asciilifeform: 'better the bottle in front of me, than the frontal lobotomy' (tm)(r)(usa)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do the pets get... grog ?
asciilifeform: not only that, but the sync mechanism is still same as it was in 2011 -- thing speaks to 1 node at a time, selected at ~random, and if the other end is a tard it can loop theoretically forever
asciilifeform: * deedbot has quit (Excess Flood) << waaaat
asciilifeform: the snr of 'cryptographers' is somewhere south of that of tardstalk.
asciilifeform: i will share the imho interesting fact that asciilifeform sifted through literally several kg of rubbish ( i print things to read... ) before turning up these items.
asciilifeform: also lit search came back with an equally obscure recipe for a 10% or so faster comba ( tldr : compute the square (diagonal) digits in a separate walk, and add them to the result of the nondiagonal pass , at the end )
asciilifeform: but in very other olds, apparently in an obscure article in '09 bernstein shows how to eliminate one of the middle-term additions of karatsuba .☟︎
asciilifeform: but instead we can simply let Karatsuba_Term return the carry, and say c1, c2, c3 and in the end we ripple out c1+c2+(-1^subtractenable) .
asciilifeform: propagating a 0, 1, or -1 carry/borrow, depending
asciilifeform: in other noose, how come nobody noticed that we can accumulate the carry in Karatsuba_Term, and ripple it out once instead of 3 times per firing ...
asciilifeform: point is that not all 2hrs are created equal
asciilifeform: re shells, lack of completion is the kind of screaming imbecility for which there is no justification-- you're already sitting in front of a machine, it could be doing 100% of the algo-trivial brute work. rather than 90% - worst of both worlds, bulldozer that still leaves you with 2hr of shovel.
asciilifeform: sorta how a kg of shit in your latrine is same as 1.1, but even 10g on your birthday cake is conspicuously sad.
asciilifeform: but answer is , digging a hole for 2hrs is sweaty work, but it isn't a thorn in what would otherwise be a flow state, the way missing tab complete is.
asciilifeform: i suspect that this type of 'bonsai kitten' is created by the ill-conceived half-education purveyors. as per mircea_popescu's talk at c3 re pediwikians
asciilifeform: didn't we have a case of 'if bitcoin worked, They Would Kill It' show up just the other week
asciilifeform: 'whaddayamean you won't eat from the trough' 'not a swine? everybody's a swine, and you're an elitist swine' etc☟︎
asciilifeform: 'whaddayamean osama had engineering phd and still picked the cave'
asciilifeform: asciilifeform is not a sufficiently adroit chukchologist to square this circle...
asciilifeform: but at the same time, all known types of chukcha are happy to bow before ~other~ invisibles, e.g. deer spirit, or 'natural right of property', or whatever idiocy their mother pounded into the head