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01:57 deedbot [Recent Phuctorings.] Phuctored: 1287424238120947 divides RSA Moduli belonging to 'Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>; ' - http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/C866293ADCFA761D385D4B8A407BA2CA0109F086D2463F4B558E1C6354536DE5
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03:46 felipelalli Democracy, how I *love* that: http://dwarfpool.com/eth/voting/ :lol: it's fun to watch this suicide.
03:47 felipelalli Ah! Democracy. Thank you to shot the head of this zombie.
03:48 BingoBoingo lol
03:48 BingoBoingo felipelalli: You'll love the latest Qntra http://qntra.net/2016/06/forking-question-of-the-day/
03:48 BingoBoingo fxd
03:48 felipelalli *love*
03:48 felipelalli thank you BingoBoingo
03:48 felipelalli hahah
03:51 BingoBoingo bagchain, because paper bag is used in Ether huffing
03:51 BingoBoingo Also because chain of bagholders
03:51 deedbot [Qntra] Forking Question Of The Day - http://qntra.net/2016/06/forking-question-of-the-day/
03:51 felipelalli Really, if I had my life invested on it and I were the 1.77% "NO", I would make a campaign to "the resistence" and ask to users change the PoW algo due to defend from this clear mining attack.
03:51 felipelalli lol
03:52 felipelalli they need a M.P. in their project.
03:52 BingoBoingo Ehm the name kind of did the project in
03:52 BingoBoingo https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4pflsd/sorry_for_your_harmony_an_ethereum_bagchain/ << I know you have a reddit account, have fun!
03:53 felipelalli why in Buttcoin? lol
03:53 BingoBoingo Because Buttcoin enjoys Qntra and there's a girl there with a serious ladyboner for everything MP
03:54 felipelalli lol
03:56 felipelalli That fork makes no sense at all. What shit they have in mind?
03:57 felipelalli fun fact: *no one* really knew what was wrote in that "smart contract". No fucking single person, even who wrote that. They just put the money in a tied "kind-of-immutable" contract that they simply couldn't read.
03:57 BingoBoingo They are stuck between a rock and a moving rock
03:58 felipelalli fun fact 2: in the "human readable contract" they wrote: "nothing said outside the code is valid in case of dispute. The code is the final word." lol
03:59 BingoBoingo lol
03:59 BingoBoingo Seriously what attorney at lol signed off on that?
04:00 felipelalli I just can't understand!
04:02 felipelalli a language like haskell (or at least a lisp dialect) should be chosen to build smart contracts, to begin with. It should be purely functional, predictable / deterministic, strong-typed etc.
04:03 felipelalli Ethereum looks like a mess made in a hurry to me.
04:04 mircea_popescu that;d be because it's exactly what it is.
04:04 felipelalli and the very-first millionarie contract (14% of Ether, lol) should be much more simpler.
04:05 felipelalli mircea_popescu: why they are so distance from the reality? They continue to buy this shit.
04:06 mircea_popescu who "they" ?
04:06 felipelalli ethereum community
04:07 mircea_popescu think for a moment how a shitshow like poloniex works. you make 1mn scamtokens out of thin air. you send them to a "margined" "exchange" website. you use the "margin" 1mn scamtokens provide to... buy 1mn more! now you have enough "marginable assets" ie scamtokens to... buy 1mn more! and if the price goes up... 1mn more!
04:07 mircea_popescu soon enough you're sitting on an account that is still worth the 0 it was worth to begin with, except that has also bought 10x to 100x of the same scamtokens. so... "they are buying" ? yeah, sure. and paying with what ?
04:08 felipelalli mircea_popescu: true.
04:08 mircea_popescu with any luck someone actually sends actual bitcoin to either "buy" the stuff to "mommentum trade" or else you know "short it". either way it's a win - your 0 value scamcoin attracted some actual money!
04:10 felipelalli and a "premined" coin (dev coins) is easy to inflate the final marketcap: I just create 1`000`000`000`000`000`000 coins and sell to my mum at $ 0.01
04:11 felipelalli the same as Ripple
04:12 felipelalli mircea_popescu: what time is it in Argentina?? It's late, isn't? Here is 5 AM.
04:12 mircea_popescu same.
04:13 felipelalli are you waking up or haven't you sleep yet? lol
04:13 BingoBoingo He's just back from enjoying the vibrant local nightlife
04:13 mircea_popescu i'm on the tail end of an orgy.
04:13 felipelalli o.o
04:15 BingoBoingo Ah, I guessed rightish!
04:16 mircea_popescu :p
04:16 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo here's a hint at the greatness and grandeur of being a young male in a fucked up society : 90%+ of soypizdi correspondents are... male.
04:17 mircea_popescu you understand this ? that fucking desperate.
04:17 BingoBoingo how is that so different from
04:17 mircea_popescu i have like a feeling that if i offered them to wear a cock cage and watch quietly while i fuck the girls, more than half would gladly accept.
04:17 BingoBoingo $google they really are buttcoins nao
04:17 deedbot http://trilema.com/they-really-are-buttcoins-nao << They really are Buttcoins nao on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-07-2014 << NEXT: 28-07-2014 | http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-satoshi-nakamoto-email-hacker-says-hes-negotiating-with-the-bitcoin-founder << The Satoshi Nakamoto Email Hacker Says He's Negotiating with the ...
04:18 mircea_popescu "hey, at least it GETS ME CLOSE to where life is!"
04:18 BingoBoingo lol
04:18 BingoBoingo What, do they not have home improvement stores in Argentina?
04:18 mircea_popescu sure they do.
04:19 BingoBoingo Well why aren't they helping the divorcees pick out flowers and paint colors?
04:19 BingoBoingo Or buying lawnmowers and making some fucking money
04:20 mircea_popescu what divorcees ?
04:20 mircea_popescu catholic country, bitch. abortion's illegal.
04:21 mircea_popescu seriously, when you're trying to represent argentina, think of a 1950s awkansaw that never heard of new york and seriously thinks itself "the jewel of the ozarks" or some such shit. in all seriousness, no self-deprecatory humour intended OR EVEN CONCEIVABLE.
04:22 BingoBoingo Ok, that's some serious delusion. Everyone knows Branson is the jewel of the Ozarks not R-kansas
04:22 mircea_popescu yawell.
04:23 BingoBoingo Anyways, widows then.
04:23 mircea_popescu and for anyone who deludes himself into fucking thinking that "women voting" and "divorce" is "what made '''america''' ungreat again", seriously, come to fucking argentina. they're just as dickless as you are and women here don't get to divorce anyone.
04:23 mircea_popescu nor do they need to. there's yet to be invented some manner of keeping the dickless from being totally handpuppetted out.
04:24 BingoBoingo Well women keep getting old anywhere you go.
04:25 BingoBoingo Anyways, what else can be expected when Italians make a United States further south
04:29 BingoBoingo In other news of Argentina singer songwriters now become "popstars" here at the age Madonna got old https://archive.is/uZ5Hq
04:35 mircea_popescu heh
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05:04 BingoBoingo ;;ticker --market all
05:04 gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 588.03, vol: 24200.57961702 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 574.0, vol: 20332.44345 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 592.04, vol: 138012.54523485 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 570.0, vol: 3.06378972 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 590.02752, vol: 100428.85400000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 590.97, vol: 8380.2247805 | Volume-weighted last average: 589.72330473
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05:28 thestringpuller ;;market sell --fiat 19000000
05:28 gribble Bitfinex | This order would exceed the size of the order book. You would sell 294609.46 bitcoins for a total of 6705440.3944 USD and take the price to 0. | Data vintage: 0.0047 seconds
05:29 BingoBoingo ;;goxlag
05:29 gribble Error: "goxlag" is not a valid command.
05:29 BingoBoingo ;;buttfunex lag
05:29 gribble Error: "buttfunex" is not a valid command.
05:44 deedbot [Trilema] The life and times of one Phil Daian, aspiring nigger & apprentice cocksucker - http://trilema.com/2016/the-life-and-times-of-one-phil-daian-aspiring-nigger-apprentice-cocksucker/
05:46 deedbot [Qntra] Brexit Voting Begins - http://qntra.net/2016/06/brexit-voting-begins/
05:48 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo tried not tired
05:48 mircea_popescu as funny as that is :D
05:49 BingoBoingo lol, fxd
05:51 Framedragger BingoBoingo: that's a great brexit writeup, well done :D
05:51 BingoBoingo thank you
05:52 Framedragger all essentials covered and well delivered, heh
05:52 mircea_popescu lol
05:52 mircea_popescu maybe articles like that should include an "editor's pick" and then once a year we could total how well qntra did.
05:53 BingoBoingo Anyways this is why people wanting to blog need to do it frequently beyond the reasons mp lays out here http://trilema.com/blogging-is-a-muscle-and-other-observations
05:53 Framedragger sounds like a good idea to me!
05:53 BingoBoingo you get to link yourself later for context
05:53 mircea_popescu it's not a library call if YOU WROTE IT ALL!
05:53 BingoBoingo But yeah the challenge is how to do editor's pics
05:54 mircea_popescu ps : why is "common wisdom" in agreement that "no man could possibly hold 1mn lines of code in head" when i actually have 10mn words worth of trilema articles in my head ?
05:54 mircea_popescu is this a perception problem, a language problem, what ?
05:54 BingoBoingo Its and encoding problem
05:54 mircea_popescu head ordinarily holds billions' loc worth, shit, we can even climb a stair
05:55 BingoBoingo But you forgive their eggog rate
05:55 BingoBoingo Seriouly defect has to limit what they can hold
05:56 BingoBoingo Like how alf fails to parse the jwz "just want to"
05:56 mircea_popescu hm.
05:57 BingoBoingo Some baskets hold water, others you get at the gift shop
06:01 BingoBoingo alf tried to parse the jwz "just want to" as an instruction whereas you treated it as a antifact of the broken jwz
06:02 mircea_popescu explain this one ?
06:03 BingoBoingo alf failed to pars the "just want to" and made a point of the statement not parsing. It's not made for parsing though because jwz just wants to. Nothing wrong with tossing around the "just wants to" as a string like any other though.
06:04 BingoBoingo Like any other string that doesn't parse to meaningful code.
06:04 mircea_popescu so basically you're saying natural language works because interpretable rather than compiled ?
06:04 BingoBoingo Also natural languages are strongly typed.
06:04 BingoBoingo strongly typed and interpretable
06:05 mircea_popescu how are they strongly typed ?
06:06 BingoBoingo Because you can quarentine nonsense as isolated strings and lol about them. If you can't do that they'd eventually start making you stupid.
06:06 BingoBoingo WHen you start kicking errors because "just want to" makes soemthing overflow
06:06 mircea_popescu just because the comment-out is communicated in-band rather than explicitly given as // or whatever doesn't mean it's strongly typed.
06:07 mircea_popescu it means it's strongly ambiguous lol
06:07 BingoBoingo lol, fine
06:07 mircea_popescu but yeah, this is a pretty good model. "natural language is just like a computer language that had no // or quotations." "so how do i know magic strings, and comments, from code ?" "your mother."
06:09 BingoBoingo Anyways, compiling would break everything
06:10 BingoBoingo http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/columnist-fails-gun-check-blames-store-owners/article/2594417
06:12 mircea_popescu i don't get it. gun shop refused selling to alcoholic wifebeater, he identifies as "journalist" and butthurts all over ?
06:12 mircea_popescu i suppose that's how the whole soypizdi thing should go, too. "no ty, you're a dude" "I AM NOT A DUDE I AM A STUDENT!!!"
06:13 BingoBoingo yeah
06:14 BingoBoingo Apparently they couldn't agree on which reserved words take precedence in the order of operations
06:14 mircea_popescu lol. and even better - he wanted to buy it, to show how easy it is. then it wasn't easy. but instead of publishing a piece about how "i thought it was easy - turns out it's not", he has a ...
06:14 mircea_popescu holy shit the brainrot.
06:15 BingoBoingo Using you loc allowance for Disney does that
06:18 BingoBoingo Tis the redditard way
06:29 Framedragger jurov: have you seen this - analysis of github users ssh keys: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/auditing-github-users-keys
06:29 Framedragger this also means that potentially a large amount of vulnerable/shit keys have been removed from github since then
06:30 mircea_popescu speaking of that, asciilifeform any idea how it's possible that Submissions: 3305302 Known Moduli: 2708380 Moduli Waiting for Test: 3677 ? shouldn't these add up ?
06:30 mircea_popescu Framedragger not a bad thing in any case.
06:31 Framedragger "After realising I have a public key database of most users on GitHub, I remembered back to the May 2008 Debian OpenSSH bug, where the randomness source was compromised to the point where the system could only generate one of 32k keys in a set. I used g0tmi1k’s set of keys to compare against what I had in my database, and found a very large amount of users who are still using vulnerable keys, and even worse, have commit access to some
06:31 Framedragger good stuff
06:32 Framedragger "... to some really large and wide projects"
06:32 mircea_popescu debian. heh.
06:33 mircea_popescu in other news, nobody uses ecdsa. considering what they spent trying to get people on it... such success.
06:34 mircea_popescu lol compromised in the attack : spotify, python core and crypto libs, django and ruby.
06:34 Framedragger mircea_popescu: if you mean "nobody smart", then that's one thing, but if you mean in terms of actual numbers, then i'd probably have to disagree. shitloads of ecdsa ssh host public keys anyway (stats and breakdown to be published at some point in teh future)
06:35 Framedragger gov.uk too lol, though no surprise
06:35 mircea_popescu Framedragger look at his data. 97.7% rsa, ~3% dss (!), ~0% other
06:35 Framedragger ahh i didn't look there
06:36 Framedragger ok good. so not much of ecdsa client-side
06:36 Framedragger would still be curious to write/find a tool which detects low hanging fruit for EC ssh host keys / keys with shitty parameters
06:37 mircea_popescu "However, a search on GitHub reveals thousands of results where code containing AWS secret keys can be found in plain text, which means anyone can access those accounts." ~ http://www.itnews.com.au/news/aws-urges-developers-to-scrub-github-of-secret-keys-375785
06:38 Framedragger i just wanted to quote this exact sentence lol - yeah another fruity area
06:38 mircea_popescu "if you let the sheep in, the sheep scent soon follows."
06:38 BingoBoingo In Bitcoin news news http://infocoin.net/en/2016/05/30/accused-of-fraud-bitcoin-several-us-security-officials/
06:39 mircea_popescu http://vertis.io/2013/12/06/unauthorised-litecoin-mining.html in other lulz.
06:41 BingoBoingo lol
06:46 Framedragger ..soo, this generates ssh keys based on the broken debian prng: https://github.com/g0tmi1k/debian-ssh - github keyset has been matched against these - wonder about them host keys....
06:46 mircea_popescu romanian "nazi" press is having all the conceivable lolz because "the boss of the faggot jews" (ie, LGBTQ mission to Israel) is one Kurlander. (cur = ass in romanian, the poor guy's name sounds exactly on the money)
06:46 Framedragger hahahha
06:47 mircea_popescu meanwhile, they added another coupla letters to "lgbt" ? i wonder how long before it smashes the stack.
06:47 Framedragger etymological proof!!!
06:47 Framedragger also added a "2" it seems
06:47 mircea_popescu i propose simply W for weirdo.
06:48 Framedragger "LGBTQ2 refers to people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning or two-spirited."
06:48 Framedragger 2 for two-spirited
06:48 Framedragger for real
06:48 mircea_popescu (ftr : gay -> LGB (lesbian, gay, bisexual) -> LGBT (+transgender) -> LGBTQ (+queer) -> LGBTQ+ (+algo mas) )
06:49 mircea_popescu Framedragger are these the "fuck you, i'm a dragon" nuts ?
06:49 Framedragger seems kinda widespread actually!
06:49 Framedragger dunno, but well maybe heh
06:49 Framedragger hmm
06:49 Framedragger possibly
06:49 mircea_popescu oh, wait, there's also LGBTTTQQUAA! i kid you not!
06:49 Framedragger wikipedia mentions "navajo spirit" something something in connection with that acronym?!
06:49 Framedragger what
06:50 mircea_popescu or actually : LGBTTTQQUAA+PAGCBGVP!
06:50 Framedragger wowza
06:52 mircea_popescu incredible how much empty noise three people can make, especially should they be the sort of people who couldn't ever find a job, once liberated from the need to look for one.
06:52 Framedragger the navajo gaze seems to originate at least in part from an article called something like the navajo spirit gaze
06:52 Framedragger http://nativeout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Two-Spirits-Nadleeh-and-Navajo-LGBTQ2-Gaze.pdf
06:53 Framedragger ""My own work differentiates the mere intersection of Native and queer representations from a two-spirit gaze by noting a two-spirit gaze’s greater focus on traditionalist, nationalist, and activist representations of community-identified two-spirit images.7 Given a critical mass in two-spirit Navajo film and the strength of Navajo cultural, feminist, and gender activism, this article foregrounds Navajo LGBTQ2 gazes on two-spirit Navaj
06:53 mircea_popescu oh look, a pdf. because math amirite.
06:53 Framedragger "o images."
06:53 * Framedragger doesnt like pdfs either, ok
06:53 mircea_popescu navajo feminist gender activism ? what the everloving.
06:53 Framedragger yes for real
06:53 Framedragger article literally starts with quote "Two-Spirit people balance society, the world, and the cosmos."
