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mircea_popescu: minus side, nothing other than crimeware's worth doing anymore.
mircea_popescu: definitely got it. and im sure some idiot "woman in tech" a la carly fiorina is going to bring a shittier apple itunes store on it
mircea_popescu: esp if you wish to compare stuff to its results or w/e
mircea_popescu: replace the file where bitcoin saves its nodes with your own preference.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i still dunno what event to do next for eulora.
mircea_popescu: nuts tho. i hadn't realised cartwheels'd necessarily be a big part.
mircea_popescu: mod6 and the thing is, that arrangement'd pretty much kill anyone but a young woman.
mircea_popescu: cazalla the problem with her is that no tits. if she had d+ knockers the ribcage'd be a +
mircea_popescu: i guarantee you nobody's saying anything to the slutennis champ but "ma'am"
mircea_popescu: people^H preachin' retards keep getting in the way of women doing the soirt of shit that'd make them awesome.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes just looks at hostnames from /who list and spams them
mircea_popescu: myeah. it just doesn't wash, half the "expert" population of c-ers doesn't actually comprehend c string safety
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes and yet, author knows enough to use strprintf rather than any other of the countless vulnerable c string things
mircea_popescu: it doth not have the great degree of generality that a good exercise makes.
mircea_popescu: help people learn the shit you use makes more people use the shit you use makes you less likely to have to learn shit other people use.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes btw, as a matter of course articles like that should contain a "this is how you get your system to reproduce my screenshots" thing, with emacs settings etc.
mircea_popescu: (and no, i'm not an exception - i have to have the chicks pick up chicks for me!)
mircea_popescu: certainly nobody still young enough to pick up chicks would know wtf -?
mircea_popescu: Bitcoind as written would be the best possible example of condescending software design if it were worthy of being called "designed" instead of "crufted together by a monotonically increasingly febrile group of contributors". << i can sign that.
mircea_popescu: "Even though the application's default behavior is to create the ~/.bitcoind directory itself unprompted (and yet not the bitcoin.conf file that the damn thing expects in there), if you pass it a data directory that doesn't exist, it refuses to create it."
mircea_popescu: mysterious BDB shenanigans on application shutdown << it doesn't have atomic index operations. which means, that it can has updated index but unupdated data.
mircea_popescu: then go through these phases of he's kidding no wait, wait, i recall this. but it couldn't be. o yes it is.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i just keep forgetting the horrest parts of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: "main calls AppInit, which itself calls AppInit2 catching all exceptions in two seperate logic branches, shuting itself down if the second layer of AppInit doesn't fire correctly:"
mircea_popescu: nbews in past 6 months : s.mpoe almost went to shit but recovered, i lost the berkshire bet, s.mg launched eulora, s.nsa's phuctor delivered 60 or so broken rsa moduli
mircea_popescu: the things that happen in the internets truck make me feel old and out of touch