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mod6: over something that should have been totally trivial.
mod6: i've quite noticed that actually. i was trying to figure out "packages" and did an evening worth of headbanging.
mod6: yeah, def. i learn best by doing, indeed.
mod6: right, ya, something like that. i've got the links to all the sample proggies from before too. so, maybe i'll extend one of them, or that one, or make my own.
mod6: will think on sample projects to get me into the groove.
mod6: was thinking maybe something V-like, since it's fresh in my mind. but the string manip might get tedious and ugly and detract from the overall goal.
mod6: something to get into it a bit, but not too deep. before I try to dig into anything on the btctron level.
mod6: yah, im not sure im quite there yet. what i really need to start in on is a decent enough sample program.
mod6: thanks for the link.
mod6: i've been going through ada95, and it helps with some of the weird stuff like X` and P` or whatever.
mod6: i have to say that some of the ada stuff is a bit non-obvious by syntax only.
mod6: Alright! FG unboxing pics:
mod6: Very nice packaging I might add.
mod6: Cheers asciilifeform! Many thanks.
mod6: FGs have arrived. :]
mod6: Today is like christmas.
mod6: asciilifeform: noted.
mod6: mircea_popescu: ah, thanks for the tip!
mod6: those ones never go bad.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> i like everything about whiteboards save for the smell (and how they get porous and uneraseable over fairly short time) << on the latter part here, i agree. i kinda made a mistake. the one i bought is ~ok~, but when it starts to get bad, I'm gonna buy a new one that is glass.
mod6: I hope it'll spur some collaboration anyway.
mod6: The thinking was, now I can diagram the things, post an image, have the other republicans look it over, and agree/disagree. Then it can become part of the ticket that gets entered, or at least linked in the notes section.
mod6: i realized when trying to diagram out, for instance, the notated split of trb.node with trb.wallet (posted in logs a little while back) that I didn't have enough paper on 8.5"x11"
mod6: I also bought this huge whiteboard ; 6'x4'
mod6: mircea_popescu: hah, sounds kinda familiar.
mod6: I won't let it side track me from my main work. Just something to futz with here and there.
mod6: Now, alf has a bunch of steps on NSA's website. But the gears were turning before hand.
mod6: I think I started thinking about it a lot more recently when pondering the auditing process of FGs.
mod6: and it's a fairly inexpensive foray into some of that. for educational purposes.
mod6: thought it might be worthwhile to learn a thing or two anyway.
mod6: so we'll see what kind of mess i can make. haha
mod6: i did wanna get a few xilinx boards to play with... but first ill see what I can learn with the other stuff I got. i also bought a soldering iron.
☟︎ mod6: <+mircea_popescu> i'm like... finally! people! doing commerce irl!~ << aha, nice.
mod6: So i bought one of those rigol MSO1104Z-S deals, and a bunch of stuff. couple raspberry pi's, three arduinos and a fairly large kit of sorts.
mod6: I knew it couldn't have far off given recent bs in the former locale.
mod6: hai mircea_popescu, wb!
mod6: well, i agree it never should happen.
mod6: asciilifeform: ah, fair enough. but yeah, could be handy.
mod6: meanwhile, I'll see what i can do in the next few days about putting together alf's suggested patch
mod6: TomServo: as a side note, I've been watching MST for the first time. show is hilarious. i had no idea bout your nick. :]
mod6: If you wanna work on something here quick, get familiar with dumpblock and dump the last 12 blocks for us perhaps.
mod6: You could roll back to your latest backup I suppose, but using your chain for forensics is really a good idea so we can try to extrapolate some causation.
mod6: TomServo: Do you have any backups of your chain at all?
mod6: we need a way to rebuild the index.
☟︎ mod6: yeah, 'tis a good idea.
mod6: getting the sha512 of the entire bytes of a block seems useful
mod6: ah, ok. thought you meant the header.
mod6: or ya, 12 or whatever.
mod6: ah, yeah thats better. we don't need 69,000 blocks. just the last, probabaly 20.
mod6: using blkcut? that might be worthwhile
mod6: asciilifeform: I wonder iTomServo might try cutting off the latest blk#####.dat file? thoughts?
mod6: !~later tell TomServo Are you still getting blocks and have moved beyond 458051 or whatever?
mod6: <+mp_en_viaje> thanks for reporting TomServo x.x << Indeed, let us know if you see something similar.
mod6: <+ben_vulpes> "fucking what? you need your own leagues to even take a podium spot." << heheh
mod6: ben_vulpes: niiiice.
mod6: oh yeah, back in those days computer-anything was $$$. Especially CRTs.
mod6: fwiw it was only like $375
mod6: ya, kinda neat. looking forward to getting this fired up.
mod6: This box with 2 E5650's and 64Gb RAM showed up yesterday. now, just need some drives...
mod6: also, I think the idea of deedifying my version of V is also worthwhile... I think I've simply been waiting for it to satisfy the constraints before creating a genesis. Once that's created, then I'd say it'd be worthy of freezing.
mod6: <+trinque> strike that, all trb deps mod6 deeded; he is hosting the V stuff. << fwiw it's also posted to the ML which is on some other environment.
mod6: Thanks for following through on the remainders.
mod6: Thanks for the update.
mod6: thanks for all your hardwork shinohai!
mod6: You will find that The Bitcoin Foundation website has duly been updated as well as the TRB How-To Steps (nothing more has changed than the version number of the tarball to grab for V).
mod6: shit, just about anything serious here will bankrupt the aveage johnny mcfucksticks.
mod6: For sure. Anywhere has to be better than this hell hole.
mod6: Someday, I'll probably elaborate more. But wow, what a failure.
mod6: I'll tell ya, I've never had much prior experience but... the american health care "system" is about as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.