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asciilifeform: ogy had not advanced as quickly as it did in the first half of the 1960s, the Compactron idea might have been developed further, with even more tubes in a single envelope...'
asciilifeform: 'What GE did was combine multiple common tube types into "fat" tubes—as many as four in a single glass envelope, all heated from the same filament. The idea was to reduce the amount of power required to heat the tubes and the space they required on the circuit board, as well as the associated costs of multiple sockets. In a very crude way, GE was applying the concept of integrated circuits to tubes, and if solid-state technl
asciilifeform: keeping the number of parts at a minimum.
asciilifeform: and when using exotic/handmade logic, you will probably take the opposite approach from a si designer - maximally 'un-unroll' the loops.
asciilifeform: potentially, one could create a sequential circuit of arbitrary complexity using laser-cut metallic baffles in a long glass vacuum flask.
asciilifeform: because they needed a si fab
asciilifeform: (assembling these into a circuit with 'weakest link' still permitting these speeds, is 'an exercise for the alert reader') ☟︎
asciilifeform: jurov: check out a modern catalogue (e.g., 'digikey') - you can get ecl parts going into double-digit GHz
asciilifeform: my symbolics lisp mach., interestingly, has a board with a good number of ecl discretes. turned out, this was the framebuffer. it was the only way to crunch ~200MHz at the time
asciilifeform: jurov: ecl (emitter-coupled logic) is a supposedly-obsolete way to build logical circuits (on any particular semiconductor chemistry) where a transistor is kept near switching point at all times, gaining speed at the expense of economy
asciilifeform: http://ummr.altervista.org/scansTEKECL.jpg << these (or, more realistically, modern) ECL discretes would probably outperform a modern integrated miner, were they to be built into a (washing-machine-sized) one...
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-05-2015#1134015 << it's a full node, so whatever blockrange happened over the course of the last few days ☝︎
mod6: just a sec.
mod6: it's a work-in-progress
mod6: make sense? i'll post all the data with a posting about the findings.
mod6: Now, currently, I'm running a very similar test with v0.5.3.1-RELEASE (as a baseline) without your OrphanageThermonuke patch included... it did oomkill once, yesterday.
asciilifeform: mod6: did you have a 'thermonuke' node going at the time of these events ?
danielpbarron: i thought maybe the live network was getting spammed the other day or something; why all of a sudden my node keeps crashing?
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-05-2015#1133831 << my full node also died recently, many times. I had to restart it like 10 times in a day when it usually goes weeks without crashing ☝︎
funkenstein_: bookfinder.com hasn't changed in like a decade and still rules
davout: ok, i'll have a look ty
davout: asciilifeform: could you recommend a couple C books for the eager student?
asciilifeform: but it is a book for winblows reversers
mircea_popescu: "Welcome to my first tutorial. My nickname's 187 or Assassin. Right now I'm touching up on my Visual C++ skills and working on a game engine."
funkenstein_: one coin one vote sounds cooler, but it's really a per satoshi kinda thing
funkenstein_: I leave a prototype here in hopes for feedback / being ripped to shreds / other
funkenstein_: a toy I have been working on called "coin-vote"
copypaste: Understood. Hopefully mircea will fix that when he wakes up. :) Need to put a <body> tag around the <a> tag, with style="padding:0;margin:0"
copypaste: I think that a style on the <body> tag like padding:0;margin:0 should fix it.
wiz: i mean, not paying tax to the state, or being restricted by their regulations, etc. is a huge competitive advantage in any market, white or black
wiz: it occured to me that once underground markets master the art of operatings as "unregistered corporations", they will be at a huge competitive advantage to state-registered corporations
mircea_popescu: wait, someone made a youtube about b-a ?
wiz: Roger Ver first told me about your exchange a few weeks ago, I've been reading your site in my spare time since then
cazalla: well, slow west is a shitty movie let alone a western
Namworld: They turned web traffic into fireworks. "The attacks shown are based on a small subset of live flows against the Norse honeypot infrastructure, representing actual worldwide cyber attacks by bad actors."
