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mircea_popescu: Those issues may be avoidable, but only at the cost of additional atomic instructions on both the read and write ends, which would significantly impair the performance." << this guy is a prime example of what i said of finance types being tech clueless.
mircea_popescu: 2) You can’t tell when a reader is currently processing that tick, which means you could potentially write over the prior record when he has only read part of it, making the tick inconsistent (which is also bad).
mircea_popescu: 1) You can’t tell when a reader has already progressed past that tick, and would thus miss your update (which is bad)
mircea_popescu: "You will probably find that approach unworkable in a Disruptor style queue for market data because:
mircea_popescu: "tech failure" is accepted like "will of god" was 500 years ago. free of any contract.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall the one time their excel copula calculation failed spectacularly and the whole firm went under because of it ? no arse was harmed.
mircea_popescu: if you run into a wall street dude hitting on a cocktail waitress, it's probable she groks more of grep than him.
mircea_popescu: finance types are possibly the most tech-clueless people you'll ever meet.
mircea_popescu: "Speaking as an insider, I can tell you that most HFT firms playing around with FPGAs are doing so because of slick-talking FPGA marketing hucksters. The more that perverse incentives change, the more they stay the same" << flanagan has a point.
mircea_popescu: yes, at which point i prolly observed that it's a technologee current bitcoin miners don't got.
mircea_popescu: "Go with a straight-dataflow paradigm, where all operations are part of a dependency graph (and if your chip is large enough, exist at all times as physical objects which wait for their inputs to become available, and signal their successors within picoseconds of their output becoming ready.)" << tbh, this is not only grand in theory
mircea_popescu: just how amusing it'll fail is up to circumstance, but yeah.
mircea_popescu: but basically yeah, there's names which serve as marks of failure. something with goat involved, or nefario, or preston byrne or taaki etc can only fail
mircea_popescu: no, it was some derp that purported he's commenting on what i did and said and i pointed out to him that before attempting that he needs to pass a ged.
mircea_popescu: "We (Dennis McKinnon, Casey Kuhlman, and Preston Byrne (the Project Ðouglas Dev Team)) do not intend, nor is our proposal designed, to replace or compete with the Bitcoin Foundation. Using traditional forms of organisational governance, the Bitcoin Foundation has played a critical role in standardising the Bitcoin protocol and encouraging adoption of cryptoprotocols’ use worldwide. We are grateful for its efforts an
mircea_popescu: "of course i own the whole block. i'm in a booth here aren't i ?!
mircea_popescu: i wonder if ticket sellers at cinemas have an easy moneymaker now : sell the building to forum investors.
mircea_popescu: "John (Peter Manglaviti) was essentially the public leader of NxT, he was the one who represented NxT's booth at several public conferences / expos and seminars and he was the man the public dealt with. " << bwahaha. HE WAS IN A BOOTH!!1
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> IPO a scamming company: the business model of the company is to create IPO scams << the warrior forum in action lol.
mircea_popescu: some derps thought whatever pile of mastercoin is worth btc, discovered that no, it's not quite recently.
mircea_popescu: <darlidada> 90 mins later, he has already received 200 btc, no question asked << the theory that any qty of nxt is worth any qty of btc has serious flaws.
mircea_popescu: but why should any retarded kid have to do his homework or anything
mircea_popescu: let alone that the platform doing what the bitcoin foundation aspired to and never actually did is right here, and has been in business for years
mircea_popescu: <benkay> "blabla" << still not seeing code << they have a NAME right ? and it has like inclusive specxial characters in it and everything, right ? THEY HAVE TRIED AND NOBODY SHOULD CRITICISE THEM!!!!
mircea_popescu: "Eris -- A ÐAO Framework by Project Ðouglas" ; "This proposal is made in response to a post on Reddit.com by Olivier Janssens announcing a bounty of an amount of bitcoin equivalent to USD$100,000"
mircea_popescu: anyway, ima go meet my lawyers nao. later girlfriends! we can do our toenails when i return!
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones interesting. punkman notrly. what japaneseis worthy of the hype ?
mircea_popescu: "I aged a 107, a 109A, and a 109 Export in a mini-fridge (this one from Avanti) set at 40°F in which I placed a small desk fan in order to allow air to circulate (I had to cut a small notch in the sealing strip around the door to allow the fan's cord to pass through), simulating a dry-aging room on a small scale. "
mircea_popescu: come to think of it, this is a passible definition of happiness : the best steak i've had was this year.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't say it's the best i had, but certainly not ashamed of sharing it
mircea_popescu: davout btw, los_pantalones actually had a decent local steak here
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones a yes, the guy has a point as to "proper" aging. you can't do sngle steaks
mircea_popescu: no, we're intelligent housewives, not dumb american housewives.
mircea_popescu: i suppose next topic is whether our husbands beat us recently, and how hard was it.
mircea_popescu: davout you can make a ham-y thing this way, if you add curing stuff inside, but just by itself it turns to...
mircea_popescu: aging beef in dough is exactly thesame, sans liver (and mushrooms) and with much thicker dough : sear the steak, put it in a dough envelope, cook this and let it sit.
mircea_popescu: it's not too hard : boil liver, grind it into a paste with butter and spices ; sear a steak, cover it in sauteed mushrooms and the liver paste ; make a dough, put the whole thing in it, seal and oven.
mircea_popescu: what, this is sadism ? my dear boy! you ain't seen nothing yet
mircea_popescu: romanian restaurant dishes consist basically of what women make at home. much like in say normandy
mircea_popescu: they must not eat at home like in the restaurant or something.
mircea_popescu: and yet, which is the mystery, they're not overweight these people.
mircea_popescu: if you have problems swallowing it all they'll more than happily get you some (excellent btw) malbec
mircea_popescu: in general you have to do a lot of customisation to make restaurant food fit for human consumption. in their view, serving a two pound steak with three ounces of sweet potato fried in oil, and then a pound of chocolate with dulce de leche mixed in is perfectly adequate asd a meal
mircea_popescu: anyway, argentina is meat eater's paradise, that's for sure.
mircea_popescu: well it's possible you had it imported, in which case the shock won't quite rise to the level of epiphany
mircea_popescu: the beef steak here is so tender chicken seems game by comparison.
mircea_popescu: it literally is like europeans only eat 7yos, and there's a world of 23 yo bananas out there unbeknownst to them
mircea_popescu: much like you know, you think you know what a banana tastes like, but you're WRONG. you'll discover the full body of flavour of that fruit once you live in the tropics
mircea_popescu: much like i pity the fool trying to eat romanian beef.
mircea_popescu: never the twain should fucking meet, these people haveno idea of dairy at all
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's weird how this works. i'm from transylvania, where cattle is queen. dairy cattle.