asciilifeform: they sit, yes

asciilifeform: whose mempool

asciilifeform: remain where?

asciilifeform: asking node to accept maybe-verifiable-as-not-rubbish-tomorrow is a jam-tomorrow.

asciilifeform: key point here is that anything without a hard antecedent ~on disk now~ could equally well be random garbage

asciilifeform: .

asciilifeform: yes,

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=05-06-2015#1154352 << see also. ☝︎

asciilifeform: blocks.

asciilifeform: Vexual: ship runs tight cunt

asciilifeform: (anyone?)

asciilifeform: and i see no reason to ever bring it back..

asciilifeform: gone

asciilifeform: decimation: mempool size ?

asciilifeform: ^ whoever wants to do this, it'd be a good thing

asciilifeform: (rollover by default, but can be toggled)

asciilifeform: as permanent fixture

asciilifeform: i probably oughta add a commandline flag for this

asciilifeform: trivial change.

asciilifeform: phf: http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/util.cpp#0771 << zap it

asciilifeform: the whole 'one sync partner at a time' thing is also retarded, but trying to do anything about it without bringing back 'bastard cache' is pointless

asciilifeform: decimation: the current 'solution' - patience - also works.

asciilifeform: but perhaps you did this already yourself.

asciilifeform: phf: somewhere we have an anti-debug.log-rollover patch

asciilifeform: phf: if you generated this with a custom patch for the beast itself, please share this

asciilifeform: (at present everyone who reads it, also reads #b-a, but this is not guaranteed)

asciilifeform: phf: very interesting, and probably deserves to be posted to therealbitcoin mailinglist.

asciilifeform: !up Vexual

asciilifeform: no one in natoreich has so much as smelled $bil except by mercy of the crown. ☟︎

asciilifeform: great idea if usg pays.

asciilifeform: ... and this is just to get the 5-8 y. expected life.

asciilifeform: but 'usable for the purpose for which was built' - different matter.

asciilifeform: as in, some portion still 'works'

asciilifeform: i bet a good share of the scrap metal floating about in space is 'functional' by this definition

asciilifeform: vacuum valves ?

asciilifeform: wonder what it's made of

asciilifeform: neato

asciilifeform: wherever you put it, it dies after ~decade, max

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: more like 'sand painting'

asciilifeform: important to remember that sat constellation is not a permanent animal in any sense

asciilifeform: perhaps somebody ~else~ is the mark this time

asciilifeform: perhaps i'm thinking of a previous iteration of this sc4m

asciilifeform: 'internet for d1ss1d3ntz1111!!!111'

asciilifeform: ultimately they are gunning for u.s. state dept (yes) funding

asciilifeform: usg scam

asciilifeform: (repurposed ~rockets~ rather than nuke per se, yes)

asciilifeform: and - afaik - they're through

asciilifeform: but this was not a sufficiently 'mass' phenomenon to make a real difference

asciilifeform: there was a brief time in '90s when 'discount' launches using repurposed ru nukes on subs were to be had

asciilifeform: the actual economics of launches (and the basic tech) haven't changed in decades

asciilifeform: how this wins, other than by scamming usg, is unclear to me

asciilifeform: decimation: the sat folks are attempting a kind of chumpatron where 'let's build tiny sats that last 6 months'

asciilifeform: yes, because they did not invent monetize-consumer-chumps as the mega-weapon

asciilifeform: esp. given as in '80s, 'plenty of folks risked, they all died'

asciilifeform: because literally no one can afford to take a risk

asciilifeform: where archs that would look entirely familiar to folks in 1960s are still considered 'state of the art'

asciilifeform: in practice, it means that, e.g., cpu world is as conservative as ancient egypt

asciilifeform: no one makes 'intel 4004' in their kitchen any more than he can make 'pentium'

asciilifeform: even ~neglecting die shrink~

asciilifeform: ic put the mega-org (in practice, arm of the state) in the driver's seat in much the same way as nukes once did (if you ask mircea_popescu) or still do

asciilifeform: this is why i believe that the discovery of integrated circuit was a serious 'degutenbergization' from which we have not even begun to recover. ☟︎

asciilifeform: 'wintel' gets to exist for strictly, strictly that

asciilifeform: because it is necessary to enable other rackets

asciilifeform: only thing it can beat it on is cost, and the folks who give a fuck re: cost can't afford ~it~ either.

asciilifeform: the basic dilemma here

asciilifeform: why would folks who print money buy a device for saving a little money ?

asciilifeform: ideally - a scam directly on the folks who print money

asciilifeform: because there is no way to effectively amortize the astronomical costs without running a scam of one kind or another. ☟︎

asciilifeform: the whole 'chip business' is in many ways ~inherently usgizing~

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: and god help you if your thing has to interact with components that you can't simulate (because you didn't design them, and what, other vendor is going to share its logic? dream)

asciilifeform: not really sold in the usual sense. more of a lease, like the old ibm mainframes

asciilifeform: plus 'support'

asciilifeform: multi-$m is normal

asciilifeform: 100k is 'cheap'

asciilifeform: up to 'refrigerator' size

asciilifeform: more.

asciilifeform: which is not unheard of

asciilifeform: the other things, that $m is pure sunk cost if what you get in the post is a dud that doesn't even power

asciilifeform: of course. whole point of dsp was for 'annoyingly custom' problems

asciilifeform: but stranger things have happened

asciilifeform: i'd be surprised if archaeologists ever turn up a 'greenarrays' in usg gear

asciilifeform: this is public.

asciilifeform: (there's one lab at ft. something-or-other that has ~eternal~ support contract with symbolics co.)

asciilifeform: like symbolics lispm.

asciilifeform: if usg, probably just buying it to sink in the ocean

asciilifeform: ('not shakespeare, but man by the same name')

asciilifeform: perhaps some other mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: perhaps mircea_popescu, to run his bitcoind-in-forth

asciilifeform: who buys, last i saw, was a mystery

asciilifeform: and he's right.

asciilifeform: the silicon equivalent of 'vanity press authors'

asciilifeform: perhaps it's his personal coin from sofa cushions.

asciilifeform: i have no idea what funds 'greenarrays'

asciilifeform: because 1 user.

asciilifeform: right, why document when you know all of it

asciilifeform: 100% own-code

asciilifeform: point is, he 'licenses' nothing.

asciilifeform: iirc