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mircea_popescu: cuz they somehow had bad experience with the german paratroopers
mircea_popescu: well, half a day. but they didn't fly wortha shit at night anyway.
mircea_popescu: anyway, those were the days. gasoline + 5 man crew for a day, 100 bux.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when I was a boy i actually bought an airplane (ride) for 100 bux.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes okay, jurov appointed ? address published ?
mircea_popescu: punkman so nao i want to verify things, but i can't, because no bot and i dun recall what the website is ;/
mircea_popescu: so they are going to feed the afrreddit hordes if oyu give them moneyz ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, "we" have nfi why 252450 would hang.
mircea_popescu: 39 double GuessVerificationProgress(CBlockIndex *pindex, bool fSigchecks) {
mircea_popescu: / Guess how far we are in the verification process at the given block index
mircea_popescu: static const double SIGCHECK_VERIFICATION_FACTOR = 5.0;
mircea_popescu: 21 // fast multicore CPU, it won't be much higher than 1.
mircea_popescu: 20 // can be up to 20, while when downloading from a slow network with a
mircea_popescu: 19 // every system. When reindexing from a fast disk with a slow CPU, it
mircea_popescu: 18 // be slower. This number is a compromise, as it can't be accurate for
mircea_popescu: 17 // How many times we expect transactions after the last checkpoint to
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform don't laugh, greeks conquered them too :D
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 how do you call an indian in indian btw ?
mircea_popescu: i *think* the maximal lock count a block may possibly need is somewhere just south of 600k, but i don't have the shithandy.
mircea_popescu: bounce temperature treated, yes. like saying "iron, some carbon, some molybdenum" = sword.
mircea_popescu: by default a DB_CONFIG file in bitcoin root fixes the problem.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bdb needs a set_lk_max_locks directive to function properly with larger blocks.
mircea_popescu: bounce he's just in love with one version of "no artificial hydrogenated vegetable fat, not oversugared" chocolate, because grew up on it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: does anyone know the cause of permanent blockchain wedging in 0.5.3 ? << i am pretty certain it's the bdb locks initialisation issue.
mircea_popescu: "that every man carries an endless, self-replenishing, delicious chocolate factory is simply a matter of perspective" ~ lenin.
mircea_popescu: also, you can only use chocolate, provided it's ecologically sourced!
mircea_popescu: anyway, those 12 errors look like 6-10 different holes.
mircea_popescu: how much of a buggy half implementation of a garbage collector is there in bitcoind ?
mircea_popescu: 64,000 (112 direct, 63,888 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 62 of 77 << this tho
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves evil is a concept ulterior to mp and whales.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 wut is that ? you mean like lint for iptables ?!
mircea_popescu: then gunk starts piling up, and before you know it... you're praying nobody notioces.
mircea_popescu: you're in the position of the wooden plank that's straighter than a bridge crossbeam. yes, now.
mircea_popescu: not what i mean tho. incidentally : that's rms gnu. he lies when he says that's foss. it's not. it's a particular attempt at a middle way, with him as the "modest" hero.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i confess i'm one of the sinful looking for a golden middle way
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform important. the notion that all the lemmings drive... meh. not really so great.
mircea_popescu: scandalous, this. but they are standard in new england
mircea_popescu: "According to the forensic report, the vehicle never exceeded an AVERAGE speed of 34 Kph." << gotta love these forensic reports. the never exceeded average ? lol
mircea_popescu: except one time i nearly clobbered this purely retarded, english speaking middle aged woman.
mircea_popescu: anyway, bikers in romania pissed me the fuck off. bikers here are actually pleasant,
mircea_popescu: so there you go. otherwise, the "animosity" is properly resolved with bikers paying the fuck attention and being humble and apologetic all the time to everyone.
mircea_popescu: but the ruminants are really good at bleeting, and in the us currently that temporarily means something.,
mircea_popescu: bounce easy to explain : all preditors have an innate hatred of fast moving, light items ; preditors are better suited than rumminants for life on earth. as a result, people on bikes are in a position ot annyo people in cars, and people in cars are in a position to give them what for.
mircea_popescu: fucking execution squad for bikers, i tell you that right off.
mircea_popescu: <bounce> florida.qntra.net, where everything happens moar like, orangecounty.florida.qntra.net ?
mircea_popescu: this is so easier when y'all don't go fucking crazy with the keyboards!