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mircea_popescu: these people never fucking used a computer, have none of the habits of computer use, no implicit semantics, nada.
mircea_popescu: 60% spaces paranthesis quotes and other reserved signs by mass.
mircea_popescu: in other news i fucking hate the manner in which windows tards create directories.
mircea_popescu: piece of shit does not know what ffmpeg -i *.x *.y could POSSIBLY mean
mircea_popescu: just in case anyone else's making audio cd's for the car, for i in *.mp3; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -f wav "${i%}.wav"; done
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in lulz, "A Banksy was left in shreds before an shocked audience moments after it was auctioned off at Sotheby’s in London for a record $1.4 million. The British artist, whose identity is still unknown, timed his painting, Girl With Balloon, to self-destruct via a shredder hidden in the artwork’s frame."
mircea_popescu: mod6 asciilifeform do you want her to prepare a script or anything ? fixed greeting ?
mircea_popescu: nicoleci your phone became the end point for the bitcoin foundation's 800 number. if anyone calls do teh professional, and report here any issues or q's.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why we'd ever switch it lol. worst comes to worst, we use it like those old kgb stations, "voice of woman reading number sets"
mircea_popescu: get the latter, why not. feel free to test it once on, also, give the girl a start.
mircea_popescu: not like my hand calc even can tell the diff of dust between 15 and 18 dubaloos.
mircea_popescu: "woman, without her man, is nothing" "woman. without her, man is nothing"
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-07#1859095 << (important furtherance here : protocol as is being baked kinda removes all binary-ism from client tree, data to be received and cached as data rather than mangled into source tree as a sort of "divine cache" as currently practiced by ~all morons involved in gaming)
☝︎ mircea_popescu: i recall the succesion of steps of 1. being very happy with solution that was all smiles and no bruises ; 2. being satisfied that the people involved understood 1 ; 3. unloaded it from head. now in the nightmare consequent of "4. wait, what was it ?"
mircea_popescu: kinda what the problem is with these "brought back from the swamps of memory" items, the result takes some washing.
mircea_popescu: as i say, my latter statement of the notion was misleading & vague.
mircea_popescu: this is correct ; my above "hash the filename" was incorrect, or rather, inexact.
mircea_popescu: and ~i~ should have written a blog article about it ? wtf would i put in it ?
mircea_popescu: well now i'm reading through all dis, what can do. phf's four months at work resulted in same many months of rot, now we don't recall the spec, log is long, life is short, so on an' so forth.
mircea_popescu: phf when you calculate the file hash, do you take ~the full name~ plus "the content or just "the content" ?
mircea_popescu: but i am not currently in a position to take a day off and review poorly executed jobs in detail.
mircea_popescu: i can't currently conceive how the fuck he even MADE a vtools without it, because it was a root node and nothing works without it anyway (eg, i expect all the hashes he calculates are wrong)
mircea_popescu: right. phf was supposed to have ~support for deletion/movement/fullspecified filename~ baked in.
mircea_popescu: stop fucking squigee-ing around for maximum damage. what you're damaging is your own fucking house.
mircea_popescu: there was NO discussion of "bion diffing". nor will there be. there was specified support ~for deletion of files~, which is WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT
mircea_popescu: you mean the client ? no-one's even bothered to genesis thart yet ; being replaced i expect.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bins in mp-wp tree, hanbot expertly ascii-ized.
mircea_popescu: i don't give a shit. let all format breakingds HAPPEN AT ONCE
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform we had solution to that, whole discussion with fully specified filenames, on it goes.
mircea_popescu: i really don't like this constant process you got in your head going sed -e 's/i don't know/doesn't exist/' everything-i-never-read.txt
mircea_popescu: we discussed this extensively, before phf even started. new vtools is perfectly capable of describing the deletion/movement/etc of ~any files~.
mircea_popescu: the whole fucking point of the entire new v was to be able to represent deletion of files.
mircea_popescu: neither orig v nor current is able to represent the deletion << no FUCKING way.
mircea_popescu: what's not physically impossible is that his code would greatly benefit from another read by an alf infuriated by the chore. but anyways!
mircea_popescu: as long as you patch on his keccak tree i can't see how it could not be.
mircea_popescu: in diff life, alf will be convicted to be painter, go through above process, lose mind.
mircea_popescu: alf did not go to school of scholarly beauty, "oh, that is the best one you've made so far, here, let me break it up for you and do it again".
mircea_popescu: i somehow doubt re-reading his vtools is such a waste ; but anyways!
mircea_popescu: which is why the joib of research scientist and science educator diverges : you teach people by permitting them to get themselves caught. women, too.
mircea_popescu: i frankly don't see much problem with it either way ; but i will say that your lie-detectors suffer from a certain naivite, whereby they're tuned to catch reality lying (ie, something that has no reflexivity, will lie regardless of your apparatus). this is not so useful with people.
mircea_popescu: right. then it follows, "but if you think this is not the place, ie, trust phf... then why not trust him ?". is your retort here what i imaginarily quoted, "because i like to use the measuring tools i have whether needed or not" ?
mircea_popescu: "yes mp, but best used other places, it's still expensive" "but if you think this is not the place, ie, trust phf... then why not trust him ?" "because i like to use the measuring tools i have whether needed or not" ?
mircea_popescu: i could see the direct "well -- i had read his old one ; dun wanna re-read the new one, if it's same." but... i thought re-reading was one of our values ?
mircea_popescu: so -- what exactly is lost if phf just signs and publishes a new tree ?
mircea_popescu: kinda the "what exactly" delineation is the point of this discussion. obv the actual case is relatively unimportant.
mircea_popescu: pretty much ~any~ regrind, regenesis, etc of this item bearing his signature is ~idempotent~ to extant material.
mircea_popescu: this is true ; but in this case there's no continuity to be maintained. phf is the sole contributor of the entire tree.
mircea_popescu: the best definition i currently have for "State" is "collection of simple mechanisms without actual function".
mircea_popescu: and you want to build a State around protecting him thusly from himself ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i do not agree that heuristic is useful.
mircea_popescu: if "phf signed" is ~not~ enough proof to you, then why is "phf signed" enough proof to you that his vtools doesn't come alive at night andf fuck my wife ?
mircea_popescu: (notwithstanding how the narrow construction obviously reflects your own measuring tools and naught else ?)
mircea_popescu: in the sense that you suspect he might be trustworthy in general, but a liar as to that specific narrowly construed topic ?
mircea_popescu: ie, that there's a relationship between "old" and "new" is a tenuous point, if by relationship is meant more than "phf wrote"