mod6: Once I have all the baseline perf metrics collected, I'll be making a posting about it and will publish the data.
mod6: Addtionally, I 100% agree, if anyone else should test either of these and capture anything surrounding the OOMKILL either in the v0.5.3.1-RELEASE or a patched version of v0.5.3.1-RELEASE, please let us know.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6: please post any data you may have collected at the moment of the oomkill << so just to reiterate here, the current perf test I'm running is with the v0.5.3.1-RELEASE which oomkill'd (as it's known to do). I'll post the nmon charts, log, and vmstat log. no core file was created. However, as a reminder, the previous perf test that I ran with v0.5.3.1-RELEASE+{asciilifeform_orphanage_thermonuke.patch}(http://thebitcoin.foun
decimation: I wish I would have met a neckbeard at that time who would have forced me to learn emacs
decimation: I ran slackware on it for a little while, kernel 1.2 as I recall
decimation: then later I got a 486DX from gateway
asciilifeform: (mine had a set of led lamps which toggled number, supposedly cpu clock, from '40' to '10')
cazalla: did you have a keyboard lock on your tower? my old man tried that shit on me but some how i had the idea to open it up and remove cable
decimation: I remember thinking as a kid 'why would you not always have the turbo button activated?'
asciilifeform: this goes for anyone else who got oomkill with orphanage-thermonuke specifically, on a box with ad libitum ram
asciilifeform: incl., if you have it, a core dump
cazalla: i quit after wotlk but i was a day one nov 2004 player so..
decimation: apparently they banned "a large number" of accounts http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/17347095985
cazalla: i had a few extra accounts i used with wowglider to mine ore and herbs
decimation: heh "Blizzard Entertainment has banned ?a large number? of World of Warcraft accounts after finding that they were using bots, or ?third-party programs that automate gameplay? according to a company post. "
mircea_popescu: to quote a random derp, "for instance - military strategy"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i've had a decent chuckle reading the reports pushed by people scrambling to cope with my brusque, sudden, unexpected movements.
mircea_popescu: which i think happens about 9k times a year, just, usually nobody outside of the guild forum gives a shit
mircea_popescu: so this entire moot-Mallory Blair Greitzer thing reads a lot like, skank fucking raid leader for jools.
cazalla: who would've thought you can have a cracked copy of a tree
cazalla: too late as i've already potted it up, but at least i learned about this plant breeders rights rubbish.. guess i'll have some cutting warez in a few years time
cazalla: gee i got scammed at the nursery, sold a plant with DRM (PBR)
Namworld: I'd probably wouldn't keep a computer open like that or let kittens in it...
trinque: I'm a huge Mel Brooks fan, was pleased to see him come up on Trilema
mod6: Speaking of Blazing Saddles... that movie is so damn funny. I must have watched it 20x as a kid. But what's interesting was recently I heard/read about these "Animal Trials" in Europe during the middle-ages. Makes me think of that part where they're hanging that guy AND his horse. lol
mircea_popescu: "In 2010, Poole was reported to have raised $625,000 to create a new online enterprise, Canvas. The web site opened on January 31, 2011, and features digitally modified images uploaded by users who are required to self-identify using Facebook Connect. In January 2014, Poole announced that Canvas, and its DrawQuest feature, would be going out of business."
mod6: ``That's one small step for man, one giant leap for every, complaining, son of a bitch on the face of the Earth.'' << lol!
mod6: Then I can compare and contrast and work with ben on a writeup for qntra
mod6: After this one is done, I was going to run a vanilla v0.5.3 to get a baseline from that as well. And I will do that, but did remember that it /does/ at least require the db patch to achieve full sync.
asciilifeform: mod6: i have a mega-warez-set of -all- of sierra works (incl. that series) waiting for the day that never comes.
