asciilifeform: i'll add , tho, that for MB-sized integers, my 20th c algos are not optimal, you'd want e.g. schoenhage-strassen, fft, etc

asciilifeform: lolk

asciilifeform: ( but imho oughta be in asm, if anyone attempts )

asciilifeform: there's imho a niche for the above -- items like phuctor

asciilifeform: ... bignum with variable widths / heapistic alloc, built 100% for speed ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what exactly is an 'ada mpi' ? ( i.e. i assume it's diff from what i'm baking )

asciilifeform: gcc5ism.

asciilifeform: aha but entirely separate boojum.

asciilifeform: it turns >80col ln into a warning, does naught else.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-12#1871477 << gnat dun truncate lines. he gets the 'too long' warning because he cribbed my gpr config ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wondered in the past why blog comment boxes never come with 'post as txt' / 'post as htm' buttons

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-12#1871443 << inbandism ftw!11 ☝︎

asciilifeform: oh hm diana_coman already noted

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-12#1871437 >> << http://btcbase.org/log/2018-03-28#1790119 ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-12#1871431 << oh hey ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: cool

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: plox to test rk shortly, i gotta go to meat in ~20m

asciilifeform: boot up yer rk, BingoBoingo , and then http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/abcAC/?raw=true and lemme know.

asciilifeform: ok done

asciilifeform: ok will be ready in ~10m

asciilifeform: it lives on sd

asciilifeform: recall that kernel dun live on the hd

asciilifeform: btw BingoBoingo didja ever get the iptables kernel ?

asciilifeform: gimme 15m

asciilifeform: aite

asciilifeform: ok BingoBoingo you want stock 'F' ?

asciilifeform: make sure plox that it's the only drive plugged into dulap

asciilifeform: ok

asciilifeform: lemme know if you wanna do it yerself or the classic way.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: oh hey let's

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: aite. lemme know if you need asciilifeform to dig through own records

asciilifeform: i suppose they were right next to the worx of shakespeare and the amd launch coadez!11

asciilifeform: aa

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-11#1871342 << out of curiosity, BingoBoingo , didja simply strip off the 8th bit or wat, howdidja make'em ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-11#1871331 << loox great. next step will be to get all of the 'and then i got bitten by tsetse fly and then bought 3 hdd' minutiae published ☝︎

asciilifeform: ty BingoBoingo !

asciilifeform brb

asciilifeform: not outside the unix subsystem's stdio anyway

asciilifeform: when i have the choice, i'd rather write proggy to need no such cassettes ( observe, streams are not used in ffa )

asciilifeform: outside of that context, it is imho harmful abstraction, only gets in the way

asciilifeform: if you have a 'cassette' that contains some unknown number of variably-sized gibblets, e.g. bitcoin block, yer stuck with some form of stream (either ada's, or hand-sewn replacement, tho so far i am actually happy with ada's and see no need to sew replacement)

asciilifeform: defo not all, or anywhere near.

asciilifeform: diana_coman: it's the correct model for ~some~ devices

asciilifeform: i also used stream subclass to give automagic 'hash all the bytes that go through this wire' thing

asciilifeform: ( there's nuffin magic about 'stream' per se, it's just a thing that eats and shits bytes and has an internal fill-position counter )

asciilifeform: i used 'stream'ism where it actually made sense to do so, i.e. where otherwise would be stuck kludging together an adhoc reimplementation of stream

asciilifeform: diana_coman: the 'not worth writing 500 ln so that record can be eaten/shat in 1 line' formulation

asciilifeform: ( had stream-powered serializer-deserializer for the 'varint' type, errything else did diana_coman-style )

asciilifeform: diana_coman: fwiw it's exactly where i ended up drawing the line in 'nqb'

asciilifeform: ( originally calendar'd today to be spend in mathematical torture room, but this takes precedence )

asciilifeform: i'ma not wander too far from console today.

asciilifeform: but aite

asciilifeform: the complete set of raw inputs, really

asciilifeform aiming to grasp the correct end of this knife..

