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00:00 asciilifeform it dun come for phree with the pipe, round here
00:01 BingoBoingo Well, you've connected to IRC without a cloak before, yes? You don't have a personally assigned ASN nor do you get your 100 mbps from a drop at the local IX
00:01 BingoBoingo Your upstream has the lolcat cache
00:02 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: how does it cache the e.g. tB of rng i happen to generate in racked box in jp and dload via ssh ?
00:03 asciilifeform cache only affects public/allcomer resource.
00:03 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: It doesn't, but at some point when you might choose to load lolcat, lolcat will be served from cache unless you proxy the lolcat request through Japan like a dick
00:03 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: and no it aint a 'industrial' pipe, with asn etc. which is why i marvel, that it closely approximates one functionally, despite the cheap.
00:04 BingoBoingo Well, maybe your neighbors are poorer than mine
00:04 asciilifeform fewer of them, at any rate
00:04 asciilifeform per sq km
00:04 * asciilifeform bbl,meat
00:06 BingoBoingo FTR local mobile phone companies have been advertising Whatsapp gratis since before I arrived. They new point of competition is move up to a postpaid plan and get "netflix gratis"
00:07 * BingoBoingo would be VERY surprised if the netflix appliance takes more than 4U in a rack
00:11 BingoBoingo But yes, to answer http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-16#1725706 Netflix and the handful of Youtube videos that get watched exactly work as a couch in local endpoint's DC or point of presence
00:11 a111 Logged on 2017-10-16 19:33 mircea_popescu: so your idea of how netflix works is that a bunch of couch dwelling "Criminology" majors queue up before a dc to be shown their inane shit on the dc's wall mounted display ?
00:12 BingoBoingo If your endpoints hits Netflix for 5gbps they'll let you leverage 1.2 gbps every half day for 20gbps+
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00:27 BingoBoingo It's Netflix, Youtube, the Porntubes, and the prformer side of the porn Camgirls
00:37 BingoBoingo And it turns out that Airstrip 2 (Formosa) is indeed large enough to facilitate dying alone in the elements https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/bikini-climber-freezes-to-death-after-20m-fall-from-mountain/news-story/5248010cf59fe8983422969ca3498e77
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01:57 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: how does it cache the e.g. tB of rng i happen to generate in racked box in jp and dload via ssh ? << I will say that this does suggest .jp s a candidate for Pzarro rack 2 when that time comes
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02:13 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889040 << this is entirely besides the point. yes with 256 mb it can serve more simultaneously than with 64, but that's all the difference. the fact that a larger engine puts out more torque than a smaller engine isn't proof positive of "something fundamentally wrong with carnot cycles"
02:13 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 03:08 asciilifeform: it doesn't stop being retarded simply cuz mircea_popescu and for that matter asciilifeform give the thing 256GB of ram to run it and never see the barf
02:15 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889061 << this principle may be interesting in principle ; but in practice you refused to do anything about it, as per that whole http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-04#1847524 ; one's stuck concluding that there's more to the principle than the principle.
02:15 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 04:07 asciilifeform: briefly upstack to http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889021 << possibly i'm thick, but it ~also~ never made sense to me why a ~router~ would fall down, either. seems like if yer pipe is e.g. 100mb/s , and incoming enemy crapola at 1000mb/s, then you simply oughta get (from pov of arbitrary test peer) 90% packet loss. rather than a smoking crater where router was.
02:15 a111 Logged on 2018-09-04 15:57 mircea_popescu: are you making the alt juniper or arent you ?
02:16 mircea_popescu and yes, obviously, the problem is tcp connection is stateful, which means memory allocation, and SUCH THINGS (if not necessarily just that thing).
02:16 BingoBoingo And when optimizing for torque you're going to make a Yamaha tw200 at some point where 1st gear can't safely be used on paved roads
02:19 BingoBoingo The solution to reduce mortality with max torque is follow everyone else. Tap down past neutral for first gear, but in practice on the road start by tapping up to second gear.
02:21 mircea_popescu poor gigi chick.
02:21 mircea_popescu not that bikini is exactly "risque", but it does take some mettle.
02:22 BingoBoingo Seriously. If it wasn't a solo hike I'd rent out my body heat for a share of the patreon beta bucks
02:22 mircea_popescu so fucking stupid, solo in bikini. why the fuck even, shit's invented to be with others.
02:22 mircea_popescu if you're solo why even bother, go nude.
02:23 BingoBoingo Apparently -10 celcius which means nudity, second body, and a sleeping bag makes things survivable. Add butter to buy more time.
02:26 mircea_popescu kinda the problem of social media 30-something year old "career woman" : solitude, to death.
02:27 mircea_popescu "The only reason "high speed" connections to a "global" internet works at residential price points is because they don't have to." << keks.
02:27 mircea_popescu same exact reason everything else in the femstate "works".
02:28 mircea_popescu dnc also works for as long as it doesn'thave to, and god knows the us army is built on that doctrine.
02:28 BingoBoingo 30 year old woman can't social. US tard can't put the concept of internet route in head
02:28 * BingoBoingo suspects the speed of inter US ip traffic is as good a reason as any to route around US
02:32 BingoBoingo And yes, every contact still in Vzla has been warned shit can go from sucking to really sucking if NATO columbia and new empire Brasil halps USG.Blue in the triple team after Maduro sinks arecraft carriers with missile he bought not feeding losers
02:32 * BingoBoingo disappointed the very law abiding bias of latino rebels
02:33 mircea_popescu heh
02:34 mircea_popescu the problem is, cartels not particularly impressed with usg these days. all was needed to keep assad in power was russia, but a colombia-venezuela-mexico wondertriangle is a lot easier defended.
02:34 BingoBoingo The Chileans will probably get the worst of it in the end
02:36 BingoBoingo Not to mention Columbia.Nato.USG is a pop song, Vzla is south america, and Paraguay of all fucks is Mexico's competition for dubious honor of #1 weed exporter
02:38 BingoBoingo The world's a ham and this butcher's string is nitrocellulose. But forget the bang, the fact it can't hold tension is the pressing concern.
02:38 BingoBoingo Holy shit the world looks different outside the wire
02:41 * BingoBoingo suspects mircea_popescu did not dollar vigilante to Santiago for reasons, but holy fuckballs the average Argentine seems to offer more than Chile's best
02:43 BingoBoingo Sure Chileñas are pretty and far more eager, but need drives the eager
02:44 * BingoBoingo to sleep, very important batalla de costillas mañana
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09:15 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889096 << nah, it loses for reasons unrelated to bw. was given as example of geographically-long link with ok bw simply.
09:15 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 06:57 BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: how does it cache the e.g. tB of rng i happen to generate in racked box in jp and dload via ssh ? << I will say that this does suggest .jp s a candidate for Pzarro rack 2 when that time comes
09:17 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889097 << with engine, you can compute the efficiency ( joules out / joules in ) and even get ~exact estimate of how much useful work engine of particular size will do. but with shitware..
09:17 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 07:13 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889040 << this is entirely besides the point. yes with 256 mb it can serve more simultaneously than with 64, but that's all the difference. the fact that a larger engine puts out more torque than a smaller engine isn't proof positive of "something fundamentally wrong with carnot cycles"
09:18 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889099 << i daren't to 'do something about it' until properly understood the problem. sorta like didnt dare to attempt trb in 2013, or ffa in 2015, etc
09:18 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 07:15 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889061 << this principle may be interesting in principle ; but in practice you refused to do anything about it, as per that whole http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-04#1847524 ; one's stuck concluding that there's more to the principle than the principle.
