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mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860806 << "own prng" stance also correctly implements specificity-of-diddling republican doctrine, and more importantly one not really so formally expressed before -- that responsibility must sit with they responsible. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: every time xantipa interrupted her illustious husband with some nonsense or other, rite.
asciilifeform: this pre-dates most of the current acute nonsense, even
asciilifeform: afaik that's all of'em.
mircea_popescu: if they're out there let them doh.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i find myself wondering how many physics folx sit and bite their lips, 'monte carlo dun work so good...', cuz they bought $50k swiss 'quantum rng' that whitens with sha.
mircea_popescu: honestly, just buy 2mn dice, put them all in a large bag hoisted to a pole and let it drop.
asciilifeform: coupla tho monkey-hours.
asciilifeform: allegedly they actually had meat army throwing dice.
mircea_popescu: pretty great book to write.
a111: Logged on 2014-08-27 02:03 asciilifeform: bats_cd03: 'random' means one thing if you're running 'monte carlo' sims (digits of 'pi' work beautifully, as does 'A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates' (rand corp, 1955. book.))
mircea_popescu: (re above -- THEY ended up baking. i had nfi.)
mircea_popescu: science spoken in english is very sad these days.
asciilifeform: ( my sim -- converged!11 -- when i fed it... don lancaster's geiger rng tarball. ) ☟︎
asciilifeform: i even naively expected that we'd have steady trickle of physics folx buying FG
mircea_popescu: "what do you have there ? cats ?" "inter alia..."
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 ☟︎
mircea_popescu: and jwz just wants email to work, news at 11.
mircea_popescu: oh sorry, you labelled "related lulz/disinfo". i had it in buffer, got around to it, and well...
mircea_popescu: so fucking stupid it's not even wrong. it's just too stupid to anything else.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the https://archive.is/clOSG link is a null page
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why did you link that exercise in idiocy re urand above ?
asciilifeform: if not for massive printolade infusions, would have died at roughly same time as commodore co.
mircea_popescu: perfectly illustrates my point re terrible management. but yes.
asciilifeform: ( they also make a few high-end DACs, etc., but this prolly would not keep'em alive by itself )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: phunphakt : the only reason, afaik, why ti still not bankrupt , is that they somehow managed to get their bottom line calcs to be ~mandated~ in schools in ~whole usa
a111: Logged on 2016-11-30 23:04 asciilifeform: 'As more people with less commitment to quality and much less attention to detail got involved in writing it, its educational value diminished, too. It is like going to a library full of books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these cheaper books is an in
a111: Logged on 2017-04-09 22:51 mircea_popescu: anyway, in the above retelling, the 4->5 transition is the coup the grace. they couldn't "follow" each other ~because~, in this view, they were bereft of sufficient bandwith to in any sense communicate. so they couldn't, like, end up with all the same one substitute cuntcap.
mircea_popescu: gave it ALL away on inept management. and not even the "fucktarded engineer manalones" http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-09#1641130 stuff. ☝︎
asciilifeform: was imho the king of '90s pocketcalcism
a111: Logged on 2018-01-03 17:37 ben_vulpes: so i dug this ti-89 platinum out of my closet last night to have something tactile to do arithmetic on and holy shit i'd completely forgotten about the input lag
asciilifeform: !#s ti-89
mircea_popescu: it's not so much "ti could have been the intel-microsoft/apple", but rather... it was. fucking was.
asciilifeform: they had a line of pocket calculators, this was ( and as i understand, remains ) their flagship product. but! they somehow managed to lose their upstream ic vendors (they dun make much with own hands any moar) and nao reduced to selling same calc with ~ipnoje+emulator internals, and multi-second boot(yes) times
mircea_popescu: pity nobody bothers to write the story of their spectacular implosion. it'd make ye olde http://trilema.com/2014/fred-quimby-and-ancient-evils/ story look quite tame.
mircea_popescu: kinda why i even took up the logline. it might be the worst #blackchickscode #womenarepeopletoo #slavesrightsnao #lxsdumbxs etc etc failure in history.
asciilifeform: pissed away pretty much all market , despite at one time heavy muscle
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ti is epic example of sad -- at one time 1 of the largest semiconductor houses in usa, and built not only a lispm ( flopped ) but fairly beefy 80s micro ( ti-99/4 , also flopped )
mircea_popescu: other than this, computing was pretty much 100% radar signal processing at the time.
mircea_popescu: "Texas Instruments delivers the first Advanced Scientific Computer (also called Advanced Seismic Computer), containing 4 pipelines with an 80 ns clock time. Vector instructions were memory-to-memory. Seven of these machines are later built, and an aggressive automatic vectorizing FORTRAN compiler is developed for them. It is the first machine to contain SECDED (Single Error Correction, Double Error Detection) memory. " << als
asciilifeform: ( and that's at 'ratecard' cpu farm )
asciilifeform: right nao they cost maybe 100bux ea. to break.
asciilifeform: btw there's a megatonne of 512b rsa keys in my db
mircea_popescu: right. otherwise it becomes this arbitrary-point anachronism in the vein of "grandmother should have fucked better sailors on the basis of how retarded granson is, and i can prove this by showing grandson was alive at an arbitrary point in time grandmother hadn't died yet."
asciilifeform: 'let's do this, but without doing it'
asciilifeform: ( entertainingly analogous, imho, to their current-day 'proprietary blockchains(tm)' liquishit )
asciilifeform: orig. msdos 'pgp' was , what, '92 ? and the mit-istic bastardizations, shortly after
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most of the subj (e.g. barrett's algo) is late-80s
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform rsa first published 1977 ; Intel produces the world's first single-chip CPU, the 4004 microprocessor. in 1971.
