a111: Logged on 2018-10-25 19:10 asciilifeform: when you add compatibility spackle, serious reader is not saved from reading the thing you spackled over -- on the contrary nao he has to read the ~original~ rubbish ~plus~ your spackle, however much it weighs.
mircea_popescu: well, if you're going to replicate archive.is, you're going to use ~something~ to go from webshitsoup to plain html.
mircea_popescu: are you aware that curl will not in point of fact produce copies of shitty imperial websites, because those shitty imperial websides use javascript to fuck with the dom ?
mircea_popescu: we have a hole in the process here, where bash existence is not === browser existence. phantomjs used to fill it, or at least mostly, or so i thought.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 02:00 asciilifeform: by the time someone reverses, they change it, and force the idjit users to 'upgrade'
mircea_popescu: but it occurs to me we kinda HAVE TO maintain the browser===bash equivalency.
mircea_popescu: subset of turing test, if you will. if there exists means to mechanically distinguish browsering luser from bashing republican, the world is broken.
mircea_popescu: for crying out loud, a virtual machine running firefox just to do what lobbesbot does atm in case archive.is croaks ?!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: dude, the archive russki fellow utterly doesn't do this.
lobbesbot: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: in other random not-news, 37.187.150.139 is "ddosing" trilema by loading random pages ; but with a few select "lurkmore.to" pages as referrer.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-20 15:46 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform on meditation, that piece makes it plainly evident redditardation is ~generational~, not ideological. there sit the russki kids, who'd be in a fine position to understand the problem. god knows they have much better access to much better priors that readily illuminate it.
mircea_popescu: Turns out, Kochs pile of shit, despite eschewing constant time arithmetic, and being implemented in Overflowandcrashlang
loses the footrace, when given a full-width modular exponentiation (i.e. one where it cannot cheat by skipping over leading zeroes.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in my mind the idea was that if you force non-republican software to use republican exponents it will either crash or take forever.
mircea_popescu: hence why original choice for full sized exponents, "why let enemy enjoy the fruits of his lies"
a111: Logged on 2016-11-26 16:31 asciilifeform: koch's shitball per se is written in such a way that the cruft is glued on with broken glass (all the ciphers are modularized in very gnarly multilayered way, whole thing relies through and through on his weirdo streams thing, 1,001 idiocies)
mircea_popescu: anyway, sorry if i inadvertently rained. tis indeed great news, and it being expected great news dun detract from greatness.
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, we're here ending "computing", and good for you.
mircea_popescu: imo putting an end to "software development" much greater achievement for human race than "decrypting bolix"
mircea_popescu: i'm not even sure how that kelvin thing's supposed to work ; notably bothj knuth and mod6 attempted it, but the problem with starting with a number is that you don't know what to pick.
mircea_popescu: nature found 273.15 i suppose the same way it computed ocean level ; but we're not quite equal to nature.
mircea_popescu: so how did you pick 255 and he 10k and knuth whatever it was, 100
mircea_popescu: looky, management is a rational activity. there's nothing wrong with hanging kids for having failed to master spanish in two weeks -- just as long as you can answer as to how you came up wih the two weeks.
mircea_popescu: there's great cause to attack at dawn : morale superiority. there's also great cause to attack at night, note eg dracula's not famous for attacking the turkish camp at dawn and nearly making sultan run off.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the discussion spawned from me going "wtf is the POINT of even counting to 255, nobody can fit such in head" that then merged into "how do you know ?" which resulted in the predictable "i wonder how the fuck does ~he~ know"
mircea_popescu: turns out he doesn't know ; in context probably dunbar's number is the saner approach.
mircea_popescu: the larger problem is "what is meant by a patch". i doubt the item can survive ~even one~ major alterations. meanwhile "hey, you spelled theyre with an apostrophe" needn't be counted (but need be fixed)
a111: Logged on 2018-12-19 17:09 mircea_popescu: natural language, however, ablates the trees for "convenience" so to speak, ie, uses commonly what's known in computing as sparse trees.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know, but not all vpatches are created equal.
mircea_popescu: the vpatch that adds a "except if number is 5577, math doesn't work for 5577" is a VERY different patch from the vpatch that adds "here's a sentence ended by a comma turned ended by a dot instead"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's more than that : a) that there's such a thing as a correct program ; b) to which one can converge ; c) in a finite number of itemized steps ; d) the count therewhich can be known in advance.
mircea_popescu: yet our ideal is literate code, as in, docs in the program.
mircea_popescu: seems to me the unspoken heuristic is, "large enough so it's not meaningful [and therefore large enough to not bother] and small enough so it's not larger than some other number i thought about".
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: right. and such a thing as typos in those comments is possible. this entire line is the result of your ineffectual sideswiping.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-28 17:15 mircea_popescu: seems to me the unspoken heuristic is, "large enough so it's not meaningful [and therefore large enough to not bother] and small enough so it's not larger than some other number i thought about".
a111: Logged on 2017-07-18 22:58 asciilifeform: whaack is quite likely thinking of the bulk of the b00k, which consists of blockcipher liquishit which is complicated for no reason at all other than the religion where 'it is confusing to ME, author, and therefore Must Be Hard To Break'
a111: Logged on 2014-04-29 22:56 asciilifeform: 'Dijkstra said angrily. (Hed been visibly shaking his head through out the talk even before this outburst.) How many bugs are we going to tolerate? he demanded. Seven, Teitelman shot back.'
mircea_popescu: the fundamental promise involved in the concept of number, as a scalar measure of something
mircea_popescu: my objection inter alia is that this is not satisfied here ; makes us look like a bunch of retards.
mircea_popescu: so your reasoning was that if some bits get left out the koch is gonna eat them ?
mircea_popescu: not even ff reached 255 yet. but anyway, i think this is exhausted
deedbot: pehbot voiced for 30 minutes.
pehbot: asciilifeform: FFACalc Ver: 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000FF
pehbot: asciilifeform: FFA Ver: 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000FF
diana_coman: on one hand there is what mircea_popescu says that yes, by now and given the type of rot it's actually to be expected; on the other hand it's of the sort that still sounds...unbelievable, yes
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 13:52 asciilifeform: ( bonus is that the closed form is not only constant time, but substantially faster on pc, nomoar branch prediction misses )
a111: Logged on 2017-10-08 00:20 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-07#1722411 << 1 ) ffa is closed form. i.e. it CAN be written as a number of nand gates, with a 'funnel' at the top, to which you present a,b,c, e.g. 4096bit, numbers, and at the bottom in a little cup you get a^b mod c , and with NO UPWARDS FEEDBACK FLOW of information , i.e. answer comes after same interval of time always, and with strictly downwards signals.
diana_coman: asciilifeform, I'll try to get to it but more probably in January really
diana_coman: that's precisely why the slow pace - I need a bit of fresher mind to get back and read through the rest of ffa
diana_coman: that being said, I dug up and yes, I even have an i7 around here
diana_coman: sadly though no amount of slow is any guarantee of perfection still
diana_coman: fwiw I like very much that "pedantic" there
a111: Logged on 2018-12-18 20:14 asciilifeform: barrett is 'optional' (technically errything after ch6 is!)