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decimation: asciilifeform - I was
spec'ing some Intel chips today, and realized that their marketing strategy (for all segments) relies on maximally obfuscating the functionality of their products
mircea_popescu: mike_c in general i find us kids can be more or less trusted to go through the motions / respect the formal parts of the
spec BingoBoingo: So how do we
spec "i'll give you even odds on kurdish holocaust vs kurdish independence any time" for BitBet?
mircea_popescu: the crucial bit of
spec, rendered whole thing useless.
assbot: Army Vet Claims Scam After Ferrari Impounded For Not Being U.S.
Spec kakobrekla: >Recorded Hold-up time. ATX
spec recommendation: 17ms
kakobrekla: like half of them didnt live up to atx
spec decimation: right, he explained that he just "goes and buys the latest core i7 and the latest asus motherboard and that's the
spec machine for the year"
Mats_cd03: is there a better protocol
spec than the one on bitcoin.it
bounce: the own brand stuff is made to
spec by smaller shops, though they make (supposedly to different
spec) for various chains
jurov: having ability to check specs automatically will result in unemployed designer, will be easier just to machine evolve something that fits the
spec BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: What I gather is that SEO spammers can't
spec interesting bets
ozbot: Zeroblock Releases FIX API
Spec for Bitcoin Trading | Blockchain Blog
ThickAsThieves: can you show that continually mining with units you buy for
spec purposes is actually more profitable than selling them once you are done building hardware for them?
bounce: relevant for this channel is the gpg-card thingies. problem with those is that the source isn't available, though a
spec is. an open source implementation would be nice, and perhaps cheaper than sourcing the closed-source thing.
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: someone needs to fab the silicon, and are you going to get an electron microscope to check that its to-
spec?
robwhiz22: asciilifeform, I can tell you that for others who have purchased services like this from me they have been extremely pleased with the results. But I can't do weeks of work on
spec. (without payment.)
robwhiz22: fluffypony, more importantly, it's not like I did the entire project on
spec (Google 'on
spec' or '
spec work').
robwhiz22: All right. asciilifeform, in my critique I showed what you say makes you 'salivate' - obviously, without charge - as
spec work. A proper write-up is incldued for free with a larger proposal.
mircea_popescu: bounce the traditional wisdom used to be that (booklength
spec + half line user manual) beats (one page spc + one page user manual), because you do the book once and then the millions of users are saved a million pages.
bounce: so we're how many years on and I haven't looked but am I to understand there's still not much of a protocol
spec? looks like the foundation sure set some useful priorities.
MisterE: BFL could not deliver the product my buddy ordered and instead of refunding sent a lesser
spec nubbins`: i guess i didn't
spec it out enough
Neil: Suppose bitbet decided to do fixed odds betting (taking on risk on the house). Is that "within the
spec"?
decimation: well, he should stop trying to make gay navies and start by re-writing the bitcoin client with a real
spec dexX7: i didn't know that. did avalon already publish the
spec?
BingoBoingo: I mean scamcoin tricks suggest forcing people to either
spec better signals or kill MPOE bot
BingoBoingo: Refund everybody minus fee? "Poorly
spec's BitBEt Med getting whipped"
Neil: I guess I can celebrate understanding sthg mircea doesn't / didn't 24 hrs ago. There is no problem with the compilers; whatever they do is good; it's all in the language
spec and doing something with no defined semantics.
mircea_popescu: dexX7_ because their accounting was a complete mess, and because they never followed the an0
spec, things that'd be normally deductions have no scriptural basis.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Seems like a better alternatives to the peppers, Prolly
spec any actual offers though to use horse radish rather than ginger for the thick root
Vexual: did you
spec the suicide imagery?
ThickAsThieves: i helped with the new website, though it wasn't rendered entirely to
spec BingoBoingo: Apocalyptic: We played well before the tournament started I believe. It was this thing started on a whim as a four player round robin. truffles nubbins` and myself were in MP's
spec I believe and then Namworld was online at the exact right time. Since we need some sort of three way tiebreaker if nubbins` loses to everyone... Fuck it, five way round robin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform somehow in my mental organisation what you propose comes way after a
spec benkay: mp wrote a
spec that performs
benkay: wow the
spec didn't account for all edge cases
mircea_popescu: benkay the sad part of this of course being that this is actually according to
spec i wrote myself.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: As far as the tournament you
spec'd goes my only credited loss is to namworld.
mike_c: my counterargument was that a formal definition (be it BNF or fpga) of those is less useful than an english
spec explaining rationale.
benkay: algebra is entirely acceptable for the
spec of both network protocol and blockchain parsing.
mike_c: ah :) i guess i'm saying i wouldn't want algebra or java to be the
spec.