09:20 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889102 << exactly, not only this. potentially also other items, in re which still working through 'rtfm'.
09:20 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 07:16 mircea_popescu: and yes, obviously, the problem is tcp connection is stateful, which means memory allocation, and SUCH THINGS (if not necessarily just that thing).
09:23 asciilifeform for that matter, mircea_popescu already described how to do proper routing -- gossipd.
09:24 asciilifeform ( with a working gossipd -- the ordinary net becomes less interesting, can treat it as a lossy channel like radio.. )
09:29 asciilifeform upstack to apache -- half a million loc of C is still half a million loc of C , even if by all appearances 'works solidly for yrs'
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09:45 diana_coman C/CPP also known as "half a million"
09:46 asciilifeform diana_coman: it is in principle possible to write 'fits in head' c proggy, but afaik the last who knew how was d. ritchie..
09:46 asciilifeform in '75
09:48 diana_coman empirically-known then ; to account for the theoretical possibility
09:54 asciilifeform diana_coman: a proggy is an 'ideal object', almost anyffin, within obv limits of algo complexity is 'possible'. but in actual practice 'notation is worth 80+/-iq' and some notations make folx into effectively downs syndrome sufferers when the # of moving parts crosses certain threshold
09:54 asciilifeform c appears to be one of these.
09:55 diana_coman myeah, at best it doesn't ...scale
09:57 diana_coman but I'm not even sure it's that really - more a sort of anti-tool in that it unloads complexity on the user to deal with rather than anything
09:58 asciilifeform verily. by ritchie's own words, c is moar of a macroassembler than prog lang in the customary sense of the term
10:00 asciilifeform if you want bounds checks, gotta put them explicitly, if want something like sane treatment of memory, ditto, yer proggy will have ten tonnes of explicit memory management crapola in it ( which had better contain 0 mistake, because the lang happily ignores mistake and demolishes houses, cars, dogs, as it bulldozes into random direction) etc
10:01 diana_coman quite; anyways, now that I have on eulora server c,cpp and ada together, it's a whole new level of madness
10:02 asciilifeform oh hm i thought diana_coman were baking client nowadays
10:02 diana_coman aaaand in unrelated news: it's SNOWING! ha! england will soon stop to a halt for there is 1mm of snow on the ground!
10:03 diana_coman asciilifeform, kind of both ends at the same time because it's a communication protocol so..
10:03 asciilifeform diana_coman: we had some decent snow here in swampistan also ( and for 1st time in coupla yrs.. )
10:04 diana_coman even nice, huge, fluffy snowflakes, quite winter-like for once
10:04 asciilifeform neato.
10:04 * asciilifeform likes snow.
10:04 diana_coman metoo
10:05 diana_coman for about 3 months per year I like it; then I want about 3 months per year of hot sun too; and preferably also 3 months of autumn at least; kind of tall order nowadays
10:07 diana_coman re client/server: client is ALSO cpp+ada at the very least
10:07 asciilifeform i recall.
10:07 asciilifeform diana_coman: iirc you got static linker to work ?
10:08 diana_coman yes! I can link it static, I can link it dynamically, I can even build it all as a monolithic piece
10:08 diana_coman pretty much all ways tried and can be done
10:09 asciilifeform and with the elaborator init ?
10:09 diana_coman well yes, it has to: if separate lib (either static or dynamic) it'll have to call libnameinit otherwise the adainit
10:09 diana_coman both ways work fine
10:10 diana_coman basically "standalone" lib includes the init and exposes it
10:11 diana_coman if encapsulated too then it has to be dynamic but if not "encapsulated" then it can be static (and you need to link the ada libs with main proggy too)
10:11 * asciilifeform looks fwd to studying diana_coman's example proggy
10:11 diana_coman it was more of a confusion/mess rather than real problem as such
10:11 asciilifeform potentially cures my mmap headache from summer
10:11 diana_coman what was the mmap headache?
10:12 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-16#1873099
10:12 a111 Logged on 2018-11-16 23:13 asciilifeform: it is on hold pending resolution of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-26#1866266 ( and is taking back seat to ffa currently )
10:13 asciilifeform err, http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-26#1866266
10:13 a111 Logged on 2018-10-26 02:14 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in gnat bugs : apparently ( and this is documented or mentioned nowhere ) : it is impossible to have a Ada.Finalization.Limited_Controlled type ANYWHERE inside a static library, unless it is generic all the way down (i.e. if the lib package is generic, any sub-packages must also be instantiated as generics )
10:16 diana_coman hm, I did not have to look into this specifically
10:16 asciilifeform diana_coman: i guess you didnt need limited_controlled in your item
10:17 diana_coman no, not needed (or not *yet*)
10:17 asciilifeform the only case i discovered so far that demands it, is mmap ( the map ~must~ know when it is about to go out of scope )
10:20 asciilifeform ( 'the mmap thing', for thrd completeness, is described here - http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-16#1873101 . a variant of 'horsecocks' without rampant pointerism.)
10:20 a111 Logged on 2018-11-16 23:13 asciilifeform: phf: the 'horsecocks' one requires pointerism to be enabled; the new one does not
10:21 asciilifeform it is actually a complete proggy, correct per the ada standard, but currently doesnt build on acct of the gnat bug described in the linked thread.
10:22 asciilifeform ( when built as standalone, rather than lib, it builds and functions as specified)
10:22 diana_coman asciilifeform, what do you mean by "build as standalone"?
10:22 asciilifeform with a main
10:23 diana_coman hm; earlier I used "standalone" as "standalone lib" because there is such a thing: it means precisely that it includes ada run-time
10:24 asciilifeform a
10:24 diana_coman but so uhm, it builds with a main fine but it fails if you try to build it as a lib - why?
10:24 diana_coman it sounds very weird
10:25 asciilifeform diana_coman: the breakage is documented in the linked thread. it ends up shitting out a reference to an undefined symbol ( of meaningless numeric name ) on which linker then chokes.
10:26 asciilifeform i sawed on it for some weeks then, but only additional find was that any attempt at using controlled_limited from inside a static lib gave same effect.
10:29 asciilifeform note that mmap is not a front burner item currently for asciilifeform - i dun need it in ffa, will come back to it after.
10:29 asciilifeform but i suspect it's curable via diana_coman's recent method.
10:30 diana_coman I suppose you can at least try and check whether standalone static might cure it, though still weird
10:30 * diana_coman went and re-read the thread
10:31 diana_coman anyways, I'll go and dig into the comms protocol some more
10:31 asciilifeform diana_coman: unless you desperately need mmap in your own proggy, i recommend not to bother with it nao
10:32 asciilifeform when i have a free hand or 2, i'ma apply diana_coman's published method to the thing and see whether cured.
10:32 asciilifeform and then genesis.
