asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ah so you tried it.

asciilifeform: so not really os.

asciilifeform: e.g., no emacs.

asciilifeform: there is a dedrepperized (experimental, musltronic) gentoo but it is VERY spartan

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fwiw the mask set i published here will build a depoetteringized (though not dedrepperized) gentoo, which will stay that way. but various more or less essential items, e.g., 'wireshark', will not build.

asciilifeform: 'perelman-os'

asciilifeform: for me right now it is gentoo or unabomber cabin.

asciilifeform: i don't have another, functional os buried somewhere

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433702 << it is what there is. ☝︎

asciilifeform: uhah.

asciilifeform: ^ how the FUCK is this any business of libc.

asciilifeform: # /etc/localtime is a symlink with glibc > 2.15-41

asciilifeform: from 'linux', lulz,

asciilifeform: when i see that birdshot works on it, i know it is prolly not a mig...

asciilifeform: approx.

asciilifeform: pretty much all i know about mpb comes from these !

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: by implication, from various mircea_popescu gripes about tx-sending.

asciilifeform: mircea_popesc-fixed

asciilifeform: fixed fixed.

asciilifeform: was surprised to learn that this was not so

asciilifeform: (not with own hands, naturally, but whatever makes mpb)

asciilifeform: i kinda assumed formerly that mircea_popescu fixed it in his

asciilifeform: but anyway, unlike the pow wars or whatever apocalyptic thunderclouds, the wallet ~could~ be fixed if anyone gave half a fuck

asciilifeform: like most kompyooooting claptrap.

asciilifeform: exercise in electrically-assisted self delusion

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: to recalculate the origin.

asciilifeform: enemy could not possibly spend extra few 100 cpu cycles!1111

asciilifeform: was the idiot justification aha.

asciilifeform: ^^^

asciilifeform: let's pile up moar, moar!111 variably-valued items for the solver!1111

asciilifeform: as if the knapsack thing were not enough

asciilifeform: the create-new-addr-every-time thing also guarantees fragging and pestilential multitudes of 'young' unspent coin

asciilifeform: poorly.

asciilifeform: machine solves 'from which unspent ins'

asciilifeform: for 'pay x btc to addr a'

asciilifeform: the tx selector thing

asciilifeform: which is what we have in trb

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: knapsack problem is this np-complete boojum for which you can, yes, have various crapsack approximations

asciilifeform: is everyone familiar with knapsack ?

asciilifeform: and from it flow the other atrocities of the 'wallet'.

asciilifeform: the notion of the machine undertaking to solve the knapsack problem is ludicrous in itself.

asciilifeform: intrinsically.

asciilifeform: this is O(N) trinque.

asciilifeform: (at least in practice)

asciilifeform: you need the blockchain for this.

asciilifeform: while staying in shiva.

asciilifeform: and go from that to tx-crafting

asciilifeform: which is to say, incorporate db calls into shiva

asciilifeform: imho the mega-reasonable thing to do, and the thing i would be doing right now if not sitting on a stake possibly, is to abstract out the wallet idiocy

asciilifeform: trinque: what do you need to make this go ?

asciilifeform: trinque: neato!

asciilifeform: you end up with this barf.

asciilifeform: wallet (incl. trb) ~much~ dislikes doublespends

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1434092 << i learned one way to achieve this 'wonder' - doublespends followed by normal spend ☝︎

asciilifeform: why would anyone buy ? i still dun get it

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1434076 << l0l wut, the circa-2013 usb miner thing ?? ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: sometimes - not.

asciilifeform: e.g., i run into grown man who never saw msdos

asciilifeform: sometimes it is chronological,

asciilifeform: incidentally every time i open my idiot mouth and talk to colleagues, another one of my 'every boy must have...' assumptions drops like a fucking fly.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is the clear winner in the moar-orc contest.

asciilifeform: but i never had a whole fucking chicken

asciilifeform: i imagine every boy broke something when 'made to share' at some point

asciilifeform: the chicken story is lulzy

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: this is more or less a safe assumption.

asciilifeform: no shit.

asciilifeform: there is no entry in the bookz for 'asteroid' either.

asciilifeform: 'jump up twenty metres and scatter yerself around a bit'

asciilifeform: answer:

asciilifeform: 'whaddoido if a shell lands in my trench??'

asciilifeform: the old ww1 saw.

asciilifeform: (not even maxint - you could pay maxint, theoretically.)

asciilifeform: because it costs +inf.

asciilifeform: you can't put motherfucking collapse on the books.

asciilifeform: the king actually doing his thing is a best-effort affair aha.

asciilifeform: no shit !

asciilifeform: there is a (primitive) grid.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well traditionally it is whatever the tax is, no ?

asciilifeform: calculate how much of, e.g., nyc, you would have to level and convert to garage, and how much to level to convert to 32-lane streets, to have a (c) everyone drives

asciilifeform: and we don't have (b) here

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: megalopolis dies without either a) subway or b) the folks who work there, living there

asciilifeform: so net ~0.

asciilifeform: interestingly, no effect visible to naked eye from the city subway here being closed - seems as if usg took the day off..

asciilifeform: urgh

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1434153 << don't confuse with valhalla hall, with the valkyries. nirvana hall is just that 20 m^3 concrete cesspool from mircea_popescu's old article. ☝︎

asciilifeform bbl

asciilifeform: so now i go and see what 100,000 extra cars look like.

asciilifeform: not ntirely unrelatedly, usg is doing an impromptu collapse drill under the guise of fire inspection, and closes the whole motherfuckng subway for 24h

asciilifeform: but i was talking about mortals.

asciilifeform: yahyah mircea_popescu has esp powerz and they aint for sale and follow him through the seven worlds etc etc

asciilifeform: l0lz

asciilifeform: whatever nietzschetronic etc. etc.

asciilifeform: no phriend-who-owes-him-a-block-of-flats either !

asciilifeform: went with shirt?!

asciilifeform: all of it?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu , what, threw out his capital ?

asciilifeform: mno.

asciilifeform: witnessed the effect on older folk, too.