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mircea_popescu: punkman wasn't the "management engine" an intel thing ?
mircea_popescu: seems teh usg-consensus pretty much is to make amd extinct.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field have you seen the recent "gamer desktops" recommendations btw ? nothing but intel.
mircea_popescu: as teh expression goes, "relax, you have plenty of time. tomorrow - you die."
mircea_popescu: like i've been waiting, on many things, for many years.
mircea_popescu: we explain the problem, publish the measuring tools, let people declare themselves retarded.
mircea_popescu: not among which, the opnion of reddit, the headers of miners etc.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, before any sort of change, like say a block size increase, this will have to be measured
mircea_popescu: we don't care atm, because we know experimentally the system as deployed is stable.
mircea_popescu: and the bitcoind allocation scheme isn't a jewel or anything.
mircea_popescu: which obviously differ from your coder heuristics. but differ to our benefit.
mircea_popescu: in general, going by the "never one single bug in kitchen, and noting that bdb locks are a resource of the kind that pointers are, just one easier to exhaust, i propose this as likely, on the basis of my business heuristics.
mircea_popescu: but do you mathematically see the proof where it never would ?
mircea_popescu: that gavin [pretends like he] doesn't know such is exactly why the verbiage as to the retarded boy in one of my articles debunking the nonsense.
mircea_popescu: currently the 1mb limit is blessfully keeping THIS (among its many sisters) under the water.
mircea_popescu: note that this is one of the majorest issues lurking in the "larger blocks"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: by the time you're entirely exhausted, i broadcast some more txn and mine a block with them.
mircea_popescu: i also broadcast 50k 150 byte txn. these go in your pile, and on fresh memory.
mircea_popescu: so i broadcast 50k 140 byte txn. you allocate these, they fail, you deallocate them. before you had time to go through the lot however,
mircea_popescu: yeah well. let me propose something for you here. just for curiosity's sake, a rough model.
mircea_popescu: note very similar issue : exhausted locks, exhausted heap...
mircea_popescu: in fact, this has happened (not due to the heap issue, true)
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it will construct and mine a block that makes everyone else crash, conceivably.
mircea_popescu: kinda why idiots (and by that i mean satoshi) shouldn't be allowed to code in the first place. but hey, we believe in the power of belief...
mircea_popescu: this is one of those places where bug to bug compatibility rears it's ugly butt.
mircea_popescu: yes but it's worse than that : if you have an elegant alocator and the people do not, your chain will fork and theirs will not.
mircea_popescu: no, i just mean, with bitcoin is to some degree unavoidalbe, because txn.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field part of the problem is that you're stuck mushing together items that can arbitrarily be anything between 100 bytes and whatever, 250kb. and there's a lot of them. no way to allocate but dynamically, willy-nilly keep getting them allocated and deallocated and again and again.
mircea_popescu: it's been danced around with all sorts of patches and whatnot, but multiple ddos avenues related to fragmentation.
mircea_popescu: I believe in markets and trading to increase the wealth of the world."
mircea_popescu: Co-founder & CPO at @BitGo. Co-founder of @Beluga. Running Bitcoin syndicate on AngelList.
mircea_popescu: it honestly doth not seem so very mistaken upon review.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why they were filed under "just another subreddit" but w/e.
mircea_popescu: dude i swear there was a different coinsetter that was trying to be a sort of coindeks
mircea_popescu: oh, i see, because they have no btc, all they have is "mindshare", and in respect to that pseudo-capital coinsetter is better capitalised than cavirtex ?
mircea_popescu: wait, in this lalaland of imaginary imaginations the newspapers acquire the failed banks ?
mircea_popescu: decimation china "subsidizes" it like sar subsidizes oil. to fuck the us.
mircea_popescu: and wtf, they are still derping with that angelou broad ? what, she's "a poet" ?
mircea_popescu: when lifelines are taken out by unidentified parties with access to a lot of resources, it's... uh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform right, it's only terrorism when mentally retarded derps do nonsensical shit.