10:32 diana_coman atm hands full so indeed, won't be able to do anything about it anyway
10:32 asciilifeform right
10:34 asciilifeform ftr i also do not yet know why the variant where 100% of the lib is genericised, worked
10:34 asciilifeform ( i hesitate to use genericism at all until i properly grasp how the fuck it worx )
10:35 asciilifeform may recall, 1st draft of ffa used genericism, i removed it
10:35 asciilifeform ( because did not fully grasp how it behaves )
10:38 asciilifeform ( ftr the only application in asciilifeform's pipeline for mmapism currently is http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-21#1888650 )
10:38 a111 Logged on 2019-01-21 00:07 asciilifeform: in asciilifeform's o(1) tx indexer ( will be welded to an experimental bdb once i get the mmap thing resolved ) there's a 2-level storage -- a 'write-once' o(1) index for blox of age N ( N can be 100-500 in practice ), and a much smaller rewritable one kept strictly in ram ( for 'recent' blox, where the longest chain is potentially movable )
10:38 asciilifeform s/bdb/trb in above
10:40 asciilifeform iirc phf attempted also to use it, to make a framebuffer driver in ada, but i dun recall if he ever returned with output
10:40 asciilifeform ( i think he is stuck in some meatspace limbo just nao )
10:41 asciilifeform !#seen phf
10:41 a111 2019-01-09 <phf> http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-06#1885092 << i have a couple and the first one i bought i think had that issue, i didn't bother replacing it, and after first cleaning i believe it went away, or possibly i stopped noticing. the one at my office definitely has clean clicks on all they keys, so if it bothers you perhaps worth replacing
10:45 asciilifeform as for asciilifeform currently , sweating out a proper proof of correctness for m-r . ( subj of ch. 16 ). after that, will remain to add iteration to ffacalc; then , keccak.
10:47 asciilifeform ( re why, see in http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-05#1884680 )
10:47 a111 Logged on 2019-01-05 15:34 mircea_popescu: why does it need keccak ?
10:48 * asciilifeform brb,teatime
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11:08 jurov !!v DBC0672930F65FD0885D4549BE150059A31EE2CBD31ACB12B81E02B6F5779D09
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11:58 asciilifeform meanwhile, among the kipling aficionados , http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2892&cpage=1#comment-19779
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12:14 shinohai To no one's surprise: http://archive.is/ZUyaI
12:15 asciilifeform lol, there's 1 of these erry other month or so
12:17 asciilifeform ok , having read this, i gotta laff, this is yet-another 'oh noez doesn't use usg.pki like inca commanded' 'bug'
12:18 asciilifeform it aint a bug. the bug is in the brain of whoever installs that os, where there is no user-controlled wot mechanism.
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12:46 asciilifeform https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html << related lulz.
13:01 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889130 << the numbers are right there, what. so-and-so mp's box does so and so requests.
13:01 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 14:17 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889097 << with engine, you can compute the efficiency ( joules out / joules in ) and even get ~exact estimate of how much useful work engine of particular size will do. but with shitware..
13:03 asciilifeform lol this begins to resemble the emacs thrd, but with asciilifeform & mircea_popescu switched chairs
13:03 asciilifeform 'hands off my beloved 20yo softs! they work!'
13:04 mircea_popescu yea, here's how they resemble : 1. "why are you wearing that old rag ?" "it's pretty" "maybe it was" "same difference" "mkay" vs 2. "why are you using that old math ?" "itworks" "maybe it did" "also". 1===2~!!!1111
13:06 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i promise to come back to the item laters, when have with what to illustrate.
13:07 mircea_popescu np.
13:07 asciilifeform speaking of old maffs, turns out there's at least 11 classic proofs of fermat's 'little' theorem, incl. a combinatorial one.
13:08 asciilifeform ( it's the motor that powers e.g. m-r , and also underpins the proof that rsa pub:priv pairing is unique )
13:08 asciilifeform ( fermat himself, funnily enuff , and in his usual habit -- never gave even 1 )
13:15 asciilifeform meanwhile in sneakpreviews, http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/sY0Xm/?raw=true
13:17 asciilifeform ( alert reader will notice, it is based on http://www.loper-os.org/pub/ffa/hypertext/ch15/fz_measr__adb.htm#29_13 )
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13:39 mircea_popescu the fucking insanity, http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-21#1882561 ; the particular apache running trilema has ~never~ crashed. nor do i expect it ever will ; nor can i conceive how the fuck "it's open to all comers on a net interface" can even begin to be equated with "it's facing me and my keyboard and that's all". you're not ~trying~ to fucking crash emacs, are you ? on the fucking contrary, which is the ~exact contrary~ of w
13:39 a111 Logged on 2018-12-21 17:01 asciilifeform: for instance, asciilifeform has '9000' processes on this and other boxen, where uses 'screen+bash+etc for tards' even though theoretically 'could emacs' ( see also e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-03#1869024 ) , because they ~must not crash~ and emacs is unthreaded and hosable
13:39 mircea_popescu hat can be said of the interweb at large.
13:40 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: fwiw mine never crashed either.
13:40 asciilifeform ( which is moar than can be said for, e.g., linux kernel )
13:41 mircea_popescu linux kernel has a gash in itself, where "it gotta work with firmware" or "modules" or w/e the crap. 99+% percent of the time kernel crashed it wasn't the fucking kernel.
13:41 mircea_popescu and even taking the epsilon% remaining, 99+% of when THAT crashed it was because fucking drepper & co "upgraded" some shit.
13:41 asciilifeform it's, what, 99+% modulism by mass
13:44 asciilifeform nao tbf could even make same observation re emacs ( it's never the 1970s c core that bombs, always extension script that hangs )
13:44 mircea_popescu kernel, the functional core of it anyways, upon which all these entirely worthless http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-21#1888849 slash http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-17#1887990 attention whores are hoping to base their wholly imaginary "careers" and http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-07#1885512 etc, is about same vintage and about same quality as apache.
13:44 a111 Logged on 2019-01-21 15:48 mircea_popescu: oh, and, of course : "Latest activity PetiteGoddess21 posted a journal entry on her profile titled “ill sell whatever you want”: about 10 hours ago I'll sell whatever you want ;) ( including videos, pics ,sexting, etc) if got all types of cloths for sale and request how you want them and how many days worn you want I'll also include a video of me playing in them , using them or anything else ... continue reading → "
13:44 a111 Logged on 2019-01-17 06:41 mircea_popescu: The apparent murder of journalist Ahmed Divela is chilling. Ghana is recognized by many, including me, as a vibrant, strong democracy and an example for the continent in many ways. " meanwhile in related lulz.
13:44 a111 Logged on 2019-01-07 19:29 mircea_popescu: i suppose in this the model breaks down, with the advent of pseudo"technology", the shy withdrawing type can "HackerCombat LLC is a news site, which acts as a source of information for IT security professionals across the world. We have lived it for more than 1 year since 2017, sharing IT expert guidance and insight, [...] " bla bla bla all day long.
13:44 mircea_popescu asciilifeform aha.
13:45 mircea_popescu so i suppose ~in that limited sense~ it can be said "same thing". but it is limited enough for the alternation of seats to be in the end not surprising but rather to be expected.
13:45 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: in each item's case, i'm interested in what's ~beneath~ the fungus
13:46 asciilifeform ( if you look only at the top of the fungus, nothing at all is visible but fungus )
13:46 mircea_popescu yes, well, if you look at it functionally, apache (however scraped of fungus) is the reason can even read trilema today.
13:47 asciilifeform it's afaik the only currently working http spitter.
13:47 asciilifeform ( general-purpose one, at any rate )
13:47 mircea_popescu seems to be converging that way.
13:48 asciilifeform ( exactly as gcc is the only presently-working general-purpose c compiler, etc )
13:48 mircea_popescu yeah. specifically 4.x or w/e it was.
13:48 asciilifeform 4.9 was afaik last one pre-leprosy.
13:49 mircea_popescu http://logs.minigame.biz/2019-01-17.log.html#t11:21:38 << concretes.
13:49 lobbesbot Logged on 2019-01-17 11:21:38: <requiemzz> http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/QvdQb/?raw=true
13:50 asciilifeform btw does mircea_popescu have a apache tarball to sign ('as found') and share for cuntoo etc, a la gpg-1.4 ?
13:50 mircea_popescu fuck me.
13:50 mircea_popescu i don't even remember ~when~ i last compiled apache.
