asciilifeform: bbbut this is basic

asciilifeform: the node capacity is just presumed, somehow, to drop from the sky, like 'obamaphone'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for some reason none of the 'not terrible' folk express the thing in correct terms, which is that tx is a ~cost~ to other people who run nodes

asciilifeform: quite.

asciilifeform: see also http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=23-01-2016#1382703 ☝︎

asciilifeform once wrote 'oncogenesis follows philogenesis', but prof did not notice, did not collapse laughing

asciilifeform: 'let thousand flowers bloom'

asciilifeform: on the other hand i didn't have the graph, or sane parallel leaf handling.

asciilifeform: as for the multitude of vtrons, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it, but i am seeing folks suffer from easily-curable issues that were not present in my original prototype (which, recall, had NO state other than patch/seal/keys working set, and did not use the net, and had the 'origin' command, etc.)

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: it is actually quite feasible to have a patch that 'touches everything' but is visually inspectable in three minutes - e.g., mod6's proposed 'release patch' that merely tacks a comment to the top of every file.

asciilifeform: pile of jewls jewl-rippers tore from their mounts, as was their impulse.

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284 << see points 2, 3, 5.

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: but i get the idea

asciilifeform: the fruit? only from grandfather's botanical book

asciilifeform: something like a quince ?

asciilifeform: but the things-to-be-done are many, and the hands - few

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-01-2016#1390980 << i remember asking for this some time last year ☝︎

asciilifeform: ^ this also.

asciilifeform: from pelevin's yarn, where the precisely 'sandvaginated' folk living in antigravity sphere called themselves 'human' and, derisively, the still healthy folk below on the ground, 'orcs'

asciilifeform: term of art

asciilifeform: the orc-human border !

asciilifeform never saw this before, but it makes mega-sense

asciilifeform: presumably his father being a physicist of some kind, in the secular world, would suggest 'damaged' hassid

asciilifeform: then i have nfi, i simply do not know enough about subj

asciilifeform: afaik - actual, but living in usa

asciilifeform: fella has interesting bio, he's an escapee from, iirc, hassidic jews

asciilifeform: yudkowsky is an american

asciilifeform: he

asciilifeform: psych breakdown

asciilifeform: didja know he was thrown out of school ?

asciilifeform remembers writing to yudkowsky in the late '90s, when both were harmless and penniless crackpots

asciilifeform: good in the sense of refraining from creating monster

asciilifeform: would do loads more good than feeding yudkowsky

asciilifeform: why not put the money in a pyre and light it?

asciilifeform: this is an explanation ?

asciilifeform: (and enough to support a harem, if rumour is to be believed)

asciilifeform: the mega-question is why thiel is paying him to do this 24/7

asciilifeform: http://lesswrong.com/lw/p0/to_spread_science_keep_it_secret << one of these pieces by y

asciilifeform: y'know, sorta like sc4mz0rz, card sharps, understand fraud better than honest folk

asciilifeform: the hilarious part is that y had a piece on ~this~ also

asciilifeform: ended up even writing 'guide to qm' for his cultists

asciilifeform: y suffered from delusions of physics - he was 'raised for physics' by his father, but didn't make the cut, and never lived it down ☟︎

asciilifeform: now - yes.

asciilifeform: though i don't know why he had to go for the condensate, ordinary water behaves in quite the same way

asciilifeform: of all things in the piece, picking at the one that actually made sense ?

asciilifeform: wrong bose

asciilifeform: http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beliefs << original piece on same

asciilifeform: and 'post on fb' to these benighted folk is same as voting in the obummer election, etc. - just 'something all civilized do' or whatnot.

asciilifeform: their cult has been 'evaporatively cooling' (y's own term!111) for ages.

asciilifeform: !s lesswrong

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-01-2016#1390987 << mega-unsurprise ☝︎

asciilifeform: iirc boards that will boot ~only~ winblowz 10 have already hit the shops.

asciilifeform: x86 is a moribund thing.

asciilifeform: a mb maker is a lowly creature, sorta like a btc miner, follows where the wind blows.

asciilifeform: only to get negrated once they run out of g-series ? l0l

asciilifeform: amd g-series ultraminiature things

asciilifeform: they sell very similar items

asciilifeform: 'pcengines' and 'gizmosphere'

asciilifeform: tyan is not on the list

asciilifeform: i know of only 2, actually.

asciilifeform: and intel-free.

asciilifeform: point being, there are not so many mb makers which ship full schematics.

asciilifeform: and is in fact certifiably satanic today

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: amd is not in wot, while we're at it

asciilifeform: and it's a g-series. while it lasts.

asciilifeform: their board isn't even SOLD with ANYTHING but coreboot (linuxbios)

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-01-2016#1390737 << pcengines co. does this ! ☝︎

asciilifeform: (in raid5)

asciilifeform: presently installing something quite like iridium toilet - slowly replacing the whole raid with ssd

asciilifeform: ear - recalibrates.

asciilifeform: machine that sound EXACTLY as annoying

asciilifeform: every so often, i go on a binge of installing gaskets, costly german fans, etc. but the result is always the same:

asciilifeform: about same noise level as sov refrigerator.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: it is not silent at all, this is in the logs. and it drives me mad.

asciilifeform: do ~that~ from dc.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-01-2016#1390743 << i ain't keeping locally anything that won't push ~5000x5000 pixels ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-01-2016#1390736 << dafuq, who uses mb vga for anything ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-01-2016#1390735 << i have a very similar board here, a 'tyan' ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2016-January/000202.html

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, et al:

asciilifeform: Achtung, Panzers!

asciilifeform: i'ma try & figure out why the version set thing doesn't go

asciilifeform: mod6: do what you must.

asciilifeform: but whatever

asciilifeform: we did it for the db locks fix

asciilifeform: i'd much prefer antimatter

asciilifeform: here are 2 opportunities for eagle eyes!

asciilifeform: this is a 1 line fix tho

asciilifeform: to get rpc

asciilifeform: likewise it appears that the shiva patch has an issue, you end up having to LC_ALL="C" ./bitcoind -shivainit=./shiva/init.scm -shiva getinfo

asciilifeform: would love to, but so far i do not understand why the setting mechanism does not work.

asciilifeform: will be happy to produce an antimatter patch for it if this is needed.

asciilifeform: mod6: i officially pronounce the verstring patch to be buggy and unfit for inclusion in its present state

asciilifeform: (how much must one pay on open market to get somebody to allah-snackbar)

asciilifeform: what's an isis mujahed worth, per capita, in usd ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: humour me, show how to denote that man-month in usd.

asciilifeform: denominated in what, martian bzortls ?

asciilifeform: tmsr gdp...