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mircea_popescu wonders if anyone in charlotte names their daughter charlotte
lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-12#1918035 << definitely. I'll have an hour or so during the afternoon if you want to meet somewhere in Charlotte ☝︎
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/06/two-tankers-allegedly-torpedoed-in-gulf-of-oman/ << Qntra -- Two Tankers Allegedly Torpedoed In Gulf Of Oman
asciilifeform: for 9000th time lol
mircea_popescu: "foss" today is basically working for microsoft but without pension/dental
asciilifeform: 'hostile text files' << the primacy crown, afaik, still goes to microshit , where these were a thing even in 1990s
asciilifeform also subscribes to the '19th c'-style pov, where 'asia == ricekingdoms'
mircea_popescu: india is no more asia than wyoming's west coast.
mircea_popescu: very evidently part of the shitty mdidle earth. in there with tadjikistan etc.
BingoBoingo: The way Mandarin insulates against the future is one asian problem. The other is Indianness and its languages have their own anting mechanisms.
mircea_popescu: it's the one historical heritage of indianess.
mircea_popescu: whole bureaucracy's pretty much that. which is funny, considering those "englightnened" fucks managed to ruin pretty much anything they got involved in.
BingoBoingo: Seriously 2020 is looking like India's Trump versus China's Biden
mircea_popescu: the sad fact of the matter's trump willy-nilly presides over teh make india great again.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: No one else was putting that very important name where it needed to go
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/06/british-home-secretary-sajid-javid-signs-order-to-extradite-julian-assange-to-united-states/ << Qntra -- British Home Secretary Sajid Javid Signs Order To Extradite Julian Assange To United States
BingoBoingo: Seriously why is eating config options from the input file a thing?
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/06/vim-and-neovim-vulnerable-to-code-execution-through-modelines-in-hostile-text-files/ << Qntra -- Vim And Neovim Vulnerable To Code Execution Through "Modelines" In Hostile Text Files
BingoBoingo: Probably too early to call it shutdown. Pivoting to Chinaware is going to take time after doing the wintel thing
mircea_popescu: called honsoon, to go with the longsoon theme of "supposedly" ?
asciilifeform did not test
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sounds not entirely unlike that other 'great again'(tm)
mircea_popescu: i expect what the fuck happened was -- this dude's mortgage being underwater, the bank clerks started making noises about selling his actual place. so he went "fuck you, ima do a tour, make like 100k or w/e i owe you schmucks, pay off the whole loan!!!"
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, bon jovi (obscure 90s act) is engaged in a "this house is not for sale" tour
mircea_popescu: you meant "i have to repay a coin" not "i have a coin to repay"
nicoleci: mircea_popescu, tyvm, glad you like it : )
Mocky: mircea_popescu: I don't have 1btc worth now, I have enough left over income to start buying on regular basis. Will still take a few months to amass the total.
mircea_popescu: haha nicoleci that was a lovely piece!
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 11:32 Mocky: i have a coin to repay mircea_popescu and now that i have what with to trade, expect to be a continuous bidder on piz auctions
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-06#1917493 << apparently i missed this. anyways, so you wanna settle now mockster ? or are you trading or what. ☝︎
feedbot: http://bimbo.club/2019/06/the-adventure-of-goosey-boy/ << Bimbo.Club -- The adventure of Goosey boy.
BingoBoingo: The confirmation though is the "español neutro" which means pointedly not Uruguayan
BingoBoingo: "En ese punto, la mujer encuestada le preguntó quién realiza la encuesta, a lo que el interlocutor asegura que la Fundación Latinoamericana para la Promoción de la Democracia. A continuación ella le preguntó si la fundación tenía sede en Uruguay, a lo que el encuestador respondió que sí. Pero esa fundación no tiene sitio web, ni forma alguna de contacto disponible. "
mircea_popescu: trinque, pretty cool. no big rush on this side, jsut tryna keep tabs pn things.
