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ben_vulpes: ahhhh holy shit you guys i just bought a flipphone
asciilifeform: ... is a list of people who are to be pressed to death.
asciilifeform: a press list...
ben_vulpes: what the ever loving fuck is a press list and--nevermind.
mircea_popescu: you might remember all the huge tada in 2013 re putting a bunch of derps on the "press list" and excluding matonis, on the grounds that the derps were well versed in things from wikipedia practice or something
BingoBoingo: Seems to happen to a lot of the 2011-2012 Americans
mircea_popescu: cazalla: my god this hag of a wife, god must be punishing by introducing her to me before bitcoin << tell us your pain brothar. we're the relationship support cult, among other things.
bounce wonders what this executive chief sellout thinks of that open letter posted by a member on their own forum
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (rampant memory leakage is not 'works') << it's not rampant. more like a calender than a ruptured pipe. it... sweats memory :D
mircea_popescu: (you have a lot of forward mommentum running for the 22 feet in 2 s)
mats_cd03: mircea_popescu: yeah, victim could get on their back as a defense
BingoBoingo: But heart is a hard target
BingoBoingo: <mats_cd03> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jimmy_fatwing/Military/infantry_knife.htm << i was taught to kill a man with a knife prison-style; reduce distance to <20ft for purpose of sprint (2 second rule: a man can travel 22ft/2s), clinch the neck or bear hug the man while stabbing at the heart with 45 degree angle << Seems to be the only way justifiable from a self defense standpoint
mats_cd03: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jimmy_fatwing/Military/infantry_knife.htm << i was taught to kill a man with a knife prison-style; reduce distance to <20ft for purpose of sprint (2 second rule: a man can travel 22ft/2s), clinch the neck or bear hug the man while stabbing at the heart with 45 degree angle
mircea_popescu: so the plan is, a) make new processor file as ascii art in emacs
asciilifeform fesses up that he started a rewrite - before starting correspondence and unrelated project with mircea_popescu
BingoBoingo: bounce> fairbarn-sykes in a collectible display case? what's it made off, star wars plastic? << Not in case, on nightstand. Made of whatever wartime shitiron England was using.
mircea_popescu: if you think satoshi's stuff can not be refactored to the point of rewriting, you're living inside a candy globe.
bounce: fairbarn-sykes in a collectible display case? what's it made off, star wars plastic?
mircea_popescu: but anyway, a perfectly acceptable alternative : modular db, clearly documented bitcoin hooks, write-your-own-1klines or less api for anything.
BingoBoingo: bounce: But it is a historical artifact which sits on collectible display next to bed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: with no weird 'now please delete blkindex' crud << this is never going to happen on the current db (bdb) because it's a pos, and if the computer fails unexpectedly it messes up the state.
undata hooks a drive up to begin blockchain slurp
undata: mircea_popescu: I can take a trolling; my response was to ignore it
asciilifeform: a grizzled old bugger
asciilifeform dreamt, recently, that he had a knife teacher
BingoBoingo: Anyone want a pdf of the Folsom book?
mircea_popescu: trolling for a reaction out of noobs.
asciilifeform did not say 'give up.' said: buy a man
mircea_popescu: i never drink again anything that gives me a hangover.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo he has a point there, this "need coffee to wake up" thing is nonsense. i know this experimentally.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo a couple, hopefully not a dozen.
bounce: once had a job contract that forbade me from minding smoke. but at home I very much prefer no smoking at all.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Twas a Ford spinoff, focused on "affordable" cars
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don't remember, is edsel a car or a bad cheesecake brand ?
mircea_popescu: undata: if only there were some way to organize the efforts of a large number of people around projects <<< there is. you're watching it. just because leadership is not in your face doesn't necessarily mean leadership is absent and it's your time to shine. it may also mean leadership is extremely good at what it does. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Apparently ben fox has a neighbor
mircea_popescu: undata: if there's an existing stripped down client the deturdification process is a waste of time <<< what are you, new ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder how would a site worked on that principle go. "ever day traffic is up, hire someone ; every day traffic is down, fire someone"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: https://www.quantcast.com/qntra.net#!states << It's like a map of #b-a Usians << i thought everyone was from portland and atlanta.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: a good rng will aid the process. << srsly, how do you keep this dry ?
undata: BingoBoingo: articles like this are hard; they're trying to integrate two sides of a debate, where likely neither party is being fair
undata: "What they found instead was a confounding array of rules, structures, and systems imposed by Omidyar and other First Look managers on matters both trivial—which computer program to use to internally communicate, mandatory regular company-wide meetings, mandated use of a “responsibility assignment matrix” called a “RASCI,” popular in business-school circles for managing projects—as well as
BingoBoingo: Oh, there's a coup in Burkina Faso
PeterL: what is a "no deliverable best effort contract"?
