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mike_c: qntra's slipping
today. Gavin beats a hasty retreat and new Bitcoin ISP.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> how is
the being passed over without comment? Real actual bitcoin hosting! very cool. << i shudder at
the
thought of what'll happen once reddit & all gets wind of it.
mircea_popescu: mike_c one idea i had while falling asleep : would it be feasible
to save a snapshot of wot.svg each night before update ?
Adlai: asciilifeform: well
the number is written right above it
Adlai: any venture into
the "mobile" world causes me
to run screaming back
to real computers
mats: Adlai: as far as i can
tell, its unequivocally better
than dalvik
mircea_popescu: very succint, always quick, rarely find
the global solution.
mircea_popescu: which shows us
the problem in all its nude glory : ad hoc systems are unrepresentable.
Adlai: you'll still need
the roof
to do its job right. can't have sudden cold
trickles at inopportune moments
mircea_popescu: but
that's because you happened
to
take refuge from
the rain
there, has little
to do with
the roof.
mircea_popescu: housing roofs also play
the role of attracting (or repelling) hot sexy soaking wet babes
to your perch for
the purpose of you getting a blowjob.
Adlai: the XX% figure just goes
to show
that personhood is a little beyond biology
Adlai: for example, some dna plays
the role of attracting (or repelling)
the
transcription machinery,
to influence which other dna gets
transcribed
mircea_popescu: and if as far as we know it might as well not,
that makes 84% or w/e comparisons untenable. irrespective of what may or may not be
the case.
Adlai: a better way of saying
this is
that: while dna is a great example of "code is data"; most of
the data not being code for gene
transcription does not directly imply
that it has no other use
mircea_popescu: still not very valid a comparison, because no
thiamine ever links
to.. acell wall.
Adlai: not when you set out
to discover which changes it effects in
the ALU, and
then say, "oh, eip never points at
the ceramics,
thus
they're useless"
mircea_popescu: in any case, claiming a z80 and a pentium 6 are "99.84% identical" on
the grounds of mass spectrometry is about as apt.
mircea_popescu: Adlai not a good example, it's directly obviouswhat
that does.
Adlai: not
the dead kind,
the android kind
Adlai: mats:
thoughts on ART?
Adlai: "not directly obvious it actually does anything" << same way it's not directly obvious
that
the ceramic casing around your CPU does anything
mircea_popescu: mats admittedly i'm clueless, but how does
this optimize anything
trinque: and I need
to rename my deed files so
they're named like
that
assbot: Logged on 08-05-2015 12:04:56; cazalla: if and when it comes
time
to cut
throats, well i suspect i'll ace
that compared
to some others
BingoBoingo: The fish, it is very hard
to kill. I keep holding it under
the water, but it will not drown!
mats: fun fact:
there is a PostScript ASIC.
mircea_popescu: why ? you want
to steal people's bank credentials and nude pics,
mircea_popescu: anyway,
this is
the
true risk of stopping
trains : all
this long
tail of shit
that was supposed
to be "never" catches up with you
mircea_popescu: think about it
this way : if you reverse 5, out of
thousands, but not randomly picked, you can now install on what, 1% of
the base ? 10% ?
mircea_popescu: the sucvess of
the past is no guarantee fore
the failure of
the future or how did
that sec-mandated
thing go
mats: this kinda shit is my #1
time-waster. i find something neat and go down
the rabbit hole for a week.
mats: cutting edge for
the
time, not anymore; for example GPUs nao have onboard MMUs
to support virtual addressing ('Virtual
Texturing', specifically)
mats: that series i linked is one of
the best i've read about how modern GPUs work
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mike_c: anyway, kudos mircea_popescu. are you going
to publish a price sheet or is it case-by-case?
mats: i dunno enough about silicon
to say what i'd rather have
mike_c: I guess because everyone except me is already on
the damn
thing.
mats: asciilifeform: yes, i know. just wanted
to share... in
terms of security features GPUs will just blindly run whatever binary you feed it, without any kind of validation.
mike_c: how is
the being passed over without comment? Real actual bitcoin hosting! very cool.
mircea_popescu: if
the byzantine problem had a systematic solution, we wouldn't be here.
mircea_popescu: because really,
trying
to rewrite it without dma ... might as well start over.
mircea_popescu: dma is actually one of
the principal reasons i agree with alf's "current computing stack must die"
mircea_popescu: what
this is saying is, "Scarf up cpu data, crack it on video card, good
to go"
mats: > Jellyfish is a Linux based userland gpu rootkit proof of concept project utilizing
the LD_PRELOAD
technique from Jynx (CPU), as well as
the OpenCL API developed by Khronos group (GPU).
mircea_popescu: otherwise, how much do you pay a man
to go die in palestina or w/e.
mircea_popescu: incidentally,
the golden age of fedualism worked EXACTLY
the same : while a king indisputably expended out of his purse, and amounts
that were not
trivial in
terms of individual households, nevertheless
the entire machine worked on
the wilful donations of
ten
thousand knights,
that actually lived
their life in accordance with
this particular model deliberately.
mircea_popescu: there's prolly going
to be decades ellapsed before
the immensity of just
this one shift is even noticed, let alone fully discussed.
mircea_popescu: but
the superiority of la serenissima over
the fiat pretend-sovereigns is resplendent in all parts and
throughout. here for instance : at least we don't even attempt
the impossible,
mircea_popescu: 15/the-definitive-sovereign/ which are currently financed principally
through voluntary donations of
the citizenry, in
the shape of
time, know-how, expertise etc.
assbot: Logged on 08-05-2015 12:02:19; gabriel_laddel: IMHO,
the differences between #b-a and /pol/ are many. /pol/ doesn't like it when
they're censored and complains about how unfair
things are. MP, and ascii both look ahead and see
the need for WoTnet. MP commissions it out of pocket.
chetty: more
to
the point, science is not authoritative. (at least most of it is only
theory)
mircea_popescu: all fucking science exists as maybes,
that's what it is. piles of hypotheses. just like no one can ever
turn an ethic should into an engineering is, just so no one can
turn a scientific maybe into an auctorial do it.
mircea_popescu: but
the idea
that scientists are not authorities doesn't really need much explanation,
to anyone outside of
the libertard coolaid club.