mod6: remember kings quest? that was a 486 game iirc
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the 486 was, i admit, because i wanted to play a bit of games again.
asciilifeform: it was a procedure for folks who refused to plead (submit to the jurisdiction of the court. formerly, english courts could only try folks who 'agreed' to be tried)
mod6: just as a pre-lizard-hitler fabrication that still works kinda thing?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: -this one- is a rarity
BingoBoingo: I get the 486 isn't quite a rarity yet, but damn
asciilifeform: (at one point, he was willing to crate'em up for a princely sum, and ship. but after several DOA he quit.)
mod6: oh no. yeah, it was probably thrown up and down, left and right. gotta have a solid box & styrofoam enclosures.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> fool shipped this 'relic' in a thin cardboard box scarcely larger than machine, via usps. << What the fuck
asciilifeform: fool shipped this 'relic' in a thin cardboard box scarcely larger than machine, via usps.
mod6: ah, yea. send it back, get yourself a working relic.
mod6: hmm, i had a PB back in like 94 that was like a P1 -- had heatsink only. might have had a case fan tho.
asciilifeform: fucking fans. been searching for a fanless 486 for years.
asciilifeform: woulda been a nifty thing - 12 inch across, square, solid steel case, 1 isa slot, no fans.
mod6: haha, agree. and like i said `if we can figure out a scheme inwhich it would work', and that would imply that it would have to somehow work better than what currently ``works''.
asciilifeform: and i am also not clear on why we would want to move from a box adminned by an l1 man in good standing to some random thing shared with a million bozos
mod6: <+jurov> mod6 ben_vulpes asciilifeform why don't we throw out the mailing list and move to 8chan? <+asciilifeform> jurov: move to 8chan? << share the lsd ? << as much as the turdolator has been a pain for jurov, I've kinda grown fond of it. however, I'm open to discuss it a bit if we can figure out a scheme inwhich it would work. mainly, ive just never been very into bbs.
mod6: ~<+mircea_popescu> mod6 https://8ch.net/btc/index.html << might need a few reloads, but teh republican banners, they're there. << hey thanks! they look great! :]
trinque: wouldn't it be nice to simply declare the structure of an e-mail, and know that anything acting upon anything which claims to be an e-mail is going to be of a given structure?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-05-2015#1133634 << it's more related to folks with mania washing hands 17 times in a row ☝︎
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Halfchan is now a gawker intern subsidiary
BingoBoingo: trinque: Sure there is, it is called a /etc/ fileset
williamdunne: DigitalOcean however lets you stick up a cheap ass VPS for what, $5 a month and you can auto setup wordpress. If you can't work out how to do the initial basic step with SSH you have no business running a website
trinque: BingoBoingo: I "bashops" but there's no excuse for not having something whereby you can make configuration something you bundle and give a name, reuse
mircea_popescu: so 4chan is a gawker subsidiary now ?
williamdunne: BingoBoingo: I attended a college for a short while, I was recording all of my work on a cpanel server. Had about a years worth of stuff on it when it fucked up
mircea_popescu is kinda too lazy to set up a different server sharing scheme
mircea_popescu: williamdunne you can have a cpanel acct if it helps you
williamdunne: Well as said, once my pay comes in tomorrow I'll stick scoop up on a server
BingoBoingo: williamdunne: That sounds like a great way to get sued for all of the nothing I have.
mircea_popescu: through the "author"s misplaced expectation that making such a claim will promote his production
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: I'm really just trying to work out how a bent triangle relates to bitcoin
williamdunne: Find a friend and beat the shit out of each other
BingoBoingo: So, 11 year plan on track still. Did pushups today until I couldn't a few times and then wrapped my hands and practiced jabs on the locust tree outback (Iron pole idea did not last very long in practice)
ben_vulpes: ;;rate princessnell 1 coulda been a contender...