BingoBoingo: Hell, even a hairball of K&R C could almost pass muster as a
spec mike_c: But what you end with is the same thing we have "the code is the
spec".
benkay: 'cause WHOOO BOY have you read the textual
spec?
mike_c: it's the definiton &
spec of what goes on in those states that is more needed.
mike_c: it being a state machine is an implementation detail. a definition and
spec would make the world better.
benkay: what's more, a state machine approach satisfies the "
spec" that mircea_popescu has been going on for lo these many forevers
BingoBoingo: Making a minimal functional client for the purposes of documenting a
spec might make a rather ultimate battlegound in the C vs. LISP wars
decimation: true. so many interesting advancements must wait for a well-documented
spec BingoBoingo: decimation: No mircea_popescu Wants a
spec.
decimation: You also said in the past that the 'dev team' ought to write a complete api/interface
spec jurov: benkay we tried a bounty "bitcoin
spec to be published by summer" but obviously it did not work :D
BingoBoingo: nubbins` was in the tournament
spec even though he was the last to begin playing
benkay: never run out-of-
spec?
nubbins`: bernankoin, you read the
spec and have a lel
ThickAsThieves: so if I understand correctly, Cointerra is finally shipping. the 2nd batch of customers getting units along with the 1st batch. The machines are not to
spec, but customers get a 15% coupon to buy more of them, as consolation. Refunds in fiat are allowed.
jurov: unlike bitcon it already has a RFC
spec pankkake: no, html5 basically admits "devs can't write correct html, so we are going to
spec how browsers should react to bad stuff"
knotwork: Yeah but a princely mil-
spec estate is a nice thing for any bitcoin millionaire to have, its just I am not quite ready to buy it all by myself yet.
knotwork: the whole main building is mil
spec radio-shielded
Diablo-D3: oracle refuses to add to the
spec their changes
pankkake: well, that json feeds would be nice. write a
spec and patch software!
Vexual: whats the general od's for cardano, i want to make some gold pcket watch cases and bring them to timis on
spec benkay: it's almost as though willet et al have heard about a thing called a
spec and how some people involved with bitcoin think the cryptocurrency might be better off with a
spec than new features, chose to 'implement' a '
spec' that's wholly inadequate to the task at hand
benkay: read: it's non trivially parsed from this moronic '
spec'.
ivstr28: seems to be lots of hyperbole, when when there are valid criticisms, the
spec gets updated
BingoBoingo: benkay: Well You can
spec a Turing complete language on a napkin in the bar. What takes time is building an implementation that runs on something. For most applications now, the various *nix's are going to be the best things available. If you want to write a new future of computing though instead of inventing Urbit someone could have just as well made a *nix that only offered as a Userland GNU Guile. It seems to me the Closest thi
KRS|Gotyawallet: they were but a
spec on the timeline i long forgot about that name
ozbot: [Update]
Spec announced for the Cardano, S.NSA's first product
mircea_popescu: this is one of those situations where the
spec may only grow. you're free to add css into the
spec, but you are not allowed to "stop supporting" table elements or w/e
KRS|gotyawallet: no actually they
spec'd out more expensive shit and i showed them the lucent models that increases wavelength density by using better multiplexors that were cheaper
KRS|gotyawallet: as an engineer i
spec'd out a lot of the equipment and direcly showed them how we could increase density for increased capacity and a better financial forecast
dub: don't assume its faulty before reading mobo
spec anyway
BingoBoingo: pankkake: Not really. How thoroughly did you try to
spec it?
turbo_ac100: Hi, I submitted the "CIPHERTRADE will go live on 02-01-2014 " bet. Rejection reason is " Needs better specs". The
spec was: People are able to submit new assets.
mircea_popescu: this actually was rejected by everyone on the grounds that it makes the stuff so easily brickable by even the slightest cosmetic changes in the "
spec" (ie, code) that it's not worth it.