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mircea_popescu: anyway. the (vehehehery unlikely) alternative is that the usoviets blather in a warlike direction and as a result the russians beat the chinese to the punch of "first usoviet aircraft carrier sunk".
mircea_popescu: ah. yea must get a properly sized ups for it.
mircea_popescu: ugh. whatcha do, repurpose a construction crew genset ?
mircea_popescu: there is no wayu you have a generator without an ups ?
mod6: i did just have my trees cut back from the powerlines about a week ago.
mod6: if there is room in the chassis, see if you can just stick in a PCI eth card?
mod6: yah, good deal to have a backup!
shinohai: Looks like box running my trb node was a casualty of the storm ... fried nic despite my best efforts to revive.
asciilifeform: sometimes also perversities (e.g. today found very nice shop lamp , of a 1950s type i already have, and picked up... walked with that)
asciilifeform is not a thin man; but can walk dawn - midnight noprob
asciilifeform: there is something to this. asciilifeform usedto wurk with a buncha american d00dz, not all of whom even fatter than asciilifeform !, and they would not hear of the idea of ~walking~ to restaurant <1km from office
mircea_popescu: the way to end up usflated is a) margerine (gunks up the fat cycle, body ends up dependent on citric cycle for energy) + processed starches (hfcs, potato, whatever)
asciilifeform: STILL NOT IN CONSTANT TIME because apparently mother dropped him as a child
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think the discussion has uncovered why exactly it is my bristles stand up. it'd be one thing if a sane place with a sane culture with respectable people churned out a "hey, chick didn't get married because the cups lolz" thing. THEN it would be funny.
asciilifeform: turns out steel ain't enough, you also need to give half a shit
mircea_popescu: which has succeeded in one aspect : i see india, generally speaking, as a sort of latrine. probably because of these.
asciilifeform: was not a massive wave of emigration, tho, not like j00z from su
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most of the working-head hindus you might conceivably run into outside of india, were pushed out in 1970s-80s 'red' phase, when untouchables took over academia and had a sort of american-style 'diversity' shitfest
mircea_popescu: well in that sense there's also a mr haagen-dazs. hangs out with mr r mcd.
asciilifeform: there's even a bose in usa, possibly alive today, sold overprices stereos
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have doubts that they ran a closed-arsemouth production cycle. it'd show today.
diana_coman: at asciilifeform's link it even says it might have been his wife, not his daughter - so maybe it was more of a consolation/precisely the dedication thing I was saying earlier: too busy to fuck, I wrote this book
mircea_popescu: nah cuz the vessel comes with a seal (and yes, the inspiration for babylonian trade, the seals, and amphorae was DEFINITELY the cunt). you can claim it wasn't tried or that it didn't work, these aren't confoundable.
asciilifeform: 'cause i can think of a few, linked, that might not..
diana_coman: I really think you are reading too much into it; the way I see the thing it's basically a dedication; inept like all dedications if analysed but wtf is there to analyse in the first place
mircea_popescu: it's annoying to high heavens. it's one thing to show up at your wedding and go "what a great day for a wedding, let's have two!" and force your first maid into marriage with some randomlty chosen guy. it's the same thing to say "fuck this shit, i don't feel like getting married today, go home all of youze".
mircea_popescu: diana_coman i know of no culture outside of the chtonic-inspired anglos who deemed pregnancy as a negative.
mircea_popescu: should have written her a manual on buridan's ass.
diana_coman: I suspect every hole in knowledge (and not only that) might look like... insanity to those who ...simply have a better plug; not even a full plug, just better
mircea_popescu: if you get aroused, fuck. what the fuck is a marriage to begin with, let alone "propitious hours" bullshit.
mircea_popescu: nor, for that matter, indians of a millenium ago.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman when i was about three, they took me to a doctor. it was like a kinda mysterios affair, and it made no sense as i was not sick. the doctor asked me what do i do if i'm hungry ? and i told him i eat. he then asked me what do i do if i'm sleepy, and i said i go to bed. that was it, and everyone was impressed because apparently no fucking kids ever have any sense left.
asciilifeform: When everything was ready and the cup was placed in the vessel, Lilavati suddenly out of curiosity bent over the vessel and a pearl from her dress fell into the cup and blocked the hole in it. The lucky hour passed without the cup sinking. Bhaskaracharya believed that the way to console his dejected daughter, who now would never get married, was to write her a manual of mathematics!'
