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phf: i always sort of assumed that harmoniums were brought to india by traveling european bums,
as an approximation of motherland culture, and stuck
mircea_popescu: yes. moreover, "thinking about my things
as things rather than
as extensions of my identity is VERY BAD SCARY AND EVIL"
mircea_popescu: but anyway, yes, phf has it, ~most if not all training for high performance human operator could be summarized
as "how to merge multistream in your head"
phf: those techniques are seen
as necessary in a situation that is suboptimal. yes, you need throttle and rudder, but it would've been better if you only had one
mircea_popescu: moreover, the point is that human brain is human brain and you're not changing it. it has ONE attention flow. you use it
as best you can.
phf: there's multiple training systems that are supposed to teach an operator how to deal with multiple inputs in high stress situations (like cockpit, or nuclear powerplant), and the techniques are all reduced to "how to perceive multiple streams
as a single stream"
mircea_popescu: you know, contrary to the tv version of blinkenlichten, in cockpit design, and ESPECIALLY for combat or any sort of emergency situation, more items are regarded
as a serious liability.
mircea_popescu: ~same
as heroin, in practice. "oh i feel so good and relaxed"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only thing this "tiling" bullshit does, in your case
as exemplified, and in general
as a matter of necessity, is that it allows you to hide your poor cognitive performance in minutious labour. IF you are encountering certain classes of problems (wood splinters in glans penis), it is because you are doing certain things wrong and should revise your process. a signal proper pagination does give you, and tiling
phf: mircea_popescu: i work a lot better with your method, but i also sometimes like to manually drag windows around in a particular arrangement
as a sort of distracted busy work. the only usecase i found for tiling wm is "full screen everything"
mircea_popescu: anyway ; anyone is free to jack off with whatever technique he prefers. let it be clearly stated though that a) underhand is perfectly valid and b) that the first time you were unsupervised
as a 9yo you did it with sharpened pencils does not mean sharpened pencisl are required to jack off.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-19 17:14 phf: the guy who invented tiling window managers (tuomo valkonen, he wrote Ion, that nobody probably remembers at this point), quit linux in 2005 or so over exactly these things. his pet peve was all the retardation that was going into x11
as part of linux on desktop movement. of course back then people laughed at him, etc.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-19 16:38 asciilifeform: a: 'We are rejecting this PR
as it introduces "Unacceptable Changes", see our breaking change contract. If you disagree with this resolution, you will need to start an RFC. Note that our RFC process currently states only team members may create a new RFC. Our intent is to open this up to the community at large, we'll be updating that repo very soon to clarify.'
mircea_popescu: the real situation doesn't enter into this, the fictitious situation
as presented by usg is the basis.
mircea_popescu:
as far
as the usg is concerned, germany is at peace, and moreover, an ally.
thestringpuller: well old mentor of mine found sleep to be his number one enemy. so he decided to just be on stimulants 24/7 and sleep minimally while staying up late programming assembly code or some non-sense. d00d is
as insane
as he is smart. okay anyhow he bought this condo, and at the time he was a Ph.D candidate and was like "Meth is awesome I hate sleep!"
thestringpuller: in a lab scenario when the DEA is busting in they just want to fuck you
as much
as they can because "FREE MONEY"
thestringpuller:
as dave chappelle says, we know the dope laws like lawyers. everytime we do something felonious, an old black dude pops out and says, "hey nigga thats 10-20"
mats: is it so simple
as - fuck usg?
phf: the guy who invented tiling window managers (tuomo valkonen, he wrote Ion, that nobody probably remembers at this point), quit linux in 2005 or so over exactly these things. his pet peve was all the retardation that was going into x11
as part of linux on desktop movement. of course back then people laughed at him, etc.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-08-19 12:39 PeterL:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-18#1524397 << this thing is informally known
as a MFP - if you flip it upside down it looks just like a "man fucking pig" (and grad students find humor in the weirdest things)
phf: i'd say peak free software happened around same time when drivers were still a massive problem. when i moved to this country somebody gave me a g3 ibook, which i used for years to run linux (until i finally caved and switched to os x). i remember spending
as much time on my fvwm
as i did patching orinoco drivers. in fact my first massive foray into kernel hacking was getting those orinoco drivers to work for specific combination of
a111: Logged on 2014-11-14 22:24 asciilifeform: (for n00bs only: who is 'lizard hitler' ? a character approximately
as real
as magnetic field lines were to michael faraday. don't look for magnetic field lines, they aren't there. physically. or
as far
as we can tell, anyway.)
phf: fwiw, i suspect there's
as many users of terrorist os
as there were in the 90s, or
as little. just a lot more users of microshit variety, and also users of obuntus and such, that scew the picture
mircea_popescu: so yes, vijay menon claimed in 2013 that his implementation of agrawal-kayal-saxena took 5k seconds for a 25 digit number ; and consequently we could expect
as much
as 1 minute/bit or cca 4k minutes for a tmrs-rsa key.
