asciilifeform: ( my notion above, /chan/optionaldate/index#x , is cribbed from mircea_popescu's selection colourer )
asciilifeform: well my current one (linked above, cribbed from gnat built-in htmlizer) dun even put anchors on the individual lines, atm can only link subroutines
asciilifeform: or for that matter the research culture that was the butthurt envy of entire 'civilized world' (as late as '90, pentagon spent $B's on translations, from which cribbed all sortsa material, e.g. 'stealth airplane' )
asciilifeform: cribbed directly from classical sov-engineering, like just about all other asciilifeform methods.
asciilifeform: grr can't find in o(1). but the unifying thread is, when tools of the 'soft' variety appears, all sortsa folx, not even necessarily stupid, became afflicted with the erroneous notion that they have '0 cost' because coad dun have mass and can be cribbed gratis
asciilifeform: ( which i suspect is largely cribbed, but i dun specifically know from where )
asciilifeform: iirc Funkenstein remains the unbeaten recordsman there ( operated, at least at 1 point, a shitfork based on cribbed trb )
asciilifeform: even at ye olde backwater u. of maryland, there were persistent rumours, of profs who found, with simple perltron, gigantic cribbed segments of homework, and then ordered to forget-whole-thing by the dean, because perp was a blueblood
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-28#1619756 << the 'rotten fill' thing was simply a restatement of 'a tx is not a tx unless it is valid, and a block is not a valid block unless it consists wholly of valid tx.' cribbed straight from classical bitcoin. phrasing was, evidently, confusing.☝︎
asciilifeform: well yes. mircea_popescu used to teach, right ? how did he determine which idiot cribbed off which other idiot on exam
asciilifeform: Framedragger: it is also full of cribbed likbez material.
asciilifeform: (vs a kid asked to prove that he hadn't cribbed.)
asciilifeform: not even trying to hide the cribbed wwwdevcrud
asciilifeform: (no, cn, ru, etc. are not 'free world' in this sense, they run winblows toolchains and operate overwhelmingly on designs cribbed wholesale without any attempt whatsoever to fit in any head)
asciilifeform: cribbed from rezun (pen name 'suvorov', in imitation of the general)
asciilifeform: that is, cribbed 'macsyma' and passed off as own work
asciilifeform: cribbed from public domain libs, quite unrelated to the actual project, passed off as 'new'
asciilifeform: (turned, that is, from traditional signal-gathering to sabotage, cribbed, yes, from ru)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: that was cribbed almost wholesale from evil bitcoind
asciilifeform: typical speciment: chinese fellow, cribbed dissertation, 100% cribbed/shannonized papers, total and unambiguous waste of oxygen
asciilifeform: re: usb diddling: i had the entire thing working two years ago, with same 'phison', likewise cribbed russian docs. didn't think it was interesting to anyone other than me.☟︎
asciilifeform: i finally realized - they cribbed the 'dust bin' from -- apple.
asciilifeform: (and yes i do know herr kosinsky cribbed it)
asciilifeform: e.g., their only public suggestion thus far for metalwork is laser sintering - cribbed straight from ordinary industry
asciilifeform: and the number of people capable of writing a true from-scratch (vs. cribbed) alt is probably single-digit.
asciilifeform: (this tale has me in an especially dour mood, given that not long ago i sent a once-promising client packing because he brought in a mountain of artlessly cribbed open source code.)
asciilifeform: was the cribbed source even interesting in some way?
