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asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-24#1909719 << was thinking, as result of last wk's thrd, 'sane fpga could just as readily replace heathen gpu as cpu' ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( tho folx have been wrong in the past, e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-30#1876229 ) ☝︎
mp_en_viaje: strikes me as born-in-50s sorta guy tho. ☟︎
asciilifeform: prolly the most valuable vlsi likbez i've found to date, even beats the ancient carver mead schoolbook in some ways ☟︎
asciilifeform: ( on top of die shots, transistor recognition, etc )
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i did short walk through the linked www, believe or not, d00d in fact typed up some of the ancient docs into humanlike text
mp_en_viaje: bvt, do not despair, even if these do not work out, they're still worth doing. depressing as it may be, at least we know, at least we do the homework, etc. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2019-04-24 15:56 asciilifeform: !Q later tell bvt ty for digging up the 1801 materials; dun suppose you could get the author in here ?
diana_coman: the whole C-thread reads... interestingly from the depths of planeshit client +crystalspace ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Talvi has a campaign office a block and a half away. The campaign office is topped by a billboard selling Luis
BingoBoingo: The USG-ist appearing candidates are the second place guy in the National Party, some fat old Potato whose name begins with L and the other Colorado Guy. Some cuck named Talvi.
BingoBoingo: Then there's about 20-40 fringe candidates spread across the major parties, their subdivisions, and the "why are they trying to compete on a national scale" parties
BingoBoingo: Then there's the Fat Forehead Party, their favored candidate is the cuck who was Mayor until he had to quit that job to campaign.
BingoBoingo: The old Pantsuitist Party the Colorados have a nearly 90 year old former President running even in their polls with some young derp. Colorados don't ever break 15% in intention to vote. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Well guy allegedly polling third in the National Party is Satori with the Russian oligarch wife and legal marijuana bsns selling the pharmacy schwag. ☟︎
asciilifeform: y'know, back when there were ~2~ reichs handing out 'phree' ambulances ☟︎
BingoBoingo: And that's the local "right wing" party
BingoBoingo: Well, frontrunner for the National Party nomination "Luis LaCalle Pou" had an uncle killed by the CIA in the 70's.
asciilifeform: ( famously , why was castro so hated by the lizards. cuz broke ranks b/w '2' and '3' )
asciilifeform: 1) attend clintonarvard 2) return to orcistan as 'appointee' 3) feather miaminest for 20y 4) decamp, profit!1
BingoBoingo: Unless they were getting paid with clean clinton corruption
asciilifeform: the kind that is from orcistan to start with ☟︎
BingoBoingo unsure what Harvard Pantsuit would want the salary of a Uruguayo Minister
BingoBoingo: The entry point for used vehicles to Merosur is Paraguay anyways. They get them from the Japs and convert to American driver's position
asciilifeform: old man soros wrecked ru ~entirely via 'gifts' liek this, to the point that still not cleaned up 20y later ☟︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: Hence the "prove you didn't steal the junk ambulance" dance
asciilifeform: if the orcs suddenly woke up to this being a bit much of a lopsided exchange for 1 rattled old meatwagen, perhaps some of'em even have sumthing like a brain
BingoBoingo: And the immune system kicks in because Uruguayo Pantsuits don't want to be replaced by US Pantsuits
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'phree gift' from reich invariably comes with 'and we get to appoint a harvard grad as yer minister of health' etc
BingoBoingo: Or so the group says. Nothing in the story about Uruguay not wanting junk vehicles dumped here (unless the junk vehicles are new Indian/Chicom bikes)
BingoBoingo: And the thing ending over a couple bucks for an apostille
BingoBoingo: So it goes. But interesting to see the immune system story told from the other side.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: dunno what is this mythical beast, a 'phree' gift from usg
BingoBoingo: In efforts to stay poor, won't take a free ambulance: https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/la-burocracia-de-asse-freno-la-donacion-de-una-ambulancia-para-minas-2019417152938
lobbesbot: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: !Q later tell bvt ty for digging up the 1801 materials; dun suppose you could get the author in here ? ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: re the 1801 thing -- moar interestingly , author was not content to merely dig up ancient docs, but apparently decapped the dies and verified that these in fact correspond to the physical artifact ☟︎
mp_en_viaje: moreover -- it'd totall be worth more like that.
asciilifeform: that's what that was.
mp_en_viaje: i'd totally fucking read it.
asciilifeform: and the report from metallurgist re why just-so molybdenum % , etc
asciilifeform: picture if yer bmw came with not only repair schematic but the calculations of the original designer re why cylinder head is this-wide etc
mp_en_viaje: ima have to sit down and read these sometime.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: 1st i saw the link to that thing, went 'eh, fossil', then went and ~read~, and 'wtf, where do i buy a chip with even half the doc of this'
a111: Logged on 2019-04-23 23:12 asciilifeform: imho the so-called 'civilized' world ought to have to answer re why it failed to produce a product like this.