asciilifeform: 'Lilavati was the name of Bhaskaracharya's daughter. From casting her horoscope, he discovered that the auspicious time for her wedding would be a particular hour on a certain day. He placed a cup with a small hole at the bottom of the vessel filled with water, arranged so that the cup would sink at the beginning of the propitious hour.
asciilifeform: in other olds, ''Whilst making love a necklace broke. / A row of pearls mislaid. / One sixth fell to the floor. / One fifth upon the bed.'
mircea_popescu: i think a more apt misspelling would have been dlolar
deedbot: pete_dushenski rated Framedragger 2 << literate beyond his years but still a green shoot.
pete_dushenski: worth a shot.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-18 19:25 pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: not yet. pretty much struck out on heathen osen (osx and openbsd) and my linuxbox is mid-rebuild. replacing fans and having a hell of a time finding screws that fit the deeper "noctua" units. it's still on the list but not there yet.
shinohai: Gah I need to do wot updates too ... been wellover a year
pete_dushenski: mhm same here. ima do a few right now.
pete_dushenski: to be sure. and the rest flows from there. like there's always a peak of a waterfall or the top of a mountain. nature paints certain portraits over and over.
mircea_popescu: and no, there isn't "always someone better". rather, there's always a best.
mod6: mircea_popescu: ahh good. just made myself a nice ham sandwich.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: not yet. pretty much struck out on heathen osen (osx and openbsd) and my linuxbox is mid-rebuild. replacing fans and having a hell of a time finding screws that fit the deeper "noctua" units. it's still on the list but not there yet. ☟︎
sina: I'm off gentlemen, have a fabulous week
sina: what a first link to click after exiting the shower
shinohai was trying to find the reference to project Habakkuk determining that a single horsepower motor could keep a vessel made of pykrete refrigerated .....
shinohai: If one day tmsr has a navy, must have slave-girls that shoot dildo torpedoes at enemies.
mircea_popescu: i think that's a vast.
shinohai: That cannon could prolly take a a littoral combat ship
a111: Logged on 2017-06-17 21:33 shinohai: So apparently all one needs to destroy a US destroyer is container ship: http://archive.is/4GbGw
BingoBoingo: Likely, alf has a sorta hell climate
mircea_popescu: but prolly more of a northern clime thijng
BingoBoingo: It does do well for very dense patches, but hard to make a monoculture lawn out of it, because with the sligtest change in grade or soil, patch ends
asciilifeform: ( and so 'gardeners' are not really a thing, here in monkeystan )
asciilifeform: funnily, i could easily afford, say, a gardener, but refuse to pay the equivalent of 8 gardeners so that obummercare and shameekas.
asciilifeform: we actually had a d00d here who did this
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It's just a wide fenceline!
mircea_popescu: try a scythe
BingoBoingo: Maybe alf needs to mow with a more fun machine?
mircea_popescu: make a compost pile alf. srsly.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> the funny bit is that the needed commercial arrangement 'i call on a saturday and it happens THIS MOTHERFUCKING HOUR while i'm out to dinner' is not available where i live << The is lawnmowing service since the exit of children is priced based on amoritization of mowing equipment
asciilifeform: the funny bit is that the needed commercial arrangement 'i call on a saturday and it happens THIS MOTHERFUCKING HOUR while i'm out to dinner' is not available where i live
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's a whole day job. crazy angles en la loma.
BingoBoingo: Come on it's a standardized 30-45 minute task or your lawnmower is the wrong size
a111: Logged on 2017-04-30 13:58 asciilifeform: 'If I employ a gardener, I have to earn £3 for every £1 he can actually spend, because everything is taxed twice, first as my income, then as his.' << not only still true in today's reich, but today it'd be 10 : 1 .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: problem with this pov is that certain classes of things ~only~ can ever happen in a serious-kitchen, and will never in factory.
mircea_popescu: that's kinda my objection with the whole "in my kitchen" outlook. if your kitchen makes stuff that's any good it should be a factory, and if not it should forget about it and just be a kitchen
mircea_popescu: a, no, commercial item.
mod6: mircea_popescu: this is actually what a guy at auto store told me recently too; but other fellas have told me, "if you wanna be 100% sure you're not going to introduce any problems, just use what it says in the manual or on cap."
