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ben_vulpes: aah, i get it. ycombinator is buying their way out of the sins of refusing to disavow thiel by "funding" the aclu.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> also, amendments to the constitution aren't made by congress. << I think they are referring to section 4 of the 25th amendment, tis a mess
mircea_popescu: so yes, i'm perfectly willing and entirely able to banish knuth.
mircea_popescu: idiots, and by this i mean specifically intelligent ones, benefit immensely from warnings
asciilifeform: first time i see the d00d mention shitlangs. but the overflow thing affects shitlangs just as much as sanelangs.
mircea_popescu: i couldn't care less what rust dork has to say on any topic.
mircea_popescu: maybe. i'd have to see the scheme.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if i make a chip, all regs are 1 trit wide.
asciilifeform: and i 100% agree, it is blitheringly idiotic, let ALL arithm ops return 2wordz!!
mircea_popescu: myeah. but if i ever make a chip myself, there's not going to be fucking carry speshul bit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's also fleshlights. i don't program on those.
mircea_popescu: well i don't see how you can get 3 words by multiplying 1 word with another word.
mircea_popescu: ok. what's this to do with ada i dunno, but anyway, there it is.
mircea_popescu: i didn't realise the above high level math was stand-in for asm.
mircea_popescu: i thought bounds checking was introduced by the compiler not by the program.
mircea_popescu: i'm not interested in picking anything. bound checking is to be done by comparing TO THE BOUND not to some other random value picked by the compiler.
mircea_popescu: i think i'm done with this convo.
mircea_popescu: dude, stop picking the irrelevant. pick the meat of what i say.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't think "zero surprise compilation on all machines" is a notable or even desirable concern.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-03 16:20 asciilifeform: i will give example here, to nail in the point:
asciilifeform: this, i suppose, is not a mega-discovery, it is just trivial fact that you cannot 100% match the semantics of a broken system without being broken in all of the exactly same ways (in this case, over/under-flowable arithmetic)
asciilifeform: (and then define the correct reader, writer, for streams, i am omitting these here for clarity)
asciilifeform: i will explain why:
asciilifeform: and the 'doctor, it hurts when i do that! --- so stop doing that!' option is NOT available, as bitcoin's protocol mandates a 'compactsize' variable-bitness integer idiocy that maxes out at unsigned 64bit. ( see http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/serialize.h?v=asciilifeform_add_verifyall_option#0192 ) .
asciilifeform: this is not as simple as 'gcc suxxxxx, let's fix gcc'. because i have nfi what The Right Thing looks like here.
asciilifeform: this is, as i see it, a philosophical problem, and i post it here for that reason.
asciilifeform: and no, you can't gabriel_laddel over this boojum, and 'work around in software automagically', result will be a massive time AND space penalty at a seemingly arbitrary boundary (i.e. if you had bignumatron kick in above the can't-fixnum-no-moar threshhold)
asciilifeform: seeeee this is what i mean when i say 'hardware is catastrophically retarded'
asciilifeform: even type Foo is range 0 .. (2**63)-1; worx on x64, because there is a superset, i.e. range 0 .. 2**64 .
asciilifeform: i've been pondering subj for ~hour nao; it is not entirely clear that '100% machinewordsize-independent arithmetic' is compatible with 'zero-surprise compilation on all machines'
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry, "the gcc ada implementation"
shinohai: Stupid hotel I'm in has only ipv6 addys
a111: Logged on 2017-01-31 17:38 shinohai: "I'm half-Latina, my mother full-blooded. My father is white. At Thanksgiving, I was having a discussion with another relative when my dad's aunt called me a Communist and started chanting 'Build that wall.' Should I write her off?"
asciilifeform guesses that they belong to luser boxes, i.e. konsoomer routers, no ssh
shinohai: I like the "America's first use of nuclear weapons" part.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-31#1610170 << ok i lolled. ☝︎
thestringpuller: i've never seen h1b1 used for its "intended purpose". at first coal mine, director would hire h1b applicants over the norm due to cost.
shinohai: "I'm half-Latina, my mother full-blooded. My father is white. At Thanksgiving, I was having a discussion with another relative when my dad's aunt called me a Communist and started chanting 'Build that wall.' Should I write her off?" ☟︎
Framedragger: (i'm afraid i won't have much time to work on bot or anything for the next ~two months, though. will maintain things and slowly move ahead, tho.)
