asciilifeform blows dust off 1st ed. k&r , the one with the arch bitnesses tables
asciilifeform: sadly 8bitism is aaaalmost as thoroughly entrenched as binarism.
asciilifeform: ( e.g., you can buy ram that's 1 bit wide, or 4, or in multiples of 8 or (very expensively) of 9, but afaik no other size. and multitude of other devices, e.g. anything that runs on spi, expect 8bitism )
asciilifeform: 8bitism is pretty thoroughly baked into various iron.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-20#1715990 << on second thought, this is prominently not true in... FUCKGOATS ( just as every other rs232 device, it must be connected to a machine that knows what to do with 8bit byte and NEVER pads it to any other size with nulls or otherwise )☝︎
asciilifeform: ( btw i always found it interesting that the unix authors never saw it fit to include a binary equivalent for diff/patch . but iirc we had this thread. )
asciilifeform: dun think i've ever done one for a >coupleaMB bin tho
asciilifeform: i typically write a perlism for those, with a seek()
asciilifeform: what is it exactly that HAS to be multigb, AND human-editable text, AND cannot be split into files in any way ?
asciilifeform: phf: string insert is O(N) troo!! but i can't escape the notion that if you're manually inserting INSIDE multi-GB strings, Something Is Wrong with yer process
asciilifeform: phf: i never understood what's wrong with mmap for text editor of 'larger than memory' items
asciilifeform: barpub: actually i've been having a pretty good time avoiding pointerism in, e.g., ffa, on ordinary pc
asciilifeform: barpub: are you familiar with the concept of complexity-as-environmental-pollutant ?
asciilifeform: incidentally anybody who really yearns for 'ropes', can approximate the effect on his box right now: go and directly edit a gzipped text...
asciilifeform: if i were to randomly flip a bit in a bitstring representing roped text, it will quite possibly turn it to liquishit. if i do the same to normal string, you have 1 bad char in 1 particular place.
asciilifeform: 'ropes' text not only replaces O(1) ops with O(log n), but introduces pointerism and the inevitable overflow ( when implemented, as all unixen are, in overflowlang ) and thus possibility of ill-formed structures , whereas ALL conventional strings are well-formed at birth
asciilifeform: but obvious q : how to square 'Support for multibyte characters in UTF-8 and many East Asian encodings.' with 'Derived from original Unix material released as Open Source by Caldera and Sun' and 'heirloominess' ??
asciilifeform: phf: iirc it popped up in the 'bsd cat' thread
asciilifeform: this unfortunately applies to ~everything and ~anything else just the same
asciilifeform: that seems quite posh, vs usual chalk dust
asciilifeform: and finally, bonus 'bill of attainder' - 'Section 614 requires the Secretary of State, in executing the advance notification requirements of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, to ensure the Russian Federation provides two business days of advance notice to the Secretary prior to Russian diplomatic or consular travel...'
asciilifeform: also didjaknow, 'Section 609 requires the DNI, in coordination with the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of FBI, the Director of CIA, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of the Treasury, to develop a whole-of-government strategy for countering Russian cyber threats against United States electoral systems and processes'
asciilifeform: ( translation from usg limba de lemn : 'there will now be concrete penalties for exposing dnc diddling of elections' )☟︎
asciilifeform: election officials and their designees who possess the aforementioned security clearances.'
asciilifeform: other lulz include 'Section 402 requires the DNI, within 30 days of enactment, to sponsor a security clearance for each eligible chief election official of a State, territory, or the District of Columbia (and up to one eligible designee), up to the top secret level. Section 402 also requires the DNI to share appropriate classified information-related threats to election systems and to the integrity of the election process with chief
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/JHUvM/?raw=true << in other lulz. i'll skip to the money shot: 'It is the sense of Congress that WikiLeaks and the senior leadership of WikiLeaks resemble a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors and should be treated as such a service by the United States.'
asciilifeform: ( put whatever in d00d's hands, say snipped of x86 asm, or the like, and watch if eyes/hands light up in obviously correct motions, or if cow stare )
asciilifeform: i thought that at this point everybody just does the 5min litmus test☟︎
asciilifeform: somebody still does technicalinterviews ?!!
asciilifeform: srsly , thing makes NO active effort to snarf new blox, other than at boot time
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'mouth open' is exact description of the block pull mechanism
asciilifeform: ftware here was itself financed by the U.S. government: millions of dollars a year flowing to crypto radicals from the Pentagon, the State Department, and organizations spun off from the CIA.'
asciilifeform: in other trilema-plagiarism arts , https://archive.is/M7Mse << '...many of these self-styled online radicals were actually military contractors, drawing salaries with benefits from the very same U.S. national security state they claimed to be fighting. Their spunky crypto-tech also turned out, on closer inspection, to be a jury-rigged and porous Potemkin Village version of secure digital communications. What’s more, the relevant so
asciilifeform: 'don't like lice? don't live in gulag' -- such breakthrough!11
asciilifeform: or something quite similar, not wholly sure
asciilifeform: the astonishing thing is that even here there are geckos.
asciilifeform: trinque: how'd you react to neighbour cornfuck leaving poisoned bait for your beast to find ?☟︎
asciilifeform: rats will clean invalid, infant, other immobile meat, like pirannha.
asciilifeform: naah trinque that's clearly Not Possible !1!! instead idjits will exterminate large mammals so we can be beset with fast-breeding, small ones, like in rat temple in india
asciilifeform: ( recall mircea_popescu's 'ban on trees' piece. )
asciilifeform: there's no limit to whom or what the cornfed 'civilization' is willing to poison, to keep the nonsense going for another day
asciilifeform: but not a bigger rat than the fucking corn eaters.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's algo (aka 'sliding window' , apparently ) takes ~4x the cost of the naive one when implemented constantspacetimefully (i.e. whole table gets walked through mux on every lookup)
asciilifeform: ( all known restatements of newton-raphson reciprocation require normalization, i.e. look at the bits )
asciilifeform: tried and failed to cough up a branch-free newton's method of any kind
asciilifeform: lost count of the various mathematical masturbations, going back to mid-1980s, which dodge the question
asciilifeform: still fascinated with the question of whether a constant-spacetime 'divide&conquer' divisitron is possible.
asciilifeform: is the 'obvious 2x speedup' alluded to earlier.☟︎
asciilifeform currently working on a modified knuth's nonrestoring div algo that permits a half-bitness remainder. this saves B/2 in each of the O(N) shift and mux operations
