asciilifeform: lol whatever happened to testing gadgets before firing in battlefield
asciilifeform: d the online payment processor Stripe each pledged to donate $50,000 a year to Koch’s project.' etc☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Feb. 5, 2015, 8:10 p.m.: After this article appeared, Werner Koch informed us that last week he was awarded a one-time grant of $60,000 from Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative. Werner told us he only received permission to disclose it after our article published. Meanwhile, since our story was posted, donations flooded Werner's website donation page and he reached his funding goal of $137,000. In addition, Facebook an
asciilifeform: i perma-welded it to 256bit cuz irc lines are short .
asciilifeform: ( bonus is that the ~output printing~ itself is constant-time, ha )
asciilifeform: pehbot is simply a wrapper around compiled ffa_calc , currently it gives closest possible picture to what you get if you ran the proggy itself locally.
asciilifeform: in cmdline work , the leading 0s actually make life easier ( can see if leading bit is in the expected place , etc )
asciilifeform: ( observe that input mechanism dun require the leading 0s )
asciilifeform: could, in principle ( could even discard leading 0s ) but i wrote the orig logic mircea_popescu-style, 'do not want spurious whitespaces'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: plox to elaborate ? broken up where
asciilifeform: see, i had picture that it's like potus visit to flyover states -- massive ding for local coffer (they offload as much of the cost as they can on podunk)
