asciilifeform: on-demand flooding is also a varied beast. canonical example: 'hermitage' art museaum in leningrad. fitted with co2 tanks in the '50s. bell rings, you have two minutes to get out. after that, doors seal and 100% co2 atmosphere.
asciilifeform: but i wasn't talking about on-demand flooding
asciilifeform: as one commenter pointed out, building was not sealable and therefore unsuitable for halon
asciilifeform wonders why the setup wasn't under permanent inert gas to begin with
asciilifeform: there's also a school of thought where 'notation is worth 80 iq points' and roman numerals are deservingly gone from mathematics☟︎
asciilifeform: in mr o's docs, he specifically highlights 'unspell' being designed for folks who aren't u.s. subjects, but rather random people from the outer landscapes of the empire who 'know english' as written hieroglyph, but can't actually speak to one another except in a highly-castrated pidgin when they chance to meet
asciilifeform: aha, it's the ultimate poorly-specced mandarin.
asciilifeform: they have their own most curious vowel 'dip switch' settings.
asciilifeform: if this recipe is followed, you end up a brit.
asciilifeform: one you factor out the regionalisms, you get approximately orlov's phonemes, though.
asciilifeform did the obligatory tour of duty as linguistics 'minor' at uni
asciilifeform: ask a teacher of english in ru, and you'll get 'english is what they speak in england! here's how...'
asciilifeform confesses he was taught 'uk' style as a boy and had to slowly unlearn it, to much lulz
asciilifeform: foundation, l2 trust of assbot << i'd suggest switching from the #b-a voices for the turdatron to l1 of jurov (or ben_vulpes?) - i.e., do we want the camgurlz submitting patches?
asciilifeform: on account of my peculiar profession, i am rather addicted to overturned screens.
asciilifeform: (tolerable - as in, still viewable when vertical, for instance.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ever found a new 'trinitron' ?
asciilifeform: the key to a functioning computer isn't that "everything is on your screen at the same time" << this is how i ended up with 4 screens (and counting...)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what would be truly astonishing would be - municipal gsm. but pig's chance of flight.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: u.s. towns in this case are either prey or small change. tertium non datur.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: at the very minimum, one ought to live on jurov's site. (at present, i don't see it there.)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: as for source/patches, any turdbrigade member can put up unofficial mirror.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: anyone who is genuinely serious about using bitcoin should be able to build it. it isn't rocket surgery.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: at the moment i'm leaning against the idea of distributing binaries of whatever kind being a good one
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: unless, naturally, we're waiting for the turdatron where we can all sign on the patches thus far (i'm all in favour)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: (from qntra) 'our project will likely discard the entire GUI in the near future' << already gone
asciilifeform: jurov: fix it before all the qntra readers laugh
asciilifeform: jurov's site still has the 1blabla... contract!
asciilifeform: "magic packet" undocumented behaviour of the subverted gavin-bitcoin << can't rule this out, but this would play straight into my 'clever buggers after all' hypothesis.
asciilifeform: they ran into an earlier issue << likely involves db corruption. see earlier link, ~1hr ago
asciilifeform: not like this isn't a fool's errand anyway, if it's gonna clam up at block 250k << i actually have most of a patch for purely configurable block pumping. but shelved it and everything else for this reason.
asciilifeform: if sewer systems were introduced for the first time in today's usa, they would be an exotic and unobtainable thing. because would be unfair!!!11!! to 'private enterprise' fleets of honeywagons carting shit away for a dollar a turd.
asciilifeform: same reason why cheap housing is verboten.
asciilifeform: as for why not wireless - easy answer. cheap wireless would mean that folks with more money would not be 'sheared' adequately.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i deliberately left the proof as exercise for the interested readers.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: actually in its wedged state it leaks so rapidly that it soaks up 8GB in six or so hours. while failing to fetch any blocks.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: that, and it leaks memory. which means human intervention required.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: as in it cannot be used, at all.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what we have now is unusable crud.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: we are far, far from the point where the answer to this question matters.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, whoever else: has anyone taken an interest in actually making the turd vaguely usable? namely, plugging the leaks (yes, all of them) and zapping the idiotic db corruption (supposedly 'rare': http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/2051)
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: thought it was a jp thing
asciilifeform: chetty: i'd love to know who is behind the delusion that 'mathematical ability' is the ability to mentally crunch small numbers quickly.
asciilifeform: if you understand pythagorean theorem, you can do this one.
asciilifeform: this was not real maths! strictly first grade.
asciilifeform: chetty: more fun. because in many cases you can blow idiots straight out of the water, with rigorous mathematical rocket, with it.
asciilifeform: chetty: unfortunately schwartz's original essay appears to be lost in the burned library of googlexandria - usenet archive.