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mircea_popescu: as far as i'm concerned, breaking any ansi standard is a net gain.
mircea_popescu: i want, in this order a) a fully b-a computing stack for bitcoin ; b) utter disrespect for antecessors made manifest.
mircea_popescu: throw out its own blob, put in ours, make blockchain hdd.
mircea_popescu: right. in which line : since all hdds come reflashable anyway, how hard would it be to rape a ssd like we're raping the pogo, i wonder ?
mircea_popescu: as in, trivially : make the sectors the size of a block
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what i had in mind tho, was more specficially "for blockchain only".
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'danger, 1,000,000 ohms!' << i forget, what's the resistence of 1mm of air ? like 1mn was it ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 if you write a spec or something ima read it, for whatever good that's gonna do
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seriously, send them the things, gotta help em. they're new.
mircea_popescu: NewLiberty what ever happened to that guy ? still around ?
mircea_popescu makes mental note : if alf spends time anticipating a nice itam and then doesn't get it, alf gets very pissy!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they sound very nice you know ? i'd send them the boards an' detail.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes im not informed enough to guess, but maybe a "best of both words" hybrid could thrive.
mircea_popescu: and as they become obsolete in the future, ppl not wanting to upgrade their bitcoin archives will provide hdds with one of those ada or lisp-esque eternal lives.
mircea_popescu: there's absolutely no doubt this will be the largest usecase for harddrives going forward
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i wonder if one could make a filesystem specifically for blockchain storage.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ibidem actually means "in the same place". if you mean idem (ie, the same) say idem!
mircea_popescu: decimation what's an ungrounded faraday cage supposed to do again ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well... the cutout of the two boards sounds like a great blogpost.
mircea_popescu: it stands with the finest italian handmade gelateria in the same relation as this later beast stands with budweiser
mircea_popescu: btw... the icecream in this country... it can not be described.
mircea_popescu: i suspect there are more experienced aerospace minds here. how about you do it instead ?
mircea_popescu: i'm half tempted to do a "basics of satellites" like the hollywood and the corn one. however...
mircea_popescu: you're already talking half a ton of gear here. i didn't hear of aerospace material going for $200 / kg yet.
mircea_popescu: simpler problem : leaving aside the "Ever and ever" bs, even if you plan for 10 years you need tbs of hdd and gbs of ram. in space.
mircea_popescu: btw re computers and looms thread a coupla months back, i somehow forgot to mention the jacquard loom specifically.
mircea_popescu: generally everyone flies through ezeiza, but it doesn't matter.
mircea_popescu: in this day and age things aren't as they used to be, yo!
mircea_popescu: what, "we did most of the job" not good enough for ya ?!
mircea_popescu: need a berlusconi or something to show them how it'd sone
mircea_popescu: yeah, the southerners are too disorganised to even be corrupt properly
mircea_popescu: ahaha epic. no fucking wonder bitcoin-proto works on open-ssl
mircea_popescu: STACK_OF(X509_NAME) *SSL_load_client_CA_file(const char *file)
mircea_popescu: * much to do with CAs, either, since it will load any old cert.
mircea_popescu: * for a stack of CAs is to send it to the client). Actually, it doesn't have
mircea_popescu: * it doesn't really have anything to do with clients (except that a common use
mircea_popescu: * Load CA certs from a file into a ::STACK. Note that it is somewhat misnamed;
mircea_popescu: 8 the whole world has been trusting their secure communications to this impenetrable morass that calls itself the "OpenSSL" project. I bet that the doctors that work on that shitshow can not prescribe anything useful either!"
mircea_popescu: "After messing around with this code for about a month I decided to write this up for the tubes in the hope that I can save some souls. I have come to the conclusion that OpenSSL is equivalent to monkeys throwing feces at the wall. It is, bar none, the worst library I have ever worked with. I can not believe that the internet is running on such a ridiculous complex and gratuitously stupid piece of code. Since circa 199
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes essentially, it means they have not an inkling of how to code. they're importing code as data.
mircea_popescu: gtfo google. there's exactly one source on the whole internet.
mircea_popescu: ;;google "Satoshi Dice couldn't merge tx's anyway because bitcoind is written by monkeys"
mircea_popescu: <jurov> in short, we're standing on the shoulders of monkeys << quite.