13:50 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: see if you can dig up a favourite, plox, when you get chance
13:51 mircea_popescu and the bitch of it is, very widely configurable thing, and without proper configuration... well, it's ye olde http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-04#1820583 problem.
13:51 a111 Logged on 2018-06-04 17:32 asciilifeform: junkyard wars (e.g. trb, mp-wp) where one is stuck welding a tank from 5 zaporozhets and 3 lada carcasses, because that's what there is to work with, inevitably are heavyweight
13:52 asciilifeform indeed is. would still like to have a historical one tho.
13:52 mircea_popescu item as pristine out of box has a dozen or so dimensions and subdimensions that hafta be fit into place, it's not ~really~ pret a porter (chiefly because one selling "all purpose cloth" can't sell it pre-cut)
13:52 asciilifeform then can at least begin to enumerate the possible knobs.
13:52 asciilifeform right nao errybody got a diff set of knobs, tower of babel.
13:52 mircea_popescu asciilifeform ima think on this
13:52 asciilifeform ty mircea_popescu
13:53 mircea_popescu but i am discouraged by the result of the training exercise for this matter, where apparently in spite of attempts to standardize the infinitely more complex mp-wp, the result was similarly tower of bable.
13:53 mircea_popescu that was my preferred angle to approach this problem, and so far we're in 2019 working on mid-2017 tasks.
13:53 asciilifeform i suspect that nailing down the stack ~bottom first~ would help.
13:53 mircea_popescu i do not.
13:54 asciilifeform right nao errybody has slightly variant apache, php, etc
13:54 mircea_popescu i suspect having people well experienced in such things with toy buttons first is the way to go.
13:54 mircea_popescu (and i mean infinitely ~LESS~ complex, if it's not evident)
13:55 asciilifeform asciilifeform is prolly the farthest thing possible from an expert wwwist, if that wasn't already obvious. so cannot presume to say how.
13:55 asciilifeform but imho standardizing the pile of ??? can't possibly hurt.
13:56 mircea_popescu well if nothing else, we have to put something into eventual cuntoo downstream, along with db and so on.
13:56 asciilifeform e.g. trb , grew from acorn of tarball supplied by mircea_popescu in '14.
13:56 asciilifeform aha
13:59 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889134 << the discussion died (i have no doubt under exact same "gotta rsfm" pressure), but we were talking 2016ish about needing own protocol (meanwhile in practice eulora is trying udp and that may even prove sufficient, eg). but yes, tmsr router obviously premature.
13:59 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 14:20 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889102 << exactly, not only this. potentially also other items, in re which still working through 'rtfm'.
13:59 asciilifeform ( mass-wise, apache is considerably closer to the mass of e.g. gcc, than trb ; but on other hand seems to need less massage as it is, as mircea_popescu fond of pointing out, it largely worx )
13:59 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i dun like to 'power ranger' ( as you called it in old essay ) a problem.
14:00 mircea_popescu i do not know exactly why, but both in case of mysql and apache, the cocksuckers ( http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-21#1888849 slash http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-17#1887990 items from before, and may it never be forgotten what they EXACTLY ARE) got sent packing to "make their own" that nobody gave a shit about.
14:00 a111 Logged on 2019-01-21 15:48 mircea_popescu: oh, and, of course : "Latest activity PetiteGoddess21 posted a journal entry on her profile titled “ill sell whatever you want”: about 10 hours ago I'll sell whatever you want ;) ( including videos, pics ,sexting, etc) if got all types of cloths for sale and request how you want them and how many days worn you want I'll also include a video of me playing in them , using them or anything else ... continue reading → "
14:00 a111 Logged on 2019-01-17 06:41 mircea_popescu: The apparent murder of journalist Ahmed Divela is chilling. Ghana is recognized by many, including me, as a vibrant, strong democracy and an example for the continent in many ways. " meanwhile in related lulz.
14:01 mircea_popescu ceterum autem censeo, there's no fucking difference between random "career" whore and random cam whore. they're the exact same identical physical item.
14:02 asciilifeform perfectly-spherical whores tho, with no holes, camwhore without cam, software whore without software, in keeping with 'fish counter where we have no fish to sell'
14:02 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889138 << there is no absolute guarantee the solution to a problem you come up with is going to be shorter than a number you like.
14:02 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 14:29 asciilifeform: upstack to apache -- half a million loc of C is still half a million loc of C , even if by all appearances 'works solidly for yrs'
14:03 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: indeed
14:03 mircea_popescu consider the item i was discussing with the girls last nigyht over coffees : there ~are~ rules for divisibility of integers for ~any~ integer, not just 2 or 3 or 5 or 9.
14:03 mircea_popescu HOWEVER, the ~complexity of their statement~ grows faster than the benefits.
14:04 mircea_popescu obviously it's ~extremely advantageous~ to know that "the number two quintillion quadrillion one is nevertheless divisible by 3".
14:04 asciilifeform depends on 'benefits' neh. you can express any 'divisibility test' as a gcd with fixed param.
14:04 mircea_popescu but knowing the rule for a number being divisible by 119 is comparatively less easy.
14:04 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i mean in the traditional school of digit manipulation.
14:04 asciilifeform aa
14:04 mircea_popescu there ~necessarily can exist such rules~ for ~any arbitrary prime~
14:05 mircea_popescu there's no rule they're short enough you'd consider them fit in head.
14:05 asciilifeform the rule will include a constant, and that constant is at most as big as the prime itself
14:05 asciilifeform ( see the gcd example. )
14:05 mircea_popescu (and there's also no rule the domain-extensions of "simple arithmetic" they require would be deemed comprehensible by chtulhu)
14:06 asciilifeform all of this is entirely troo. i'm not yet aware of any cthulhu-grade maffs in www server tho.
14:07 mircea_popescu nor of any god-made promise going "a www server you'd care to use can be made in less than x lines of y".
14:07 asciilifeform certainly not.
14:07 mircea_popescu so in truth we dunno, and as of yet we're not in a splendid position to guess yet, either.
14:08 asciilifeform all i know so far is that ditching c (esp. pointerism & heapism aspects) saves massive loc for given problem. but cannot quantify exactly what this means in re www servers.
14:09 mircea_popescu right.
14:09 mircea_popescu but in the end, what's the rush even. trilema didn't croak yest, and so here we are, can focus on other things.
14:09 asciilifeform no rush.
14:10 asciilifeform there's a pile of soft that's actually gravely braindamaged, that needs replacement before ever get to www server.
14:11 mircea_popescu but imo, the "number is divisible by two if last digit is divisible by two ; number is divisible by three if sum of digits is divisible by three ; number is divisible by five if last digit is divisible by five ; number is..." series is an EXCEPTIONALLY great model for the problem of "write software". because it is an ~ordered~ list of ~programs~, by its very nature. ordered ~by an implicit order of the problems~. and the resu
14:11 mircea_popescu lting "code" has varying lengths.
14:12 mircea_popescu in a sense, this is ~as much as we presently know~ of a ~perfect v tree".
14:13 mircea_popescu ie, one that has resolved the http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-28#1883605 problem very strictly : "for this language, there is no better code"
14:13 a111 Logged on 2018-12-28 17:15 mircea_popescu: seems to me the unspoken heuristic is, "large enough so it's not meaningful [and therefore large enough to not bother] and small enough so it's not larger than some other number i thought about".
14:13 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the length of the 'coad' is a function of your working base.
14:13 mircea_popescu i can relaxedly put a temperature of 0 on the coupling between the string "number is divisible by two if last digit is divisible by two" and the respective index in the problem stair.
14:14 mircea_popescu ie, it's pefect code for once.
