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phf: edi weitz nuked all his lisp stuff, with a redirect to shithub. naturally if you want to look for documentation you have to go to ???
a111: Logged on 2017-10-18 17:12 mircea_popescu: and speaking of aids-en : isn't it a pity nobody's yet made a film out of gia carangi's life ? that chick was ACTUALLY a model, in the most proper of senses.
TomServo: I can barely fit a bite in my mouth.
asciilifeform: yea afaik nobody ever made a proper one
asciilifeform: i'd sit down and do a proper incarnation of keccak, diana_coman , but i have maybe half a free hand and 40 hands worth of what to do..
diana_coman: ofc; but idiotic keccac "reference" implementation goes about reading *bytes* although spec clearly talks of bits and at most of z-dimension long array of bytes and as a consequence madness necessarily ensues
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he has a point though. you need someone as doggedly determined as ceausescu to keep the thing afloat. economic blocs are a reality for what, 50 years now ? euro "common market" was not particularily DESIRED.
mircea_popescu: guy was a major... well, like bill gates, or khodorovsky, however you call the faux business men produced by governments. except in ro, so he's talking 1e7 rather than 1e10 ☟︎
mircea_popescu: they wanted smaller fees for a reason.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from the perspective of "we're trying to survive mp" it is perfectly understandable. miner fees per tx are rapidly growing to a size comparable to the "walmart one item cost", which is what bitpay & all are willy-nilly married to.
asciilifeform: 'Customers with mistaken payments only receive partial refunds of the BTC they sent because of miner fee costs. One customer of a BitPay merchant recently spent 0.003853 BTC on a payment which was mistakenly underpaid by a small amount. They were only able to receive a refund of 0.002247 BTC. This is not the experience we want bitcoin users to have.' << 'use our gox or Lose It All!111' etc
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz, new car theft method : drink a bottle of coca-cola, screw the tap back on, stick it in between wheel and chassis on parked car, wait for owner to get in and try to leave. the bottle will sound, the muppet will get out of the car to see, at which point you can just leave with it.
mircea_popescu: started as a for profit, for sure.
asciilifeform: it's a tentacle.
asciilifeform: 'If you are using the BitPay, Copay, Mycelium, or Electrum wallets for your bitcoin payments, nothing will change. These true bitcoin wallets all already "speak" Payment Protocol. If you are using a non-Payment Protocol wallet or service to pay BitPay invoices, you will need to move your spending bitcoin to a wallet or service which can support Payment Protocol. We strongly recommend that you use a true bitcoin wallet for spending to
asciilifeform: it's a resurrection of circa-2014 embraceandextendism -- 'let's impose prbtronic sslistic payment-via-tcp, and at the same time spam some moar spamola, make blox less breathable'
asciilifeform: the excuse being 'We can also analyze transactions to make sure an adequate bitcoin miner fee is included. If the fee isn't sufficient to allow the transaction to confirm on the bitcoin network on time, BitPay can return a helpful message back to the wallet to let the user know. Mistaken payments will never reach the Bitcoin network.'
asciilifeform: 'When a Payment Protocol wallet interacts with a Payment Protocol URL, it creates an SSL-secured connection to the true owner of the receiving bitcoin address (in this case, BitPay).' etc
asciilifeform fixed a handful of typos
asciilifeform: forbids oop, uniturdism, threads and asynchrony of any form, constructs that require complex runtime support, 'unprincipled exceptions' (chiefly c-style type-casts), pointers (yes), and a few others
phf: also there's a somewhat useful, though non-standard css property "user-select" that lets you select only the code part of the page
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: quite aware. the 1 src that turned out to be reliable reference, was knuth (i.e. a 1960s work)
mircea_popescu: i am reading. so far, this is a major achievement, and quite fundamental at that.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-01#1745114 << i deleted a few folx from my links bar earlier this yr, who turned out to have... actually died ☝︎
mod6: asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1545 -- take a look at the last comment at the bottom. apparently on may 10th of this year.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-01 21:24 mod6: lol, asciilifeform ignore that. i already put a comment on your blog.
mod6: ben_vulpes: is there a comment approval process? I submitted the comment.
mircea_popescu: you know it's not a great idea to leave live links to dead urls.
