asciilifeform: there was 1 even right by the hotel, the very next door. roof fell off ( i wondered how, there were what, hurricanes ? strong enuff to rip off steel roof ? ) and squad of metallists worked on cutting it to pieces, and carting away, whole time i was there
asciilifeform: whaddayamean 'a building', i saw 100s
asciilifeform: or if one insists : 1 sha256 collision on tx set, and btc similarly.
asciilifeform: three modest warheads, together weighing less than a toyota, and usd worth ~0 in short order, regardless of by what backed.
asciilifeform: as i understand it, whole idea of 'backed currency' is intrinsically chumpatronic.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-27#1743408 << what's it even mean for something to be ~honestly~ backed ? even in era when various paper moneys were theoretically 'backed in gold' what would have happened if million folx walked in to claim their au ?☝︎
asciilifeform: ( would be interesting to burn it and mass spec, see exactly what inside. )
asciilifeform: light but dun inhale, thing is full of rare earths and nao also polymer crapolade
asciilifeform: i'd naively expect that adacore's item would be the satanic one, and gcc's fork -- the functional. but so far in no case was this the finding.☟︎
asciilifeform: the latter is the source of 100% of the tears in the l0gz to date re 'it dun go'
asciilifeform: currently asciilifeform is barfing over the fact that adacore's gnat is happy to build static 'independent library' .a while gpl gcc's gnat barfs☟︎
asciilifeform: ( which pieces make use of which other )
asciilifeform: it will make apparent what the logical structure of the thing is.
asciilifeform: ( rather than release of whole thing as 'born grown' genesis )
asciilifeform: the other notion is that each shot oughta be a vpatch from previous . so also vtronics practice.
asciilifeform: yea, could ( tho i imagine a serious reader will need somewhat moar than 1hr to follow along )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've cut ffa into 30 pieces, each ~1 pg; -> bl0g article.☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: 'I am utterly frustrated with the software I have to deal with. Windows is beyond comprehension! UNIX is no better. DOS is no better. There is no reason for an OS. It is a non-thing. Maybe it was needed at one time.' etc.
asciilifeform: moral -- measure seven times, cut once, etc. ( asciilifeform for instance is stuck with a 2048b rsa, at least until we finally throw gpg )☟︎
asciilifeform: sadly for kjj, as i understand he is stuck with this key 4evah, unless he wants to buy a boeing for mpex...
asciilifeform: ( for n00bz : ~one~ failure of rng leaks entire privkey, in dsa. )
asciilifeform: that makes... 4th? 'вредитель' kidnapped by usg from 'neutral' cuntry this yr ?
asciilifeform: 'Prague's High Court on November 24 upheld a lower court's ruling allowing the extradition of Yevgeny Nikulin, whom the United States accuses of hacking computers and stealing information from major Internet companies including LinkedIn and Dropbox.'
asciilifeform suspects that sufficiently advanced cases of 'homo americanus' don't actually require existence to have, in their heads, an underpinning at all. but asciilifeform has not sufficient entomological field experience, to say if this is a thing yet.
asciilifeform: ( and i gotta disagree re 'nothing fucking worked, subtly' -- things fucking didn'twork ~honestly~ and in plain daylight. it's today that they dysfunction subtly.)
asciilifeform: ( why not over ip ? well for starters not all of the boxes have nics. or run an os that knows what is a nic ! )
asciilifeform: but indeed goes back to subj of thread, asciilifeform is stuck with 1880s state of the art, i.e. plugboard, for switching console b/w boxen, in a room where there is simply nomoar wall to hang moar lcd onto.
asciilifeform: folx who never pulsedialed -- likely not
asciilifeform: right, they're used for per-rack hand-cranked sweat -- sorta like those rack-mount rotary phones one sees in photos of old pbxen
asciilifeform: ( if you ever wonder where surplus 1990s tft panels go -- they went to make these. )
asciilifeform: today you'll see folx use rack mount lcd, slides out sorta like an oven door
asciilifeform: ( why remote-controlled box is vga-only is not a mystery )
asciilifeform: i suspect that mircea_popescu is right in re why the hand-cranked items sold today are still vga-only -- they are for use of gnomes, in the mines.
