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00:06 BingoBoingo Hey, Elliot avoided gambler's fallacy. Gave powerball a deadline to make his dreams come true!
~ 36 minutes ~
00:42 mircea_popescu hola!
00:42 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-14#1683835 << ayup
00:42 a111 Logged on 2017-07-14 21:30 mod6: can anyone confirm if 14! is 144C3B2800 in hex?
00:44 mircea_popescu and 15! = 2C5077D36B8C40000 16! = 3CEEA4C2B3E0D80000 17! = 57970CD7E2933680000 18! = 83629343D3DCD1C00000 19! = CD4A0619FB0907BC00000 an finally 20! = 32AD5A155C6748AC18B9A580000000
00:45 mircea_popescu aaand 30! = 7B9A69E35CB2D866437E5C47F97AEF2C42CAEE5C00000000000 and 50! = 71864253B6AFFA79C2EA1BC52A6A1D446CA57E6FFC4196E88AF1B894823817F63F40C910E81FCC940000000000000000000 and im really impressed with my bignumatron by now
00:45 mircea_popescu 85! = A0B8A2976BEA2078E2EB644384859F3B46323AF1FCD2BDBBA7707F6836A5F94F4EB20DDCED88F6F04D2F5C01AC3510E4A37AEBC4C5AB05C3CFA9AC51F8F3C1BB2A4A664EE145EE0BEDD1330ACE1400000000000000000000000000000000 and finally did one that took a second
00:48 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-14#1683853 << there's all kinds of cool gliding seeds, including 3 axis rotational ones.
00:48 a111 Logged on 2017-07-14 22:05 BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> of course for maximal artsy i'd make your gliders asymmetrical. give it some nutty spin. << Maple seeds!
00:49 BingoBoingo Yeah, prolly ought to assemble a variety for the artisic alien weapon expo
00:49 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-14#1683859 << not only that. they also watch porn on their bigscreen and see the girls taking it in the ass so ass-ume the gf can do the same out of the box.
00:49 a111 Logged on 2017-07-14 22:18 BingoBoingo: of grasses.
00:49 BingoBoingo aha
00:52 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-14#1683861 << >> http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=private+%22i+don%27t+know%22+from%3Amircea
00:52 a111 Logged on 2017-07-14 22:18 andreicon: /query mircea_popescu
00:53 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-14#1683878 << there were those people doing "unboxing" of nuke silos iirc...
00:53 a111 Logged on 2017-07-14 22:46 asciilifeform wonders if 'unboxing vid' for nuke has yet been filmed. if not, genre has room for growth!111
00:56 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-14#1683901 << i suspect the 40yo might have been actually getting more for his money.
00:56 a111 Logged on 2017-07-14 23:56 lobbes: This was always amusingly contrasted with the many foreigners that worked there in the summer; they'd Western Union that shit immediately to home country.
00:58 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1683922 << he has a point you know. and make your own blog.
00:58 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 00:18 trinque: erlehmann: the logs would benefit greatly from a proper writeup of these, so the next time someone goes "hurr durr $shitlang" the blog post can be linked
01:00 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1683969 << but if this were actually true, why is the guy not in somalia then ?
01:00 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 02:36 lobbes: at least that 50bux in somalia is > 0bux. Beats lotto player, but that is a good point: after wire fees it doesn't beat it by much
01:00 mircea_popescu seems wiring money to the same idiots that made it necessary for you to abandon country and fambly with their rampant idiocy might be a worse move than just pouring it into cement.
01:01 mircea_popescu unless, of course, he's wiring it to some radical group. though i vaguely don't expect western union would "allow" that.
01:03 erlehmann don't worry, i'll do the “if you use chrome, wine and gnome, visiting random websites might yield vbscript” writeup sometime soon. it's too hilarious.
01:03 mircea_popescu aite.
01:06 erlehmann i might want to figure out the UTF-16 LE issue before that. of course, i can do my injection in UTF-16 LE, but i want to know where it comes from.
01:08 mircea_popescu same place the fixed font thing came from we were lulzing at a few days ago
01:10 mircea_popescu in other lulz : i took girl to strip joint crawl today. highlight of the night, this plastered drunk waitress / whore that wouldn't take 3k for a 2k tab. literally, she gave it back to me, evidently i made a mistake.
01:10 erlehmann > drunk waitress / whore
01:10 erlehmann seems both like jobs where being sober helps
01:11 mircea_popescu if you're any good at it, at least.
01:12 mircea_popescu it's incomprehensible they even manage to have strip clubs here AT ALL. the girls are so utterly innocent of anything to do with either money or fucking that they might as well be the local highschool volley team.
01:13 mircea_popescu in fact, ~every one i've seen played soccer on the monitors. except for the one that had VERY BAD porn. i mean terribly bad.
01:13 erlehmann i use GNU unifont wherever i can. fits in head.
01:15 erlehmann (conceptually, at least. non-scalable 8x16 / 16x16 glyphs all the way down.)
01:15 erlehmann http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-18#1570036 << i almost smiled
01:15 a111 Logged on 2016-11-18 21:29 mircea_popescu: "i'll believe it when i see it with big font in rounded corners."
01:15 erlehmann too real
01:16 mircea_popescu moomoos.
01:17 mircea_popescu erlehmann anyway, it was something about how random windoze userland used arbitrary font for form making or i don't recall, some management function anyway.
01:20 erlehmann if i recall correctly, windows has font handling at an entirely wrong abstraction level (think TTF kernel exploit)
01:20 erlehmann https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.de/2016/06/a-year-of-windows-kernel-font-fuzzing-1_27.html
01:21 erlehmann > One generic approach is to limit the privileges of font processing code in their respective environments, such as enforcing sandboxing of the FreeType library, or moving the font engine out of the kernel in Windows (which Microsoft has done starting with Windows 10). However, that is mostly beyond our reach.
01:21 erlehmann madness
01:22 mircea_popescu heh
01:23 erlehmann so much about userland, eh?
01:23 mircea_popescu the problem with the systemd approach to system design is that everything ends up wanting to be its own master-exceptional-class.
01:23 mircea_popescu you see it in the dumbass faux bitcoins the usg "developers" keep producing too.
01:24 mircea_popescu that's kinda the point no systemd detractor ever made : that systemd is fundamentally and by itself an unstable arrangement, and it'll end up stuck systemding itself to death, very much like how the dnc keeps revolutionizing itself into irrelevancy.
01:26 erlehmann it surely has a very low bus factor.
01:27 BingoBoingo Very high stepping in front of a bus factor though
01:27 mircea_popescu !#s "can we have everything louder than everything else"
01:27 a111 0 results for "\"can we have everything louder than everything else\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22can%20we%20have%20everything%20louder%20than%20everything%20else%22
01:27 mircea_popescu really ?!
01:28 mircea_popescu famous moment of systemd sound engineering.
01:29 mircea_popescu Ritchie/Gillan.
01:29 erlehmann i remember a post from “the old new thing” about “why can't we have a method to have our window on top of all others?”
01:29 mircea_popescu erlehmann and you know what will happen -- two will call it at the same time. and you know what they'll do -- a Top.Window.Manager to handle the conflict. and so on.
01:29 erlehmann oh, but then i looked for it and there exist several
01:29 mircea_popescu very much india code.
01:29 erlehmann https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110310-00/?p=11253
01:31 erlehmann mircea_popescu in the past i wondered how people who ask that question never consider someone else might think themselves such an exceptional snowflake.
01:31 mircea_popescu you know the cool guy joke ?
01:31 erlehmann probably not
01:32 mircea_popescu guy asks hotel desk to call him a cab, which they do. he gets in and not long after discovers that the madcap driver is actually not accidentally blowing a red light, but systematically blowing each and every one of them.
01:32 mircea_popescu so he asks, hey, aren't you supposed to stop on red ? and the driver replies that he's a cool guy, an' cool guys don't have to stop for shit.
01:32 mircea_popescu the guy is sorta pondering this away in his head, when suddenly they run into a green light and the driver breaks like all gedup.
01:33 mircea_popescu "what the hell's the matter now ? it was green ?"
01:33 mircea_popescu "yeah, but what if there's a cool guy coming the other way ?"
01:33 erlehmann i must admit that cheered me up a bit, even though i knew how it would turn out halfway through :)
01:33 erlehmann i must so the cool guy has not reached maximum snowflake
01:33 mircea_popescu :p
01:34 erlehmann sorry
01:34 erlehmann sleepy
01:34 * BingoBoingo was expecting peak snowflake, collision
01:34 mircea_popescu no, the thing is the cool guy is dealing with a physical system. it has backblow, if you're too special you're not gonna be around anymore.
01:34 erlehmann so the cool guy must not have reached maximum snowflake level (where no one else could even think themselves snowflake)
01:34 mircea_popescu reality is self-healing, tjhat's why the pantsuits live on pizza and reddits.
01:35 mircea_popescu or i'm sorry, "nutritionally balanced diets" and "science".
01:37 BingoBoingo self-healing can be funny
01:37 mircea_popescu sure.
01:38 BingoBoingo See the green scam v. fire code http://qntra.net/2017/06/poor-brits-evacuated-from-their-warehousing-in-green-incinerators/
01:40 erlehmann problem is timespan. systemd already could not handle an empty string and executed tasks for users named “0day” as root because names starting with numbers are hard, mmmkay?! it might take a long time before it collapses.
01:40 erlehmann consider PHP still exists
01:40 BingoBoingo Who needs to block egress when entire building shell can be clad in flammable polyurethane foam
01:40 BingoBoingo PHP has a niche
01:41 mircea_popescu erlehmann php is not a system in absolutely any sense. it is a text processor, why would it not exist.
01:41 erlehmann also, any individual car using systemd and literally crashing because of it is unlikely to contain lennart.
01:42 BingoBoingo It's that thing everyone assumes Phuctor uses so Phuctor gets to collect all the PHP run time exploits thrown into not a PHP run time
01:43 mircea_popescu there is a substantial difference between someone trying to build a house with a badly formulated pi, who ends up building a spiral instead of a tower and never thereby finishing ; and someone who in his house builds a clay pot with his own hands and no potter's wheel. so what if the pot will leak ? it can hold a potted plant or whatever, hang on a wall, participate in a domestic argument...
01:44 BingoBoingo In some of those applications, leak is a plus!
01:45 BingoBoingo excess plant water drains through leak, nail to wall goes through other leak
01:47 BingoBoingo Anyways, this was an excellent self healing http://qntra.net/2017/06/dead-alt-soros-no-longer-effective-in-protecting-daughter-from-truth/ Latest not news is former GOP congress critter/TV host quit GOP over hurtbutt
01:48 BingoBoingo This is a very bullish win for leakcoin
01:48 mircea_popescu heh
01:49 mircea_popescu what specifically has she to leak ? titfilling ?
01:53 erlehmann titcoin
01:53 BingoBoingo Nah, it's the alt-soros reality distortion field leaking onto her face. Also her face was leaking blood because likely cialis can only do so much for Morning Joe.
01:54 BingoBoingo Surgical youth simulation
01:56 BingoBoingo The reality leaking in is that the most important man in her life is gone and the new most important man, lacks eldritch powers she is accustomed to. Whole new set of daddy issues in her fifth decade.
