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asciilifeform: where i finally barfed, decisively
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo send the man a congratulatory email ? since it turns out you linked him first. << Gotta catch up on log to figure out who I am congratulating on what.
asciilifeform: i bet there's an algebraic trick that will yield ALL of these divisors.
asciilifeform: (i've been shaping a mental picture of what kind of rng idiocy could lead to such a thing, to no avail)
asciilifeform: jurov: can i find out nondestructively ?
asciilifeform: jurov: and how do i know what i get ?
mircea_popescu: i guess i lived in the swarovski prince of bell air's mansion.
mircea_popescu: jurov believe it or not they export here. i've been buying exceptional lead glass wine/champagne etc stem glasses.
asciilifeform: jurov: i have nfi what is sold in jurovlandia. perhaps it is genuine borosilicate, or perhaps just overpriced glass.
jurov: but complaining about pyrex is easier, I get that.
jurov: asciilifeform you forgot i have several actual borosilicate teapots, bohemian glass that claims to conform to ISO for borosilicate glass. and they sell to da US. it's in the logs
a111: Logged on 2014-08-27 01:00 asciilifeform: 'pardon my cynical twist, but what are you doing with that 20,000×20,000 double-precision floating point matrix you say you need to invert _today_? If you answer "nutt'n, I jus kinda wondered what it'd be like, you know", you should be very happy that I am most likely more than 3000 miles away from you, or I would come over and slap you hard.'
mircea_popescu: i dunno... they had my fair lady neh ?
asciilifeform: i can see bush-II remembering the grenade in tbilisi
asciilifeform: i meantion him on account of 'it is not enough to steal the microphone, also ought to have something to say.'
asciilifeform: 'As a member of the team that caught MacDougall, I can say we figured it out in less than a week. He may not yet realize that he might not have violated any existing law at the time he did it -- even though FCC threatened prosecution and he then"copped a plea". The reason why 18 USC 1367 was soon passed was to remove the ambiguity in this area. So Mr. Smart Guy, you pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor that a decent lawyer might h
asciilifeform: i dun think he picked hbo sat for any particular reason other than 'it had unsheathed arsehold'
mircea_popescu: cuz i can, or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: i don't care.
mircea_popescu: but really, the only message that's worth broadcasting is some variation of "fuck you, you're not good enough and i don't like you."
asciilifeform: i was referring to the gpg users.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform after the whole "oh, mp cares about beingmentioned on our obscure mail list" debacle coupla days ago, i actually had this measured.
asciilifeform: the 'i do not expect to UNDERSTAND the code' is the enabling sin.
mircea_popescu: i went to math school, they never taught me that theorem.
mircea_popescu: i was reading it now
mircea_popescu: i dun think i will, ty
mircea_popescu: and i also can't read "depdfization" any other way than "depizdification"
asciilifeform: i've never set foot there
asciilifeform: i have megatonne of items with the idiocy stamped on the package.
asciilifeform: i must have seen a still
asciilifeform: the fundamental psychiatric reason why folks like whitening, is, i suspect, a demon that wakes them up at night:
mircea_popescu: hey, i'm sold.
asciilifeform: i.e. the only way that does not introduce a linkage between bit n and n+1.
mircea_popescu: i thought providing keccak as default is elegant ; but can also provide xoring scheme
mircea_popescu: as i say - sha512 is user defined.
mircea_popescu: suppose i set my keys to be produced with 1mb of entropy.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 12:32 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform since we're on this btw, the way i want tmsr-rsa key generation to work is as follows : a contains a number of entropy bytes specified by user in tmsr-rsa.conf read whenever tmsr-rsa.conf specifies (such as urandom); b contains a base-tmsr string specified by user. c = base-tmsr(a).b ; p = nextprime(cut(sha512(c),257)) ; process is repeated for q = nextprime (cut(sha512(c'),258));
asciilifeform: i'd like to see what he's made of.
thestringpuller: PeterL: I asked a friend who blows glass for a living, and he said nowadays it's more expensive to blow science-ware by hand than to get the mass produced stuff... ☟︎
asciilifeform: house 3 blox from mine burned down last week, and i didn't even notice.
thestringpuller: *sigh* i'm so bad at this chemistry thing
lobbes: asciilifeform: I've been searching logz for thread regarding modern AMD cpu being almost as subverted as Intel's. you wouldn't happen to have good reading on the subject handy, would you?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently this wasn't as nutty as it seems - for some reason driving the plotter was a lot cheaper than actually having the machine compute the integral. i dun recall the specificx.
mircea_popescu: PeterL oh i saw the cut-out thing done!
thestringpuller: i'm looking forward to 3d printing computers
PeterL: As undergraduate, I worked under one of the co-inventors, Dye
asciilifeform: i.e. you gotta be a saudi prince or the like
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: as i understand it, harem in usgdom consumes an entire fuel rod of mircea_popescu per week, or so.
mircea_popescu: just can't get a foot over this guy can i.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: you probably would have better luck deprogramming the disney princesses. I haven't seen it personally done tho.