feedbot: http://thetarpit.org/posts/y05/093-hunchentoot-i.html << The Tar Pit -- A review of Hunchentoot's code history
asciilifeform: in asciilifeform's various benchmarkisms (ffalogy etc) found, unsurprisingly, that just about all observed variation in measured performance among current decade of x86 irons, is almost entirely proportional to cache size.
asciilifeform: btw this figure is in errybody's kindergarten textbook, but is ~extremely~ overoptimistic for electrical machine, where if you have long conductor, it also has capacitance & inductance, if you want to vary voltage on opposite end of it, you have to let it discharge... )
asciilifeform: ( recall that light in vacuum goes 30m / ns , and charge in solid conductor -- yet slower )
asciilifeform: errything after that, rolled it onto die
asciilifeform: e.g., last pc that i personally opened that had standalone sram for l2 cache, was a 486 dx2.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: from asciilifeform's archaeologies, got hypothesis that market for standalone srams is 99% for repair/reproduction of '80s-'90s designs -- current-day ic which require sram tend to 1) need a few kB, maybe a MB or 2 , and 2) include it on-die
BingoBoingo: Meanwhile in local lulz https://www.montevideo.com.uy/Noticias/Desde-su-implementacion-regulacion-de-Cannabis-arrebato-unos-US-25-millones-al-narco-uc721097 << Nothing of the sort. The folks who used to sling one dope now sling another dope.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 07:23 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-05#1917398 << nothing to laugh, it's exactly correct. the long standing slight margin on mining over trading is exactly this, "market participant voluntarily set cost of privacy".
asciilifeform: cuz they ~pay, lol
asciilifeform: could even say that erry piece of soft gets the irons that it deserves.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you can still buy all the 1980s-style srams (incl. rad-hard) you like, 128kB 10ns chip is about 4bux. these suffice for the icbms and wherever else folx actually care about bits staying put. what no one makes is sram that'd fit the bloat of 'modern' pc os etc.
asciilifeform: there's nothing physically impossible or even especially difficult about making gigantic sram -- you simply need 6 transistors for erry 1 that'd be in the dram yer replacing. simply, no one does.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i actually went through coupla hundred datashits in late '17, for various srams. after rejecting various 'pseudo' (i.e. internally dram, with built-in refresher) , left with buncha items, typically <=64MB, where in small print, if you actually use it as random access (i.e. not in long burst) it runs at 1995 speeds (7-15ns typically access)
asciilifeform: diana_coman: it makes sense, if it can't correct in O(1) cuz it has to interrupt a burst (all dram since mid-90s runs in long bursts much of the time, typically fill 1 or moar cache lines) then leaks via time.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i dug into this last yr, it is worse than uninitiated can picture, nobody's even making reasonably-sized sram (deliberately not counting here various 'pseudo-s' etc abominations)
diana_coman: from the paper so apparently yes, on ecc too
diana_coman: that require error correction are measurably slower than normal
diana_coman: information through a timing channel, where memory accesses
diana_coman: nature of the ECC correction algorithm typically exposes such
diana_coman: Unfortunately, as Cojocar et al. [13] show, the synchronous
BingoBoingo: Similarly there's a lack of SRAM and boards supporting it.
asciilifeform still doesn't grasp why is it that no one sells mobos where can use redundant (majoritated, rather than failover, the latter is dime a dozen) banks of ram.
asciilifeform: on the surface, seems to use the ecc corrector delay as sidechan
asciilifeform: also claims to work on ecc boxen, but asciilifeform not read $item yet and has nfi how substantial is claim
mircea_popescu: and here i thought that's just what it's for. severe case of who could've predicted!