14:14 asciilifeform arithmetic is indeed closest anybody'll ever see to 'perfect code'
14:15 mircea_popescu none of this is to in any way dispute (or even refer to) the very practical, low-fruit-grasping, "lotta code out there is so fucking stupid, just washing hands halves it".
14:15 mircea_popescu this is going rather at the other end of things.
14:16 mircea_popescu asciilifeform yes, but notice how "arithmetic" does not have a very great substance. the reason people like eg euler is very much in the vein of that http://trilema.com/2017/is-it-still-rape-if-i-write-science-on-my-penis-first/#selection-83.0-119.187 old "science == society game" model of science :
14:17 mircea_popescu i can ~also~ very relaxedly put a temperature of 0 on "to find out the sum of integers up to a limit, write them twice, once going left, once going right, sum the units and divide by two".
14:18 mircea_popescu the task itself is both banal and uninteresting, the solution lives forever in the annals of humanity in the proper sense of that term no "because it's short" but specifically because "it\s so evidently zero kelvin".
14:18 asciilifeform well yes , it aint euler who puts the 0 in the temperature
14:18 mircea_popescu and the fascination of all the old "olympiad problems" in the books, fly-between-trains, what have you, is specifically this : "get people to come up with very COOL!!!! solutions"
14:18 asciilifeform but you, when you eat a proof, and it actually goes in yer head
14:18 asciilifeform only then can say 'temperature 0'.
14:18 mircea_popescu which is why cambridge tripos went exactly nowhere on a large wooden spoon : "mathematical athleticism" is not mathematical anymore than the counting horse is.
14:19 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: there's quite a few ( or at least in asciilifeform's time, were ) 'olympiad' problems which are simply chinese-style 'do you know the classics' masquerading as olympiad problems
14:19 asciilifeform typical example is all the crud where it asks you for the last digit of a heavy exponent
14:19 mircea_popescu which is precisely the scar tissue of usg-ification of sovok.
14:19 asciilifeform ( these are trivial if you know fermat )
14:21 asciilifeform ( see also ancient lulzthread, http://btcbase.org/log/2014-11-21#930306 )
14:21 a111 Logged on 2014-11-21 01:48 asciilifeform: 'This is a special collection of problems that were given to select applicants during oral entrance exams to the math department of Moscow State University. These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people and other undesirables from getting a passing grade. Among problems that were used by the department to blackball unwanted candidate students, these problems are distinguished by having a simple solution
14:21 mircea_popescu asciilifeform part of the lulz of ye olde physics olympiad in mp\s native lands and times was "identify the problem type". lotta ~fundamentally illiterate~ (hey, they liked "science", can't possibly think fiction, doh!!!) profs tryina come up with ~convincing~ "and then she said...".
14:21 mircea_popescu failing so remarkably spectacularly the only remarkable part is nobody remarked upon it until 2019 rolled around in teh republic.
14:21 mircea_popescu i suppose it's still disqualified, i didn't state it in romanian.
14:21 asciilifeform btw that b00k was prolly the best , imho, known collection of olympiad problems
14:22 asciilifeform pretty much no others are worth anyffin
14:22 asciilifeform imho the 'cheat' was that they ~only~ fed'em to 'undesirables'. should've fed to ~errybody~
14:23 mircea_popescu but back to our topic : there STILL IS a marked difference between http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-18#1863581 intelligent an' smart.
14:23 a111 Logged on 2018-10-18 18:59 mircea_popescu: 90% of the time i try to read something, the attempt fails ; and almost always it is because the author is insulting my smarts, not my intelligence. they're all such intelligent men, from sf writers to hayek to what have you. the problem is that they're not smart.
14:23 * mircea_popescu weeps for whosoever is gonna try to summarize today's log sometime. by now the simple mechanics of log linking have created an actual programming language, by the time one's done unpacking the context and unwrapping the meaning, the sun will likely be down.
14:26 mircea_popescu anyway, but "learn fermat -- apply when last digit of exponent" list of ~fiction tropes~ is nothing more than that : teaching kids how to "know the tells" of the (again -- remarkably fucking inept) "he liked science" illiterate storyteller.
14:27 mircea_popescu in short, mathematical (and to a large degree scientific, viz physics etc) education in the warsaw pact place-and-time degenerated into a trope of fiction. which is why "science fiction" was so loved in those parts of the world as opposed to anywhere else.
14:27 asciilifeform fwiw when asciilifeform , not even in teen yrs yet, lost interest in olympiads, this was why.
14:27 mircea_popescu a type not a trope of fiction.
14:27 asciilifeform ( didn't particularly relish memorizing chess debuts, either )
14:27 mircea_popescu right ?
14:28 mircea_popescu kinda what sours the thinking man of chess : "dude, your metagame utterly ruins the fiction the game purports to render -- specifically because the word "gambit" exists in your language it CAN NOT be the case this is a story of war and civilisation"
14:28 asciilifeform aka 'exam taking'
14:29 asciilifeform e.g. chess, died imho long before mechanized with machine. killed by 'debut books' , a kind of meat-powered alphago death.
14:30 mircea_popescu in the end, "the smart don't like the intelligent" is the exact male equiv of ye female http://trilema.com/2016/the-pedoepiphany/ ; or in the immortal words of http://trilema.com/2014/millers-crossing/ " You are so goddamn smart. Except you ain't. I get you, smart guy. I know what you are. Straight as a corkscrew. Mr. Inside-Outski, like some goddamn Bolshevik picking up his orders from Yegg Central. You think you're so godda
14:30 mircea_popescu mn smart. You join up with Johnny Caspar, you bump Bernie Bernbaum. Up is down. Black is white. Well, I think you're half smart. I think you were straight with your frail, I think you were queer with Johnny Caspar... and I think you'd sooner join a ladies' league than gun a guy down. Then I hear from these two geniuses they never even saw this rub-out take place. "
14:30 asciilifeform anyffin at all risks to stop being interesting to thinking folx, when it turns into a contest of who memorized moar trivia from encyclopaedia.
14:31 asciilifeform !#s хуй с винтом
14:31 a111 0 results for "хуй с винтом", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B9%20%D1%81%20%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BC
14:31 asciilifeform hm.
14:31 asciilifeform !#s на хитрую жопу
14:31 a111 1 result for "на хитрую жопу", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%D0%BD%D0%B0%20%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D1%8E%20%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%83
14:31 asciilifeform there.
14:31 asciilifeform ( http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-31#1838410 < subj )
14:31 a111 Logged on 2018-07-31 16:23 asciilifeform: 'на каждую хитрую жопу, всегда найдется свой болт с резьбой'(tm)(r)(proverb)
14:32 mircea_popescu a whole raft of "dad didn't much care for arthur blair snif sniff" is readily explained by the model "dad got smart with age, kiddo was born intelligent."
14:32 mircea_popescu asciilifeform remarkable how the corkscrew is a recurring object in any discussion of this gap.
14:34 asciilifeform indeed
14:35 asciilifeform or recall the scytale thing ( 'original rsa' )
14:35 asciilifeform the ancients built locks where one needed just-so screw thread to open. and we're sorta still doing this.
14:37 mircea_popescu i suppose.
14:39 asciilifeform even in 1st grade, it was obv who were the kids who liked to think, and who 'memorize encyclopaedia' to lick arses of elders, the little shits, the kanzures.
14:40 asciilifeform what were the latter called on mircea_popescu's home planet, iirc , tocilarii ?
14:40 mircea_popescu yep
14:40 mircea_popescu dude, your romanian's by now scary, what, you keep these words in a special museum of hate or something ?