asciilifeform: i - 8
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but i was like 11!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i broke same, with molten saltpetre
Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-18#1524360 << iirc dude's writing up his epic antarctica adventure, one or two pieces are out, but there's more to come i think. or maybe he's just ranting on twitter full time heh ☝︎
PeterL: yeah, in college I compromised a couple vacuum manifolds by forgetting to add a stirbar to the flask before opening to the vacuum line
thestringpuller: i've srsly never seen a successful longterm harem in my meatwot.
thestringpuller: PeterL: yea i have a few videos where they use a vacuum pump and change the pressure (measured at the condensor)
thestringpuller: damn. why did i Have to take bio instead of o-chem for my lab science
thestringpuller: just didn't know if there is a lab I should do to learn the process better
thestringpuller: i'm doing it for refining "essential Oils", i'm going to buy a short path fractional distillation set ☟︎
shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519513 well she washed her hair, now what? http://i.imgur.com/hG8uhUx.png ☝︎
asciilifeform: believe or not, i also had a working toothbrush.
shinohai: I haz no clue
mircea_popescu: i know cuz i put it there.
asciilifeform: 'In Paul Graham's world, as soon as oil paint was invented, painting techniques made a discontinuous jump from the fifteenth to the twentienth century, fortuitously allowing Renaissance painters to paint a lot like Paul Graham. ... I blame Eric Raymond and to a lesser extent Dave Winer for bringing this kind of schlock writing onto the Internet. Raymond is the original perpetrator of the "what is a hacker?" essay, in which you quickl
mircea_popescu: wait, now i'm cuntfused.
asciilifeform: i thought it was ones sore the night prior said in the morning..
mircea_popescu: thing is, we had the nod thing back in romania ; when i visited the eastern empire as a tyke, native chicks that spoke no language i spoke nevertheless knew how it works just fine.
mircea_popescu: or in the words of mthreat "no, i get it, they must bring your fucking food."
mircea_popescu: no i know. i was talking to the posterior tits.
mircea_popescu: the only thing "i want more than 4096" says is "my crypto is broken". so fix it, don't make the broken longer.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i had no fucking idea russian has palindromes also.
trinque: I'm sure they appreciate it
mircea_popescu: fucking epic case of "i came for the waters" "but this is the desert" "i was misinformed"
mircea_popescu: take that, white supremacists everywhere : all white argentina is as bad as an all-fungus erection. i came here for the all-black argentina and didn't even know it at the time ;/
trinque: guy on IRC elsewhere was earlier expressing his amazement that I could find a coffee shop at 7am
Framedragger: (i recall reading his post on polish astronomy pirates, wasn't aware this had happened: http://idlewords.com/2007/04/balloon_pirate_radio.htm ; and http://idlewords.com/2007/04/tv_solidarity.htm)
mircea_popescu: yeah i was gonna read through his shortish archive
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: hmm maybe but i don't think so - i think he lived / spent some time there in the past
Framedragger: ^ true, i guess; and political control over idiots is not a de facto given at all, so, sure, problem.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-17 17:20 Framedragger: mircea_popescu: just to me, any dreams of "global anarchist revolt" *are* lost on me (i'm terribly naive but not *that* naive). personal responsibility and individualism (vague word, i know) are necessary conditions. and.. yeah, i don't have much hope for humanity, given that...
PeterL: well, didn't work on mine, I had to grab an older version
Framedragger: yeah, what. i'd be so fucking ashamed
mircea_popescu: Framedragger this bs just can't fucking stand, how someone can sleep at night thinking "hey, i'm a maintainer!" atop THAT codebase is anyone's guess.
mircea_popescu: and i'll be singing a prayer
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah, i'm actually felling a bit of that constructive mp-rage towards gnupg. by god it should be kicked and replaced as soon as possible
Framedragger: `log_hexdump` was being used incorrectly? (i'm only catching up, hey)
Framedragger: (i'll go thru them myself, interesting stuff..)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform since we're on this btw, the way i want tmsr-rsa key generation to work is as follows : a contains a number of entropy bytes specified by user in tmsr-rsa.conf read whenever tmsr-rsa.conf specifies (such as urandom); b contains a base-tmsr string specified by user. c = base-tmsr(a).b ; p = nextprime(cut(sha512(c),257)) ; process is repeated for q = nextprime (cut(sha512(c'),258)); ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
Framedragger: sweet jesus, i don't even.
mircea_popescu: mats i think you're right
mats: 'Finally caught, two decades later, he characteristically is neither willing to admit, nor dessist from the practice.' << i think you mean desist
mircea_popescu: oh i c. so basically, the seed is put into "get next prime" and the difference is liable to be ~the last 3-4 hexdigits
asciilifeform: you should see output that is same as pgpdump -i of seckey.asc
asciilifeform: i disentangled it from gpg last year, and posted result.
asciilifeform: at any rate, it is now possible to do the thing i ACTUALLY SET OUT to do
asciilifeform: i hesitate to use word 'correct' in relation to something gpg does...
asciilifeform: the pgpdump -i output ?
asciilifeform: pgpdump -i displays the actual int.
mircea_popescu: i thought it's a memory dump