mircea_popescu: moreover, subtle errors in technology are best made evident with radically different approaches. "have both deterministic and non deterministic tests, notwithstanding IT IS PROVEN the latter converges" is substantially the same thought process
as produced phuctor.
mircea_popescu: once nsa runs out of budget for the project, they are still... "working", just
as they did before.
mircea_popescu: see, that's the thing with plowing flies : for
as long
as the plow appears to plow, they imagine their clicking through lolpics and whatever-not-irc-chat nonsense is "work"
mircea_popescu: ved there was victims, why did no one ask if I had bad experiences with Jake? This would have been easy given that Alison spent an hour alone with me in a cafe at the last TorDev meeting and had several communication channels with me. Also I have been at Isis' place several times in the last months
as I am dating her roommate Brennan" <<< MOTHERFUCKER. so what, i'm to watch low rent reruns of beverly hills 90201 now ? da fuck!
mod6: <asciilifeform> imho 'vdiff' ought to zap 'minus' changes in cases where an entire file turns 'FALSE' (absent) - they take up space for no reason, given
as we display a hash in the --- entry. what do you think ? << ah... ok. let me think about the impact of such a change here.
mircea_popescu: "But what happened is so unfair to so many people, in so many ways, that I cannot keep this for me." << this counts
as "i raise my arms, to either kill or be killed, but to no longer continue this life"
mircea_popescu: incidentally, what is with the redditarded generation, that whenever they have to do one of these important, man-talks-to-world, "soul searching" pieces they always come off
as utter dweebs speaking in a dreary monotone about really trivial, boring minutia ?
mircea_popescu: the willingness of the idiots to be used
as condoms is nothing short of staggering, even if it comes up in logs periodically.
mircea_popescu: "tor project", aka a bunch of nobodies posturing loudly, tolerated
as temporary willing astroturf cover for a nsa project.
mircea_popescu: rotten shitstack collapsed like a rotten shitstack the moment
as much
as a mild breeze of lolrape blew its way.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, halting problem is an excellent model for this, because it can always be phrased
as "well, am i done thinking and ready to act or will think some more ?"
mircea_popescu: anyway,
as per ancient aristotle observation, anything is sufficient algo, even blank string.
mircea_popescu:
as far
as fictions go, i'm also not going to do alice's wonderland or what have you.
ben_vulpes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2015-08-24#1249839 << the other way of looking at this is that "if hosting costs are a serious/worrisome part of your bottom line
as a web/mobile app operator either you fucked up and badly on provisioning, or you don't make enough money"
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
as any whore will tell you, a blowjob doesn't count if you don't make cocksucker eye contact.
mircea_popescu: i'm entirely at a loss
as to what'd it be useful, outside of what Framedragger tried to use it for - which it apparently fervently defends itself against using for
mircea_popescu: be this
as it may ; if it becomes a standard it'll either continue until we figure it out or mysteriously stop.
phf: mircea_popescu: having hard time finding relevant bits, since thread diverged many times. a long standing criticism of dpaste was "all these pastes are going to make log not
as useful", when ben_vulpes released his wotpaste there was discussion about expiration and how to mitigate it. fwiw i don't remember where it went from there
mircea_popescu: they use polya-vinogradov
as an example for how to get rid of cutoffs
mircea_popescu: html5 had a fighting chance
as "not just text" ; it lost. this shit is dumber still, with a larger ground to cover still, with less talent and intellectual capacity involved ; and with the corporate nonsense that formed the original impetuus, from apple "app store" to cisco via intel/amd fritzchips etc dying left and right. the bottom's already fell out of apple store, there's no revenue made, and all these idiots can go back
mircea_popescu: and do you know why it exists ? because it counts on grannies and alf to get confused by the content,
as if words have meaning OF THEMSELVES, not of context, and click/spread the link.
mircea_popescu: i thought providing keccak
as default is elegant ; but can also provide xoring scheme
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 12:32 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform since we're on this btw, the way i want tmsr-rsa key generation to work is
as follows : a contains a number of entropy bytes specified by user in tmsr-rsa.conf read whenever tmsr-rsa.conf specifies (such
as urandom); b contains a base-tmsr string specified by user. c = base-tmsr(a).b ; p = nextprime(cut(sha512(c),257)) ; process is repeated for q = nextprime (cut(sha512(c'),258));
lobbes: asciilifeform: I've been searching logz for thread regarding modern AMD cpu being almost
as subverted
as Intel's. you wouldn't happen to have good reading on the subject handy, would you?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently this wasn't
as nutty
as it seems - for some reason driving the plotter was a lot cheaper than actually having the machine compute the integral. i dun recall the specificx.
PeterL:
As undergraduate, I worked under one of the co-inventors, Dye
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller it's very simple : if the girl has anything to offer, the "disney princess" act is actually holding her back, and she'll drop it
as soon
as it's safe ; if she doesn't have anything to offer - ain't no one got time for that.