asciilifeform: oh and then search for certain hex string in one of selfsame files.
asciilifeform: and with 0 page-rufffling, rtfm, googlage.
asciilifeform: in midnight that's roughly 8 seconds' work.
asciilifeform: extract for me, in ordinary shell, from a .rar inside a .tar.gz inside a .zip, JUST THE files that differ from a subdir inside a .zip in a certain .rar. and copy to a freshly stood up box with NOTHING but bash/sshd on it.
asciilifeform: no memory leaks, either (there's fragging, and it needs ~4GB to run, but will stay within the 4GB , indefinitely. )
asciilifeform: lulcoinz: it's the bitcoin you used in 2011. ~21,000 lines, and shrinking. ( and no 'headers-first' pseudo-verification idiocy, no leveldb, no p2sh, no githubism, no dns, no glibc, various other 'noes'. large collection of exquisite noes.)
asciilifeform: ( anyone here tried trb on bigendian ? i -- have not )
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes et al : g5 is valuable , on top of other reasons, to test 'bigendian' behaviours of various proggies.
asciilifeform: somewhere. i found it on a chalkboard, in uni.
asciilifeform: 'one time we got lost in the woods, and i was afraid that i would have to eat Tippy. then we were rescued, and i put Tippy back into the fridge, next to the other sandwiches.'☟︎
asciilifeform: y'know, many folx name comps/autos/rifles/etc.
asciilifeform: (i wonder if stevejobs ever claimed 'we ain't got any nonreplaceables')
asciilifeform: (which sadly was not so, he turned out... nonreplaceable, himself.)
asciilifeform: and yes, stalin famously uttered the sage wisdom, 'we ain't got any nonreplaceable people here'
asciilifeform: somehow i suspect that when mircea_popescu gets into an airplane, he would like to find that it has triply- or higher- redundant avionics system, rather than 'oh it is redundant because if this one goes down, there will be another plane, with some other bloke in it, some other day, dun worry.'
asciilifeform: 'отряд не заметил потери бойца' (tm) (r)
asciilifeform: well the geological europe aint going anywhere, no
asciilifeform: it'll close strictly in the 'hunchback will straighten in his grave' sense.
asciilifeform: that will not likely close, it'll be pushing up the flowers.
asciilifeform: trinque: uniquely bad example, ww1+2 put a very permanent, i suspect, hole through 'euro civilization'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: again, not 'arbitrary' for purpose of subj , put a bullet ( or dose of gamma, or whatnot ) through bacterial culture, and it closes the hole in a few hrs, and who could say there ever was a hole. but try same hole through mouse, or man.
asciilifeform: (i'd quite happily walk into the mythical teleporter, for instance.)
asciilifeform: some folx have finicky and easily bothered 'senses of identity'. not i
asciilifeform: aha -- interestingly, ~90% of a freshly dead mouse, or man, is 'alive'
asciilifeform: ( it is not even really correct to say 'one bacterium readily stands in for another', the dish does not live and die 'as group' )
asciilifeform: whereas if instead of dish you have a mouse, having such things as white cells, liver, other 'specialized parts', then considerably higher bar.
asciilifeform: but does relate to the radiation thing, deinococcus radiodurans laughs at dose that's thermonuke every other living thing, but it very much helps that one deinococcus radiodurans is readily 'fungible', will substitute for any other in the dish.
asciilifeform: 0 to do with the psychiatric 'i'm speshul!' tho.
asciilifeform: speaking strictly of the elementary diff b/w 'man and fungus'
asciilifeform: normally 'special' because 'specialized multi-cell organs', rather than simply 'glued'
asciilifeform: quite elementarily 'species -- needs', otherwise ~0 mutation and ~0 adaptation to changing environs
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tricky, conflates 'individual needs' with 'species needs'
asciilifeform: and who is to even say who they are. programmer, growing sclerotic in his chair, does he die more slowly than the radium girl ?
asciilifeform: to maybe revisit upstack, some folx 'marginal' and have very little to offer economically other than 'morts', 'willing to clear mines', 'clean melted reactor'
asciilifeform: she could've been valuable experimental subject for the radioprotectant pharama folx (never heard of'em ? subj went out of style, at least publicly, in 1970s afaik)
asciilifeform: btw i recently heard that the 'last radium gurl' died in 2014. apparently there are folx who are unkillable even by it.
