asciilifeform: ( that, and/or they want moar churn, i.e. moar fee, when you gotta send N tx where previously 1 would have sufficed )
asciilifeform: so far the closest thing i have to a hypothesis, is that the fattest chinese want you to issue a set of conflicting tx so the thinner ones end up with longer invalidated chains☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: strangely enuff, larger fee (in asciilifeform's observations) dun seem to make any diff
asciilifeform: it's riotously obnoxious and erry time i encounter it , cements in my head the 'mining is a bug'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-03#1906616 << this is a well-known effect ( most famously, possibly involved in how 'bitbet' burned down ) and i've personally observed it erry single time i sent coin in past coupla yrs . tx dun move until you send a conflicting tx . why the miners do this -- i still do not know☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: iirc , last i looked, <0.1% of what answers on 8333 even remotely resembles actual node☟︎
asciilifeform: sorta why asciilifeform wrote (not yet got chance to debug tho -- and not 'proggy is buggy', but to actually handle all possible brokenness of the probed liquishits...) node mapper
asciilifeform: on acct of the sheer volume of dross 'nodes' on the net, this remains problem even if you personally have sizable herd of nodes
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-02#1906563 << the 1 gotcha, is that if you (or peers) are wedged (genuinely wedged, on db grind; or peers wedged; or stuck on island in sea of prb; or... buncha documented , in log, cases ) then will get exactly 'where the fuck is my tx' errytime☝︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-02#1906560 << it aint that i've anyffin against 'civilized' typography (tho prolly oughta admit, errything outside of graphical www on my boxen is displayed in exactly fixed-bitmap lettering) . simply gotta point out that 'fit 3 l where 1 w goes' is a luxury of sorts, costs moar moving parts than folx who never tried to implement it are typically aware of☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-02#1906538 << believe or not, asciilifeform recently turned up a crate containing several ( i have nfi, thought i gave'em all to danielpbarron ) but loox like he has you covered☝︎
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had a custom in-house ??? for same ( also sadly not published anywhere afaik )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: we had this here for years. ( and on top of it -- they give you the kind of bag where 1 potato will fall through in <5min )
asciilifeform: there must've been some wagner/cyanide in the bolix fuhrerbunker when folded, presently can't think of why else none of the tech had any later life
asciilifeform: ( there are afaik 2 bolix patents -- 1 , ancient, on the orig. 'l' arch, of 1980-82; other -- on some peculiarity of the video console )
asciilifeform: and answr is not , evidently, 'patent purgatory', they folded prior to getting to patent ~any of it
asciilifeform: arguably the real puzzler, is , where the fuck did all of this go when co folded ? did they shoot all the designers ? ( clearly not ~all~, e.g. weinreb even lived to '12 or so , had blog )
asciilifeform: so, not quite 'atari', and in coupla moar ways than asciilifeform previously suspected..☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: in other wtf's, apparently thing had knob for manually controlling the cache prefetcher. sumthing asciilifeform previously thought had 1st appeared in opteron, in '07...
asciilifeform: they didn't have programmable pll yet, so they birthed the multiphase the old-fashioned, analogue way. hence temp-controlled .
asciilifeform: arch, turns out , was inherently suitable for high-rad
asciilifeform: this explains an otherwise strange find of asciilifeform's : that there apparently was a small run of (possibly saphire) 'ivories' for orbit market
asciilifeform: afaik this is item that today's x86crud ~still~ dunhave in any reasonably working form
asciilifeform: or, e.g., accessed memory via a separate iron sequencer, which queued reads/writes and spread between up to 4 separate memories ( ride 1 while the others busy , making the best of slow '80s drams )
asciilifeform: could correct 1bit flips and detect+retry 2bit
asciilifeform impressed by some of the details , apparently thing not only had internal & external ecc for all memory, but iron ecc logger
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's 100% enuff for a test harness ( thing even has a handy arse port from which it shits microcode instr. in realtime as it runs )
asciilifeform: at some pt, possibly earlier, will re-type the thing for publication, but i dun have a nicoleci , so may take a while .
asciilifeform: will have a torture board baked at some pt, with socket . but prolly not till later summer at earliest.
asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform nao has what appears to be full pinout, timing, bus sequence, register, init magic, interrupts, etc. spec for bolix 'ivory' (won't, presently, say from where, unless source wants to be cited, plox to write in. )☟︎
asciilifeform: ( went, approx., 'evil martians invaded and rule' )
asciilifeform: hrm loox to be moar complicated, saw it via some derp, iirc, who was running for us congress, and cited icke.
asciilifeform: can only speak for self, asciilifeform previously supposed.
asciilifeform: man is supposedly moar clever than amoeba...
asciilifeform: was such 'success' that he never bothered to mention it here
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-31#1906292 << diana_coman (iirc is in the l0gz, somewhere briefly) 1 time i dug up what turned out to be an attempt by pete_d to market fg -- his notion was 'first, gotta rename! it'☝︎
asciilifeform: i oughta get pete to buy my bucket of aluminum swarf from machine shop bucket, coupla wks ago i filled it up again. maybe he can sell also for 5k..
asciilifeform: ^ is a bottomless well of lulz. for instance, didjaknow, usg does not today and has never purchased 'computer'. it buys 'automated data processors'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even funnier -- d00d dun actually need that 5k for anyffin, he inherited bargefull of moola at some pt in '14-15 , collects 'rolexes' etc. he's doin' it to (per tlp) 'Feel Like a Trader'(tm)
asciilifeform: there was some fella who in 2000s 'fuck , i'm not paying 100k to hitachi, i'ma build own atomic force microscope' but admittedly was long time ago.
asciilifeform: dunno, imagined that somewhere someone 1) has hands growing from torso, not arse 2) wants rng 3) likes to blog re builds
asciilifeform: the mindboggling thing is that afaik no one yet 'fuck you all, i'ma make own.' asciilifeform made this deliberately as simple as could be .
asciilifeform: iirc danielpbarron sold at least 1 for 700+ orcbux somewhere
asciilifeform: ( d00d hangs out with folx who pay weight in gold for ??? rarities )
asciilifeform: i wouldn't even be surprised if he finally sells 1
asciilifeform: and/or , as suggested upstack, early april1
