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mircea_popescu: i sadly lacked the formalism to usefully express it then. but now -- have.
mircea_popescu: which is why the whole "with mine owne eyes" screams were all about re previous pass of this, gpg-plaintext.
mircea_popescu: that is the "plaintext", that comes out as the other plaintext, displayed (via the ~yet other~ plaintext, the html)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect i should have said single stack.
mircea_popescu: formally : a stackless, hapless grammar incapable of recursion operating upon a certain finite symbol list.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform neh! i have a magic box, into which i pour the transcendent substance that makes trilema. it comes out as ascii yes, but how is it plain.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which part of trilema is plaintext ? the part where it says fuckyoui or the part where it says fuckyou((norly)) ?
mircea_popescu: as i say -- i see no way out here ; we'll end up with the v-code + blog-commentary ostrich-camel and god help us./
mircea_popescu: this is the problem. you can't disagree with my theory and i have no practical solution for your pain.
mircea_popescu: it's actually SO BAD that people go re-implement the same damned X thing for the 90th time as a substitute of commentary ; and nobody looking understands wtf that is.
mircea_popescu: until this is resolved, the perennial results will repeat.
mircea_popescu: in any case, here's the logic : the proximate cause of the failure of "computer science" to amount to 0 (not epsilon, 0) since its inception is strictly due to poor treatment of comments as 2nd class item in code.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform somehow you jump from "my printer is shit, doesn't work properly" to "either magic number or throw out printer"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway you turn it, the concept of magic number's not defensible.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason your father+grandfather haven't amounted to as much of a fart as a workable os.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and write too little of them and too sparse and lose out to the other variant in the end.
mircea_popescu: this is a sad state of affairs, as it limits v utility drastically ; neverthless -- commentary will be ok, long predated either v or code. code is more fragile.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's no possible solution here ; i expect the defacto result will be that patches will consist of code, wrapped 80, including 0 comments, plus blogposts, consisting of commentary, with some haphazard code reference.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if true, this is == "code is not worth either writing or reading"
mircea_popescu: "we are incapable to reflow and here's a magic number instead" differentiates monkey from man
mircea_popescu: code and comments do not, actually mix ; the fault is entirely of bad but entrenched habits of code writers.
mircea_popescu: seems atm we uncovered the deep limit on literate code.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz from the road, "nombre ?" "credible" "apellido ?" "justin".
mircea_popescu: motherfucking mother of isis, the act of arraying buttons together in a guy is no design!
mircea_popescu: chrome tailpipes on already made car/pc/whatever cxhassis) somehow ended up called "designer".
mircea_popescu: anyway, thinking about this whole "fsf was an attempt to *finally* bring about socialist utopia through a fettering of everyone's access to knowledge while open source was an attempt to nevermindthatjustkillM$already leading to java-for-browser because microsoft invented a c++ market etc" broad but really mostly correct summary, the one most striking aspect is that somehow the job of the modder (ie, guy that adds those snazzy
mircea_popescu: these letters from a time before empire-of-idiots was formalized and understood as such are about as fascinating as a child's experience from before it understood any mechanics at all.
mircea_popescu: ey perceive it) blame all their (ample) shortcomings on the hulk barnacled while claiming all the (scant) benefit as own.
mircea_popescu: other than the lovely "if you launched all pantsuit in outer space, do you expect seti would manage to find any ?" putdown, valuable lesson from naggum : inept bureaucrats / insufferable cucks / other "people themselves" try to barnacle their inept nonsense (in original, scheme) on pre-existing "brand" (as they perceive it ; in the original -- lisp) for the transparently transactional reason that this way they "get to" (as th
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "doom is inevitable, BTW. mankind will die out, planet earth will be vaporized when Sol goes nova, if not sooner, and then Common Lisp will have to acknowledge defeat to the unwavering hostility of the universe. for those of us who plan to become immortal, this is a serious concern." <<< 1999 naggum was apparently planning for immortality ?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman technically it's incorrect to say "6 bits will always be 1" ; it's the case that the first and the last bits of N are always 1 ; and a further number of bits are subtly affected (ie, biased) by the p, q masks.
mircea_popescu: "go and read some basic books" -> "read, re-read <em>and understand</em> TAOCP" ? or what, add K&R in there ? steele's 2002 thing ?
mircea_popescu: no known pattern ; but no homogenity either. there's always an even count of integers in a given bitsize ; but not necessarily an even count of primes.
mircea_popescu: ie, prime numbers themselves do not follow this 'no bit of input is more influential over the output than any other bit' rule.
mircea_popescu: moreover! while there's just as many integers with the 1337th bit set as there are with it nul, nevertheless it's trivially not the case that there's just as many 2048 bit prime numbers with it set as there are with it null.
mircea_popescu: even if i admit this objection, which i dunno i should but let's, for fellowship -- 2037 still not much room to work with
mircea_popescu: consider : mp-prime takes 2045 bits from trng, spits out after some wrangling 2048 bit prime number ; meanwhile alf-prime takes 45 bits from trng, spits out after some wrangling 2048 bit prime.
mircea_popescu: if your magic maker uses say 2044 bits of input, therefore you have half as many possible states than i do!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you have a different problem : even if "no bit of input is more influential than other" i STILL want to put in no less than 2045 bits of input ; AND get out no MORE! than 2048 bit long prime.
mircea_popescu: it'll be funny 5mn years from now, when we're all sitting around with whatever pools & eggnogs of the future and rsa still stands, undaunted, in preference of ~everything else.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is no method to produce nth prime.
mircea_popescu: holy hell i lived to see the end of the 4th day of 2018 logs.
mircea_popescu: "oh, 2 is a great witness for odd composites" "so would have been any other even number" "yes but... umm..."
mircea_popescu: what nsa gains from being able to rely on 2 rather than 44444444444444444 is anyone's fucking guess
mircea_popescu: dja understand motherfucking koch fixed one of the witnesses in mr ?
mircea_popescu: i'm dealing with "four rounds of m-r and a 5th fixed with 2, so as to fix the cone of blindness" bs and you want me to care about the 2047th bit ?
mircea_popescu: any of 6 bits not being set -> chucked item ; 2^6 = 64 so 1 in 64 ie 1.5% or so pass.
mircea_popescu: yes well, we're looking at ~10 second m-r run per item, so like half a day to produce a pair of primes.