asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the system internals turned out to be an obscene morass of hacks, partly from being the product of drunken undergrads, but mainly because the machine itself was a very baroque edifice (a mountain of hand-wired ttl, with all the engineering compromises one might expect from such a thing)
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: at one point, i wanted to build something modern based on the (recently) bsd-licensed cadr - but quickly learned that it is a fool's errand
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: keep in mind that CADR lacks 80% of the good stuff (vs. smbx version)
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: yes. and it's very crashy.
asciilifeform remembers reading, horrified, as a child, about some south american dictator giving his chum an unlimited bank account. now lives in a place where this is, more or less, SOP.
asciilifeform: i like to convert sv vc crapolade to bus units
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now i wake at like 8am << yer in my time zone now, minus the dst crap
asciilifeform: aeronautic cameras have gigantic objectives
asciilifeform: over here, i can almost see the people inside.
asciilifeform: year and half later, mpex still wurks, mp is alive.
asciilifeform: hence the very dour tone of the piece - 'mpex will work great until it won't' etc
asciilifeform: given as the only stock exchange widget i was aware of was... glbse.
asciilifeform: at the time, i was a very pessimistic skeptic of any btc-based system driven by human hands (vs. mechanically decentralized a la the blockchain)
asciilifeform: cgcardona: story behind that post. one day, mpoe-pr (first contact) writes to me, asks, 'mr. p found your piece re: btc interesting, have a free demo of his mpex system, write us a review.' so i had test drive, wrote review.
asciilifeform: i'd say misconception here - software doesn't fall apart from overuse. but there are forces at work to ensure that derpatronics become popular, vs. actually solid products.
asciilifeform: twofish was submitted as an aes candidate
