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04:05 crtdaydreams %wot
04:05 crtdaydreams %wot
~ 1 hours 47 minutes ~
05:52 gregorynyssa asciilifeform: are you saying that 32 Opteron cores are required to decrypt Serpent at line-rate?
05:54 gregorynyssa asciilifeform: I do not have anywhere near that. (=
05:59 gregorynyssa asciilifeform: signpost: I regret not having purchased and devoted time toward learning LispWorks and/or Allegro Common Lisp back in college.
05:59 gregorynyssa asciilifeform: signpost: there really seems to be no substitute. how are your experimentations of those two platforms coming along?
06:00 gregorynyssa thimbronion: I meant to tag you as well.
~ 1 hours 52 minutes ~
07:52 * crtdaydreams grinding out his impl. in sbcl/android repl
07:53 crtdaydreams haven't played around with lispwercs or any of those fancy proprietary dists. are they really worth it?
07:55 shinohai crtdaydreams: You're using arm64 sbcl on Android? Lemme know if you get past the `save-lisp-and-die` strange. xD
07:56 crtdaydreams shinohai: not using specifically sbcl on android, using cl-repl or whatever the existing android app is
07:57 crtdaydreams I haven't messed around much with implementation-specific functions (and don't intend to for portability reasons)
07:58 crtdaydreams using sbcl on desktop
07:58 shinohai ah ok. sbcl & ecl both work great for me in termux, but you know the caveats with Android over processes, etc which kind tie hands.
07:58 crtdaydreams ecl, aha that's what the damn things called again lolz
07:58 shinohai *kind of
07:59 crtdaydreams only just installed termux today, was just using ecl before to hack while cooking dinner :P
07:59 crtdaydreams dunno if I'll need it much, it's really just ftp files back and forth
08:00 shinohai termux nice for running a gentoo chroot when one is in the field and doesn't want to lug a lappy around.
08:01 * crtdaydreams finds touchscreen typing insufferable for running shell, programming w/ ecl is forgivable
08:01 crtdaydreams because of the parens and nav floating buttons
08:02 crtdaydreams you'd need to lug around a usbc kbd or somethin to really make use of a remote chroot like that
08:03 crtdaydreams which then "wai not laptop, bigger screen and trackpad anyway"
08:03 shinohai I have one of those chinesium bluetooth kbds ... so vim+slimv+paredit makes tinkering on the go tolerable.
08:04 crtdaydreams like the 40% kbds where it's a super key to type numbers etc?
08:07 shinohai crtdaydreams: This thing, cost like $5 but suits my needs: http://btc.info.gf/uploads/KBD.jpg
08:07 * crtdaydreams has one exactly like that, shelved
08:07 crtdaydreams Forgot I had the damn thing tbh
08:08 crtdaydreams battery blew up in it before got to use it for any practical purposes
08:09 shinohai There were 2 models, the bluetooth kind and the 2.4 GHz one, I got the bluetooth one so didn't hafta fuss about with a usb dongle.
08:09 crtdaydreams I got the dongle one, I think I used it for xbox360 keyboard at one pt
08:10 crtdaydreams lol, but after like 3 charges the batt expanded and I couldn't put it in properly anymore so it wouldn't make contact
08:11 crtdaydreams still would be useful for direct-connect kbd in emergency
08:11 shinohai Yeah the batteries are straight junk, I think I got a pack of 3 replacements on Amazon that have been going strong year+ now.
08:13 crtdaydreams yeah righto
08:14 crtdaydreams when I looked at them I struggled to find one from a non-botnet site for <$15
08:14 crtdaydreams that was some ~2 years ago now
08:14 crtdaydreams that was just for a single batt mind you
08:15 crtdaydreams dunno if it's worth revising
08:17 * crtdaydreams going to return to the repl now o/ shinohai
08:17 shinohai o/ be well
~ 1 hours 12 minutes ~
09:30 signpost gregorynyssa: I've never used one of the commercial lisps. asciilifeform and phf have, I believe.
09:31 signpost fielded a hardware product that used clozurecl and some web services that used sbcl though.
~ 16 minutes ~
09:47 gregorynyssa signpost: nice. that is much farther than I have gotten.
09:51 gregorynyssa I have read many books and papers regarding the LISP languages without really using them.
