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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '90s, to asciilifeform , era synonymous with the troo game.
mircea_popescu: honestly i don't mind owning the hardware.
asciilifeform: 'why the fuck did i just burn 2k dubloon to build box on which nao playing 'amiga' emulator gamez'
mircea_popescu: i can't help remembering the 90s.
asciilifeform: fwiw asciilifeform's 'i'ma build gamez box!11' adventure from 2y ago, ended very similarly to mircea_popescu's : that box is cold nao an' waiting for when asciilifeform next time needs to route a pcb
mircea_popescu: thing could mine more bitcoin than the damned things are worth.
asciilifeform: in re: those browser gamez -- the 1080 is 'shooting fly with cannon' for these, they'd happily run on e.g. rk (or prolly even 486..)
asciilifeform: both decade+ vintage , i think, by nao.
asciilifeform: afaik they had 2 playable gamez, 'halflife' and 'portal'.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's brother once had occasion to go there, and confirmed, it is there, and even oiled, turns..
asciilifeform: incidentally, re 'valve co.', and also elliotisms, didjaknow -- it appears to have been named for... an actual valve. as in, 1 of those nyc-style steam main valves, as big as a desk, it is ceremonially mounted in their house...
mircea_popescu: TRUE TRANSDERMAL MACHINE GUNNSING
asciilifeform: 'MERCENARIES TO KILL' << english-as-she-is-spoken(tm)(r) lel
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other trilema lulz -- http://mercenaries.pw
feedbot: http://trilema.com/2019/the-state-of-the-vidya-address/ << Trilema -- The "State of the Vidya" Address.
BingoBoingo: In the latest of local developments, yet another cop killed. Fourth this year, second this week. The Police officer
mircea_popescu: a ty!
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 06:39 mircea_popescu: hmm, did i even recount the sad story of that typically moronic clerk ?
mircea_popescu: yay tybm!
BingoBoingo: And the gut was wrong
asciilifeform: iirc the next-to-last
asciilifeform: iirc this was 1 of the 'elliott' pieces
BingoBoingo: Fuck, my gut says the year is 2014. I remember, can dig. My gut is also suggesting the Vessenes Bitcoin Foundation with a low probability.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, do you perchance happen to recall which trilema article had a gif of SLUT spelled in pink glitter ?
BingoBoingo: ^ From the taking the NO out of NOBUS files
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/06/exim-remotely-exploitable-most-machines-online-and-running-a-mail-transfer-agent-ready-to-run-other-peoples-code/ << Qntra -- Exim Remotely Exploitable: Most Machines Online And Running A Mail Transfer Agent Ready To Run Other People's Code
asciilifeform: potentially -- entirely diff. dope, in effect... if only gabriel_laddel were here, could answer this puzzler.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-05 18:06 asciilifeform: btw according to 1 source, the opium people were actually 'class-stratified' in that poorfucks smoked 'recycled' crud, containing moar morphine , and got stupider ( vs the elite, who took in 'prime' material, never heated previously )
asciilifeform: sounds rather like the http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-05#1858675 item ☝︎
BingoBoingo: The white stuff appears to mostly be "pasta base" i.e. solvent waste from cocaine processing that happens to have just enough cocaine to be marketable to the abjectly poor but not enough cocaine to economically recover for powdering.
BingoBoingo: What the police would call here "a warehouse"
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: By appearances this would be a "boca de pasta" that keeps the folks on the ground supplied.
asciilifeform: for what does ground level retailer need the mosin ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Depends on where they are on the pyramid. If they do retail in Uruguay, they only ever see small bills.
asciilifeform: ... evidently this is the 'new gen' of dope people, as pictured in mircea_popescu's piece
asciilifeform: wtf is with 'peso notes' , incidentally, i thought the One Troo Unit of underground currency were the benjie
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Most of the bustable drug trade appears to occur at the level of cuidadocoches and the immediate next level up. Would not be surprised if the rifle was acquired with 50 and 20 peso notes.
asciilifeform: ... and that .30 , it had to come long way from hitler's bunker
asciilifeform: mebbe all spent on that museum piece rifle
BingoBoingo: Possible. I'm inclined to suspect there weren't any big bills.
