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assbot: Logged on 08-04-2014 03:16:07; asciilifeform: don't be
the schmuck who builds rng which
throws away batches of bits
that fail some
test
mircea_popescu: (if you
think about it : an entropy source
that always pass
tests is by definition not entropic. see last year's amusement with
the "guess number"
toy alf made)
ascii_field: i will also add
that, e.g., digits of 'pi', are beautifully entropic per dieharder and most anything else
mircea_popescu: you must have a
theory as
to what exactly would it do before you can actually say a rng was shown weak by dieharder.
mircea_popescu: ah good point. mind
that merely a failed
test is of itself meaningless
ascii_field: it is a comparative, rather
than absolute measure
ascii_field: trinque: if you are a n00b
to dieharder, i must remind you
that just about anything looks like 'weak result'
trinque: I'll chew on
the
thing for a while and see what comes of it
trinque: ben_vulpes: oh and... several weak results from
the consumer hardware I have laying around
trinque: ben_vulpes:
that said a working dieharder can be built with my naive patch listed in
that bug report
trinque: mircea_popescu: does seem
that we keep encountering
the rot of glibc
trinque: ben_vulpes:
the actual dieharder code uses glibc internals in a way
that used
to work, now does not due
to as yet undiscovered source of rust, with vague indications
that compiling with std=c99 has implications for glibc
ben_vulpes: forgive
the ignorance, but what's wrong with
the ebuild from 2 months ago?
ben_vulpes: trinque: what
the actual fuck "not worth maintaining"
mod6: anyway, i have high hopes
that some of
these steps could even be automated
to aliviate
the pain of building
this by hand.
mod6: ah, yeah.
that makes sense.
trinque: rather
than a copy step; might've been what you meant
trinque: if you're booting from USB you can make
the chroot a mount of
the
thing's own partitions
mod6: and
trinque,
thanks for all your help :]
mod6: mircea_popescu: ahh, yeah. having gone
through
the gauntlet already on
the
thing at least a dozen
times in aws, and also now having re-read
the Gentoo-Handbook, i feel like I'm very close on
this.
To complete
the guide, i wanna
test out all of
the steps on real hardware so
the steps are accurate. I believe it'll entail something like creating a USB boot image,
then booting off of
that,
then creating a stage3 in a chroot,
then deploying
that
to
assbot: Logged on 07-05-2015 05:21:17; mircea_popescu:
this is unlikely
to EVER change. i
tried
to move it
to gentoo but
the attempt burned,
toppled and sunk into
the swamp.
mircea_popescu: why do anons on
trilema prefer
to name
themselves obama-something ?
mod6: And as far as
the gentoo stuff goes, I kinda had
to put
that on hold for a minute. I'm going
to finish
the rest of
that up on real hardware. But
to do so, I gotta drive across
town and buy a new box. I might wait until after
the 1st
to continue
this front.
mod6: aside from keeping up with
the unfolding nosuchlabs work, within 7000 blocks of my next regression benchmark being finished. should have some new charts
to look at in 24 hours.
mike_c: thanks! nice
things can happen when
there is a good foundation
to work from.
mircea_popescu: but it's a
tower of cool
to shake
the very foundations of "web 2.0" idiocy.
mircea_popescu: ayup. mike_c got some serious magic going
there, im impresst.
davout: so
the bitbet banners are generated dynamically from
the bets?
davout: yeah, we do europe,
technically EEA + CH
mircea_popescu: btw copypaste ^ now
there's a banner
to a respectable exchange in
the rotation, people can buy btc
there.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Appears
to have been oatse
mircea_popescu: Shook was on
the scene,
telling 11Alive’s Duffie Dixon
that
the image was “highly disturbing, aggravating, obnoxious and illegal.”
mike_c: box is still standing. yet another reason I need
to move
to BISP
though. it seems ok for now.
trinque: I have a half-baked notion
that people in
the US like
this show because
they are aware of 200 years of history, if
that, and only of
their own dirt
mircea_popescu: by now, im not so sure of
the mental health of
tv watchers anyway. i guess it's prolly best not disturb
them.
