asciilifeform: 'thestringpuller May 18, 2017 11:32 @davef Dunno. Some speculated MP was broke and couldn’t warrant the losses to keep BitBet going' << didjaknow !!
asciilifeform: briefly upstack : http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1658014 << i tracked down the heathen pit in question, for entomological purposes. the only possibly lulzy bit is that it turns out to be thestringpuller 's new home.☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: knuth however was aware that raster photosetter ( a la modern process -- essentially laser printer ) had become a thing, vs old-fashioned ( essentially optoelectronic version of drum printer, with template wheels )
asciilifeform: most folx who encounter, say, hashlife, even today go 'wtf, martian'
asciilifeform has tried, on and off over the years, to generalize it to something more interesting, but so far not succeeded
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this wasn't a 'shannonizer', but a thing that takes small state machine automaton and computes expansion of N steps 'impossibly' quickly
asciilifeform: possibly the only example of something that comes close, that i know of , is bernstein's gcd
asciilifeform: makes the difference b/w, e.g., sieve of eratosthenes factoring, and modern factoring algos, look small.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: aha, one of the most jaw-dropping optimizations in history of the field, afaik.
asciilifeform: ( and fwiw, iirc the wavelet patents expired long ago )
asciilifeform: sane folx piss kerosene on patents and then light it
asciilifeform: Framedragger: 'hashlife' was interesting because there are not so many 'martian' breakthroughs -- multiple-orders-of-magnitude speedups -- in algo world.
asciilifeform: but it is narrowly specific to scans. doesn't do vector-graphics a la postscript
asciilifeform: djvu has some annoying quirks ( lossy compressor, so sometimes, e.g., И turns into Н on entire page ) but otherwise mindblowingly great tech, a scan that'd be 400M in pdf, can be 4 , and actually uses the res of whatever display you have, incl. printer, to display ~= original
asciilifeform: funnily enough the problem of 'how to store scans without losing ANYTHING' was long ago solved : 'djvu' (ancient bell labs thing, i use it every day)
asciilifeform: this a) sucks for text, can no longer search, cut/paste but b) for most of my pdf this is ALREADY so, because they were ancient scans
asciilifeform: i.e. an unwanted set of human hands in between.
asciilifeform: but 'not direct loop from mathematician to photosetter'
asciilifeform: 'manual' i did not mean 'same as gutenberg'
asciilifeform: and folx with 5th grade education were typesetting equations etc
asciilifeform: pre-tex, typesetting was ~manual process
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's theory -- we got pdf (postscript on comp display, really) because of the barfalicious failures of the www folx ( html etc )
asciilifeform: ps had 0 to do with reflow, it was specifically made for nonreflowing ( bounded layout ) devices
asciilifeform: because printer ( of the print house variety, not asciilifeform's old rattler ) takes pages, not scroll
asciilifeform: which original ? postscript ? it was intended for printer
asciilifeform: it was actually mircea_popescu who convinced me of this. that reflowable text was a step in right direction.
asciilifeform: well no, because (originally) reflowtron.
asciilifeform: it isn't a thing which anyone, outside a printing house perhaps, has any business doing on a regular basis.
asciilifeform: but the PROBLEM was an intrinsically WRONG problem to have to begin with
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1658008 << idea was, you ~are~ 'moving' objects by asking them to be laid out on a display of unknown (to author) resolution. this began as a ~sane 'postscript' and bloviated into a usgologic monstrosity, pdf☝︎
asciilifeform: Framedragger: format is broken in ways that dun even have to do with crypto (e.g. toggles for silently turning off whatever elements)
asciilifeform: i have nfi why folx volunteer to use ssl.
asciilifeform: in protest against the nonsense where people ( who insisted on using ssl, but originally this was made mandatory for users of visa ) had to pay rentseeking hucksters thousands for 'this cert will work and browsers won't complain'
asciilifeform: iirc it was (is?) this thing that gives away ssl certs for phree
asciilifeform: it is an obvious product of people who have nfi what the subject matter even is, and simply pasted fragments in microshit word together.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have nfi re the actual meaning of the linked text. simply translated.
asciilifeform: 'the real nexus of this photo is the government official with the "you've got to be kidding me" expression, who exists in a power-structure that requires solemn professions of belief in this powerful weirdo's dumb rituals (including, but not limited to, spraying electronic devices with water, and not because a computer that has been rendered inoperable due to electrical faults is incidentally and thoroughly immune to malware)' >>>>>
asciilifeform: 'currently the activity of the virus is localized. leakage of official information from ministry machines is wholly ruled out, quoth the official representative of same, ...'
asciilifeform: 'Servers belonging to the ministry were not infected on account of the use of alternative operating system and natively produced servers using the ru elbrus cpu'
asciilifeform: 'On account of timely measures, about a thousand infected machines were blocked off , which constituted less than 1%'. (?)☟︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1657831 << i dun wanna let this slip by . so : '12 May , the dept. of IT and information defense of the ru ministry of internal affairs detected a malware attack against PCs belonging to the ministry which were running Windows.',☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is literally free to produce whatever rubbish it likes. because this is somehow useful to the folx who were dropped as children and wrote unix.
