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mircea_popescu: his work, on
the machines, is actually quite lispy. in
the ONLY UPPERCASE EXISTS sense of lispy
mircea_popescu: he did, yes, but i won't count it because at his
time (40s) he had no other options.
mircea_popescu: the difference between a
thinking man and a hack is
that a hack goes "hey, i can't explain
this without a blackboard"
mircea_popescu: so did newton. so did all of
them. so did fucking feynman which is WHY youadmire him
mircea_popescu: don't idly suppose you're better
than
the greeks just because you have more maggots eating more cans of spam.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you will note
THEY ALSO DID NOT NEED
TO.
mircea_popescu: now what's
the symbol for hypotenuse ? or do we not know
this exists.
ben_vulpes: "fuck it why even
try" << motherfucking gold
BingoBoingo: Note for everyone submitting stories about fiat matters for Qntra in 2016. "Sorry for your loss" is a welcome and encouraged way
to end a piece.
BingoBoingo: But generally when it comes
to keys, HUGE is good
BingoBoingo: Tomiii: Well,
the general downsides of ECC. At least in Bitcoin
the public key isn't even public unless an address has spent a
transaction.
Tomiii: BingoBoingo: what are
the downsides of ECC in gpg?
danielpbarron: "If it's worth upgrading, it wasn't worth using in
the first place." (TM)
BingoBoingo: Tomiii: It should be possible in
theory, but why seems iffy.
danielpbarron: can I encrypt a message
to your bitcoin private key?
BingoBoingo: is completley different
types of math. Factoring versus elliptics curves involving lines and shit.
Tomiii: pretty funny
that PGP is lagging behind bitcoin, when it had like 30-year head-start
BingoBoingo: Generating GPG keys
that don't suck is hard because RSA encryption is decrypted by division.
Too easy
to divide, falls. ECDSA in Bitcoin gets more breathing room for now because not as straight forward.
Tomiii: BingoBoingo: people said
the same
thing about determinstic wallets in bitcoin (at first), but now
they are pretty popular
Tomiii: or also, how
to make a "brain wallet" for a single GPG privkey, or even a Seed?
punkman: maybe
The Collegiate Licensing Company said elephant would sell well
BingoBoingo: I still have no idea why
their mascot is an elephant
punkman: "Roll
Tide is
the rallying cry for
the Alabama Crimson
Tide athletic
teams.
The
trademark
to
the phrase is claimed by
the University of Alabama, with licensing and marketing by
The Collegiate Licensing Company."
BingoBoingo: In other news Alabama won
the National Championship with an onside kick. Anyone looking for
the video is advised
to find
the Russian audio commentators for maximum excitement, Roll
Tide.
punkman: "County Judge Steve Grasty says he intends
to bill Ammon Bundy for $60k
to $75k in daily county costs due
to occupation."
BingoBoingo: "Prime95, which has historically been used
to benchmark and stress-test computers, uses Fast Fourier
Transforms
to multiply extremely large numbers. A particular exponent size, 14,942,209, has been found
to cause
the system crashes."
pete_dushenski: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu "acorss" lurking in your last piece
BingoBoingo: I left out
the L or did I do
that and need
to capitalize
the whole
thing?
mats: also, you misspelled
the instruction in qntra piece
ben_vulpes: my personal phone goal is an engineering
team
that is on call so
that i don't have
to have a phone
☟︎ pete_dushenski: but since no one else on god's green earth actually uses
this set-up, it's probably a moot point
pete_dushenski: for my part on
the phone-comp sync experiments, i'm pleased
to report
that
the razr syncs like a charm via 10.6 'isync' once contacts are moved from sim storage
to phone storage.
the catch being
that your next phone would also have
to sync using 'isync' or else you'll have
to switch
the contact back
to sim storage before changing phones.
mats: why not just modify 'CLFLUSH'
to do
the same
thing as 'CLFLUSHOPT'
ben_vulpes: man
these greentexts do not even resemble
those of my childhood
ben_vulpes did not have wordspace in
the above piece
to explain
the dev entanglement hat-trick steve pulled
ben_vulpes: if vcard import breaks i want
to hear about it.