01:58 mircea_popescu there's always going to be more zsa zsa gabors around than free drinks available.
01:59 * BingoBoingo just wonders who had honor of destroying the phylactery
02:06 BingoBoingo !~ticker --market all
02:06 jhvh1 BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 2081.33, vol: 16109.31127362 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 2076.104, vol: 7524.01997 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 2080.0, vol: 32969.27098191 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 2158.946676, vol: 13045.88760000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 2093.71, vol: 9320.16916233 | Volume-weighted last average: 2094.56046991
02:16 mod6 mircea_popescu: thanks for the hex factorials.
02:17 mircea_popescu yee
02:26 mod6 !W (format nil "~x" (factorial 15))
02:30 mod6 we're getting some pretty different answers actually. for 15!, i'm getting (in hex):
02:30 mod6 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000013077775800
02:31 mod6 which is: 1307674368000 (dec)
02:32 mircea_popescu !!up candi_lustt
02:32 deedbot candi_lustt voiced for 30 minutes.
02:32 mircea_popescu !W (format nil "~x" (factorial 15))
02:32 candi_lustt mircea_popescu: 13077775800
02:32 mircea_popescu da fux
02:32 mircea_popescu mod6 lol my values were IN HEX.
02:33 mod6 yah, saw that
02:33 mircea_popescu 21! = 15x0! = 2C5077D36B8C40000x0
02:33 mircea_popescu = 51090942171709440000
02:34 mircea_popescu muh bads.
02:44 mod6 no worries! here's what i'm getting with simple `time`ings: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/ucLj9/?raw=true
02:47 mircea_popescu no time at all huh.
02:47 mircea_popescu do 1024 ?
02:47 mircea_popescu should be 450kb or so
02:49 mod6 lol, funny you say, just did 1024.
02:50 mod6 oh dang, wrapped nasty. hang on, will break @ 80
02:51 mircea_popescu kk
02:55 mod6 http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/a9G5F/?raw=true
02:56 mod6 lol, had to use 2**64 words with FZ(196)
02:57 mod6 1154ms for that one
03:03 mod6 found a website that produces what seems to be the same 2193 digit value
03:04 mircea_popescu 1s ? this is quite reasonably fast isn'rt it.
03:06 mircea_popescu 2022 F5988 yep, right it is.
03:09 mod6 it seems to be be pretty quick, ya
03:09 mircea_popescu !!up candi_lustt
03:09 deedbot candi_lustt voiced for 30 minutes.
03:09 mircea_popescu !W (format nil "~x" (factorial 1024))
03:09 candi_lustt mircea_popescu: 2022F598887B1B677793EEA7338140B96EDD924FCAB3A183421F3DCFE257E91FDB9FBDA6FDC765C78087E0AFB0469EE9DC04E88B57DBC8A8850C431640A70A5553F274CF95CF31EF50FF773BB46B4F14BADBEF976885D017EDB30CA9D17100464466D8E2C424C4EB35A8AD96698AB9DA18C5941A808585B16D700EA60FE4742B55D151D2FA72FB5314BF93374F6BA357B7E7B81928B2FCEF3B564380DC3BD2D0D3580A28D5AEAD0D707CDD521CB09F953E45849E4EA04445DB770F4473BFD62494BA215E1370DF02ADB30F0AEC0DC9ADCCC96284CF6D8FFED1DD283
03:09 mircea_popescu she's pretty blazing also.
03:09 mircea_popescu !W (format nil "~x" (factorial 65536))
03:09 candi_lustt mircea_popescu: 1D1CB6CEFC854C98FC338B0A2757950AE2F876268442F789102C1C43044777BC974C055AB02139BCBD8ABA7370498742FF2D49241C3F4F2A110A0BC600280FC288996B7784835D603AEC3623C06332DDBABB7BEA4A2F777C77E7DFA4FD942821E0C0A2D28DA1D614C66E668349589EDFB477DB532EF98604FECB1A5163FD32284726321766A3BF49C4DDC16698372425A96E1AC8956FD6842D2E7991762A386515FE01FF8591FC10EA7274026D895BDF94F43042245A40A6A35003B18CA765D0B6EDE66E6BA2B0C63AF98BBF115C8533616ED83823A204963EE07F1
03:10 mircea_popescu advance apologies to ben_vulpes
03:11 mod6 lol, im doing 65536 too
03:11 mod6 now, 2048 was ~5000ms
03:11 mircea_popescu !W (format t "~x" (factorial 65))
03:11 mod6 but 65536, still running
03:11 mircea_popescu !!up candi_lustt
03:11 deedbot candi_lustt voiced for 30 minutes.
03:11 mircea_popescu !W (format t "~x" (factorial 65))
03:11 candi_lustt mircea_popescu: error, see: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/w3k6A/?raw=true
03:12 mircea_popescu !W (format t (factorial 65))
03:12 candi_lustt mircea_popescu: error, see: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/dzzKA/?raw=true
03:14 mircea_popescu !W (format nil "~6.2F" (factorial 65))
03:14 candi_lustt mircea_popescu: error, see: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/0Xo9p/?raw=true
03:15 mircea_popescu !W (format nil "~6,2F" (factorial 65))
03:15 candi_lustt mircea_popescu: error, see: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/RAoX5/?raw=true
03:15 mircea_popescu motherfucker
03:15 mircea_popescu oh i crashed it doh
03:15 mircea_popescu !W (DEFUN FACTORIAL (N &OPTIONAL (ACC 1)) (IF (<= N 1) ACC (FACTORIAL (- N 1) (* ACC N))))
03:15 candi_lustt mircea_popescu: FACTORIAL
03:15 mircea_popescu !W (format nil "~6,2F" (factorial 65))
03:15 candi_lustt mircea_popescu: error, see: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/UjOa9/?raw=true
03:16 mircea_popescu !W (format nil "~6,2F" (factorial 1024**2))
03:16 candi_lustt mircea_popescu: error, see: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/WsQTf/?raw=true
03:16 mircea_popescu !W (format nil "~6,2F" (factorial (^ 1024 2)))
03:16 candi_lustt mircea_popescu: error, see: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/Alvne/?raw=true
03:16 mircea_popescu !W (format nil "~6,2F" (factorial (* 1024 1024)))
03:18 mod6 this 65536 one is gonna run for a while i think...
03:19 mircea_popescu well, candi's still rubbing it...
03:20 mircea_popescu amusing life slyce right here : user will read error message after the 4th pass and not before ; and will mess up the bot after 4 tries thence.
03:20 mod6 it could be perhaps that FZ(16384) isn't long enough ... might need like 32k
03:21 deedbot http://trilema.com/2017/beppo-adnotated/ << Trilema - Beppo, adnotated
03:26 mircea_popescu btw, does asciilifeform know about the right honorable the lord brougham and vaux pc qc frs ?
03:37 mod6 ah, Ada was Lord Byron's daughter
03:42 mircea_popescu !!up candi_lustt
03:42 deedbot candi_lustt voiced for 30 minutes.
03:43 mod6 alright, i restarted mine.
03:43 mod6 i bumped it up to 32768
~ 20 minutes ~
04:04 candi_lustt mircea_popescu: error, see: http://p.bvulpes.com/
~ 34 minutes ~
04:38 mircea_popescu so almost an hour, and then failed to return. alrighty.
04:47 mod6 yeah mine is still going.
04:48 mod6 I liked your comments about byron. That was the first i've read of him.
04:48 mircea_popescu a rlt ?
04:50 mod6 ya. heard many times, just never gave it a turn.
04:50 mircea_popescu so how'd you find it ?
04:52 mod6 there was some warts in the prose.
04:52 mod6 as you denoted. it kept me reading, which, counts for something.
04:53 mod6 i agree about how Laura was written, pretty plain and dull.
04:53 mircea_popescu ah, i meant the painting.
04:54 mod6 painting?
04:55 mod6 i must have missed somethin
04:55 mircea_popescu http://aparences.net/wp-content/uploads/giorgione_laura.jpg
04:56 mod6 aha.
05:00 mod6 this seems to be the analogue of the modern-day soccer-mom 3/4 boob selfie. in the text, she criticizes her friends for being "suburban" and "dowdyish"; but to me, she seems like one of the same.
05:00 mircea_popescu something like that
05:01 mod6 pretty ave. i'd hit it.
05:01 mod6 lol
05:02 mircea_popescu and in other "internet is for lulz", http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43617/43617-h/43617-h.htm was downloaded... 77 times.
05:03 mircea_popescu meanwhile faux news outlets imagine they have over a dozen readers.
05:04 mod6 heheh, "such readership"
05:04 mod6 alright, i better catch some zzzs. i'll check in on the factorial here when I wake up.
05:04 mod6 buenos noches!
~ 1 hours 18 minutes ~
06:23 mircea_popescu buenas nachos!
06:34 sina hola
06:34 mircea_popescu hey
06:34 sina how doin
06:34 sina I just upgraded to Fedora 26 :)
06:34 mircea_popescu not bad, whorin' and poetryin'.
06:34 sina haha that sounds a lot more fun
06:35 mircea_popescu tis conceivable!
06:35 sina anyway I just wanted to test and make sure all of my things were working post upgrade
06:36 sina not gonna hang around, got a headache
06:36 sina have a nice evenin all
06:36 mircea_popescu why would any bad franchise get 26 sequels anyway.
~ 2 hours 6 minutes ~
08:43 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684143 << use stirling's method, or you will waste many days
08:43 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 07:20 mod6: it could be perhaps that FZ(16384) isn't long enough ... might need like 32k
08:45 asciilifeform while we're on subj, ffa is more or less guaranteed to lose to just about any heathen bignumtron in factorial speed, and it should not be hard to see why.
08:46 asciilifeform ( in fact it will never win speedwise against ~anything at all. but factorial is probably the worst item. )
08:51 asciilifeform not built for speed. but for simplicity. the only concessions to optimization (karatsuba, etc) are strictly what was necessary to get to where rsa happens in merely annoying, rather than geological, time .
08:52 asciilifeform i am considering including a karatsuba squaring case - for 2x speed boost; but that's definitely it.
08:54 asciilifeform ( it is possible also to get 3x speed boost , on machines with 3 or moar cpu cores, on top of all, by allowing tasking ; this adds 12 or so lines. but i'd rather not , it subtracts from msdosificatability )
08:55 asciilifeform now for the truly ugly variant, asm for the inner w*w mult gives another 2x.
08:55 asciilifeform but wai.
08:56 asciilifeform i kinda like it how it was : short, sweet, portable to whatever, apple2.
08:56 asciilifeform ( it dun even need >8bit cpu, to work )
09:00 asciilifeform btw if you're actually doing something that doesn't need constanttime, you can simply put the obvious check-for-zero in the karatsuba and get 2-9000x boost for mul.
09:00 asciilifeform i quite deliberately did not put this in. who wants, can put in at his own peril.
09:01 asciilifeform 1linel
09:01 asciilifeform line.
