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mircea_popescu: well, i change my mind on occasion, but alter it ? not really.
mircea_popescu: (i kid you not, ox-eyed was a compliment 3k years ago)
mircea_popescu: ima start making them redo if they manage to get devoiced.
mircea_popescu: eh what is all this bs with taking > half an hour to produce a pic.
mircea_popescu: btw, does it occur to anyone else that #trilema is way ahead of i dunno, black-chicks-code or whatever other imperial nonsense in terms of both headcount, volume or value of female participation in techgeneering ?
mircea_popescu: zx2c4 specifically for the "empty room" problem he brought up. do you follow the logic there ?
mircea_popescu: avgjoe it's exactly equivalent to "segwit" except much less expensive.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nobody cared about him back when he was a good actor 20 years ago as much as they care now, that he delivers wooden monologues of sheer nonsense.
mircea_popescu: morgan freeman is also worshipped now. why ? same reason. wolf-raised kids can't believe oldman is a thing.
mircea_popescu: or w/e the fuck. the youth is desperate for adult figures, much like the savage kids in the us black ghetto.
mircea_popescu: goes to their silly little "polyamory" covens on campus and frowns paternally.
mircea_popescu: i know, i know. just saying, "we picked the non-chosen candidates at random, go sue."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, his stance is defensible, "blake was at sha camp, just like keccak, what do you want."
mircea_popescu: !#s "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"
mircea_popescu: i dunno what your experience with "peer review" is, but as far as anyone involved is aware, exactly no review goes on in those circumstances. see sokal & all.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-12#1797184 << you definitely should do that, seeing how the superficial "was reviewed" claim collapses upon the most cursory scrutiny. this is not a good state to put yourself into, it makes it too easy to be painted with unflattering brushes.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: but are you from uruguay ? because BingoBoingo tells me you look uruguashan.
mircea_popescu: but if you look through that category ("la pas prin lume") there's a ton of various.
mircea_popescu: well, actually about to go to the beach right now, but in general speaking.
mircea_popescu: britknee right he is, somehow slipped through the cracks. sorry for the delay ; but it's done now.
mircea_popescu: what's it help you to know it's "0.1 bits per tb ~on average~"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it can't be a debit like that, because the main unknown is the approach.
mircea_popescu: . because they want to put a MINIMUM floor in. so to a large degree mathematical discussions of hardness are not cryptographically useful.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-12#1797142 << understand, the discussion here is re cryptographic hardness, not mathematical hardness ; as discussed otherplaces in the logs, the mathematical notion of difficulty is "what's the absolute hardest case this problem can yield", because they want to offer maximal flop guarantees ; cryptographically it is kinda opposite : what's the LOWEST difficulty a problem in this class may yield
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: no, and compiled to 40kb, it's clear from this and plenty other signs the dood has the right ideas in his head.
mircea_popescu: these are yet too high level matters to be practically approached by this "here's an impl" method.
mircea_popescu: the line 332 explosion is a fine example of this as any could be had.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes all the Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from x thing does is lock out by ip ; it's not even generated by wp itself ; it can be implemented any way, iptables, csf, whatever.
mircea_popescu: it redirects missing file references into index.php ; that's how it does the url replace thing.