mp_en_viaje: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-23#1909569 << long list of shit they're to answer for. ☝︎
mp_en_viaje: the ~exact same process~ through which an acceptable republican artefact is constructed is the ~exact same process~ through which a mind grows into republican form. the way you convince us to use your proggy is the way 15yo learns how to write a proggy we'll use. and so fucking on forever.
mp_en_viaje: "bring your children to work day" fucking hell. how can children and adults be distinguished in this sense ? "oh, mp, we in ourdemocracy have arbitrary cutoffs, there's creative people and good at maths people and so on". "fuck you."
mp_en_viaje: but it is doubtless worth commenting upon how design-with-a-view-to-wot automatically resolves the "work/education '''disparity'''". ie, they "become" the same exact fucking thing that they were all along.
mp_en_viaje: at least now they have plain and self-obvious example of what ~should~ do with their life ; so it can't be said you lived in vain.
a111: Logged on 2019-04-23 23:06 asciilifeform would luvvv to read 'ffa-style' incarnation of such a work, where the chip is 'built up' from empty space in ~hour-long chunks. but prolly this won't exist until asciilifeform writes 1..
mp_en_viaje: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-23#1909566 << who knows, maybe a 15yo now reading grows up to be useful, actual human being, as opposed to pantsuit mouthbreather. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-04-23 23:03 asciilifeform: ^ and before mp asks, yes it's combo of manual typewriter and ink pen, and no it won't in a million years ocr, other than by meat ( and is largely schematics / waveforms anyway )
mp_en_viaje: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-23#1909564 << and the meat that'll do it will need a planet like saturn to live on. ☝︎
mp_en_viaje: one of the major things we're working towards here is to construct the ada-centric self-hosting ecosystem.
a111: Logged on 2019-04-23 22:29 asciilifeform: to properly shoot the 'primacy of c' in the head, gotta remove the 'it is where the self-hosting happens' 1st and foremost.
mp_en_viaje: nevertheless, order is order, first we scratch, then we discover.
a111: Logged on 2019-04-23 22:28 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-23#1909527 << currently i suspect that tcc & similar is a mirage; and that an actual serious solution would moar resemble the bolix approach, where you have a proper lisp and a ~compact~ + readable c-to-lisp ~in~ it for use with legacy crapola while-needed
mp_en_viaje: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-23#1909552 << this is exactly what i fear we will discover scratching the surface of that magic crate ; as we so regularly have been discovering to date. ☝︎
asciilifeform: as in the old sea story, 'move over, we are a 100,000 tonne battleship' 'no you move' 'no, you, we are battleship' 'we're a lighthouse'
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, or as buffett put it back in the day his brain still worked, "when a manager with a reputation for success attempts to tackle a problem with a reputation for intractability, it is the manager's reputation that ends up tarnished"
a111: Logged on 2019-01-03 19:24 stratum: If individuals want to communicate using heavily encrypted sneakernet to avoid NSA goons, that is certainly okay by me. But I don't see that happening for the billions any time soon.
mp_en_viaje: 'you write c on top of c and wanna talk to me about http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-03#1884206 ? keks. did your mother have any children who lived ?" ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( iirc -- e.g. howard shrobe, 1 of the orig bolix people, went off into medicine. others -- elsewhere )
asciilifeform: sorta how there cannot be a serious engineer in liberia. ( why would he live in liberia )
asciilifeform: ye olde 'notation can cost 80 iq' item. the moment rms picked 'c machine' ecosystem, it after that did not matter one whit how capable/honest/etc were to be the participants. ( and, in practice, demonstrated -- the capable, honest folx, ran off to learn new professions , did not stick around to fiddle with pointerisms )
mp_en_viaje: and these aren't mere words. it is what i see these people as, from the last poettering to the foremost stallman or linus, including the whole menagerie of "i just wanted to suck dicks" anodyne anons, be they zx wharever or oj whatever or whichever other one.
asciilifeform: would've stayed settled, too, if they hadn't wrapped themselves around telephone pole.
asciilifeform: that's how (as described upthread) bolix settled the matter, in '83.
mp_en_viaje: the "let there be a javascript interpreter for c, call it tcc or w/e, people can play with if theyr'e bored" is really the outmost of concession i can make to what is, ultimately, a shameful, abortive and utterly reprehensible outgrowth on human culture = the totality of everyone involved in computer systems design and implementatio nfor the past few decades.
asciilifeform: but it aint any way to live.
