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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and there is truth to that, yes. but not just.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from the other pov, because in the rest of the world this machine is part of bezzleworld.
mircea_popescu: this because russians know enough to not have it any other way.
mircea_popescu: well the reason they haven't is that wallet code is so damned bad.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, most people that survived a halon dump also heard the pov that "the machine just does that when it's displeased"
mircea_popescu: "this is your new computer ms. robinson. and to repeat our warning : if you misspell it will whip you."
mircea_popescu: "heterogenous cpus calculating same problem" seems to me like you maybe had too much of the good stuff.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> actual luxury doesn't take out ad space in GQ << this is really just a more benign and socially acceptable restatement of alf's meta-nsa thesis.
mircea_popescu: ie, let our rich customers pay for our automotive research.
mircea_popescu: exactly along the lines described in "you're the kid not good enough to sling dope"
mircea_popescu: because car makers, like any software designers, are more than willing to externalise their costs
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, if there's some dubious / experimental stuff, it gets put into the luxury item
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the key of the article being, that if there's a genuinely "Better" anything, it will be in the mass market item, because the savings there are major. nobody is foregoing putting a GOOD something in an item that gets baked > 100mn units.
mircea_popescu: <chetty> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. << this is me trying to alter eulora database. because you really want a mmorpg server that segfaults when game designers futz with game data.
mircea_popescu: "and if i find a ten foot tall transparent (not translucent!!!) woman, i might stick my penis into her
mircea_popescu: Chillum that's why he's such an error correction fanboi.
mircea_popescu: no other consideration can beat the advantages of commonality i dun think.
mircea_popescu: i don't imagine the wallet can ever be anything but pc.
mircea_popescu: and that's a hole that's there for thermodynamic reasons too. nobody made it.
mircea_popescu: no alf. it's because fuck you, you want to spend fiddy bux.
mircea_popescu: mats these aren't really intended to be multiuser systems.
mircea_popescu: moreover, there are fixes for the particular effect, buy rowhammer proof sticks.
mircea_popescu: case 1 : you have slow memory, 64 gb of. you need 5 gb. case 2 : you have fast leaky memory, 32gb of. you still need 5gb, but use 15 for redundancy.
mircea_popescu: have been pondering if this pisses me off enough to do something about for a coupla months now.
mircea_popescu: i suspect on the score of electronics you actually beat my ppls.
mircea_popescu: i'd much rather see honest sexual slavery than this bs "random bad ideas" exploitation.
mircea_popescu: (we asked for gribble here long ago, which is how it got to be here)
mircea_popescu: and it's not in -otc for the reason any bot is not in any channel : admin didn't ask for it.
mircea_popescu: but the freedom to make mistakes is a luxury not a freedom.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can see the case for this not being that commodified just yet. but imo unavoidable, with the trend towards it of which raspberry is just a reflection.
mircea_popescu: Chillum excellent case study in why "customer getting what it tihinks it wants" is no business plan.
mircea_popescu: the golden standard on ic sourcing is not some derpy valley website.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would suspect octo is just badly supplied.
mircea_popescu: o wait i forgot, 20mb won't be used, it just needs to be there to not be used. right right.
mircea_popescu: Chillum if you absolutely can't find one i'll ok you to get one from our warehouse at dpb
mircea_popescu: what happens once we're over 10k x 2gb = 20tb of blockchain ?
mircea_popescu: blkindex0016 almost full, which brings the following issue :
mircea_popescu: wp, which sucks, or else ben_vulpes' homeroll thing, which sucks.
mircea_popescu: but sure, if you're buying a new disk, takes you to 100ish