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mircea_popescu: i never saw a mobo bust a cap and then boot by itself again tho. besides, he'd see a busted cap i imagine.
mircea_popescu: weren't you shipping a bunch of new rams to make it ?!
mircea_popescu: i'm confused, you bought used ram ? i seem to recall a discussion...
mircea_popescu: outside of hard drives, and capacitors on OVER FIFTEEN YEAR OLD motherbopards, i have not witnessed this wonder myself, of failing hardware.
mircea_popescu: i confess i have nfi what makes you think commodity hardware failed in this case.
mircea_popescu: so then as a factual matter, if asciilifeform threw out erry box that rebooted "by itself" for no apparent reason, pizarro would be missing uy1
mircea_popescu: this stance is consistent with, inter alia, republican practice -- we moved variously boxes off providers who kept rebooting them "mysteriously"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well no, original box had a chain of custody, and a history of predictable behaviour.
mircea_popescu: the one concerning bit is whether indeed pizarro still owns that box or not.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, man. if i ran a moron empire with delusions of "pen devices" etc, it'd do precisely the sort of inept rebooting.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, at this juncture i'm starting to suspect attemtping rational analysis is eminently wrong approach, not like it's a rational process.
mircea_popescu: so basically they imagine they're getting a buncha eunuchs outta the deal ?
mircea_popescu: so somehow "you can't run for city council, you're not 2nd gen azn immigrant" not quite as threatening as "you're fat because you eat too much and never get off ass" ?
mircea_popescu: but hence my objection ? turning a blind eye to all the chowdrys taking over bureaucracy while crying bloody murder over ~explanation~ as to why first black president === worst president ever ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i guess my unexamined impression is otherwise.
mircea_popescu: they're not very appreciably butthurt at all by how average whitey's gonna undertest average "azn" aka chinese.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why they're so butthurt by the ~statistical~ fact. just because average black is going to be dumber than average human doesn't say any one black person's gonna be dumb or anything like that.
mircea_popescu: very unlikely anyone's doing such a thing. you're prolly being attacked or w/e.
mircea_popescu: and bad ssd is unlikely to hit ~specifically one~ of multiple instances, as well as it's unlikely to occur while drive has free spare sectors to map to, and besides it'd be a first. drive's fine what.
mircea_popescu: making linux accessible to senior citizen drivers, whadda ya want
mircea_popescu: bernie sanders is actually more of a player than the entire collected dnc
mircea_popescu: that's nice and all, but meanwhile here i sit talking to people about absent sites yes.
mircea_popescu: when diana_coman moved over the site to uy, she pruned all the shit that was badly out of date and little hope of being brought back up
mircea_popescu: jurov used to maintain a git repo (2016 maybe ?) but we're not that git-friendly anyway and he kinda stopped working on it.
mircea_popescu: shinohai multiple layers. it went from .bz to .biz sometime 2017 maybe ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform BingoBoingo yo, you can't have multi hour outages, wtf.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman wth happened there, Trying 161.0.121.247... Connection timed out etc. site got nuked ?
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu this part is fine. now, why did they fail to a) band together and b) control, deliberately, the product. they did a very strict anti-a and anti-b. why! the only reason mit even exists in this picture is because the dozen was "omfg, we DID figure it out, now quick, find someone TO PROTECT US FROM OUR HAVING FIGURED IT OUT!!1" holy shit who thinks like this and why do they.
mircea_popescu: phf pre-symbolics the "theorems" were "how do i computer" in general. those guys weren't playing around with custom fpga in their garage that they failed to sell. they were basically figuring out how to build a von neumann machine that can do things, which they did
mircea_popescu: it's important, really cornerstone of all "made by vbasic/java/etc minds and has network access" items.
mircea_popescu: but then agai nthe space of shit is SO VAST it's not feasible to exhaustively test.
mircea_popescu: besides i have testing for this specific, "whyat happens with net interface unreliability", never found this particular issue
mircea_popescu: i ~suspect~ but obviously have no way of proving that its netpipe flickered and it never recovered.
mircea_popescu: and there it goes : happily eats ctrl-c, OF COURSE, cuz why the fuck have any sort of notion of human priviledge or anything, terminal has its own mind, right. but if sigkilled dies peacibly and then restarts as if nothing had happened.
mircea_popescu: i don't expect anything useful could be had in a timeframe shorter than re-doing all of bitcoin. it's a large box etc.
mircea_popescu: here i sit and stare into the terminal, not knowing what to do. this happens absolutely never in my life, except when dealing with fucking computers.
mircea_popescu: "something happened -- nobody knows when or why or how. would you like fries with that ?"
mircea_popescu: i'd like a computer where i didn't have this sort of problem.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but what the FUCK can i do, run everything in debug, maybe 3-5-12 layers deep ?
mircea_popescu: i weep not hjaving ran this particular instance in debug, so i can't see where it's looping, or wtf
mircea_popescu: in other arcana : i have here a copy of trb that has died a mysterious death on dec 31st. the process itself hasn't returned, ps aux lists it as expected, however the last time it touched any files was two weeks ago, nor does a call to getinfo ever return.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: i happen to agree with the fellow, "partial order" (as in, the term of art) is specifically why not actually breaking anything.
mircea_popescu: in other news, ffa chapters are such a pleasure. it seems to me by now ffa has become such a largest-rock in the loperos garden...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it strikes me as the height of strange that the balance sheet seems to paint a rosy picture whereas management communication is bleak and dour. these shouldn't contradict so, which is it ?
mircea_popescu: are these factual ? because ~both~ of these would be ~significant~ accomplishments, neh ? shareholders put in 11, if memory serves, so they realised a 60% roi over the interval ?
mircea_popescu: re
http://pizarroisp.net/2019/01/ : leaving aside how annoying it is i can't select, and how it's the case trying to comment timesout : it seems the case pizarro ~made~ about 2 bitcoin during november, on the strength of its fiat-denominated holdings, taking it from being worth ~14 to being worth ~17 bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: understand there's no such thing as "a liver". either it's the whole enchilada, liver, stomach, bone, muscles, skin, all the organs -- or else nothing at all.