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mircea_popescu: "
a technology so powerful, so secret, it needn't even exist!"
a111: Logged on 2017-03-10 10:43 phf: i don't quite remember, what goes where, but i'm pretty sure the emulator.c that you linked is
a frankenstein that primarily emulates alpha, though it has some signifcant knowledge about what the alpha emulator does, so it's not quite qemu, but something
a lot scarrier
a111: Logged on 2017-03-10 10:39 phf: asciilifeform: if you spent time with it though, you'll realize that it's an assembly dump of the original emulator written for alpha, and the "emulator" part is actually
a combination of c and lisp necessary to ~translate original alpha assembly into portable-ish c~
a111: Logged on 2017-03-10 10:39 phf: asciilifeform: if you spent time with it though, you'll realize that it's an assembly dump of the original emulator written for alpha, and the "emulator" part is actually
a combination of c and lisp necessary to ~translate original alpha assembly into portable-ish c~
phf: there's
a translation code (in lisp) that takes that alpha body and spits out c equilvalent of the BIS ... SUBL ... etc. sequence
phf: i don't quite remember, what goes where, but i'm pretty sure the emulator.c that you linked is
a frankenstein that primarily emulates alpha, though it has some signifcant knowledge about what the alpha emulator does, so it's not quite qemu, but something
a lot scarrier
☟︎ phf: asciilifeform: if you spent time with it though, you'll realize that it's an assembly dump of the original emulator written for alpha, and the "emulator" part is actually
a combination of c and lisp necessary to ~translate original alpha assembly into portable-ish c~
☟︎☟︎ trinque: in fact, I'll go ahead and get the logbot-service thing released now, since it's been running the wot & voicing for maybe
a month now
lobbes: sure, but from what I can observe, your own deedbot (and others' log-o-trons) appear to operate in
a more sane manner. I guess I'm just saying I have much to learn
lobbes: I'm still in the process of climbing out of the primordial soup, so to speak. 'had to start somewhere, etc'; Though I realize I will need to flamethrow my own creations soon enough and rebuild once I 'evolve'
a bit more. But all in due time
a111: Logged on 2017-03-09 18:23 trinque: I said to him "students may learn swordplay but may not tell us the fork in their hands is
a sword"
trinque: I'm sure they have
a cloud API for that
mod6: in the spirit of experimentation, it makes sense that one experiment would not necessairly contain the same changes as
a different experiment.
mod6: no sweat. just putting up
a signpost for future spelunkers.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-10 03:43 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i know
a handful
BingoBoingo: ^ Some idiot said Qntra was
a "Pro-China" rag
mircea_popescu: is there such
a thing as an indian who isn't
a total shitbag ?
a111: Logged on 2017-03-09 20:54 mircea_popescu: nothing generally forces you to keep
a block other than
a collection of transaction-files, for instance. the exact implementation is up in the air for exactly such reason\
mircea_popescu: Framedragger yes, the fs is
a major pile of dubious, as asciilifeform well points out.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-09 18:14 mircea_popescu: meanwhile i ended up with
a python dependency via blender ;/ i dun think it's going anywhere.
diana_coman:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-09#1623846 <-- fwiw the only way I can see this dependency on Python going anywhere would be if someone makes
a sane replacement basically - however, artists need it but won't do it and otherwise people who are able to do it have
a huge list of *other* things that need to be done as far as I can see; moreover (and as usual already), the whole steaming pile is deep so I can't even say how much one
☝︎ Framedragger: also, """But I appear to have
a lingering effect that seems to have started from the time my /tmp directory had the millions of files in it.
mircea_popescu: nothing generally forces you to keep
a block other than
a collection of transaction-files, for instance. the exact implementation is up in the air for exactly such reason\
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-12-22 06:41 mircea_popescu: this way you don't actually have to ~index~ anything, if you wish to see where txn 1234567890 was included in
a block, you go to /12/34/56/7890 which points to block x
mircea_popescu: how large
a part is an open question, but it obviously comes after establishing whether the would-be airplane is even larger than
a breadbox in the first place
mircea_popescu:
a large part of the "not writing properly" can actually be fixed via configs for the fs, rather than using the "middle of the road" stuff shipped with eg ubuntu.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-26 19:27 mircea_popescu: the other problem is that
a good db fix is
a very large project, because bitcoin is written insanely. and our fs db isn't moving, last i heard
a month ago someone was going to try and profile an extx
Framedragger: instead, it's "just"
a matter of having
a however-deep directory tree with symlinks as the leaves.