06:54 mircea_popescu cuz so fat ?
06:54 Framedragger i suppose this is "fuck you am dragon" territory?
06:54 Framedragger :D
06:54 Framedragger provide solid foundation
06:55 mircea_popescu the notion that "navajo culture" is ridiculous on its face. it's entirely built on equivocation between the term of art (EVERYTHING noetic is "a culture" in say anthropology) and the common term (no, the united states does not have a culture ; even if it has a civilisation. let alone fucking navajo - never had one, never could have had one.)
06:56 Framedragger crazy shit.
07:04 mircea_popescu http://ctrl-d.ro/app/uploads/2016/06/e388bdd9-0bf0-4a26-ba03-02657f521b72.jpg << check out the golf club pattern! which mysteriously disappeared from all literature (ie, fiction writing) on the subject (as well as google, "scientific" paper search engines etc) after it was so humiliatingly debunked.
07:04 mircea_popescu IT LIVES ON!
07:06 mircea_popescu seriously though, one of the best meta-patterns. "this is how stupid people think things go." sort-of like the matchbox sign in clinical psychopathology : once you see the guy bringing you little boxes you know he's got Morgellons ; once he whips out the golf club patterns you know he's got stupid.
07:09 Framedragger http://btcbase.org/log/2015-06-08#1157231 << i haven't checked but apparently https://github.com/torvalds.keys is available? not sure if helpful at this point, if already scraped etc, and maybe this posses other problems (user enumeration, additional rate-limiting etc)
07:09 a111 Logged on 2015-06-08 15:46 jurov: they have api limit 6000/hour
07:11 Framedragger mircea_popescu: heh can't find much on the internets for "golf club pattern" indeed, but also don't get its initial idea/appeal? O.O
07:11 mircea_popescu back in 2010ish, some derps from us academia came with "proof" of the (at the time still called) global warming nonsense, in the shape of a much-loved-bymedia "golf cross pattern".
07:12 Framedragger ah
07:12 mircea_popescu what they had done was, take ~50 years of atmospheric data, "reconstruct" on its basis about 100k years of imaginary history, then show on the basis of this projection rebranded as "data" that TEMPERATURES ARE RAISING!!11\
07:12 mircea_popescu they wouldn't share the model
07:12 Framedragger ahhh yeah, gotcha.
07:12 Framedragger oh, lol.
07:12 mircea_popescu then people hilary clinton'd their servers, and found
07:13 mircea_popescu a) a model that you could put anything in, such as the weighs or the ages of your past girflriends, to take out the same exact pattern
07:13 mircea_popescu and b) a RICO-worthy criminal conspiracy, replete with fraud etc, to marginalize, intimidate and if need be assassinate "opponents" as defined by a group of nuts
07:13 mircea_popescu (that were trying to take over the public spending in this field)
07:13 Framedragger yeahyeah the whole weather modelling in the future based on specific chosen parameters and models is hilarious, and gets regurgitated by media etc, i too have general aversion to this; does not mean that all of it is useless but hell if they don't show how they got there then that's even more ridiculous
07:14 mircea_popescu no charges were pressed, of course, because silk road is totally where crime happens, rather than the back offices of each and every single ivy league "college" / real estate scam
07:14 mircea_popescu Framedragger well yeah but this was a specific lulzpocalypse.
07:14 Framedragger from what i recall IPCC is ripe with corruption
07:14 Framedragger gotcha.
07:15 Framedragger lols.
07:15 Framedragger it's a yuuge industry
07:15 mircea_popescu Climategate, another thing that "didn't happen".
07:18 mircea_popescu anyway, for argentine as well as any derps who have nfi what "night life" means : follow along the fucking pictures http://www.clujlife.com with the knowledge that a) the nudes aren't published, by convention, but girls go naked all the time ; b) it's a tiny fucking town, half a mil population if the school's in session.
07:19 Framedragger right on.
07:20 Framedragger correlations remind me of http://i.imgur.com/3B0pt3M.jpg
07:24 mircea_popescu lol
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08:24 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1487717 << mircea_popescu ~wrote it~. whereas nobody ever has or will write 10mil executable anything with own hands.
08:24 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 09:54 mircea_popescu: ps : why is "common wisdom" in agreement that "no man could possibly hold 1mn lines of code in head" when i actually have 10mn words worth of trilema articles in my head ?
08:25 asciilifeform this is elementary.
08:25 mircea_popescu why not ?
08:26 asciilifeform two reasons.
08:27 asciilifeform proggy does not compress. head does not have the handy lossy compressor, as for human text.
08:28 hanbot lol kakobrekla is still in his self-justifying tailspin i see?
08:28 hanbot http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-06-2016#1450871 << mircea_popescu
08:28 asciilifeform other reason is that most programmers don't write code in the sense that, e.g., mircea_popescu writes essays. instead, they take a shit, and strip away elements of the shit until the compiler is happy and the 'tests' pass.
08:28 mircea_popescu asciilifeform but... why not ?
08:28 asciilifeform rather than as any kind of rational creation.
08:29 mircea_popescu hanbot eh, who cares ?
08:29 hanbot i find the hypocrisy outrageous. so i guess i care.
08:29 asciilifeform hanbot: he's been at it without skipping a beat ever since his shitburial.
08:30 hanbot "ftr when he joined this place, it was purely about business and so was he. later he was wrapping business in propaganda, which is tolerable, as the core is solid. now he is wrapping propaganda in business wrap, at which point it becomes intolerable for any reasonable mind." << i don't, for example, seem to remember the same thing. at all.
08:31 mircea_popescu lol. why's he keep lying anyway ? it didn't work the previous n times, gonna work next ?
08:31 mircea_popescu anyway, ima fish out "how #b-a started" later, it's like two lines.
08:32 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: he's working the stay-behind folks.
08:32 hanbot for that matter Framedragger i start on that dpaste out of curiosity, run into "Getting out of the way: The most basic level is based on avoidingchallenging others’ delusions, and factoring them into your own thinking. The “organizing” merely involves arranging matters so things and people you care about are moved out of the way of an impending train wreck."
08:32 asciilifeform e.g., punkman
08:32 asciilifeform and the still-tuned-in #t folk, to lesser extent
08:32 hanbot maybe we're talking of very different people, or whatever. but i've never seen or heard of anyone more effervescently challenging of other's illusions than mp.
08:32 mircea_popescu hanbot nuca nu-ntelegi tu umorul &c. it's all a ploy!
08:33 diana_coman asciilifeform> other reason is that most programmers don't write code in the sense that, e.g., mircea_popescu writes essays. instead, they take a shit, and strip away elements of the shit until the compiler is happy and the 'tests' pass. <- fwiw I don't think that those are programmers
08:34 asciilifeform hanbot: what can i say, he didn't buy the 'seekrit evidence' and now sees mircea_popescu as вредитель etc. and very tiresomely repetitive.
08:34 diana_coman in my book programmers are exactly those who write code as a rational creation
08:34 diana_coman not monkeys pressing levers until the light turns on or whatever
08:34 asciilifeform diana_coman: there are maybe 20 programmers then.
08:34 diana_coman that might very well be
08:34 asciilifeform diana_coman: we had a thread re programming as medieval medicine. it is in the logs...
08:35 diana_coman in my days at uni I failed students precisely because of trying that idea
08:35 mircea_popescu no but wait. WHY is it that programmers don't write like mp.
08:35 asciilifeform diana_coman: it is now taught as official state of the art, believe it:
08:35 asciilifeform $s sussman
08:35 a111 34 results for "sussman", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=sussman
08:35 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: because monkeys
08:38 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1487752 << prety sure this is in the logz: a 'submission' can have ANY number of moduli in it, because subkeys.
08:38 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 10:30 mircea_popescu: speaking of that, asciilifeform any idea how it's possible that Submissions: 3305302 Known Moduli: 2708380 Moduli Waiting for Test: 3677 ? shouldn't these add up ?
08:38 asciilifeform including 0.
08:38 asciilifeform because shitkeys (dsa etc)
08:40 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1487770 << 404?
08:40 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 10:39 mircea_popescu: http://vertis.io/2013/12/06/unauthorised-litecoin-mining.html in other lulz.
08:40 Framedragger http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1487858 << this i agree with! however, be it as it may i've never seen mp graciously accept to being wrong on some point. now, that *may* be because mp isn't wrong a whole lotta times, i contend, yes; but it's still hilarious to me (in a stimulating kind of way, fwiw). e.g. the chinese konspiraci thing, it was posted on qntra by mircea_popescu, and then later mircea_popescu says the theory is legit becau
08:40 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 12:32 hanbot: maybe we're talking of very different people, or whatever. but i've never seen or heard of anyone more effervescently challenging of other's illusions than mp.
08:40 Framedragger now i know that some things should be taken in jest, metaphorically, generically, etc. still, i say "lol".
08:40 Framedragger "because it was posted on qntra."
08:40 Framedragger stupid irc
08:41 * Framedragger lunch
08:42 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1487809 << wasn't it 'hockey stick graph' ?
08:42 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 11:04 mircea_popescu: http://ctrl-d.ro/app/uploads/2016/06/e388bdd9-0bf0-4a26-ba03-02657f521b72.jpg << check out the golf club pattern! which mysteriously disappeared from all literature (ie, fiction writing) on the subject (as well as google, "scientific" paper search engines etc) after it was so humiliatingly debunked.
08:42 mircea_popescu hanbot http://trilema.com/2016/how-bitcoin-assets-was-born/ there, just for you.
08:42 mircea_popescu asciilifeform was it ?
08:42 asciilifeform aha
08:43 mircea_popescu tis possibru, this.
08:43 mircea_popescu diametric well, how many students can you fail.
08:43 mircea_popescu i wanted to fail the whole philosophy 101 class. mihu didn't think it such a good idea. short teaching career for me, thankfully.
08:44 hanbot mircea_popescu, tyvm!
08:44 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1487823 << mr mold correctly identified academia as one of 3 pillars of 'the cathedral' (lizard enforcers) - the other 2 being the controlled press, and usg civil service proper
08:44 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 11:13 mircea_popescu: and b) a RICO-worthy criminal conspiracy, replete with fraud etc, to marginalize, intimidate and if need be assassinate "opponents" as defined by a group of nuts
08:46 mircea_popescu damn i mean, diana_coman how many students can you fail.
08:48 mircea_popescu Framedragger was not here for the famous xor thread i guess.
08:49 asciilifeform the otp thread?
08:49 mircea_popescu yeah
08:50 mircea_popescu i dunno, i'm wrong all the fucking time, at least as far as i can see. i guess not usually on thosethings people'd much rather i were wrong on
08:52 mircea_popescu re the submissions : we couldn't have had lots of submissions without a rsa key in it, seeing how this is ssh set neh ?
08:52 asciilifeform ssh key set is about 20k in thus far.
08:52 mircea_popescu oh
08:52 asciilifeform (more, really, figure as of 2 days ago)
08:53 asciilifeform submission is the single slowest piece.
08:53 mircea_popescu https://archive.is/HOMve re missing luke chadwick / vertis.io thing
08:54 asciilifeform ah lel that was in the logz
08:54 asciilifeform somebody crawled shithub for aws creds and cashed in
08:54 mircea_popescu aha
08:55 asciilifeform hit each chump for 4fig usd of ding , for a few bux return each
08:55 asciilifeform because why the fuck not.
08:55 mircea_popescu litecoin of all things.
08:56 asciilifeform at the time there was no scrypt asic.
08:56 thestringpuller wow. maybe theymos has something with his r/bitcoin moderation: "Please, never ever turns Bitcoin into a democracy sh** thing. Be strong."
08:56 asciilifeform hence litecoin.
08:56 mircea_popescu anyway, talk about "botnet market" bla bla : imagine if guy had where to use this, recoup closer to the 4fig.
08:56 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: we had this thread also.
08:56 thestringpuller I guess education eventually works....?
08:56 mircea_popescu asciilifeform sure.
08:56 asciilifeform ~nobody has where to use.
08:57 * thestringpuller would never expect reddit to not be idiots
08:57 asciilifeform and i dun think a typical chump is ever worth remotely near 4fig.
08:57 diana_coman <mircea_popescu> damn i mean, diana_coman how many students can you fail. <- myeah, I know; thing is also: they shouldn't have gotten that high to fail basically, not that many
08:57 asciilifeform not even if you have his bank acct.
08:58 diana_coman but I don't consider it a solution, no
08:58 asciilifeform not even as pig.
08:58 diana_coman I was just stating that I actually applied my definition, it's not just some random thing I came up with now
08:58 mircea_popescu asciilifeform his NAME is. he himself, no. but just like us soldier isn't worth the crap he took that morning, but us soldier dog tag is worth ~1mn or so on the ransom market...
08:58 mircea_popescu us programmer isn't worth his weight in pimple juice
08:58 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: but shallow market depth
08:58 mircea_popescu us programmer's credentials could buy apple.
08:59 asciilifeform usg will pay 1, 2 ransoms
08:59 mircea_popescu usg has to date paid 100s of ransoms.
08:59 asciilifeform over decades
08:59 mircea_popescu past decade.
08:59 deedbot [Trilema] How #bitcoin-assets was born. - http://trilema.com/2016/how-bitcoin-assets-was-born/
08:59 asciilifeform i can believe.
08:59 mircea_popescu it will continue to pay. perfect ransom victim : cheaper to pay than not to pay.
09:00 asciilifeform but won't pay 1,000.
09:00 mircea_popescu it will pay ransoms even as it can't pay to import grain
09:00 asciilifeform and certainly not with actual money.
09:00 mircea_popescu the last dime it spends will be on a ransom.
09:00 mircea_popescu ~exactly how it went for rome~ also. and byzantium as well.
09:00 asciilifeform printolade by the bucket - sure.
~ 16 minutes ~
09:16 mircea_popescu asciilifeform let me run by you a crazy idea that came to me in my dazed state we'll approximate by "sleep"
09:17 asciilifeform hm?
09:17 mircea_popescu suppose the correct solution to the "large systems" problem isn't exactly to use "strong typed" languages and in general, more minutely define the elements involved. suppose the solution in fact is to give up on the (nonsensical, in theory, and unfound in nature) notion of "unambiguous notation".
09:18 mircea_popescu let three lines of A code be ambiguously interpretable to mean 5 different things, so that a million lines of A code become a very clearly useful, controllable item.
09:18 mircea_popescu basically, instead of trying to achieve the moon-height skyscraper by investing in material rigidity, invest instead in a sort of... fault tolerance i guess you'd call it.
09:20 asciilifeform the 'fuzzy logic' thing was in style in '80s for a brief spell
09:20 asciilifeform until folks realized that you get soup
09:20 asciilifeform that is good for very little.
09:20 mircea_popescu hm
09:21 asciilifeform $s computers you can't program
09:21 a111 4 results for "computers you can't program", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=computers%20you%20can't%20program
09:21 mircea_popescu but the basis here is indisputable : if trilema were equally sized code, i'd be dead trying to maintain it.
09:21 mircea_popescu yet as it is, takes little time to keep up.
09:22 asciilifeform mechanism dun compress.
09:22 asciilifeform fact of life, sad.
09:22 mircea_popescu how do you mean ?
09:23 mircea_popescu (and yes, i'm studiously not setting foot on the ground you suggest - because you'd vaporize my entire thing in five seconds. so let's sit over here where it's safe.)
09:24 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1487842 << in that sense. 1) we don't have the huffman table for it in our meat , unlike human text 2) well-designed program has very high entropy.
09:24 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 12:27 asciilifeform: proggy does not compress. head does not have the handy lossy compressor, as for human text.
09:24 mircea_popescu go the other way : why does it have to be a mechanism ? god knows people'v proven time and again they're perfectly happy with black boxen that do something vaguely related to what they expected 80% or so of the time.
09:24 mircea_popescu hm.
09:25 mircea_popescu but WHY is it possible to have a huffman table for human text in meat ?
09:25 asciilifeform hyoomans have been talking for considerably longer than they've been programming..
09:26 mircea_popescu but i meant in the general, as a theoretical possibility. how the fuck...
09:27 mircea_popescu you could pursue your line, sure, "look, being genetically female is complex, which is why maledom is delta-encoded on one chromosome. speech is the same."
09:27 asciilifeform ... and human lang is quite low entropy.
09:27 mircea_popescu but then... there's no such thing as "speech", and children of random parents can learn random unrelated language.
09:28 mircea_popescu in any case the historical argument is very dubious. people have nopt really been thinking ~in language~ before say kant.
09:29 asciilifeform human meat has some very spiffy coprocessor for speech, etc. but it doesn't actually help so much with writing program (and often actively hinders)
09:29 mircea_popescu they sure as fuck haven't before the greeks or w/e, that's not millions opf years.
09:29 asciilifeform recall the hypertalk thread?
09:29 asciilifeform $s hypertalk
09:29 a111 7 results for "hypertalk", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=hypertalk
09:30 asciilifeform ^ any of them
09:30 mircea_popescu aha.
09:31 mircea_popescu i dunno, don't get me wrong, fucking larry drove me nuts, "open door", seriously ?
09:31 mircea_popescu but that's not really what;s contemplated here.
09:32 asciilifeform greeks, kant, et al --> ~unambiguous~, deliberate language. definitely doesn't come from factory in hyooman firmware, has to be installed aftermarket.