~ 1 hours 22 minutes ~
10:24 asciilifeform !~later tell mod6 1.326 + log2(N)/2 + (log2(N) - 1.443)*N gives bitlength of N! to 1% or so.
10:24 jhvh1 asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
10:28 asciilifeform ( spoiler for http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684187 . )
10:28 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 12:43 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684143 << use stirling's method, or you will waste many days
10:33 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684145 << lol the original pediwikia d00d!111
10:33 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 07:26 mircea_popescu: btw, does asciilifeform know about the right honorable the lord brougham and vaux pc qc frs ?
10:38 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684164 << this is a hot chix, she almost has a determined, 'partizan' face.
10:38 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 08:55 mircea_popescu: http://aparences.net/wp-content/uploads/giorgione_laura.jpg
10:41 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684140 << let's,
10:41 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 07:18 mod6: this 65536 one is gonna run for a while i think...
10:41 asciilifeform !!up gribble
10:41 gribble Error: "!up" is not a valid command.
10:41 deedbot gribble voiced for 30 minutes.
10:42 asciilifeform ;;calc 1.326 + log(65536)/2*log(2) + (log(65536)/log(2) - 1.443)*65536
10:42 gribble 954012.721624
10:42 asciilifeform almost a MB
10:42 asciilifeform didja give it one, mod6 ?
~ 18 minutes ~
11:01 asciilifeform well Mb rather.
11:08 mod6 ah no. lol, it is still going.
11:08 asciilifeform mod6: it won't affect whether it's still going, but whether you get anything resembling the correct answer on the way out
11:09 asciilifeform or overflowola.
11:09 mod6 bingo ^
11:09 mod6 i'd rather have something sane to read at the end of the journey.
11:09 asciilifeform meanwhile!, in sunny monkeylandia, https://archive.is/a3GZE >> 'Visa... offering up to $10,000 each to 50 U.S.-based small business owners that are committed to going cashless... "We are declaring war on cash," said Andy Gerlt, a spokesman for Visa.'
11:11 asciilifeform mod6: notice, we could trivially trap on overflow, but that ain't constanttime!
11:14 mod6 asciilifeform: werd.
11:16 mod6 1.326 + log(65536)/2*log(2) + (log(65536)/log(2) - 1.443)*65536 << during this exercise, i started, very quickly to see this expansion pattern. was thinking there must be some square law to predict the probable size of the outcome.
11:16 mod6 does that have a name? ^
11:16 asciilifeform mod6: think of ffa as a soldier's entrenching spade. you wouldn't dig a foundation for a new house with it. but it is bare naked simple, + adequate and entirely so for entrenching, and for the occasional bout of hand-to-hand.
11:16 asciilifeform mod6: stirling's method
11:16 mod6 coool
11:16 asciilifeform well, numerical fudge thereof
11:17 mod6 sure, but perhaps, getting one close is good enough in this case.
11:17 mod6 asciilifeform: entrenching tool, aha.
11:18 mod6 ok ima kill this off then throw in some 1mb FZ
11:18 asciilifeform mod6: if you actually had to work with Mb-sized ints regularly, you'd want fft mul
11:19 asciilifeform which, btw, imho is intrinsically unsuitable for a fits-in-head rsatron, it is extremely gnarly and uses float approximations that get magically unfudged back to int, etc
11:21 asciilifeform mod6: other thing, since ffa is constant time, your N! is in O(N) (if mul were considered a constant op and brought outside of the brackets. which is is, 10! with 4096bit ffa, takes exactly C longer than 9! with 4096bit ffa. etc )
11:22 asciilifeform you can immediately say how long the thing will take.
11:22 asciilifeform just determine the C, and multiply.
11:25 asciilifeform mod6: re upstack, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StirlingsApproximation.html has the details.
11:25 mod6 aha. gotcha.
11:26 mod6 <+asciilifeform> which, btw, imho is intrinsically unsuitable for a fits-in-head rsatron, it is extremely gnarly and uses float approximations that get magically unfudged back to int, etc << ugh. right.
11:26 mod6 you want me to post my code before I run this again?
11:26 asciilifeform sure
11:26 mod6 aight, just a sec.
11:28 asciilifeform on my box, a 1048576bit ffa has a 240ms mul.
11:28 asciilifeform so,
11:29 asciilifeform !~calc 0.240 * 65536
11:29 jhvh1 asciilifeform: 0.240 * 65536 = 15728.64
11:29 asciilifeform sec. for mod6's thing, approx.
11:30 asciilifeform ( the increment is about 4ms each, so neglected )
11:31 mod6 http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/EosZp/?raw=true
11:32 asciilifeform ugh
11:32 asciilifeform why do you have a ffa-wide comparison in there.
11:32 asciilifeform use a human integer as the counter
11:32 asciilifeform and go up by 1
11:33 asciilifeform ( FZ_Add(F, ... whatever )
11:33 mod6 ooh. for some reason, i didn't think that it could?
11:33 asciilifeform what's to keep you ?
11:33 asciilifeform you don't need to examine F for any reason
11:33 asciilifeform or O
11:33 mod6 i dunno, just the strict types thing.
11:34 asciilifeform O can start at 1, and get incremented (with FZ_Add) I times ( for i ..... loop)
11:34 asciilifeform there's no type rape, because you don't use i for anything but to do the thing i times
11:36 mod6 ah, ok. duh. lemme see here...
11:39 asciilifeform also you got a bunch of ??? in there (what does IO do ? )
11:40 mod6 ah, that was used for some debugging
11:40 mod6 will axe
11:44 mod6 anyway, got some chores to do, will have to come back to this later.
11:45 asciilifeform gimme 1s
11:49 asciilifeform mod6: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/TvufZ/?raw=true << replace 10 with whatever
11:50 asciilifeform also you forgot, in the original, to divide the length of ffa by 64 (bits), yours will blow up instead of run, gcc by default does not give infinite stack
11:51 asciilifeform http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/2GCid/?raw=true << 'purist' version
11:51 asciilifeform ( where we do as i said, incrementing the T , using i for nothing but loop )
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12:18 asciilifeform !~ticker --market all
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12:18 asciilifeform cheapcoinz!!1111
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12:24 * asciilifeform helps
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12:40 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684006 << via this, found >> http://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont-10.0.05/unifont-10.0.05.bmp << which is lulzy, weep at the sheer bulk of the orc hieroglyph liquishit
12:40 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 05:13 erlehmann: i use GNU unifont wherever i can. fits in head.
12:41 asciilifeform ( why was it necessary to unicodize the fucking hieroglyphs ? even supposing the chinese are inseparable from them. why not simply carry them as bitmap matrix.)
12:43 erlehmann asciilifeform the sole purpose of unicode is to replace all other glyph standards. from that follows all else, i.e. incorporation of wingdings, emoji, etc.
12:44 asciilifeform it is rampaging idiocy
12:44 erlehmann what do you suggest as an alternative?
12:45 erlehmann switching encodings needs out of band signaling which IMO is worse
12:45 asciilifeform mno.
12:45 asciilifeform people who want to use hieroglyphs, should be passing around bitmaps.
12:48 asciilifeform they wanna say 妓 -- let'em be stuck saying 32 bytes (16x16 bit matrix, more than enough for any hierohorror) rather than 2 bytes !!!
12:49 erlehmann what actually happened is that people who wanted to use hieroglyphs passed around codes such as A13 – a standard reference exists (gardiner's sign list) that was incorporated into unicode
12:49 erlehmann that's all
12:49 asciilifeform definitely not 'all'
12:49 asciilifeform it's a shambling horror, with empty desert, duplicated glyphs, no particular rhyme or reason, and all the consistency of microshit
12:50 erlehmann okay, but most of it. a special interest group (egyptologican geeks) used a glyph standard. unicode swallowed that standard. this is how it usually goes.
12:51 erlehmann also, for everyday communication i find E1, E2, E3, E4 etc. much better than trying to pass around bitmaps
12:51 asciilifeform this nonsense has no future, erlehmann .
12:51 asciilifeform dun wanna pass bitmaps -- use godly alphabets.
12:51 asciilifeform with $smallint number of glyphs.
12:51 erlehmann can it be that your complaint is more with the egyptian glyphs than with unicode itself?
12:52 asciilifeform mno, that'd be mircea_popescu's.
12:52 erlehmann some writing systems contain non-abstract symbols. all the same to me, as long as everything fits in 16×16 bits.
12:53 asciilifeform though i definitely see the strength of his argument, that people who use more glyphs than there are keys on keyboard, have severe problem, and their place is by the cultural latrine, and not bloating the os for civilized folx
12:54 asciilifeform erlehmann: didja ever read the pernicious-standardization thread in the logz ?
12:55 erlehmann no, link?
12:56 erlehmann asciilifeform i strongly suspect you do not distinguish between complexity and sheer numbers. i saw bloat always as referring to needless complexity, size of something only as evidence, not as bloat itself.
12:56 asciilifeform gonna tell me that hieroglyphic writing is not needless bloat ?
12:57 asciilifeform if i start writing english as strings of 16-bit indices into the oxford dictionary, people will laugh.
12:57 asciilifeform but for some reason will not laugh if chairman mao does the same thing.
12:57 asciilifeform why not?
12:57 asciilifeform why, because 'come to expect' ?
12:57 asciilifeform fuck that, with red hot poker.
12:57 erlehmann one point is that incorporating something in unicode does not increase processing complexity by any means. i actually installed a new version of unifont on an old phone and instantly it could display all the new characters.
12:58 asciilifeform the mere possibility of 'new characters' is antisanity.
12:58 erlehmann so if code does not care if there exist 250 or 2500 or 250000 characters, why should i?
12:58 asciilifeform well for starters 250,000 > 65536
12:59 asciilifeform so you now have either 24bit chars, or O(N) stringlen operator.
12:59 erlehmann that turns out to be a problem with the abysmally bad TTF file format.
12:59 asciilifeform you want to tell me that this is not a cost ?
12:59 erlehmann yes, but this cost has already been incurred. unicode actually tried to prevent too many new characters in the past, leading to misfeature han unification.
12:59 asciilifeform just like the poettershits convinced idiots that 16bit chars were 0cost
13:00 asciilifeform it has NOT been incurred.
13:00 erlehmann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
13:00 asciilifeform i do not write non8bit text processors, and don't intend to ever.
13:00 erlehmann chinese, japanese, korean now share unihan, with all the processing complexity and technical debt incurred from that
13:01 erlehmann asciilifeform ok enjoy your latin1 while it lasts.
13:01 asciilifeform 'it lasts' lol
13:01 asciilifeform from my cold dead hands, motherfuckers.
13:01 erlehmann version 1 of unicode was designed to keep under 16 bits
13:01 asciilifeform incidentally i use 'orc glyphs' every day. koi8 etc.
13:02 erlehmann in those days, only ~21k characters were reserved for CJK
13:02 erlehmann which obviously is not enough (i read something about ~100k characters being enough)
13:02 jurov "incorporating something in unicode does not increase processing complexity" orly? maybe unless you want to do anything interesting with the text, like... count the characters. or case convert. or detect whitespace. or compare two strings. or...
