asciilifeform: 'Do you grasp this? Bitcoin will never exist as a toy for five idiots. You will never get to matter inasmuch as what you want to do is have this little black box the world reveres that only you are allowed to peer inside. This is not how the world works, currently (and past about 1800 or so). This is not how the world should work, either. Specifying the code does not "result in fiascoes like this one". Your idiotic codebase results i
asciilifeform: it's a very sad pattern though. promisetronic. in that you have a format ~in your head~ and then write 'reader' and 'writer' and there is no machine-assured isomorphism between the one and the other, and definitely not with the format.
asciilifeform: it isn't even about 'attack surfaces', but for getting maximally compact description. i.e. fits-in-head.
asciilifeform: but whether this is worth the sweat, i cannot say.
asciilifeform: and the 'correct' thing to do would be to extend it such that it would be.
asciilifeform: which unfortunately isn't the case for variable-length types in it
asciilifeform: well the thing that presumably drew ben_vulpes to using 'binary-types' is the notion that 'describe the type and never have to manually craft readers/writers'
asciilifeform: phf: i dunno that binary-types offers a clean way of handling this type
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: these already lived in a consecutive pile.
asciilifeform: you will never have to go to the town market to buy a new rhinoceros or new bulldog, you can cut the head of this one as many times as it takes.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: but look on bright side: if you have the thing running on your box, it won't run away, you can vivisect it until you learn whatever you wanted to learn.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'trivially' means different things to different people.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fwiw, i have nfi what, if anything, is left there to see.
asciilifeform: esp. if coupled with actual working wireshark + trb node.
asciilifeform: ( it must've been a real downer for these folks, who turned into boring, snoring car mechanics, dentists, etc. 'hey, remember when we used to saw dude apart and stitch his head onto his arse? ' 'shuddup, pass the oil pan' )
asciilifeform: iirc it isn't far from mircea_popesculandia.
asciilifeform: where mengele et al lived out their days.
asciilifeform: speaking of which, did mircea_popescu ever visit town of barriloche ?
asciilifeform: eh hey i dun recall ever deying him the requested rope.
asciilifeform: the one thing that cures is the years going by and the patient bashing himself bloody against the concrete wall of the 'ignored and abstracted'.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: your potential 'clean' and structurally-perfect philosophical pill will have same 0 effect as my 'dirty' one.
asciilifeform: at no point is the notion that 'irrelevant' foobar will dissolve the bottle, the desk, the floor, the house, your mother, and you, and the town - contemplated.
