asciilifeform: silently ignoring bad input by-default can be permissible, but to do it ~always~ is not The Right Thing , gotta give something to debug with.
asciilifeform: at least oughta have a verbose mode one can optionally enable, wtf
asciilifeform: this VERY POSSIBILITY of silent failure is a bug, mod6
asciilifeform: still fails to recognize that mpi_second_cut.vpatch exists
asciilifeform: asciilifeform only gets ear pop in the subway.
asciilifeform: somehow in 'dream logic' it seemed entirely unsurprising that 'nam' were still a going concern.
asciilifeform: with plane full of other cannon fodder. but that's all the detail that was painted.
asciilifeform while BingoBoingo flew, slept, and dreamed that he was conscripted into american army; and when asked 'where do you want to go' answered 'let's straight to 'nam, get it over with' and was sent.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: man in sov restaurant, gets up to go piss, leaves a note on his table : 'i have spat into this soup, do not steal' . returns, to finds scribble under his note : '...i spat in it also, yours, anon'
asciilifeform: certainly not chumpatron that soldiers right-along as ever before, without even oil changes.
asciilifeform: 'Every Five Minutes A Christian Is Killed For The Faith, Click Here To Save Christian Lives' << apparently the 'ransom from berbers' scamola did not end with the 18th c..?
asciilifeform: from same rag, 'Nazi Cult In Germany Is Murdering Children, Cutting Them To Pieces, And Conducting Human Experiments On Them' ; 'The Islamic Government Of Turkey, And Its European Allies, Are Making Plans On Committing Mass Genocide Against Christians, And Enslaving...' etc
asciilifeform: in all of these cases, output, and the required time and space, are known in advance.
asciilifeform: or the recording for playing of whatever grunting noises through the speaker (which is really simply a specialized program)
asciilifeform: whether we are discussing a rsagram, or the decompression of a pr0nbitmap.
asciilifeform: specifically, proggy that a) accepts no input, other than itself or b) accepts input, but does not ~branch~ on it -- can and really ougta 'say on the box' how many cycles it will consume, and how much memory it will require in its life.
asciilifeform: sadly there is not afaik a known way to make'em 'trim' when they hang off a raid card. but otoh samsung repeatedly shipped units with buggy 'trim' , that randomly zeroed blocks.
asciilifeform: ( mircea_popescu , ben_vulpes , trinque , other folx with serious machine fleet, consider to chime in re disk-sellers 0
asciilifeform: i dun recall specifically whom i left out , of this list, but that's more or less all of the major players.
asciilifeform: 'kingston' is ~ok for a box that dun write much of anything to disk
asciilifeform: 'sandisk' is rubbish, fit to stoke oven; 'toshiba' is ~ok ; samsung ok, good for several dozen whole-surface writes, typically ; other types tried to date -- rubbish
asciilifeform: ( i have not tried intel's, simply cannot bring myself to buy. but tried afaik every major other . )
asciilifeform: i have been using the konsoomer version of similar 'disks' , for some yrs, this type has created the fewest headaches in asciilifeform's machineroom, among 4 various vendors'
asciilifeform: they're quarter-TBs , such as are sold for industrial temps, '10yr warranty' ( to this day i have nfi how one might go about claiming warranty on a hdd , but we digress ) etc
asciilifeform: the thing ffa enables, is to make the 'this-here program takes known number of cycles, and known total bitness of memory' guarantee into an actually feasible thing.
asciilifeform: 'p' stack machine ( to be featured in last episode of ffa series ) is a demo of sane ( e.g. demonstrably-correct and bounded , yet usefully complete operator set ) code execution.☟︎
asciilifeform: ( given as item is from ancient asciilifeform article... )
