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mircea_popescu: i don't get it. so you had a specific ip, which used to work, but now they changed it and instead of failing they self-advertise ?
mircea_popescu: i would agree that zamyatin is a brilliant pamphleteer and an interesting ethnological/"historical" source.
mircea_popescu: there's a petulent dork going about on twitter about he "wrote about bitcoin before it was cool". i suspect the whole "cypherpunk" group of kanzure s secretly hold the same belief, that they're relevant through their failure.
mircea_popescu: i guess the argument could be made, but what's it pay ?
mircea_popescu: and for that matter how is pulp fiction part of literature now.
mircea_popescu: spyked probably the peak of his work huh ? see if you get that gherman fellow to read it once you translate it!
mircea_popescu: here's the problem of ourdemocracy : if people are allowed to misperceive they "have choices" and feed this hallucination out of the field of choices they do not have, you end up with the sexy problem, whereby linear cost encounters unreasonably power-law distributed benefit.
mircea_popescu: is it patriotic to leak the dnc's self-important bullshit leading to the republic sinking clinton ?
mircea_popescu: is that up left item supposed to be the pennsylvania bell ? or rather some ad-hoc, tesla times large inductor ? perhaps some nuclear sikrit ?
mircea_popescu: as no 0 led or 0 terminated string will ever pass anyway
mircea_popescu: incidentally, if looking for 4096 bit prime wouldn't the correct approach be to take 4094 bits of rng and glue 1 on either end ?
mircea_popescu: yes, but then would you rather 999 r-m or 995 primorial gcd and 4 r-m ?
mircea_popescu: recall diana_coman 's trick of "multiply by 6" ? pretty much the inverse of the same idea.
mircea_popescu: having a primorial at the ready to exclude a large number of common (ie, low) factors in one single gcd likely speeds this up significantly.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: my guess is that it's as close to closed form solutions as possible, hence all the barrett fucking etc, but then again i'm a weak programmer and a very dubious mathematician.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you're not having any of this new fangled "constant time ~= fixedtime ie, variable time running at worst case" ?
mircea_popescu: phf his point is that if you're going to compare fixtime with something else, better make sure you get a long case in there too.
mircea_popescu: so im trying out being 70s, what. do you want me to go in unaware, end up surprised by it ?
mircea_popescu: yet it was you know... 6km maybe ? piddly squat, until you consider it climbed maybe 6-700m over that distance.
mircea_popescu: few days ago, went on uphill hike, walked until literally passed out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: today for eg, felt like walk, but didn't feel like climbing 20% inclines, so had girl take me to park. 20km driven to walk 3 or so. imagine the decay.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: used to. i suppose this place being ~a village doesn't help.
mircea_popescu: mod6 anyway, i'm not a young man anymore. i maybe do 10km a week these days, if that.
mircea_popescu: generally, gift extra used pairs to the help when moving out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider : i've yet to throw out a pair of shoes because ~broken~.
mircea_popescu: mod6 most shoes here (as in romania, as in egypt, as in etc) are ~30.
mircea_popescu: they're nice though, a brazillian take on the longwing brogue
mircea_popescu: so i bought this five bitcent pair of "finest brazillian shoes".
mircea_popescu: only been a day, these days medicare can keep even tom petty alive a day.
mircea_popescu: well, yes, but then again how many of the 500 will join the choir invisible ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually, this is the largest IN THE NEW WORLD. 2nd largest, 43 notches, francisco paula gonzalez in 64.