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/06/rowhammer-being-used-to-read-from-vulnerable-ram/ << Qntra -- ROWHAMMER Being Used To Read From Vulnerable RAM
diana_coman: can't beat it for that part really :P
diana_coman: me is basically playing planeshift : torment
mircea_popescu: in other news, pillars of eternity is a fucking great "good old Infinity engine days". up there with planescape : torment i'd say (not as deliberately-artsy-quirky-???).
spyked: I'd made a small toy proggy to draw a mandelbrot set, zoom in etc. when the time came to show it, no one in the room even knew what a fractal was, although ~all~ the teachers there were math-informatics graduates
a111: Logged on 2019-06-11 21:38 diana_coman: well, the 18yo me at programming exam-to-get-qualification-diploma got told directly (out of prof's sheer exasperation I suppose): "next time, don't think that much!"
spyked: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-11#1917955 <-- lol, I had precisely the same experience! ☝︎
feedbot: http://trilema.com/2019/the-exceptionalist/ << Trilema -- The Exceptionalist
a111: Logged on 2019-05-13 18:27 lobbes: I may indeed take some time in the next months to make a trip down there at least. If anything to clear my head and sort some things out (plus, I've never met another Republican in the meat, so there is also that plus)
asciilifeform: for that matter afaik all the major shitcoinen have 'asicized' by nao iirc
asciilifeform for many yrs nao could not muster the giving-a-fuck to mine shitcoin
asciilifeform: age of cheap irons!1111 (on which to run... what? rainbow tables?)
asciilifeform: not much need for the 4kg of nvidia
asciilifeform suspects that the pre-05 gamez will work 100% with just the cpu renderer...
asciilifeform not tried
mircea_popescu: i got ~all the pre-2005 or so games. i got gothic, i got everything, 100s of titles. diablo 2.
asciilifeform: thrd really of interest to zombologist strictly, think too hard re 'point' and yer own brain will begin to leak.
mircea_popescu goes back to his vidya
mircea_popescu: so... yeah. whatever, i forget what the point was.
asciilifeform: incidentally the 'troo penguin' would imho be the ideal logo bird for linux
mircea_popescu: an' the relationship between THAT and the usgistani sadnesses is entirely like between historical penguin and extant penguin -- simple misnomerism.
asciilifeform: hey, spark of life left, e.g., ibm, 50y ago, still zombies on as 'hedge fund'. or for that matter, roman church, 1000y
mircea_popescu: but the relationship between the european university and the "found some cool shit, hit it with hammer, ran off with pieces to our troglodyte hovel" british college is iffy at best.
mircea_popescu: all of them, no exceptions, princeton of great fame, stanford, mit, what have you -- they survive as sovereign funds, exactly like china's (only much smaller, worse managed and with way shittier portofolios) with an entirely spuriously magic cap on. ☝︎
asciilifeform: i never saw it other than as fragmented fossils.
mircea_popescu: the penguin was long gone by the time they were sewing those disgusies.
asciilifeform: very briefly in late 'vhs' era there was such sea of usg money that a select few folx managed to embezzle a little and do something substantial. but all evaporated, or, worse, relabeled with 'correctly aryan' names
mircea_popescu: the us wanna-be oxfords are like you know, kids at the special needs preserve dressing up in penguin costumes.
asciilifeform: ftr i associate mit et al with (not only the infamous lightbulb) but the freak show described upstack, rather than with 'great researchers'
asciilifeform: there's little enuff left that it takes serious archaeology to even show that it was there, aha
mircea_popescu: i suppose lisp stands as a leftover of the time you speak of, so it must've existed.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, pretty much whole selling point by nao of the diploma, 'buy this here lottery ticket for cubanism'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect no later than '80s, and ~errybody involved prolly dead by nao of cirrhosis / joe stack / despair.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, very easy to get new business STAR!!!! from socialist machine. they pick one, "congrats son, now you're Cuban Mark VII"
asciilifeform: afaik no great biznis stars graduated from this, but Any Day Nao lol
mircea_popescu: i honestly don't recall a time anyone took cs for not-tradeschool.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: laff, but they opened a 'biznis cs' dept, for folx who ~can't count.
mircea_popescu: afaik all the "oh, not trade school, true universal education, APPLIED MATH!!!" hullaballoo ever produced was ~xml/wikipedia/that sorta thing. a lot of very overbearing, insufferable, nonsensically overspecified minutia.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik there aint even a wet stain left, of these pretensions, today
mircea_popescu: but... "if you're too dumb to make it in math and too lazy/weird to make it in business... CS IS YOUR TICKET TO FOOD!!!"