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mircea_popescu: and you simply can't beat a value proposition like "either have europium or not be able to display the color red - it's that simple".
mircea_popescu: meanwhile every time china cuts quotas, the futures go into 10x explosions.
mircea_popescu: it's just not a bottleneck atm. sure, maybe it will become. who knew, in the 60s, that mountain pass thing in pasadena would be the most strategically important place in all the us.
mircea_popescu: except electric contacts are not really where the cut lies atm. optic interactions (hence hafnium - ever seen an ingot with the microflim effect btw ?)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: europium phosphates for instance are still to this day the only way to get a decent red.
mircea_popescu: (brazil and australia pretty much own the known hf supply atm). in any case, pretty fucking weird that goldbugs and silverheads still insist with their "precious" metals. they're useless. pm freaks of 2015 really should collect hf. cerium. lanthanum. europium. etc.
mircea_popescu: prolly hafnium oxide, which should make the world situation ever more interesting.
mircea_popescu: good for 'em... i wonder if this is the glass thing being discussed for the past year
mircea_popescu: i thought it was built from the clouds down, honestly.
mircea_popescu: "Following more than a decade of research and development, 3D XPoint technology was built from the ground up to address the need for non-volatile, high-performance, high-endurance and high-capacity storage and memory at an affordable cost."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla interesting. tho i don't get enough from that article to figure out how the fuck it'd work
mircea_popescu: malloc or any other mechanism has no way out of "gimme 900mb" "only 600 here" "but you promised"
mircea_popescu: if my suspect is true, this very neatly shows openbsd as a superior os.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i suspect obds SANE. ie, it forces the allocation.
mircea_popescu: i dunno where erryone else shops for intertubes that work
mircea_popescu: lol now my node is getting teh silent intertubes treatment
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, im bringing the original node back on to help along.
mircea_popescu: i gotta confess watching the idjits squirm is kinda fun.
mircea_popescu: whereas proper bitcoin as released by actual foundation doth in fact always work.
mircea_popescu: because they're running "the newest version" which "always works". in the sense of not.
mircea_popescu: it'll be indeed a hard task to explain to one's grandkids to what end does bitcoind actyually use threading
mircea_popescu: whjy use static buffers when one can be a danger to the system
mircea_popescu: iirc bdb just makes assumptions about what memory it may allocate and dies at the later time if they get contradicted
mircea_popescu: im pretty certain said magic numbers actually make it impossible for a block to be crafted legally and still crash your bdb, soi there's that.
mircea_popescu: trying connection 195.211.154.159:8333 lastseen=-371779.9hrs
mircea_popescu: anyway there's a reason for the magic numbers too, something to do with theoretical maximums of a 1mb block but i don't recall what THAT was either.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> ftr i've been running set_lk_max_locks 2737000 set_lk_max_objects 1119200 since sometime in 2012. < ?
mircea_popescu: ftr i've been running set_lk_max_locks 2737000 set_lk_max_objects 1119200 since sometime in 2012.
mircea_popescu: conversely : if bitcoind can not run in bdb, bitcoind is very poorly written
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> is it 1974 and we are at ibm, in fortran ? << just about.
mircea_popescu: <danielpbarron> the gnomes figured out a magic amount of bytes that got accepted by some but not all, except it seems their beloved bc.i got caught in the fire << bc.i gets caught in every fire.
mircea_popescu: if i fuck her i get off, no exceptions ; if i follow her recipe i get a build - no exceptions. this is what it should be.