13:03 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-23#1631972 << 1 'standards' thread
13:03 a111 Logged on 2017-03-23 18:21 mircea_popescu: this notion that i will support the wintel FOR FREE is the lolz of all time.
13:03 erlehmann asciilifeform thx
13:04 erlehmann jurov converting case is locale-specific, therefore better left undone.
13:04 jurov dude. all of above is locale specific
13:04 erlehmann also, comparing two strings should be done bytewise, always. everything else is madness.
13:05 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=from%3Amircea_popescu+unicode << in there somewhere
13:05 erlehmann character count and whitespace is locale specific? AFAIK whitespace is an ENUM
13:05 erlehmann one with only 25 members, seems sensible
13:05 jurov erlehmann my language has such a delightful case of "ch" character. which is a "digraph" and to be counted as one char.
13:06 jurov and collated in between h and k
13:06 jurov unicode has zillions if these cases
13:06 erlehmann well, if ch is one character, i rather have it as one codepoint.
13:06 erlehmann instead of having to postprocess ASCII
13:06 jurov your client will not supply it as one
13:07 jurov they will just expect it to work
13:08 jurov there are plenty of articles "what programmers mush know about unicode" with such gotchaz. just educate yourself.
13:08 jurov *must
13:09 erlehmann ch does not exist as unicode ligature, but as i understand distinguishing characters is one of the problems unicode is at least intended to solve. as soon as everyone uses Æ for “ AE” the postprocessing is no longer needed.
13:09 erlehmann note that postprocessing is always wrong.
13:10 erlehmann in standard german, ß / ẞ / ss / SS are not ambiguous, but in german variants that do not use ß / ẞ, the ss / SS could be a digraph depending on context.
13:11 erlehmann e.g. those who do not use ß / ẞ write “Der grosse Duden” instead of “Der große Duden”
13:12 asciilifeform ᛋᛋ !
13:13 erlehmann asciilifeform unicode has you covered
13:13 erlehmann i suggest put the following in your .XCompose if you use X11
13:13 erlehmann <Multi_key> <N> <S> <D> <A> <P> : "卐" U5350 # CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5350
13:14 asciilifeform lol
13:14 erlehmann it nicely complements what they already have out of the box
13:15 erlehmann compose + C C C P → ☭
13:19 phf fwiw unifont is not even the whole story. consider extensions like CTL, which allows you to have special rendering for a sequence of glyphs. a completely separate technology from ligatures and combining characters, but part of the standard never the less.
13:19 erlehmann phf unifont actually leaves out shitstains like arbitrarily combining glyphs to make national flags.
13:20 erlehmann i just see „DE“ surrounded by a special frame instead of a german flag
13:20 erlehmann and i like it that way
13:20 phf well, without such a "shitstains" you can't for example render arabic or iranian in any meaningful way
13:20 erlehmann no color on my terminal please
13:20 erlehmann unless i made it
13:21 phf combining glyphs to make national flags is yes yet another extension
13:22 erlehmann and one introduced because unicode consortium was sick of other misbehaving standards bodies (ISO country codes), ha-ha!
13:36 mod6 <+asciilifeform> also you forgot, in the original, to divide the length of ffa by 64 (bits), yours will blow up instead of run, gcc by default does not give infinite stack << ah thanks for making the changes asciilifeform. bak now. will try this out...
13:45 asciilifeform erlehmann: the 'ligature' liquishit had almost 600 motherfucking years, to get lost, now. since gutenberg.
13:45 mod6 one thing, that i never really thought about is going the other direction; 1 * 2 * 3 ...
13:46 asciilifeform if you don't have a gutenberg-compatible alphabet for your language, it is defective .
13:46 erlehmann asciilifeform nichts hält so lange, wie ein provisorium!
13:46 asciilifeform lol
13:46 mod6 when I do the factorials in my head, i seem to start with the bigger end for some reason.
13:46 mod6 but ofc, computers don't care.
13:48 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684189 << tis nevertheless important to see how much.
13:48 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 12:45 asciilifeform: while we're on subj, ffa is more or less guaranteed to lose to just about any heathen bignumtron in factorial speed, and it should not be hard to see why.
13:48 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the difficulty is in predicting how long ops take on heathentron, not on ffa ( which is deadly linear for all ops )
13:49 mircea_popescu no argument. but i am a practical man and i like plugging things in.
13:49 asciilifeform ( see further in same thread )
13:50 asciilifeform 1 ffa mult for B-bit regs take time T. 9000 of them take time 9000T. guaranteed.
13:50 asciilifeform sorta why the thing even exists.
13:51 mircea_popescu again, no argument. T needs to be measured, factorial is a fine case to measure it in, we don't resort to the lab when we wish to prove theory wrong but in all cases and at all times because we like the lab.
13:52 mircea_popescu meanwhile in the army, http://68.media.tumblr.com/900d9a19e3797d8e49d3cae388b0ce63/tumblr_o7m7l34i1B1vv8p8co1_1280.jpg
13:52 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: another fine experiment is to do 9000 mults of B-bit rngolade. demonstrates that the payload really has 0 impact on time.
13:52 asciilifeform ( to the extent such a thing is to be demonstrated experimentally. )
13:52 mircea_popescu aha.
13:53 mircea_popescu verified experimentally.
13:53 asciilifeform it doesn't relieve of the burden of having to actually prove correctness tho.
13:53 mircea_popescu does not relieve anything, it's just something you do.
13:53 mircea_popescu not for a purpose but because it's there.
13:55 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684202 << ah good, i was just digging this up.
13:55 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 14:24 asciilifeform: !~later tell mod6 1.326 + log2(N)/2 + (log2(N) - 1.443)*N gives bitlength of N! to 1% or so.
13:57 mod6 ok factorial of 65536 with's alf's changes is running.
13:57 mod6 salud
13:57 mircea_popescu and yes, brougham is a monument of socialist retardation. devout abolitionist (which, incidentally, is coming together in my mind as the spot where western civilisation actually went off-course, early 1800s), argued with young re wave form of light, argued with some statistician re solar spots impact on wheat prices, tellingly thought everyone else unscientific and by comparison to his bright mind very stupid indeed and perp
13:57 mircea_popescu etually tried to control all aspects of government.
13:57 mircea_popescu he could as well be their fucking patron saint, the party of vaux.
13:59 mircea_popescu ftr, 1M factorial < 19.5MB
14:00 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684225 << lelz.
14:00 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 15:09 asciilifeform: meanwhile!, in sunny monkeylandia, https://archive.is/a3GZE >> 'Visa... offering up to $10,000 each to 50 U.S.-based small business owners that are committed to going cashless... "We are declaring war on cash," said Andy Gerlt, a spokesman for Visa.'
14:00 asciilifeform exercise for reader : write equation to predict, within 1 minute, how long N! takes on your box in ffa
14:01 asciilifeform ( i could instead say '1 msec' but crystal jitter, interrupts, etc )
14:01 mircea_popescu notice how this works : visa is sending "up to $10k in bitcoin" to its own bitcoin addresses to claim "people" have "invested" in whatever nutty bullshit faux coin they have going ; visa is sending "up to 10k" faux news on dead paper to its own offices to claim someone actually gives a shit what the new york times says on any topic ; visa is then giving 10k in cash to 50 of its own merchants to pretend like you and i should d
14:01 mircea_popescu o things this way rather than that...
14:02 mircea_popescu visa could totally buy russia, if russia were dumb enough.
14:04 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684252 << funny, i was expecting a few hours. apparently guessatron not that badly oiled either.
14:04 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 15:29 asciilifeform: sec. for mod6's thing, approx.
14:07 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684284 << dude LOOK AT THAT BULSHIT. fucking azns already.
14:07 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 16:40 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684006 << via this, found >> http://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont-10.0.05/unifont-10.0.05.bmp << which is lulzy, weep at the sheer bulk of the orc hieroglyph liquishit
14:07 mircea_popescu there is NO REASON to continue the nonsense. learn a language.
14:08 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684289 LEARNING A LANGUAGE. accepting that chinese is not a language ; accepting in order to accept that the simple annd obvious fact thjat your mother and father, if you're chinese, were FOR THAT REASON idiots and imbeciles ; and for the reason also that their parenjts in their turn -- idiots and imbeciles.
14:08 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 16:44 erlehmann: what do you suggest as an alternative?
14:09 mircea_popescu coming to that minimal point of self-awareness any bimbo with half a peanut in her skull manages in fact to come to, where she realises it's not the fucking squiglies painted on her nails that make her unique.
14:09 asciilifeform hey, mao did answer 'but your father swallowed french revolution, we dun know which is more lethally stupid yet'
14:09 mircea_popescu asciilifeform but we DO know mine still permits the use of language.
14:09 BingoBoingo <erlehmann> asciilifeform ok enjoy your latin1 while it lasts. << 卍 We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children 卍
14:10 mircea_popescu i'm not proposing a sorting here. i am just proposing they notice the parts of their skull made of cow dung.
14:10 asciilifeform i'm a bit surprised that pantsuits have not yet attempted to transform english into 'wordicode', a la http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684311 .
14:10 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 16:57 asciilifeform: if i start writing english as strings of 16-bit indices into the oxford dictionary, people will laugh.
14:10 asciilifeform choose-from-these-palace-approved-words.
14:10 mircea_popescu they're glacially going that way.
14:10 mircea_popescu look at bureaucrat wank, it's directly translatable to word table.
14:11 asciilifeform newspeak(tm)(r)
14:12 mircea_popescu "oh but all teh great literature shall be lost" hurr durr. egyptian had just as great literature. JUST as great. its loss was thought important for centuries, before drunk soldiers broke the code and it was discovered -- egyptian literature is barely fit to grace toilet paper.
14:13 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684298 << yes, this is how socialism always goes. not how "it" "usually" goes. when the socialists are involved -- always goes. when they are not -- never goes.
14:13 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 16:50 erlehmann: okay, but most of it. a special interest group (egyptologican geeks) used a glyph standard. unicode swallowed that standard. this is how it usually goes.
14:13 mircea_popescu we are the never goes camp.
14:14 erlehmann i think it is not about the literature. i think it is to cater to the special interest groups.
14:14 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684303 << the complaint is about the concept of tolerance, equality and so on.
14:14 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 16:51 erlehmann: can it be that your complaint is more with the egyptian glyphs than with unicode itself?
14:14 erlehmann unicode consortium sees group using not-unicode, swallows.
14:14 erlehmann to me that is not tolerance, but annexation
14:14 mircea_popescu there shall be no equality, and there shall be no tolerance. black man either dresses like white man or picks cotton.
14:14 erlehmann logic of empire
14:14 BingoBoingo <erlehmann> i think it is not about the literature. i think it is to cater to the special interest groups. << Maybe these groups need specialler interests?
14:14 mircea_popescu erlehmann but that's prtecisely what tolerance is. an ill designed attempt to swallow.
14:15 erlehmann mircea_popescu empire does not pretend equality, but tolerance it has. EU has 23 official languages AFAIK.
14:15 erlehmann just pay your taxes and you'll be spared from war or worse!
14:15 mircea_popescu and is going to shit. BECAUSE of it. not simply "in the time of it", but BECAUSE of it.