09:32 asciilifeform firmware ships with bamboozling, prayer, monkey grunts, 'i didnt fuck him', 'cheque is in the mail' language processor.
09:34 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: what specifically is contemplated here..?
09:36 asciilifeform would mircea_popescu like, e.g., pgptron, that maybe-multiplies some maybe-primes if it feels like it hat day in its sim-menstrualcycle?
09:36 asciilifeform *that
09:36 mircea_popescu nothing actionable or useful that i can discern. just the simple observation that a) code the size of the body of work of respected past intellectuals is not maintainable by teams or individuals, while the writings were maintainable by the author solo ; b) the correct solution to scale is not increase in rigidity, but flexibility. which is how skyscrapers work or japan defends from earthquakes.
09:36 asciilifeform or how about a lift that maybe-goes down or maybe-up
09:37 mircea_popescu so it seems to me that perhaps we could say "obviously" the more strictly defined a language gets, the more catastrophic the necessary collapse of its large scale systems.
09:37 Framedragger http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1487950 << for a brief spell only? i think there now may exist some inference systems which work on floating point / probabilistic truth-values? weasel words, would need to check, but wouldn't have thought it to have been a "brief spell" only?
09:37 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 13:20 asciilifeform: the 'fuzzy logic' thing was in style in '80s for a brief spell
09:37 mircea_popescu (and in this sense, i view eg the debian key disaster thing as collapse, exactly like the tay bridge failure say)
09:37 Framedragger alsoalso, graham priest's paraconsistent logic is an interesting thing.
09:37 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: to an extent we have this. consider naggum's c++ liars essay.
09:38 mircea_popescu asciilifeform as an ideal output, i would like a debian distro that says "you can't possibly mean to make these keys out of 32k sets ?!"
09:38 shinohai http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1487702 <<< Since he handily provided his twitter I decided to troll xD
09:38 mircea_popescu which essay is that again ?
09:38 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 09:44 deedbot: [Trilema] The life and times of one Phil Daian, aspiring nigger & apprentice cocksucker - http://trilema.com/2016/the-life-and-times-of-one-phil-daian-aspiring-nigger-apprentice-cocksucker/
09:38 diana_coman mircea_popescu> nothing actionable or useful that i can discern. just the simple observation that a) code the size of the body of work of respected past intellectuals is not maintainable by teams or individuals, while the writings were maintainable by the author solo ; b) the correct solution to scale is not increase in rigidity, but flexibility. which is how skyscrapers work or japan defends from earthquakes. <- fwiw the diffe
09:38 diana_coman rence there is that "team of individuals" is pointedly not the original author
09:38 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3103356827666810@naggum.no.html
09:39 mircea_popescu shinohai bet you he's gonna swallow the "nigger" thing without looking.
09:39 diana_coman in same vein, a team is not able to maintain the body of work of respected past intellectual, sure
09:39 asciilifeform and diana_coman has it.
09:39 diana_coman add to that the fact that the equivalent would be not exactly trying to maintain the work, but rather trying to maintain some layers of slime built on top of the work
09:40 Framedragger (in paraconsistent systems, they try to "contain" cases when `p && ~p`. normally by principle of explosion you can prove anything (`1. p. 2. p || q [from 1, disjunctive addition.] 3. ~p [given.] 4. q [from 2. and 3.]`). these systems remove one or another inference rule (e.g. that p || q may follow from p, or double negation, or something else), or *suspend* it, in the fashion that some equations may have complex numbers as intermediary
09:40 mircea_popescu diana_coman irl it worked as, to quote famous wilde tidbit, "i leave it to you to to fix the here's and there's".
09:40 Framedragger values, but the imaginary terms get eventually nulled before the final solution.
09:40 mircea_popescu so really, was team. author, editor, 2 people at least.
09:40 asciilifeform and yes there is a transition-to-layers-of-slime point where the programmers give up on simplification and start piling up crud
09:40 diana_coman sure, but they did not touch the core
09:40 Framedragger ^ maybe not even related that much, just intersting
09:40 diana_coman leave the GUI to the team, sure
09:41 mircea_popescu diana_coman this is a dubious assertion, in the same vein we could say "ian murdock did the work, rest did gui" or w/e.
09:41 mircea_popescu maybe it stands, but seems unreliable.
09:41 mircea_popescu from my brief stint in publishing, i wouldn't swear the expert editor is less a contributor in the average book than the average author.
09:42 mircea_popescu but then again that's the sort of why an' wherefore the kids think i'm an asshole.
09:42 asciilifeform ^ because human text is low-entropy.
09:42 asciilifeform go and cut from program. if well-written, will take you whole life.
09:42 diana_coman I don't quite follow your analogy there I think
09:43 diana_coman have code editors, sure
09:43 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you go cut from shakespeare!!!1
09:43 diana_coman if that's what you mean
09:43 asciilifeform (if satoshi's - a few months)
09:43 Framedragger (what's nice with these paraconsistent systems is that they may not crumble down when encountering some or other kind of logical paradox.) </weird-rant>
09:43 mircea_popescu you know, by the way, re my recent failed attempt to interact with the master, i found last week a notation from romania's genius poet EXPLAINIG THE SAME THING ?
09:44 mircea_popescu apparently this was known by 2oyear olds in the 1800s. nuts.
09:44 asciilifeform Framedragger: it's a dodge.
09:44 diana_coman I never quite got what you had so much against eminovici really
09:44 mircea_popescu i did ?
09:44 asciilifeform Framedragger: you don't get a free pass from godel by using floating point.
09:44 diana_coman that's how it came across at least then
09:45 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: which same thing?
09:45 mircea_popescu diana_coman i can't stand his conventional bullshit. he dared criticise (young) caraqiale for "poor morals" in plays ? the schmuck borrowed on his income months in advance to dress up and bullshit like that. he has a massive vein of "never got over mom" that i loathe in writers.
09:45 Framedragger asciilifeform: not necessarily from godel! some kind of diagonalization may be reconstructed, i'm sure/heard. but being able to handle some classes or problems is interesting in itself.
09:45 mircea_popescu asciilifeform "can't cut from shakespeare"
09:46 mircea_popescu i shall produce exact quote, a sec
09:46 Framedragger asciilifeform: tackling godel's two theorems is another kind/level of undertaking, prolly...
09:46 mircea_popescu actually, ima have to translate this. will put on trilema in a second. also gotta re-read this naggum... you folks have overwhelmed my real time processing, ima go bsod now and bbl.
09:47 * asciilifeform goes for coffee , also bbl
09:47 * Framedragger back to $work..
09:47 Framedragger heh
09:48 deedbot [Recent Phuctorings.] Phuctored: 154544665855970963 divides RSA Moduli belonging to 'almoutamahid <abdelilahalmoutamahid@gmail.com>; ' - http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/90BC6D88C26403285CF4A89F6E0501D31AD908A598A81BB09E41E0C981C24091
09:59 shinohai mircea_popescu, reply: https://twitter.com/phildaian/status/745977447233921024
10:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform ok, the "fucking hell who ever heard of a program that wants you to specify what you don't know" essay. i recall it, and imo it is very much substantial to my complaint.
10:03 mircea_popescu MOST of the power of trilema relies on exactly this, that I don't have to IFDEF and DECLARE and whatnot.
10:05 mircea_popescu which allows me to say intelligent things in such a way that pyramids many sayings deep can be effortlessly constructed, retain meaning and even nurture new meaning, and in general have all the attributes of art.
10:05 mircea_popescu if a software project did as much importing as the average trilema article does, it'd be openssh.
10:11 Framedragger this somehow reminded me of erlang's "don't be afraid to fail / fail fast" approach: for something to fail / cause exception is OK, always make sure there's something supervising and containing the failure etc. https://tkowal.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/failing-fast-and-slow-in-erlang-and-elixir/ (may not be a great writeup, but has l33t pic with triangle)
10:12 mircea_popescu that's kind-of a different level though. what does it even mean "to fail".
10:12 mircea_popescu when i teach my not-so-new-anymore slavegirls how to think, a large chunk consists of "interpreting what is said" which all revolves around "build tree of all possible meanings, prune all meanings contradicted".
10:13 mircea_popescu it's shocking how little the school system does to teach anyone anything. but anyway - what the program MEANS should be decided on the basis of what it can't possibly fucking mean,
10:13 mircea_popescu and i don't think it is ever acceptable for machine to make shitty rsa keys "because that's what i told it to".
10:13 mircea_popescu if slavegirl attempts this she gets double-whipped.
10:13 Framedragger yeah that's a different point, sure, and a good one it seems
10:15 Framedragger the case with rsa keys - it would be very difficult to write it up / interpret it as per your idea though, i think? unless the case was explicitly declared before, and that would break the whole idea (negative meaning, not (only) positive/exhaustive meaning)
10:15 mircea_popescu and no, this isn't cheap "do what i mean"-ism. when i say "the flower is blue and round is the sky", the notion that the flower is ROUND is invalidated not by what I mean, but by what everything means.
10:16 mircea_popescu Framedragger it's clear to me that in present computing paradigm it is outright impossible.
10:16 mircea_popescu which is why i'm saying, there's not much actionable here. but just because i dunno what to do with it doesn't mean i don't get drunk and dream.
10:16 Framedragger fosho.
10:17 Framedragger ..some kind of generic knowledge tree processing thing / semantic systems. someone must have made a small stab at this.. i mean there are natural language processing toolkits which build up context and work beyond straightforward syntax.. i don't know how well they are doing
10:17 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488052 << this #includes dwim.
10:17 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 14:13 mircea_popescu: it's shocking how little the school system does to teach anyone anything. but anyway - what the program MEANS should be decided on the basis of what it can't possibly fucking mean,
10:18 asciilifeform 'can't possibly mean' is not a thing
10:18 asciilifeform because meaning of a program is not contained wholly in the program.
10:18 mircea_popescu because the major trick here is - what i say isn't ACTUALLY ambiguous. it just requires very fine interpretation, which meshes well with a machine. in any case meshes well with the epistemic process that makes people engineers,
10:18 Framedragger 1. all turtles are green. 2. bob is a turtle. 3. bob is red. => spit out contradiction / choice of rejecting one of these. if additional premises are made which connect to the former ones, then decide which to reject quantitatively, or something.
10:18 deedbot [Trilema] Eminescu. Totally a genius. - http://trilema.com/2016/eminescu-totally-a-genius/
10:18 mircea_popescu as proven by the fact that the girls in question start acting like one even if not specifically trained to be one.
10:19 mircea_popescu asciilifeform diana_coman ^ bit from earlier.
10:19 mircea_popescu asciilifeform "can't possibly mean" is totally a thing.
10:19 asciilifeform Framedragger: 'prolog' is a thing. but seldom used for everyday programming because it removes the programmer's ability to reason about COST
10:19 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: not a thing the machine can ever resolve.
10:19 mircea_popescu why not ?
10:19 Framedragger asciilifeform: so i've heard! never approached it, sadly / to my detriment
10:20 asciilifeform because how the fuck does machine know what the operator wants
10:20 asciilifeform other than by being UNAMBIGUOUSLY told.
10:20 mircea_popescu meaning is not a matter of want.
10:20 mircea_popescu what things can't mean is a matter OF CONTEXT
10:20 mircea_popescu not of "want". it's not a product of intension.
10:20 asciilifeform didn't we ~just the other day~ have a 'hole hawg' thread ?
10:20 asciilifeform complete with mr mold's wolfram alpha essay
10:20 mircea_popescu we did. it probably explains a lot of my sufferances.
10:21 asciilifeform where we conclusively, imho, nailed the 'smart tools' idiocy
10:21 mircea_popescu nevertheless - that shit's written in c
10:21 asciilifeform tool should be as predictable as possible.
10:21 mircea_popescu of course it dun work.
10:21 mircea_popescu asciilifeform my slavegirls aren't tools, they're people. why should my computers be tools ? i've only two hands.
10:21 asciilifeform i expect mircea_popescu doesn't use gurlz as hammers either
10:21 asciilifeform or as can openers.
10:21 asciilifeform or scissors.
10:22 Framedragger ..prolly easier to wait for generic a.i. and then just have it mesh with brainz, heh.
10:22 asciilifeform and doesn't fuck hammers, conversely.
10:22 mircea_popescu (ftr, this school of "Slave should be tool - simple as possible" exists, and its product is outrageous and ridiculous by turns. they do think themselves "the real" bdsm people though, against the method-acting larger set (hint : if the word "scene" is mentioned - method actors))
10:22 mircea_popescu asciilifeform I DO! ALL THE TIME!
10:22 asciilifeform l0l!
10:22 mircea_popescu "open that can!" "Smash that wall!" etc.
10:22 asciilifeform open with bare hands ?
10:22 mircea_popescu i do not specify!
10:23 mircea_popescu which is the fucking point.
10:23 mircea_popescu ask me "with what", get to see my samuel l jackson face
10:23 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: there is pretty rich literature of tales re djinn etc who carry out literal words to comical disaster.
10:23 mircea_popescu surely.
10:23 asciilifeform quite anticipatory of computer.
10:23 mircea_popescu dearth of stories of whipped djinn
10:23 mircea_popescu as in the joke with the romanian police and the bear, "give me this djinn for a week"
10:26 mircea_popescu now, it is real easy to grant that "machine can't resolve because irl it takes more neurons than there's atoms in the cpu". but this is a total cop-out, i can string together an infinity of computers, as bitcoin has shown.
10:27 mircea_popescu and yes, the google "ai" rule based bs is giving a bad name to all this, but abstracting the usg.idiots for a second, before we throw out the bath
10:28 Framedragger there was a post about statistical/ML approach vs. (one of) rule-based approach(es) just recently, i haven't read it yet, http://norvig.com/chomsky.html (inb4 ad hominem alf's norvig iz usg pawn :P )
10:29 Framedragger (recent linking/post, content itself not new)
10:30 Framedragger (e.g. i agree with chomsky's "There is a notion of success ... which I think is novel in the history of science. It interprets success as approximating unanalyzed data." which does indeed suck.)
10:30 mircea_popescu $s "amelia bedelia"
10:30 a111 2 results for "\"amelia bedelia\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22amelia%20bedelia%22
10:30 mircea_popescu dude seriously everything's in the log.
10:31 mircea_popescu anyway. currently computers seem to me a sort of AB - alpha.
10:34 mircea_popescu Framedragger for the record, you found the http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1486741 reference.
10:34 a111 Logged on 2016-06-22 04:02 mircea_popescu: yeah. but that doesn't change the fact the ~only intellectual in the entire north of the continent is that old jew talking to himself in a room.
10:34 diana_coman imo you are on to something else there; computers at the moment are tools, hence programmed like tools and this is not something one can solve at programming level (hey, let's start training computers now and they will learn!)
10:34 mircea_popescu diana_coman more importantly : they are tools, programmed as tools, expected to deliver untool likethings.
10:34 diana_coman so that last part might be the trouble, true
10:34 mircea_popescu if it's a fucking tool why the fuck are youtrying to build a 3mn loc item in it!
10:34 Framedragger mircea_popescu: hahaha :D such reference. ok
10:34 mircea_popescu Framedragger i have yet to see him talk other than by himself in a room. were you hear for the discussion of brin the elder ?
10:34 mircea_popescu similar, just, at least he has the math.
10:35 Framedragger no, unfortunately it seems
10:35 Framedragger k.
10:35 mircea_popescu Framedragger ever read about the famous sheep ?
10:35 diana_coman it's actually part of why I quickly became disenchanted with the whole AI school (well, all of them really): I don't get why the focus on *always right* when no living intelligence (which is supposedly the model in any case) is *always* right
10:36 mircea_popescu diana_coman this is a very good point.
10:36 diana_coman the rule-based thing is an atrocity and prolog urgh
10:36 Framedragger mircea_popescu: do you mean Dolly the cloned sheep? i've heard of it, but only just
10:36 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2015/the-rabbi-and-the-ewe/
10:37 Framedragger ah, no; will read (prolly later / work)
10:37 Framedragger thx
10:37 mircea_popescu it'll wait.
10:37 Framedragger heh
10:38 Framedragger is that related to this currently discussed notion of "insisting on hard non-failing truth == unrealistic autism" (with which i agree)?
10:38 diana_coman I guess the thing is that if one abandons this ideal of always true, the question that arises immediately is why then not train actual people in the first place instead of building something else to..train like people
10:38 mircea_popescu Framedragger nah, related to the "alone in room"
10:39 mircea_popescu diana_coman and the answer is obvious : something else dun menstruate.
10:39 diana_coman lol!
10:39 mircea_popescu which is how men ended up in the workforce in the first place
10:39 mircea_popescu otherwise, i can't imagine who'd ever have wanted men for any purpose.
10:40 mircea_popescu (i dunno how much you know / care about early industrialization - but it was ~all women)
10:40 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488107 << it isn't about 'moar neurons', but simply that it requires info which the machine ~doesn't have~
10:40 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 14:26 mircea_popescu: now, it is real easy to grant that "machine can't resolve because irl it takes more neurons than there's atoms in the cpu". but this is a total cop-out, i can string together an infinity of computers, as bitcoin has shown.
10:40 mircea_popescu asciilifeform why not ?
