ben_vulpes: "does a node with version == 0 fail to sync?"

ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: it doesn't make a practical difference, but it pins a pointless magic variable at its "infinity" value, in the zero, one infinity mapping.

ben_vulpes: i actually think setting version to $maxint is a pretty great idea.

ben_vulpes: <ascii_field> also i verified that if version constant is set to 99999, https://getaddr.bitnodes.io agrees to see the node. unless someone gives a fuck, i will set it back to 0.5.4-beta later today << eeeheuhe

ben_vulpes: node has been wedged for more than a lunch iirc

ben_vulpes: is this a direct result of headers only mining?

ben_vulpes: there's a whole sig* song and dance.

ben_vulpes: jurov: there's a bit more than that. did you read my subsequent link?

ben_vulpes: Again he started out, this time with a hundred and twenty-eight dogs, and when he came to the place where he had turned back, he was able to feed the dogs on dead horse-meat, and so get through to the cabin where to two men were waiting. But on the return trip, the going was heavy and slow and he found that the worlves had reached the cache of horse-meat and finished it up, so the dogs were short of food and though he killed one after

ben_vulpes: Every now and then a horse would miss its footing and go over, sometimes into the rushing river below, to be lost forever. Then it froze, and the going was hopeless. One by one the horses slipped and went down until it was impossible to go onward. C. B. shrugged his shoulders and altered his plans.

ben_vulpes: Story has it that he returned to Hazelton, once, after a trip up the Telegraph Trail, and there he found out that he had missed the farthest cabin of all, over two hundred miles away, and there were two men up there left without supplies for the winter. Either the Government had not made the tale of the cabins clear or C. B. himself had miscalculated. However that may have been, the plain fact remained that these two men had to be ☟︎

ben_vulpes: The little Jap who, laughing up and down his sleeve goes cheerfully about his business in a gas-boat up the coast, or picks out the best small-fruit land in the country; the ubiquitous Chinaman, steadily cornering all the loose cash in the land -- of a surety these two know more of British Columbia than most white men!

ben_vulpes: The Americans come, with plenty of money, and stay at the much-advertised hotels, gulping down the Rockies in predigested doses, thenrace through in a Pullman car to the next big hotel on the coast. And how can they know anything of the province?

ben_vulpes: halls, about "great open spaces" and "the need for a population." But they know nothing of the real British Columbia.

ben_vulpes: "The English come out and travel through, knowing all about everything beforehand, as the English always do; and, having set standards, they compare the Fraser to the Thames (former too wide) and the Selkirks to the Cotswolds (former too high). They get out to spend a day or so at Lake Louise or Jasper, then get into the train again and stay there till they reach Vancouver. Then they go back to England and give vague lectures in town

ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: if you liked clements tall tales, you might get a kick out of Glynn-Ward's "Glamour of British Columbia"

ben_vulpes: http://wiki.nginx.org/CommandLine#Upgrading_To_a_New_Binary_On_The_Fly

ben_vulpes: does anyone know at a high level how nginx does the "swap binary while running" trick?

ben_vulpes: take your myip flag - is that automagically a .conf file option as well?

ben_vulpes: stuck on a particular block, or still syncing?

ben_vulpes: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/science/colorados-push-against-teenage-pregnancies-is-a-startling-success.html << I don't know why the conservatives with all their hate for welfare programs aren't pro-free-contraception

ben_vulpes: punkman: shouldn't that be a function of the number of blocks since the last difficulty adjustment?

ben_vulpes: <decimation> heh do a few cycles in the gentoo barrel << tomorrow mayhap. tonight, the canadians have interesting ingestibles.

ben_vulpes: <williamdunne> cazalla: Comment deleted, just as I was about to make a witicism << witticism, like witty

ben_vulpes: testing this thing is a goddamn nightmare.

ben_vulpes: decimation: take a look at binary-types, per asciilifeform's suggestion

ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> with a yo ho ho << and a bottle of fun!

ben_vulpes: although a barebones lisp editor is tempting.

ben_vulpes: look i'm just trying to make a mil or 5 over here

ben_vulpes: still not a fan.

ben_vulpes: irc bouncer implementation's a good thing to have in the interim.

ben_vulpes: i ran both znc and weechat as bouncers for a while

ben_vulpes: but not a wm-wannabe

ben_vulpes: ah no, it's a tmuxalike

ben_vulpes: but it does new up a udp thinger.

ben_vulpes: sitrep: freshly provisioned server builds boost, bdb and openssl w/out a hitch, barfs on compiling bitcoind because lacking i b'leev integer retardation patch