asciilifeform: 'Determining whether poison killed the half brother of North Korea’s leader in a busy airport is proving difficult for Malaysian officials, who said on Tuesday that autopsy results have so far been inconclusive. ... Kim did not suffer a heart attack and had no puncture wounds, such as those a needle would have left ... '
asciilifeform: aaand it's back, https://archive.is/NsL47 << looks like usg tested $wunderwaffen on kjn ; then satisfied that 0 detection; then zapped ambassador churkin with same.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, front page of today's beobachter was 'trump mentioned terrorism in sweden, swedes have no idea what he was on about' -- while cars burn in stockholm
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/tYLy1 << in other lulz, 'Search engine companies Google and Bing have signed up to a voluntary code of practice aimed at preventing users from visiting' 1337 w4r3z.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: seems like they meant 'unixlikes other than linux and crapple'
asciilifeform: the other interesting bit is the task system. language was designed from the ground up to have sane concurrency. can make 'throwaway' processes , that pass data in intrinsically safe ways
asciilifeform: (language has features that make this practical, such as discriminated-records)
asciilifeform: creates all of the items the program will need in its life, on the stack at boot.
asciilifeform: but a serious adaist avoids using heap at all!
asciilifeform: mod6: the bulk of what takes 'getting used to' in ada is not the syntax, but the forced sanity, e.g. you get (grudgingly) a malloc, but not a free! idea being, you get to pick a memory footprint and LIVE in it
asciilifeform: mod6: working through the spark b00k presently
asciilifeform: ada proggy, speaks the protocol as defined by trb; but does not attempt to verify blocks, instead uses its 'horse' (trb node it rides) as an oracle
asciilifeform: it was in one of the discussions re 'how to cut apart'
asciilifeform: mod6: it was suggested by mircea_popescu at one time. but i can't seem to recall which thread
asciilifeform has been experimenting with a proggy that 'rides' a trb node, and takes over all comms with outside world
asciilifeform: for now it'd be useful to simply be able to ask a proper node to search mempool and recent blocks
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu provoked again my ancient itch for a tx debugger
asciilifeform: and yes, i revved up a fully mod6tronic trb to have what to patch against, my working copies are quite dated
asciilifeform: (at one time, buildroot demanded net access to work)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, mod6 : next mega-advance will probably be to make it self-reproducing - i.e. to shit out a bootable hdd with itself. i experimented with this in the pogo era but hung up at the time on buildroot freezing, which was since solved by mod6
asciilifeform: considering that this builds toolchain, gcc, linux kernel, busybox userland (currently unused), then trb deps, and then trb...
asciilifeform: and this was on an ancient and quite slow box, even.
asciilifeform: congrats to mod6 and the other folx who massaged this.
asciilifeform reports a successful replication of mod6's recipe http://thebitcoin.foundation/trb-howto.html , 'offline' variant, using his vtron etc. took exactly 40 minutes from the instance of making an empty dir to do it in, to having <5MB finished binary in my hands.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this was pretty clear when you explained it here to asciilifeform during the july '15 events.
asciilifeform: let's say 'pseudonode' is that which one makes, if you have 1,001 boxes with acceptable bandwidth, but small disk. (e.g., a botnet.)
asciilifeform: accepting -- possible; acting on -- none whatsoever
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've been contemplating the correct way to make pseudonodes. way i see it is, it should still maintain a cache of recent blocks, and have a backhaul to mothership controlled by owner to request signed block checksums, and whole blocks if cache does not find; rather than accepting crapolade from randos
asciilifeform: (and i will add: 1 is quite certainly insufficient, and 2 -- just ~barely~ enough -- to have real-time access to the network)
asciilifeform: ^ these include strictly those folx who built with versionstring knob. or rather, some quite arbitrary subset thereof (i.e. those not in a black hole atm)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when you wrote 'listener', i wondered if it meant something specialized and passive, a sort of pseudonode.
asciilifeform: 'if they all had but one neck' (tm) (r)
asciilifeform: all aws vm are 1 node as far as asciilifeform is concerned
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how does 'dispersed listener' differ from 'run many nodez, and they gotta have tx debugger' ?
asciilifeform: way it oughta work is, say, 'findtx <tx>' and we get, e.g., '<tx> is nth in block B', or <tx> is in mempool', or '<tx> not seen', in all but the last case followed by hexdump
asciilifeform: to revisit upstack, ftr trb still does not have a tx debugger. when, e.g., mircea_popescu, asks me 'have you seen tx T', all i have is to grep the log barf
asciilifeform: actually if i did it every day, would have titanic hands and 0 complaints
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider publishing your tx debugger as a trb patch ? (the thing that lets mircea_popescu answer questions like 'where is ea58f22fe5bbb4f42edb8be90a37f98b57af12007f7620f7ab94111a06ff3ebb ?' )
asciilifeform: 'The Green Angels, she tells me, are selling a fantasy of an attractive, well-educated, presentable young woman who wants to get you high—a slightly more risqué Avon lady. Not all of the Angels are working models, but they are all young and attractive. In eight years, they have never been busted by the cops. The explanation is simple: Good-looking girls don’t get searched.'
asciilifeform: in re earlier lulz, https://archive.is/xXiAF >> 'Today her total expenses average more than $300,000 a month for the product, plus around $30,000 for cabs, cell phones, rent for various safe houses, and other administrative costs. She makes a profit of $27,000 a week. “I like seeing a pile of cash in my living room,” she says.'
asciilifeform: phf: the wedding trinkets -- are of pure gold?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pretty sure usd currently fills the 'gold mircea_popescu dubloon' niche there, just as in other orclands
asciilifeform: also bbc today: 'Viewpoint: Let's smash crime by scrapping big banknotes. The man who came up with "demonetisation" on whether India did it right.'
asciilifeform: phf: every time you find one of these, i think 'holy shit, it was alive until now?!'
asciilifeform: and we had meat. more than modern usa..
asciilifeform: on my globe, ru, ua, etc is east of ro.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there is a surprising tradition of this. i recall reading about a fella in new york who was permitted to build himself an electrically-operated (button in his hand) 'upward jerker' gallows system, and hang on it
asciilifeform: ty trinque , i will make use of this.
