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mircea_popescu: anyway, the problem is that not enough bitchslapping of stupid cunts who imagine "their oppinions on #ows" or w/e are sought or even possible
as an abstract object. THAT is the true usg, the pile of moron dreamers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, if local morons still act
as if they lived in usg zone, notwithstanding they make 5k a year or so...
a111: Logged on 2018-10-08 15:57 mircea_popescu: pretty much all the empire shit works by this "only way to get an x is to link an x' to an y' to the x" device. by now it's actually usable
as an empire-detecting heuristic.
mircea_popescu: about
as doable
as phones returning to 1950s state of the art. with maidens and spokes.
hanbot: I don't think I'ma bother to debug their nonsense,
as far
as I'm concerned Western Union was never even marginally useful for any purpose I can think of. But obviously they did carefully write down all the details before not doing any work, so I dunno...advanced warning I guess? Not sure how much the shitpile can be relied on.
trinque: just didn't need preventing,
as the bad form is screamingly apparent
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 12:49 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860789 << imho a ~constant time~ crc32 would be useful, and can be made from ave1's with very small effort, but i'ma leave it
as exercise for him ( simply dispose of the if's )
a111: Logged on 2014-08-27 02:03 asciilifeform: bats_cd03: 'random' means one thing if you're running 'monte carlo' sims (digits of 'pi' work beautifully,
as does 'A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates' (rand corp, 1955. book.))
a111: Logged on 2016-11-30 23:04 asciilifeform: '
As more people with less commitment to quality and much less attention to detail got involved in writing it, its educational value diminished, too. It is like going to a library full of books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these cheaper books is an in
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 22:32 asciilifeform: 'The situation is somewhat akin to a retarded girlfriend trying to flood your apartment, that not only opens all the faucets and stops all the drains, but also takes the "extremely clever" measure of puncturing the water pipes, so she can then preciously inform you that "turning off the faucets won't help" and you must work with her to somehow create a raft out of your widescreen TV so
as to navigate the marshy terrain that used to b
mircea_popescu: have your own program designed correctly, so your own shitropy management thread ensures your own shitropy calls always return in constant time. YOUR JOB,
as a shitropy eater.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 12:39 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860778 << there are not so many legitimate uses for /dev/urandom. however the idea that it can be fully reproduced in userland without kernel knob is afaik a mistake -- the thing gives you real entropy if available, and elsewise prngolade; importantly,
as a ~nonblocking~ operation. idea is that it ~always~ returns in constant time.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 09:40 ave1: well mostly because I see this more
as reference code (this is how it can be done with division) and less so
as production code (the table driven works very well for that)
mircea_popescu: "this salami costs
as much
as that cheese, ERGO THIS SALAMI IS THAT CHEESE". and this phone thing dns, and so on.
mircea_popescu: afaik none of the other various pretenders managed
as much.
mircea_popescu: in other MCGA, yest spent lunch at table with three girls, at upscale italian place where there were three girls total. on the left, tableful of dudes. on the right, tableful of dudes. nobody said
as much
as zip, though i was openly playing with tits over cacciucco.
ave1: the painfull part was at the start when I did not know that crc used a reversed bit order and did not understand that the initial register has to be xored with the message (and not used
as a kind of prepend)
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 09:00 mircea_popescu: there's absolutely no excuse for having "urandom"
as a kernel signal. applications that both a) care about entropy debit over time and b) can get away with substituting shit for entropy should simply manage their entropy/shitropy interface in a dedicated thread. let it read from /dev/random, add however many bits of 11110000 they want whenever they want to and vomit the resulting cesspool
as the app that spawned them demands.
ave1: well mostly because I see this more
as reference code (this is how it can be done with division) and less so
as production code (the table driven works very well for that)
☟︎ diana_coman: ave1, why not add it
as a .vpatch on the eucrypt tree?
mircea_popescu: there's absolutely no excuse for having "urandom"
as a kernel signal. applications that both a) care about entropy debit over time and b) can get away with substituting shit for entropy should simply manage their entropy/shitropy interface in a dedicated thread. let it read from /dev/random, add however many bits of 11110000 they want whenever they want to and vomit the resulting cesspool
as the app that spawned them demands.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i don't get it. you have one (kernel) reading from tty putting it into /dev/?random ; and however many apps reading from there
as now.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-11 19:34 asciilifeform: phf, bvt : i thought of a possible algo for sane tmp file creation that dun need rng or global counter. 1) pick a file name in tmp dir, if none exists, take empty string,
as string S 2) produce S' = H(S) , H is hash (e.g. keccak) 3) stat(S') ; if already exists, take S'' = H(S') and repeat .
phf: bvt:
as of right now there's only one temporary file at a time during a vpatch run, so you're essentially in the same situation temp file name or temp directory anme
phf: asciilifeform: counters exhibit exactly the same problem
as a non-random seed
bvt: Apparently those addresses are used
as 'poor man's RNG'
bvt: 2. Ada internally uses mkstemp(3) to generate a random name when empty string is passed
as filename to Open procedure.