14:16 mircea_popescu and i don't mean, because eu bureaucrats tolerate greek, eu is going to shit. i mean -- because eu has absolutely no project (which is the direct equivalent) everyone is only there while the food flows. and furthermore, because the men tolerate the misbehaviours of the women, the countries are dropping off thje map, and so on.
14:16 mircea_popescu erlehmann security, yeah, that old "come be eaten by ants for you're too scared of hunting bear"
14:16 erlehmann i thought singular project is interconnection. make war less profitable than peace.
14:17 mircea_popescu this is simply a restatement of the foregoing idiocy.
14:17 erlehmann consider that idiots like hitler, napoleon etc. pp. found war more profitable than peace
14:17 mircea_popescu "make domestic arguments less profitable than watching tv". this isn't washing the dishes.
14:17 mircea_popescu erlehmann war IS more profitable than peace. whether you find this or not.
14:18 erlehmann mircea_popescu it's only war in europe that is made less profitable. lots of wars to shop around for otherwhere.
14:18 mircea_popescu war makes the only thing peace never can, that is -- empty space. the value of empty space varies, from negative after a war to infinite during socialism.
14:18 erlehmann [[lebensraum intensifies]]
14:18 mircea_popescu erlehmann and yet, funnily, everyone comes to make war in europe. and yet, funnilky enough, the byzantine empire still prays to their legions in heaven, notwithstanding the reality daily debunk
14:18 asciilifeform 'war was invented by people living downstream of herds' (tm)(r)(uncle al)
14:19 erlehmann asciilifeform can you actually see ™ and ® btw?
14:19 asciilifeform erlehmann: on some boxes yes, on some -- no
14:20 erlehmann asciilifeform what you think of unifont hex file format?
14:20 asciilifeform erlehmann: see the earlier thread /
14:20 asciilifeform ?
14:20 asciilifeform multibyte chars == crock of shit
14:21 asciilifeform and fuck the hieroglyphists with their own severed limbs.
14:21 erlehmann no, just the hex file format
14:21 asciilifeform there is no 'no, just'.
14:21 mircea_popescu erlehmann let me tell you a story. after the fall of the romanian socialist republic, people were left with no practically useful skills and no capital. a mad rush to accumulate both ensued, which was subsidiarily great because it put young people above old people and as a result produced the only sort of society worthj living in -- with anxiety way way underregulated. now then -- what did the old people do, as their principa
14:21 mircea_popescu l neo-society endeavour ?
14:21 erlehmann i created unifont glyphs using emacs and sed
14:21 mircea_popescu do guess, you i hear are from the right germany to guess./
14:22 erlehmann mircea_popescu would you explain regulation of anxiety?
14:22 erlehmann maybe an idiom i do not understand
14:22 mircea_popescu yes. if you permit the woman to act out her "worry" about "What may happen" you will sink. if you beat her black and blue every time she worries -- about anything, you'll suddenly get great parties.
14:23 mircea_popescu you won't get a bike helmet industry, which is a tolerable loss.
14:23 erlehmann sounds like what a qualified cognitive-behavioural therapist would say indeed!
14:23 mircea_popescu (helmets -- great. the process that normally produces them -- poison)
14:23 mircea_popescu alright, now to the question.
14:23 erlehmann process that produces them → people die from head injuries?
14:24 mircea_popescu no. people worring about people drying from head injuries.
14:24 mircea_popescu note helmet works -- before the fact. it's not fucking antibiotics.
14:25 mircea_popescu process that produces antibiotics -> people needing to hold on to a tree while peeing.
14:25 erlehmann large scale deployments are always driven by statistics. i once read that many stats have no bike helmet laws because lawmakers are convinced this would reduce biking to the point where more cardiovascular diseases outrun benefits of less head injuries.
14:25 erlehmann s/stats/states/
14:26 mircea_popescu this is not so, but let us not diverge any more. what did the old people do, as their principal neo-society endeavour ?
14:28 erlehmann collect bottles, receive monies?
14:28 erlehmann what poor old people do, right?
14:28 mircea_popescu no. wanna try more or satisfied ?
14:28 erlehmann not in the mood for guessing history i'm not familiar with
14:29 mircea_popescu you probably are familiar with, but anyway : they ~~~ENCLOSED THEIR BALCONIES~~~.
14:30 mircea_popescu this is to say, standard soviet matchbox dwelling, like berlin is still full of, came from the maker with a "balcony", which was open to the outside. they -- paid, scions of the decrepit metalworking industry, to solder/weld/glue to the balustrades ugly scrap metal pikes and pipes, and in between them put glass.
14:30 mircea_popescu just as soon as they managed to get a little capital, which is to say money not needed day to day, they stuck it in this deeply improductive activity. not went to istanbul to buy cheap colorful crap to resell, not anything else.
14:31 mircea_popescu why ? because even in their sclerotic stupid fucking heads that should by rights have been taken off en masse at the very onset, the value of SPACE exceeded all other values.
14:31 mircea_popescu the ~only thing all survivors of socialism agreed on, even the ones too dumb to live.
14:31 mircea_popescu even if it was a little meaningless bit of useless space misplaced and so on.
14:31 asciilifeform dingdingding winnner
14:31 asciilifeform asciilifeform's grandfather indeed with own hands enclosed the balcony
14:31 mircea_popescu now tell me they did not do this in berlin and i shall not believe you.
14:32 asciilifeform and today asciilifeform spends manymanybux on... space.
14:32 asciilifeform for the sake of space.
14:32 mircea_popescu instead tell me you were there while it happened and didn't notice, and i shall believe it, but also point to it for your benefit.
14:32 asciilifeform and it ain't useless space, either, i like my current dig mainly for the enclosedbalcony. sunlight, it's a thing.
14:33 mircea_popescu space, in socialism, is worth ten thousand wars.
14:33 mircea_popescu to use a chinese idiomatic which, oddly, i can actually introduce without importing shitsquiggles.tiff first.
14:34 mircea_popescu perhaps because man with superior encoding is superior man. or shall we say MMMMMMMMMMx instead.
14:35 trinque I was relating the uniturd thread to $girl in the pool just now, and she challenged erlehmann to start writing software in emojis. and if not, why communicate with it.
14:35 asciilifeform trinque: apl!
14:35 asciilifeform http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_APL_symbols.html << it's in there, apparently.
14:36 asciilifeform ( bonus xah lee ! )
14:36 trinque http://www.chilton.com/~jimw/a2ap1g1.gif << oh jesus christ
14:37 erlehmann trinque we'll start here http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/unicode
14:37 asciilifeform i dun actually hate apl. it ain't chinese liquishit, is actually pretty small and readable alphabet. that probably oughta have occupied the upper half of ansi 8bit coding, instead of the rubbish that's in there nao.
14:38 trinque erlehmann: been treated amply in logs you haven't read
14:38 mircea_popescu such a texan this guy.
14:38 erlehmann i should read more
14:38 erlehmann logs are life of irc channels
14:38 erlehmann i noticed once logs of another channel were gone
14:39 trinque asciilifeform: if it had found its way into ansi, the shitgnomes would've demanded moar glyphs, and ended up in exactly the same place
14:40 asciilifeform trinque: there weren't any shitgnomes yet.
14:40 trinque so?
14:40 mircea_popescu trinque your girl is in for a lot of anal, i guess.
14:40 trinque ahaha fucked into nap already
14:40 mircea_popescu lel
14:41 mircea_popescu asciilifeform wtf yet lol. there is no such time there weren't. AN END TO SLAVERY!
14:43 asciilifeform http://www.asciitable.com/index/extend.gif << oblig 8thbit liquishit
14:43 asciilifeform бНОПНЯ ВХРЮК!!!!
14:44 trinque ^ question marks in my term. zealotry!
14:44 BingoBoingo <erlehmann> large scale deployments are always driven by statistics. i once read that many stats have no bike helmet laws because lawmakers are convinced this would reduce biking to the point where more cardiovascular diseases outrun benefits of less head injuries. << For all the idiocies Illinois does participate in, it refrains from helmet laws. This means the occasional perosn riding a chromed up cruisers with a DOT non-compliant Pick
14:44 BingoBoingo elhaube and buncha kids riding in organ donation mode
14:44 asciilifeform 'Знает каждый на Руси - вХРЮК, оХГДЕЖ и МЮ УСИ' (tm)(r)
14:45 erlehmann trinque if ${girl?} wanted to make a joke, she should know: APL is not the worst offender, merely the first. rules for identifiers in c# correspond to unicode standard annex 15.
14:45 trinque she had a joek of the pointed variety.
14:45 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684311 << the amusing part here is that ~possibly~, as an entirely speculative, rather literary than linguistic notion, the chinese started out early, and as such started out small : they had but 8 or so letters, which they combined in words (with silent winds, as was the fashion 5000 years pre-magdalene). as the complexity driven by a large empire ever piled, these short and few letters sta
14:45 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 16:57 asciilifeform: if i start writing english as strings of 16-bit indices into the oxford dictionary, people will laugh.
14:45 mircea_popescu rted to carry multiple meanings. FILIP B is still how you say philip the 2nd in greek to this day, because B is also 2. it means a number of things, and if you didn't know "set" is the english word with the largest number of meanings.
14:45 mircea_popescu now -- birthday paradox, you only get 8 boxes you end up with a LOT of meanings.
14:45 mircea_popescu then they made the stupid move of coming up with separate notiations for the 16 meanings of the letter tsa.
14:46 mircea_popescu thereby coming up with the confucianist horror we all know and loathe today.
14:47 erlehmann BingoBoingo i recall there was a study about helmet laws https://msu.edu/~telder/donorcycles6-10-09.pdf
14:48 erlehmann > estimates imply that every death of helmetless imbecile prevents or delays as many as 0.33 deaths among imbeciles on transplant waiting list
14:51 trinque I'm still an idiot flash-card-level student of latin, but worth discussing that as the standard for "proper alphabetical lang". even things like "afui" make me feel like a bumbling idiot when in english I have to say "I was away". only way with pictographs to combine meanings and generate new would seem to be "well yeah, go with me on this one, but this one is sorta related-looking to these other two"
14:51 * trinque dun see how it could be anything but the squashiest of thinking tools
14:52 BingoBoingo erlehmann: Anyways the point is, even pickeljaube still can't make Illinois as cool as Missouri where people wear DOT helmets, but are allowed to attach scabbard and ride with carbine on steel horse
14:52 trinque or god, "having been built" -> "aedificatus" iirc
14:52 trinque you'd have more symbols than atoms in universe by long
14:53 trinque or more likely, never turn combinations into their *own* singular concepts, upon which to build other relationships in mind
14:53 asciilifeform trinque: wait till you remember that the cn folx are fractally damaged, they can't ~speak~ like normal humans either, gotta do this 11-tone singsong thing
14:53 trinque you know, ABCDEFG has this relationship with JKERQ
14:53 asciilifeform ( at least jp moved away from this some time bc )
14:54 trinque standardizing writing *below* concepts appears the only possible sanity
14:54 mod6 BingoBoingo: that is pretty cool
15:01 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684534 << afaik there is 0 evidence of their ever having had a syllabulary... pictograph liquishit from cave drawings to today.
