asciilifeform: which is logical - most difficult to machine piece.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: iirc in most of the planet it is the barrel.
asciilifeform: (as in the 'rump kernel' example from last night)
asciilifeform: i am referring to the disease where the need for the remaining pieces is not perceived at all - or, if perceived, sufferer is content to crib from somewhere else while pretending he did not include them at all
asciilifeform: new jersey approach is when you do this and then craft the missing but necessary parts out of own shit
asciilifeform: the shovel handle, kernel, etc. remind of the fable with the drunkard who searched for his lost keys 'where the light is'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there is this very characteristic and endemic derpsyndrome, where folks make the easiest part of a mechanism - whether it is the non-pressurized part of a rifle, or the non-drivery part of an os kernel - and stroke their cocks in self-congratulatory wankbacchanalia
asciilifeform: 2) after this, when bastard block comes in, the thing walks the orphanage and finds the start of the chain, and asks for its antecedents.
asciilifeform: 1) 500 blocks are pulled from sync node on cold boot
asciilifeform: what happens in the 'virginal' 0.5.3 is,