asciilifeform: queueing is sane but i will point out that from the other side, a node that doesn't answer immediately because it queued, is not distinguishable from one that doesn't answer because it is spinning wheels on block verification.
asciilifeform: you need the entire orchestra to decide whether to accept a tx for relay.
asciilifeform: something that comes down the wire. precisely what, i do not yet know.
asciilifeform: what happens is that it makes ~your~ node sit retardedly instead of talking into socket at appropriate time.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: not what happens. those get banned quite normally.
asciilifeform: mod6: trb isn't multithreaded in the, e.g., apache, sense. it services clients round-robin style, and if it gets stuck at any point, this is what you get
asciilifeform: 'The raw power of computers has advanced at a stunning speed, but has this advance translated into a comparable improvement in their usefulness? Word processing, to take the most obvious example, hasn't fundamentally improved since the late '80s. And in the view of many people I know, WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS was actually better for their purposes than any of the bloatware that has followed.'
asciilifeform: oh huh, looks like mettler toledo bought'em
asciilifeform: (why the 'rainin' pipette ran on them, i have nfi to this very day, ask the french not me)
asciilifeform: funnily enough, at my first paying jerb i used up dozens of these batteries, electric pipette ran on'em, and i had nfi why they were interesting other than 'bitch to get'
asciilifeform: no shortage of one; while the other showing up on ebay in qty==1 is 'world' news...
asciilifeform: 'cheap' in the antique comp business means in practice 'everyone who wants, has'. as, e.g., 'commodore 64', vs, say, lispm.
asciilifeform: ( most famously, smbx lispm was findable for a few hundy during a very brief burst when amex flooded the market with theirs, which had been replaced with java shitware )
asciilifeform: and yes, cheap today, unobtainable tomorrow.
asciilifeform: though i can think of a few exceptions ( transport for, e.g., cray, or connection machine - and yes, i knew a d00d whi bought connection machine! is not easy or cheap ) -- generally old hardware of the interesting sort ( vs everybody's old 386 ) is cheap
asciilifeform: these expired some time around ivan 4.
asciilifeform: the one full of ukrs? or the other one, that wasn't even any colour of ukr whatsoever until idiot hruschev redrew the map.
asciilifeform reads on, in sidebar, 'Dec 13: For your Bitcoin payments, remember that we need the Coinbase transaction ID in order to track your deposit. We encourage you to write down that ID to avoid delays in your Bitcoin payment processing. Thanks for your comprehension.'
