asciilifeform finds himself writing a netbsd kernel mod, has approximately same thoughts as fella who wakes up in 'dumpster' in a back alley, 'how i came to this sort of life' ?

asciilifeform pictures them waving back

asciilifeform: not even impossible to think that it still happens.

asciilifeform can't be bothered to find out

asciilifeform not sure how many of those, if any, are enabled on typical build for respective system

asciilifeform: slept better without knowing this? too bad.

asciilifeform: (e.g. contains no detail re: 'pendleton' and 'piedmont', the directorates-of-what-shall-we-do-about-pgp cited in earlier 'crown jewels' list) ☟︎

asciilifeform: and ^ answer to http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-02-2015#1013854 ☝︎

asciilifeform: decimation: well-known. but, personally never had occasion to.

asciilifeform: (doubtfully would be posted without hitler's approval, so take with grain of salt)

asciilifeform almost expected to see a catalogue

asciilifeform: among the books i can picture on the shelves at the great library of 'meta-nsa' - this tome surely has its place

asciilifeform: not something i've experienced since working with steele's 'common lisp the language'

asciilifeform: it is an immediate mindfuck to be confronted with a computing-related document written this way.

asciilifeform: the 'rationale' chapter on oop system is interesting in that it cites the 'common lisp', c++, 'eiffel', 'smalltalk' standards materials, and expects that you are familiar with them and can understand a summary of differences

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: don't expect a repl, ada is a classical compiled thing like c or fortran

asciilifeform: or a bitcoinator that $insertcatastropicfailure

asciilifeform: 'boeing' that falls down

asciilifeform: ^ yes there are language primitives for helping to ease the pain of the fella who gets to read the disasm after you're done

asciilifeform: uirements of Class 1 flight critical software (the most critical) are to be attained, every attempt must be made to detect errors induced by a compiler. This is expensive, but unavoidable given current technology. The pragma Reviewable applies to a partition so that the compiler can generate code to match special documentation thus permitting independent review of the object code. The following specific requirements apply...'

asciilifeform: 'Due to the well-known fact that all compilers have bugs, it is the conventional wisdom of the safety critical community to avoid assuming that the generated object code is automatically correct. For instance, the approach taken in the avionics standard DO-178B is one of Design, Review and Test [DO-178B]. As far as practical, the review and test activities are undertaken at the object code level. Indeed, if the reliability req

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the world of sane folks,

asciilifeform: if i had to guess, i'd imagine Cr cold-welds on impact with self, or something like that

asciilifeform: ^ thread

asciilifeform: i.e., if you were a fly on the wall (fly that speaks uzbek) where the two cretins had their conversations, you might be able to guess

asciilifeform: a 'terrorist' for the purpose of this line of thought is anyone who is on track to being imprisoned by usg under charge of 'terrorism.'

asciilifeform: or the novel 'stand on zanzibar';

asciilifeform: speaking here of proper terrorists.

asciilifeform: i, for one, will be quite disappointed to hang on the same gallows as these disgraceful excuses for 'public enemy'

asciilifeform: and speaking of our hanging, where are the -thinking- terrorists ?

asciilifeform: i think of the folks who might have tried to go to the moon in balloons, or shooting selves out of cannons, in the past ☟︎

asciilifeform: every time i read a document like this (and they're all quite the same, as mircea_popescu observed all clinical material re: the criminally insane being much alike - or was that tlp?)

asciilifeform: their 'plan', to the extent one could use that word here, appears to have been - to shoot police at random, and then collect their gear, which which to repeat same, ad infinitum

asciilifeform: allah forbid they find a -working- weapon, will shoot wrong end towards enemy, somebody'll have to clean up their guts