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decimation: calculators don't help you cheat much on a
three question engineering exam where you show full work
decimation: asciilifeform:
that was how much undergrad was
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
The AP-Calc AB
test.
There was a class
training for it, but
the local recommendation was anything
TI preferably 83. I read and saw -89 with
the CAS and decided fuck
that.
decimation: yeah it would be interesting
to know about a
test
that allows
ti-89
decimation: well, it kinda does stack oriented calculation, but isn't a fully programmable calc like
the -48
decimation: the annoying
thing
to me (growing up on a -48) was
that
the 16 only displayed one stack element at a
time
decimation: was
that
the one
that was popular with
the finance
types?
decimation: it's pretty much
the most lispy calc ever made
decimation: or you just find
the hp collectors amusing?
BingoBoingo: decimation: Poettering is why horses invented
the wagon wheel
BingoBoingo: And
then I sold it for booze money freshman year of college
decimation: sadly hp has denegrated
the proud hp line
PeterL: "but
that is how we have always done programming!"
undata predicts
there will just be drivers
that establish one part of ram as a ramdisk
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Palm V and I have great memories. My only regret is
that PalmV and
TI-89 never
traded
the best of
their aspects
PeterL: "In particular,
the company needs
to perfect a new form of computer memory based on an electronic component called a memristor" << so,
they just need
to figure out how
to make
the core feature work,
then
they are all set!
decimation: asciilifeform: whether it is
this or another
thing,
the difference between filesystems and memory will soon be abolished
BingoBoingo would like
to rip all of
the memory out of "The Machine" and air drop it
to asciilifeform in 2010 with a duffelbag full of money
decimation: I
think
they developed some kind of persistant hybrid ram/flash storage
BingoBoingo: undata: Yeah,
they labeled
their
thing "The Machine"
PeterL: people who matter are here, not
there?
decimation: seems like
there would be more likely
targets
there
decimation: although one wonders why mr. spam
targets
this channel instead of -otc
PeterL: and it will not be an extra step
to rate people when he makes
the changes he suggested
decimation: ultimately
this could just move
the problem
to #bitcoin-otc or something
decimation: what if mr. spam learns
the ip of a friend?
decimation: what 'handle' are you going
to use for banning? ip address?
decimation: I suspect
the crypto would need
to be done on an fpga
decimation: asciilifeform: agreed, but it might be impractical. consider a 'firewall'
that is checking mr spam's packets all day
PeterL: yes, and so you will no longer have
to auth with gribble, just assbot
PeterL: lol, I can't read and
type at
the same
time
PeterL: (or just send a signed rating message once
that gets implemented)
PeterL: then once you are in you can auth with gribble
too if you need
to update any ratings
PeterL: auth
to assbot in a pm,
that gives you voice?
decimation: ah well who generates
the signed message? gribble?
decimation: ah, but
then assbot would need a 'hot key'
decimation: how do we know
that pastebin's 'bins' are immutable?
nanotube: use pastebin
to pass a signed message
to
the bot. assbot can just grab
the user database on a regular basis
to keep current.
decimation: and it would eliminate most of
the dependence on freenode infrastructure
decimation: but at least it would be a step in
the right direction
decimation: well, yeah
that part would be annoying
PeterL: decimation: how
to sign messages in irc client?
nanotube: PeterL: indeed
that is correct.
PeterL: nanotube: I don't
think
the change I am suggesting would require any change of gribble, just adding a separate auth
to assbot
nanotube: well, i hope it works. i'd be curious
to see.
nanotube: PeterL: still way
too early
to worry about it
though :)
decimation: and if he managed
to make it on, he would be identified by
the brains of
those on
the channel and quickly kicked