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ascii_field: 'why is
a dentist wealthy enough to go on safari ?!'
ascii_field: phf: for so long as it runs on
a consumer pc, it will exhibit the braindamage characteristic to the pc.
phf: ascii_field: is your argument then, on
a higher level, if abstraction leaks it should not be introduced?
kakobrekla:
a whole 8 buttcoin volume on that thin, is that all they got?
pete_dushenski: eth up
a solid 20x over ipo price for those (like saifedean) who threw
a couple bucks at it and are ready to cash the fuck out.
☟︎ peterl: does it matter how much hashing pwer they have if it is pointed at the other side of
a fork?
ascii_field: the reason to remove machine gun from the hands of
a demented anal child is not necessarily that you need the thing for anything.
trinque: or are we already in
a position where things like the blocksize limit debate are moot
trinque: sure, just needs
a business case that works like anything
trinque: but then to continue in that vein, I do see how trying endless mitigations is
a death by
a thousand cuts.
trinque: chewing up
a database on disk is
a fine way to run afoul of the "I do not have the correct blockchain problem" the whole piece of software by its very purpose tries to avoid.
ascii_field: 'protocol' is when you can't rewrite because you can't unburn
a hole.
ascii_field: as will the tape deck and
a piece of 'scotch'
ascii_field:
a fifty-cent magnet will 'rewrite' happily, these magical 'write once' tapes.
ascii_field: was told that it is ordinary tape. but with
a magic hole in the cartridge - like old floppy disk
ascii_field: this piqued my curiosity and i inquired to the vendor, how, precisely, does one make
a write-once magnetic tape ?!!
ascii_field: trinque: i was pointing out that you need
a relatively minor (from r&d standpoint) device, that was ~once available~ and isn't today.
ascii_field: but in virtually every case known, it was really
a case of 'i won't go in that hole, promise'
trinque: what he describes is effectively
a wal log, what's wrong with it?
phf: well block*.dat are essentially append only, the idea can be emulated by having transaction bits. you write
a t bit, you write rest of block, when done flip t bit. on restart you walk backwards until the first flipped bit and you file truncate anything from that point on
ascii_field: the 'otp' chips sold currently are
a FRAUD - eeproms with black epoxy instead of window !!
ascii_field: now go buy
a silicon fab so that antifuse rom gets produced again.
trinque: how,
a fine thing to think about
ascii_field: now we also need
a tcp crud pipe for every access to the blockchain ????!!
trinque: but it's
a place for obvious improvement
ascii_field: trinque: and go, unplug the disk of, e.g.,
a postgres
trinque: and berkdb claims its
a db?
trinque: which reminds me, my rotor instance chewed up its db when
a drive's usb cable disconnected
ascii_field: on
a not entirely unrelated note, incitatus has been steadily ~100 blocks behind
ascii_field: yes, there is
a ministry of usg that occupies itself with finding nails for the microscope to pound in, badly
mircea_popescu: 2 uni profs aren't
a threat to the fucking mice in their own lab.
mircea_popescu: but in fact it withered to
a coupla, and doled out through the university program.
mircea_popescu: but hey. until that day, every wooden cutout's
a soldier.
mircea_popescu: both these got
a little crashed, and yes i'm going to bleed the living life out of the entire set of derp shartups, and yes it can say until it falls over.
mircea_popescu: lawl. actually hanbot & shinohai the stuff's quite well related. sv knows how to do one thing, the whole "make
a market out of
a trillion shitheads and sell them sheep olives for quarter pennies". and usg lives in this delusional alt-reality where it is enough for it to say, and things happen.
ascii_field: kakobrekla: she and her fuckbuddy oversee
a university lab where slave labour (grad students) work (or pretend to) on 'ethereum'
assbot: REMINDER: the block gas limit is currently 5000, so it is not possible to send transactions. We will release an update in
a couple days to cause miners to "vote" the gas limit upwards at which point the full blockchain functionality will be de-facto enabled. : ethereum ... (
http://bit.ly/1DT9ZJ5 )
ascii_field: i can ask, e.g.,
a nic, to read or write arbitrary word in ram
ascii_field: 'In monolithic operating systems,
a driver can write to any word of memory and thus accidentally trash user programs. In MINIX 3, when
a user expects data from, for example, the file system, it builds
a descriptor telling who has access and at what addresses. It then passes an index to this descriptor to the file system, which may pass it to
a driver. The file system or driver then asks the kernel to write via the
shinohai gift wraps
a copy of LeVay's Satanic Bible, sends it to trinque
ascii_field: 'i prefer that the planet exert
a gravitational pull. look what happens otherwise'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu ought to contact his supplier and have
a stern talk re: getting
a higher grade of muppet shipped in
mircea_popescu: might as well say "any kid today knows nkr is <<
a country>>".