Framedragger: for
a minute i thought (don't know why) that what is *additionally* needed is the capability to have paths of /symlinks/to/symlinks/.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-22 06:41 mircea_popescu: this way you don't actually have to ~index~ anything, if you wish to see where txn 1234567890 was included in
a block, you go to /12/34/56/7890 which points to block x
phf: (if nobody else steps up, i'm going to bring one up in
a day or two)
☟︎ trinque: will do, I'll set up autossh in just
a bit
ben_vulpes: relatedly, from #elsewhere, "dude shows up with
a thousand farmers on camels. what, tell him to fuck off?"
phf: "you've
a great game,
a noble game, before you"
trinque: I said to him "students may learn swordplay but may not tell us the fork in their hands is
a sword"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: NO IDEA whatsoever of that most fundamental concept of analysis, which is to say "i can write chicken scribblings down and answer FOR
A FACTY whether point q is equal to point p"
mircea_popescu: this being
a phenomenal case of "everybody" -- game graphic artists are
a) some of the least literate dogs in carnation and b) some of the people with the most complex needs from computers. WAY ahead "computer engineers" of the silicon valley ilk, aka webtards.
trinque: not only is python not
a language, it was conceived by people who had OPPOSED political views to the republic
mircea_popescu: i dunno, it does some exporting gnarl. diana_coman published
a recipe, i can dig it up if you wish
mircea_popescu: meanwhile i ended up with
a python dependency via blender ;/ i dun think it's going anywhere.
☟︎ trinque: it's
a massive pile of gendercommmit and hax
trinque: it's
a steaming mess of badly written C
mircea_popescu: trinque no, it has its merits. of course if you're discussing X topic there will be
a THE book, also, this isn't arguing against that.
mircea_popescu: "but ben_vulpes someone here already fucked
a girl, why would you fuck any other ones."
Framedragger: trinque: the naked truth of it is, i have little experience with lisp, of which "shipped to production" amounts to zero. wanted
a bot. wrote modules for sopelbot which turns out to be reliable enough. :)
trinque: I took
a shot at folks present for imitating me and spinning up their own bot rather than writing patches for the only bot in
a V tree, but apparently it was buckshot
ben_vulpes: taking part in the republic, also
a mess of
a concept.
trinque: politics seeming to be
a big driver of the evolution of human intelligence, I don't see how someone who says "but no, the arena is not for me" can be said intelligent.
mircea_popescu: "this examination didn't come with
a scoring sheet!! alert!!! how are we to train for the examination111!!!"
mircea_popescu: Framedragger for the record alf is wrong in the line you quote. he perceives things that way because he proceeds from nonsensical, outright impossible priors. "if i had
a clear idea of what i was doing, i could do it in
a week"
Framedragger: i, too, get confused re. demarcation lines of the two: on the one hand it's supposed to be battlefield against hitler, but on the other hand folks agree that it's also
a good place to employ experimental stuff one always wanted to try, for doing things. and i agree with the latter. but then when that stuff stumbles on an issue (because it's fucking experimental), people get outraged.
mircea_popescu: alternatively i could simply declare all that vanity, and propose some people have more of
a millstone to break to bits than others.
mircea_popescu: funny, i just an hour ago talked the matter through with
a girl training her very first girls, and it turned out on examination that actually... we do.
phf: but i still feel like it was
a "waste" in
a sense that usually you don't apply same educational methods on battlefield as you do in
a lyceum.
phf: i don't think it was
a waste from the whole Man of Knowledge perspective. i derived
a lot of value building one, which makes me think so did others when they built theirs.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-09 01:17 asciilifeform: paradoxically
a trb-i is light years easier than 'cleaned trb'
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, anyone punished newb slavegirl to asstalk ? you take
a flexible 1 inch tube, about
a meter long, one part goes in her mouth, the other in her ass, she proceeds to talk.
mircea_popescu: heck, no further than last week, that susan sontag is not
a moron without remainder
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that the left may even be
a thing, for instance.
Framedragger: but not all. however, this is
a shitty position to argue for. :(
Framedragger: phf: i agree with the latter. if nothing else - why not; sure. and sure,
a *lot* of busy activity reduces to netflix in one way or another.
mircea_popescu: it could also be "if they think they're so smart, they could at least take
a step further than the supposed geniuses of the left WHO DO NOT DARE TRY ARGUE THE POINT, and present their objections."
Framedragger: yeah, i suppose so - it's not
a small thing to ask for at any rate...
mircea_popescu: i'm not sure it can be formulated in
a too compact manner.
Framedragger: is there
a definition of usefulness that you'd agree to? (note, if it refers to tmsr, it's circular, of course)
mircea_popescu: conceivably
a time will come when they've had enough of the gargle.