ben_vulpes: maybe the next time i actually laugh at a scope/timeline combination in a meeting and the potential client still falls all over themselves to sign our no deliverable, best effort contract my internal warning flags should go up
ben_vulpes: client signed a no-deliverable, best effort contract with us and then made promises to their client executives.
nubbins`: beats me. i've got a debian install here, it's in /usr/include
cazalla: my god this hag of a wife, god must be punishing by introducing her to me before bitcoin
ben_vulpes: that has a manifest you'll find useful.
ben_vulpes: take a look at the first patch on therealbitcoin.org
undata: I can send you a disassembled rube goldberg machine every time I open my mouth
undata: talk is not a product
undata: the grinding out code was a general statement of what I value
thickasthieves: undata this is sorta started in the b-a wiki, which anyone with voice can add to probly
undata: someone should write a book of #ba metaphors
mats_cd03: a game of catching the falling knife?
asciilifeform: so, in peacetime, if i live that long, i can take it to forest and write a 'popescuan' replacement.
asciilifeform: ^ someone suggested this as a 'fix' for wedged blockchain load
asciilifeform: the bare naked minimum worthy of nubbins` book, is a gadget that functions, reliably, on current network
asciilifeform: my next patch was going to be a removal of the magic strings (seed ip table, etc) and replacement with ascii configs, as suggested by mircea_popescu.
asciilifeform: or you have a machine with no steering wheel
undata: that can be a later discussion
asciilifeform: in my patches, thus far, nothing truly earth-shaking, just a surgical removal of what i consider clearly poisonous
BingoBoingo: lies ben_vulpes, you do service as a software
ben_vulpes: he - software as a service
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: share physical space, look at code as a...
ben_vulpes: if i don't have a thing going on on saturday we could even go so far as to pair
undata: alright. I'll take a look at it saturday.
asciilifeform: undata: standards << ben_vulpes and mod6 started, at instigation of mircea_popescu, a 'foundation', where somebody (them?) will sit as mergemaster
undata: ben_vulpes: I'll just start a local git repo with stock 0.5.3, add your existing patches, and look into backporting a fix
ben_vulpes: undata: we're currently blocked on a mailing list thinger that may or may not see the light of day anytime soon
undata: I didn't initiate this thing; ben_vulpes do you have a desired process?
BingoBoingo: <undata> asciilifeform: that is a problem of the artists and not painting << No, this is a problem of no one fucking reading and the world burning because the entire stacks sucks because unread. Worked until it didn't
undata: asciilifeform: that is a problem of the artists and not painting
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> why am i even telling this, go run it << sir you are a gift to the logs
asciilifeform: I need a << i need an airplane
undata: you don't have 5 hours a week?
undata: I need a programmable, robust client for my own applications
asciilifeform: i would love to see it proven that what i've said is a load o'shit.
undata: if only there were some way to organize the efforts of a large number of people around projects
asciilifeform: but 1) i'm not interested in a book with gavin's excretions 2) not interested in a book describing system which does not work on battlefield.
assbot: A dangerous idea - serialized delusions
asciilifeform: undata: http://explo.yt/post/2014/10/29/some-dangerous-idea << i just wanted a fcking book.
undata: BingoBoingo: that metaphor has no resemblance to what does and does not benefit the functioning of a decentralized network
BingoBoingo: undata: Alright. Spz you're a Jew in olden times coming onto the battlefield with your nifty bronze sword. Now the Assyrians emerge from the horizon, but instead of bronze they have Iron!
undata: if there's an existing stripped down client the deturdification process is a waste of time
undata: it's a bit difficult to steer the direction of a decentralized network with no offering.
BingoBoingo: Ah. asciilifeform So a solution is raising soldering irons to get weaponized bitcoind from pool ops
asciilifeform: undata: 'this' being the overall affair of transmuting the 0.5.3 turd into a usable weapon
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: also see today's log, for why this is probably a doomed march
BingoBoingo: I know. New ones exchange dying for a crawl during initial indexing instead.
BingoBoingo: https://www.quantcast.com/qntra.net#!states << It's like a map of #b-a Usians
kakobrekla: a good rng will aid the process.
ben_vulpes: "just try a bunch of different numbers until you find one that works"
ben_vulpes: source of breakage, also a mystery.
ben_vulpes: why thread does not show the same as date and author is a mystery to me.
nubbins`: he's busy generating a treasury address by hand
undata: asciilifeform: is there a new client mailling list yet?
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> ripping usg crud out of the thing is a recipe to endanger any coins i'd have if i were not eating ramen so that the dog might eat << dude that's touching, srsly.