Mocky: unrelatedly, i saw the craziest thing leaving the air port. there are a lot of indian dudes around doing public works type labor jobs. landscaping, pickup up trash, construction etc. I saw one, and i swear he was mowing the grass with a chain saw, all squatted down. now maybe he was cutting something else, but there was nothing else there! and damn if the that lawn wasn't pristine
as a golf course
diana_coman: it does look
as if it's from some old picture book, lol
billymg: i seem to have lost voice in #p again (perhaps from bouncer disconnect -- which will be moving to the new box
as soon
as i have time to setup)
mircea_popescu: "APOLOGIA PRO NOMINE MEO. Out of consideration (in part) to such readers
as may read this book I have assumed a name by which they may refer to me (if ever he or she may wish to do so kindly) in the same manner at least twice running--a feat of pronunciation which few of my English acquaintances have performed with my natal name. But there is also another reason, considerate of the author. I have been told that there are writ
mircea_popescu: unless there's further constraints, such
as "all random numbers are 4"
mircea_popescu: neither "add some entropy" nor "inline asm" strike me
as bad solutions.
mircea_popescu: (this is not even so trivial a point -- generally insanity is perceived
as so very personal by the insane.
bvt: sure, but I guess you are interested in explanation
as well?
deedbot: 6CF3EFF892A7F23E7E798E5EBA6B8C054B962B68 registered
as bvt.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-02 18:10 asciilifeform: a 'secure prng' is fundamentally THE SAME animal
as the 'secure hash' and the 'secure blockcipher'.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, in crc applications crc32 much better,
as alf pointed out ; and in what-is-being-hashed-is-long applications, keccak npq.
mircea_popescu: Mocky yes, actually. both
as current "checkpoint" mechanism and otherwise. but you gotta also familiarize self with "fleet in being" concept, discussed in logs pluriously.
Mocky:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-10#1859947 >> btw, has there been any consideration of publishing a signed tar ball of the first, say half million blocks. not to have them set in stone, but like 'at height 550000, these were the first 500k' for purpose of eat-block jumpstart for nodeless noobs, such
as myself? Log search didn't reveal it to my eyes.
☝︎ BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> fuckers can unscrew jars. << The can also "play", I recall one time at scoutcamp they improvised a hockey game using a tin
as a puck. Coons are perfectly capable of doing it for the lulz.
mircea_popescu: " Latinas apparently view mapache (aka. trash panda)
as mystery critter" << that's pretty funny, seeing how... that's EXACTLY how people see latinas themselves!
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ( raccoon, to euro folx, can look like exotic fairy tale beast, but it's effectively a dog-sized rat , can chew hole straight through the typical north ameristani wooden house ) << Latinas apparently view mapache (aka. trash panda)
as mystery critter and protagonist of children's stories
billymg: are the rockchip mini servers shared hosting
as well? or is it 1:1 customer:hardware?
a111: Logged on 2018-10-10 15:27 billymg: i have been working in the "tech industry" for about 10 years now, mostly
as a ux designer but i can also produce code
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but you're missing the details, such
as "girls complaint ? air corrodes tampon thread, can't pull them back out" sorta truly annoying interplay of general principles.
mircea_popescu: you have no idea (in fact, i am sure no human can form idea,
as an attempt from first principles) what the frisco atmosphere is like these days.
BingoBoingo:
As this was a public auction, I am inclined to believe this is the number we should be using for invoicing.
billymg: i have been working in the "tech industry" for about 10 years now, mostly
as a ux designer but i can also produce code
☟︎ billymg: i don't mean to only lurk, i'm a long time log reader and am hoping i can be of service to any of the lords in their projects. by trade (
as defined in fiat land at least) i am a ux designer and developer. happy to introduce myself in the channel if i am voiced again
trinque would prefer phf just sign "I would like trinque to delete my key and reimport X" for sanity's sake,
as it saves me from having to reason through whether this new key is an acceptable substitute for prev, incurring all the "how does gpg really work again?" and so on.