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mircea_popescu: the "resistance through culture" intellectuals still did
a lot to mitigate the sort of damage discussed here
mircea_popescu: but yes. the us is not only just as inclined to outright lie as the su was, it's also blessed with the gift of suck in the shape of
a purely imbecile population.
decimation: asciilifeform: my understanding that the "U" dry storage casks are specially designed to be put into 'fast breeder' - for
a time when usg comes to its sense
decimation: actually this is
a side-effect of ramping up fission - it would increase the supply of random shit coming out of the reactor to study
decimation: yeah it's
a good point. gold is double-edged because it's the thing everyone else is warehousing
mircea_popescu: meanwhile buying
a kilogram bar of non radioactive rare earth metal is perfectly feasible as-is.
BingoBoingo: <decimation> yes, 'buckyball' strands were supposed to be the next big thing << Turns out lots are easy to make already, start
a wood fire.
mircea_popescu: but in all fairness this thing, while in principle promising, is mroe than
a few tweaks away.
decimation: heh well yeah. ultimately he's kinda
a libertard
decimation: it's the only technology that (mostly) exists that could possibly give
a 'european' level of energy use to the entire world
mircea_popescu: the x per day bla bla figure is spurious. obviously there's
a shitton of energy there. the problem is we don't yet have the filters.
mircea_popescu: decimation the idea was that somehow you create the hafnium you use in your laptop through
a fission process that happened during your lifetime.
gribble: Error: Something in there wasn't
a valid number.
mircea_popescu: but it boils down to the simple fact that if you're
a mile away your share of the sphere surface is tiny, whereas if you're surrounding the item, your share's 100%. distance is
a much better insulator than mass, because distance goes into the formula ^3. and consequently you're better off
a mile away from
a ton's worth of criticality than with
a gram of the stuff in your colon.
mircea_popescu: (i have the math done on the difference between being exposed to
a meltdown outside and being exposed to ingested material, if the obvious difference's aren't obvious i can dig it up)
decimation: eh, as long it's just
a little bit you'll be okay
mircea_popescu: fission may well be the safest method of electricity production. that's not in discussion.
a large part of WHY it is the safest involves not sticking bits of
a reactor core inside you.
mircea_popescu: you know, just because japan's
a colony and ukraine
a colony of "the enemy" doesn
mircea_popescu: is this
a rehash of the entire russian song and dance about how "nobody died at chernobyl" ?
mircea_popescu: i doubt you'll ever be able to put up your gf's butt something that was inside
a reactor core during your lifetime.
mircea_popescu: it is actually not unreasonable to overspend on sustainability when building
a mine.
mircea_popescu: decimation soon to come to
a strip mine/mall near you!
mircea_popescu: and you simply can't beat
a value proposition like "either have europium or not be able to display the color red - it's that simple".
mircea_popescu: it's just not
a bottleneck atm. sure, maybe it will become. who knew, in the 60s, that mountain pass thing in pasadena would be the most strategically important place in all the us.
decimation: yes, this is true. you need
a supply of gold for electronics certainly, but it need not be huge
decimation: silver is pointless as
a monetary metal - too common with too many reserves
mircea_popescu: europium phosphates for instance are still to this day the only way to get
a decent red.
kakobrekla: good part seems to be that you can manipulate
a single bit unlike flash.
mircea_popescu: "Following more than
a decade of research and development, 3D XPoint technology was built from the ground up to address the need for non-volatile, high-performance, high-endurance and high-capacity storage and memory at an affordable cost."
shinohai: I'm so retarded. I shulda known there was
a dedi chan
shinohai: I am going to need
a dedicated box if I intend to play Eulora. Any suggestions?
BingoBoingo: Oh and Qntra is now at 707 posts. It is now the biggest place
a nuclear reactor housing can be expected to survive.
mircea_popescu: if my suspect is true, this very neatly shows openbsd as
a superior os.
BingoBoingo went from fairly stable 224-236 MB of ram usage to
a very flat 986 MB the very flat makes me suspect OpenBSD weird
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: There's
a second one
a bit later
BingoBoingo: It really is. And who of all people would have suspected I'd be around and find
a problem on
a Friday night.
BingoBoingo: This is 2 months in
a row. Not quite
a pattern, but almost one
BingoBoingo: Fuck it. Imma report
a whole number version this time
mircea_popescu: it'll be indeed
a hard task to explain to one's grandkids to what end does bitcoind actyually use threading
mircea_popescu: whjy use static buffers when one can be
a danger to the system
mircea_popescu: im pretty certain said magic numbers actually make it impossible for
a block to be crafted legally and still crash your bdb, soi there's that.
mircea_popescu: anyway there's
a reason for the magic numbers too, something to do with theoretical maximums of
a 1mb block but i don't recall what THAT was either.
assbot: Logged on 05-07-2015 15:33:42; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-07-2015#1187470 << what i was saying there bears repeating. if we had
a fleet of pogos deployed, they would ~all~ be paperweights now. and for so long as we use the cpp turd, there can be no guarantee of this kind of thing not happening in the future.
mircea_popescu: <danielpbarron> the gnomes figured out
a magic amount of bytes that got accepted by some but not all, except it seems their beloved bc.i got caught in the fire << bc.i gets caught in every fire.
cazalla: punkman, what
a lost generation, can't even kill
a chicken without getting out their phone to post it on fkn instagram
trinque: I modeled this thing with ben_vulpes one day on
a whiteboard; the blockchain is not an impossibly complex data structure
trinque: asciilifeform | BingoBoingo: is there
a particular reason we didn't set that knob to maxint ?
punkman: danielpbarron: > Db::put: Cannot allocate memory << it's
a bdb problem
decimation: I can't enumerate them all, but the network code, for instance, runs in
a different thread than the db code for instace
BingoBoingo: trinque: It seemed like
a safer number than the one that wedged before
mats: 'dual EC:
a standardized backdoor' by djb, tanja lange, ruben niederhagen
trinque: same thing done here with locks is probably also trivially represented by
a nullable foreign key
trinque strives to imagine what could actually need to lock 40k records in
a db
danielpbarron: the gnomes figured out
a magic amount of bytes that got accepted by some but not all, except it seems their beloved bc.i got caught in the fire
decimation: hopefully this will influence apple to turn osx into
a more adult unix, but I wouldn't hold my breath
punkman: but then you take
a walk and it comes back to you
trinque: at least with religious magical thinking it's anchored to
a book.
punkman: "There is now
a pull request to remove mention of "zero or low fees", "fast international payments", and "instant peer-to-peer transactions" from bitcoin.org. For those non-technical users who do not read source code, this may come across as the breaking of the social contract on what Bitcoin is ultimately intended to be."
trinque: thoughts of
a navel-fixated narcissist
mircea_popescu: if i fuck her i get off, no exceptions ; if i follow her recipe i get
a build - no exceptions. this is what it should be.
mircea_popescu: that's what i would like it to mean. "this was coded by
a girl" should be the indication that if i follow the fucking thing, i get the intended result. NOT some error message.
mircea_popescu: anyway. why can't "coding like
a girl" mean you write good documentation, for instance ?
mircea_popescu: "Heartbreakingly, at some age, we become convinced that doing anything like
a girl means that you are doing it ineffectively, wimpily, and in
a way that can’t be taken seriously at all."
mircea_popescu: was just going after the math angle of it for
a second
mircea_popescu: for bonus points, offer preference criterion (would
A or B be more beneficial if added to the set)
danielpbarron: i plug in
a few numbers into equation, solve for x, paste my macro x-many times, let it run while i do other stuff