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mircea_popescu: incidentally,
the fresh blood you (and
trinque ) pumped in
trb ecosystem made a lot of secondary nodes gain lots of speed
too.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-27 15:50 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes et al : i
think it is worth elaborating what it means when saying 'my node is behind N blox'. what it means, if spoken properly, is
that you know of some node, somewhere,
that appears
to have moarblox
than yours. focus should be on 'did my node ask it for nextblock? what, if anything, did it answer? why ?' rather
than
the quite uselessly unspecific 'mah nodez are behind!111'
lobbes: but so it goes,
those on
that ship will 'unhappen' into
their watery grave
lobbes: <asciilifeform> [19:42:10] in other vintage heathen lulz,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoin apparently. << "Before disappearing from any involvement in bitcoin, Nakamoto in a sense handed over
the reins
to developer Gavin Andresen" lol, didjaknow?
phf: hmm, dis ircii keeps losing connection and
then not
telling me anything.
this like some girlfriend shit
phf: i'll definitely document it
though, because
the process is arcane, and not at all automated.
☟︎ phf: relatedly, i managed
to get latest version (jan 2014) version
to produce a dvi out of
tex.tex from first principles. i used someone else's port
to gnu pascal
phf: knuth managed
to do a lot
to keep
tex what it is, given
that he's essentially a pacifist academic.
there aren't many other examples (common lisp, ada) where preservation has been
taken
to
this extreme.
phf: asciilifeform: well, be
that lamport, or someone else,
the memo wasn't missed, but made
to disappear
through consensus. everyone knows
that
there's only one
TeX, but of course "modern" "tex" is latex with luatex engine, etc. etc.
BigTexasBingo: Not much
to do
then except present carrot/stick/africa
trilemma
BigTexasBingo: When I consider what
the next right
thing is, hambre or
the
threat
thereof provides motivation
to not be stupid and Windows
phf: asciilifeform: he did
though, by making it very explicit
that
there can't be a successor.
BigTexasBingo: Anyways knuth problem seems insufficient
threat of hambre
phf: well, really,
the problem has been discussed here many
times,
that you can't
tmsr without wot. "successor" is just a special case of
that, which, again, lacking mechanisms, is likewise lacking
phf: we'll he's a millenarian, he's primarily documenting
the fundamental findings of computer science
phf: it's hard
to say how much knuth changed over years, without knowing
the man, and i don't
think "for which knuth is famous" is any kind of measure. he's certainly gotten old, but i
think he might also be constituionally incapable of participating in a consensus.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-04-22 04:34 asciilifeform: rmans really got
to England my acquaintance of
the Cafe Royal would soon have found his painting deteriorating, even if
the Gestapo had let him alone. And when
the lid is
taken off Europe, I believe one of
the
things
that will surprise us will be
to find how little worthwhile writing of any kind -- even such
things as diaries, for instance -- has been produced in secret under
the dictators.'
phf: but
to answer
the question, i
think i don't particularly mind
the subtrate. man does computations, i wouldn't be
too concerned if he were
to switch
to ipad even, because he'd still be hand writing algorithms with a certain detachment
to
the concerns of extras
☟︎ phf: he was using unix up until early 2000s, and
then switched
to mac (i
think for old people reasons)
phf: he did? i
thought he uses mac, he posted his keyboard layouts
phf: early
tex papers knuth
talks about putting
this or
that formula into macsyma, but
then from some point he fully switches
to mathematica. breaks me heart
a111: Logged on 2015-04-09 21:21 ascii_field: anyway, i happen
to know more
than a reasonable man ought
to, about wolframism
phf: ircii questions are also by
the way impossible
to search for. no way
to
tell either google or ddg
to not be helpful and also mirc, irssi, etc.
☟︎ phf: i suspect ircii simply predates usability. back when men counted each character, because bell
telephone company metered bauds
☟︎ phf: the other
thing
that i wanted
to do is add xref for
those inline quotes `phf: asciilifeform: grrrrr ... << kek`
that people like
to do
phf: well, i'm
thinking illumination, which has been sop for btcbase, but yes, since split happens on client anyway (i'm using ircii right now, and it annoyingly doesn't warn OR split)
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-27#1759185 << i sometimes wonder if
there's some clever way
to link back split posts (i mean in cases where urls are lost, perhaps by looking at cases where 250 byte message, followed by same person within ~~<3s or somesuch)
☝︎☟︎ jhvh1: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
jhvh1: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-02 22:48 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the sea is rich ; but
the fisherman's stuck playing a loser game.
deedbot: 2017/12/22 02:03:16 <esthlos> BingoBoingo: yes, I
think it's
time for
that
deedbot: diana_coman rated esthlos 1 << He seems
to really want
to learn.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-27 05:36 ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: let me know if your aggression patch was enough
to stay at
the
tip of
the chain, as it wasn't for my node.
BingoBoingo: The accountant is giving me
the expectation
the
the process of
transforming my self into a business will compelete
this week allowing bank access
to follow soon after.
BingoBoingo: Later
today still more intense language and cultural immersion scheduled.
BingoBoingo: Ah, such a gloriously obvious pattern emerges. Waterfalls when
the banks are closed.
Turns out
the speed of
the crashing is limited
to a somewhat sane pace by
the difficulty of getting rid of non-ecu fiat
takens
mircea_popescu: o
the fuck he is!!! ie,
the world's heavyweight champion. ayer explained
that he's
the ex wykeham professor of logic, and since
they're both pre-eminent in
their respective fields, how about
they indulge in discourse rather
than intercourse. oddly enough
tyson accepted, and naomi campbell slipped out -- apparently undamaged enough by
the experience
to actually do
those not-even-terrible shots with madonna.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: aaand in other humanities : a. j. ayer was once in
the livingroom of one fernando sanchez on west 57th st, hanging out with a buncha young hussies/models when one girl came arunnin' complaining
that her friend was being assaulted in
the bedroom. ayer went in, where he found mike
tyson atop an obscure south london model. when
the (at
the
time 70yo) oxford professor asked him
to quit it, mike
tyson wanted
to know if he knows wh
☟︎ ben_vulpes: gonna have
to revert and watch, or provision a mess of boxen
trinque: ben_vulpes: huh, meanwhile node.deedbot.org is
topped up without aggression and without 50400 setvernum.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: let me know if your aggression patch was enough
to stay at
the
tip of
the chain, as it wasn't for my node.
☟︎ trinque: if an automatic manifest comprised of hashes of all items in project, it reduces
to
the $concatHashBefore and $concatHashAfter