asciilifeform: i said before, will say again: if the labour of crunching the patches looms large, it is only because folks are not undergoing the greater torment of reading them
asciilifeform: trinque: i happen to think that throwing patches to ml, where they are all visible in chronological order, is a step forward from them living on my www
asciilifeform: once hygiene was invented - not using it was no longer 'reasonable'
asciilifeform: the tool that man can trust to replace his brains is not yet born
asciilifeform: decimation: the context is typically filled in, in pedantic detail, here.
asciilifeform: perhaps mircea_popescu will add to this illustration.
asciilifeform: 'why do i have to stand here and watch the hill'
asciilifeform: 'why am i sleeping in a hole in the ground next to hole in the ground where i shat'
asciilifeform: 'why do i have to move these sandbags?'
asciilifeform: guess what - war consists largely of precisely this kind of 'pointlessness'
asciilifeform: and yes, all of this looks like pointless sweat to the folks who struggle with builds, checking sigs, missed linefeedz, etc☟︎
asciilifeform: this, incidentally, is an important reason why patches need to be deedboted
asciilifeform: also the continuity of identity. if, for example, my patches at some point go from tiny to elephantine, from single-purpose to 'omnibus', from deadly-simple to 'wtf is that' - folks are to presume that i have been finally killed and key is in hands of hitler. and should then rate accordingly.☟︎
asciilifeform: i sign xxx. the readers are then free to rate me accordingly. this is how is works, by design.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-08-2015#1225151 << we're not signing because it has 'upside' now. but 1) because unsigned code is 'written by no one' and hence is a work of the great satan by default implication 2) for the archaeologists 3) for the revolutionary tribunals☝︎
asciilifeform: decimation: they are the two maps which hold mempool state
asciilifeform: it is the finger pushing in the plug into the hole the night leaks through.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell ben_vulpes i have nothing against 'git', 'mercurial', etc., and even sometimes use these in civilian life, there is even somewhere ~horror~ a 'github' page with my name and some old crud, yes. but the ~canonical walk from pedigreed 0.5.3 to therealbitcoin~ has to be in .patch form!
asciilifeform: rather than for everyone on the planet.
asciilifeform: but yes, my particular ml posts are geared toward helping the folks i know to be presently involved ( ben_vulpes, mod6, trinque, mircea_popescu, shinohai, punkman, hanbot, who else?) to build.
asciilifeform: and what's more, this is pretty clear from reading it.
asciilifeform: at any rate, ben_vulpes is invited to fill in the gap and write literature for this piece
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if there is every any symptom of folks reading the ml but not #b-a, it might be worth considering to use the ml as something other than a file dumping ground for #b-a
asciilifeform: eh no. my nodez ran from ignition until wedge day
