asciilifeform: ... or maybe with that mig9 rusting sadly in airport ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: say they were to vote 'nope' -- and usg wants parking spot anyway. with what they will shoot'em ? that 18th spanish cannon on the pit bull beach ?
asciilifeform: when caught in ordinary bear trap, where he can get lever purchase, he'll... open it
asciilifeform: astonishingly strong, too -- chain the tube to a fence, and some % of the time he'll walk away with the fence plank + tube
asciilifeform: ( interestingly, there's precisely 1 kind of trap that worx on him -- iron tube filled with bait, and trigger requires ~pull~, rather than push, he cannot pull with stick, ends up scooping it with bait an' pulling )
asciilifeform: raccoon -- crazy-smart , for a vermin, knows what a door is, knows sound of rifle bolt, even (i shit thee not) will defuse traps with sticks etc
asciilifeform: wolf supposedly has all kinds of interesting features, can learn even basic tactics, flanking, how to fell moose ( some populations of wolf can do moose, others not ) iirc
asciilifeform never worked with wolf, cannot meaningfully comment
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: Mocky's qatar reportage seems to suggest interesting hypothesis -- that can subtract 'flea and open society'(tm), and even 'aspirational class', and still have idjit deadend camelfuckistan in the sum register
asciilifeform: ( vhdl in 1st, verilog in 2nd paste )
asciilifeform: ( very sadly, there is not a vhdl eater for ice40. but when looking over subj 2w ago, i actually came to like vhdl, it's ~exactly ada syntax. )
asciilifeform: skip the captatio, it has example proggy in ea.
asciilifeform: i do expect mircea_popescu will say 'nah, we're in the 'make offer you can't refuse' biz', but seems like they refused, neh
asciilifeform: ( how exactly to persuade idjit orc king to build semiconductors , when just 2 or 3 oil wells spoodge out moar moolah than entire taiwan ic industry put together )
asciilifeform: ( subj, for the innocent , is simply this thing, a sheet of chemical strange that turns green when you push on it with plastic stake 'pencil', and takes a watch battery, so that when you hit red button it turns black again )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a completely textbook case, aha, of 'we pulled on the duct tape and after 2 tonnes of pull it comes off'
asciilifeform: fwiw i've massaged ffa to the point where it's fully static and the problem dun affect it any. but some of my other stuff (mmap) is hobbled by it.
asciilifeform: just about all the interesting ones, are, aha
asciilifeform: my aim is to eventually start patching these, rather than cranking out oddball workarounds.
asciilifeform: i.e. when gnat fails to deliver this, it is properly speaking a gnat bug.
asciilifeform: the standard specifically promises that restrictions can be applied to narrow sections of coad. therefore gotta be made to work!
asciilifeform: it isn't actually practical, as i currently understand, to build a large, nontrivial proggy with all of the restrict pragmas switched on.
asciilifeform: ( whereas troo static linkage does not )
asciilifeform: the latter suxx because it infects the caller with the full pragma-restrictiveness of the lib.