mp_en_viaje: thus therefore, i do not see the need to continue supporting c as a mental construct. even having to reimplement "everything" (ie, practically, nothing at all) from outside is preferable to an attempt at continuing c.
mp_en_viaje: meanwhile its been YEARS, and guess what ? 0 new development on c. everyone wants to write in ada.
mp_en_viaje: see, all this reasoning is informed by experience : back when we started looking at systems design lang, and started discussing ada, i was very adamantly for maintaining options open.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, in general, i do not see there's any need for having a musl gcc in the first place.
mp_en_viaje: yes, it's possible that someone living cca 2005 did something useful with their life, instead of "raising myspace awareness" or w/e the fuck they did back tghen.
asciilifeform: ( i.e. this item may be solvable w/ a bit of archaeology )
mp_en_viaje: this needn't continue indefinitely, tho.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: re 'gcc ladder', the orig boojum was the 'catch-22' where a musl gcc can only be built w/ another musl gcc , and the only working specimen trinque was able to find in the wild, was a gcc6
a111: Logged on 2019-04-23 19:55 bvt: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-23#1909440 << this would involve getting binutils under our control - bigger part of these timestamps are added by ar/ld; tbh i even dunno if gcc is responsible for this at all.
mp_en_viaje: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-23#1909539 << i don' timagine present binutils can continue as such ; ideally should dissolve into actually functional toolset. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-04-23 19:44 bvt: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-22#1909254 << i suspect that fixing direct gcc6->gcc4 step involves something like http://archive.is/cBg9N#selection-9.1340-9.1425
mp_en_viaje: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-23#1909530 << if this is actually true, would prolly be worth doing. feel free to look into it soemtime. ☝︎☟︎
mp_en_viaje: so, to answer the q : get as much as possible of system working on actual systems lang ; get AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE on tcc.
a111: Logged on 2019-02-17 14:10 mircea_popescu: now in other lulz, check this out : http://archive.is/89adR#selection-9.9948-9.10055 "This is a special mix of insertion sort and heap sort, optimized for the data sets that actually occur."
mp_en_viaje: in any case the http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-17#1897382 nonsense will NOT outlive me. ☝︎
mp_en_viaje: this "gcc is how you call the universal compiler" is cut of the same cloth as "the united states is the name good people give to truth, beauty, and everything good" -- of no import or interest, past pure comedic "lmao check those country bumpkins out, they really believe god was born in mobile"
a111: Logged on 2019-04-23 19:44 bvt: the problem with these both approaches is that it's impossible to get gnat/ada that way - gnat was bootstrapped from some commercial ada compiler in ~1994, and is self-hosted since that times. (well, impossible by definition with just tcc)
mp_en_viaje: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-23#1909529 << the idea isn't to get tcc to compile ada. the idea is to destroy gcc -- cut the "useful compilation half" into an ada compiler ; cut the shitlands compilation half into a small weight something else. there is no republican future for gcc as a gcc in the foss / linus-stallman sense of the term. ☝︎☟︎
mp_en_viaje: getting tharQ
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: see further downthread, expanded on this.
mp_en_viaje: the whole point is to turn c into what it actually is -- a sort of javascript the niggers to rakim'd in the head to use computers keep pissing out.
a111: Logged on 2019-04-23 19:44 bvt: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-23#1909396 << do you mean going [preinstalled gcc6] -> tcc -> gcc2.95 -> gcc4.7 -> gcc4.9 for cuntoo? or drop gcc entirely, try to get as much as possible running on tcc?
mp_en_viaje: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-23#1909527 << drop gcc entirely ; drop all c code entirely ; rely on tcc as a scripting language to turn whatever snippets of c into object code that we haven't yet thrown away ; and for quick prototyping, where one's stuck getting a mass of 1mn shitlocs interop with 10k loc's worth of a whole universe ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: aha but if it's a given that driver is a monkey -- then the cab had better have no wheels.
a111: Logged on 2019-04-23 19:19 lobbes: After that, I'm going to start working on re-implementing the auto-bidding functionality (which will also be a vpatch)
mp_en_viaje: meanwhile ustards fucked the model, but this doesn't mean it went away as a model. quite possible the chinos get it, made themselves plausibly-denied federation.
a111: Logged on 2019-04-23 18:44 BingoBoingo suspects the one state different systems treatment of Chinese "special administrative regions" is an effect of the anti-strategic Chinese languages. They want resort playground with different rules to play and hedge in, when the leases expired back to them they just sorta let the places happen.
mp_en_viaje: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-23#1909511 << this is quite possibly just on point. the original us design, federal with independent states, was strong (and shewed its strength) specifically because of this. ☝︎
mp_en_viaje: and might i say btw tha tthe new linking log scheeme is a fucking pleasure to use.