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mircea_popescu: "wut do you mean, i heard there's a little nubbin thing like a tip of a finger" "omfg get out of here 6/10 trolling"
mircea_popescu: and the dude went like wtf am i on about, there's no such thing.
mircea_popescu: so then i asked him where's the little worm thing on the girl's snatch, upside or downside ?
mircea_popescu: trinque no this was specifically that after summer vacation, guy told class agape this tall tale about the orgy he had going at his grandparent's rural house.
mircea_popescu: i could be back in school, listening to retarded 11yos describing their sexual experience in flamboyantly wrong detail.
mircea_popescu: i'm sitting here in the 80s romania laughing at 3d glasses. for fucks sake - FROSI, the communist german's youth magazine, sent me some very sturdy cardboard 3d glasses in one edition. was like 86 iirc.
mircea_popescu: fucking curse of an active intelligence : you don't, personalyl, get old. you just get to watch the entire world get very old very fast/
mircea_popescu: will i live to be 90 and read all about "the very exciting technical development of 3d cinema", which apparently didn't fail convincingly enough the fiurst time jack warner trieds to beat television out of the amrket
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i was promised rotation! WHAT IS THIS SCAM
mircea_popescu: "i'm fat and should work out but the science involved in mean so 6/10" ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude, how the fuck should i know how people who use magic numbers pick the magic numbers to use./
mircea_popescu reels at the realisation it never occured to him before
mircea_popescu: in any case i regard the blkxxx scheme as a hare brained, buggy slow and stupid reimplementation of a filesystem in a kernel that's trying to be an app.
mircea_popescu: maybe not msdos, but i think cp/m would actually suffice for everything involved.
mircea_popescu: because if you run bitcoin on that system, ALL the tradeoffs the kernel makes MUST be organised around its needs.
mircea_popescu: yeah but filesystem is who is supposed to deal with this.
mircea_popescu: no fucking idea why it hasn't implemented a from the get go incidentally.
mircea_popescu: honestly the only sane arrangement would be either a) store each block as a file, or else b) store blocks in arbitrary sized files, each starting at offsed 1Mb * block_count
mircea_popescu: ascii_field eh. proceeding from the other direction : not only is the need for a bdb datastore directly indicative of allignment problems, but moreover its presence virtually guarantees them. so no, i don't think you can actually rely on "block after block" thing, but then again i can't be arsed to emacs a .dat
mircea_popescu: ascii_field are the bursts mechanically the same ? like, all 500kb or w/e ?
mircea_popescu: (i also have strained variants, obviously - but of what interest are they)
mircea_popescu: aha. but anyway : yes all my blks are original in that sense, this bneing the whole point of the exercise.
mircea_popescu: as it does have a daddy, just, daddy got married with a wanton slut
mircea_popescu: alright. but the former's still stale rather than orphan
mircea_popescu: different from the orphan, which is "block with no known connection to the hcain"
mircea_popescu: decimation i know, but this is a major server doing all sorts of other things. it could not stand for five minutes if that were the problem.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> otherwise either kernel stalls or pipe is congested(dropped packets, whatever) << i thought this may well be it previously, as load was uncharacteristically high for this application. but solved that problem and apparently no improvement.
mircea_popescu is trying to bootstrap the public interest in the matter into getting a networking education for himself.
mircea_popescu: essentially the adult version of "but daddy, all the kids in class got this question wrong too!"
mircea_popescu: because yes, the point of life is to preserve that most valuable delusion - that "nobody could have foreseen..."
mircea_popescu: i'd withdraw anything i had in that shithole by now, had i not withdrawn it long before, had i had anything in there in the first place.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> or why those filthy laptops can come anywhere near their 'hot wallet key' << this is easy enough to answer, if you think about it. and if you don't... if you let history be your guide.
mircea_popescu: so they spent 250k (abnd counting) so as to lose 4mn off a schmuck's home connection ?
mircea_popescu: decimation yes, but this server would not stand if that were the case.
mircea_popescu: we know we can actually pass data between each other. what we wish to find out is what causes this behaviour and who to kill.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field nuts. i tell you ... the load is < .2 and has not peaked above 1 (this is on 8 cpu machine). there is nothing deferred or anthing suspicious in the logs. the eth card is doing fine. two dozen connections, routinely hitting 1mbps. etc.
mircea_popescu: because we live in the best possible world built on top of !!!science!!! so nothing is ever sold by any sort of spec.
mircea_popescu: there are many considerations here. for instance, as an exercise to the trainee : calculate the minimum storage space required to GUARANTEE bit=wise identity over X bytes of information.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it is interesting to point out that the first 2 gb blockindes fit a whopping 188k blocks
mircea_popescu: from experience, most people's understanding of cryptography is comensurate with your average 1700s peasants' understanding of contraception.
mircea_popescu: i am willing to take any odds on "he doesn't know this exists"