10:40 asciilifeform (if it ~had~, you would not need to program it)
10:41 asciilifeform the whole point of programming is to drive home the idea that 'i need prime p, with p-1 and p+1 having large composites, and q.... ' etc to the box.
10:41 mircea_popescu here's the problemn with this : at first, girl "just doesn'tr have" information on how to bake pastries. then she gets beaten (rarely), corrected (often, but in specific punctual detail) and made to work. then, magically, and i can't underscore this enough, MAGICALLY, she now HAS!!! the information.
10:41 mircea_popescu whence did it come ?
10:41 mircea_popescu she fucking had it from the get-go. this is inescapable.
10:41 mircea_popescu the information is fucking there.
10:42 asciilifeform where ? in the zygote ?
10:42 mircea_popescu computers, unlike people, have the advantage that no subjective "reasons" to blind self to it (~= menstruation)
10:42 mircea_popescu no, it just floats around as a sea of ether
10:42 Framedragger surely said girl engaged in some kind of feedback process with the environment, internalizing some model which fits reality; so not wholly contained?
10:43 mircea_popescu in this sense no item is ever contained, including anything made by texas instruments.
10:43 asciilifeform $google how to bake pastry
10:43 deedbot http://allrecipes.com/recipes/346/bread/pastries/ << Pastry Recipes - Allrecipes.com | http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-bake-store-bought-frozen-puff-pastry-101067 << How To Bake Store-Bought Frozen Puff Pastry — Cooking Lessons ... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Sa6dauHBM << How to :Puff Pastry Recipe - YouTube
10:43 asciilifeform ^ satisfied? or too many turds floating in the sea? or wut
10:43 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i chose it specifically because it can not be "conceptually" learned.
10:43 mircea_popescu your pastries will suck. until they don't.
10:43 diana_coman by this model, I'd say that those poor students I failed were actually trying to apply exactly mircea_popescu 's approach!
10:43 mircea_popescu and THEN you will be able to bake, correctly, pastry you never even learned HOW to bake
10:43 mircea_popescu because it is clear to you what X means.
10:43 Framedragger girl internalizes environment which may include the beater who is giving her feedback, no?
10:44 mircea_popescu diana_coman likely, which is the irony here. you can either have schooling for boys, or for girls.
10:44 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: optimization problem, where the solver already has very good approximate values for all the params.
10:44 Framedragger i.e. the beater's aesthetics, say
10:44 mircea_popescu once they mixed the genders they fucked it all up. THAT is why "stundent quality is on downspiral"
10:44 mircea_popescu Framedragger i don't know shit about making pastries.
10:44 diana_coman thing is: the results were atrocious really
10:44 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: if your gurl had to figure out how to grow and harvest wheat, from first principles, you will have no pastry in this millenium
10:44 mircea_popescu asciilifeform that's fine, computer will outlast the millenium.
10:44 diana_coman that thing when it *works* as in...now, this particular thing, don't change anything or it might all fall down
10:44 mircea_popescu besides, i can buy more.
10:45 mircea_popescu diana_coman heh.
10:45 mircea_popescu still, it's how boys learn. stupid, i know.
10:45 mircea_popescu but while i don't for a second suspect you of gender politics, nevertheless, there you go, you did it to them. what now.
10:46 diana_coman uhm, they got beaten (once), corrected punctually etc so they are just learning
10:46 diana_coman perfect
10:46 mircea_popescu i guess so huh :D
10:47 Framedragger mircea_popescu: hmm; but you did supply her with some "aesthetics" feedback, maybe even a floating point value, as in, "better/worse than before", perhaps
10:47 Framedragger still external info
10:47 mircea_popescu no dude, correctly made pastry is this self-obvious thing.
10:47 Framedragger dunno tho
10:47 Framedragger right
10:47 mircea_popescu once you can make 'em it's darn obvious, and before it's impossibru and "vague" and throws fit
10:47 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the difficult bit is not merely in machine lasting millenium, but in the problem it is solving lasting anywhere near...
10:47 Framedragger so you're saying that this was purely incentive based thing, no external environment info
10:47 mircea_popescu well... at least at first. that doesn't go so well so throws fit internally.
10:47 asciilifeform $s great slow kings
10:47 a111 1 results for "great slow kings", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=great%20slow%20kings
10:48 asciilifeform motherfucker
10:48 asciilifeform IT IS IN THE FUCKING LOGS
10:48 mircea_popescu Framedragger no "peculiar" external info. obviously we're not dealing in spherical chickens here, so.. the sun lights all heads.
10:48 asciilifeform can we ditch the case-sensitive bullshit plox ?
10:48 asciilifeform phf ?
10:48 asciilifeform grep -i "foo" compliance plox
10:48 Framedragger asciilifeform: no it ain't
10:48 mircea_popescu grep has case sensitivity ?
10:48 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: by default
10:48 Framedragger by default yah
10:48 mircea_popescu yes...
10:49 Framedragger i mean you do sometimes want case sensitivity yknow; i guess question's regarding the default
10:49 asciilifeform anyway, http://lib.ru/ZELQZNY/TheGreatSlowKings.txt
10:49 mircea_popescu aaanyways
10:49 mircea_popescu asciilifeform was it the space ? hm ?
10:49 Framedragger asciilifeform: it throws 1 result which is when you searched for it, now..
10:50 Framedragger mircea_popescu: sure.. well hm, i can see what you mean; dunno if example is sound, but i prob know even less about pastry heh
10:50 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: nope. not the space. and the link is literally a repost
10:50 asciilifeform so it ~is~ in the logz
10:50 asciilifeform june 14.
10:50 asciilifeform phf's search dun find it.
10:50 Framedragger aok.
10:50 asciilifeform $s http://lib.ru/ZELQZNY/TheGreatSlowKings.txt
10:50 a111 2 results for "http://lib.ru/ZELQZNY/TheGreatSlowKings.txt", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=http%3A%2F%2Flib.ru%2FZELQZNY%2FTheGreatSlowKings.txt
10:51 mircea_popescu but to the more general point, Framedragger : the master's job is mostly to encourage and support the young woman TO ACTUALLY MAKE CHOICES. which is to say, exactly to distance herself from learned helplessness of the nature of diana_coman 's above mentioned " don't change anything or it might all fall down"
10:51 mircea_popescu yes, it's broken, NOTICE it's broken, eat the scrambled egg, try again.
10:51 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-14#1482806
10:51 a111 Logged on 2016-06-14 14:56 asciilifeform: http://www.lib.ru/ZELQZNY/TheGreatSlowKings.txt << for ze logz.
10:51 asciilifeform ^ but not findable
10:51 mircea_popescu $s TheGreatSlowKings
10:51 a111 6 results for "TheGreatSlowKings", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=TheGreatSlowKings
10:51 mircea_popescu aok.
10:51 asciilifeform i think it dun like urls.
10:52 mircea_popescu $s "SlowKings"
10:52 a111 8 results for "\"SlowKings\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22SlowKings%22
10:52 mircea_popescu $s "slowKings"
10:52 a111 1 results for "\"slowKings\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22slowKings%22
10:52 asciilifeform why why why can't we have grep -i "string".
10:52 Framedragger mircea_popescu: ACK, and that is cool. i do understand re. master actually working *against* learned helplessness models, at least an *actual* master anyway hm
10:52 asciilifeform anyway..
10:52 phf asciilifeform: i'll fix it next. since it's all write from scratch i just need to figure out how to case insensitive boyer moore
10:52 diana_coman that was not about helplessness though, but about the fact that a cake which is a cake only when you look at it from a certain angle, in a certain light, is NOT A CAKE
10:52 mircea_popescu dude i have nfi, you keep saying this, then phfg comes on it turns out we do, then you say it again
10:53 mircea_popescu diana_coman certainly not a cake. but it also has this passive "don't touch the instruments" educative value. womenz particularly vulnerable to this crap.
10:53 asciilifeform phf: upcasing utf8 is a heavy op, so i suspect that it will be gnarly
10:53 phf asciilifeform: i'm not going to solve it for general case :>
10:53 mircea_popescu lmao
10:54 diana_coman yes, women care more because they bare the costs mainly and mostly
10:54 phf ascii, cyrillic, greek, accents
10:54 mircea_popescu hey, put koi to whatever equivalency in there while at it phf
10:54 asciilifeform diana_coman: bear the costs? or double-entendre intentional
10:54 mircea_popescu :D!
10:54 mircea_popescu epic.
10:54 diana_coman quite intentional, yes
10:55 mircea_popescu o it was ?!
10:57 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488220 << this is a workable way to teach cooking, or perhaps music, but not, say, flying
10:57 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 14:51 mircea_popescu: yes, it's broken, NOTICE it's broken, eat the scrambled egg, try again.
10:57 diana_coman it's a bugbear/bare of mine, lol
10:57 asciilifeform or - imho - programming.
10:57 asciilifeform which, it turns out, has more in common with flying than anyone is willing to admit
10:57 mircea_popescu asciilifeform why not ? if it fails to learn i just buy another computer.
10:57 asciilifeform in that the mistakes are not guaranteed to be reversible.
10:58 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: where do we buy a new you, when you spent your whole life buying computers instead of $solving.
10:58 mircea_popescu also, no cooking mistake is EVER reversible. cooking is the paragon of irreversible process with a thermodynamics-supplied seal of certitude.
10:58 asciilifeform bad program can be just as lethal, if more slowly, than dud pilot.
10:58 mircea_popescu you're not taking some of the salt out of the soup, some of the heat out of the steak or anything from anything else.
10:58 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: not reversible from food's pov.
10:58 mircea_popescu right.
10:58 asciilifeform speaking of the eater.
10:59 mircea_popescu there is no eater.
10:59 mircea_popescu (tbh, good programs and "results oriented" bs are rather orthogonal if not opposed concerns)
10:59 asciilifeform the illusion that 'live and learn, there is endless retakes' is an illusion, just that
10:59 mircea_popescu surely.
11:00 asciilifeform precisely, the 'result before $time t at minimal cost' give you layers upon layers of braindamage.
11:00 mircea_popescu so then, forget the eater.
11:01 mircea_popescu (which, incidentally, is in my professional judgement THE value proposition of free/open source. FORGET THE EATER!)
11:01 asciilifeform my point was that bad programming has just as permanent an effect as bad flying. more so, in fact, as badly flown machine can only kill a busfull of folks, while bad design of program (or machine) can enstupidate generations.
11:01 mircea_popescu rm -rf
11:01 mircea_popescu if it dun work, wipe it.
11:01 asciilifeform yeah, but somebody has to do it. and you don't get the wasted people back.
11:02 mircea_popescu this is somewhat offset by the grim reality that all people can possibly ever do is waste.
11:02 asciilifeform 'good cake, bad cake, all turns to shit'
11:02 asciilifeform is one possible perspective.
11:02 asciilifeform but everyone who actually sees through this glass has already eaten pistol.
11:04 asciilifeform recall the ruby thread ?
11:04 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-11#1480777 <<
11:04 a111 Logged on 2016-06-11 01:23 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-10#1480685 << no, this is the problem. a bunch of idiots would have to earn bread different way ; and ben_vulpes would be allowed to do something less idiotic with his time. that's the problem whenever derps get the reins - they drive the ship ashore and someone's stuck fishing it back out.
11:07 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i see through this glass!
11:07 asciilifeform so what happened, pistol jammed ?
11:07 mircea_popescu no ?
11:07 asciilifeform the i have nfi
11:07 mircea_popescu i'm having a ball, are you kidding ?
11:08 asciilifeform would mircea_popescu still be having a ball if he were spending his life cleaning up ruby garbage ?
11:08 mircea_popescu i suppose i might be the only intelligent male that never felt an inclination to off himself ? why's this so strange!
11:08 mircea_popescu anyway.
11:08 thestringpuller asciilifeform: I used to do this for a leaving
11:08 thestringpuller now I clean up Python garbage!
11:08 thestringpuller living*
11:08 thestringpuller Oh man, cleaning up PHP garbage was teh worst tho.
11:08 mircea_popescu asciilifeform or a better question, "would mircea_popescu still be mircea_popescu if he were not mircea_popescu ???"
11:09 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: nope, he'd be one of the 9,999 failed everettescus
11:09 diana_coman ahahah, the advantage of mircea_popescu's favourite approach: there will always be tons of garbage to clean off since a cake eaten is at least eaten, but crappy code is rarely totally obliterated
11:09 mircea_popescu thestringpuller you missed a spot, there's still some php garbage! i just run into some like yest
11:09 mircea_popescu diana_coman word!
11:10 mircea_popescu diana_coman bad code has much more staying power than good code.
11:10 asciilifeform diana_coman: this is what i was trying to get across with the 'bad flying only kills a busful, bad program - potentially everyone' example
11:10 asciilifeform diana_coman: bad program ~shrinks design space~
11:10 mircea_popescu it is easier to understand, which seems a major factor in code survival.
11:10 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: who 'understands' rails etc. ?
11:10 asciilifeform nobody
11:10 asciilifeform has NOTHING to do with 'easy to understand'
11:10 diana_coman but why is anyone trying to understand it! they should just bang it into shape , not understand it ffs!!!
11:10 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i wasn't using the term in your sense!
11:10 asciilifeform and everything to do with cancerous pile of rubbish with 'creates jeeeerbs'
11:11 mircea_popescu "i understand ruby! put it in docker and rub puppett on your clittie!"
11:11 asciilifeform ah, ~that~ 'understand'.
11:11 diana_coman well, maybe understand its outputs, but not the actual code surely, what heresy is this
11:11 mircea_popescu "i understand fridges. open the door!"
11:11 asciilifeform $s the feeling of power
11:11 a111 5 results for "the feeling of power", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=the%20feeling%20of%20power
11:11 mircea_popescu ^ that
11:13 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488295 and this actually resolves http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488036
11:13 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 13:45 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "can't cut from shakespeare"
11:13 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 15:09 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope, he'd be one of the 9,999 failed everettescus
11:13 asciilifeform all the cuttable 'shakespeares' got cut.
11:14 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488300 <<>> http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-08#1478635
11:14 a111 Logged on 2016-06-08 02:10 mircea_popescu: $google 1961 goldsboro crash
11:14 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 15:10 asciilifeform: diana_coman: this is what i was trying to get across with the 'bad flying only kills a busful, bad program - potentially everyone' example
11:14 asciilifeform (and notice that folks only mostly gave up cutting ol' william s. quite recently.)
11:14 mircea_popescu i just dunno man...
11:15 thestringpuller coincidentally i'm doing a puppet run right now.
11:15 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it would have had to trigger full-blown ww3 on all sides to even compare roughly with the damage from microshit alone.
11:15 thestringpuller i love pulling the machine's strings.
11:15 mircea_popescu wouldn't have been impossibru to trigger.
11:15 asciilifeform people have this bias, where being vaporized by nuke is somehow obviously terrible but wasting 50 yrs on ruby is not
11:16 mircea_popescu this bias is warranted.
11:16 mircea_popescu during those 50 years they raise a woman's children by another man.
11:17 asciilifeform if chump ~knew~ this, he would eat nagant
11:17 asciilifeform same as if he ~knew~ for certain that he will do 50 years of rubyschwitz without parole.
11:17 mircea_popescu incidentally re http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488109 : his D is wrong. there's an unclear qty of statistics used by human brain.
11:17 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 14:28 Framedragger: there was a post about statistical/ML approach vs. (one of) rule-based approach(es) just recently, i haven't read it yet, http://norvig.com/chomsky.html (inb4 ad hominem alf's norvig iz usg pawn :P )
11:17 asciilifeform the bias is from this ignorance.
11:17 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the definition of the term "chump" is "he who will not eat nagant under any circumstances"
11:18 diana_coman asciilifeform, I don't think so; it's from being a chump maybe?
11:18 mircea_popescu as per definition, your statement's false.
11:18 diana_coman heh, I guess I'm saying the same thing as mircea_popescu there
11:18 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the 'under any circumstances' thing comes precisely from chump's illusion of 'maybe next year i escape'
11:18 mircea_popescu and in any case, the bias is from genetics. the genes you carry have their own little chess game going and you're the pawn. much like... well, everything else.
11:18 asciilifeform there was even a spiffy mircea_popescu article re same
11:18 diana_coman in my experience chumps do not want to escape
11:19 mircea_popescu chumps want to maybe escape.
11:19 asciilifeform what was it, the 'maybe my REAL LIFE will start!111' thing
11:19 mircea_popescu girl explained this to me as to the amorous life of teenagers. they don't want sex as much, she said, with its icky dirty scary reality, as they want the possibility of having it, which is endorphin ladden goodness.
11:19 diana_coman well, my first experience as an employee, while still studying: something goes wrong and I'm the only one to make a fuss about it
11:19 diana_coman discussion afterwards with co-workers
11:19 mircea_popescu they only learn to regret going home to sleep alone after 2osomething
11:19 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: do we need the winnie pooh quote again
11:19 diana_coman them: why make a fuss? you'll get used to it
11:19 mircea_popescu asciilifeform aha.
11:19 diana_coman me: I do NOT WANT TO GET USED TO IT
11:20 diana_coman there, difference quite clear I'd say
11:20 asciilifeform ^ http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-05#1463317
11:20 a111 Logged on 2016-05-05 13:03 asciilifeform: the thermodynamic 'taboo against the coincidence' is described in, oddly enough, winnie pooh! '"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.'