ben_vulpes: go ahead and leave a comment, mod6
mod6: lol, asciilifeform ignore that. i already put a comment on your blog. ☟︎
mod6: If you to gentlemen would rather not update your blogs, please let me know and I'll post a comment at the bottom of each.
mod6: ben_vulpes: you may want to update the link to my V in this blog post (http://cascadianhacker.com/07_v-tronics-101-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-most-serene-republic-of-bitcoins-cryptographically-backed-version-control-system) as it's old. This is the latest: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2017-March/000260.html ☟︎
phf: well, it's also only proper for a long running lisp system to have a *cocks-and-balls* global variable somewhere that subtly affects the behavior
shinohai: I feel happy to be a part of such a grand institution that goes out of the way to be so all-inclusive in the logs.
mircea_popescu: where he explains what madona means by "like a virgin"
mircea_popescu: i guess there should be a product COKCS
asciilifeform loaded a pg and saw NIL NIL NIL and scratched head
asciilifeform: yea just a few sec ago finally saw, it shows up on lynx
phf: mircea_popescu: nope, it's a styling bug, which needs to be fixed, but i've been having hard time with it last time i tackled it (but i don't remember what was the issue, something related to tables and <pre>s)
mircea_popescu: in other news, this footlong plastic calzador i vbought at flexi (local shoe store) is one hell of a buttpaddle.
asciilifeform: then a-ok
asciilifeform: phf: colour is a luxury . for so long as it knows that comments begin with --
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=pantsuit << phf's spiffy histogram rendering the birth of a notion.
phf: but it does do a lot of tedious manipulation of lists of lines, so at >n lines it starts generating a lot of garbage
asciilifeform: will answer last numeric q in gpggram in a bit , hands full atm
mircea_popescu: oh, is size a consideration in that sense ?
phf: though a bit of shame that annotation narrative is lost in vpatch
asciilifeform: phf: i 'pedagogized' it, will be a series of vpatches.
mircea_popescu: a
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6, diana_coman , trinque , ben_vulpes , et al : lemme know if you were able to follow the ffa tutorial ch1. <+asciilifeform> and got the expected result. << will take a look for sure.
mircea_popescu: marrying dudes, fucking children, whatever matter of conventional behaviour is a convention.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only because 'religious precept' and nobody even entertains the idea of a serious attack.
mircea_popescu: moreover, if you took a year's worth of court practice of your choice, listed all the inferences made in a sort of mega-AST and then sorted this list by tenuousness measured how you will, the fingerprint construct wouldn't make any sort of top.
mats: ugh, at a conf where a fed is pimping ‘trusona’, some biometric nonsense, and telling folks to shitcan passwords
asciilifeform: iirc there was a trilema re whores , where was a line 'when vastly more items than slots, gotta pick ~somehow~'
asciilifeform: nao re cavities, i do not specifically know the su air corps logic. possibly bad teeth in a boy were considered a mark of innate intractability to discipline; possibly some more basic, orcish 'choosing two potatoes, pick the symmetric and unblemished' formula.
asciilifeform: in a very poor country , where machines order of magnitude scarcer, dearer, than meat.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-08 18:28 asciilifeform: gymnasts may not be perfect example. when you have a role where the training per se is costly, you're stuck picking. e.g., pilots; i recently read a quite interesting autobio, 'Обречены на подвиг' ('condemned to heroism', roughly) by su flying d00d / instructor / colonel. described how children having any physical imperfection, even tooth cavity, were mercilessly rejected from flight academy even if they passed all of
asciilifeform: 'Admiral’s Doorbell. The yellow button in an F/A-18 cockpit that jettisons all the external stores in an emergency. If you hit it, you’ll be “ringing the admiral's doorbell” to explain why.'
asciilifeform: not as if the 'gone by' didn't come with a lengthy list of 'don't do', and various arcana ( e.g. required manual fiddling with fuel mixture, radiator cowling, etc )
asciilifeform: 'Tits Machine. A good, righteous airplane. Current airplanes need not apply, this is a nostalgic term referring to birds gone by. By all accounts the F-8 Crusader was a tits machine.'
