifeform: these'll come in 2 variants (and for a selection of bitnesses) , 'uniform' and 'slid'; the former has 3 entirely FGistic args per modexp, and the latter also has'em shifted by random bitness (to give leading 0s, while excluding the prohibited div0 of 'mod 0' ) .
asciilifeform: ( they won't be in the vpatch, tho, cuz 50MB vpatch would be a sad joke )
asciilifeform: i'ma sign an' post these with the rest of the thing.
asciilifeform: also will double as platform litmus for constanttimeitude of iron mul etc.
asciilifeform in other noose, generating coupla 10k test vectors for ffa ch14b. theory is great, and 'test can reveal presence of bugs but not absence'(tm)(r), but imho gotta have these
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: at least 'tits' is still in biz ! (is it?)
asciilifeform: ( talk about longevity. turns out , PALs/GALs still used in all sortsa critical systems, errywhere, from nuke plant to bulldozer )
asciilifeform: the vendor, 'bp microsystems', interestingly still in biz. and STILL offers the dos proggy for dload!
asciilifeform: speaking of 'made in usa' weird : asciilifeform finally hunted down a rom burner that'll do those PALs : it's a 5kg behemoth that's driven by... dos box, via parallel port.
asciilifeform: feels exotic, almost like if were 'сделано в ссср'.
asciilifeform: it's pretty surreal experience, in asciilifeform's archaeology room , when going over pile of boards stamped 'made in usa'
asciilifeform: ameritardia boasts, what, 1 john stack ? who killed what, 1 night-shift usg janitor.
asciilifeform: ( iirc somewhere north of a thousand, just in warsaw )
asciilifeform: even the gassed jews, to this day infamous for boarding the trains 'orderly', nailed moar germans than this.
asciilifeform: cattle dun revolt, and castrated cattle dun even stampede. during obummer reign, police pushed, what, 10mil ameri-sads out of 'their' houses, which left to rot; and at cost of what, 1, 2 dead sheriffs ?
asciilifeform: presumably it's satisfying, tho i cannot fathom how.
asciilifeform: so stuck pushing the ones that make various arcade noises.
asciilifeform: d00d knows that if he tries to push buttons that are nominally connected to sumthing, will 'slip in bathtub' and replaced with bush III or whoever.
asciilifeform: iirc i said this after end of yr1 of trumpreich, 'guess what, still can't tell who is in white house by looking out of my window'. and can say it again at end of 2nd yr. machine is built for continuation of 'biz as usual' at all costs, and will work while it has physically with what.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'his' judges aint even his in any particular sense. ( observe that he had to appoint 'respectable' derps, rather than e.g. his own children or whatever loyals , to court )
asciilifeform: there's 0 on paper to keep him from 'you can have all the freisler trials you like, i'ma pardon erryone'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: d00d won't even use the few buttons that still connected to anyffing. (e.g. could've easily pardoned those derps of his that the pantsuits recently jailed )☟︎
asciilifeform: trinque: mcfood-eaters will 'revolt' (by whining on reddit, or, in best case, oregon-ranching around) , and even that strictly if mcfood supply interrupted.
asciilifeform: usg.red wants withdraw from viet^H^Hganistan like usg.blue wants withdraw from syria like flea wants dog to be washed.
asciilifeform: hey it's how they dethroned nixon. ( the unforgivable 'crime' was not the burglar derpery, but withdrawal from vietnam )
asciilifeform: i still suspect that proof won't 'Officially Count' cuz 'not pdf.' (tho hey, i have a coupla uniturds, and even a lolcat!111 )
asciilifeform: ( not even in the ridiculously 100bux/copy oxford press 'finite precision number systems and arithmetic' backbreaker for chip maker folx )
asciilifeform: it's funny, or perhaps only to asciilifeform , that one can buy a kilometre of dead tree, in multiple langs, re 'crypto', and not find this illustration therein.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: possibly in the orig 'bitcoin corrupts'(tm) thread ?
asciilifeform: intel managed to reintroduce log eggog !
asciilifeform: intel did 'even better', by rolling the field back to ~before time of babbage~, who, recall, managed to eat ~20% of brit empire budget simply on promise of baking ~log table~ without eggogs ( and , arguably in a kind of 19th c. bolix affair, succeeded but overran cost to death )
asciilifeform: that's what peddling 'just as good as actual cheese' does, in the end -- sets the table for 'hey i have a just-as-just-as-good , with flashier gui and endorsement from ibm' etc.
asciilifeform: from my pov it's hilariously funny, that rms et al ~set the table~ for microshit.
asciilifeform: ( and in same interval went from aston-martin to toyota price. and could've proceeded to motorcycle price if the co were run by smart folx.)
asciilifeform: lm was 'expensive' cuz hand-sewn from 74xxx. but just 4 yrs after rms went off to derp with unix, thing fit on single crystal, just like i386, it's the item in asciilifeform's vivisection table in fact.
asciilifeform: ( certainly not the 2 ~billion~ intel crapola put for tlb cache so that microshit can be slightly less molasses )
asciilifeform: it dun take THAT many moar transistors to build non-overflowable-arithm etc. iron.
asciilifeform: oughta have instead died trying to close that mg embrasure.
asciilifeform: and, like mircea_popescu , i also dun buy the excuse that 'lispm was expensive, i HAD to write kraft cheese for cheap micros'
asciilifeform: ( on actual lispm, in working condition, there was ~no such thing as 'crash' )
asciilifeform: for instance, asciilifeform has '9000' processes on this and other boxen, where uses 'screen+bash+etc for tards' even though theoretically 'could emacs' ( see also e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-03#1869024 ) , because they ~must not crash~ and emacs is unthreaded and hosable☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: in point of fact there are serious design flaws in emacs that make dog/flea separation extremely difficult. but iirc we already had that thread not long ago.
asciilifeform: some people dunlike dogs, for instance, and refer to'em as armored personnel carriers for fleas. in this case so happens that i like dog. so interested in whether mircea_popescu was going from a 'dogs, who needs'em' angle or spotted flea in particular.
asciilifeform: ( he's pretty close to full-bore snoar naodays, tho. i delouse that linkbar not nearly as often as oughta, beginning to suspect )
asciilifeform: rando blogger which i historically read for elispism.
asciilifeform: i can't think of any reason to tolerate. but i also dun have a from-the-ground replacement for emacs per se.
asciilifeform: 'embrace & extinguish'(tm)(r)(microshit central committee, 1990s)
asciilifeform: ( and the thing, as detailed at length in prev threads, is groaning under the weight of actual wreckers, who poettering-'obsoleted' the working, useful plugins and replaced with ruby, etc 'kraft cheese', e.g.,
asciilifeform: if maggot had never found emacs, as most do not, will maggot on top of sumthingelse.
asciilifeform: i suppose for certain kinds of people, 'hammer' is what you use to smash own thumb. for some other kinds, heads. but as far as i'm concerned it's for nails.
asciilifeform: it's an ordinary revolver. ( of very small calibre. )
asciilifeform: you can put whatever you like in an elisp, incl. shell callouts, just like in bash, noose at 11
asciilifeform: it could if it actually did same thing, lol
asciilifeform: afaik the 'golf clubs' people are 100% using actual microshit spreadshit, not emacses.
asciilifeform: there's euglena in the water, yes. but in this case mircea_popescu is seeing dust on microscope lens.
asciilifeform: i dun even ~like~ or use 'orgmode'. but must dispute the 'folx who write elisp proggies are destructive zombies and class enemy' blanket.
