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mircea_popescu: there still is no substitute for homework. "socializing" not only fails to substitute, but actually has serious counterindications.
mircea_popescu: whaack do yourselv a favour and read the logs for an actual result, rather than !imperative all over the place and a) not get anything except for b) marking yourself for termination.
mircea_popescu: in other words : i have nfi why we care so much about systemd, in fact linux has been fucked over for years now, by completely unrelated crapolade like ubunbtu.
mircea_popescu: and of course once that crashes it brings down the networking stack, which on ubuntu can NOT actually be restarted, mostly because it fucks up dbus and everything else.
mircea_popescu: in other news, firefox spontaneously combusts unattended on a 4 day old system. and they call this software.
mircea_popescu: so using your numbers... they're actually unimportant.
mircea_popescu: but the spikes are never 100x the averae traffic. usually 10-15x
mircea_popescu: "4. if you have the intellectual and physical capacity to single-handedly deal with your program, it's a toy " <<< sheeit alf, what nao ?
mircea_popescu: exactly like how the rifles used to fight actual wars are nothing like the crazy-shit-stick-on-all-sides "amateur" rifles.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform minor nitpick : all these people that never ever head foreman'd a construction yard shjould stfu about "tools". the tools used to build a skyscraper are, by and large, cheaper, more worn versions of the expensive DIY crap.
mircea_popescu: absolutely perfect example of the pseudoscientific nature of American "science".
mircea_popescu: at this point i'm not even sure gavin jumping off the coq d'argent would qualify as bitcoin news.
mircea_popescu: qntra is about news, you're thinking more in terms of daytime tv drama.
mircea_popescu: lol so yest someone hit trilema in what originally looked like a ddos, except... single ip ? ~1mn pageloads ?
mircea_popescu: not that i disagree with the principle of making people verbalize the stuff they're abotu to do.
mircea_popescu: no means yes. yes means anal. it's how computiong works.
mircea_popescu: listen, everything in a program is explicit. whethr the user is aware or not of this...
mircea_popescu: going int blabla; says : blabla between 0 and 65535 or w/e
mircea_popescu: we're so fucking lucky satoshi wasn't any good with code.
mircea_popescu: i suspect ti's a case very close to the ida situation asciilifeform was deploring last week
mircea_popescu: this is not the correct approach. make bitcoin, then let everyone make their own guis.
mircea_popescu: the part that actually is your place, is done. welcome to parenting!
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: it's a possibility though, right? << yeah, but from all i've seen it's a very remote one.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: is there any evidence to suggest that << nope.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: good dad, just keep walking down this road! << a winner is you, srsly.
mircea_popescu: mod6: it'd be awesome because then derps would give up and go and play with hula-hoops << technically speaking this is what's happening already.
mircea_popescu: we should count outselves lucky satoshi didn't implement bitcoin prototype as a fucking greasemonkey script.
mircea_popescu: if you think about it, riding on qt "for the gui" is not so different from riding on the browser.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's conceptually by far more 'boost' than straight cpp in there. << i for one am thankful it's not mostly javascript.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron stop oppressing dragons with your self-unaware patriarchical gender stereotypes.
mircea_popescu: was discussed here, forgot her name. untalented as all shit, too;
mircea_popescu: in any case, i guess he never heard of whats-her-face, the supposed cali "poet" that did essentially the same but in the 70s, and died recently in abject poverty.
mircea_popescu: check out guy with a half notion of the problem, and a thoroughly broken nonsolution
mircea_popescu: "How you can hire me: You can't. I don't work for money. Money is a technology that destroys trust. Its entire purpose is to short-circuit human relationships in order to insert itself as a middleman. It makes everybody spend more money, at more emotional cost, for things that make us angry at each other. Don't offer to pay me. Seriously. If you offer me money, I will decline on principle."
mircea_popescu: france keeps at this there will be a permanent bounty on dead french statesmen, in Bitcoin. and eventually, a dead France.
mircea_popescu: assbot: France calls for strong regulation of Bitcoin in EU counter-terrorist financing laws following Charlie Hebdo incident and an end to anonymous financial transactions << yes very logical.
mircea_popescu: punkman: I wonder what the liberally sprinkled "CRITICAL_BLOCK" does << it acquires a blocking lock
mircea_popescu: "But say something utterly boneheaded that pisses people off simply because it is so stupid that people who make such rabid mistakes must be corrected, and you get to control the whole goddamn agenda in the newsgroup for a while."
mircea_popescu: " Look at how many responses you have received! And only because you are so blindingly stubborn and /wrong/. Be right about something, and nobody says a word, write something insightful that required much thought on your end, and you are guaranteed silence (but occasionally some uplifting mail)."
mircea_popescu: punkman: if we replace openssl with libressl or whatever, how do we verify all the buggy data generated by 7 different openssl versions? << you mean in the blockchain ? the thing's actually coherent.
mircea_popescu: *: asciilifeform presently thinks that bitcoind should only ever be build statically << this is correct. consensus systems may NOT pull dynamic links. ever.
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mircea_popescu: imagine this. amex is retarded enough to actually allow this.
mircea_popescu: these would have to be quite unusual, i never owned an amex card.
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