asciilifeform: meanwhile, in other volkischer beobachter lulz, https://archive.is/NS8Mr >> 'Mr. Williams had written on his company blog about the Shadow Brokers... Now the group had replied in an angry screed on Twitter. It identified him — correctly — as a former member of the National Security Agency’s hacking group, Tailored Access Operations, or T.A.O., a job he had not publicly disclosed. Then the Shadow Brokers astonished him by droppi

asciilifeform: and for that matter of the ada std lib - using part ( once the debuggery put_line's in ffa are done away with )

asciilifeform: the posted unit is the entirety of the machine-dependent part of 'p'.

asciilifeform: and yes we import the c char routines. but these can be replaced on bare iron with reads/writes of uart, trivially. or anything else we want.

asciilifeform: os.adb : http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/C7D2r/?raw=true

asciilifeform: os.ads : http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/SRKeb/?raw=true

asciilifeform: from current draft :

asciilifeform: spyked: i'ma post 'p' i/o routines, 1s

asciilifeform: the less use is made of ada standard libs, the moar likely the thing is to survive transition to whatever ada-with-maximal-dross-jettisonned that we eventually end up with.

asciilifeform: a newline is just another octet.

asciilifeform: ideally.

asciilifeform: i.e. it should be compatible with 'no os' ( bare iron ) microcontroller and such

asciilifeform: your proggy should never try to eat or shit more than 1 char at a shot

asciilifeform: parsing sanely (i.e. with meaningful eggog-recoveries) is tricky business

asciilifeform: fair'nuff

asciilifeform: spyked: it's ok to post it 1 routine at a time ( as i do with ffa )

asciilifeform: ( this is how 'p' works, as you will see in near future )

asciilifeform: spyked: ideally you tell it on commandlinearg how much memory the script shot gets. and if it tries to cons 1 time too many, that's a eggog

asciilifeform: i'd much like to try it

asciilifeform: spyked: consider posting your draft ( as asciilifeform posts his drafts occasionally )

asciilifeform: on sane iron, gc really oughta be part of the iron. but that's whole other thread.

asciilifeform: ( if your script runs for long enough that it needs gc -- maybe it oughta instead be an actual proggy ? ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: i'm not fully convinced that a scripting lang ~needs~ a gc ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: and is 'correct-by-obviousness'

asciilifeform: but that ~itself~ weighs very little

asciilifeform: and get something in which one might write things like http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1762

asciilifeform: ( i'd quite like to perma-anathemize python,perl,all the multi-GB-pots-of-liquishit )

asciilifeform: spyked: my original notion was, sane ecosystem is direly short of a simple scripting lang

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-12#1736759 << linked item is unpleasantly reminiscent of the 'artificially smoked' sprats that flooded the market in the early 2000s ☝︎

asciilifeform: sounds like fun

asciilifeform: tinyscheme-like item as discussed here ?

asciilifeform: spyked: nifty

asciilifeform: so it's still a winner.

asciilifeform: and the parts of usa that it ~isn't~ two notches ahead of, asciilifeform will never live in

asciilifeform: at least written in terms of 'bang per buck'

asciilifeform: and for that matter most of usa

asciilifeform: it's still a notch or two ahead of, e.g., chicago

asciilifeform: bucharest ?

asciilifeform: ( where, e.g., sidewalks can be walked on, rather than used as ad hoc orc parking lot )

asciilifeform: enjoyed timis far moar ftr.

asciilifeform: i did see it on weekday lol

asciilifeform: wb

asciilifeform: ohai spyked

asciilifeform: made room for 'admin offices'

asciilifeform: ( where they went ? unknown, prolly burned )

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-12#1736763 << at one time asciilifeform also naively thought 'u of md keeps 1mil b00ks for me!11' -- even paid a subscription fee. which then went up, and max b00k loan time went from 6mo to 3mo to 1mo... and went up again.. and the most recent insult, they abolished 80% of the contents of the library floor asciilifeform frequented ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( who mines u today ? and, gotta wonder, how -- i can't picture it outside of butugychag-style 'fat-powered' op )

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-12#1736787 << ah hm iirc nao su did not stash u, it stashed pu -- and most of it 'sold' to usg in '90s for pennies ☝︎

asciilifeform: oh hey BingoBoingo , got a rack yet ?

asciilifeform: at some point , oughta

asciilifeform: but somewhere yea

asciilifeform: pretty sure i retired the last rust hdd...

asciilifeform: the 300 figure is closer to what i aim for in the launch capsule.

asciilifeform: and it's considerably larger but also low snr

asciilifeform: phf: i annotate in my head

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: orig link is quite nonsensical tho : ru is ~exporter~ not importer of fissiles ☟︎

asciilifeform: lol!!

asciilifeform: at any rate, can't say that it's a very urgent thing -- prolly >1yr to launch day, for asciilifeform

asciilifeform: uniques/rarities strictly.

asciilifeform: because wtf, it isn't worth ~my~ time to catalogue every old toaster in the kitchen, and everypiece of dead tree rubbish that one could get for fiddycents from 'bookfinder' etc

asciilifeform: ( occupies whole shelf )

asciilifeform: prolly the 1 item that might interest people is the full set of bolix docs

asciilifeform: ah no that's not done yet

asciilifeform: listed most of what's worth talking about, in the log.

asciilifeform: ( the , dunno, 50, cubometres of dead tree, say )

asciilifeform: most of it not worth cost of transport

asciilifeform: lol i can't resist asking, which item(s) tempt pete_dushenski

asciilifeform: the crackpot design thing he's doing nowadays, is moar like riverboat.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-12#1736692 << something like that ( tho not river-, had a keel ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-12#1736685 << i still have the artifacts, if anybody can be arsed . ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-12#1736690 << lol 50 btc prolly buys whole street in timis ☝︎

asciilifeform: lobbes: there was recently a thread, re how to do it

asciilifeform: ( i'm satisfied that the riddle was solved when it was discovered , much later, that crapflare serves up random pgs of buffer ram in some % of requests )

asciilifeform: ( http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1508421 thread ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: i still have some afflicted zips ( that for some reason unzipped ok on various folx' boxen, but none of mine )

asciilifeform: lobbes: not only does it, but was dinged by the 'random page of ram' thing last yr

asciilifeform: ( 'BCPG' )

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-12#1736604 << notorious javaturd pgptron btw ☝︎

asciilifeform also bbl

asciilifeform read mircea_popescu's latest piece, now wishes to cook and eat an iguana

asciilifeform: wasn't he a maths d00d in ro somewhere

asciilifeform: umm

asciilifeform: !!rate candi_lustt 1 robot lives to serve

asciilifeform: hm tru

asciilifeform: !#s !!rate candi_lustt

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-12#1736643 << nil ?! ☝︎

asciilifeform: np

asciilifeform: folx should not have to dig to find it

asciilifeform: ag3nt_zer0: btw when you discuss an article, it is good form to link to it

asciilifeform: just as you can write number 10 as 0xa in base 16 etc

asciilifeform: think, if you have the key per se, you can always convert it to the 'words' form again later.

asciilifeform: they're a ( not imho particularly great, but we digress ) mnemonic device, is all.

asciilifeform: so what's the q then

asciilifeform: then you know what the words were for.

asciilifeform: ever try it ?

asciilifeform: reciting 1e6 digits of pi etc

asciilifeform: type of performance art , circus 'magic'

asciilifeform: ag3nt_zer0: are you familiar with mnemonism ?

asciilifeform: what means 'have' here ?

asciilifeform: ag3nt_zer0: see ^ threads, in particular http://btcbase.org/log/2015-06-10#1159417 ☝︎