11:20 mircea_popescu aha
11:21 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488354 << imho this is one of the things that distinguishes actual people from the cow folk - actual people have a concrete conception of ~wanting to be a specific thing~
11:21 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 15:19 diana_coman: me: I do NOT WANT TO GET USED TO IT
11:21 asciilifeform and making effort over own pig-brain
11:21 mircea_popescu i don't have a specific conception of wanting to be anything in particular.
11:21 mircea_popescu moreover, that makes the bearer wide open to all sorts of manipulation.
11:22 asciilifeform but mircea_popescu had a number of pretty clear not-wants-to-be.
11:22 mircea_popescu do i ?
11:22 diana_coman I only had a very clear idea of what I do NOT want really; at least when presented with the thing
11:22 asciilifeform e.g., jwz 'family man'
11:22 asciilifeform and other monstrosities
11:22 mircea_popescu well in the sense i don't want to be a woman
11:22 mircea_popescu i... aren't.
11:22 asciilifeform on the surface jwz also 'aren't'
11:22 asciilifeform but here we are
11:23 mircea_popescu i can't say i've ever spent any mental time aiming not to be jwz.
11:23 asciilifeform or aiming not to be a slug
11:23 mircea_popescu then again maybe that goes on while i sleep
11:23 diana_coman I really had no idea of what I wanted to be or even do; maybe what you mean is that people have basically some sort of personal ethics and they stick to them come what may
11:23 asciilifeform having spine will do that
11:23 diana_coman as opposed to ...floating around whatever
11:24 mircea_popescu anyway. it's clear that "wanting to be" eg "writer" is how the aspie 14%, the worthless but ambitious, useful idiots are recruited
11:24 mircea_popescu socialist state or no socialist state, they're the wanna-bes.
11:24 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: a good bit of aptitude in, e.g., weight lifting, i suspect, is simply having a dull sense of the pain involved in effort
11:24 mircea_popescu "simt enorm si vaz monstruos" lol.
11:25 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: do you have the 'karla from california' article link handy ?
11:25 mircea_popescu yeah lessee
11:25 asciilifeform nm found, http://trilema.com/2013/ive-found-her
11:25 mircea_popescu right!
11:26 asciilifeform ^ the example of opposite of what i was describing.
11:26 mircea_popescu she seems rather chill and easy going neh ?
11:27 mircea_popescu (ftr, there's an entire subculture of these, on west coast. you can fill a 2 acre pool estate with them in bikinis, they'll swiggle around while the pot lasts.)
11:34 asciilifeform 'easy going' like shit floating down a river.
11:34 asciilifeform truly.
11:35 mircea_popescu hey. works. has worked. will continue to work.
11:35 asciilifeform works in the strict biological sense.
11:36 mircea_popescu i'm sorry, what ?
11:36 asciilifeform the cows sometimes - rarely - birth people. or they would still be living in trees, in strictly ecologically sustainable with bare hands sort of numbers.
11:36 mircea_popescu if they do or if they don't... i dun think they'll notice.
11:36 asciilifeform surely not.
11:37 mircea_popescu so therefore... mooooot point.
11:37 asciilifeform i asked amoeba once if he minded, he didn't say nuffin.
11:37 mircea_popescu she.
11:37 asciilifeform zhe.
11:37 mircea_popescu a queermoeba lol
11:38 thestringpuller genderqueermoeba
11:39 mircea_popescu meanwhile in the greatest country in the world, https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/why-many-people-talking-pic-185952778.html
11:40 mircea_popescu clearly, won teh war with terrorists.
11:40 asciilifeform the terrorists won.
11:40 asciilifeform in 1776.
11:41 mircea_popescu anyway, the whole thing is a "gun control" ie, make the us as "immigrant"-friendly as rotterham, uk. bullshit.
11:41 mircea_popescu but, funny,
11:43 asciilifeform incidentally rumours of a good chunk of the gay bar corpses having 9mm police holes in'em continue to circulate.
11:44 mircea_popescu why'd police shoot up a gay bar ?
11:44 asciilifeform the one they blew a hole in the back of ?
11:44 asciilifeform and then fired into ?
11:44 mircea_popescu oh that one
11:44 asciilifeform aha. that one.
11:45 mircea_popescu well... did the muslim terrorist at least shoot all the black victims ?
11:45 asciilifeform similar to the day care where 2 men in camo went in, machine gunned, left, leaving autistic tard in their place with empty rifle, then caught in the woods, 'questioned', let go.
11:46 asciilifeform (sandy hook)
11:51 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: see also http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-15#1483006
11:51 a111 Logged on 2016-06-15 03:15 asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo https://pp.vk.me/c636216/v636216329/1018c/a3teM2ELOb8.jpg << supposedly, the hole blown by police at orlando postal. notice the police bullet marks.
11:52 mircea_popescu you can tell caliber from that ?
11:52 asciilifeform nope.
11:52 asciilifeform but can tell ~direction~
11:53 asciilifeform that is, there is not a weapon that will produce these if fired from inside.
11:53 mircea_popescu seems there's a peashooter and a .45 involved
11:53 mircea_popescu either that or the drywall's pretty shitty
11:53 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the orlando police carry h&k mp5
11:53 asciilifeform they were prominently displayed in some of the earlier releases.
11:53 mircea_popescu how did they do the ones towards the bottom ?
11:53 asciilifeform thing is 'garden hose'
11:53 asciilifeform like schmeisser.
11:54 asciilifeform (made by same folks)
11:54 mircea_popescu seems like a pretty shiutty choice. bad weapon all around : low caliber shitty ammo for hard targets, poor accuracy and overpenetration for soft targets
11:54 mircea_popescu who came up wit this idea.
11:54 asciilifeform americans. during prohibition.
11:55 asciilifeform when they decided that nailing whole crowd was a-ok
11:55 mircea_popescu tommygun's almost better.
11:55 asciilifeform it is ~equivalent.
11:55 asciilifeform same basic idea.
11:55 asciilifeform ideal weapon for bullying a crowd, guarding concentration camp, etc.
11:55 mircea_popescu so the idea that the very much "machine gun fired by bozo" line on the bottom is... ricochet ? or wtf ?
11:55 mircea_popescu that can't be 9mm. really it can't be 38 either, looks like a 22
11:56 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: cement isn't paper
11:56 asciilifeform fractures.
11:56 mircea_popescu (why by bozo ? because he fired 7 in a row and has miserable enough control of the gun that he swings left-right etc)
11:57 asciilifeform Official Truth is that mr snackbar was inside. police dynamited hole, and - Officially - waited for ~him~, rather than victims, to emerge, then fired
11:57 mircea_popescu yeah but i mean compare those marks with the tank machine gun lookiung holes above
11:57 asciilifeform in order for mr. snackbar to make any of the pictured holes, he would have had to climb out, police - cheering him on from behind his back, while he fired back into the hole.
11:58 mircea_popescu well that may well be.
11:58 mircea_popescu hey, i'm no ballistics expert, but seriously, those holes all made by same tool ?
11:58 asciilifeform which is even lulzier than 'police blew hole then shot everything that moved'
11:59 mircea_popescu i guess it could be that the bottom came in at a very wide angle, which in iutself is kinda stupid, but the marks are too round for that.
11:59 mircea_popescu aaaanyway
11:59 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: same tool. ever notice that even at the range, the holes in the paper have different shapes ? esp. at max distance ? the bullet - tumbles.
11:59 mircea_popescu but this isn't paper.
11:59 asciilifeform nope.
11:59 asciilifeform also has own fractures.
12:00 mircea_popescu but they're not randomly distributed! the 7 light marks on bottom clearly came from one burst.
12:00 mircea_popescu the mega dent up right of hole came from, likely, a howitzer.
12:00 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: Officially (tm) a wall-breaching grenade, purpose-made
12:00 asciilifeform (standard, apparently, police gear in usaschwitz, now.)
12:01 asciilifeform and this apparently is a MAGICAL wall that doesn't shower folks with frags behind it when you blow it up....
12:01 mircea_popescu how about mega-dent up left close to hole ? also ?
12:01 asciilifeform also. at least 5 grenades.
12:02 mircea_popescu and who are the pink shirt faggots ? police ?
12:02 asciilifeform probably journarasts
12:03 mircea_popescu uniformed ?!
12:03 mircea_popescu oh i forgot, navajo culture.
12:03 asciilifeform and Only A Terrorist Would Ask (TM) (R) how one can blow 5+ grenade holes in a cement wall, clean through, without fragging any of the hundreds of schmucks hiding behind it
12:04 mircea_popescu well maybe it was storage room
12:04 asciilifeform storage room from which all of the survivers emerged ?
12:04 asciilifeform in single-file, with mr snackbar at the lead ?
12:04 trinque thought it was a bathroom
12:04 asciilifeform Officially.
12:04 mircea_popescu trinque looks like a shitth broom by the piping
12:05 asciilifeform the published floor plan showed whole bar having GIGANTIC public toilet in the back half
12:05 asciilifeform where, apparently, they customarily fuck
12:05 mircea_popescu this is how it works yes. gotta have fuckroom or is not a bar, and if not a bar not a nighlife.
12:05 asciilifeform (the practice dates to at least turing's time, there is a monument near the toilet he used)
12:05 trinque yeah that's not super unlikely at a gay bar
12:05 mircea_popescu at A BAR.
12:06 mircea_popescu srsly, you people never fuck "on the first date" girl you met at disco ?
12:06 trinque certainly have, but elsewhere
12:06 trinque though the room would be more convenient
12:07 trinque most music venues have a piss stained closet with a line a mile long
12:07 mircea_popescu room has drawbacks. toilets - easy to clean. the shag gets dubious while the tile stays... white. ish.
12:07 mircea_popescu (but yes, this is at least 50% of why girl has to wear heels and be tall to begin with. 50% of the rest is the leyla black. and other such things)
12:09 asciilifeform http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/outward/2016/06/15/after_orlando_s_pulse_massacre_queer_nightlife_workers_are_on_high_alert/539630790-agents-investigate-the-damaged-rear-wall-of-the-pulse.jpg << bigger pic.
12:09 mircea_popescu wait, the QUEERS are on high alert ?
12:09 asciilifeform http://media.miamiherald.com/static/media/projects/2016/pulse/tiktok/FloorPlan.jpg << Official floor plan.
12:09 mircea_popescu should they also get a govt uniform ? be in goose-step with the times ?
12:09 mircea_popescu what color alert anyway, pink ?
12:11 asciilifeform anyway the police are useful idiots in this play.
12:12 asciilifeform they would happily dynamite the entire building if they could plausibly dress it up as 'perp did it'
12:12 asciilifeform as it was, they picked grenades over chancing mr snackbar's bullet.
12:13 asciilifeform this is how cops ended up with full auto weapons to begin with, incidentally
12:13 mircea_popescu asciilifeform this is judicious. all described in the http://trilema.com/2015/strategy-for-the-antisocial-struggle/
12:13 asciilifeform aha, precisely that one
12:13 mircea_popescu they cost. lots. bystanders - cheaper.
12:13 asciilifeform cheaper still considering that usg will pin ALL of the corpses on mr snackbar.
12:14 asciilifeform (who, for all i know, scored 0 personally)
12:14 mircea_popescu well, the guy who was playing counterstrike and had fambly killed certainly scored 0 personally.
12:15 trinque that'd be quite a lot of people being usg agents claiming to witness him shooting people
12:15 asciilifeform trinque: firing.
12:15 trinque certainly both he and the cops shot people
12:15 trinque anything else is an absurd stretch
12:15 mircea_popescu asciilifeform so he fired and missed ?
12:15 asciilifeform recall, last bloke who (we were told) emptied 3 clips into crowded cinema, scored... 9 ?
12:16 trinque this one worked private security neh?
12:16 asciilifeform the 'batman' incident
12:16 trinque had to have been able to hit *one*
12:16 mircea_popescu what gun did he have ?
12:16 trinque sig sauer mcx
12:17 mircea_popescu well, bar's crowded, gun's alright, he's gotta have managed at least a few.
12:17 asciilifeform mr snackbar's ? or the batman one
12:17 trinque snackbar
12:18 asciilifeform btw recall the hollywood shootout (same one as in mircea_popescu's article) ?
12:19 asciilifeform 2 full-auto rifles, 1,100 rounds, 0 dead crowd.
12:19 asciilifeform random fire dun hit much in a 3d world.
12:21 asciilifeform i propose that mr snackbar's score would have been nearly same if he had fired blanks.
12:22 trinque so g4s does no weapons training? (former employer)
12:22 trinque oddly same company that spun off a subsidiary that was running guantanamo
12:22 asciilifeform trinque: in usa private guards, typically, get - sometimes - a little pistol training.
12:23 asciilifeform speaking here of ordinary, unremarkable security co., as in the kind who drive cash wagons etc.
12:24 asciilifeform (rather than 'academe' etc.)
12:25 trinque I'll have to do moar googling, but I'd expect a company that was running guantanamo would be closer to mercs than mall cops
12:25 trinque could of course have both under one roof
12:25 asciilifeform what - if any - to believe re mr snackbar's Official biography, is matter of taste.
12:26 trinque if they are mercs, it leans me more tinfoil-hat than you've expressed, even..
12:26 asciilifeform i can easily see the idiot signing up to 'fire some blanks, scare some folk'
12:27 asciilifeform phf: log 404?????????
12:27 trinque there was the same "multiple shooters" chatter around orlando as many other events
12:27 trinque who knows wtf happened
12:28 asciilifeform they wouldn't ever send 1 bloke.
12:28 asciilifeform (what if he turns tail?)
12:28 asciilifeform this is elementary.
12:30 asciilifeform ;;later tell phf log is down ?
12:30 gribble The operation succeeded.
12:30 trinque https://theintercept.com/2016/06/14/orlando-shooter-wasnt-the-first-murderer-employed-by-global-mercenary-firm/
12:32 trinque G4S has previously been accused of improperly vetting its employees. In 2009, Danny Fitzsimons, a former British paratrooper and employee of a G4S subsidiary, killed two colleagues in Iraq, claiming to be “the antichrist” and saying he “must satisfy” his “bloodlust.” << wouldn't blow my mind that $lizardhitler has a drug that induces this
12:33 trinque or they just find loose cannons and groom them for a while
12:33 asciilifeform trinque: the latter worked, since at least hammurabi.
12:33 asciilifeform no need for dope.
12:34 asciilifeform (the dope is for when you need minister of finance whateverthefuck to start spewing rubbish on camera, or jump from his window with only mild assistance, etc)
~ 31 minutes ~
13:06 trinque https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitfinex/btcusd << ahahah is bitfinex down again?
13:10 trinque https://twitter.com/bitfinex/status/746023060122275840 << maybe changed / fucked up their API
13:21 shinohai https://petertodd.org/2016/ethereum-dao-bailout-vote <<< "Democracy is the only way people!"
13:31 asciilifeform log still dead.
13:32 asciilifeform 'I’ve heard reports that the first part of Vitalik’s fork proposal has already happened: miners have frozen the funds taken from the DAO with a soft-fork, which means that miners are blacklisting any transaction that moves those funds, as well as refusing to mine on top of blocks containing transactions moving those funds. That’s not very hard to do as - like Bitcoin - Ethereum mining is sufficiently centralized that it only ta
13:32 asciilifeform kes the co-operation of two or three people to achieve the majority of hashing power necessary to freeze funds' << lel
13:33 asciilifeform usg coin has 100% usg-compliant minerz? nyooz at 11.
13:34 asciilifeform ;;later tell mircea_popescu what would it cost to have the magic eth tx mined ?
13:34 gribble The operation succeeded.
13:36 asciilifeform the peter todd turd is a true classic of its genre: 'we gotta commit an atrocity. but we first will get CONSENSOOOS!!1111 so then it won't be an atrocity, fuckyou. and btw we control the vertical and the horizontal and all the votez, so fuckyou.x2'
13:37 shinohai lel
13:43 asciilifeform http://bitcoinocracy.com/arguments/in-the-event-of-a-fork-i-will-sell-rbf-blockstream-core-coins-and-buy-classic-bitcoins << other examples of 'consensooooos washing'
13:43 asciilifeform vox populi, vox dei!1111111111111
13:43 asciilifeform etc.
~ 17 minutes ~
14:00 mats have there been any other 1k+ btc 'coin destruction' events like the one orchestrated by counterparty?
14:02 asciilifeform mats: this is probably in the logs, but the log is down
14:06 thestringpuller log 404 eh?
14:07 asciilifeform apparently.
14:07 mats yeah I looked in my log, my search fu is weak
14:11 thestringpuller ;;seen phf
14:11 gribble phf was last seen in #trilema 3 hours, 17 minutes, and 42 seconds ago: <phf> ascii, cyrillic, greek, accents
~ 23 minutes ~
14:34 phf yes, this is dog
14:35 asciilifeform hi phf . log down??
14:35 phf oh, interesting, that's odd
14:35 phf logger still keeping log..
14:36 asciilifeform 404
14:36 phf yeah, i can see :)
14:38 phf killing a couple of threads "fixed" the issues, but i'm not sure what the problem was :/
14:38 trinque what www thinger do you use? hunchenfart?