asciilifeform: ( tru, he doesn't have to program in 'rails'. but then again wwwist dun have to piss into a tube. )
asciilifeform: today jet man is more or less a programmer with uncommonly unpleasant working condition.
asciilifeform: profession had a happy childhood and youth and that's more than many other professions get.
mircea_popescu: even in the 90 ie 91, i don't expect a majority of nubile collegiate sluts perceived AS AN OBLIGATION the invitation to whore out for the airmen.
asciilifeform: 'Knife Fight in a Phone Booth' << prettygreat
mircea_popescu: i can understand why the people that invented swinging'd be a little bit cooler than the people that invented tech support.
asciilifeform: 'he and his group has enough bitcoins (up to billion+)' << trololol this has gotta be a shot for comedy prize
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-30#1744885 << hey mircea_popescu , didja know!, that the proof ain't proofyenuff, 'has he signed addresses that prove he is that wealthy? how do we know for a fact?', i had nfi ! ☝︎
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: aye, on a heathen dnsulated thing
mircea_popescu: rsa key is a basic tool of computer literacy anyway. like ability to write down own name basic standard of traditional literacy.
mircea_popescu: got a rsa key ?
mquander: oh hi. i don't know much about this channel/project/republic, i joined because it got a shoutout in my RSS (http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1762) so i came to see what's up
ben_vulpes: fuckin a inbev owns pilsner urquell too
mircea_popescu: there's a coupla "competitive" alt-flavoured soda producers (they call the swill beer for some reason), as a direct result of distilled spirits available in the anglo world beiong so fucking toxic
mircea_popescu: you can be as hydrated and vitaminized as you wish, anything diageo sells is going to give you a hangover.
asciilifeform: right. prolly a constellation of all 3
mircea_popescu: well, according to some idiots somewhere there exists such a thing as african literature
mircea_popescu: proper alcohol (which includes no grains as well as nothing ever made by any english speaker anywhere) gives you a very pleasant, mellow morning after. a fine reason to drink is not even the drunkedness but THE "HANGOVER".
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-30#1744625 << this is an interesting item, and worth picking up briefly again -- there's 2 aspects : a) kinetics b) active-after-all 'inactive' ingredients ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently dood had a treasure trove of such lulz.
asciilifeform: ipnoje etc. will (by default, there's a toggle) emit'em.
asciilifeform: detectably variably. as a rule, denser -> moar shit.
asciilifeform: ( e.g. if you want the server-grade non-'3d nand' , then quite difficult to get more than handful at a time , unless you're buying by the pallet )
mircea_popescu: this isn't true, incidentally, i bought sixty a few weeks ago.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, N-1 SSDs are here, still waiting for Nth -- because guess what, they're RATIONED for the whateverth-year in a row
mircea_popescu: a mute game of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGu-55sKJs ensues
asciilifeform: when asciilifeform worked in a u.s. army research nonsense, the brass looked quite like this.
mircea_popescu: waldhauser's face is worth a million unified standard dosidoes.
mircea_popescu: i dun recall the soviets ever managing such a crisp icon of "the meeting with the politruk".
a111: Logged on 2016-10-17 05:22 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the "interdictor" is this item which has a railgun, a supply of pellets, and a huge array of solar panels etc to power them. this item can then shoot fast pellets towards any other ship, crippling it.
asciilifeform: it's a concept in roughly same weight class of technical feasibility as martian dome.
mircea_popescu: once you go over a cm... not so much.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, evidently gas diffusion was a problem. but this was re hypothetical item which is still ant-sized in body, but has really lengthy legs, rather than proportionate scaling
mircea_popescu: resistence of materials starts fucking with you rapidly. (daddy, why is there no ant larger than a toyota prius???)
mircea_popescu: not clear wtf it will need. but yes, in principle a thousand-to-million-ton satellite is warranted by the gps needs. nobody said satellite stays thinspired forever.
asciilifeform: ( iirc a few 100w or so at the emitter )
asciilifeform: you only need a very small delta for a gigantic offset
mircea_popescu: but basically, a blockchain-gps will be the next upgraded version of gps
asciilifeform: it doesn't help if enemy ~helps~ you pick up a (genuine) signal at higher strength than naturally ought to be seen