shinohai: So apparently all one needs to destroy a US destroyer is container ship: http://archive.is/4GbGw ☟︎
mod6: anyway, the wisdom seems to be, use what's described in the manual or even written on the radiator cap. fwiw, never open a radiator cap while engine is hot - contents under pressure.
mod6: <+BingoBoingo> <mircea_popescu> i bought a can of coolant, it's FLUORESCENT GREEN << he dye is to tell you which of several incompatible types of coolant it is. Mixing GREEN and ORANGE coolant is a good way to introduce rust to one's engine block cooling passages. << iirc, all vehicles pre-1995 or so used the green coolant. ☟︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i bought a can of coolant, it's FLUORESCENT GREEN << The dye is to tell you which of several incompatible types of coolant it is. Mixing GREEN and ORANGE coolant is a good way to introduce rust to one's engine block cooling passages.
asciilifeform: btw iirc this is an ~actual~ exercise in knuth -- to show that you still need karatsuba on a box where add(word,word) takes same time as mult(word,word)
asciilifeform: basic idea is that k's algo transforms a N-bit O(N^2) mult, into instead ~three~ (N/2)-bit mults
mod6: just was overthinking it .. thought maybe the '2' was a base reference or something
mod6: mircea_popescu: yup, gotcha, that short hand threw me through a loop for a minute. lol.
asciilifeform: now my recipe is arranged a little bit differently from, e.g., knuth's , so that we can forget about signs
mircea_popescu: mod6 because (a + b) * (c + d) = a (c + d) + b (c +d) = ac + ad + bc + bd. now, in our case, we were doing 11 * 11 and so a = 10 AND c = 10, while b = 1 AND d = 1, and so if you replace you yahve 10 * 10 + 10 * 1 + 1 * 10 + 1 * 1. because 10 * 1 = 1 * 10 you can just write it down as 2 * 10 * 1.
asciilifeform: the result is ( noshit.jpg!! ) a 64bit , 0xfffffffe00000001
asciilifeform: i'ma work a concrete example here, so, patience...:
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this was going to be my next line of inquiry. can the above discussed +1 bs be lost if we simply enforce a conveniently chosen size ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 you take a number of say 22 bits, and cut it in two 11 bit numbers. this 11 is the k. then you have first part * 2 ^ K (=11) + second part to get the original back
shinohai: Epic logs I missed over past ~2 days .... especially phf's lecture this a.m.
mod6: ok. so there looks to be a section on this in AoCP Vol 2. section 4.3.3. [ Section A ]
asciilifeform: couldn't source a set of lcd glasses that had usefully high switching speed.
asciilifeform: lulzily, long ago, asciilifeform tried to make use of this principle to build a sunglass for seeing lappy lcd in bright sunlight ( sync lcd shutter, a la 'game glasses', to the backlight pwm freq )
asciilifeform: whereas if you're a kid and naively build a thing that tries to close a relay when infrared diode sees light and conducts dc -- it will work for maybe a metre, no moar, distance
asciilifeform: idea of pll is that you can indeed see a lit match from mile away in daylight if you know 'exactly when to look' ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: ( if you own, e.g., 'gps' receiver, you already own an example of a device that picks up a signal BELOW motherfucking THERMAL noise!1111 )
asciilifeform: in that you are adding a finite and -- in most cases manageable -- amount of noise to the signal.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if i ( or whoever ) can time the execution of your mod-exp even to , e.g., 20% accuracy, a couplea times (say, by listening with radio next door) i can derive your p,q.
mircea_popescu: a * b = (a1+a2)*(b1 + b2) = etc
mircea_popescu: a = a1 * 10^x + a2 ; b = b1 * 10^x + b2
mircea_popescu: rsa is the fundamental basis of individual identity. tmsr is a republic of men. without proper rsa, it can not be properly said men exist.
asciilifeform: the 'return' on the 'investment' is a ~year-long keygen time.
asciilifeform: ( it is probably obvious that any conceivable solution - esp in a pointer-avoiding proggy -- will waste much space )
asciilifeform: anyway to round out the thread -- i solved it, in the 'obvious' way, but now gotta simplify the proggy a bit, so that it becomes again readable, and also ideally would like to waste less space