09:56 asciilifeform gregorynyssa: asciilifeform not used the commercial lisps 'in anger' (at any serious length anyway)
09:57 gregorynyssa in anger over what?
09:57 asciilifeform gregorynyssa: i.e. for actual work
09:58 gregorynyssa I recall that Erik Naggum said some good things about the commercial implementations.
09:58 asciilifeform gregorynyssa: phf used, commented at length
10:02 gregorynyssa I remember trying to use Armed Bear Common Lisp briefly while in college.
10:04 gregorynyssa then I read the "Thumbs Down for Clojure" post.
10:06 gregorynyssa so much work has gone into the JVM over the years, but it remains hard to solve basic problems using that engine.
10:06 gregorynyssa * to solve some basic problems.
10:06 gregorynyssa IMO, if you just need TCP/UDP and file-processing, JVM is decent.
10:16 gregorynyssa billymg: http://paste.deedbot.org/?id=ujXn
10:24 shinohai http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-07-27#1112365 << The comments section of that post have always been a fave of mine, with the "Hacker" "News" apologists showing up to defend.
10:24 dulapbot Logged on 2022-07-27 10:03:55 gregorynyssa: then I read the "Thumbs Down for Clojure" post.
10:31 asciilifeform gregorynyssa: maybe easier to understand e.g. clojurism if you realize that there were then (and still nao) 'over9000' wretches condemned to life in java salt mines; items like 'armed bear', clojure, were rather analogous to the pin-ups seen in prison cells, folx were trying to make their imprisonment slightly moar tolerable.
10:32 asciilifeform gregorynyssa: asciilifeform's objection was re 'this is the Troo Modern Lisp!' etc. nonsense.
10:41 gregorynyssa http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-07-27#1112373 << of course. the ejection of Java stack-traces whenever a program crashes ruins the utility of the system.
10:41 dulapbot Logged on 2022-07-27 10:32:08 asciilifeform: gregorynyssa: asciilifeform's objection was re 'this is the Troo Modern Lisp!' etc. nonsense.
~ 40 minutes ~
11:21 asciilifeform gregorynyssa: rright, but afaik no one went 'hmm, i wanna write the perfect modern lisp, where shall i do it? hmm jvm'. orig. audience was folx already condemned to jvm
11:21 asciilifeform i.e. thing was a kludge
~ 4 hours 15 minutes ~
15:37 gregorynyssa http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2022-07-27#1010729 << the use of "Lisp" (uppercase L, lowercase "isp") to refer to CL, Scheme, etc. collectively is a "Paul Grahamism."
15:37 dulapbot (pest) 2022-07-27 phf[asciilifeform]: asciilifeform, i have no idea if the man does things, i thought that particular quote was a little gem. refering to language as “LISP”, read many papers /and books/ not written any. if we had an eqv of bashorg, ought to put the quote there
~ 24 minutes ~
16:02 gregorynyssa http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2022-07-27#1010753 << Maclisp/MacLisp was the name of a particular language, not the class of languages.
16:02 dulapbot (pest) 2022-07-27 phf[asciilifeform]: from my reading of relevant papers, you start seeing e.g. MACLISP refered to as MacLisp or Maclisp around 79, although in private correspondce even earlier
16:03 gregorynyssa http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2022-07-27#1010754 << Paul Graham was not the first to use "Lisp" to refer to the class, but LISP was also prevalent until his 2000s essays, which settled the matter.
16:03 dulapbot (pest) 2022-07-27 phf[asciilifeform]: my '84 edition of lisp machine manual refers to various lisps as "Common Lisp" "Zetalisp" "Maclisp" and in general "Lisp"
16:04 gregorynyssa the cult-following which developed around Paul Graham and Arc shot down the usage of LISP.