15:01 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 18:45 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684311 << the amusing part here is that ~possibly~, as an entirely speculative, rather literary than linguistic notion, the chinese started out early, and as such started out small : they had but 8 or so letters, which they combined in words (with silent winds, as was the fashion 5000 years pre-magdalene). as the complexity driven by a large empire ever piled, these short and few letters sta
15:01 asciilifeform ( with obvious 'man', 'woman', 'cow', etc stick figures still embedded in the most vintage glyphs )
15:02 mircea_popescu trinque the sad news being that your equivalences are very much in the http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-14#1683821 vein. if the built were a girl you'd say it differently.
15:02 a111 Logged on 2017-07-14 20:29 phf: asciilifeform: i used to try and clarify the inflection, but then realized that it's mostly meaningless for the anglophones. so however much it grates,
15:02 mircea_popescu asciilifeform most languages were notated after long time spoken though.
15:02 asciilifeform troo
15:03 mircea_popescu now, if the jews and other golden crescents notated six centuries later whereas the chinese notated a few centuries before but a language already 2500 years old...
15:03 mircea_popescu ie, they possibly spoke too soon.
15:05 trinque mircea_popescu: said differently without writing differently?
15:05 mircea_popescu no, written also aedificata.
15:05 trinque ah, well sorta still works. meant that in latin the user can generate concepts on the fly, and have them known as singular items upon which to anchor others
15:05 trinque and I don't see how this'd not be way more cumbersome with the ideographs
15:06 mircea_popescu anyway. your chief point is correct, in that flexion is pure lisp for language, that i even to this day can say inexistent words whose meanings are directly evident to romanian speakers is a large matter. english even has rudiments of proper flexion, i can say "the built" and it connotes, but not to all speakers.
15:06 mircea_popescu trinque exactly.
15:07 asciilifeform english has tattered remnants of various attributes of proper human tongue
15:07 mircea_popescu this is why i like that romanian cartoon series, "robotzi". they do it extensively, to breaking point. single example : at some point one says to the other "daca stiam c-ai sa ajungi un ghetzalit nespalat". this is evidently in standard romanian "if i knew you'll end up and unwashed ???". the ??? is iffy, because ghetzalit is not a word in romanian. in fact, it's a construction : ghetz is how you say sperm in hungarian, and -
15:07 mircea_popescu it is the correct mark of the perfective participle in this circumstance. so "cumfaced" i guess.
15:08 mircea_popescu this is done universally and to everything, german, russian, turkish. zdreantsa!
15:08 mircea_popescu "romanian thinks all other languages are badly written romanian", and this because it actually continues latin.
15:09 asciilifeform how do you even say, e.g., отпидарашенный, in engl.
15:09 asciilifeform afaik you can't. it turns into a whole paragraph.
15:10 mircea_popescu same exact principle. czar, eh ? :D
15:10 asciilifeform ( was my guess for == to 'ghetzalit' btw )
15:10 asciilifeform neither is in the oxford dictionaries.
15:10 asciilifeform but made of same cloth.
15:10 mircea_popescu nor, and here's the important point, and the utf bane, nor could!
15:11 mircea_popescu you can not, still to this day, in spite of all sort of "published research", include a statement of its own coherence in a coherent system sufficiently complex (so as to include a statement of certain mathematical truths...)
15:11 mircea_popescu the problem with bureaucrats is that it universally is not possible to provide them with an above-secondary education.
15:12 mircea_popescu consequently they form a highschooler's toolbox and then go build themselves monumental graves.
15:14 asciilifeform one could attempt a, say, 'be-arsewaltzed' but not same effect. and doesn't generalize.
15:14 mircea_popescu the latter being also the chief point.
15:15 mircea_popescu which brings a different matter home : traduttore tradditore etcetera, but only if trying to cross the human-monkey linguistic divide.
15:15 asciilifeform ^
15:15 asciilifeform translating to engl always feels like hand-compiling to risc asm
15:15 mircea_popescu (amusingly, 1800s public person is on teh record saying you can readily understand so-and-so's broken romanian : first, transl;ate it back to german.)
15:15 asciilifeform a line becomes a para becomes a page ....
15:15 mircea_popescu asciilifeform rather.
15:18 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> the problem with bureaucrats is that it universally is not possible to provide them with an above-secondary education. << AHA, they pursue baccalaureate education in studying their High School experiences
15:19 deedbot http://qntra.net/2017/07/bitcoin-network-difficulty-spiked-13-53-this-week/ << Qntra - Bitcoin Network Difficulty Spiked ~13.53% This Week
15:19 mircea_popescu heh
15:20 asciilifeform speaking of risc asm, asciilifeform found out that ppc has a nonconstanttime iron mul.
15:21 asciilifeform ppc users MUST use an egyptological w_mul...
15:21 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684317 relates to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-28#1675632 and in general is a very fucking important point. what do you expect NEW characters could POSSIBLY mean to you ? they're new ergo meaningless! they have to be! "oh but guess from context what could it mean" is the typical ustardian delusion.
15:21 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 16:58 asciilifeform: the mere possibility of 'new characters' is antisanity.
15:21 a111 Logged on 2017-06-28 02:19 mircea_popescu: there's no peer discovery as a gossipd function ; at all times it knows already all the peers it will ever know. in lawyer speak this is called "never ask a question you don't know the answer to."
15:21 mircea_popescu "guessing from context" does specifically and fundamentally not work.
15:22 mircea_popescu re which, i heartily recommend http://trilema.com/2016/vacation/ for the ustard "guessing from context" what rimjob means
15:22 mircea_popescu "i mean, what could it be, right ?"
15:22 mircea_popescu aka "i am a human perfect in every way and equal to all others, what could there be that's not directly obvious to me as well as anyone"
15:23 asciilifeform 'new characters', e.g. integral sign, are MINDBOGGLINGLY EXPENSIVE. to the point where i dun expect to ever live to see a halfway justified case for one.
15:24 asciilifeform not 'let's make a new smiley with ebola face', no.
15:24 asciilifeform anyone recall how long punctuation marks took, to catch on?
15:24 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684325 << no socialism has been baked in. everything is open to revision, and everything WILL be revised. bitcoin code, abolition of slavery, EVERY single socialist "victory" is on the table and will be reversed.
15:24 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 17:00 asciilifeform: it has NOT been incurred.
15:25 mircea_popescu asciilifeform new symbols are indeed the most expensive luxury there is.
15:25 mircea_popescu erlehmann that is the important point here : the bicentennial folly is neither relevant nor long for this world. it is no proper part of human history, nor will be long remembered.
15:26 asciilifeform had better be remembered, or will repeat. as mazdakism was forgotten, and today repeats.
15:26 mircea_popescu remembered as folly ; not as a thing to be.
15:26 asciilifeform redditidjits worry about marking nuke tombs to be comprehensible to monkeys. how about marking liberasty.
15:26 erlehmann asciilifeform expensive in what terms?
15:26 mircea_popescu in terms of neuron-calorie.
15:26 asciilifeform erlehmann: in the only terms that matter : brain cycles.
15:27 erlehmann i tend to not waste brain cycles on codepages i do not use
15:27 erlehmann gibberish to me
15:27 mircea_popescu this is very naive.
15:27 erlehmann while codepages i use are gibberish to CJK
15:27 asciilifeform erlehmann: do you understand that IT EXISTING is a massive cost ?
15:27 mircea_popescu do you also tend to not waste brain cycles on cohabiting women you don'\t fuck ?
15:27 mircea_popescu or just on the occasionally missing carkeys, cellphones, etc.
15:27 asciilifeform even if you personally never intend to implement an os, a text renderer, build printer with own hands, etc
15:28 erlehmann mircea_popescu i tend to fuck people i can stand enough to live with, so … yes? unless i misunderstood that.
15:28 asciilifeform it makes every single text-touching thing 9000x moar complicated and riddled with ???.
15:28 asciilifeform than it otherwise could be. than it was in 1990.
15:28 mircea_popescu erlehmann so one day new face shows up in your flat, and you're like, whatever, i dun care.
15:28 erlehmann having delved into plan9 innards, i can say that some ill-thought abstractions make obvious shittery obvious, that is all.
15:29 asciilifeform and making me read an ENTIRE MOTHERFUCKING STRING before i can say how many chars are in it, or whether a certain substring occurs at the end -- is not ill-thought ?
15:29 erlehmann mircea_popescu i negotiate such things beforehand. wants to live with me? must live up to my standards.
15:30 mircea_popescu erlehmann so then what is so different with the characters ?
15:30 mircea_popescu you seem to apply different standards.
15:31 mircea_popescu "who the fuck are you and why are your clothes still on" applies equally well to cunt and to squiggly. it is my house like it is my computer, exactly.
15:31 whaack BingoBoingo: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/egIN5/?raw=true
15:31 erlehmann let me say it like thit: a friend of mine once randomly started to masturbate beside me while visiting. i did not care as i was occupied otherwise, since she did not leave stains. if she had, i would have told her to clean it up.
15:32 mircea_popescu (lulzy bit re that, weeks ago stark naked local girl with grandiose tits assuring us that "she doesn't steal". i was like... woman... WHERE WOULD YOU PUT IT.)
15:32 erlehmann harr
15:32 mircea_popescu erlehmann well let me know if balloon-with-face cleans up the residue when you tell it to.
15:33 asciilifeform or how about the raging idiocy of, e.g., nonprintingspace char.
15:33 asciilifeform 'it's invisible ! magic !'
15:33 mircea_popescu ^H ?
15:33 asciilifeform mno
15:33 mircea_popescu :)
15:33 asciilifeform the one in shiticode
15:34 asciilifeform or the wonderful duped a, a, e, p, that lets whoever log in as 'mircea_popescu' on fleanode and it will display EXACTLY in 'modernized' terminal as the actual mircea_popescu
15:34 asciilifeform ( and ditto in 'modern', e.g., crapple, www browsers, in urls )
15:34 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684340 << bwahahahaha. "actually rebuilding mosul is mosul specific, therefore it has become necessary to destroy the world's heritage to save it"
15:34 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 17:04 erlehmann: jurov converting case is locale-specific, therefore better left undone.
15:34 asciilifeform need i go on..
15:35 erlehmann mircea_popescu if i was not entirely sure she would never have gotten there.
15:35 mircea_popescu erlehmann the woman, or the letter ?
15:35 erlehmann the woman.
15:35 asciilifeform dun forget to insert nonprintingspaces between the chars for good measure, for potentially INFINITE bytewise-permutes mapping to SAME VISUAL STRING
15:35 mircea_popescu and the distinction is based on ???
15:36 erlehmann about characters, if you start using shit i do not expect, prepare to fail at the input frontier.
15:36 erlehmann at least that is for software i write. full recognition etc. pp.
15:36 mircea_popescu asciilifeform hey, the desire to break the visually-inspectable quality of the machine has been long in the tooth. they want their girlfriends "mystique", the libertards.
15:36 erlehmann lots of software is broken beyond repair considering characters
15:36 mircea_popescu erlehmann so your implementations of unicode include a filter table which consists of... ascii, and which rejects all non-ascii chars ?