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-30#1609850 << i am, but it's in the list of things i need to accomplish. i want to wrap up "blame" next, and i can work no graphs after ☝︎
asciilifeform: where do i buy a steel lappy nao?
asciilifeform: btw i nearly forgot, that pen box had 100% STEEL case
mircea_popescu: i had a ~9 lb laptop cca 1995 that could almost play master of orion
asciilifeform: lulzily, the only i/o was... laplink!
mircea_popescu: i can see it
asciilifeform: i shit thee not
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i actually had an msdos tablet
ben_vulpes: i mean what, a rest api can't be *that* damagingly expensive for a well-funded sv startup
ben_vulpes: near as i ever figured out, some heinous mishmash of "totally not localstorage" and "mongo" "in the cloud"
mircea_popescu: i think the trilema.io is actually trilema.com or something.
asciilifeform: unfortunately i have
asciilifeform: i always wanted to know, who came up with that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah i think this was mostly dreamscape reinterpretation of my one time at some renaissance faire.
mircea_popescu: "but whatever, benefits are ok, i got dental..."
mircea_popescu: which reminds me, i had a dream last night, mosul had been actually conquered by teh coalitioderacy of dounces and they were rebuilding it.
ben_vulpes: i recently saw a wp plugin also pull some near-mb of jsolade in to serve a modal
trinque: ben_vulpes: I'd rather get some gossipd work rolling than put any more effort into hugging the IRC turd tighter
ben_vulpes: trinque: i briefly looked at https://github.com/jorams/birch but it smells like new
ben_vulpes: i thought that was an ice cream shop
ben_vulpes: trinque: i don't have the appetite for the protocol-level patch atm
mircea_popescu: i think it has potential.
mircea_popescu: i also like the game development <-> apple / google arrow schematics.
mircea_popescu: i like the font.
asciilifeform: i can't picture this being the only one , also
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think we should just stop playing now, dat usg is just too competent.
simonpenner: since I'm noticing this trend
trinque: I don't think I'd want to subclass for that though, whole thing just needs to fart raw protocol lines into the db
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: for a few days now, i think he's waiting for me to cough a mp-wp up
BingoBoingo: Diesel piss injector fluid https://i.redditmedia.com/SMPez8fdNyAiv6Hm8DGnZXbNlvEGMYa1bJYj9MkpMwI.jpg?w=1024&s=3f037d128b77330e4d2b5457e7468484
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess in desperation bash script to curl for trilema.com/2016/ and then hit each article once.
mircea_popescu: heh i c
walter_: I usually add delays to not overload the server, so it runs quite long
walter_: right. That's what I'm doing usually. The problem is updating for new articles. The "sync" takes thousands of HTTP requests
walter_: what I'm thinking is how to efficiently replicate and update a copy of a website, to protect from e.g. somebody taking down the site, and banning archive.is in my country
walter_: oh.. nothing I guess
mircea_popescu: no i mean, the suggesting.
walter_: I'm afraid I cannot patch a PHP website. I can only suggest that it gains the ability to respond Last-Modified, perhaps at the cost of removing the dynamic section (should be fine as a separate page)
walter_: oh I get it now. There's a "recent comments" section that ruins the idea
mircea_popescu: i dunno. in truth the maintenance of mp-wp is a bit in the air right now ; but if you want to make a patch by all means.
walter_: I'd say the proper way would be for articles to "change" when new comments are added, so the page would be re-downloaded
mircea_popescu: your tool i mean. since it's redownloading when it shouldn't.
walter_: from HTTP and wget perspective, I'd say yes
walter_: oh, no. I'm using wget to save websites locally. It relies on Last-Modified to know if it should re-download the page.
mircea_popescu: yeah '; what i'm asking is, are you trying to get a signal when there's new comments ? because otherwise trilema articles do not change.
walter_: I'm archiving important stuff recently, and noticed trilema.com responses do not contain Last-Modified header. Is it on purpose?
mircea_popescu: run by terrorists. i prefer archive.is
walter_: I'm too stupid for the puzzle. What's wrong with archive.org?
walter_: sorry not sure I understood
walter_: mircea_popescu, I would ban that too, but looks it also affects archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://trilema.com/*
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walter_: right now I'm a trilema.com reader wondering why this: http://trilema.com/robots.txt
walter_: I quite didn't expect that question
asciilifeform: so far best i can think of is a third fiber (on top of usual rx and tx) connected to phototransistor and power fet.
asciilifeform: https://shop.mikroe.com/click/interface/fiber-opt-33v << finally, what i had in mind. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ftr i have nfi what gimp these people use, but it does not sound like anything i ever used.
mircea_popescu: perfectly adequate for even 10 meter long lines. i dunno why in my head it was "multikm"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the application i am considering does not call for ultra-sensitive optics, though. 'normal people' use fiber to talk over multiple km. in my case -- a few metres, max.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah, no, i did test it. the converter is cheap, which means cheap. low q optics.
asciilifeform: found also others but that one is cheapest. (though could, now that i think about it, be cheaper still if it omitted the max232 and just spoke raw ttl 0-5v instead of proper rs232.)
mircea_popescu: !~later tell gabriel_laddel_p review your record. what have you made that i currently use ? useful means useful, and you're not it. that you're not it in spite of allegedly being capable rather than because incapable does not speak in your favour ; but on the contrary.