~ 29 minutes ~
16:33 mats https://www.codastory.com/newsletters/uzbekistan-internet-blackout
16:34 asciilifeform mats: not 1st time iirc
16:36 asciilifeform mats: rather typical: in 'banana republics' (both with and 'without bananas') they dun have the fine-grained reich infrastructure for censoring twatter etc.; so fuhrer is stuck ordering the plug pulled
16:36 mats they've shut it off at least three times this year
16:36 asciilifeform mats: recall the famous cn response after 'tiananmen' -- 'we're a poor country, and dun have usa's fancy humane riot gear'
16:37 mats i remember reading almost a decade ago that the internet shuts off during national university exam day
16:37 mats which is hilarious
16:38 asciilifeform isuppose the 'modern' way to cheat is w/ pnoje in arse, rather than old-fashioned crib sheets
16:38 mats https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/before-a-high-stakes-standardized-test-uzbekistan-shut-the-whole-countrys-internet-down/375556
16:39 asciilifeform '3 buzz ringtones, pause, followed by 5 means answer to q no.3 is 'e' or sumthinglikethat
16:40 * asciilifeform recalls a scandal in early 2000s on usa's 'sat' exam involving conspirators w/ phones on both coasts and marked pencils smuggled into toilets
16:40 mats and i thought i was smart putting notes in my calculator
16:40 asciilifeform ^ extra lulzy for folx who know that at that point in time the thing was already watered down into being effectively a test of 'do you have a fucking pulse'
16:41 asciilifeform for overseas folx -- this re usa 'sat', which features strictly basic arithmetic and english lang
16:42 asciilifeform ( well, and a bit of simple euclidean school problems, 'what is the missing angle in this triangle' etc )
16:44 mats i read that the sat exam is being changed again, with a 2h test and adaptive questions
16:45 mats it was 4 hours when i took it
16:45 asciilifeform iirc was mechanized in mid 2000s, but nfi what's in it nao
16:46 mats its also optional in application packets to many universities
16:46 asciilifeform mats: lol! what do they take instead nao? photo proving yer skin is black enuff ?
16:47 mats grades and activities probably
16:47 asciilifeform lulzy given how whole orig. impetus behind 'let's have a standard exam' was that schools vary
16:48 asciilifeform afaik in erry half-civilized country there is sumthing resembling a standard entrance exam for uni
16:49 mats demographics are changing quickly, and if trends haven't changed from four years ago when i last looked, every year high schools have steadily graduated increasingly more hispanic and black students
16:49 * asciilifeform wonders what kinda exam in mexico
16:50 mats who are less likely to afford university enrollment, or be competitive during enrollment
16:50 asciilifeform in usa not even much point in such exams, as unis are run as commercial orgs and 'moar meat, moar moolah'
16:51 mats https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/views/2022/02/28/enrollment-changes-colleges-are-feeling-are-much-more-covid-19
16:51 asciilifeform (elsewhere , where limited # of seats, and students still get stipends, rather than paying 1e5$/y, exams)
16:52 mats >As cited in a Wall Street Journal article, “in the next few years, two women will earn a college degree for every man, if the trend continues.”
16:52 mats interesting
16:52 mats https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-university-fall-higher-education-men-women-enrollment-admissions-back-to-school-11630948233
16:53 asciilifeform mats: iirc u of md already ~65/35% f/m
16:53 asciilifeform casual visual inspection on street seems to confirm
16:54 mats if only i was 18 again
16:54 mats man
16:55 asciilifeform not necessarily a valhalla, if mp was to be believed most of these chix may as well've'been sewed closed
16:56 asciilifeform (and the remainder are all fucking the same 6 local mp lol)
16:56 * asciilifeform not zoophiliac, so cannot comment concretely
17:06 mats you would destroy them emotionally
17:07 mats "didn't you learn how to use vinegar properly? they teach this in kindergarten" followed by spitting and spanking
~ 42 minutes ~
17:49 signpost why so down on spanking
17:50 signpost but no, I don't want any 18yo american bitches either, tyvm.
~ 1 hours 31 minutes ~
19:22 asciilifeform mats: that was mp's thing, rather than asciilifeform's, lol
19:23 asciilifeform ( and iirc the queue lined up to 'get destroyed emotionally' was measured in kilometres )
19:23 asciilifeform sadomasochism is evidently an actual thing.
19:24 asciilifeform signpost: asciilifeform often wonders if there in fact is a 'seekrit' exodus of 'surplus' males from usa into the 'free world'
19:24 asciilifeform ( can't imagine it'd be 'on front page' if were happening )
19:25 asciilifeform republikflucht(tm)(r)(ddr)
19:26 asciilifeform these folx can't ~all~ be 'escaping' into vodka/reddit.
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