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lemme know when you have enuff that it is ready to be programmatized.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: imho loox pretty good

asciilifeform: mod6: i'ma work with BingoBoingo + ben_vulpes to get the spreadshit aligned & published; mod6 meanwhile srsly spend some time in a hammock

asciilifeform: mod6: msg is not 'give moar' , but 'catch breath'

asciilifeform: mod6: it's in the l0gz, recall, mircea_popescu was getting ready to tear off my epaulettes

asciilifeform: took coupla wks ~off, learned buncha hieroglyphs.

asciilifeform: i had similar moment last yr

asciilifeform: mod6: pour less, or rather, with less strain to health

asciilifeform: aaand it's summer there nao.

asciilifeform: ( it's a supremely relaxy place, asciilifeform recommends a+++ )

asciilifeform: mod6: consider srsly also BingoBoingo's earlier suggestion, of a coupla wks of low-stress vacation in BingoBoingostan

asciilifeform: mod6: take sabbatical if you must , but plox to rethink 'i'ma quit errything', you did the work of 6 men, and we're quite short of hands as it is

asciilifeform: ohey wb mod6

asciilifeform brb

asciilifeform: ( item will be , granted, thinkable only 1ce we have gossip + self-zeroizing hdd )

asciilifeform: imho it is entirely feasible , in principle, to bake these such that a usg.thief (or whatever other species) wins only a few hundy's worth of rusty irons, if he steals.

asciilifeform: a 20kg crate can carry enuff battery to power rk and any modems for ~week of mains outage.

asciilifeform: 'server' dun have to mean 'opteron graf zeppelin'

asciilifeform: but i will add, e.g. rk draws (and emits as heat naturally) ~7watt on a bad day.

asciilifeform: aircondition is not entirely irrelevant to server-wrangling, tho.

asciilifeform: aa lol

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was in re http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-11#1871192 minor subthread ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( e.g. , on my shelf i have a little demo with solid state gyro, lights a 'bang yer dead' symbolic lamp if picked up and moved ~half metre, but not if desk kicked / small earthquake )

asciilifeform: incidentally, unmanned 'dc in flat' is imho a potential useful application for ciphered/zeroized-on-disturbance hdd item discussed some wks ago. ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-11#1871157 << ftr BingoBoingo's history is correct, dulap I and II perished by orc hand ☝︎

asciilifeform: after that we use'em as handle in the spreadshit to refer to his acct.

asciilifeform: pgp each acct holder's bitz, to him.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-11#1871158 << it isn't clear to me that hashing is even needed -- issue to each customer a 256bit string (base64 it) out of a FG, that will be his pseudonym in the public spreadshit. ☝︎

asciilifeform: ty ben_vulpes

asciilifeform: and the duct tape replaced with proper steel welds.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: lol i dun need 'eased', i'ma be happy when the bug is fixed.

asciilifeform: i'll admit to having had this problem in the past, i read so much l0gz that they work into dreams when i sleep

asciilifeform: will have to go with 'cosmic ray in asciilifeform's head'

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if you swear there aint one, i'ma believe, because i so far have turned up no trace of it in my own records

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-11#1871149 << before that little subthread gets entirely lost in the cacophony of the moar urgent matters : mircea_popescu i also suspect that even without radio etc exotica, gossiptronic routing would give ~same connective reliability to e.g. a flat in kamchatka with 3 heathen isp pipes, as actual dc cage has today ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: ty ben_vulpes !

asciilifeform: i.e. should we wait for ben_vulpes function to return ? or must soldier on without

asciilifeform: i'ma crib a method from mircea_popescu : ben_vulpes how long do ya think you need to say ~whether you have info~ for us to work with

asciilifeform: what i specifically want to avoid, is the scenario where we 'ok ben_vulpes fix' and then month later we're moar-phucked

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ... this wk ?

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if you suspect the eggog was on your watch... do you think you can get the correct #s today ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mod6 either of you remember this existing ? did cosmic ray hit asciilifeform's head ??

asciilifeform: holy fuq

asciilifeform: am i hallucinating or wat

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i am vehehehery confused nao; i definitely recall a common lisp tabulator thing with numberz

asciilifeform brb,teatime