mircea_popescu: "we are
the 1 herp, because percents are a jdif conspiracy"
trinque: mircea_popescu: yep, she's going around freeing
teh peoples,
torching
the previous rulers with dragons
mircea_popescu: is game of
thrones
the one with a dumb bitch
that's
the hero in spite of not doing anything ? (outside of feelings)
assbot: Logged on 18-05-2015 19:45:42; davout: ben_vulpes: in everyday life you can say "en vélo" and "à vélo", you won't sound retarded either way,
the correct way is "à vélo"
though, "en voiture", "en avion", "à cheval". depends on whether you're inside or not
trinque: the one with dicks would be more relevant
to
the show... most plot-oriented softcore porn ever created
davout: ascii_field: oh god,
the chair
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i
typically get'em from diametric
mircea_popescu: i notice alf is very chan-oriented
these days. picrelated all day from
this fellow.
davout: mircea_popescu: re niggerspeak,
totally
mircea_popescu: davout i
think
this is one of
those stories of old world privilege meanwhile abandoned because impractical and who gives a shit. just don't make it sur,
that's niggerspeak
davout: mircea_popescu: i wish
the b-a fairy gave me more money, instead of more hair
davout: there seems
to be something
to waht mircea_popescu's saying wrt
to 'riding', but it doesn't look
that's
the full story, i found another source
that says both "en/à vélo" are correct
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i was drummed out of academia while reasonably young, for
the crime of not-giving-a-rat's-arse
davout: but
the more i look into
this issue,
the murkier it looks
ascii_field: 'It doesn't work when Nadia Heninger goes
to sell Phuctor before Stanford - Nadia Heninger doesn't own Phuctor, and
the actual owners are very much present and very much capable
to bitchslap her into oblivion.' << actually, 'crime pays.' chick gets a phd and cushy sinecure, etc.
☟︎ davout: ben_vulpes: in everyday life you can say "en vélo" and "à vélo", you won't sound retarded either way,
the correct way is "à vélo"
though, "en voiture", "en avion", "à cheval". depends on whether you're inside or not
☟︎ davout: trinque: yea, cracked me up
too
mircea_popescu: "Or perhaps
they did
that stupid human
trick
that never fails: If you have excess funds, procreate until you no longer have excess funds,
then share
the funds equally until you all die." << afaik
this was never done in practice, outside of easter island. not
that women everywhere didn't endlessly & forever
try. but anyway, re
the ancient women broken strat discussion,
THIS is a fine statement of
the problem.
mircea_popescu: im so sick of
this "retards are people
too" bullshit by now i can't begin
to
tell you.
trinque: "In closing, for
the
tl;dr / eli5 / etc crowd :
this article is not for you. Go back
to doing
the dishes, we'll wake you up once you need
to buy a new flag." << fucking glorious.
trinque: mircea_popescu: I
told william I'd
turn it off if his was returning, but it hasn't
mircea_popescu: btw, anyone with a slashdot acct ? plox
to dump
the above link ?
trinque: mircea_popescu: I noticed scoopbot was absent for a while, and after many complaints just loaded
the feeds plugin into
tenyks
mircea_popescu: trinque i dunno what you
two did
there. what did you do ?
mircea_popescu: ever since
the us got on
this kick about retards using
things, stuff
that's not for retards has been at a disadvantage.
trinque: as scoopbot is not back I assume deedbot- is
the new guy for
that
too?
trinque: does sound like
the project could use cleanup beyond
that
trinque: I've "fixed" it locally which is
to say it builds
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well, you know how
that goes. "within
the constraints". "you can't have
this and nsa so
this can't be had"
ascii_field: they will be happy
to learn just how clever cosmic ray is
ascii_field: we should stop settling for small change and
take
this
to
the astrophysicists
ascii_field: cosmic rays know how
to do
this also, we learn
ascii_field: (if you've memorized rfc2440 by now you know
this)
ascii_field: in yet other news, one of
the invalid-sig keys is a careful reduction of key size by 1 bit, and very interesting pattern of modifications
to public N (not one-bit-flip and not from-this-point, but regularly spaced)