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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.
mircea_popescu: i've had enough of boy coding to last me five generations of myself.
mircea_popescu: that's what i would like it to mean. "this was coded by a girl" should be the indication that if i follow the fucking thing, i get the intended result. NOT some error message.
mircea_popescu: anyway. why can't "coding like a girl" mean you write good documentation, for instance ?
mircea_popescu: ie, it takes you longer, perhaps infinitely long, to mature.
mircea_popescu: girlhood's something you hopefully grow out of. failure to grow out of it is the definition of retardation.
mircea_popescu: no dude, not heartbreakingly. the only human dumb enough to imagine girlhood's right is the girl in question.
mircea_popescu: "Heartbreakingly, at some age, we become convinced that doing anything like a girl means that you are doing it ineffectively, wimpily, and in a way that can’t be taken seriously at all."
mircea_popescu: was just going after the math angle of it for a second
mircea_popescu: for bonus points, offer preference criterion (would A or B be more beneficial if added to the set)
mircea_popescu: in practice the mix operation is cheap and the decay operation expensive.
mircea_popescu: (the problem, ftr, is : you get a set of tools, with arbitrary durability. you can mix any set (which floor-averages), and decay any individual tool (fixed rate). make a collection of 9 with durabilities from 1 to 9)
mircea_popescu: actually this'd prollybe interesting to our very own gabriel_laddel too.
mircea_popescu: (probably ideal usage of lisp, check me out phf im doing lisp girls coach over here!)
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron you got the actual function to select optimal usage/mixage of tools given a set ?
mircea_popescu: well, asciilifeform would say it is, sure. but there's levels in triviality.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron prolly should publishe the whole thing monday. it's not a trivial math problem
mircea_popescu: in fact - pretty much everything in the "received knowledge" of jews is hysterically counter-realistic to anyone who has you know, actually travelled.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the jew, coptic and muslim groups crossed borders, too!
mircea_popescu: and seeiong how their lyra was at the time ~a quarter, i expect they got the value of txn just about precisely enough to be usable in bitcoin
mircea_popescu: and the other guy would sell me whatever and then pass the original guy a bill or two.
mircea_popescu: i'd go into a shop, ask for something. shop owner would run me off to a different shop (i kid you not, leave his thing, wide open, whatever - nobody steals in arabworld apparently)
mircea_popescu: one of the funniest things i saw in egypt was the following thing :
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron so you actually got teh tools for sunday ?
mircea_popescu: frenchie gets it quite exactly, we're at that creepy stalking phase atm
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i doubt the scamfoundation/obsolete bitcoind will be resurectable on the mid term.