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asciilifeform: (by injecting a 2**64 varint in some message.)
asciilifeform: this will never result in a block verification eggog (varints are used ONLY for counts of entitites, and no bitcointronic subentity contains 2**64 of anything, or could, by the classical rules)
ben_vulpes: compact size is an excellent example of a throwaway "engineering" decision that imposes rather a lot of costs on the future
asciilifeform: now! IN PRACTICE! any bitcoin message with a 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF varint in it, is an eggog, because max message length is smaller than this.
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, as i see it, a philosophical problem, and i post it here for that reason.
asciilifeform: likewise default assumption in ada world is that there is not necessarily a heap. (safety-critical proggies typically use NO HEAP EVER)
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: even type Foo is range 0 .. (2**63)-1; worx on x64, because there is a superset, i.e. range 0 .. 2**64 .
asciilifeform: as per ada standard, in order to have a constrained type (e.g., type foo is range 0 .. 10; ) the compiler must find a X such that X is representable on the machine as a fixint, and range of X is larger than asked-for range
mircea_popescu: Framedragger was planning to use it as a snide "you're leaking ip" for noobs' benefit
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?"
mircea_popescu: this has been a random sampling of the ips leaked by people connecting today. Framedragger, any idea why only 1 in 4 is in your list ? evidently the ips are routable ; can you check if you talked to them and htey didn't respond, or just didn't talk to them ?
a111: Logged on 2017-01-31 15:07 asciilifeform: removal, but if Pence and half the cabinet declared Trump unfit, even a Republican-controlled Congress would likely fall in line.'
mircea_popescu: jesus turns out the "our democracy" folk had been living in a full on play-by-the-ear dictatorship since the 70s ? they have nfi how anything works do they ?
a111: Logged on 2017-01-31 15:07 asciilifeform: in other monkeystan chatter, 'Pence is sane enough to oppose rash acts involving, say, the evisceration of all U.S. military alliances, or America's first use of nuclear weapons - and presumably, if things got bad enough, other Trump cabinet members might also be inclined to oust their boss and replace him with his vice president. Congress would have to acquiesce in a permanent 25th Amendment
asciilifeform: but this gives you a C-style 'modular type' -- e.g., it can overflow and underflow.
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?" ☟︎
ben_vulpes: shinohai: that is a funny tweet from gavin
thestringpuller: In other "news" >> https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/01/31/1425259/netgear-exploit-found-in-31-models-lets-hackers-turn-your-router-into-a-botnet
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: funfact kindergarten cop is a textbook "comedic thriller"
asciilifeform: removal, but if Pence and half the cabinet declared Trump unfit, even a Republican-controlled Congress would likely fall in line.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: in other monkeystan chatter, 'Pence is sane enough to oppose rash acts involving, say, the evisceration of all U.S. military alliances, or America's first use of nuclear weapons - and presumably, if things got bad enough, other Trump cabinet members might also be inclined to oust their boss and replace him with his vice president. Congress would have to acquiesce in a permanent 25th Amendment ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in tcpdump, a command-line network traffic analyzer. These vulnerabilities might result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.'
asciilifeform: where do i buy a steel lappy nao?
asciilifeform: games were a ~nonstarter on old lappies, dualscan lcd!
mircea_popescu: i had a ~9 lb laptop cca 1995 that could almost play master of orion
asciilifeform: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/30/business/the-executive-computer-what-a-more-powerful-pen-based-computer-can-do.html << vintage propaganda re subj
asciilifeform: esp to a kid who never even saw a laptop close-up
ben_vulpes: i mean what, a rest api can't be *that* damagingly expensive for a well-funded sv startup
ben_vulpes: "First, we're releasing a database migration tool that lets you migrate data from your Parse app to any MongoDB database" << oh that's kind of you
asciilifeform: it's a null it seems
mircea_popescu: nobody could speak arabic but "they had been told" by a politruk it's ok to go blawhahelabalawala while waving arms in air
ben_vulpes: put it a mile down the road from the amish
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.
mircea_popescu: there's a "ukraina" which does ~same as the "us army" does, ie steiner angriffs every other day.
mircea_popescu: there's also a band which thinks it's tmsr ; and other such things. there is, as previously mentioned, a small island thinks itself "the republic of china".
asciilifeform: at any rate, if somebody feels like a bit of exercise -- would be hilarious, to learn whothefuck, and wai
ben_vulpes: *present* a modal
ben_vulpes: i recently saw a wp plugin also pull some near-mb of jsolade in to serve a modal
ben_vulpes: this is a crapbook!
trinque: we could implement the stuff ircbot actually uses in cl-irc as one macro, a socket, and a ping/pong loop
asciilifeform: 'A decentralized network system fully-utilizing Blockchain in every aspect, aims at solving current difficulties faced by key cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, preventing from frauds and money-laundering, ID management and being a mediator with taxing/administrative system in various countries. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: this is a good point
mircea_popescu: wow that was a broken question. try again ?
ben_vulpes: trinque puzzlingly enough subclassing logbot and defining an ircbot-connect :after method to add the relevant hook (ctcp-action-message, in case anyone is looking for cl-irc action message hooks later) did not result in a hook landing in the connection object that the message-dispatcher would poop into
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: for a few days now, i think he's waiting for me to cough a mp-wp up
ben_vulpes: going to bounce logs.bvulpes.com a few times here shortly
mircea_popescu: then walter_ is gonna ask me about standards, apparently on the basis of his impression that such a thing as standards can even exist without l1 signing off.
mircea_popescu: they're gonna say it as if it's fact ; on the basis of the hordes of idiots they spawned not being capable of distinguishing fact from writ from fiction. if it catches on good ; if not the "democrat" socialist horde has no memory anyway, so they'll be right there next week importantly sprouting a novel ream of nonsense. as if it were fact ; as if they mattered.
mircea_popescu: "the tax that's not a tax" very psychiatrically sound.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-16 01:12 mircea_popescu: they're on a different domain, as per wordpress idiocy. and wget is apparently written by imbeciles.
mircea_popescu: then burn it on a cd or such
mircea_popescu: well, run a wget, you have the whole list of articles conveniently given in archives.