14:41 mircea_popescu "alf knows how to say these 5 things he can't stand in all languages that exist or existed".
14:41 mircea_popescu come to think of it not a bad approach...
14:42 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i read buncha trilema, lolwat.
14:43 mircea_popescu well more power to you
14:43 asciilifeform ftr it's a ru cognate (1 of the rare genuine ones, vs. 'truda' etc ) . точило == grinding wheel.
14:46 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i currently suspect that all langs on planet3, living and extinct, have term for 'anal child'. it's a reasonably common bio-failuremode, like schizo etc.
14:47 asciilifeform not always will find it in dictionaries. but surely exists.
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15:02 mircea_popescu quite possibru
15:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform certified genuine cognate ; ro word for "we sharpen knives and scythes and whatnot" shop is "tocilarie"
15:04 mircea_popescu a toci = to wear down (generally through use), cutit tocit = dull knife
15:11 mircea_popescu !1help
15:11 feedbot Usage: !1 {subscribe,unsubscribe} feed_url
15:11 mircea_popescu spyked is there a way for one to list what rss he's subscribed with feedbot ?
15:12 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889147 << this is actually surprisingly apt.
15:12 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 14:58 asciilifeform: verily. by ritchie's own words, c is moar of a macroassembler than prog lang in the customary sense of the term
15:12 mircea_popescu was very useful, up until registers went 32 bit.
15:14 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889150 << there's no way to have a rsa-aware client without the corresponding server, yes ? it's a whole migration, just, i was hoping she'd only have to do the server side, was the point of http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-05#1884608 comment.
15:14 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 15:02 asciilifeform: oh hm i thought diana_coman were baking client nowadays
15:14 a111 Logged on 2019-01-05 14:16 mircea_popescu: diana_coman is working for s.mg ; we've recently had this exact talk and revised our plans. originally the idea was to have moved over to cuntoo, and do support work for community-driven effort at a new client. the latter completely collapsed over the shocking weakness of such community ; the former's at best delayed.
15:15 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889170 << yeah, that resolution was actually in the "unexpected good news" category.
15:15 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 15:11 diana_coman: it was more of a confusion/mess rather than real problem as such
15:15 BingoBoingo http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889353 << Trying to find "news" today I see nothing outside the log that isn't eclipsed by the log in importance
15:15 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 19:23 mircea_popescu weeps for whosoever is gonna try to summarize today's log sometime. by now the simple mechanics of log linking have created an actual programming language, by the time one's done unpacking the context and unwrapping the meaning, the sun will likely be down.
15:16 mircea_popescu well, watching the outside world is a little like watching middle class tweens "fighting" on the playground. lotta shoving, lotta posturing and "threatening" behaviour. lotta talk, jack shit to get excited over.
15:17 BingoBoingo Every now an then there's inflection points. Someone during the posturing knocks over some other dork's drink, etc
15:18 BingoBoingo Posturing interrupted by flying rock from neaby bum fight
15:20 mircea_popescu just aboot.
15:23 BingoBoingo Since the weekend the English Press Pantsuits have been demonizing, hedging their demonizing, and redirecting their shit over some white boy from Ohio who dared to smile
15:24 mircea_popescu sounds like a helluva subject.
15:27 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889399 << machine bitness had ~0 to do with it; was ~useful until folx decided to write 'half mil' line proggies in it.
15:27 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 20:12 mircea_popescu: was very useful, up until registers went 32 bit.
15:27 asciilifeform like all kludges, comes apart when you stand up nontrivial weight on it.
15:27 mircea_popescu machine bitness has everything to do with it -- 16 bit machine only accesses memory you can fit in head.
15:28 mircea_popescu thus you don't really want a compiler as much as you want a (very narrowly) meta-assembler.
15:28 mircea_popescu back in 8 bit days we all worked in asm anyways! no c. why no c ?
15:28 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: even ye olde pdp, addressed 512kB+
15:28 mircea_popescu it's niche was 16 bit regs.
15:28 asciilifeform dawn of c pre-dates the toy micro.
15:28 mircea_popescu so ?
15:28 asciilifeform ( the toy micro, in fact, saw very little c in the '80s )
15:29 asciilifeform ftr, i never had a c compiler on my c64
15:29 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: didja have 1 on yer jupiter or what was that ro z80 thing
15:29 mircea_popescu nope.
15:29 asciilifeform for same reason.
15:29 mircea_popescu spectrum ?
15:29 asciilifeform spectrum clone aha
15:29 asciilifeform i fughet what it was called
15:29 mircea_popescu yes. which is what i'm saying, c was useful pre 32bit regs.
15:30 mircea_popescu !#s "tim-s"
15:30 a111 13 results for "\"tim-s\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22tim-s%22
15:30 asciilifeform aa
15:30 mircea_popescu !#s "hc-8"
15:30 a111 2 results for "\"hc-8\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22hc-8%22
15:30 asciilifeform not so many folx actually felt need for c or other compiler/macroasm on 16-64k micros tho.
15:30 mircea_popescu 64k mem is 8 bit machine. you work in asm there.
15:30 asciilifeform aha
15:30 * asciilifeform brb,teatime
15:31 mircea_popescu 2mb mem is 16 bit machine. you ~can~ work in asm theree too, but ideally you want some support. the prevailing meta-assembler was called c
15:31 mircea_popescu 4gb mem is 32 bit machine. on this horizon, asm and c ~similarily useless.
15:32 mircea_popescu and the problem of "wut use then" is still open, in which context i perceive eg the bolix wank.
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16:04 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: 16bit ( barring various 'banking' trickeries ) addresses 2^16 == 64k.
16:05 asciilifeform i dun disagree with (what i think is) mircea_popescu's upstack point, tho, bigger machine gives you bigger wrench to drop on yer foot re complexity.
16:08 asciilifeform esp. when iron is big enuff that folx fall into the sin of perceiving cpu cycles & bytes of ram as 'infinite' and phree
16:08 asciilifeform ( see also e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-03#1763155 )
16:08 a111 Logged on 2018-01-03 16:05 asciilifeform: but in very unrelated lulz, https://archive.is/bON1p >> 'It’s a bit absurd that a modern gaming machine running at 4,000x the speed of an apple 2, with a CPU that has 500,000x as many transistors (with a GPU that has 2,000,000x as many transistors) can maybe manage the same latency as an apple 2 in very carefully coded applications if we have a monitor with nearly 3x the refresh rate.'
16:09 asciilifeform ( + http://www.loper-os.org/?p=300 )
16:11 * asciilifeform brb,meat systems
16:22 * mircea_popescu evidently can't carry a discussion on artithetics, even if "general point" wins easy enough.
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16:37 jurov !!v 29655BAE7EB994572FCC2E0087E12C247E1CBE3BC1C2C1237740D8F6B52B8A81
16:38 deedbot jurov paid BingoBoingo invoice 6
16:38 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889180 << why can;t it be instantiated with knowledge of its size ?
16:38 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 15:17 asciilifeform: the only case i discovered so far that demands it, is mmap ( the map ~must~ know when it is about to go out of scope )
16:43 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889222 << same here. wtf idiocy is this, thin wrapper around "o noes, people who don't like pantsuitism made websites to mock us, NO GOOD".
16:43 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 17:17 asciilifeform: ok , having read this, i gotta laff, this is yet-another 'oh noez doesn't use usg.pki like inca commanded' 'bug'
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17:00 feedbot http://qntra.net/2019/01/us-home-sales-hit-a-3-year-low-over-december/ << Qntra -- US Home Sales Hit A 3 Year Low Over December
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17:29 mircea_popescu asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2010/pe-ei-pe-mama-lor/ << ever read thgat one, incidentally ? 10 bux tax on fastfood to balance out the externalized costs they dump on health budgets (and to signal to women they'd better drop the act and start cooking daily) ; and 500% excise on windows for stupidity.