14:39 phf i'd rather not answer, since i'll be mocked incessantly by mr asciilifeform for it
14:40 asciilifeform eh let's hear it
14:40 asciilifeform lemmeguess
14:40 asciilifeform allegroserve?
14:40 phf worse, araneida
14:41 ben_vulpes > latest patch to source tree from january 2006
14:41 ben_vulpes > still works
14:41 ben_vulpes this is how software should be.
14:41 asciilifeform ^
14:42 ben_vulpes and it's *still* too newfangled hipster by some metrics.
14:43 asciilifeform cl-http is the mega-classic (by the nsa bloke who bought symbolics !! iirc) but it had a very strange license which prohibited just about any practical use, and so did not catch on
14:44 phf well, to be fair it's not very good, but it hosted cliki for 10 years, easier to hack on than hunchentoot on account of having simpler design and i'm trying to make it sling byte arrays
14:44 asciilifeform http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/cl-http/server.html << it
14:45 phf (a much harder task in hunchentoot)
14:45 phf i once managed to follow rainer joswig's instructions to bring cl-http up, but i couldn't reproduce it last time i tried
14:47 phf maybe i should see if i can get it working on cmucl and adopt it as my default server, hmmm. it does look hell of overengineered
14:47 asciilifeform i see cmucl as sorta like that system-v unix revival
14:47 asciilifeform great for bedtime reading, but not so hot to run
14:48 asciilifeform naggum had a great piece on these:
14:48 asciilifeform systems which are 'cute when they're baby' but loathesome when mature
14:51 phf you only say that because you think sbcl is somehow "clean". chrodes managed a very neat hack, a build system improvement, that's where neat hacks have ended, and modernization began, but it's not like the legacy cmucl codebase somehow disappeared from sbcl
14:51 asciilifeform oh no!
14:51 asciilifeform it isn't clean at all
14:51 asciilifeform that's the point here
14:51 asciilifeform it is the mature end
14:51 asciilifeform sorta like comparing modern bsds to systemv
14:52 asciilifeform cmucl feels 'clean' but is missing what i consider to be essential functionality (native threads, mainly)
14:52 phf (actually bill newman, not christophe rhodes)
14:53 phf well, native threads were added to sbcl at the expense of good gc
14:53 asciilifeform kinda how i boot up that cute x86 systemv and then notice that it is PALPABLY slow on modern pentium because it lacks ANY disk cache etc.
14:54 phf cmucl doesn't have threads not because it's a baby system. it doesn't have threads because sbcl both made adding functionality of that nature easier and canibalized developers from cmucl
14:54 asciilifeform cannibalized ?
14:55 phf yah
14:55 asciilifeform how?
14:57 phf well, tradeoffs that sbcl made are more in line with modern practices, so there was a transition from old and stodgy cmucl to new and shiny sbcl
14:57 asciilifeform (i have nfi - was there money involved ?)
14:57 phf main thing sbcl did is improve build system at the expense of some of the subsystems (an interpret mainly)
14:58 phf which allowed for more rapid development cycles
14:58 asciilifeform for what do we even need the interp?
14:58 asciilifeform it's dross
14:58 phf for repl work.
14:58 asciilifeform my repl worx...
14:59 phf well, then you should continue working with it :)
14:59 asciilifeform but no, i'm actually curious what i might win by using cmucl
14:59 phf i find 1s eval delays unacceptable when i'm in the zone
14:59 asciilifeform (perfectly possible to dev on one while deploying on other!)
14:59 phf right this very moment, probably nothing
14:59 asciilifeform the beauty of actually standardized prog lang
14:59 phf oh, shit, sorry, i'm late for something, i'll pick up this conversation later
15:00 asciilifeform ok
15:00 asciilifeform thx for fixing log, phf
~ 31 minutes ~
15:31 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488111 << the guy's defense, notably, "yes it's collecting butterflies - there's nothing wrong with that" is actually tendentious. it's NOT collecting butterflies. yes, it COULD BE, but i don't see any of that happening. just a bunch of "we have butterflies in this black box, come hear about our weight loss ideas" typically ustarded marketing and "engineering"
15:31 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 14:30 Framedragger: (e.g. i agree with chomsky's "There is a notion of success ... which I think is novel in the history of science. It interprets success as approximating unanalyzed data." which does indeed suck.)
15:32 mircea_popescu asciilifeform ethereum difficulty is, if memory serves, ~50TH. so about half that.
15:33 mircea_popescu (it went up by about 4x since last year. hardware's the most expensive part of a scamcoin.)
15:36 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i didn't say 'cost to 51%'. but to get arbitrary valid tx mined in the face of 'soft fork'
15:37 mircea_popescu but this is what a soft fork is ?
15:37 mircea_popescu ANY soft fork can be unrolled by anyone holding 51%.
15:37 mircea_popescu at any point, also.
15:38 asciilifeform unless there is something radically different re ethercrud vs btc, 51% only gives you doublespend
15:38 asciilifeform what i asked after was the rough equivalent of mining a high-S btc tx.
15:39 asciilifeform (which theoretically could be done for a few btc if you were willing to wait a year)
15:39 mircea_popescu let's follow this. so i mine the next block. 49% guy mines the 2nd. i build on mine.
15:39 mircea_popescu eventually, i own the chain.
15:39 mircea_popescu problem solved. what ?
15:41 asciilifeform i suppose this depends on 'how soft' is the soft fork (are miners merely rejecting 'tainted' tx, or also deliberately orphaning any block which contains one ?)
15:41 mircea_popescu they can do whatever they want. 51% means they don't get to have an opinion.
15:41 mircea_popescu either they build on my blocks or piss off.
15:42 asciilifeform aha, race is to the swift, yeah.
15:43 asciilifeform of course this only works if the 51 is made from solid shitanium, rather than fragmentable (with incentives to defect) cartel
15:43 mircea_popescu sure.
15:43 mircea_popescu 50TH ain't much.
15:43 asciilifeform (e.g., say mircea_popescu issues a tx with a fee consisting of ~whole thing!!)
15:44 mircea_popescu this appears to be a wide open venue.
15:44 mircea_popescu but hey, they'll "fix it".
15:44 mircea_popescu this, incidentally, is EXACTLY what technology debt means. apply bullshit "fixes" as MIT & co bright minds produce,
15:44 mircea_popescu end up stuck forever defending nuclear waste under heavy guard.
15:45 mircea_popescu "anyone who ever gets 51% can fuck up this historical item worth this many mn coins. hurr!"
15:46 mircea_popescu and again, the thing that fascinated me in http://trilema.com/2016/the-life-and-times-of-one-phil-daian-aspiring-nigger-apprentice-cocksucker/ (ie, how marginally inept cs derp behaves as fully fledged us-style "journalist" without specific training) fascinates me again : these derps rebuild the pentagon.
15:46 mircea_popescu how the ever living fuck, they're not smart enough ?! they're not educated enough, not experienced enough,
15:46 mircea_popescu it's almost like the seeds of disaster are by now epigenetic, the population carries them like the swine carry ascari lumbricoides.
15:46 * asciilifeform tried to calculate approx cost of nuking eth via 51%, but realized that no one has any public idea re what miner costs presently
15:46 mircea_popescu nothing they can do if they wanted.
15:46 asciilifeform but at 2015 prices it would cost roughly what a toyota costs.
15:47 mircea_popescu asciilifeform eminently botable.
15:47 mircea_popescu see, eg,
15:47 mircea_popescu $google "how to mine ethereum on a windows pc"
15:47 deedbot https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/guides/how-to-mine-ethereum/ << How to mine Ethereum on a Windows PC? - Mining Tutorial ... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKtwSH6inBs << How to Mine Ethereum on a Windows PC -- 6 Steps - YouTube | http://cryptomining-blog.com/5323-quick-guide-on-how-to-mine-ethereum-on-windows/ << Quick Guide on How to Mine Ethereum on Windows - Crypto Mining ...
15:47 asciilifeform there is not nor have ever been a working gpu bot.
15:47 * asciilifeform spent years trawling through malware samples collected at tremendous expense, in search of ONE
15:48 mircea_popescu aha.
15:48 asciilifeform now calculate how many, say, 4GH winblowz chumps add up to 50TH.
15:48 asciilifeform i'm not certain that qty of boxes has ever been ~sold~
15:48 asciilifeform much less botted.
15:48 mircea_popescu 10k ?
15:49 asciilifeform nope.
15:49 asciilifeform more like 100M.
15:49 mircea_popescu mega, giga, tera ?
15:49 asciilifeform worse
15:50 asciilifeform let's be generous and give half a megahash (unheard of) per chump
15:50 mircea_popescu understand : ethereum pretends to be 1/10 of btc financially, while it is 1/10`000`000 hash-wise and outright 1/infinity technologically.
15:50 asciilifeform ;;calc (50*10**12) / (500*10**3)
15:50 gribble 100000000
15:50 asciilifeform 100 mil.
15:50 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the top article contains comment saying guy got 17mh on one core out of 5 on modest card.
15:50 asciilifeform woah i got it exact.
15:50 asciilifeform CARD
15:50 asciilifeform CARD mircea_popescu
15:51 asciilifeform there are no working gpu bots!
15:51 asciilifeform because drivers.
15:51 asciilifeform we're doing cpu.
15:51 mircea_popescu heh mkay.
15:51 mircea_popescu "yes, under arbitrary restrains you propose on random particular avenue, things can't be done" tm.
15:52 asciilifeform can, physically.
15:52 asciilifeform just that i never turned up (despite considerable effort) a single example.
15:52 asciilifeform BUT let's say you're nsa and write infector for 100+ variants of gpu.
15:52 asciilifeform and distribute.
15:52 mircea_popescu it'd be doubtful you'd need 5.
15:52 asciilifeform then you need, say, 5-10mil.
15:52 asciilifeform nope.
15:52 asciilifeform there are 100+ wholly incompatible chipsets.
15:52 asciilifeform in circulation.
15:52 mircea_popescu of which the mouthbreathers buy like 3.
15:53 asciilifeform nope, every month they sell new variant.
15:53 asciilifeform konsoomers never notice, only poor schmucks attempting linux etc.
15:53 mircea_popescu what can i tell ya. ~50 th, it's what it is.
15:53 asciilifeform anyway nsa needs 5-10mil. boxes with reasonably fresh gpu.
15:53 asciilifeform asic is cheaper.
15:54 asciilifeform (esp if you pwn a few boxes connected to existing asic...)
15:54 mircea_popescu it's not altogether clear anyone bothered to bake one yet.
15:54 asciilifeform waiwut
15:54 asciilifeform i thought eth used btc workfunction
15:54 * asciilifeform probably condemned to actually read about the thing isnthe.
15:55 asciilifeform if it doesn't, where did they get 50TH of it...
15:55 mircea_popescu ~10k or so gpu machines ?
15:56 mircea_popescu anyway, they use some shit supposedly memory hard, whatever.
15:56 asciilifeform looks like something vaguely like scrypt.
15:56 asciilifeform prolly running on fpga.
15:56 mircea_popescu which they intend to CHANGE anyway, so it's a bit iffy to bake for the idiots.
15:56 asciilifeform hey hey ho ho THAT's where the fpga farms went.
15:56 thestringpuller oh yea. they want to use proof of stake
15:56 * asciilifeform predicted that a use would be found for them.
15:56 thestringpuller didn't asciilifeform disprove that already?
15:56 mircea_popescu anyway, it's mostly "cloud" bullshit anyway, so don't regard any of this as peculiarly reliable info.
15:56 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: very easy to change if they bought up all the old fpga farms.
15:57 mircea_popescu sure.
15:57 asciilifeform the ONE thing they're good for.
15:57 asciilifeform (crackpot alts)
15:57 mircea_popescu sure, sure.
15:57 asciilifeform incidentally i wouldn't rule out a kleptographic hash algo
15:57 asciilifeform (lets you simulate titanic hashrate with barely any effort, if you know the boojum)
15:58 asciilifeform (if there isn't a whole directorate at nsa concerning solely this, they are truly for the dogs)
15:58 mircea_popescu i am actually suspecting something like this exists in ethereum, but meh, not worth the chase atm.
15:59 asciilifeform if it existed, why would they stop at faking 50T
15:59 asciilifeform why not 50P.
15:59 asciilifeform but worth thinking about.
15:59 mircea_popescu well, they have their plans and stupid shit.
15:59 asciilifeform if the ramp ever reaches 1P, we now know how.
15:59 mircea_popescu "if man had kalash, why'd man stop at orlando gay bar"
15:59 mircea_popescu "because man is an idiot."
16:00 asciilifeform kleptohash is interesting concept.
16:00 mircea_popescu in the sense that double-trapdoors interest you
16:01 asciilifeform very much inline with nsa 'NOBUS' ('nobody but us' doctrine.)
16:01 asciilifeform e.g., the dual_ec_drbg incident.
16:01 asciilifeform (and countless others.)
16:02 mircea_popescu an identity crisis with generous sidings of inferiority complex if i ever saw one.
16:02 asciilifeform it leverages what they have. (seats on standards committees, stooges in open sores, etc.)
16:03 mircea_popescu i guess.
16:03 asciilifeform anyway i've only recently grudgingly swallowed hypothesis that ORIGINAL btc pow isn't kleptographic.
16:03 asciilifeform (which is where i even started looking...)
16:04 mircea_popescu wasn't this an ancient thread between us ?
16:04 asciilifeform it was
16:04 asciilifeform iirc possibly our first one, in fact.
16:04 mircea_popescu something like that.
16:07 asciilifeform http://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/ethminer << claims gpu only..
16:07 mircea_popescu yeah well.
16:08 asciilifeform https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/blob/master/Dagger-Hashimoto.md << algo.
16:08 asciilifeform http://vitalik.ca/ethereum/dagger.html << lol 404
16:09 asciilifeform https://web.archive.org/web/20160317002641/http://vitalik.ca/ethereum/dagger.html << appears
16:09 asciilifeform http://vaurum.com/hashimoto.pdf << goes to some spam co
16:10 asciilifeform 'Mirror makes structured products designed to help private market investors get exposure and hedge risk in late-stage companies.'
16:11 mircea_popescu heh
16:12 asciilifeform 'The idea behind the original Hashimoto is to use the blockchain as a dataset, performing a computation which selects N indices from the blockchain, gathers the transactions at those indices, performs an XOR of this data, and returns the hash of the result.' << sounds like braindamaged version of mircea_popescu's algo
16:12 mircea_popescu nono, that never happened. hanno boeck published it first!
16:12 asciilifeform apppaaarently
16:12 mircea_popescu anyway, whatevs.
16:13 mircea_popescu i'm in the enviable position of not really needing a cv for anything.
16:13 asciilifeform it is quite impossible: boecks will appear and claim to have done each item, first!11111
16:14 asciilifeform at any rate, 'hash the blocks' is a pretty obvious thing imho, like 'train cars ought to have linked brakes' - both nevertheless omitted for various jwzistic reasons from the originals
16:15 Framedragger from reddit, "The DAO hacker gives an interview" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O5fdMFKEC0 (works for me as i don't understand spanish)
16:16 asciilifeform 'Together women accomplish amazing things. Google supports #LeanInTogether' << google usa front page.
16:17 asciilifeform i misread as 'lenin-ing together'
16:24 shinohai https://twitter.com/trumpchain/status/746063915969241088
16:26 ben_vulpes 'lemming together'
~ 33 minutes ~
16:59 mircea_popescu shinohai so ask him if he really is a virgin.
17:00 mircea_popescu inquisitive orlando survivors wish to know.
17:01 mircea_popescu Framedragger why's it in espanol
17:05 jurov Framedragger: I started fetching the keys shortly after they cleaned them
17:15 mircea_popescu "And yes, it seems clear that an adult speaker of English does know billions of language facts (for example, that one says "big game" rather than "large game" when talking about an important football game). These facts must somehow be encoded in the brain. "
17:15 mircea_popescu fucktards already
17:16 mircea_popescu "an adult who paid attention in calculus does in fact know billions of numeric facts (for example, that one says 45345333×54353453=2464675425984849 rather than 95). these facts must somehow be encoded in the brain."
17:16 mircea_popescu yeah, as a context-free grammar, i'm sure.
17:19 mircea_popescu anyway. the best point in the entire piece is the observation that probabilistic models are much better at making sense of linguistic evolution. for this reason alone they're prolly worth looking into.
~ 17 minutes ~
17:36 asciilifeform $up diametric
17:36 deedbot diametric voiced for 30 minutes.
17:37 asciilifeform hm he oughta be self-powered iirc
17:37 mircea_popescu hm ?
17:37 asciilifeform (possibly not awake just now)
17:37 asciilifeform whatever happened to bitcoinalpha
17:37 asciilifeform still in limbo?
17:37 asciilifeform ;;seen mike_c
17:37 gribble mike_c was last seen in #trilema 8 weeks, 1 day, 18 hours, 36 minutes, and 13 seconds ago: <mike_c> at least you won the 'most famous mircea popescu' award - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mircea+popescu
17:38 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488519 << eh, what crowd. there wasn't a crowd for that one, not within a mile. that's the point of the article.
17:38 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 16:19 asciilifeform: random fire dun hit much in a 3d world.
17:38 mircea_popescu yeah, still no word.
17:39 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488536 << which is why the boston shooting thing is a lot more suspect than the orlando thing.