asciilifeform: ( at one time i tried to rsa on 6502, it's a royal bitch on 8bit-wide chip with no multiplier )
asciilifeform: wasn't widely in use tho, because expensive.
asciilifeform: rsa very much existed in '80s, good % of the classic papers re real-life algos for it are from exactly then
mircea_popescu: but yes, access to entropy is by now the one underpinning of being a citizen.
mircea_popescu: rsa not born yet ; all our practice not yet practiced. i can scarcely blame aurel vlaicu for using textile fixed wing.
mircea_popescu: in the 1980s engineers / cstronicists' defense, it was not yet understood how important entropy is to individuality and human existence.
asciilifeform: if pc had been designed by sane folx, it'd have rng that worx at bus speed, and nobody could have even conceived of this nonsense.
mircea_popescu: that time is not everytime.
mircea_popescu: there's a time when the hotglue guns and bimbo-chewed gum comes out.
asciilifeform: afaik it's exactly this
mircea_popescu: i am by now thoroughly allergic to this "downstream wants something upstream doesn't provide, so it's neither time to bring out the whips and chains upon the downstream nor to throw out the upstream and bake a new one, but instead let's hotwire the microwave ballast to the toaster."
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 22:32 asciilifeform: 'The situation is somewhat akin to a retarded girlfriend trying to flood your apartment, that not only opens all the faucets and stops all the drains, but also takes the "extremely clever" measure of puncturing the water pipes, so she can then preciously inform you that "turning off the faucets won't help" and you must work with her to somehow create a raft out of your widescreen TV so as to navigate the marshy terrain that used to b
asciilifeform: ( trilema item, http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-18#1524864 ) ☝︎
asciilifeform: !#s tv raft
mircea_popescu: w/e "customer has come to expect" - ism.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall also how the thing came to be ( was idjit hack, around the fact that 'sshd wants entropy at boot time, before rng init' or somesuch )
mircea_popescu: fucktarded zeks that eat the usg cheese THEREFORE CAN NOT nor should eat my cheese. and we're back to http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860889 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reason i even called it ideological patch is because the pretense that shitropy-eaters have anyhthing to do with entropy, or us, must be shot in the head.
mircea_popescu: and none of the "but mp, if i make it the size i think it should be it crashes" bs.
mircea_popescu: ie, if the most shitropy you ever want in one gulp is x, make manager thread create that chunk in contiguous memory and keep it full.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i sat down & tried to think of a legit use for urandom, only came up with what's in the linked thread
mircea_popescu: have your own program designed correctly, so your own shitropy management thread ensures your own shitropy calls always return in constant time. YOUR JOB, as a shitropy eater.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 12:39 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860778 << there are not so many legitimate uses for /dev/urandom. however the idea that it can be fully reproduced in userland without kernel knob is afaik a mistake -- the thing gives you real entropy if available, and elsewise prngolade; importantly, as a ~nonblocking~ operation. idea is that it ~always~ returns in constant time.
asciilifeform: the maker of the thing folded coupla yrs ago, they had 2 major buyers, the 'olpc' idjicy (dead) and usg (made clone, as i understand) and so starved.
asciilifeform: ( as well as if you turn on the backlight led, then it becomes ~ordinary screen )
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i kinda like playing heroes2 on lappies, >50% of their utility, whip it out while camping or w/e. but...
asciilifeform: i have nfi if item is of interest to anyone other than asciilifeform , aside from possibly phf
asciilifeform: there's 6 or so known lappies where thing fits natively, with 0 construction work, i have one due to show up next wk, will post photo if worx.
mircea_popescu: imo this half-problem was born for being trampled ignominously, but then again that's just me.
asciilifeform: if yer willing to carry suitcase, may as well get the chinese hdmi/vga boardlet and use with rk.
mircea_popescu: don't tell me your problem is not having a 3d printer./
asciilifeform: ( cable , can be adaptered, in theory, but frame is what it is )
asciilifeform: it's a physical part, gotta fit in the frame
mircea_popescu: all. because, whether they expect 16:9 or 4:3 or 19:6 or anything else, you can... margin it!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: specifically, it cannot sit down in the beloved x60 or any other 4:3
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aah, orig thread was re what machines it can be sewn into
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 12:16 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860756 << lcd , of any type yer likely to meet with, draws =~ current regardless of what is displayed
asciilifeform: thing has voice mail too, but i assumed receiver has own and didn't plug it in
asciilifeform: can also nix the space b/w tmsr and btc
asciilifeform: but i did not plug it in, couldn't think of why to do presently
asciilifeform: btw there's another pheature, also apparently 0cost, that lets you make calls ~from~ it
mod6: i expected the "1" to work, however, maybe it's just a "smrt phone" thing
mircea_popescu: mod6 write it as "[1] 833 TMSR BTC"
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is wrong with that country.
BingoBoingo: Nah, dialing ambiguity is a US telecom thing
asciilifeform: i dun pnoje much these days, nfi
mircea_popescu: so wait, wait. these idiots managed to create dialing ambiguity ?!
mod6: your phone is tapped
mircea_popescu: alf be like "hello ? oh, is this nicole ? JUST CALLED TO TELL YOU YOUR PHONE ANSWERING SUCKS! i mean... i was expecting it to improve but it turns out NOT"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> she'll be pleased to hear from you :) << Or give him an earful about logs to summarize
mod6: btw... jurov and I are working on relocating the bitcoin.foundation website to the foundation's server in Pizarro. We're gonna get it set up, and test before we announce a cut-over date. Smooth transition, ftw.