asciilifeform: ( and you certainly could not do it under any such thing as an os, even if there were no pipeline. )

asciilifeform: because pipelines.

asciilifeform: pc (even multi-processor pc) doesn't give it to you

asciilifeform: they gotta happen ~simultaneously~

asciilifeform: not same thing

asciilifeform: all numbers have W digits.

asciilifeform: ( and so, conceivably adding 0 + 0 radiates something different from ff + ff . )

asciilifeform: but sadly i don't have one.

asciilifeform: ideally we would also be doing all arithmetic ops on a cpu that executes both the op and its exact register-wise bitcomplement

asciilifeform: sorta elementary.

asciilifeform: same instructions gotta execute no matter what bits are set or not set in the operands. every time.

asciilifeform: basic principle of constant-time proggy

asciilifeform: no if-statements, either.

asciilifeform: period. anywhere. they are banned.

asciilifeform: no tables.

asciilifeform: only constant-time shift-and-subtract division

asciilifeform: mod6: not even yet

asciilifeform: in clickless dialogue.

asciilifeform: which is to have the ins AND outs in-conversation.

asciilifeform: that'd defeat entire purpose

asciilifeform: given line length limit, it will be of limited practical use; strictly educational.

asciilifeform: in other near-term lulz, a 'pbot' is in the worx, so that folx can play with various input->output pairs in-chan ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2014-09-18#834203 << see also. ☝︎

asciilifeform: and hey, dun have to hang upside-down, like odin!111

asciilifeform: because this is screamingly elementary piece.

asciilifeform: it boggles my mind that i gotta do this, rather than there being where to crib.

asciilifeform: as opposed to 'worked on the 1,001 cases i came up with'

asciilifeform: worse than that, because it has to be proven to actually work

asciilifeform: grunting it out from scratch

asciilifeform: 0 useful docs anywhere on division in constant time

asciilifeform: slowly and painfully

asciilifeform: hiya mod6

asciilifeform: Framedragger: feynman, iirc it was, had a piece re the trickiness of using stellar bodies as 'talk to martians' reference, when you have nfi even which way the martian's display scans

asciilifeform: and 0 sympathy -- lived by usg intellectualproperty racket, died by it.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656648 << shkrelli ☝︎

asciilifeform: hence the q.

asciilifeform: asciilifeform in particular has ~nfi, but noticed continued pulsation of reddit crapola in the #t l0gz, whereas voat eventually was forgotten.

asciilifeform: decss peddlers

asciilifeform: which was (iirc) its purpose.

asciilifeform: but failed to nuke reddit et al.

asciilifeform: it's technically alive

asciilifeform: ( unrelatedly, heathen pit aficionados : is https://archive.is/IO9SI an accurate description of the demise of 'voat' ? )

asciilifeform: it made sense.

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: and iirc mikado is not the emperor but the space between his doors.

asciilifeform: one of the painful parts of explanation is that failure proves nothing, beyond that particular failure.

asciilifeform: but on the contrary , it can be -- i can write scheme interp in , e.g., basic, and it gets explained.

asciilifeform: ( unrelatedly : https://archive.is/fPdDV << ideal soldier ! )

asciilifeform: wasn't whole mega-shocker of the thread, that it was NOT translateable to any language that dutch knows ?

asciilifeform: you don't finesse the extinguished-decoder problem by using different encoding.

asciilifeform: (linear-a etc)

asciilifeform: we also say it re the alphabets of extinguished authorities.

asciilifeform: ( and unsurprisingly resembles much earlier artifacts )

asciilifeform: it's a plainly religious artifact.

asciilifeform: or , for that matter, the one that posed the question which led to its production.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there was nothing whatsoever scientific in the process that produced that idiocy.

asciilifeform: well yes.

asciilifeform: because it's indecipherable liquishit.

asciilifeform: it's a hieroglyph.

asciilifeform: that ain't a diagram

asciilifeform: but mircea_popescu has a point -- it's exactly a powerpoint slide

asciilifeform: i was half-convinced it'd be the infamous 'egyptian light bulb'

asciilifeform: if i can't tell wtf it is by looking at it, it ain't a diagram.

asciilifeform: dirty thinking dun do the argument any good.

asciilifeform: hieroglyphs

asciilifeform: just about everybody, from aztec to viking

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as if the greeks were alone in 'the party will end'

asciilifeform: only the filename, mindyou.

asciilifeform has one !

asciilifeform: hey they were on vhs and nao bluray!111

asciilifeform: not obvious to asciilifeform either.

asciilifeform: in other horrors: http://archive.is/67DN0

asciilifeform: !#s metastable

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656409 << funnily enough this is a serious problem in digital electronics, ☝︎

asciilifeform: i've been seeing it for years and never knew

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where did the 'luvv science' thing come from originally ?

asciilifeform: ('because they are better men!' will say mircea_popescu .)

asciilifeform: and there is a reason why aristotles build 0 machines.

asciilifeform: ain't about aesthetics, but about whether or not $machine ends up built.

asciilifeform: do we have to do the 'find me whoever willing to work with humlang representation of electric circuit as the primary working medium' thread again..?

asciilifeform: (written langs, monkeys not counted)

asciilifeform: all known humlangs are alphabetic or hieroglyphic. diagram is neither here nor there, it is a narrowly specialized thing

asciilifeform: now wat.

asciilifeform: the idiot yahweh book is even bigger source of quotage.

asciilifeform: i.e. the glyphs do not carry meaning with raw geometry

asciilifeform: maybe because egyptian is hieroglyphic, not diagramatic ?

asciilifeform: ( oblig. mega-thread re aristotle & co, http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587301 ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: and human-text with quotes-within-quotes begins to resemble fortran.

asciilifeform: human-speech generally doesn't nest >1level.

asciilifeform: the unfortunate bit is that lines are quite like 'stick shift' auto. an anachronism, but the supposed automation is not ~quite~ there.

asciilifeform: verily.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-05#1596583 << thread. ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( anybody recalls asciilifeform's crackpot diff thread ? it was more or less 'p prog in disguise')

asciilifeform: ^ excerpt.

asciilifeform: null;

asciilifeform: when Character'Val(127) .. Character'Val(255) =>

asciilifeform: null;

asciilifeform: when Character'Val(0) .. Character'Val(32) =>

asciilifeform: however on bright side!: mircea_popescu will quite like, i suspect, 'P' : all nonprinting octets are NOPs in P.

asciilifeform: nor any tools that rely on such.