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mircea_popescu: you know, it's just like you that you'd ask about the one hole.
mircea_popescu: jurov respectfully an' all that, but : didn't we test dpaste and it came out that it mangled nothing ?
mircea_popescu: jurov well it's already here, already takes dpastes, not so bad no ?
mircea_popescu: hey jurov phf ascii_butugychag everyone else with an interest : let's get a format for bot-ml-etc interoperability ?
mircea_popescu: trinque i dunno, jurov was saying something about email, but that seems silly. just allow the import of files and piss them out as a json i guess ?
mircea_popescu: it's the hand that can be arsed to make it through the mental cage.
mircea_popescu: but nevertheless. it's not merely the hand that feeds.
mircea_popescu: they have a very narrow cage through which they might be fed.
mircea_popescu: for instance, another hand would feed them if they went nude dancing. they don't.
mircea_popescu: which is how the entire world (except brazil) enjoys the benefits of refrigeration, even as there's maybe a guy in a thousand people that could explain how it actually works.
mircea_popescu: the role of libraries is exactly like the role of the fridge in the supermarket : "here's this capsule of other people's thinking so you don't have to"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you're going to get an endless slog of obscure bugs that came from nowhere and aren't apparently anything, why not just use something that actually has libraries ?
mircea_popescu: excuse the naive approach, but isn't that sort of thing precisely what lisp is supposed to by its nature prevent ?
mircea_popescu: one of the founders was arguing it shouldn't get govt support, just let it die
mircea_popescu: ok so does anyone have a ready link or fresh context in head re that discussion recently (~month) of that british game publisher that went under with 20mn investment ?
mircea_popescu: trinque so not with the intent to pressure you, but : is deedbot patch insertion likely to come online soon or should i re-learn how to do it via email ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yeah, which will happen five minutes after the usg stops hiring idiots, which will happen half hour after anyone who's not an idiot stops exclusively dedicating himself to the republic, which happens after i'm fucking dead, i should hope.
mircea_popescu: the maggot language doesn't have a word for "corpse", and certainly not one for the corpse's ex-marital status.
mircea_popescu: or you think bhagwan chowdhry & the merry bunch actually have some sort of loyalty, or even any sort of conception of "US" ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: four people and their dog aren't part of this discussion.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo sadly, the alf totally dominates that field. the bundy's dun have what it takes. not even remotely.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: than americans themselves having any say whatsoever in who gets to fuck their ass for the next ~century.
mircea_popescu: PeterL neither of those are options. a russian oregon alaska and washington, a chinese california, a mexican arizona nm and texas and a european protectorate all the way to ohio is much more likely
mircea_popescu: this is the one bit us folk are too blinded by their own internal narcissus to grasp. you don't get to retry on your own as a failed state. you get put under the management of your neighbours, because you suck. it happened to the indian tribes in the same geography before, and they were extinctified by it.
mircea_popescu: on the basis of how the american handles himself there, the immediate future is decided.
mircea_popescu: there will come a major pass with china, probably in the next five years.
mircea_popescu: anyway. in my detached view, this presidency is important for purely exterior reasons. the us, as it is, is irrelevant to everyone, including itself. the future of the us is mostly determined by the management of the image of the us, which is well divorced from the us of today, and a sort of future tendril of the us of 1970.
mircea_popescu: the country is terminal tho. it's falling over on its own anyway.
mircea_popescu: people not trusting politico actually makes for one of the best recommendations they could have.
mircea_popescu: PeterL you're not supposed to trust your ruler. you're supposed to feel threatened by them, i guess, or fear them, if you don't have a readier way to express submission in your own mind.
mircea_popescu: the woman is intelligent and determined. certainly a lot less stupid than it is average for the us. she's no bush nor any kind of redditobama.
mircea_popescu: ftr, i may be the only one left, but i don't think she's anything of a monster.
mircea_popescu: all those nobodies on capitol hill gotta derive their delusions of relevancy somehow.
mircea_popescu: i would expect there's a lot of power brokering going on there.
mircea_popescu: as the ancient rule says, "people will do the sane thing just as soon as all alternatives have been exhausted".
mircea_popescu: mommentum player, has little to offer other than "nobody can beat me for i'm the king rarara"
mircea_popescu: these are both very nice things, and the good news is that it's much easier for you to become very useful than it is for alf to grow another arm. so don't take this as a censure per se. does all that make sense ?
mircea_popescu: as annoying as b c etc might be they're mostly minor and could be fixed by a further patch. a however is a killer, and colors both b and c in similar tones, because it betrays the fundamental problem with this patch : it doesn't flow from a structured approach given in depth consideration, but merely from your desire to help and impressive stamina.
mircea_popescu: so basically polarbeard here's the thing : i considered signing this, and i will consider signing the next version. as it is however i won't do that, because a) not all errors have both flags set ; b) occasional ' in error message ; c) occasional losing a valuable datapoint (such as the hash above) or missing on adding a useful one (nStart).
☟︎ mircea_popescu: + strError += strprintf("tx requires a tx fee of at" << this is logging exempt ?
mircea_popescu: + return error(SBLK "pow %s work below minimum (%u)", hash.ToString().c_str(), nBits); << bunches of these.
mircea_popescu: + return error(SBLK "block %s doesn't match index", GetHash().ToString().c_str()); << it really doesn't work if you don't use the flags!
mircea_popescu: "a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be..."
mircea_popescu: i wonder if this is a step up or a step down from power ranger.
mircea_popescu: well what can you do, when the "real cryptographers" are involved, you're stuck.
mircea_popescu: + printf(SINF SBLK "loading block index\n"); << this should show the nStart value ; so should all these timed items. like + printf(SINF SADR "loading addresses\n");
mircea_popescu: i had forgotten that was in there. suddenly got flashbacks of ancient debug.log layout.
mircea_popescu: - printf("\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"); ahahaha holy shit already.
mircea_popescu: + printf(SWAR SWAL "repairing tx version %d\n", wtx.fTimeReceivedIsTxTime); << any reason this lost the hash ?
mircea_popescu: + return error(SBLK "block loading from disk failed"); << this soulds like SERR and so does + printf(SWAR SBLK "found bad block %s at height %d\n",
mircea_popescu: polarbeard + return error(SBLK "chain tip %s not found in the block index", hashBestChain.ToString().c_str()); << any reason this has only one flag ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kinda lulzy how this got all the self-important know-nothings off their ass and flailing wildly.
mircea_popescu: also BingoBoingo maybe redirect the fellow to trilema comments where the matter of "jiggling the merkle tree" is well set to rest.
mircea_popescu: but that aside, should they somehow find the money/mit to pull an ethereum : spam is easy and cheap.
mircea_popescu: adlai this fear is part of why ln bla bla stays vaporware.