asciilifeform: punkman: since you asked, it also doesn't hurt to point out that both phuctor and the node MUST HAVE reasonably-cpu-and-ram-rich PHYSICAL machine.
asciilifeform fantasizes about 'sleep ad libitum' for a reason. he has a ~26 hour circadian rhythm.
asciilifeform: (not all spare time is created equal. i'm both free from paying work AND awake enough to program, for perhaps a few hours a month!)
asciilifeform: there is no way in heaven or hell that either of those things could ever pay for itself.
asciilifeform: this is YET AGAIN the 'can't charge for sunlight' thing !!
asciilifeform: for no especially good reason other than that i felt like it, and mircea_popescu saw it fit to supply a machine (via subcontractor) out of his own (for now) pocket
asciilifeform: phuctor and the node are run as a public service.
asciilifeform: and neither phuctor nor therealbitcoin bring in any revenue
asciilifeform: punkman: because hosting is very expensive.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu dulap is a quad-core machine. current 'werker' (phuctor) uses strictly a single core, at the maximum. but what is happening appears to be bus cycle starvation (shared cores share a cache; and at any rate all processes share a single ram bus)
asciilifeform: erwin schrodinger, famously, did his physics almost as just a thing to fill the time between random fucks. but he was not enough 'non serviam' nietzschean superman to avoid sucking hitler's cock (unsuccessfully !!) and having to run for his life
asciilifeform: one does not become an artisan 'from a good life', as some kind of voluntary choice, imho
asciilifeform: considering how the latter is almost inescapably a less-rewarding affair than the former
asciilifeform: i suspect that folks who are child prodigies at programming people (esp. programming the female of the species) do not usually end up having the patience to seriously deal with machines
asciilifeform: for instance, iirc mircea_popescu was also pretty handy at mathematics as a young man. but notice that we do not come here to learn mathematics from him.
asciilifeform: and it also turns out that for some reason the folks who are very excellent at non serviam - don't program. (napoleon's work in geometry notwithstanding...)
asciilifeform: at least, at individual steps of the way.
asciilifeform: it is almost always more like csv vs sexp.
asciilifeform: phf: mircea_popescu seems to suggest that if korolev, etc. were real men, they would have killed themselves instead of serving the hated master.
asciilifeform: on account of the resemblance to human programmers, engineers, and other 'slave artisans' who build civilization but are rarely seen in mercedes
asciilifeform: phf: the paper became a 'viral meme' and nicknamed 'codemonkey paper'
asciilifeform: phf: the animals were placed in a room where there was a set of levers, which, if pulled correctly, would dispense food. result was that, at any given time, a handful learned to pull the lever, but would not get to eat the treats. instead, would be beaten for non-performance by the others if they stopped.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu potentially interesting observation: dulap has been ~50 blocks behind semi-permanently since reboot. in as far as i can tell, it is not mainly from 'blackholing' but due to cpu starvation! on account of phuctor re-grinding the product...!☟︎
asciilifeform: and using their dev environment and joke of an os.
asciilifeform: trinque: aha, it can ?! now you're married to microshit. because there is no way of reliably speaking the format in any and all cases except by linking their libs
