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mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski 6 blocks wouldn't necessarily be visible. even three deep reorgs happen with some regularity naturally.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, am i the only one finding it a wee bit suspicious that the orphan chain ended up 6 blocks long, ie, exactly the size normally deemed "safe" ?
mircea_popescu: <trinque> might be able to just rip those bits off from the dep, then cut off the dep <<< ahahaha you.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, feed it the last few blocks through the mechanism discussed that alf created recently i guess.
mircea_popescu: n ProcessMessage()\n\nProcessMessage(block, 947244 bytes) FAILED\n" which is the confirmation. then increase the number o' locks.
mircea_popescu: trinque, asciilifeform, wimc : if client fails to progress past 363736, the likely culprit is the db locks limit. look in derp.log (assuming standard derp) for "REORGANIZE\nREORGANIZE: Disconnect 6 blocks; 000000000000000006a3..000000000000000013fe\nREORGANIZE: Connect 7 blocks; 000000000000000006a3..0000000000000000014e\n\n\n************************\nEXCEPTION: 11DbException\nDb::get: Cannot allocate memory\nbitcoin i
mircea_popescu: Add 7 start 000000000000000006a3 end 0000000000000000014e"
mircea_popescu: Cut 6 start 000000000000000006a3 end 000000000000000013fe
mircea_popescu: check out all the miners that were mining off thin air, incidentally. because the bandwidth doubled so much.
mircea_popescu: he's still alive. never trust the living. for all you know he ends up like donald trump, doing reality shows in his 70s
mircea_popescu: "and then we came THIS CLOSE to selling out to amazon for 5 trtillion"
mircea_popescu: sort-of like how rassah bought a car or some guy bought a pizza.
mircea_popescu: to most everyone else, gavin's just another washed up website designer with a great story from five years ago.
mircea_popescu: your experiences and inner life are not nearly as universal as you imagine before you examine it.
mircea_popescu: he only wears the halo ~to you~. because you're a particular sort of inner build, and because you ate a particular diet.
mircea_popescu: the legions of hell are truely an infinite headcount. why do you care so much about some particular schmucks in the chorus ? why not that tv scammer dude while you're at it, what was his name
mircea_popescu: heck, kenna and the armandi fellow are prolly due for a novel attempt too
mircea_popescu: every bum drunk has a story of greatness. go, listen. care.
mircea_popescu: any idea how long the list is ? even nefario is making the occasional reappearance.
mircea_popescu: and lawsky's going around trying to scam people like a resurected antonopopo derpopopop.
mircea_popescu: next time they'll need some they... ahem... won't read b-a logs etc once more.
mircea_popescu: why ? point's well made, everyone's happy to be part of bitcoin by standing on borrowed intelligence. let them.
mircea_popescu: in this sense the halo's about as stretched as gavin's mother.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with my observation re alf's "folk with brains are useless - they want to use the brains" that in terms of "optimal impact", you're always better off waiting ?
mircea_popescu: it is in point of fact better to have a static build that specifically ennumerates blocks prior to height X and then proceeds from there, than to have the present situation.
mircea_popescu: whose great-grand parents noticed, while taking the upper-middle class mandatory "tour of europe", that the italians similarly etc etc.
mircea_popescu: an exquisitely african thing this, as late as 2000 one could notice that all the egyptians seem willing to do is stand in front of the pyramids with their chests pushed out, or else gesturing importantly. meanwhile... the people who built those things don't look anything like the arab mongrels currently populating the place, if extant statues are to be believed.
mircea_popescu: pure spaghetti mess, wherein no soul can tell where the pasta ends and the cook's hairs begin
mircea_popescu: i mean, other than painting the picture of the vermin in unflattering tones, which it does. in the field it can do precisely jack.
mircea_popescu: but at any rate : setting the "nversion" to maxint has at least the important symbolic significance of saying "this is the last version".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nevertheless, being critted for > 9k ironies over something like this is beyond comedic.
mircea_popescu: (an important point about co2 extinguishers is that they also cool when deployed. this effect is significant. heavier gases - not so much)
mircea_popescu: anyway, having been duly amused for the evening, i retire to my eulorean empire.
mircea_popescu: i don't think any sane nodes can be up to date atm, until this resolves.
mircea_popescu: but the "we'll make wallet a plaintext file" and the "we'll target windows" and the "you know what's better than boost ? qt!" were pretty epic turn points too
mircea_popescu: nah, the "we'll move to this new db system one schmuck that gofer'd coffee at google wrote with his chest hairs and nobody tested in any way" was the stupidest sahit
mircea_popescu: "Current status: F2Pool still broken; Antpool fixed (but no promise they won't intentionally re-break in the future)." is really all that one needs to lol