asciilifeform: but every time i look at newton, i recall why it died, thing fits in ~no pocket.

asciilifeform: and every so often toy with the idea of getting one and cleaning it up

asciilifeform: i still miss the thing

asciilifeform: it was a reasonable simulacrum of handwriting, for short inputs, rather than a futile banging of your fingers against unresponsive surface

asciilifeform: so they do not damage themselves.

asciilifeform: folks with a propensity for this, used to be put in padded cell

asciilifeform: without a mechanical dampener, it is same as banging against the wall.

asciilifeform: or the touch screen idiocy

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: snore, for same reason as the laser keyboard of 10 yrs ago

asciilifeform: in all likelihood, the crock of shit was concocted with the aim of making us waste some cycles attempting to answer said q's.

asciilifeform: and what, precisely, kept him from having exact superset of sks, for that matter, i got quite a few which he did not.

asciilifeform: speaking of which, i'd still like to know where bock got all of those pubkeys that aren't in sks. ☟︎

asciilifeform: not any dumber than mitming my trb node.

asciilifeform: from my reading of the src, mp-wp does not materially differ from stock wp in this respect

asciilifeform: it pulls in the whole shitstack

asciilifeform: 1 is not any easier than 1,001

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: the usg that promulgates diddled ciphers which are then breakable with array of fpga, and the usg that puts my mail into the box across the street, are not same entity.

asciilifeform: (we know that ??? eats plenty of mains current, and requires titanic coolers, just like the old crays; and likewise that it does not consist wholly of stock x86 boxes.)

asciilifeform: after the demise of cray, the old machines were decommissioned, and replaced with ???

asciilifeform: i have nfi for what they are used, for all i know they glue them into a throne for hitler to sit in.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: xilinx and altera make $B+ of them / yr and they aren't going into tv sets etc.

asciilifeform: ask the fella with the intel and s33333r111t evidence, not me

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: recall that usg sits on top of egyptian pyramid - sized heap of fpga. why not, then, hijack an old, familiar scrypt-based altcoin, and proclaim 'see, YES WE CAN!111' etc ☟︎

asciilifeform: even 'deluxe paint II' for amiga (!) beats the shit out of gimp. ☟︎

asciilifeform: (anyone who brings up gimp immediately reveals himself as someone who never drew anything more complex than 'rageface')

asciilifeform: likewise there is no open drawing proggy worth half a sparrow's fart

asciilifeform: diana_coman: it is a trivial technical problem, that will likely never be solved, because there is no open cad proggy worth a sparrow's fart.

asciilifeform: 'validation is for distrustful terrorists'

asciilifeform: 'Adoption of Xtreme Thinblocks (Xthin) such that all implementations have interoperable fast block propagation. Results from recent testing involving nodes both inside and outside Mainland China indicates that blocks up to 20MB are manageable for the network.' << 'crock of shit will collapse overnight if clients actually try to validate mega-blox, so forget about it'

asciilifeform: 'we won't anally roger you, but we will insert this painless road cone, in advance, and you will not even feel it when it is replaced with cock'

asciilifeform: 'Making non-mining full nodes “fork-tolerant” by decoupling them from the miners with respect to the prevailing block size limit. There is no need for ordinary node owners to upgrade as and when miners do, or accept a risky “flag day” event. Bitcoin Unlimited already has fork-tolerant nodes via BUIP001 where non-mining nodes always track the longest Proof-of-Work chain, and are agnostic to block version resizing flags.' << l0

asciilifeform: shinohai: contingent of fresh shills? i did say, they will never run out

asciilifeform: diana_coman: i do, e.g., cad, and would like to be able to, say, rotate a part by pinning it with a pen, and turning the pen. but this does not, afaik, exist.

asciilifeform: you can move cursor, and that's ~it.

asciilifeform: diana_coman: it is possible to read the raw numbers from the pen, in linux, yes - even tilt angles. but afaik there is no proggy that usefully eats them.