asciilifeform: why not just as well 'poverty, of gargauni'
asciilifeform: i dun see the causative arrow's direction as obvious
asciilifeform: but prolly similar to mircea_popescu's specimens , fundamentally
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm moar closely familiar with the male variant, the spammers, misc scammers, halfwit malwarists, etc. who make somewhere below half of what renting a doghouse in ohio costs, but persist
asciilifeform: dijkstra's -- imho well-founded -- pov was that computer became the domain of the half-educated, the hucksters, and the miscellaneous scum, because what passed for thinking people, ~surrendered~ it to them
asciilifeform: 'the vast majority of the mathematical community has never challenged its tacit assumption that doing mathematics will remain very much the same type of mental activity it has always been: new topics will come, flourish, and go as they have done in the past, but, the human brain being what it is, our ways of teaching, learning, and understanding mathematics, of problem solving, and of mathematical discovery will remain pretty much th
asciilifeform: the dijkstra piece linked earlier, btw, is interesting in re subj of 'mathstards'
asciilifeform: bitcoin, gpg, show every symptom of authorship by programmertards, rather than academitards -- quite different types of 'shambling walker', as far apart as typhoids and lepers
asciilifeform: ( there is naught else , aside from teaching duty, for slave, no bottles to wash in maths dept )
asciilifeform: the maths folk, they write longhand, and order grad student slave to texify.
asciilifeform: imho, the reddit-outreaches or whatever process resulted in the recent influx of these -- is misguided. let the functional djbs come -- or not come.
asciilifeform: i do not, i will confess, grasp, for what anybody needs the indiancandies, the 'pirate radio' imbeciles, the trannies, any of the various scum. none of the functional people here were ever any of these things. they are not the larval form of anything worthwhile.
asciilifeform: though this reminds me, this episode is a good illustration of one point where i disagree with mircea_popescu re the gutter -- i do not want the gutter or its inhabitants who cannot come out of it on their own power, for anything whatsoever. they bring with them the stench, and it never really washes off.☟︎
asciilifeform: none of whom, iirc, substantially disagreed
asciilifeform: if anyone finds so much as the smell of one -- i would like to hear about it, asap.☟︎
asciilifeform: the whole point of ffa is that it is to contain NO such possibility of NO such thing.
asciilifeform: and yes his example snippet ~will~ barf. and no i won't spoil the puzzle by saying where and how. and no it is not hard to make 9000 similar examples.☟︎
asciilifeform: THIS -- i won't touch. it's worse by far than any xorswap 'rake'.
asciilifeform: it'd be one thing if the suggested item were 'and here is how to lose the sad always-zero stack cell, AND have SP only ever point to valid cells.'
asciilifeform: and willing to do so at the expense of obvious correctness ?☟︎
asciilifeform: does he have a micro that is just 4kbit short of a useful ram for doing ffatronics ? and needs to shave that 1 cell ?
asciilifeform: what i don't understand is why apeloyee has a problem with 'SP ALWAYS POINTS TO A VALID CELL, MOTHERFUCKERS' rule.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-16#1770911 << i gotta ask, what's there to 'get' -- it's the same algo as in school book, e.g., hennessey, 'restoring division'; as also seen in knuth vol 2, and goes back to egyptian papyrii☝︎
asciilifeform: 'But there is a deeper moral: in a way, the real culprits were the hordes of greedy retail buyers who made it all possible. By relentlessly shopping on price, price and price, a great many Australian PC buyers left themselves wide open to this fraud. In the end, the one essential thing that makes con tricks possible and practical is the greed of the victim.'
asciilifeform: 'And this is why the BIOS chip was soldered directly into the board, instead of being socketed: not just to save using a 10c part, but so that you couldn't easily remove it and detect the fraud...'
asciilifeform: 'How could the board run with cache enabled in BIOS but without any cache? Simple: the manufacturer had reprogrammed the BIOS to permanently disable external cache no matter which way you set it, and to report "256k cache enabled" during the boot sequence no matter what.'
asciilifeform: 'Here is our friend the anonymous 486 board again. See those black plastic things with metal legs on in the picture below? They look rather like cache RAM chips, don't they?'