BingoBoingo: In local drug bust lols, Where are the big bills? http://archive.is/ar5MY
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 11:29 Mocky: this is theoretical, i'm not trying to build out my east coast trading volume. I think i'll be mostly buying here from auction
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-06#1917487 << I imagine there's not much room to be corrupting Raleigh or the East Coast USA one local trade at a time. In contrast each local trade in Uruguay can chip away at the USDubaloo position as the local reserve currency. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: Right now I'm inclined to see if we start getting the OTC market going here that -otc doesn't have
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 11:31 mircea_popescu: is this wrong, should i jus tstfu so as not to ruin the small trades for interested ppls ?
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-06#1917490 << The long USD position was during the recent market bottom. Now datacenter needs paid monthly again and I don't know if going USD long is the most prudent decision. Jurov put in a bid for the DC wire, and I'm curious if the bidding will get more heated near the end as it did with the smaller 500 USD auctions. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 11:33 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, BingoBoingo how's the status, are you rather short or rather long dubaloo liquidity ?
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-06#1917494 << Right now we are neither particularly short or long on dubaloos. Working on baking the statement. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-03-27 19:49 diana_coman: on that d1 intel from http://ossasepia.com/2019/02/28/zcx-vs-sjlj-data-set/#selection-113.0-113.85 the tests of eucrypt that generate a key pair take at times ~20 min, just to give an idea
asciilifeform could've sworn there was a thread, and not long ago, where diana_coman said on what iron this was done. but cannot nao find it in O(1) !
asciilifeform: iirc -- it is possible to run diana_coman's mechanism from a bottle. sadly i dun have enuff hands just nao , to attempt
asciilifeform: s b) diana_coman was using a live fg rather than bottle
asciilifeform: loox like diana_coman also used 2048b primes in test of diana_comantronic system ; 'A relatively short test run obtained 40 random primes of 2048 bits each in 13274 seconds in total (3.7 hours) meaning on average 331.85 seconds per prime (~6 minutes)' and diana_coman's 'winner' gets 16 shots; but caveats, a) we have diff iron ☟︎
asciilifeform: this experiment is fully reproducible by anyone with ch19 pressed and copy of the fg demo bin turd.
asciilifeform: for completeness : output from variant with only sections 1 .. 8 of the multiprimorial ; eight 2048bit primes in 4m10.188s . ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: 1 moar hypothesis : on boxes where very slow rng (e.g. fg unavailable ) or where heavily milked fg, generating e.g. ephemeral rsa privs with high frequency, economy may be much greater, as fewer doomed m-r shots means fewer '?' invocations for their witnesses gen.
asciilifeform: from either 632 / 535, subtract the 32 that the 'winner' consumes, to get # of m-r performed on eventually-rejected candidates.
asciilifeform: ftr almost all of that 1MB of bottled entropy, actually gets eaten in both runs (it is used not only to get candidates , recall, but to generate m-r witness for ea. shot of m-r )
asciilifeform: in the ordinary 2048bit primorial , 632 invocations of m-r ; in the elephant primorial, 535 .
asciilifeform: will need moar test.
asciilifeform: nao it ~is~ possible that in avg case ( again, if not obv, the above could easily be a fluke, given as whole algo is monte carlo ) there is greater economy.
asciilifeform: spoiler : economy not significant (in this ~one~, they are effectively one, rngistically) test , eight 2048bit 'prob primes' shat in 4m26.812s vs 3m52.591s respectively.
asciilifeform: primgen_multipart_primorial.peh ; conventional single-shot (equiv. to ch18c example) ; vs all 17 chunks of 32768-bit primorial .
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 12:05 asciilifeform: while on subj : http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/Mg63b/?raw=true << pieces of latest (not yet complete) experiment. when fed to a 32768bit peh run, produces the 32768-bit primorial (i.e. shows that the 17 2048bit cuts actually multiply to it )
a111: Logged on 2017-01-12 14:26 asciilifeform: '...suppose you drive down the highway and you suddenly want to go some nice place you saw just before you pass a forest. you veer off the road, plunge into the wilderness and promptly decide that you need four-wheel drive, a huge cutting device in front of your car, much better shock absorbers, a bigger engine that could actually run on swamp water instead of getting all drowned, and then need an amphibious vehicle to get across the
mircea_popescu: kinda how "feel fast" langs and all the rest ends up built -- all sorta morons and assorted chuckas perceiving roadblocks around them.
