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mircea_popescu: so operator can set 200 gb for blockchain, it gets made into 200k cells, they store 200k blocks and hallelujah.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: something like this : have a ring structure (made of 1mb cells) holding all the blocks. have a separate tree structure ordering them ; and a separate counter structure. whenever you import a new block, put it in that ring cell which has lowest use count
mircea_popescu: actually the more i think about this ... fully in-ram blockchain shat to disk at configurable rate is the elegant way out of here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is my point. should jizz out filewise. ie, once it has a 2gb worth of file all built up, spit it out nice and contiguous.
mircea_popescu: shinohai so it'd be practical for something like that, you know, all blockchain in memory. no disk seeks, faster. if you run something like blockchain.info (though i doubt they hold it all in ram)
mircea_popescu: or on some shit implementation even smaller (i recall a lulz at this in log)
mircea_popescu: yes, mempool is just txn. the way blockchain is currently stored, it comes in these 2gb .dat files
mircea_popescu: actually since you brought it up it reminded me of vague discussion, so let's make it explicit. mod6 asciilifeform i dunno how practical it is yet, but eventually trb block mechanics will have to be expanded to memory datastore, so that it holds the current blk000n it's working on in ram and dumps it to disk only when full. MUCH easier to cache a disk with no writes on it.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: well massive overkill. trb wants what, 4g ? i was thinking more in terms of tb.
mircea_popescu: incidentally - anyone want or rather need boxes with very large ram ? i'm thinking of expanding to another rack with this provider.
mircea_popescu: they ddosed trilema, qntra etc - nothing happened ; they had their agent ddosed - that's the end of the road for him.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: here's the stake, here's the gasoline, are you gonna keep your clothes on ?
mircea_popescu: or in other words, "i ain't proving jack shit to you. you maybe persuade me. maybe."
mircea_popescu: then whatever's left, you shoot for sport over a decade or w/e.
mircea_popescu: then you slowly start letting folk out who can prove they had no connection.
mircea_popescu: but in conclusion : "i spell it priviledge as a mark of my priviledge."
mircea_popescu: anyway. should be obvious that there's plenty more room for the anglopinoy to fall, before they reach their level.
mircea_popescu: and as to the proper meaning of the word revolution (which is - spinning in place!) : about three centuries ago, back when industrialisation was well advanced much like computing today and the united colonies centered around fucking philadelphia were the republic of their time, the empire of china was very much the producer of all good things and disinterested in trade because why.
mircea_popescu: (for the innocent - as apparently #trilema is the only reference for that expression as far as google knows, and truly it knows jack shit : there's this slave language spoken in china where english words are used in the manner of idiomatics. it is incomprehensible in english ; the example given translates to "the" (because demonstrative pronoun is still she) "sow" (ie, female adult - cow ; as a particle it modifies pig into s
mircea_popescu: she cow pig had kittens ; and lived gladly ever after.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, because then i would still not have introduced - like i resisted changes by "romanian academy" to romanian ; but at least i'd have a ready something to point out as the breach.
mircea_popescu: "a place for everything and everything in its place" exists for minds, too. it's called "know what the fuck are you doing and why you're doing it". the alternative is cosby's brain damage.
mircea_popescu: come to think of it, i know of no better definition of intelligence, than the absence of this process.
mircea_popescu: PeterL at issue is not "harm", as per a personal and arbitrary definition. at issue is the process. change happens in actual cultures as an aware, commented process. not like this.
mircea_popescu: change is change, like when i tell my mother listen, i used to like you but now i don't like you anymore ; not like when i wake up one day and don't even know i had one, like some sort of cat or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: if tomorrow everyone starts yielling about how vaginas have balls, that's gonna be it, first population with ballsacs for both genders.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea who even decided this, it just looks like someone in teacher's school just flipped a bit, started sending out teachers with corrupted spelling of prilivedge, and since nobody reads anything anyway it just perpetuated,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's a reason i said sometime in 80s above. that'd be the reason.
mircea_popescu: nathan bailey's dictionary, english-german, german-english, volume 22 page 220, freimachung, freimachen.
mircea_popescu: PeterL : the greeley guide to medical staff by laws, j d cooper, introduction page x ;
mircea_popescu: which fucking one of the FOUR e-i candidates in prIvIlEdgE are you discussing ?
mircea_popescu: now that you're discussing phonetics without any basics, such as the ipa, is one thing. but you're discussing it without any consideration for thought!
mircea_popescu: in any fucking case i'm not changing the way i write it, breaking historical compatibility in the process, to accommodate you feel like saying it this tuesday.
mircea_popescu: and if you're not saying it like that, you fix the way you say it.
mircea_popescu: this is the very point : priviledge is terminated in /d͡ʒ/ like knowledge or ledge ; not in /ʒ/ like liege.
mircea_popescu: they all take the d because of peculiarities of historical english pronounciation. without the d it becomes /ʒ/ as in juge, /ʒuʒ/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cuz you too have been to the zoo, i imagine.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re gfh : i dunno if it's evidently a scamsite ; but it's one placed on a random keyboardmash string.
mircea_popescu: anyway, prepare yourselves for "knowlege, redirected from knowledge. don't make this common spelling mistake."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you hafta say knowlege, juge, plege and privilege nao, didn't you know ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile all the "online dictionaries", shitholes as they are, fail to list the historically correct spelling, and so a generation of random idiots go around pretending it's misspelled now.
mircea_popescu: in other news, this priviledge issue is starting to get on my nerves. so some schmucks decided to "fix" random bit of english sometime in the 80s. because nothing soothes the pencildick socialist soul more than changing things for others.
mircea_popescu: "token's life matters" people seem uncharacteristically well equipped.
mircea_popescu: well, nobody's wasp proof. including the derpy archduke.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you've ever heard of the "national sovereignity" thing ; but let me point out it was originally enacted by europeans through the process of deliberately provoking the austrohungarian police.