17:39 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 16:28 asciilifeform: this is elementary.
17:40 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488540 << well, mythical pcp is that drug.
17:40 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 16:32 trinque: G4S has previously been accused of improperly vetting its employees. In 2009, Danny Fitzsimons, a former British paratrooper and employee of a G4S subsidiary, killed two colleagues in Iraq, claiming to be “the antichrist” and saying he “must satisfy” his “bloodlust.” << wouldn't blow my mind that $lizardhitler has a drug that induces this
17:40 mircea_popescu clinical pcp is a lot more boring, in general, but not universally.
17:41 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488544 <<< the beauty of 2nd generation date rape drugs is that the victim will gleefully assist you to eg. rob their car.
17:41 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 16:34 asciilifeform: (the dope is for when you need minister of finance whateverthefuck to start spewing rubbish on camera, or jump from his window with only mild assistance, etc)
17:46 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488551 << gotta love the overload there, really, like bitcoin ? but anyway.
17:46 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 17:33 asciilifeform: usg coin has 100% usg-compliant minerz? nyooz at 11.
17:46 mircea_popescu there's ~one ethereum trader and ~one ethereum miner, in the sense there's ~one person in any set of clothes. some mites etc also there, but they generally "don't count".
17:47 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488554 << you forgot the best part. "3. and this masturbatory bullshit is THE WORLD ; and your actual world is JUST LIKE THIS."
17:47 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 17:36 asciilifeform: the peter todd turd is a true classic of its genre: 'we gotta commit an atrocity. but we first will get CONSENSOOOS!!1111 so then it won't be an atrocity, fuckyou. and btw we control the vertical and the horizontal and all the votez, so fuckyou.x2'
17:47 mircea_popescu anyway ; whatever.
17:53 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488618 << this i can see.
17:53 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 18:59 phf: i find 1s eval delays unacceptable when i'm in the zone
18:03 shinohai curl http://bitcoinstrings.com/blk00552.txt | grep 'Mircea Popescu' <<< LOL
18:06 shinohai The things one finds rummaging around.
18:09 mircea_popescu lol
18:15 shinohai Cries for Hard fork abound in the ethereum subreddit due to the new message sent by the hacker via Bitcoin Suisse
18:22 asciilifeform shinohai: link ?
18:23 asciilifeform shinohai: and which block is that in
18:28 shinohai the link is in the curl asciilifeform lemme see which block
18:34 thestringpuller ;;seen trinque
18:34 gribble trinque was last seen in #trilema 3 hours, 55 minutes, and 40 seconds ago: <trinque> what www thinger do you use? hunchenfart?
18:34 asciilifeform shinohai et al: imho if yer gonna mention 'and on reddit...' it is good form to post link, so that folks who refuse to reddit can follow thread.
18:34 trinque hm made by Anduck
18:34 trinque I should hit this thing with a bot and run his bandwidth bill up
18:34 asciilifeform i can't speak for others, but i ain't dredging through kilometre-deep pile of liquid shit.
18:34 * trinque never forgets
18:35 thestringpuller trinque: is there a sql wot dump?
18:36 phf thestringpuller: sexp hard or go home
18:38 Bugpowder not that i have seen
18:38 Bugpowder only the redditpost
18:38 trinque what reddit post
18:38 asciilifeform another one who assumes that everyone reads motherfucking reddit ?"!
18:39 trinque beatins
18:39 trinque thestringpuller: nah not yet; I'll let you know
18:39 trinque though you may want to use the sexp. I wrote deedbot such that it doesn't actually care much about SQL
18:39 trinque intention being to replace the sql db with a CLOS one when I bother
18:41 asciilifeform saying 'i read on reddit...' without link is quite pointless, you already admitted to habitually fucking farm animals, why not then share whether goat snatch is tight or not, it won't hurt
18:41 asciilifeform for srs, if you don't intend to quit bad habit, 'own' it.
18:43 Bugpowder segwit merged?
18:43 Bugpowder https://twitter.com/aantonop/status/746108279655301120
18:43 asciilifeform let'em merge 'rm -rf /' for all i care.
18:44 asciilifeform i can't wait for prb to formally break protocol.
18:44 asciilifeform will make my filtration work considerably easier.
18:45 thestringpuller phf: i'll have to write lisp to import it into a new sql db
18:45 thestringpuller which sure, whatever, but not how I wanted to learn lisp
18:45 trinque itt thestringpuller learns to lisp ass first
18:48 trinque sgt asciilifeform hazes another conscript into tears
18:48 trinque thestringpuller: dumping db 1sec
18:53 trinque thestringpuller: http://deedbot.org/wot.sql.bz2 http://deedbot.org/wot.sql.bz2.asc
18:55 shinohai For asciilifeform http://archive.is/rbR58 I'm sorry that person trolling the data mines fir a Qntra offends thy person so.
18:55 shinohai Someone's got to do it.
18:58 asciilifeform shinohai: lulzy. buterin drains own shit bottle, rebrands as 'whitehat attacker', then signs message. voila, 'nobody' gives a fuck re original message.
18:59 asciilifeform then, next, plays cloak'n'dagger games with reddit, etc.
19:00 asciilifeform even in shinohai's summary, http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488807 -- it was quite unclear what is 'the hacker'
19:00 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 22:15 shinohai: Cries for Hard fork abound in the ethereum subreddit due to the new message sent by the hacker via Bitcoin Suisse
19:00 asciilifeform sorta implied original stunt's protagonist.
19:01 thestringpuller trinque: dl'ing now. i'll import into psql.
19:01 asciilifeform (for anyone not tuned in, 'white hat attacker' was the me-too draining of the remaining dao by buterin et al)
19:01 thestringpuller also thanks trinque much appreciated
19:06 trinque yw
19:11 shinohai http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488831 <<< couldn't see it, his holiness aaop has me blocked on twitter.
19:11 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 22:43 Bugpowder: https://twitter.com/aantonop/status/746108279655301120
19:12 asciilifeform ^ advantage of having no account there
19:16 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1488771 << thinking about it... was this coincidental ?!
19:16 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 21:05 jurov: Framedragger: I started fetching the keys shortly after they cleaned them
19:17 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: enemy can gcd as well as anybody
19:17 asciilifeform i expect that obviously phuctorable keyz will vanish from sks in not too long, likewise.
19:18 mircea_popescu aha, but enemy hasn't, for a while, then we started talking about it and welll...
19:18 asciilifeform they've had eons.
19:19 Framedragger don't get your hopes of grandeur up folks, the timeline may simply fit
19:20 Framedragger from https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/auditing-github-users-keys , some keys appear to be revoked a ~year ago; i'm sure further audits and removals followed.
19:20 Framedragger *to have been
19:20 mircea_popescu ah, so then not that shortly.
19:30 Framedragger could have been multiple instances of cleansing, unknown, i guess
19:30 mircea_popescu in fairness i had no idea of this whole bejojo thing, so.
19:31 Framedragger but it's "in the logz!!" :D (first mentioned by me, earlier today) yeah nvm
19:31 mircea_popescu ikr.
19:31 mircea_popescu anyway, he says mid 2015. so not that shortly.
19:32 Framedragger true.
19:34 mircea_popescu so did the brits quit or what ?
19:35 Framedragger i literally forgot about that :D
19:35 mircea_popescu check that out, 50.5% leave 49.5% stay ?
19:35 Framedragger huh need to check i guess\
19:35 Framedragger what
19:35 mircea_popescu ikr!
19:35 Framedragger "i should think better about where i live, next time"
19:36 Framedragger i think 5am or 6am BST last results come in or sth
19:36 Framedragger wait you weren't joking
19:37 Framedragger FX traders must be having a field ngiht
19:37 mircea_popescu sundereland is like 61% to elavce
19:38 Framedragger scotland is like 70% for remain iirc? theirs are coming at 5am maybe, but then scotland is smallish
19:38 mircea_popescu but i mean, the predictions throughout are a complete joke. newcastle predicted 66/33 actual 50/49
19:38 Framedragger yeah i know!!
19:39 Framedragger lol at predictions.
19:39 asciilifeform 50/49 exist in usgland where bushes and gores pointlessly antler one another in ritual combat.
19:39 asciilifeform and nowhere else.
19:39 mircea_popescu well, uk.
19:39 asciilifeform which is guess in what.
19:39 Framedragger heh
19:39 mircea_popescu in the shitter ?
19:39 asciilifeform in the red white an' blue shitter.
19:40 asciilifeform since '45 at least.
19:40 Framedragger only with more inbreeding
19:40 Framedragger well, debatable
19:43 mircea_popescu anyway, so what'll an independent uk do ? petition to join puerto rico ?
19:43 Framedragger soo "pound drops after sunderland result", yeah heh
19:43 Framedragger no see they'll renegotiate a better ttip deal, all by themselves
19:43 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: no such thing - reich wears belt and suspenders before putting on idiot show. they're locked into overlapping treaties to ~same effect as eu membership.
19:44 Framedragger cause they all grown up
19:44 asciilifeform at least where it counts.
19:44 asciilifeform england will certainly remain in the caliphate.
19:44 mircea_popescu heh. treaties aren't binding more than you know, greek debt is
19:44 mircea_popescu SOVEREIGNITY! DEMOCRACY! PEOPLE THEMSELVES!
19:44 asciilifeform they are when they are.
19:44 Framedragger suppose so.
19:44 asciilifeform beoblethemselves.
19:45 Framedragger is australia still fighting marlboro in HK?
19:45 mircea_popescu maybe uk joins syria, iran and labia in new commonwealth.
19:45 trinque isn't that what nationalists do? tear up treaties?
19:45 * asciilifeform falls down
19:45 mircea_popescu that'd be pretty good, muslims never had an airstrip one.
19:45 mircea_popescu trinque generally, yea.
19:45 asciilifeform libya-->labia and then civil war splits into minora and majora...
19:46 mircea_popescu asciilifeform :)
19:46 Framedragger yeah i wonder what imperial rule would do there huh
19:46 mircea_popescu i have a way with words!
19:50 Framedragger my imagination is dry in regards to what interesting things uk could do. maybe uk is simply that glib and uninspiring
19:50 mircea_popescu in other news, google search can't actually see inside facebook can it.
19:50 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: not by default iirc.
19:51 mircea_popescu they got a problem don't they ? missing out on most of the shannonized / markov chained "content" production these days
19:51 Framedragger orly, but it used to be able to, no? that's what every shitsite wants, for search engines to index, but not to show same stuff to unregistered visitors (linkedin does that with google vs. users i think..)
19:51 asciilifeform half the point of walled aols is to corral the chumpers into custom search crapolade
19:52 Framedragger sometimes i think that's the _whole_ point
19:52 mircea_popescu Framedragger afair it had a deal back in 2010ish ? with twitter too ; then twitter backed out, was a bit of a scandal, then i gues fb backed out quietly.
19:52 Framedragger oh, interesting, i should check, juicy drama!
19:53 mircea_popescu i've but a vague memory, i keep about as close tabs on this shitshow as i do on github.
19:54 mircea_popescu anyway, facebook apparently also does this "we'll archive by default ANYTHING linked from our pages and serve it from our own servers. this way we don't leak ips etc, and so nobody will ever figure out just how few users we have."
19:55 Framedragger heheheh. some kind of insecurity of "no don't leave our site, look we collected your shit for you!"
19:56 Framedragger that's your shit right there. and some ads. on the shit
19:58 mircea_popescu shinohai anyway, if you're into twitter trolling, can certainly forward http://trilema.com/2016/pizdi/ to #niunamenos
19:58 asciilifeform if only sp folk properly appreciated 'pizdi'
19:59 mircea_popescu well, exactly like pili, except the weak-ass l is replaced by the zdrongezt consonant known to man.
20:00 * Framedragger off to bed, looking forward to breakfast in unclear political territory (well when was it ever clear)
20:02 mircea_popescu people in my (and i guess also your) part of the world did a lot of traveling around europe while staying home
20:03 mircea_popescu austria, poland, france, russia, etc.
~ 16 minutes ~
20:19 mircea_popescu and in other lulz, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGBn-UXpna4
20:22 asciilifeform wats this
20:22 asciilifeform sounds extremely turkish
20:22 mircea_popescu this is actually romanian. gypsy wanna-be sampled a video of orchestra, put his track on top
20:23 asciilifeform l0l!!
20:23 mircea_popescu aha.
20:24 mircea_popescu there's an immense pile of these, they all sound the same, it's a whole subculture.
20:25 asciilifeform in other not at all nyooz, http://everything2.com/title/Fast+6502+multiplication << witness the non-pedi-wikia.
20:25 mircea_popescu complete with all the sclerotic tissue of say hollywood, reproduced at scale.
20:26 mircea_popescu asciilifeform actually long multiply as squares and sums is not half of a bad idea, because binary processor.
20:27 mircea_popescu and ALSO exactly homomorphic to why i said division doesn't belong in there.
20:27 asciilifeform i was sitting for last 20min working out whether this is actually faster than treating the nibbles as digits and table-ating the resulting 'bignum mult' or not
20:27 asciilifeform then got distracted.
20:28 mircea_popescu ie a sort of reverse-plouffe ?
20:28 mircea_popescu my baseless guess would be that yes.,
~ 15 minutes ~
20:43 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: soooo... let's split bytes p, q into nibbles, p0, p1; q0, q1; p = p1 + 16p2, q = q1 + 16q2
20:44 asciilifeform p * q = p1q1 + 16p2q1 + 16p1q2 + 256p2q2
20:45 asciilifeform ... = p1q1 + (p2q1 << 4) + (p1q2 << 4) + (p2q2 << 8)
20:45 asciilifeform we never do the last term's shling because we know that it is 2nd byte of result.
20:46 asciilifeform so we have mult table lookups (we made a 16x16, or 256bt mult table for nibblez)
20:46 asciilifeform 4 of'em
20:48 asciilifeform we can do the high nibble of the low byte as one add-with-carry followed by a collective shlykk
20:49 asciilifeform ^ yes this is how to pronounce left-shift per asciilifeform
20:50 asciilifeform (6502 didn't have a barrel shifter, so a shift is a 2-cycle op per bit, assuming num is in accumulator.)
20:51 asciilifeform anyway i'm lazy, ... but it still looks faster than the cited 151 cycle worst-case on e2
20:52 asciilifeform any other 8bit sinners here can tell me wtf i'm missing? mircea_popescu ? gernika ?
21:01 asciilifeform http://everything2.com/title/The+Arms+Race+between+Moths+and+Bats << also interesting, in re parallels with modern aerial combat..
21:05 mod6 <+mircea_popescu> "open that can!" "Smash that wall!" etc. << heheh
~ 24 minutes ~
21:29 asciilifeform lel re us mil: http://everything2.com/title/Project+100%252C000
21:30 asciilifeform 'Two months later, on October 1st, as an adjunct to Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, Robert Strange McNamara started inducting into the military men who previously would not have qualified in a million years. He called it Project 100,000 ...'
21:39 mircea_popescu asciilifeform so you do 4 mults which are iirc 32 cycles each + 3 shifts and 4 additions, for a grand total of ~200
21:39 asciilifeform mno
21:39 asciilifeform we do NO MULTS
21:40 asciilifeform because 6502 aint got no mul.
21:40 mircea_popescu p1q1 < ?
21:40 asciilifeform it's a table lookup !
21:40 asciilifeform 4x4 bit.
21:40 mircea_popescu ah right.
21:40 mircea_popescu pretty big table
21:40 asciilifeform 256 byte.
21:41 mircea_popescu can this live in l1 ?
21:41 asciilifeform mircea_popescu has been smoking some strange or wut
21:41 asciilifeform what l1
21:41 asciilifeform it's a 6502
21:41 asciilifeform http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html << him.
21:42 mircea_popescu no cache
21:42 asciilifeform no cache.
21:42 mircea_popescu so you seriously talk to the bus each time ?
21:42 asciilifeform aha
21:42 mircea_popescu this can't be fast.
21:42 asciilifeform which had sram hanging off, so who cared
21:42 mircea_popescu hm.
21:42 asciilifeform like mircea_popescu's z80
21:42 mircea_popescu it's a mhz cpu tho, slow as fuck
21:43 asciilifeform the period ver went to 2Mhz
21:43 asciilifeform today's will happily do 20
21:43 mircea_popescu actually uses exactly the 8080 bus huh
21:43 asciilifeform (yes it is in production. pacemakers.)
21:43 asciilifeform i have a couple here.
21:43 mircea_popescu well i have nfi. all my memories are clearly from a different era wtf 20mhz
21:43 asciilifeform mine also!
21:44 asciilifeform i was astonished as well, last year, to learn that it never died
21:44 asciilifeform same guy even, making it.
21:44 mircea_popescu i seriously think if one proposed 20mhz people'd have been "you'll asphyxiate going that fast"
21:44 asciilifeform as in '70s
21:45 mircea_popescu apparently mos tech actually did the "design" oilpen on paper
21:45 mircea_popescu well, "paper". vellum.
21:45 asciilifeform like most people then.
21:45 asciilifeform celluloid iirc.
21:46 asciilifeform at one point it was blokes rolling black electrical tape onto giant celluloid. hence expression 'tapeout', still used today
21:47 asciilifeform 6502 : ~3.5k transistorz.
21:49 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-24#1488966 << marian reform!
