asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: feel free to suggest solution that does not 'require gossipd' but is also not perlistic ducttape.
asciilifeform: (what does the thing that actually speaks with peers look like, in your view ? peers will ask for, and send, blocks AND tx, on same socket, as per current protocol.)
asciilifeform: trinque: it isn't , currently, clear to me that you can make this cut cleanly without hard-breaking with the traditional protocol.☟︎
asciilifeform: does BingoBoingo work on anything smaller than tractor ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: and where do i buy a 'breaker bar' that fits 0.5mm screw.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lel, mallet on lcd? german optics ? etc
asciilifeform: 'demise of lispm' applied universally.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yeah but the 'moment of truth' comes when you go and buy 3, 4 figure (usd) 'adult' item and get same.
asciilifeform: one or two stuck screws, and the hex slot in it , becomes circular.
asciilifeform: to take entirely random example, top-of-the-line 'wiha' multihead screwdrivers, ALL now have plastic handles
asciilifeform: i've lost count of how many times i buy a not-the-cheapest $tool, and after 2-3 uses it crumbles into, literally, dust, and then buy 'nice' one, which half the time has been chinafied/plasticized already into very close resemblance to the el cheapo item, sometimes beyond any meaningful diff
asciilifeform: makes for quite as effective a ritual object as titanium
asciilifeform: didja know it is nearly impossible to buy pure-cu ethernet snake ?
asciilifeform: (sc4mz0rz invariably cu-plate it, to deceive simple-minded buyer)
asciilifeform: much less ductile than copper, and it frays.
asciilifeform: questionable metallurgy is another thing. not only pb-free solder, but, e.g., aluminum wire.
asciilifeform: 'all wire frays' 'really nao? i have wire here from 1940s that is frayed in 0 places'
asciilifeform: because 'mine is still in great shape after 5yrs' 'how many times you used it' 'umm... 1? 2?'
asciilifeform: the other hypothesis that invites itself is the tlp/mp 'ceremonial object' one. the, e.g., static mat, was sold on a www with reviews, and not necessarily faux ones. many satisfied sheeples own various tools and NEVER USE, and they -- are quite happy!
asciilifeform: i must echo the words of mircea_popescu's electric heater article, and say, that such a thing could never appear by chance, someone busted his arse to design something so malignantly anti-functional .
asciilifeform: had to bend it so it would sit even moderately still and make contact
asciilifeform: because the thing that was supposed to sit in the socket, would wiggle, like 'hotdog in hallway'
asciilifeform: each hanging by hair's breadth of wire now.
asciilifeform: even simple thing, that i would have bet money no one could fuck up -- fucked up. ~year ago i bought 'antistatic mat', conductive rubber thing with coiled cord that goes to ground pin of mains socket, etc. that cord is now frayed in 11 places.
asciilifeform: i recall i threw one just like this out, and kept , to my grief, its transformer. which then nuked $1000+ worth of various iron i connected it to, because the voltage it put out was actually ~double what was on the sticker.
asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform recently bought a 'top of the line' civilian motherboard, and as soon as being lifted from the crate, it shed a few 0805 capacitors
asciilifeform: 'what could be better than 800KB of makefile! and perl to make the makefile!'
asciilifeform: (but if someone ~else~ wants to take the diff, and write article -- do not hesitate)
asciilifeform: aite, i'ma put this on (long) list of things-must-be-done
asciilifeform: we won't be welding gnu mpi onto anything permanent.
asciilifeform: the other thing is that i'm not entirely convinced that i was barking up a useful tree there.
asciilifeform: it was literally a week+ of sawing off #includes, nixing #ifdef's, moving blocks of code from 1,001 places and deduplicating, etc.☟︎
asciilifeform: i actually sat down to write a long and painfully pedantic piece about what i did, but gave up, let the diff speak for itself☟︎
asciilifeform: killing automake cut the size of the thing literally in half.
asciilifeform: it was also a demo of the utter malignant idiocy of automake (zapped! and you won't miss it, thing builds on all major unixlikes with a single 'make')
asciilifeform: re 'open sores', even a ~very~ small gadget, and in fact one that started life as a stand-alone library: mpi (bignum) piece of gpg 1.4, was quite astonishingly painful to properly saw off the kochball
