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mircea_popescu: the small robotic blocade runner tech is very immature.
mircea_popescu: anyway, you'll have to figure out a buoyancy thing anyway. whyt the fuck use ballast, when could use airtank. etc.
mircea_popescu: PeterL there can not be such a thing as "small scale" nuclear reactor
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hence my "niggers nigger rig" comment. they don't have the clue to make what they need.
mircea_popescu: the tiny thing here discussed, a) can be easily stopped and b) the suckage isn't of the nature of golfball-through-virginasshole./
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reason this doesn't work for the 40 foot planing yacht twin engine turbo bla bla, is because engine is fucking large.
mircea_popescu: nah, water keeps self out, as long as they don't suck.
mircea_popescu: put four on each corner, make them |= style, and let it be
mircea_popescu: in any case, you're doing 1/100 the weight and 1/10 the fuel tank.
mircea_popescu: understand : "standard" yacht, say a 33 foot boat, has ~5ton displacement, and its tank (150-200 liters) will take it say maybe 300 miles if driven 6-7 knots in calm weather.
mircea_popescu: this is not yacht. this is a 50kg displacement, 1inch above water item.
mircea_popescu: yeah right. a gift like season tickets for baseball are a gift. "here's a gift that will take 5k in bills to '''enjoy'''".
mircea_popescu: diesel is 10MW/kg. this means that 1 jerrycan of diesel can take two jerrycans however far 7500 miles or so.
mircea_popescu: hitch two jerrycans together, one with the fuel, the other with the engine navigation and payload, and w/e, two weeks to port.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, small & thereby entirely undetectable surfaceboat (like the us army troop transporters, back in the day there was such a thing as an us army or troops) would prolly work perfectly well.
mircea_popescu: what, granma used to hbe a gun moll, put a benjie in the card ?
mircea_popescu: what i meant by "mercantilism" is that they do not want the locals to leak dollars back into the ubers of the world.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: provided of course personas fisicas de republica oriental can receive more than 2 packets a year.
mircea_popescu: imo we're getting close to a golden standard udp tester.
mircea_popescu: why would i have baked into vtron something that a) is unlikely to ever be used again, past this year and b) works much better in bash anyway and is rather trivial to do
mircea_popescu: but the point is : given a sha tree, the operator thereby produces the keccak tree, and then the tool verifies these are the same, and there you go.
mircea_popescu: phf i honestly thought ~everyone with half hour's interest does have the ~same dozen lines of bash, and so neve rsaid a word of it. i dunno why he doesn't.
mircea_popescu: + E76829B2488665287ED6037EAA5DD4651A67DDC9A44111089F55249248B6549387B9146BB1E51CC5A659558805BCF8987C10ECAD8478F83FC5EB165044AC5D3C" with w/e keccak says, you mean ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why would IT do that ? you just purge the patches, hash and sign, and then have it verify
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so you're saying this compare should be a flag in vtron, whereby it takes a sha and a keccak tree and spits out yes/no ?
mircea_popescu: i always suspected alf wants to write this for himself by himself lest corruption ; but nothing wrong with published imago.
mircea_popescu: vcompare, takes sha tree and keccak tree, and certifies whether same tree or not same tree.
mircea_popescu: this is conceivably a useful tool, but imo not properly thought of as "vtron".
mircea_popescu: there's no by-patch state machine wtf is wrong with you.
mircea_popescu: well no. "try keccak, if it fails let operator opt to try sha".
mircea_popescu: phf i just read his thing in terms of "explicit flag, k by default".
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-19#1851696 << "granpa, why is this extension 75 characters long ?" "well see sonny boy, back in the day of planet earth they decided to keep changing it, and well... time passed, and wel... you now must type 75 characters of history you don't know"
☝︎ mircea_popescu: because it fragments the sensata-perceptible identity of the v.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: no, afaik this is ~what we came to in discussion with phf re support last.
mircea_popescu: i currently dun know a pill for this ; but no new extensions, it's a terrible move.
mircea_popescu: now as to new extensions... imo bad idea. there's manifests and things now.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but yes -- the idea very sharply is : use keccak for new work ; whenever have the time and inclination move old work to keccak tree also.
mircea_popescu: the idea was "no more new work on sha, regrind old work at leisure"
mircea_popescu: but the feeble mercantilism attempts they implement can't possibly apply to non-yokels, wtf.
mircea_popescu: well is your business registered and the name on the packaging ? if no, then no.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo dude, this is for their local morons. you're not a local.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform entirely possible. but the whole art then becomes : "how not to fuck onself over while in trance".
mircea_popescu: there was never a time ingenuity, specifically as this almost-endearing-often-infuriating-wilful-blindness was never part of the term.
mircea_popescu: and this at a time when the major problem of the french was the resurection of socrates' daimon, "the genius in things"
mircea_popescu: engineers. which, you have to understand, is an import from french, where it meant "ingenuity-ist"
mircea_popescu: profession ? i never yet that baker confused by the loaf of bread.