asciilifeform: ( i betcha his cellmates laugh even today when he tells about this, over a cup of whatever-they-drink-instead-of-chifir over there )
asciilifeform: btw if anyone recalls carl force, the sr 'detective' -- iirc he actually bought one of them 'passports' and thought to break from zone with it !
asciilifeform: i've ended up on the spam lists, they push errything from dead-tree 'how-to'-s (because, i suppose, if chump is this dumb, he is prolly on aol, and can't download scans, and will ~pay~ for xerox-of-xerox...) , to faux bananistani 'passports', to weirdo sect/christ-besotted crapolade
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i once bought a lamp for indoor tomato pot; still getting occasional spamola re 'growism'
asciilifeform: re 'preppers'(tm)(r), usg has a certain lulzy tradition, where they set up honeypot vendors for 'prepping supplies' (buckets, cosmoline, etc) and keep list of who's buyin', 'for later'
asciilifeform: the moar general item alluded to , is that from pantshit pov , 'unauthorized hoarders' of ~any~ tradeable/valuable item, not merely btc,gold,magic leaf, are 'problem'
asciilifeform: that's the Official arg, at any rate; but i suspect a broader thing
asciilifeform: i suppose if yer found with 'stockpile', it 'proves' that you didn't get it from them ( why wouldja stockpile a thing that comes from 'abc store' )
asciilifeform: hey, догоним и перегоним америку (tm)(r), y'know, where it's soft-illegal to have moar than, what, 20k in benjie
asciilifeform: ( going for ~200 yrs nao, with very short pause during attempt at 'dry law' and then revolution )
asciilifeform: in not wholly-unrelated lulz, the # of prb 'nodes' that break the protocol in all kinds of ways, is astonishing even to asciilifeform ; it's a wonder they manage to relay anyffing at all
asciilifeform: that ~anybody~ at this point 'can claim ignorance' is imho a laugh
asciilifeform: back when i wrote in c, i also serialized/deserialized 'just once', when casting packet to the correct struct, but to precisely nail down the latter required gcc-specific pragmas, as c per se does not give this ability. but in ada the required knobs are standard.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: aha; you dun actually need to shovel raw octets anywhere other than the udp transceiver
asciilifeform: diana_coman: this is correct, i think you grasped it
asciilifeform: it was one of the items i saw back in '16 and thought 'hmm'
asciilifeform: kinda like cl's 'binary-types' thing, but as part of the language, rather than add-on hackolade
asciilifeform: of all the various items asciilifeform has used over the yrs, ada ( and not even 'modern', but even back in ada-83 ) has the absolute sanest support for strict record layout that actually worx as described
asciilifeform: diana_coman: if you get stuck i'ma show you how to make it go, cleanly, i have a working example of nearly the same thing you're doing ( gossip prototype thing ) that simply hasn't been cleaned for publication of yet
asciilifeform: diana_coman: you won't need to do any of the streams horror that i did there, because those of your subfields that are arrays, have strictly bounded sizes☟︎
asciilifeform: ( some components -- 'manually', as shitoshi used wildly variable sizes; some -- cleanly )
asciilifeform: diana_coman: didja ever look at my 'nqb' example ? it has buncha records , that get serialized/deserialized correctly
asciilifeform: diana_coman: dun worry, it will make sense very quickly when you bake the record
asciilifeform: when disk was refrigerator-sized, its write speed was 100kB/sec, and ram cost 1 toyota per 128kB, in 1980, it made sense to ask operator to manually move data structures to/from disk/ram. imho today it does not. run in ram, persist it to flash when power cuts out , running from supercap.
asciilifeform: the fs as we know it is a classic example of 'plugging funnel at wrong end'.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-16#1863191 << bonus: nobody actually sells a hdd that's 'byte device', they're addressable in 512byte blox ( and internally with 4096byte flash sectors ) and it actually makes a diff , not only in re speed but the life of the iron ( erry sector can be written ~2000 times )☝︎
asciilifeform will try again with 'samsung n150' box, with sadder kbd, but same chipset, and reportedly fitting☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: flash disk really oughta be simply a thing that kicks in when the power fails and box runs from capacitor and saves state.
asciilifeform: really machine oughta have 1 addr space, and keep it hygienic, this is physically possible with 2000s tech
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wrote about this on my www in the past, whole concept of 'file system' is consequence of the nonvolatile memory poverty that gave us the orig ram/disk split
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: observe that current subj is a classic '4 ring binder' . we arent actually looking for file lock, file lock simply happens to be the only available ~working tool for machinewide-semaphore
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's broken in a dozen major ways and definitely noticeable
asciilifeform: uses a framework such as Gtk+ or Qt or any of the module-based APIs such as NSS, PAM, ... forget about about POSIX locking. If you care about portability, don't use file locking.' etc
asciilifeform: '...If you want to lock a file in $HOME, forget about it as $HOME might be NFS and locks generally are not reliable there. The same applies to every other file system that might be shared across the network. If the file you want to lock is accessible to more than your own user (i.e. an access mode > 0700), forget about locking, it would allow others to block your application indefinitely. If your program is non-trivial or threaded or
asciilifeform: twist : ( at least in usa ) they demand that the car be no older than 3y. and given as typical cabbie is not particularly creditworthy, they give the chump '0% until missed payment' loans to buy'em
asciilifeform: ( e.g. washington, has more or less 1 or 2 uberists per city block, at any given hour , some full, some empty )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: massive userbase in east coast usa
asciilifeform: ( and they've put in a sort of unofficial gamble component, often enuff the car will have no one but 1 )
asciilifeform: btw on usa end, they've turned into a kind of ~bus~ service, client pays 3-4x less if he is willing to sit in a car fulla randos (which naturally makes loops , to put'em in the correct places)
asciilifeform: for the privilege of using the app? lol!
asciilifeform: rright but it's a pantsuit production, this thing. i had nfi that they had 'lite' variant for orcs
asciilifeform: rly ? used app, and it didn't eat a cc ? interesting
asciilifeform: interesting, possibly what mircea_popescu saw wasn't even an actual 'uber' cabbie, but just some d00d with the sticker for no reason
asciilifeform: ( and no can't pay with cash , in usa )
asciilifeform: in usa, uber client is a pnoje proggy, and demands CC #; to be 'cabbie', requires acct and linked bank thing, and they file 'form 1040' for tax db
asciilifeform: maybe in orcistans ? how does this work, they have physical offices ?