21:49 a111 Logged on 2016-06-24 01:30 asciilifeform: 'Two months later, on October 1st, as an adjunct to Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, Robert Strange McNamara started inducting into the military men who previously would not have qualified in a million years. He called it Project 100,000 ...'
21:49 asciilifeform aha!!
21:51 mircea_popescu actually... your table needn't be as large as 256.
21:51 asciilifeform ah yes!
21:51 asciilifeform half of that.
21:51 mircea_popescu there's no need to look up 3 * 4 and 4 * 3 aha
21:51 * asciilifeform bangs head on desk
21:52 asciilifeform incidentally
21:52 asciilifeform you don't have to <<4 anything either
21:52 asciilifeform can make a table.
21:52 mircea_popescu shifts are fast tho
21:52 asciilifeform nope
21:52 mircea_popescu uh.
21:52 asciilifeform 4 x 2 cycle
21:52 asciilifeform 6502 had no barrrel shifter
21:52 mircea_popescu o really ?
21:53 mircea_popescu still, how the fuck your lookup is going to be less than 8 cycles, you need 2 to call and 2 to return
21:53 asciilifeform each shift was 2cyc instruction (assuming payload is in A reg, otherwise worse)
21:53 asciilifeform lookup is 4 cycle.
21:53 mircea_popescu not 4+io ?
21:53 mircea_popescu i mean in terms of time per se not just cycles.
21:53 asciilifeform e.g., http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/4da28cef-336b-4f39-bf0f-5614aa90d653/
21:54 asciilifeform remove the rts and inline the procedure to shave cost of the return (which is titanic)
21:54 asciilifeform cycles == time
21:54 mircea_popescu the ram has no latency in all this ?
21:54 asciilifeform this is included in the cycle count
21:55 mircea_popescu no way ?!
21:55 asciilifeform but no, sram has no meaningful (at 6502 speed) latency
21:55 mircea_popescu ah it can actually control sram ?
21:55 asciilifeform a set of flippy switches can control sram
21:55 asciilifeform mircea_popescu is prolly thinking of dram
21:55 asciilifeform the gnarly pile of shit that we use today
21:55 mircea_popescu oh i am yes.
21:55 asciilifeform sram is where you have the actual bistable circuits
21:56 mircea_popescu s is right next to d!
21:56 asciilifeform that sit there happily drawing a femtoamp each
21:56 asciilifeform lel
21:57 asciilifeform and now for the fastest 8bx8b mul of all:
21:57 mircea_popescu still, it's what, 100ns ?
21:57 asciilifeform a 32kb times table!
21:57 asciilifeform only eats half the address space, lel.
21:57 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: 10 is typical
21:57 mircea_popescu that good ? aite.
21:57 mircea_popescu you know, old tech progressed lots since the 70s
21:58 asciilifeform i was quite astonished to learn that sram costs only a couple times less today than in early '90s
21:59 asciilifeform (really from the market for standalone sram chips drying up, i suspect)
21:59 mircea_popescu possibly
21:59 asciilifeform still, interestingly, available...
21:59 * asciilifeform suspects that 99% of it is used with fpga
22:00 mircea_popescu well, and all the iot crapolade
22:00 asciilifeform nope, not them
22:00 asciilifeform no sram in there.
22:00 mircea_popescu really ?
22:00 asciilifeform well certainly not in own chip package!
22:00 asciilifeform on dies with 'system on chip' crapola - plenty
22:00 mircea_popescu i'd expect they cut corners, what's the budget for "smartening" a juicer, 15 bux ?
22:00 asciilifeform but i was specifically considering standalone 1970s-style package.
22:00 mircea_popescu no i meant soac sort of packages.
22:01 mircea_popescu they still use the chip, however the hot glue is poured atop ya know.
22:01 asciilifeform sram typically gets on die.
22:01 asciilifeform and pieces of shit, e.g., https://wiki.openwrt.org/_media/media/tplink/tl-mr3020/tl-mr3020_top-pcb-gpio-pins.jpg?w=400&tok=e00072 << as i once experimented with for trbification << have dram.
22:03 phf are we moving tmsr infra to 6502?
22:04 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i'm seeing about $1/MB in qty. something like 1990s...
22:04 asciilifeform phf: probably not most of it.
22:04 asciilifeform but for certain applications it could very easily work.
22:04 * asciilifeform brb
22:05 mircea_popescu phf more like keeping "unlikely" venue wide open
22:05 phf i'm sure you've seen cl-6502, and i think there's a compiler from the same guy (or perhaps cl-6502 has a compiler too i don't quite remember)
22:05 mircea_popescu and from the other perspective, you can have this ensemble in a baloon and solar powered. etc.
22:07 BingoBoingo http://www.riverfronttimes.com/artsblog/2016/06/13/the-st-louis-entrepreneur-behind-greendals-wants-you-to-wear-tires
22:07 mircea_popescu full spectrum dominance, you know ? "first we fuck up your scamcoin, on ops basis, then you spend all you got to try and prop it somewhere around 70% of what it was, then you try to attack bitcoin on fin basis, we rape you, then..."
22:07 mircea_popescu that sorta thing
22:08 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo ironically, this was great savings initiative in soviet lands 1970s
22:09 mircea_popescu copied after similar 1940s german one.
22:09 BingoBoingo My how history rhymes!
22:09 mircea_popescu if one weren't there one could scarcely believe.
22:09 BingoBoingo Gotta get ready for post-China selling shit to all comers
22:11 BingoBoingo If anyone wants a hole hawg now's the time while TTI is still selling them
22:14 BingoBoingo Also it turns out hole hawg actually is carried by Big Box store
22:16 mircea_popescu in other lulz, ethereum soft fork just got postponed 15k blocks (~2 days).
22:18 BingoBoingo See, if you spam blocks all the time who needs to put spam in the blocks!
22:19 mircea_popescu lol.
22:19 phf future tmsr infra http://66.media.tumblr.com/d69d8e552719e6bba89afe664bf486f7/tumblr_o7nrtnTazH1r49q4co1_500.jpg
22:19 mircea_popescu the problem being more that, of the ~10% miners that voted, the split is about 4:1 in favour. of the rest... well... something more like the reverse.
22:20 mircea_popescu phf i thought it was gonna be slotin and his beryllium hemisphere
22:20 phf we're not there yet, but damn close
22:22 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-24#1489076 << i linked it a few days ago iirc.
22:22 a111 Logged on 2016-06-24 02:05 phf: i'm sure you've seen cl-6502, and i think there's a compiler from the same guy (or perhaps cl-6502 has a compiler too i don't quite remember)
22:22 asciilifeform phf: i actually printed out the src and read in hammock, and barfed: it is full of regexp
22:22 phf have you seen this guy too http://josephoswald.nfshost.com/comfy/summary.html ?
22:23 asciilifeform aha!
22:23 asciilifeform lulzily he uses same ancient hoster as i
22:23 phf aww, poop. i thought the guy was pretty cool from his nes emulator. usually the emulator types like to bit twiddle
22:23 asciilifeform i can't hold it against him, really, but couldn't help go 'this is not Lispy!111'
22:23 asciilifeform not such fun read.
22:24 phf how do you even regex an emulator!
22:24 asciilifeform it isn't only emulator
22:24 asciilifeform also asmer/disasmer
22:24 asciilifeform recall.
22:25 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-24#1489087 << the actual one ?! i was in a 'home despot' not long ago, they had a plasticy piece of rubbish with that brand
22:25 a111 Logged on 2016-06-24 02:14 BingoBoingo: Also it turns out hole hawg actually is carried by Big Box store
22:26 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Well actual one prolly requires Ebay. The new ones are made in China since TTI bought Milwauke
22:26 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-24#1489091 << bright future! we'll have actual rack, wheely cart
22:26 a111 Logged on 2016-06-24 02:19 phf: future tmsr infra http://66.media.tumblr.com/d69d8e552719e6bba89afe664bf486f7/tumblr_o7nrtnTazH1r49q4co1_500.jpg
22:26 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: i often wonder re the chinese toolz, do they wind the motors with aluminum wire yet ?
22:27 asciilifeform or is this marvel still to come.
22:27 phf i suspect those guys wear shoes that don't fall apart after three years either
22:27 BingoBoingo Still to come, which is why buy now before aluminum horror
22:27 BingoBoingo Likely will happen when China decides copper is a strategic good
22:27 asciilifeform BingoBoingo may yet get his wish of petrol-powered hand tools
22:28 BingoBoingo ^
22:28 asciilifeform party like it's 1870!111
22:28 BingoBoingo Although the Chicoms now make a lot of the small petrol motors too
22:28 asciilifeform well they won't be making ~these~
22:28 phf sort of like if you were to show a picture of a girl at a gulag discussion will be about how she looks like she eats, swiftly moving into what she might've eaten that morning
22:29 asciilifeform aha.
22:29 mircea_popescu really ?
22:30 phf if one were to believe shalamov
22:30 asciilifeform not everybody believes shalamov.
22:30 mircea_popescu i guess i can see it.
22:30 asciilifeform but in this case - i do.
22:30 asciilifeform (recall the tale with the duck ?)
22:32 phf right, exactly
22:33 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-24#1489092 << holy shit, no??1
22:33 a111 Logged on 2016-06-24 02:19 mircea_popescu: the problem being more that, of the ~10% miners that voted, the split is about 4:1 in favour. of the rest... well... something more like the reverse.
22:33 asciilifeform they have no tame miner ??
22:33 mircea_popescu they should.
22:33 asciilifeform and what would 2 days change
22:34 asciilifeform it blew a fuse, and ft meade has to order new one ?
22:34 mircea_popescu ask them! not me!
22:34 asciilifeform well presumably it was mircea_popescu who had a mole in there, hence why i asked him.
22:35 mircea_popescu da fuck anyone knows what goes on through the bright heads that can't light bulbs of us stem unis.
22:37 mircea_popescu this is one of those situations when enema is supposed to show up with 200 tanks and 5k infantry, shows up with three jeeps and two dozen streetwalkers instead. everyone just looks around in embarassment
22:40 phf are there any 6502 computer designs where you have multiple of them sitting on same bus or talking to same memory
22:40 * phf is talking out of ass
22:40 mircea_popescu large pile of sram with a bunch of 6502s around it would make a pretty interesting parallel thing
22:43 trinque sorta like the greenarrays thing?
22:44 phf yeah, i had greenarrays in my original message, but somehow i lost it in edits
22:45 phf afaik greenarrays don't have shared state and talk through neighbors, connection machine style. i was thinking, like mp said, just have them sit on shared memory
22:48 trinque http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/AP003-110810-SRAM.pdf << yeah doesn't do that; converts 4 nodes to sram controller
22:49 mircea_popescu especially as you could make a really large pile of ram
22:50 mircea_popescu honestly if i wanted to make a "human brain model" it'd be something like this, 10k chips sitting around 10 GB worth of ram and talking into it dirtily.
22:51 mircea_popescu 3.5k transistors is actually not a bad model for a neuron, as bugpowder may perhaps attest.
23:00 phf this is roughly how the argument went in the connection machine book, but of course they didn't have access to large enough rams to make it shared
23:01 BingoBoingo In other news corn is looking good, some field are showing visible soybeans. Been a while since honest rain befell this region.
23:03 BingoBoingo In still other news with 46.3% Reporting "Leave" has 51.4% of the vote
23:04 phf наши победили?
23:05 BingoBoingo Still more to count
23:05 trinque it's been up about 500k since I've been watching
23:05 BingoBoingo Less than half counted, but win is winning
23:07 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-24#1489142 << funny that you ask...
23:07 a111 Logged on 2016-06-24 02:40 phf: are there any 6502 computer designs where you have multiple of them sitting on same bus or talking to same memory
23:07 asciilifeform because that's what i got here
23:08 asciilifeform but... parachute.
23:08 phf plx publish
23:08 phf actually, i'm ok waiting, i think i'm going to build one of those computers on a board in the next few months just to get an idea of what connects where
23:09 asciilifeform phf: http://zx80.netai.net/grant/6502/Simple6502.html << to get you started...
23:10 asciilifeform mouser co. has the chip.
23:10 asciilifeform five bux or so iirc.
23:11 * asciilifeform grew up with 6502 (well, 6510, commodore) rather than mircea_popescu's z80, so it is dear to him
23:12 asciilifeform and imho 6502 is the more elegant animal.
23:12 asciilifeform (moar work per tick, fewer parts)
23:15 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-24#1489150 << shared ram is painful because the address/data lines are bottleneck
23:15 a111 Logged on 2016-06-24 02:50 mircea_popescu: honestly if i wanted to make a "human brain model" it'd be something like this, 10k chips sitting around 10 GB worth of ram and talking into it dirtily.
23:15 asciilifeform ideally you want something more like danny hillis's (connection mach) topology
23:15 asciilifeform e.g., hypercube
23:16 asciilifeform ( see also, canonical, https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/14719 )
23:16 asciilifeform ^ his thesis
23:16 asciilifeform ^ i have dead tree here. 1st ed.
23:17 phf i picked up "third printing" in portland, in that big bookstore of theirs
23:17 asciilifeform ben_vulpeslandia!
23:18 asciilifeform didja see him ?
23:18 phf no, he was pretty upset at me for it
23:18 asciilifeform lolk
23:19 phf i was in portland proper an evening, after a hippie retreat, got it in my head that a meeting with a tmsr member needs proper exposition, etc.
23:21 asciilifeform ;;later tell mircea_popescu l0ltr0n1cs: http://deadgirlface.tumblr.com/post/146308969208/quoms-superluminalflower-the-orlando-police
23:21 gribble The operation succeeded.
23:21 phf in any case it wasn't portland, i picked it up at a random bookstore in french quarter new orleans. between a tourist bar and a place that sold "vintage stuff" they had a bookstore with an amazing collection of random books
23:23 asciilifeform 'The question of possible deaths by police fire arose soon after the shootings. One survivor, Norman Casiano, 26, told ABC News that he was shot by police when he crawled out from his hiding place in the bathroom after he thought it was safe.'
23:23 asciilifeform etc.
23:23 asciilifeform muppet-assisted 'swatting'.
23:23 phf they had a bunch of appel books there, mead's introduction to vlsi, a bunch of old common lisp books, 80s expert system books, etc.
23:24 asciilifeform lel pretty much like the b00kcase i'm sitting next to l0l.l
23:24 phf but it was a very odd setting, i was hungover like crazy, stumbling around with other throngs of tourists
23:26 trinque leave up by 700k; this is great.
23:27 asciilifeform trinque: ceremonial.
23:27 trinque you leave me to my dreams of hypernationalist war
23:27 asciilifeform lel
23:28 Bugpowder its happening
23:29 * BingoBoingo can't wait for when Britain has no one mobile enough to hand over its rag on a stick!
23:30 BingoBoingo Fucking Brits will be stuck with no alternative but to wafflestomp!
23:30 Bugpowder NIKKEI 225 FUTURES -1000 POINTS
23:31 BingoBoingo ;;ticker --market all --currency gbp
23:31 gribble Bitstamp BTCGBP last: 435.199959, vol: 21280.19302267 | BTC-E BTCGBP last: 425.599515, vol: 15542.74625 | CampBX BTCGBP last: 420.1875, vol: 1.80726197 | BTCChina BTCGBP last: 471.7382, vol: 96965.55260000 | Kraken BTCGBP last: 400.004, vol: 105.80623942 | Volume-weighted last average: 460.517964865
23:32 phf party is over?
23:32 thestringpuller $gettrust pleasurep`
23:32 deedbot L1: 0, L2: 0 by 0 connections.
23:32 thestringpuller $getrating pleasurep`
23:33 thestringpuller $key pleasurep`
23:33 BingoBoingo phf: Party is on pause. Can't let BTC look too much better than ether huffing, so Buttfunex has to have some butt fun
23:33 thestringpuller $help
23:33 deedbot http://deedbot.org/help.html
23:34 trinque thestringpuller: that is an unperson per db
23:34 trinque there's a pleasurep"
23:34 trinque $gettrust deedbot pleasurep"
23:34 deedbot L1: 0, L2: 0 by 0 connections.
23:35 trinque $key pleasurep"
23:35 thestringpuller well for instance nubbins was nubbins` but is now nubbins"
23:35 deedbot http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/r/6a4312d5-167c-45ec-9f0b-a21eb3c2946c/
23:35 thestringpuller just seeing how this works
23:35 thestringpuller somehow special characters got sanatized
23:35 trinque wat
23:35 asciilifeform ^^
23:35 phf kek
23:37 Bugpowder ITV CALLS IT: LEAVE HAS WON THE EU REFERENDUM
23:37 Bugpowder The gov isn’t really going to do it tho right? Non-binding…
23:38 asciilifeform bush v. gore. snore.
23:38 trinque thestringpuller: yeah this is fucked up; I have the original data for it all, so I'll fix tomorrow
23:38 trinque happened somewhere from mysql -> psql
23:38 thestringpuller cool. lemme know how to sanatize query-wise
23:39 trinque thanks for catching that
23:39 thestringpuller np
23:39 trinque I'll just shit out another dump after fixing it
23:40 asciilifeform the minarets of londonabad will still call the faithful to prayer tomorrow. and next week, aha.
23:54 Bugpowder Gold 1350
23:54 Bugpowder Nikkei -1327 circuit breaker
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