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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform not so foolish as
to
think about 'homogeneous enforcement environments', knows
that
there are, e.g., vast deserts in usa where folks set off
trucks full of dynamite for amusement, etc. << Sometimes law enforcement attention comes
to
these folks
too.
ben_vulpes: (again, i am not an expert in
this area)
ben_vulpes: GE entails actually riding on a compressed cushion between
the foil and
the ground, not
the lift off
the foil alone.
ben_vulpes: that's not ground effect if i understand
the mechanism in question correctly.
decimation: it's an interesting use of ground effect
though
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: fwiw
there aren't many orcs in
the rural bits of ussa, and one can shoot
trespassers on sign in
those provinces
too << Different kind, even
tolkien had different kinds of orcs
decimation: folks who volunteer
to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft?
ben_vulpes: there's also
the squirrelsuit insanity
decimation: in particular with paragliding, I
think
that it attracts a certain set of folk who might not consider safety as a
top priority
decimation: ben_vulpes: yeah we ground-bound folk don't appreciate
the air movements around objects
decimation: bitcoinquestions: it is my understanding
that macOs uses freebsd's rng (Yarrow), but you are implictly
trusting apple...
ben_vulpes: i saw a gents quadrotor get sucked into its own downdraft near a wall one
time, and slam itself repeatedly into said wall while its pilot
tried
to rescue it
ben_vulpes: decimation: aeronautics is full of exciting! new! innovative! ways
to die.
bitcoinquestions: If I generate a key on a MAC OS
that I use for other purposes is it at all secure? Or should I not even bother generating keys if I'm not on a linux distro?
decimation: re: parasail < I've heard of incidents where pilots of parasails fly
too close
to moving
trains.
They get caught in
the vortex and
then crash
ben_vulpes: just...limited subset of
the control space.
ben_vulpes: don't get me wrong,
they're fly as hell.
ben_vulpes: sorta like
the "chair with prop hanging from parasail" design.
ben_vulpes: i like
things without much by way of engine.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> so
take up bobsleigh. better for your health. << or bicycles, more actual physical connection of your meat with
the dynamic systems in question. airplanes and helicopters worth looking into as well
gabriel_laddel: kk. I should be discussing
this in design documents anyways.
gabriel_laddel: t) rather
than just a false positive. Again, I've never written C, and perhaps
the ast is so complicated
that it's actually impossible
to get any useful information out of it, but my current experience suggests
that having
this ability is a good idea. Building something like `slime-who-calls' suddenly becomes simple.
gabriel_laddel: Why might one want
to see
the C ast? Let's say
that we've got a codebase like
the linux kernel, or opengl drivers. You know
that somewhere you've got some stuff
that
talks
to
the hardware, but grep returns false positives. You instead pull
the ast into memory, query across it for
the bits your looking for. False positives now indicate something about
the language (i.e.,
that I don't understand it as well as I
though
gabriel_laddel: As for PGP, I'm assuming
that I'm going
to have
to spend a decent amount of
time with
the codebase and reading
the spec. Perhaps not.
mircea_popescu: the browser is not unlikely what'd have happened if
the beduins had discovered dna alteration and
there was no interstellar void.
gabriel_laddel: trinque: in any case, I hate everything about
the browser.
trinque: gabriel_laddel:
the outputted JS is more comprehensible?
trinque: I've
tried
the clojure/clojurescript combo and was
thrilled
to be using
the same language on both ends
gabriel_laddel: "As for what language I'll be using on any given project, it will be determined entirely by what is correct for
the project."
gabriel_laddel: it, and nothing else will ever be a substitute for
thought.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I have some code now
that converts javascript
to parenscript
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I'm assuming, at least for now,
that I'm going
to have
to /look/ at
the current PGP sources (thus
the C sexprast ).
This has no bearing on what will be released other
than - I will do what makes sense given
the situation.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: Yes. Show me all structures
that look like
this. Pattern match against structures, rewrite
them as so.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel his idea being i suspect
that c code you wish
to query over should just be quarried over yonder hill
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: You've never desired
to query over a bunch of gnarly C code?
mircea_popescu: then after a decade i come by and go... "why did she write
this!"
mircea_popescu: sometimes i fantasize about buying an old english castle,
turning it into a computing school for nude 18
to 22 yo ladies, and putting alf in charge of it, with a flexible bamboo cane.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: Sorry, I was being less
than clear -
this is only for development.
gabriel_laddel: As for what language I'll be using on any given project, it will be determined entirely by what is correct for
the project. If I hack something out in CL, but switch it over
to C, I'll do
that. If it makes sense
to release a protopye
that is hacked
together C+CL+CFFI I'll do
that. In any case, both of
these come after getting
the #b-a distro finished.
gabriel_laddel: My current plan for dealing with
these projects:
The haskell package Language.C.AST parses C99 entirely,
taking into account all GCC extensions. I'm going
to pay someone
to add a sexpr backend
to it so I can work it into my CL
toolchain.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: gossipd requires C. PGP, CL (at least,
this is where I'd start).
mircea_popescu: so
total noob here, but.
the way cffi works is you compile your c stuff as dynamic objects and
then put
the headers in your lisp program ? or what ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i
take
this is going
to be lisp, as in not scheme, not clojure, cl ?
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: you had a alternate name for gossipd based on russian
theater
that had some relation
to
the nazis. I couldn't find
the wiki article again, care
to point me
to it?
cazalla: ;;later
tell bingoboingo hey, remember
that fish i
told you about? hooked and landed it after a few days :)
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I'v M-x rembered (or something)
the previous
thread on
the matter for when I return
to it.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: as for now, I just want
to have a clear idea of what
the interface is, what
the problems are etc.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you seriously
thinking of implementing a sane pgp ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i
think we're in
the mental institution.
they're outside. cheaper
this way, more of
them.
mircea_popescu: we know
this
to be
true, because you can have mmorpgs.
mircea_popescu: in any case :
the space of
things physics has
to represent is in point of fact narrower
than
the space of
things computer programs have
to represent.
gabriel_laddel: " As far as I can
tell, were one
to extrapolate from
the given information
to a set of concrete requirements we see
that NixOS plans
to rewrite
the build scripts for every version of every project on unix. Again,
this is insane.
The correct
thing
to do in
this situation is
to realize
the utter impossibility of
the
task
that has been set forth and re-evaluate one's approach.[1]" << [1] links
to
the quote previously d
thestringpuller: guess it's an american phenomenon. I find I hate driving in
traffic. But lemme open up a sports car at 120-130 MPH somewhere "Top Gear" style and I have a blast.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: random: but I recall you said you don't like driving so you don't. You're driven. Do you ever "want"
to drive in some ideal scenario? A racetrack or something?