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mircea_popescu: one of the any other famous "afro-american" blacks (ie, athlete)
mircea_popescu: (only famous for organizing dogfights in defiance of femocracy & pantsuit)
mircea_popescu: in other things that happened in 2017, michael vick quit.
mircea_popescu: let me change that : "no '--- ' anywhere, you have been warned" should read "no '--- ' or '+++ ' as first 4 characters of any line -- you have been warned"
mircea_popescu: noncompliant items can i guess go in 'experimental' or whatever ghetto.
mircea_popescu: mod6 mind adding the "no clearsigned material in patches -- you got the .sig for that" and "no '--- ' anywhere, you have been warned" rules to it ; and phf / everyone mind making it stick ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: was one of the maybe i dunno, 6 ? 10 ? bloggers worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: if anyone seriously considers re-writing venerable diff/patch into v-dp
mircea_popescu: item scheduled for eucrypt lib so keep watch of diana_coman 's blog. can be just taken from there put here.
mircea_popescu: if we start fucking with vdiff, this is the first mover.
mircea_popescu: incidentally -- which sha512 are we using ? not keccak is it.
mircea_popescu: i expect his method (add the terminating ---s the thing expects even if spurious) works even if implementation may need work. tho i dun wanna go down this road.
mircea_popescu: vdiff should be fixed to search for the full 4 char header also.
mircea_popescu: they utterly don't belong there. you got a .sig mechanism for this.
mircea_popescu: the correct diff header is "--- " ; not "-" nor "---".
mircea_popescu: still, ironclad argument that current grep is broken : looks for PART OF the header it should.
mircea_popescu: idiotparser has the extreme advantage of not even being a parser, ie, simplicity.
mircea_popescu: stylistic rules happen all the time. "name variables like this".
mircea_popescu: and a rule whereby ada comments are "-- " not "--" is not the end of the world either.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you shouldn't put gpg clearsigned bits in a patch in the first place.
mircea_popescu: yes well. if you use in-band you end up with policed forbidden words.
mircea_popescu: nah. keep the current death word (---) ; replace all conflicts in raw input to ===.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the third alternative is to actually implement a proper diff as part of vtron
mircea_popescu: in that there's no reason to have them, and their presence is in itself sign of babbage's braindamage, much like say a canister for light, or a faucet for patience.
mircea_popescu: alternately, of course... "no clearsigned material within patches". this may even be a right thing independently of the actual bug.
mircea_popescu: on a long enough timeframe, there's going to exist a vtron in ~any language anyway, i expect.
mircea_popescu: i'm not going to pick a wife for you, "here, THIS is the woman you should be comfortable with". pick your own. languages idem.
mircea_popescu: what language(s) you work in is your own, entirely personal, choice.
mircea_popescu: original mod6 perl vtron was important prototype in the early life of v, made all sorts of latter things possible. exactly like original bitcoin. nobody said you have to marry it now though ; or divorce it for that matter.
mircea_popescu: mod6 it's not a crime to have a perl vtron. however, if you plan as your own strategy to move away from perl and you're judging it more of a liability than anything, then by all means, eschew.
mircea_popescu: observe that after bitching about the quality of work in empire, along the lines of "everything works for as long as you don't use it", our pile of stuff exhibits the same exact property.
mircea_popescu: now stop doing this inane shit, it's a significant drag on resources.
mircea_popescu: the larger problem is that to arrive to this conclusion, you first bitched at everyone else.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> what means 'finished', it's a spoil of war artifact. << that's entirely not related to the discussion.
mircea_popescu admires how the "finished" mpi managed to take a whole day of 3 people's time and shakes his head displeasedly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform phf pluriously said he's doing it by hand for now ; i see no problem with this. correct procedure would thereby be to ping him with items
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : "Lamport Parachute (a crypto identity bootstrap solution)"
mircea_popescu: atm there's bot, lam-par (terrible name), fg, mpi and ffa.
mircea_popescu: (because complaining of absent-present file is no good)
mircea_popescu: aaanyway, suppose diana_coman wants to add a patch to mod6's vtron, to better error messages
mircea_popescu: im guessing we're just about ready to tighten format here
mircea_popescu: so then why doesn't it press ? there's something amiss here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just as soon as someone puts a patch on top of it, the trees will diverge and then phf can exclude the legacy one or w/e it is he does to them