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mircea_popescu: climbing a mountain versus diving in a septic tank sort of hard.
mircea_popescu: perhaps because asm hard is the proper sort of hard. whereas dependency hell and library cruft is the horribly bad sort of hard.
mircea_popescu: anyway, maybe their lives were harder, but 1960s programmers certainly seem happier.
mircea_popescu: i don't even think code as tight can still be made, much like you can't have a proper boot made anymore, and hardly a proper suit of clothes.
mircea_popescu: i have NEVER and I do mean NEVER saw programs as good as bacxk in the days of asm.
mircea_popescu: And the lives of programmers were hard, and the case of their end-users miserable; for, strive as the programmers might, perfection was achieved only in toy programs while in real-world systems the defect rate was nigh-intolerable. And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
mircea_popescu: In the beginning there was assembler. And programming was hard. The semantic gap between how humans think about problems and what we knew how to tell computers to do was vast; our ability to manage complexity was deficient. And in the gap software defects did flourish, multiplying in direct proportion to the size of the programs we wrote.
mircea_popescu: decimation this sporadic working no working would seem to mean route.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'm having this looked into, but i tell you i dun even know wtf.
mircea_popescu: and im not even sure that i can do anything about it other than write angry letters.
mircea_popescu: decimation the best i can come up with is that yes, some weakly router that is nevertheless for insane unexplainable reason priority route from the us is constantly fucked up
mircea_popescu: phin gage is a little strange. he does tons of research, some of which is useufl.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck would i see pages on a crashed server anyway.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck. the server has been up all along, the load is like 0.1 or some shit for the hour.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is proving impossible to debug, people not seeing it pls to pastebin traceroutes at the time you don't see it.
mircea_popescu: decimation: my router bounces from telia to an isp in pheomix called "cwie llc" <<< this sounds like a route hijack then. qntra is in amsterdam.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: now that's an interesting hypothesis to test: a bot lurks and tracks "shortest path" to each past message, then records when i link it as opposed to somebody else links it to me <<< actually a reconstruction of the ba logs where lines are nodes and they're given pr as per original google mechanism may be the first step towards stemming this whole bundle.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that flgiuht path thing is not nearly as indicative as it may seem to the casual observer.
mircea_popescu: you know, jurov is actually a very talented historian.
mircea_popescu: "Despite being drowned in graceful donations and membership fees, they just keep piling new and new code without proper specification and proper testing, making mistakes or even forks inevitable and thus providing cover for abominable interests."
mircea_popescu: much like strippers and whores pay for their place of work, don't get paid by the landlord.
mircea_popescu: like, gavin et all, should pay a daily fee to be allowed into the amusement park where they pretend like they matter
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the sort of "programmers" that "add features" should actually be charged to go to work.
mircea_popescu: Adlai this, because industry is increasingly a piece of shit.
mircea_popescu: no mythical man month, because no mythical man, not because no mythical month.
mircea_popescu: there isn't some sort of "us" that could just as well be a standin for any of us.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: this roman doesn't seem to care much for his friends' feet. perhaps the shoe's pinch points would bother them too, if they were to walk long enough in the same shoes? <<< you know your crowd-* obsession is at some level based on the fundamentally evil notion that people are interchangeable.
mircea_popescu: Adlai afaik there was never in the entire history of bitcoin proposed some sort of credible / evidenced based interepretation of wtf it does.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: except! in the case of the 1990s alt.tasteless 'golden turd award.' <<< anything good in there ?
mircea_popescu: undata you don't understand. siberia is a huge space, full of minerals they can't access because ice.
mircea_popescu: it needs more oil under a sheet of ice like kim kardashian needs more pubic hair.
mircea_popescu: <undata> if I were russia, I'd wait for the US to go balls deep into the middle east again, and then I'd grab some of the north pole's oil, <<< obviously, you're not russia.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> anyone else find it mildly interesting that the last 5 chars in deed ID of jurov's signed treasurer's contract are "urovj"? << it's in the logs.
mircea_popescu: now if i only had a link to where it was put to rest, to pass along to undata
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: undata: this comes up here at least once a month, and i regret to say that it is mostly my own fault. <<< that it has a good response is mostly your fault. that it appears... it'd have appeared anyway.
mircea_popescu: should be interestinf to see if sleep actually resolves [part of] memory leakage
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: how much of what is on your computer right now, actually -does- something ? << i guess about half.
mircea_popescu: "Lest this all seem merely amusing, meditate on the fate of those who have tampered with words before. The behaviorists ruined words like "behavior", "response", and especially, "learning". They now pl-ay happily in a dream world, internally consistent but lost to science."
mircea_popescu: well no meaningful content is directly obvious from the form of expression. you gotta know what the words sya.
mircea_popescu: anyway, seems you first logged last month, what do you mean "btc auth set up for years" ?