15:36 mircea_popescu hey, mine too!
15:37 asciilifeform mno looks like he only rejects ones crapple and gnome hadn't yet signed off on
15:37 mircea_popescu heh.
15:37 erlehmann my “those people are almost certainly charlatans” moment with urbit was when their software barfed on a character being more than one byte, despite claiming unicode support.
15:37 mircea_popescu are they paying you for this btw ? or do you just donate to them for free and then donate to them also the HAVING DONATED, like bob beck "has grown accustomed to expect" ?
15:38 erlehmann mircea_popescu when i write software that considers the input language, i tend to write a grammar for the subset i am going to handle. so yes, i have written software that considers i.e. only characters valid in urlencoded base64 as input and rejects everything else.
15:38 erlehmann almost half of the code of epigraph is a recognizer for the input
15:38 mircea_popescu so then you do ~what we do when you're having a moment of clarity and are promiscuous when drunk.
15:38 mircea_popescu seems about right.
15:40 erlehmann mircea_popescu that is actually a major point from me. i tend to drink only with people who either proved they can behave appropriately or it would not bother me if they fucked me in the ass with a supersized dragon dildo while i'm too drunk to resist.
15:40 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684356 << note that post-processing is always what you do to a language anyway.
15:40 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 17:09 erlehmann: note that postprocessing is always wrong.
15:41 erlehmann intersection of statements: no one is right. everyone is wrong.
15:41 erlehmann one of the few things about urbit i like is that the system tries to not allow users to input statements not syntactically valid.
15:42 mircea_popescu and why do you like this ?
15:42 erlehmann it makes it immediately clear what is part of the grammar and what not
15:42 mircea_popescu it lost me at "tries". no computer should try anything. that's for (young) girlfriends on their way to the dungeon cell.
15:42 mircea_popescu computers should do.
15:42 erlehmann want to write garbage? guess you can't
15:42 erlehmann i wrote „tries“ because authors are charlatans
15:42 mircea_popescu or perhaps because the notion is an escher.
15:42 erlehmann i guess they „try“, as in keeping up appearances
15:43 mircea_popescu you know, when the emperor died of arsenic poisoning upon eating the "endless life pill", it was not exactly because the alchemists were charlatans.
15:43 mircea_popescu not that they weren't, at that.
15:44 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684366 << or that stupid encoding shceme they came up with to allow the russkis to pretend like they have cyrillic domain names. ewgh.
15:44 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 17:19 phf: fwiw unifont is not even the whole story. consider extensions like CTL, which allows you to have special rendering for a sequence of glyphs. a completely separate technology from ligatures and combining characters, but part of the standard never the less.
15:44 erlehmann it's koi8-r right?
15:45 mircea_popescu nope.
15:45 mircea_popescu look into it sometime, it's a whole turing machine.
15:45 erlehmann ah, you mean punycode?
15:45 mircea_popescu yes, i mean punycode.
15:45 erlehmann xn--GARBAGE-PLACE-HERE
15:46 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684382 commutative op.
15:46 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 17:46 mod6: but ofc, computers don't care.
15:47 mod6 i felt like had been silly not even considering going 1...N as opposed to N...1
15:49 mod6 anyway, a couple days ago, i was messing around trying to go from 1 .. Word. And I thought that I got a compile error saying "Expected Standard.Integer, found "Word"" or something of the kind.
15:49 mod6 But alf's seems to compile just fine. So i dunno wtf.
15:50 mod6 fact(65536) still running btw...
15:50 erlehmann koi8-r was the one where bitfuckery rearranged the cyrillic glyphs so that taking away a bit made it ASCII
15:50 erlehmann Русский becomes rUSSKIJ
15:53 asciilifeform mod6: if your box is anything like mine, it'll be 4-5 hrs.
15:53 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: 'punycode' rubbish is used ~entirely by cn spammers.
15:54 mod6 asciilifeform: ah, ok.
15:54 mircea_popescu nooo ?
15:54 asciilifeform erlehmann: that's the only forgiveable way of doing orc alphabets ( ru, il, gr )
15:54 asciilifeform with maximally soft fallback to roman
15:54 mircea_popescu you mean ... just like everyting ELSE the socialistards came up with ?
15:54 mircea_popescu all they do is spawn vermin ? i never noticed this !
15:55 erlehmann asciilifeform you long for the days of codepage switching, i guess?
15:55 asciilifeform erlehmann: dun switch if you dun wanna.
15:55 mircea_popescu they were fine days - i never switched a page throughout.
15:55 asciilifeform can read romanji.
15:55 erlehmann worst unicode fail was that i wrote a book with a friend, published with o'reilly http://internetmeme.de
15:55 asciilifeform jeszcze polska ne zginela etc.
15:56 erlehmann and they actually failed at astral plane unicode characters
15:56 erlehmann there are squares where cat faces should be
15:56 erlehmann in a chapter about evolution of traditional smilies to emoji
15:56 mircea_popescu sounds about par for o'reilly quality.
15:57 erlehmann german o'reilly was different. worse, if you ask me.
15:57 erlehmann but i accidentally made someone hate me i guess
15:57 erlehmann we developed book using git and RST (because almost plaintext), with reviewers who also used git.
15:58 erlehmann but then drafts had to be sent as ODT and came back as PDF to be annotated. in hindsight that was probably a measure to prevent too many annotations.
15:58 erlehmann turns out a bit of ghostscript can fix that problem
15:58 mircea_popescu i did my galley proofs by hand , on printed paper.
15:59 erlehmann i think we submitted more changes than any other book by one or two orders of magnitude, just because we had it automated.
15:59 erlehmann i later learned someone corrected all that stuff in the file sent to the printer by hand. their loss.
15:59 erlehmann result: i tell people to not write a book.
16:00 erlehmann unless a lot of money is involved
16:00 mircea_popescu hey, me 2!
16:01 mircea_popescu anyway, this endless lulz of socialism whereby they come up with a dumb "solution" to a non-problem which sane people ignore ("code pages") and THEN they come up with an "improved" solution to the same nonproblem and expect sane people to not piss on their face because hey, IMPROVED!
16:01 mircea_popescu children that should have died of exonsure suspended from anal hooks in the open before the age of twelve.
16:02 erlehmann great leap forward was self-correcting, wasn't it?
16:02 mircea_popescu no.
16:03 mircea_popescu fucking "spellchekers", they have 1/3 my vocabulary and no head for puns.
16:03 mircea_popescu 96% or so false positives. such tool.
16:04 mircea_popescu of the http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-06#1679507 ilk
16:04 a111 Logged on 2017-07-06 00:43 asciilifeform: (mostly) unrelatedly, asciilifeform bought some chinese $various , and , in the crate, discovered a phree goodie, a 'voltalert' tool, that supposedly tests for presence of mains current noncontactfully -- by looking for 50/60Hz electric field. but witness the surprise : it gives false negative on maybe 1/3 of the hot mains wires tried...
16:09 mircea_popescu erlehmann the "improved" comment was re your http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684708
16:09 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 19:55 erlehmann: asciilifeform you long for the days of codepage switching, i guess?
16:11 erlehmann mircea_popescu registered
16:11 erlehmann asciilifeform have you reverse engineered the thing and analyzed the fault?
16:11 erlehmann what makes it fail?
16:23 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-06#1679518 << erlehmann
16:23 a111 Logged on 2017-07-06 00:46 asciilifeform: possibly delicate balance, between finding it anywhere in the room ( as a poorly made amp will ) and nowhere
16:23 asciilifeform it was ill-conceived
16:24 asciilifeform afaik you cannot actually make a tool like this , that would work reasonably.
16:25 asciilifeform gotta go either contact ( normal people's voltmeter ) or induction sense ring ( magnetic field )
16:25 erlehmann asciilifeform reminds me of http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf
16:25 asciilifeform trying to use electric field -- ends badly
16:25 erlehmann bennett put dead salmon in fMRI machine
16:25 asciilifeform classic
16:25 erlehmann and showed it pictures of humans
16:26 mircea_popescu discussions of how mri is not science plastered all over teh logs.
16:27 asciilifeform fmri
16:27 asciilifeform size&shape old school mri -- worx
16:29 mircea_popescu works my foot. "this section of the brain fucked your mother"
16:30 asciilifeform again yer speaking of the f
16:30 mircea_popescu our cook's thermometer clearly indicates that the fault in koch's gpg is located in the upper left cpu quadrant.
16:30 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i am speaking of the principle, described ^
16:30 erlehmann chuckled
16:30 asciilifeform classic mri is simply like a 3d xray that shows soft tissue
16:30 asciilifeform no brain lights involved.
16:31 mircea_popescu how classical is your classical, becuase that item is ~60s ?
16:31 asciilifeform 60s
16:31 mircea_popescu heh k.
16:31 asciilifeform 50s when was still called nmr..
16:32 asciilifeform ( ~same iron, scaled up )
~ 52 minutes ~
17:24 mircea_popescu trinque a fine example, too, the more i think of it the more i like it. aedificium (=building) != aedificans (... building) != aedificant (still!!! building) and so on and so forth qs.
17:33 mircea_popescu meanwhile at blue competency camp, http://68.media.tumblr.com/4b54ddf842ea74e692172a79e3bae321/tumblr_oglbf9KvxO1sg1lgao1_500.gif
~ 54 minutes ~
18:27 asciilifeform !~later tell mod6 incidentally didja build with -cargs -O2 ??????
18:27 jhvh1 asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
18:29 asciilifeform mod6 et al : http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/YEHNs/?raw=true << asciilifeform's current an' all-time gnat makefile
18:31 asciilifeform ( pretty sure i posted this before. but here it is again. )
18:43 * mod6 looks
18:44 mod6 nice, i do have one, but it was from a while ago.
18:44 mod6 no, didn't build with -cargs -O2, just did `gnatmake ffa ffa_fact`
18:44 mod6 it's still running. should i recompile & re-run?
18:45 asciilifeform mod6: yes!
18:45 mod6 hehe, ok.
18:46 asciilifeform gnat apparently has the utterly worthless ( even for auditing, it produces megatonne of liquishit ) O0 as default.
18:46 asciilifeform also you gotta use all of my flags to have comparable result.
18:47 asciilifeform ( i enable all - afaik - of the checks that are for some reason off by default )
18:47 asciilifeform fwiw i left mod6's factorial thing running on 3 different boxes
18:47 asciilifeform tomorrow will see how varies.
18:49 mod6 ok, it doesnt recognize `gnatmake -cflags -02 ffa ffa_fact`
18:49 mod6 barfs spitting out flag usage, neither of which are available.
18:49 mod6 also, makefile doesnt seem to work, i seem to recall this from before.
18:50 mod6 Makefile:33: *** missing separator. Stop.
18:51 mod6 to resolve those, i had to yank target instructions to the same line as the target var.
18:51 mod6 then add '\' following those.
18:52 mod6 now i get: make: *** No rule to make target 'gnatmake', needed by 'ffa'. Stop.