mircea_popescu: someone explained somewhere the popup-human interaction, drom the chairwarmer pov : "perceives it as roadblock, clicks it away like his grandfather cut a clearing through bushes"
asciilifeform: the most irritating numbskullism from this 1 imho is where he plugged his bot into human nick -- srsly, never noticed that no one else did this ? or, what, 'i'ma preshus snowflake and why shouldn't i'
asciilifeform: ( iirc claimed to have been tuned in silently for year+, even )
a111: 2019-05-16 <stjohn_piano_2> thanks asciilifeform for the !!up >> http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-16#1913645
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 12:15 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-06#1917468 << d00d has whole week+ to read the fuckign log
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-06#1917519 << two, actually. didn't you voice him mid-may ? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: can suspect them of anything but intelligence.
asciilifeform: and after that, the weird thing with 'let's make an alt-bullet from meat, digest it, and pretend did something to the orig' etc
mircea_popescu: mroe recently. back in 2014 it was a lot of "bullet is meat too!!!"
asciilifeform: enemy reaction to btc seems to resemble e.g. meat tryin' to digest an old bullet. 'maybe can't digest this but how about we coat it in immunoslime and maybe can pretend it aint there'
mircea_popescu: "nobody does ill willingly" ? gimme a fucking break, seems the better definition for average human / subhuman (no, the two aren't distinct or distinguishable) readily reduces to "does nothing but ill".
mircea_popescu: you know ? double standard to the moon, "i'm going to be cheeky towards the sovereign and submissive towards the pretender", utterly ass-backwards worldview.
asciilifeform: 'yak' is the primary moving part in the 'taking' mechanism, neh. ( or at least the antibody marker... )
mircea_popescu: or perhaps because the "adverage" human strictly exists to forward the agenda of the empire of stupid, doing exactly nothing else all day the fuck long, like other inferior animals live to forward their genetic code and naught else ?
mircea_popescu: about the ONE THING they can't fucking take, yak yak yak all over again. why, because "for everything else it goes without saying" ?
mircea_popescu: about anything else, that in fact their masters do so take, "real" estate, small business models, whatever -- not a peep.
mircea_popescu: which brings the matter full circle : all sorts of utterly impudent and entirely intolerable morons have historically produced oh-so-bright "protests" re bitcoin in the vein of "oh, our masters would take it if it were worth it anything"
asciilifeform: afaik it's the original item of this type aha
mircea_popescu: and take with a side helping of jerking around, of course. why not, it's free -- for them.
mircea_popescu: ][TAKE] the results, just as soon as there's something there to take.
mircea_popescu: as per that excellent ballas point, "if you're still working for the government, just with no pension" : usg.ebay is mroe than happy for you to do the difficult, risky and expensive part of its job (market research) -- and they'll gladly [http://trilema.com/2014/people-us-dollars-are-not-worth-a-fifth-of-a-bitcent-stop-selling/#selection-129.0-133.2
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-06#1917476 << oddly enuff asciilifeform always hated the search bar, and never used, it (or was it only in mine?) had irritating bug where your search string stick around on the display after use ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 07:30 mircea_popescu: i guess that means the forbearance window's also closed on that stjohn_piano_2 dork.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-06#1917468 << d00d has whole week+ to read the fuckign log ☝︎☟︎
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: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-06#1917460 << sorta why i see the asic thing as a serious failure. as i understand, the centralization of supply is extreme, and gettin' worse ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( e.g. paypalism : generally the 'they store errything and froze acct' is a when, not if )
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 07:21 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-05#1917393 << then briefly thereafter, fold altogether, once ebay figures them out.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-06#1917455 << this almost always happens. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-06-05 19:33 asciilifeform: output of subj, on the off-chance that anyone gives a damn.
asciilifeform: ( if wasn't clear -- output of above tape, is equal to http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-05#1917369 ) ☝︎
asciilifeform: timing tests gotta use a snapshotted FG bin always, otherwise the variation in fg piss rate obscures the item being measured.
asciilifeform: ( i.e. cat tape.peh | ./bin/peh 32768 32 100000 0 dulap_1m.bin , in this scheme all '?' output is taken from the supplied file )
asciilifeform: this will be to determine what is the diminishing-return point (gcd with 1, 2, ... , 17 pieces , for prefilter, and 1st 1MB from fg sample bin on nosuchlabs.com, for deterministic test; see what diff makes to the time needed to gen N primes )