17:31 asciilifeform ha, no, hadn't read
17:31 asciilifeform iirc they actually tried the food one in nyc at some pt
17:32 feedbot http://bimbo.club/2019/01/philosophical-transactions-for-the-months-of-october-november-and-december-1714-part-v/ << Bimbo.Club -- Philosophical Transactions. For the months of October, November, and December, 1714. - Part V.
17:32 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889454 << not only can, but absolutely must, in order to work. issue was re ~scope~, it gotta know its scope.
17:32 a111 Logged on 2019-01-22 21:38 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889180 << why can;t it be instantiated with knowledge of its size ?
17:33 asciilifeform https://archive.is/FR2P7 << didactic example of the biznis-end of that thing.
17:34 asciilifeform observe that 'M' knows when the end of its life comes, and gets synced to disk (if applicable , i.e. was mapped r/w) and properly cleaned up, without any such abortion as a 'free' statement a la c
17:35 asciilifeform this is done with a standard ada feature called 'controlled limited type'. which i found that, for no documented reason, dunwork in gnat's static lib.
17:37 mircea_popescu ah yes.
17:37 asciilifeform this was a shot at improved (pointerism-free, externally) variant of earlier system 'horsecocks'
17:37 asciilifeform both give you a direct path from a data structure to/from disk.
17:38 asciilifeform lets you have e.g. the trb indexer thing, as ordinary array, etc
17:38 asciilifeform obviates a good number of scenarios where otherwise you'd want to use a db system.
17:39 mircea_popescu i see it now.
17:40 asciilifeform mmap is 1 of the few nice things in linux , lets you e.g. map a 1tb segment and store as file, and will actually 'sparse' store etc.
17:40 mircea_popescu do you see much difference between "controlled limited type" and "promises this is an object with destructor method properly called" ?
17:40 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it's very similar to cpp 'destructor' aha. with the diff that ada forces various limitations re the item, to prevent various cpp-esque lulz
17:41 asciilifeform ( there's a range of things you aint allowed to do with a controlled type, chiefly to copy it )
17:41 mircea_popescu aha.
17:41 mircea_popescu now the question is, if you only need this specifically once, why do you need ada to do it for you
17:42 asciilifeform cuz theres no way to do it without support from the compiler.
17:42 asciilifeform it gotta actually enforce the 'copying this thing is an eggog', trigger the death procedure when it goes out of scope, etc
17:42 asciilifeform iirc this aint new even, was in ada-83.
17:42 asciilifeform it's a pretty basic lang knob.
17:42 mircea_popescu myeah.
17:42 * mircea_popescu is satisfied.
17:43 asciilifeform how gcc broke it, remains to be sniffed out
17:43 asciilifeform i'ma have to do some serious detective work, when i get a free hand .
17:49 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-06#1666647 << the original item, for thread-compleeetness
17:49 a111 Logged on 2017-06-06 19:40 asciilifeform: mod6, phf , et al : http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/ada/horsecocks.tar.gz << i dun recall posting this before, so here it will live, for nao : unofficial release of mmaptron
17:51 asciilifeform ^ it -- worx, and as described above, with the diff that it requires pointerism to be enabled.
17:52 mircea_popescu that's quite the diff.
17:52 asciilifeform verily
17:52 asciilifeform i used it to prototype the o(1) tx index thing (also posted, but dun have the logptr handy atm)
17:54 asciilifeform btw, imho it's a good example of 'ffa-style' narrowing of problem domain ( there is no good reason for ancient tx to be rewritable )
17:55 asciilifeform iirc we walked the subj in detail some time in '17
17:59 asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2009/windows-este-cel-mai-tare/ << via upstack link, lulzy btw
18:00 asciilifeform iirc there's a large collection of these somewhere, bsods photo'd 'in the wild' on bank atm's, etc
18:00 mircea_popescu damn, what is that, windows 95 ?
18:00 asciilifeform loox like... 'xp home'
18:00 asciilifeform ( you can tell by the 'kindergarten' colour palette )
18:01 mircea_popescu o yeah, i recall now! at the time, microshit (panicked no doubt over euro-bureaucracies going linux-ish) was media-buying massively. in ro campaign was "be smart".
18:01 mircea_popescu ie, "be smart" and buy shit.
18:01 asciilifeform lol!
18:03 mircea_popescu you know ?
18:03 asciilifeform i dun recall this slogan appearing in gringolandia-side ads, but reminiscent of crapple's 'think differently' or what was it
18:03 mircea_popescu sometimes i sit here and regret the days i was wriging 2-3-5 articles/day on trilema. then i read one of those, and it's always, "o cute, 1/10 of an article".
18:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i suspect direct theft, tbh.
18:04 asciilifeform come to think of it , i can't recall when last saw a winblowz ad as such
18:04 mircea_popescu they kinda gave up, became abstract "tech" with google an' apple.
18:05 asciilifeform strangely enuff, there are still ads for intel
18:06 asciilifeform largely unrelatedly, today asciilifeform uncrated a spool of 70kV insulating tape, and surprised to discover that it is made with... mastic. y'know, how ~all~ electrician's tape used to be made, in ww2 and prior
18:08 asciilifeform pistacia lentiscus.
18:17 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: re crapple, it's become a rich generator of lulz : their current strategy seems to consist of, per iteration of product : 1) cut an essential component (e.g. headphone jack) , and declare 'fashionable' 2) double price
18:18 asciilifeform can't wait for the logical end of this, when they cut e.g. the screen ( 'why do you need a screen, terrorist. talk to the box with mouth..' ) and eventually will ship a http://www.loper-os.org/?p=405 i expect.
18:20 mircea_popescu the truth of the matter is that the great clinton dream (it made it even into "primary colors", whereby clinton explains to a group of "worried" workers [worried about the fact that their standards of living are strictly unmaintainable post-imperialism] that their only hope at continuation is through some kind of [unspecified, because unspecifiable] "skill acquiring" -- with all the sweet air of doctor who tells cancer patien
18:20 mircea_popescu t that his only hope at being young again is if he finds the way to shit whole prunes) that yielded the "entrepreneurial" revolution which, in short order, latched upon the imaginary http://trilema.com/2016/files-from-the-war-on-the-web-today-literotica/#selection-393.0-393.767 aka "ugc" as a fuel base to transform into prosperity died sometime since 2001.
18:20 asciilifeform ( already they removed the buttons from pnoje )
18:20 mircea_popescu so nobody seriously perceives the need to even think about such things. advertise microsoft ? to whom and why ? microsoft ~no longer does anything~, it "just is".
18:21 mircea_popescu there was a brief interval, 90s to maybe 2005, when parent might have been even enthusiastic over kid's "entrepreneurship" declarations.
18:22 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: there are some ads that dun even pretend to make sense from commercial pov, and are strictly 'behold the glory of the great inca'. i used to ride the train erry day, it would as often as not be covered in ads for lockheed, grumman, etc, with photo of latest $trillion will-get-stuck-in-erry-canal boat, submarine, etc
18:22 mircea_popescu today seems (outside of orclands, where they're retarded) just on par with what it always was, "suppose you get a real job"
18:22 mircea_popescu asciilifeform even in sovok days, advertising on the "government line" of moscow subway was geared thusly.
18:22 mircea_popescu wash dc subways bad sample for this discussion.
