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andychase: Well BIP66 fixed
a consensus fork for miners running 32-Bit and 64-Bit computers, the shitshow happened because miners weren't validating blocks
BingoBoingo: Sure, but the least controversial one (BIP 66) still created
a huge shitshow when it was triggered.
andychase: Hm, what do you mean? There's quite
a few being considered right now and all the time.
andychase: Although to be honest I had
a hard time understanding fully what you were talking about in regards to the flaws in the BIP process. Was it just that the Core Devs hadn't really talked to the miners or understood what was going on?
ag3nt_zer0: kakobrekla: well I used to think I was
a decent wordsmith until I stumbled onto trilema contravex and loperos haha... but yeah perhaps qntra is something to aspire to contribute to...
trinque: ag3nt_zer0: should you wanna take care of that literacy, I've got
a chick going through that interactive SICP, seems to be working out for her
ag3nt_zer0: on another topic, I wonder is there anything
a programming illiterate, or super noob relative to the experience level in here, can do to make himself useful to the ongoing labors of this group?
trinque spends weeks on
a song in Renoise to find it wont export WAVs
ben_vulpes: in other news, i'm off to
a baby shower
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:08:18; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the other interesting thing is that the market is segmented in such
a way that anyone who doesn't want mcfood ends up paying for ~all~ the alt-crackpotteries, not merely the logical ones << this is
a very valid point, and the one spot where alf's ideas re meta-lizzards sound most persuasive. i do not believe the market is gerrymandered as it is by accident.
punkman: asciilifeform: I only thought about it for 5 min but it seems like the solution to this would be
a bit complex
ben_vulpes: and this is why the global state drives me up
a wall. because i cannot import one of these functions from the script and then run it without setting up
a global environment for it. it's difficult to reason about the code lacks locality.
ben_vulpes: but looky here. you've written
a thing that more-or-less must be tested as
a whole, and i'm trying to push for testing the bits.
ben_vulpes: in all honesty, it is
a relic of testing from before i had the args objects mocked out.
trinque: This preoccupation with what should've happened misses the process by which things *actually happen* by
a wide berth.
kakobrekla: i got
a second mircorserver that will be another home node (amd, ecc, raid) that is on my bench waiting to be assembled for
a couple of weeks now.
ben_vulpes: so that'd be the hash of
a "pressing"?
ben_vulpes: ^^ from
a vanilla vdemo tar, unless i'm horribly mistaken.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell asciilifeform `for i in $(shasum -
a 512 patches/* | awk '{print $1}'); do python v.py patches o $1; done` returns "No origin found." for all patches. i've not successfully run 'origin' yet.
gribble: What do you think I am,
a shell?
vextor: mircea_popescu noted that the bignum arithmetic often hobbled the machine, and to wait
a few hours
vextor: hello,
a week ago I reported that Phuctor is broken when new keys are submitted
gribble: The average time to generate
a block at 113256481.48 Mhps, given difficulty of 56957648455.0, is 3 weeks, 4 days, 0 hours, and 8 seconds
gribble: The average time to generate
a block at 56628240.74 Mhps, given difficulty of 56957648455.0, is 7 weeks, 1 day, 0 hours, and 17 seconds
gribble: The average time to generate
a block at 11325.6481481 Mhps, given difficulty of 56957648455.0, is 684 years, 48 weeks, 4 days, 23 hours, 47 minutes, and 44 seconds
gribble: The average time to generate
a block at 1000000000.0 Mhps, given difficulty of 56957648455.0, is 2 days, 19 hours, 57 minutes, and 14 seconds
gribble: The average time to generate
a block at 1000.0 Mhps, given difficulty of 56957648455.0, is 7757 years, 16 weeks, 6 days, 6 hours, 23 minutes, and 24 seconds
funkenstein_: It may be possible for
a person to know something about history of the America's without reading him, but surely the responsibility is on the person to so demonstrate.the
gabriel_laddel: nvm - I've just got
a bunch of DERIVE files, no sources.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why didnt you get
a symbolics box yo! then you could have fondly remembered maxima instead of derive!
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: is there anything in particular DERIVE has that maxima does not? I read
a presentation on the matter, which had some nice specifics (inequality support) but am curious why you fondly remember the former rather than the latter.
mircea_popescu: they just had
a retarded female-centric social system which fell over at the slightest provocation. like every other case in history.
mircea_popescu: rome had been
a million for nine or ten centuries by that point
mircea_popescu: anyway, to take that myth away : tenochtitlan had
a populatiuon of 2 or 300k. in any case under 500k.
funkenstein_: asciilifeform, remember the bar here is set for - is it worth your while to go slit
a throat of somebody not bother you
mircea_popescu: humanity is
a thrown curve. what's ok in 700bc is not ok in 2000ad."
funkenstein_: i cry for mircea_popescu who lives in
a society which grew up with no wise elders
ben_vulpes: lol simply means nature comes by and wallops population numbers once in
a while
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2015 01:09:34; asciilifeform: 'Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered. He spends part of his time in
a fantasy world in which things happen as they should — in which, for example, the Spanish Armada was
a success or the Russian Revolution was crushed in 1918 — and he will transfer fragments of this world to the history books whenever possible. Much of the propagandist writing of our time amounts to
funkenstein_: at any rate, agriculture is
a great example of "whoops - shoulda asked the locals where the keys to safe are before we needlessly removed their tongues"
mircea_popescu: but that's besides the point. being
a skilled politician is never enjoyable.
funkenstein_: yes, knowing
a useful skill and performing it is enjoyable, sometimes referred to as satori 24
mircea_popescu: allowing the common man some semblance of freedom and import for
a short interval.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_
a lot of talk about that. point of fact is, subsistence hunters with bow and arrow.
mircea_popescu: basically, argentinian : tribute band that is not
a band and no tribute, in
a bar that sells no drinks to some kids that are there because they got out of the rain.
mircea_popescu: you should have seen this thing.
a space too small to keep
a woman with her sister ; 5 dollar drinks ; buncha teenaged derps dressed like pizza delivery boys, backpacks i compris. which ius why nobody had
a drink.
mircea_popescu: in other news, went on
a lark to this "power dc" ac/dc tribute band in some "rock bar" here.
funkenstein_: there was no indian problem. There was
a somebody gave retards weapons and they appear to be killing everything in sight problem.
assbot: Logged on 06-09-2015 00:27:19; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-09-2015#1263340 << the proposition that the library of alexandria has anything to do with
a bunch of bronze-age derps is ridoinculous. that event was
a clear cut case of the elites of one culture wiping the elites of another culture it had defeated. this happens to be right and proper. the solving of the indian problem is nothing of the kind, but simply the elit
VariaVarietatis: If not out of the wot could someone recommend
a good webhost?
VariaVarietatis: mircea_popescu Need some webhosting and
a domain are you still selling hosting?
pete_dushenski: "Thanks for not setting
a reasonable restriction on transaction fees blockchain.info!" << "it's all your fault i'm
a flaming maroon!"
thestringpuller: and that's the last time I click on
a link from mircea_popescu
assbot: On how the factored 4096 RSA keys story was handled, and what it means to you. on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1VFXivr )
mircea_popescu: if he hangs himself by the ears with
a rope made out of state, that's his problem. but saving the thing is not that yet.
mircea_popescu: you're making the jump and presuming nonsensical usage, which may be
a fair assumption in general, but not necessary here.