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mircea_popescu: nobody is disputing it's a very useful tool for many things.
mircea_popescu: well yes. im chasing the culprit. i wish to know who the fuck thought this is a good idea.
mircea_popescu: so far, i'm a) chasing whoever the fuck broke the world by making an idiotic libnss and b) unconvinced the problem's more than that dns bs.
mircea_popescu: no, we've not even come to the discussion where "it's entirely unclear desktop with bitcoind in quemu can even process blocks in 10 minutes each"
mircea_popescu: i don't have anything against running test versions of golden-bitcoind on anything, including toasters, gameboys, toasters emulated on gameboys etc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can't see this as anything but "adding more bad code".
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, portability worst fucking idea in computing!)
mircea_popescu: with who knows what dirty hacks everywhere to make it "portabler"
mircea_popescu: except your emulator still runs on pentium i in question
mircea_popescu: and your explanation is... "Well many people checked it"
mircea_popescu: so you want me to pull in more code than the openssl. with worse risk outlook.
mircea_popescu: how do you distinguish a bug in the os from a bug in the emulator from a bug in the code ?
mircea_popescu: you essentially have managed to divorce a new academia out of engineering
mircea_popescu: if your binary that runs can not be run by your golden standard
mircea_popescu: but this is essentially naive. because, again, the bitcoind is not the code you read, but the binary that runs.
mircea_popescu: suppose your emulated bitcoind forks. what do you do ?
mircea_popescu: inb short : it'd be great if emulators as you conceptually represent one existed and work. they do not. what we need is a distro to set in stone.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i fall asleep on one girl and wake up atop another.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, granted, it's "a better hypervisor". still runs on another os.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski "The teens are the sons of Roxanne Dubé, who only recently assumed the role of consul general in Miami. A former Fulbright scholar, she has extensive diplomatic experience, having worked as an aide in Parliament and as the ambassador to Zimbabwe."
mircea_popescu: "works on another machine. check. client can't crash kernel. check"
mircea_popescu: if hypervisors fixed bad osen microsoft'd have been long fixed.
mircea_popescu: but pretending like magic works isn't a solution to it.
mircea_popescu: then again if THAT didn't work it wouldn't surprise me.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the execration has occured to me a number of times.
mircea_popescu: well how the fuck was i to know a year later ima be all the way up in thompsoncpp
mircea_popescu: conceivably this will come down to "use so and so, version no later than X, and you will have to either not use sound or use one of these sound cards"
mircea_popescu: ( ) Extreme profitability of spam << i take it this was 2000ish ?
mircea_popescu: kinda why you'd expect governments to do better than they are, really.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform those forums... sorta tardstalk before the bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: i suppose it's targeted at folks who think the usg is a good idea and windows an operating system.
mircea_popescu: i suppose you're right - this service existing is sufficient prooof what it's serving isn't crypto.