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amberglint: Peter Paine has a huge pile of Symbolics
tapes which he jealously guards from other bolixologists, I wonder if it has
the source of Ivory
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 03:10 asciilifeform: 1)
the NS source for
the last 'ivory'.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-14 20:10 asciilifeform: apeloyee:
the other
thing
to consider, is
that
the preserved bolix material has ~unspeakably~ rich ( and quite high snr ) collection of artifacts, perhaps 1000 asciilifeform-years of work.
take
the ns vlsi compiler alone. i have
the binaries, but not
the src. and ~someone~ will have
to make a sane (i.e. fully lispified and zero-externals) vlsitron.
amberglint: I remember NS referencing
the documentation, but it seems
to be missing in
the distribution everyone has
amberglint: I also have
the crack for Macsyma if you want
amberglint: after you do
that,
there's another gotcha - it needs a license from Symbolics
to run, like Macsyma
amberglint: NS does work, but you need a simple workaround
to get around
the Xlib error: switch your X server
to 8bpp
mircea_popescu: sold
to
the same crowd of malignant morons
that buys "electric cars" and "credit cards everywhere" and "electronic locks" and so on.
lobbes: asciilifeform: bot back. sry bout
that
mircea_popescu: seems
there's a MINIMAL complexity "For anything interesting", and we're finally just now getting
togethert
the
tools
to work with it.
mircea_popescu: anyway. it's funny
to me
that
the blockchain's approximately in
the size range of
the genome.
mircea_popescu: dealing with a 500`000`000 copies (more or less exact) of
the same 100GB file within half an hour...
that's more
than any node does ; and more
than
the collective of nodes did since
the beginning of
the ocin.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-20 19:47 asciilifeform: (
this is called 'brittleness' by aficionados of 'meat-like machinery' )
mircea_popescu: actually... why not now. so, human genome, 3bn base pairs, about 100GB ; per ejaculation ~500bn copies of
this chunk.
mircea_popescu: (and deals with more
tbs of data
than any bitcoin node, but
that's a story for later sadness.()
mircea_popescu: and i have seen a
tyre depot, which for my purposes here counts as "bag of legs"
mircea_popescu: that's
the problem of bitcoin, right,
the relay-mining cleavage. something
that ~in spite of designatorial intention~ WAS done
to bitcoin ; and NOT done
to sexuate reproduction.
mircea_popescu: turns out, cunt more of a jewel of engineering
than generally
thought, yet ~another~ aspect of its normal functioning not reproducible by present
technical means.
mircea_popescu: but yes, it's painfully obvious
the "p2p" nature of bitcoin went straight
to nowhere, disabusing naive satoshi notions of "all
the world's a huge wikitardia!!!" 1990s wank.
mircea_popescu: because of
the exact problems you discuss i'd guess 1/4 or less of nodes are publicly adressable
a111: Logged on 2018-10-15 15:44 asciilifeform: in unrelated noose, mod6 et al : loox like
trb doesn't remove banned peers from its addr
table ! i.e. offers
their addrs up
to others, as if
they were proper noades!! i never noticed
this previously, it had
to wait
to be found empirically. really oughta be fixed, and pretty simple patch.
BingoBoingo: AHA,
this and not "be counted by derps" iirc was
the reasons
the knob got cranked
to 99999 and left
there.
mircea_popescu: i
think it's already evident
this, in
the serialization discussion
mircea_popescu: (better
than "i'll wait
to patch it in directly at
the right
time" because
the "right
time" mioght never come seeing how
the people in question don't know what you're patching)
mircea_popescu: anyway -- in
this particular case it makes sense
to genesis item so downstream can actually invite you
to patch on
their
tree
mircea_popescu: kinda funny how we're "slowly" (ie, 10x faster) recreating everything bsd was pretending
to be about, huh.
mircea_popescu: i was
thinking, has major chances of being pulled as a patch into eulora-something.
mircea_popescu: nevermind
teh purpose of "how it'll eventually look",
the future can be
trusted
to
take care of itself, ESPECIALLY if you can be
trusted
to
take care of present.
mircea_popescu: l keep growing
the smg_comms
tree." <<
this, ftr, eminently ideal republican code development process.
mircea_popescu: "I packed
the above code as a .vpatch on
top of
the previous genesis .vpatch mainly for keeping my original promise of showing
this being built as it is with detours and corrections on
the way. Otherwise
this could equally well be a genesis in itself given how radically it changes pretty much everything in
there. Nevertheless, at least for now - meaning until a final version is achieved and a regrind makes perhaps sense - I'l
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: How rebuildable is
the battery pack on
that
thing?
a111: Logged on 2018-10-16 00:19 asciilifeform will
try again with 'samsung n150' box, with sadder kbd, but same chipset, and reportedly fitting
mircea_popescu: "does
this dildo work on blondes as well as brunettes ?" "well... it works on redheads best, but it'll do
the oooh-aaah job for anyone."
mircea_popescu: the issue with priesthood is
that it offers perpetual masturbatory
toys for
the non-smart irrespective of
their "intelligence" as irrespective of
their height.
mircea_popescu: dumb as fucking rocks also, and i would like
to introduce mission street in sf into
the record as exhibit fucktards.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 17:34 asciilifeform: in related lulz, and iirc we had a
thread (
tho can't seem
to unearth it ), urandom is sufficiently sad
that when asciilifeform was running genetic algos / monte carlo / etc. crapolade , yrs ago, from it... would regularly fail
to converge