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mircea_popescu: <danielpbarron> for example, the mechanics are so poorly spaded that << re that "spaded", just you wait until you discover it's actually a noncomputable multivariate which doesn't even allow stable solutions in the real space.
mircea_popescu: i can't believe nobody has written the epic story of the greatesrt failure in modern gaming. it's not daikatana, it's diablo 3.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron sadly necro sucked in d2, ended up forced to do a cold sorc like everyone else (that wasn't a paly). but did a witchdoctor in d3, for the... month or so that survived.
mircea_popescu: because skill kills. and so spent my time in the ravensomething library reading "you and evil things, a love story"
mircea_popescu: i was doing pretty good, apparently im immune to the negative effects of qwops
mircea_popescu: pastamancer. of course. i play necros almost exclusively. since about... 9.
mircea_popescu: word. exactly. there's so many silverman style dumbassery i can put up with.
mircea_popescu: * shinohai wishes ppl still played MUDs << kol is a glorified browser mud. not horrible, i guess... /me made it for a coupla days, had enough.
mircea_popescu: i'm seeing 120 consistently on various 2007-2010 midmarket nvidia cards
mircea_popescu: <punkman> Eulora's kinda laggy for me, with ati6450 or something << it's pretty much all due to bad opengl implementation / dubious drivers. on compliant card-driver combos you get ~1k fps if reaosnably modern.
mircea_popescu: i got annoyed at the "oh noes, how could this thing that's been done since forever be done"
mircea_popescu: anyway. it bears insistingly repeating : the internet is big. the web is a pustule on its ass.
mircea_popescu: good for you. so how did they sell datafeeds ? txn blabla ?
mircea_popescu: why the fuck does everyone imagine the internet = the web is beyond me.
mircea_popescu: or they could just rent vpn access like anyone ever since forever.
mircea_popescu: this thing needs 3 knobs : total ram to be made available to relayer, and min $/byte to accept.
mircea_popescu: now cache is full and to get in, either pay 10 per byte or go dangle.
mircea_popescu: you set 10 bytes aside for "mempool". 1 tx comes, has 2 bytes pays 5. goes in. brings 4 brothers.
mircea_popescu: if you have 8mb and mempool is actually 8gb, you lose 99.9%
mircea_popescu: this is where that problem is solved. no point also solving it somewhere else.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field again : we have a pool of X bytes. tx are allowed in only if they pay more than average fore that x.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the only way relaying as currently deployed may survive is if it somehow ends up in a compact with mining
mircea_popescu: the problem is solved there. no point solving it n other places.
mircea_popescu: which is why the idea is to have X bytes, and then allow tx in according to pay.
mircea_popescu: but once they made it through that, they can have whatever they want.
mircea_popescu: this is the required balance to this scheme. yes, we kill all idiot children without anyu regard to the ever rising blood level on the floor or the tears of their mothers.
mircea_popescu: tx passed the test, and is now a tx. should get something for this.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field for many reasons. such as for instance that we could see a situation where enemy controls 80% of hash and refuses to include your txn
mircea_popescu: nono, "tx paying too little per byte compared to others we know"
mircea_popescu: seems like an excellent error catcher, you wanna see if anything makes it that late.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field thinking about this... is this the thing that already drops shit txn ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field yeh. they could be legit. you don't wanna assume about the pool
mircea_popescu: i'll feel like having a lava lamp taken out of my asshole once this can finally be said. "no leaks!"
mircea_popescu: jurov why the fuck would it publish anything whatsoever other than what l1 people signed is beyond me.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field [...] such as ? << been thinking of a usable packaging for your convenience since i said that.
mircea_popescu: google staten island and for that matter recent suspension of flights to africa.
mircea_popescu: or in other words the advantage of non-orphans is that they have parents to blame.
mircea_popescu: actually this may well be how to know you live at the dawn of a civilisation. shit doesn't work and you imagine this to be an exceptional, remarkable, worrisome thing.
mircea_popescu adds "cult doesn't work" to the ever-lengthy-er list with "linux doesn't work and gcc doesn't compile" on it.
mircea_popescu: looking forward to all the reddit threadsa going "thank you mp for bashing hearn's head right before hearn managed that one".
mircea_popescu: herpitty-derp and a bottle of "thank you for all your hard work".
mircea_popescu: they're going through the good dev bad dev routine on reddit, somehow none of them seem to remember where the actual ammo is stored.
mircea_popescu: everyone at all points in time and space was hard at work at making it impossible to write a history he doesn't wanna hear.
mircea_popescu: there's plenty of gyroscopes much cheaper, faster and broadly speaking better than "reinterpret history"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the main problem with this syllogism is, perhaps counterintuitively, its tail.