18:52 asciilifeform for fucks sake
18:52 asciilifeform ben_vulpes's paste thing must be mutilating endings
18:52 asciilifeform or similar
18:52 mod6 yah, gotta be the version of my make is different than yours, plus, i'm not using adacore's gnat
18:53 asciilifeform i have it working on both types
18:53 asciilifeform and even on crapple.
18:53 asciilifeform bitwise same makefile.
18:54 asciilifeform what's line 33 anyway
18:55 asciilifeform this is infuriating
18:55 mod6 was this:
18:55 mod6 $(GNATMAKE) -c $(PROGRAM) $(ARGS)
18:55 mod6 now is
18:55 asciilifeform and i will say, if my makefile dun work on your box, in fact you do not have a working ada setup.
18:56 mod6 this seems to get me past the 33 error: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/FRKI7/?raw=true
18:56 mod6 ok, yeah, i guess it doesn't work.
18:56 asciilifeform i have nfi why this was needed.
18:56 mod6 brb, chores.
~ 20 minutes ~
19:16 asciilifeform !~later tell mod6 http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/fact.tar.gz << complete kit for above. sha512==26198604bff50d3411e343a30b97f4babe3a6b291fca267435cecd6a5438a08862b550198a49dd5549dda00c841d95afc1443f597587710b83c7fa65effa9c73
19:16 jhvh1 asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
19:16 asciilifeform mod6: if this does not build on your box, you gotta find out why, before attempting anything other adatronic experiments.
19:17 asciilifeform this goes for phf and whoever else is tuned in and following along.
19:17 shinohai thx asciilifeform
19:19 asciilifeform and YES ben_vulpes your paster MUTILATES TABS
19:19 asciilifeform FORFUCKSSAKE WHY
19:19 asciilifeform WAIWAIWAI
19:19 asciilifeform can't leave'em ALONE??
19:20 * asciilifeform bbl: meat.
~ 27 minutes ~
19:47 phf asciilifeform: i don't think it's ben_vulpes's paster, it must be something in the pipeline
19:48 phf gulag$ curl --silent $(printf '\t'|wotpaste)|xxd
19:48 phf 00000000: 09 .
19:49 phf where wotpaste is http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/K916E/?raw=true
19:49 phf gulag$ curl --silent $(printf '\tFOO\t\t'|wotpaste)|xxd
19:49 phf 00000000: 0946 4f4f 0909 .FOO..
20:03 sina http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684813 << paste.sina.id.au doesn't! :D :D
20:03 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 23:19 asciilifeform: and YES ben_vulpes your paster MUTILATES TABS
20:03 sina also, morning all!
20:04 sina http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684186 << it's hard more than that AFAIK, although I only started using it about 1.5y ago
20:04 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 10:36 mircea_popescu: why would any bad franchise get 26 sequels anyway.
20:08 trinque sina: maybe read on a bit before "hurr durr loud bandwagon"
20:16 sina trinque: I just came to try and get a rise out of asciilifeform :P
~ 1 hours 9 minutes ~
21:26 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/4029EAF0CD4D7EB8C1669A0DAC6769392648135131E696D584E9425F9C526AEE << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1468...9739 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '104.207.200.99 (ssh-rsa key from 104.207.200.99 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (104.207.200.99.lightower.net. US MA)
21:26 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/4029EAF0CD4D7EB8C1669A0DAC6769392648135131E696D584E9425F9C526AEE << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1466...3193 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '104.207.200.99 (ssh-rsa key from 104.207.200.99 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (104.207.200.99.lightower.net. US MA)
21:37 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684783 << ended up with a tmsr-approved "flops" measure on top of errything did we
21:37 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 22:47 asciilifeform: tomorrow will see how varies.
21:38 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684794 << check the 0a 0d s ?
21:38 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 22:52 mod6: yah, gotta be the version of my make is different than yours, plus, i'm not using adacore's gnat
21:40 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684813 << no it doesn't dood, stop flying off the handle, we had it tried nad tested in every which way and it was fine.
21:40 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 23:19 asciilifeform: and YES ben_vulpes your paster MUTILATES TABS
21:40 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-16#1684824 << lmao smartass
21:40 a111 Logged on 2017-07-16 00:03 sina: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684813 << paste.sina.id.au doesn't! :D :D
21:48 sina all for a laff
21:49 mircea_popescu lel
21:55 mod6 <+asciilifeform> !~later tell mod6 http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/fact.tar.gz << complete kit for above. sha512==26198604bff50d3411e343a30b97f4babe3a6b291fca267435cecd6a5438a08862b550198a49dd5549dda00c841d95afc1443f597587710b83c7fa65effa9c73 << alright thanks!
21:55 mod6 I'll check into wtf is going on. I'm running gnat on 4.9.2 on deb.
21:56 mod6 im probably condemmed to going through all the hoops to get gnat setup on gentoo. i just haven't ventured into it yes as it seems like a pretty timely, process.
21:56 mod6 *time consuming
21:56 mod6 but worthwhile.
21:58 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-16#1684837 << i diffed it, it mutilates...
21:58 a111 Logged on 2017-07-16 01:40 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684813 << no it doesn't dood, stop flying off the handle, we had it tried nad tested in every which way and it was fine.
21:58 asciilifeform try yourself
21:59 mircea_popescu i have, they're there.
21:59 asciilifeform ( use the one in the tar, paste in, then, e.g., wget -- what happens? )
22:00 * asciilifeform brb
22:00 mircea_popescu uh
22:00 mod6 asciilifeform: here's what I get when I grab the generic Makefile, and use your fact.tar.gz: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/RaNYu/?raw=true
22:01 mod6 im gonna try to see if I can resolve the issues. probably just my environment or whateve.r
~ 16 minutes ~
22:18 phf it does seem to mangle ~something~
22:18 phf $ dd if=/dev/random of=foo bs=1024 count=100
22:18 phf $ shasum foo
22:18 phf 82a2e85430ce36b759c5422a7433001d6e64b777 foo
22:18 phf $ curl --silent $(cat foo|wotpaste)|shasum
22:18 phf 42a67f70e3128dba8978def6e03ba9577f11dad0 -
22:18 mircea_popescu wtf
22:23 phf oh i think it transcodes
22:23 mircea_popescu phf i think your curl transcodes ?
22:24 mircea_popescu send it as postdata or what was it, special binary format
22:25 mircea_popescu otherwise html spec is to % binary posted in forms
22:25 phf that's what i'm doing (this is the curl command ftr http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684821)
22:25 a111 Logged on 2017-07-15 23:49 phf: where wotpaste is http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/K916E/?raw=true
22:25 mircea_popescu ah i thought it was the above quoted
22:26 mircea_popescu phf no that's not it
22:26 phf yeah, wotpaste does the pasting, curl then pulls it back. i wonder if curl download negotiates it up to unicode
22:27 mircea_popescu --data-ascii <data> HTTP POST ASCII data (H)
22:27 mircea_popescu --data-binary <data> HTTP POST binary data (H)
22:27 mircea_popescu first is default
22:39 phf since i'm posting to a form though, it must be rfc 2388 compliant. afaiu posting raw binary data wouldn't work, because server needs to know which field the data is associated with
22:40 phf do you have a full command with --data-binary that you're using to upload?
22:40 mircea_popescu use --data-binary, will work fine
22:40 mircea_popescu phf it's just a flag, put it in.
22:41 phf it's not, --data-binary takes <data> as an argument, at least according to man
22:41 mircea_popescu (nfi why we're even testing uploading binary to wotpaste, as that's not what it's for, but w/e.)
22:43 phf well, i wanted to see what sort of bits it mangles if any. and right now my combination of commands posts a file http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/q7PCa/?raw=true but returns http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/ieRBr/?raw=true
22:44 mircea_popescu you mispasted a wotpaste link i think
22:45 phf o_O
22:45 phf i checked them, they look correct
22:45 mircea_popescu is the first the command tyou use ?
22:46 mircea_popescu because i see 00000000: 0001 0203 0405 0607 0809 0a0b 0c0d 0e0f ................ as first line
22:46 mircea_popescu oh wait, you post the first one and get back the 2nd one ?
22:46 phf yes
22:46 mircea_popescu um
22:47 mircea_popescu http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/gjWkN/?raw=true
22:47 mircea_popescu i get the expected.
22:49 phf sorry, the two are not actual files, but hexdumps of the files i'm trying to post/getting back
22:49 mircea_popescu post the actual bash you're using ?
22:50 phf i'm using this function http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/K916E/?raw=true to post this file http://glyf.org/tmp/foo i'm posting it by doing a command "cat foo | wotpaste"
22:52 mircea_popescu try repolacing -F 'pastebox=@-' \ with --data-binary 'pastebox=@-'
22:53 phf doesn't work, it posts, but the contents of the paste are e.g. http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/ORZ0T/?raw=true
22:54 mircea_popescu oh
22:54 mircea_popescu try repolacing -F 'pastebox=@-' \ with --data-binary -F 'pastebox=@-' \
22:55 phf doesn't post, returns "http://pastebox=@-/server errorhttp://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/" instead
22:55 mircea_popescu ah because you set -X
22:56 phf no, because --data-binary takes an argument
22:56 mircea_popescu wotpaste() { echo $(curl -Ls -o /dev/null -w %{url_effective} --data-binary -F 'pastebox=@-' http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com\)}
22:56 mircea_popescu you have -w url-effective twice in there ftr.
22:57 mircea_popescu phf it does, the actual stuff you're sending. i imagine you feed it to curl via something somewhere in the call yes ?
22:57 mircea_popescu such as >>
22:58 mircea_popescu no idea why i'm taking partial code/functions and making assumptions. here :
23:00 phf everything that i'm doing is expressed in this single message so i've no idea why you're making assumptions: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-16#1684895
23:00 a111 Logged on 2017-07-16 02:50 phf: i'm using this function http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/K916E/?raw=true to post this file http://glyf.org/tmp/foo i'm posting it by doing a command "cat foo | wotpaste"
23:00 sina hey phf, quick q, is lisp memory safe?
23:01 phf moo
23:05 phf common lisp specification defines a memory safe language, yes, but in the crevices of "undefined behavior" you can have memory related exceptions. for example you can define a function with (safety 0) optimization declaration, which will neglect to check the type of a passed argument, which might (and often will) result in a memory exception.
23:06 sina hmm ok thanks
23:07 sina that sounds reasonable
23:10 mircea_popescu phf http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/Wp2yc/?raw=true << use that
23:10 mircea_popescu put your test lines in the first file ; examine the results.txt file for the results.
23:12 trinque diff <(curl -s $(cat foo | wotpaste)) foo Binary files /proc/self/fd/11 and foo differ << with his wotpaste func and foo
23:13 mircea_popescu phf what i mean is, im stuck guessing how wotpaste() { is called and etcetera.
23:13 phf i say it right there! "cat foo | wotpaste"
23:14 mircea_popescu aaanyway. try teh http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/Wp2yc/?raw=true
23:15 phf ...
23:16 mircea_popescu wha ?
23:20 trinque http://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=%EF%BF%BD
23:22 trinque seems sorta like there's a double encode happening.
~ 35 minutes ~
23:57 sina double encoding is the best and least confusing kind of encoding
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