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_: 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.
mircea_popescu: the problem would be that because of how the theme works with the recent comments thing all articles "change" whenever a new comment is added/
mircea_popescu: and if a girl is passed out, is it logical to assume she's not into getting laid, or that she's really wet for you, or also no way to tell ?
mircea_popescu: if a website doesn't provide "last modified", is it logical to assume that it never changes or that it just changed ?
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_: e.g. http://trilema.com/2017/towards-a-better-hash-function/
mircea_popescu: it's a river down south.
mircea_popescu: that is a benefit.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-05 14:07 mircea_popescu: in which vein, register a key first.
walter_: right now I'm a trilema.com reader wondering why this: http://trilema.com/robots.txt
mircea_popescu: a... bomb.
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: oddly enough, the biggest conundrum in 'make a microwaveable comp' seems to be... the power switch
asciilifeform: tested a 'BUD Industries' cast aluminum and elastic conductor gasket rf box , recently, incidentally.
asciilifeform bought a set, will test and post result. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: the best advice for mactard is to walk away from the box ; for an hour, a day or ideally forever.
asciilifeform: and also they have large (comparatively) plugs, which means a ~1cm hole in shield enclosure.
asciilifeform: also apparently toslink comes with ~terrifyingly~ bad receivers, they have too much jitter to work with raw unprocessed rs232, need a manchester encoder.
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.
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated gabriel_laddel_p 1 at 2016/12/01 18:38:14 << Crazed Cali Kid, but at least banging his head against a goldmine rather than a brick wall.
gabriel_laddel_p: http://imgur.com/a/g1Dod
mircea_popescu: this is a contradiction.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-30 16:43 gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform: I'm not designing an atomic dirigible. I'm catching up on all the learning I've forsaken over the past four years to build Masamune. Yes, the eventual goal is to make a lispm, but it isn't as if I'm skipping meals to do CPU design.
mircea_popescu: lol fabulous, he's dropped that to find a deeper fold to retreat into. who's gonna tell him he's wasting his time NAO BITCH!!!1
gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform: I'm not designing an atomic dirigible. I'm catching up on all the learning I've forsaken over the past four years to build Masamune. Yes, the eventual goal is to make a lispm, but it isn't as if I'm skipping meals to do CPU design. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: there's an overproduction of written material today ; writing something of that nature is exactly akin to braying in the public market. it helps no one and degrades a scarce resource.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: i recommend to take the advice of mircea_popescu ! in the sense where it is a waste of brain cycles to , past certain point, design 'atomic dirigible' if you haven't with what to make it, and have no foreseeable approach to it
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: you can test this with bare hands. a metamaterial for long waves is also known as... ordinary waveguide. chandra bose made these in 1890s!
asciilifeform: or hm, nm, you need atomic layer epitaxy rig. you will need to infiltrate a semiconductor fab.
gabriel_laddel_p: I wonder how hard it would be to "brain parasite" a community college..
asciilifeform: ...for a head to screw on ? or instead for a lion to skin and wear the skin ?
mircea_popescu: it's necessarily more abundant than what it lacks ; and it does after a fashion shamble about looking for a head to screw on
mircea_popescu: is a fine example in this vein. womenz keep looking around for men, can't find any.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is ~always 'a human somewhere helping them'. recall the sakharov thread.
mircea_popescu: s" you know there's a human somewhere helping them. because they, on their own power, are not capable. monkeys, entirely.
mircea_popescu: they have all the self-determination of the average ferret : if you keep hens in a henhouse it will try and sometimes succeed to get in and suck blood off a few of them. that's it and that's all. there's no ferret poetry, no ferret philosophy, no ferret tools even. exactly like in the case of any orcs, if you see them wearing armor or wielding actual weapons as opposed to "random shit they found in their immediate surrounding
mircea_popescu: usg does not exist and is not held here to signify anything but the "collective abject idiocy" aka "the female mind" aka "the community consensus" etc. it is specifically NOT the case that there exists something even vaguely in the vein you think of (ie, a powerful and directed, self-conscious usg, the "lizard hitler" or such)
mircea_popescu: so then, this exact idiocy repeats itself time and again. 1. usg.apple tells ustards to use $item-which-sets-all-passwords-as-p-independent-of-user-input ; 2. ustards do. 3. republic owns them, and puts them to whatever use more adequate to their tard genes, such as fap fodder, lulzcow, whatever. 4. the usg comes up with a color of your bits "goes without saying".
asciilifeform: did i sleep through announcement from obummer where '50 percent off tax if you post yer arse and you're a hot chick' ?
mircea_popescu: she did this, no matter how stupid, because usg told her to ; and when usg says, she does, no matter how stupid. this is the core of her identity, she's not a woman, or a person, or a mother, or anything. she's, first and foremost, good soviet ; and anything else to the degree there's space (and usg tells her to).
mircea_popescu: and i submit the "fappening" is a fine example of how the usg-ustards close coupling works in practice, because it is. so : usg got all sorts of idiots, including for instance dreamer asset sarah schneider, to take pics of their ass and put on usg.apple cloud. like so : https://rektcelebs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/sarah-schneider-naked-2.jpg
adlai should start a collection of these
gabriel_laddel_p: A task for anyone who has the time: people have recently (re?)discovered that when you run visible light into a "nanomaterial" with a "grating" whose components are less than the wavelength of light, you get interesting effects.