18:23 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: sovok 'ads' were typically of 'agit' variety -- stern lenin face with 'lenin bids you to keep yer lathe clean and reduce workplace fatalities' etc
18:26 asciilifeform re microshit 'just is' -- iirc the inflection point was some time in late '90s, when they switched to being fueled entirely by 'os tax' on all konsoomer pc irons, and dispensed with the pretense of 'folx make choice to buy os, in cardboard box'
18:26 * mircea_popescu never bought whole computer, doth not know, but believes./
18:27 asciilifeform ( today even 'os tax' is paid largely from usg coffers, when they buy tetristrons for the desk jockeys )
18:28 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: if you upturn an old lappy, you can see whether it was bought orig in gringolandia, and had the winblowz tax, they stuck little stickers on'em
18:28 mircea_popescu which brings http://trilema.com/2013/the-state-banking-and-bitcoin/ very much to mind.
18:29 asciilifeform exactly like that
18:33 asciilifeform re microshit 'os' in boxes -- seems like they see primary competition currently as being... old versions of own shit. ( recently they demonstratively had a d00d jailed, not even for 'pirated' but for selling at flea markets ~old winblowz~ disks )
18:35 asciilifeform seem to be particularly interested in exterminating 'xp', which was porous & bsody but at least not then included keylogger straight off the install , just yet
18:35 mircea_popescu it's entirely possible current "anti-terrorism" java http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-18#1888222 dun even work on win95.
18:35 a111 Logged on 2019-01-18 17:27 mircea_popescu: that they don't do anything in particular should be self-evident, but here's some lulz re "intelligent design" :
18:35 asciilifeform ( current offering -- includes, and not even attempted to hide any moar )
18:36 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: entirely possible, understaffed monkey house stretched thin and tired of maintaining pills for ancient shitsoft
18:40 asciilifeform already microshit in fact banned iron vendors from shipping drivers for xp for any reason.
18:40 asciilifeform ( under penalty of excommunication )
~ 16 minutes ~
18:56 mircea_popescu "for security"
18:57 mircea_popescu anyway, meanwhile would-be "ddoser" broke teeth -- anyone with deferred trilemaing is invited to catch up.
~ 2 hours 12 minutes ~
21:10 * asciilifeform played trilemaroulette, and got http://trilema.com/2014/i-saw-and-was-saddened/ vintage lul
21:10 asciilifeform wonder what happened to subj d00d
21:21 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: uy1 temps in-range, for 8th day; and so at all times other than when that battery's charging
21:27 mircea_popescu wasn't he here last year with the "media company" with no dns resolvers ?
21:27 asciilifeform iirc that was weev
21:27 mircea_popescu this is weev also.
21:27 asciilifeform ( or are they same.. )
21:27 asciilifeform aa
21:27 asciilifeform aite then
21:27 BingoBoingo They are the same
21:28 asciilifeform puzzler -- solved.
21:28 mircea_popescu went by "rabite" back then (if memory serves, before discovering "white supremacist" via usg's free housing services)
21:30 asciilifeform iirc his lettre de cachet got cancelled on a technicality, somehow
21:30 asciilifeform at least Officially. naodays gotta wonder whether was 'technicality' or not
21:31 mircea_popescu it's kinda how ~any decision in http://trilema.com/2013/the-sops-or-what-might-you-expect-from-government-clerks/ goes.
21:31 asciilifeform given that he's done ~0 but to harmlessly 'rezistenta prin cultura' since
21:31 mircea_popescu i don't know that there ever was a "conviction" that stood other than by sheer disinterest of the convicted.
21:31 mircea_popescu otherwise, much as the conviction rate is 100%, the reversal rate is also 100%.
21:31 asciilifeform iirc that ulbricht d00d appealed endlessly
21:32 asciilifeform ( last i knew , still was )
21:33 asciilifeform nsa decree 'unhappened' his what to appeal with.
21:33 mircea_popescu give it a few years, what "endlessly"
21:34 asciilifeform ( tried to present the obv. fact of tor diddlage, was thrown out on 'national seekoority grounds' etc )
21:35 asciilifeform not to mention the other '9000' d00dz sitting on 'parallel constructed' evidences.
21:36 mircea_popescu to quote the prophets, "Fortunately, your chances of being awarded SSI are 100%. ("Not for me!" Again, it's not for you.) You may be awarded it on the first try; you may be denied and then get it on appeal; you may need an SSI hearing before the judge; or you may apply five or six times and finally get it after ten years. But if you are persistent, you will get it."
21:37 mircea_popescu also ""You"= your doc who fills out a packet with specific questions; and maybe a lawyer who processes the massive amounts of other paperwork, and argues your case, and charges about 20% of a year's award.
21:37 mircea_popescu "show" has a very specific legal definition: whatever the judge feels like that day. I have been involved in thousands of these SSI cases, and to describe the system as arbitrary is to describe Blake Lively as "fair.""
21:37 asciilifeform tlp eh
21:37 mircea_popescu aha.
21:37 asciilifeform iirc he was discussing rando hobos, rather than miscreant cacheted by personal decree of obummer tho
21:38 mircea_popescu that was 2003 or so. in the intervening 15 years the principle expanded out of the empire of inner city mammies / "social workers".
21:38 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you ever heard of liver tissue eating out tumour ?
21:38 asciilifeform sure
21:39 mircea_popescu on planet backwards, or what.
21:39 asciilifeform possibly i read it backwards?
21:39 asciilifeform y'mean tu
21:39 asciilifeform mour eating liver ?
21:39 asciilifeform that -- heard. and of dog biting man.
21:39 asciilifeform man biting dog, not heard
21:39 mircea_popescu ...
21:39 mircea_popescu right.
21:40 asciilifeform how does it plug in tho
21:40 mircea_popescu cuz of course pseudo-rational process of fat female niggers stomped out rational process of traditional law, rather than the other way around,
21:41 mircea_popescu and thus therefore of fucking course the manner in which tlp described welfare courts working in 2003 is how general court works in 2019
21:41 mircea_popescu over timeline, liver becomes more like tumour, not vice-versa.
21:41 asciilifeform the mamies win their appeals cuz there's 100mil of'em and system aint set up to send ~all~ of'em downriver, there aint enuff clinks to house'em all. whereas 'terrorists' in the 'supermax' there's a coupla dozen of, and i've yet to heard of 1 being cut loose on appeal
21:42 mircea_popescu give it time, it's definitely happening.
21:42 mircea_popescu heck, most of bush's "never-releasable" kidnap victims were meanwhile released.
21:42 asciilifeform iirc about half yea
21:43 mircea_popescu twas half back in i dunno even, 2015 maybe.
21:43 mircea_popescu the case where "forever-and-ever" promise beneficiary actually brings action against the promiser, "they;'re supposed to feed and clothe me, porca vaca" isn't far off.
21:44 asciilifeform there's precedent -- e.g. the fella who tried to plug brezhnev, actually got out when su ran out -- after doing 30yrs in phonebooth-sized oubliette
21:44 asciilifeform so i guess could.
21:45 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-22#1843703 << subj.
21:45 a111 Logged on 2018-08-22 21:51 asciilifeform: 'Andropov: Why did you decide that you are a judge and can decide with a gun in your hands? Ilyin: Because a person should live not exist.'
21:45 mircea_popescu if you construct a "regime" out of the thin veneer of pop-socialism, myopic as all get-out and with all the intellectual prowess of earthworms, what the fuck do you expect permanence.
21:45 mircea_popescu yearence is a wonder.
~ 1 hours 11 minutes ~
22:56 mircea_popescu meanwhile in other great accomplishments of the scots, "the highland schottische is a partnered country dance that apparently originated in Bohemia."
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