ascii_field: trinque: virtually everything printed in english re: north kr is
a bold-faced lie out of the mouth of south kr
☟︎ ascii_field: roughly: 'let us remind, yesterday, pravda.ru yesterday described the speech of the ambassador of north kr, kim hen jeon, who pronounced that his country will not follow the example of iran and go into talks with the west re: nuclear disarmament. instead, pyongyang will actively prepare for
a nuclear tension, given the fact that usa is increasing its involvement with training of the south kr army.'
mircea_popescu: is it
a bad thing that i find him more amusing than the run of the mill usg "comedian" ?
mircea_popescu: "Gone forever is the era when the United States blackmailed us with nukes; now the United States is no longer
a source of threat and fear for us and we are the very source of fear for it."
mircea_popescu: Kim said the contest was intended to "bring about
a radical turn in the drills to round off preparations for
a war full of the will to settle with arms accounts with the U.S. imperialists, the chieftain of aggression, and the South Korean puppet group keen to escalate the confrontation with the fellow countrymen and that of social systems, seized with sycophancy toward the U.S.,"
mircea_popescu: (btw, the vagina is the internal part. that's
a vulva)
trinque: I have
a great relationship with them; they spend all day trying to not suck, and good for them
trinque: hilarity of it is I think the guy's
a born again himself
shinohai: Books too, they had
a hard-on for Umberto Eco for some reason, and I could never keep
a copy of Foucault's Pendulum
☟︎ funkenstein_: mircea_popescu, good question. i spent
a lot of time with the fluid mechanics volume back in the day.
shinohai: But, yeah. I dunno how many copies of Led Zeppelin albums my parents burned when I was
a kid.
shinohai: Considering they believe the world is going to end and there is no need for any sort of secular education, it is
a wonder I can read at all.
trinque: something something killing people in
a labyrinth, evil is basically
a weird art project, something something
ascii_field: or if you're
a l333337 d00d, landau & lifschitz vol. 1-5
trinque: ascii_field | on third hand coming out of alien chest, i readily recognize that i probably ought to have been killed at age 7 or so << plenty of intelligent people had all kinds of health problems; surely there are reasons other than "fit as
a viking" to live
trinque: absent
a giant safety net, life itself will do the culling
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for phf from 1 to 2 with note: Well read gent in search of
a handler. Bureaucrats and mustachioed young ladies apply within.
mircea_popescu: !rate phf 2 Well read gent in search of
a handler. Bureaucrats and mustachioed young ladies apply within.
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for phf from 2 to 1 with note: Well read gent in search of
a handler. Bureaucrats and mustachioed young ladies apply within.
mircea_popescu: !rate phf 1 Well read gent in search of
a handler. Bureaucrats and mustachioed young ladies apply within.
assbot: Logged on 30-07-2015 03:59:36; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-07-2015#1217395 << if i have to ship
a bootable linux iso, buildrooted for the purpose of building
a) self b) bitcoin - i will. in fact, yes, i have this up my sleeve, BUT PEOPLE WOULD HAVE TO USE IT instead of retarduntu etc
mircea_popescu: anyway, the only way to solve this problem is of course ppp, ie pay per packet. and the only way to even run an internet at all is as
a blockchain, which is to say mempool and all that.
mircea_popescu: but yes, it was practically shown that
a) no actual protection from ddos exists, outside of the ostrich method discussed above and b) udp is the key to this state of affairs.
☟︎ jurov: were they reolved by banning
a protocol?
mircea_popescu wonders if he's the only one that remembers the major spammer-ddos wars of
a few years ago.
mircea_popescu: i get it, you want
a woman that's transparent and doesn't bleed.