pete_dushenski: i'm probably not
the only one who's curious about
the software versions
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: no mention of ios or osx versions in
that piece. presumably
this matters, no ?
pete_dushenski: "For all
that it appears
to be a JS abomination running on
the iPhone,
the Google Mail application routinely
trounces
the Apple Mail application in searching, rendering, speed, and more or less everything one would want from an email application on
the phone." << beats desktop (eg.
thunderbird) handily as well. web-gmail just... wins.
pete_dushenski: "(no, not using an iPhone of
the most recent vintage is not an option)" << because ?
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: aha. an update from
the glitzy
trenches. cheers
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 13:25:03; mircea_popescu: "Put another way, grep sells out its worst case (lots of partial matches)
to make
the best case (few partial matches) go faster. How
treacherous! As
this realization dawns on me,
the room seemed
to grow dim and slip sideways. I look up at
the Ultimate Unix Geek, spinning slowly in his padded chair, and I hear his cackle "old age and
treachery...", and in his flickering CRT
there is a face reflected,
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 03:58:23; *: mircea_popescu gives up in frustration. if anyone recalls
the damned
thing say.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Is
there and armed insurrection in iqaluit?
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: you could
try iqaluit
too. nice and quiet
there.
pete_dushenski: some fat needs
to be
trimmed around here, whether
that idjits going back
to wherever
the fuck
they came from (ftr no one is "from" alberta) or
they can learn
that business isn't
this
thing where money and clients rain down from
the sky and it's all you can do
to beat
them back at
the door
☟︎ pete_dushenski: though in all seriousness, if
the dumb bitches pretending
to be 'drop-in daycares' and 'nannies' don't start returning phone calls and
text in a
timely manner, IF AT ALL, i'm a seriously cut
their useless lives short.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo:
the kid knows his ashtanga from his saatva and not a lot besides.
trudeau's as innocent as a butterfly, which is why chix dig him and dudes couldn't care less. he's nowhere near as much of a strong retard as
the commie premier cunt running alberta for
the next 3.5 years
pete_dushenski: punkman: if only
to balance
the life i'm adding
to
the planet.
punkman: you just need
to kill more people pete_dushenski
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Face it. Canada impaired your maximum potential
to be interesting at
this
time.
assbot: Logged on 11-01-2016 06:36:31; BingoBoingo: copypaste: I suspect
the reason you dislike pete_dushenski aping
trilema is he comes from boring Canada and his cool factor and empire potential are limited by
that.
punkman: even if you hate
the Unicode folks,
they have actually codified a lot of
these
things and it mostly seems
to work
☟︎ punkman: and it does happen
that something was uppercase and shitty software lowercases
the sigma wrong
pete_dushenski: than
two hours" on Level 2" << numbers for (playing) Bingo(Boingo)
pete_dushenski: "GM has put a 60-kWh lithium-ion battery
that weighs just just 960 pounds into
the floor of
the Bolt. As previously announced,
the Bolt's 288 cells will be able
to go over 200 miles on a full charge.
That full charge
takes nine hours on a Level 2 EVSE
thanks
to
the onboard 7.2-kW charger. Of course, a full charge won't be
that important most days, which is why GM says
that you can get 50 miles of range in "less
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 04:27:01; mircea_popescu: (yes, greek sigma has
two lowercases!)
trinque: why create syntactic barriers
to understanding when you can just kill
the folks you don't want in your math club, anyway
☟︎☟︎ trinque: mircea_popescu │ "∀ x ∈ R ∃! y ∈ R ∋ x + y = 0" offers exactly no benefit over "for any real number
there exists another real number so
that
the
two add
to 0". << ftr I am precisely
the african
that would benefit from
the math
textbook written in *only*
this manner.
phf: i will support cyrillic in my lisp,\ only because,\ it was used
to write by lenin --mayakovsky
mircea_popescu: there IS however a fucking marked cost. and it's of
the "how do we make colored unicode people"
type.