asciilifeform: erry sig in blox, even taped ones, in oughta be verified, it costs very little cpu
asciilifeform: relatedly, mod6 et al, i suggest abolition of '-verifyall' flag, it should really be permanently welded on, bypassing sig tests doesn't win ~anyffin in so far as i can tell☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: takes the form of 'makecement' (formerly 'makesnap') command, and corresponding '-setcement' flag that takes a tape on bootup.
asciilifeform: really it's a quite dangerous grenade, if used ineptly. ( i personally would only dare to feed it a tape that came out of own node )
asciilifeform: it doesn't actually speed up sync ( alert long-time readers will know why : sig verification, contrary to the spew of the prb people, is NOT bottleneck for acceptblock() , rather tx indexing is )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unrelated to anyffing: i have a tentative thing that eats a http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-20#1864354 and gives trb option of replacing 'checkpoints' with it ( i.e. on boot, tests all already-stored blox against it, and if any blox in the tape are not yet present, then it requests & accepts them and only them, 1 at a time ). do we want this for field use ? (if so i can put on conveyor for cleanup)☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: 'excel' is archaetypical pseudo-automation -- eats ~more~ hours in babysitting and manual i/o , than ever saved anyone vs plain pen-and-paper
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had an old piece re subj ; it explains quite a bit re ameri-corporate world
asciilifeform: rather than a complicated series of template insertions and db fetches
asciilifeform: at any given time, your www -- with the possible exception of comment-eater and search box (the latter dun even exist in mp-wp iirc) really wants to be a static string
asciilifeform: was speaking of where it recalculates what is by all rights a 100% constant value, 9000 times/hr, eternally☟︎
asciilifeform: dns is a decorative thing, e.g. asciilifeform , mircea_popescu , have dns names for www , but really ought to remember that it is decorative .
asciilifeform: billymg: ( trb, for instance, doesn't even support dns lookup. i cut it with own hands; eats bare ip. )
asciilifeform: billymg: most folx here use hand-curated /etc/hosts ; dns is largely for giving links to heathens
asciilifeform: put the dressing in blog.ads as constants and be done with it. when erry couple of yrs you feel like twiddling the bg colour or somesuch -- it's a 10sec recompile, wat.☟︎
asciilifeform: i suspect quite a bit of the 'arbitrary substitutions for style dressing' that folx expect from blog engine, are not actually necessary; just how often does one fiddle with the dressings.
asciilifeform: Mocky: i think i've yet to meet somebody who wouldn't rather write msdos batch script, than php..
asciilifeform: would be pretty great if instruction to 'i want blog' n00b wasn't 'install this here 200MB of ??? liquishit', but instead 'build this here 100kB ada'.
asciilifeform: '9000' php-diddling lolnets knock on the door futilely erry day, it is hilarious to watch
asciilifeform: but, for instance, i dun have php on dulap, and like it that way
asciilifeform: lobbes: what i meant was, there is long list of actually urgent proggies, this one's definitely a luxury; thus far ~errybody is living with mp-wp and not particularly sad
asciilifeform: tho i suspect it would be simpler mechanism than on the surface it appears.
asciilifeform: lobbes: imho a 100%-adatronic thing that could serve http and dish up blog etc. without dragging in apache.nginx,php,sql,etc., would rock. but sadly i dun have anything like the # of free hands for such a thing currently
asciilifeform: sorta why in the fabs they wear the cosmonautical gear.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: main dust src in practice is... the human. rather than external air.
asciilifeform doesn't have a 'clean room' in the chip fab sense, but did install a multistage circulating filter thing in machine room, it actually worx pretty well re cutting downtime for fan cleanings etc
asciilifeform: it doesn't. was pointing out that you dun get 'clean room' simply from central air pump. at least none of the ones i've used, even with the fancy electrostatic trap thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what do they do, whack you with scimitar and stretch fresh camel's stomach over yer shaved head, and leave hogtied to dry in the desert ?
asciilifeform: Mocky: in my old flat, not only did not crumble, but broke several drill bits when fiber was installed (which i had to do with own hands, lol)
asciilifeform: Mocky: y'know, what interior walls usedto be made of before drywallism
