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BingoBoingo: Kinda makes sense
to do raid 1 for redundancy and faster reads
danielpbarron: i've got
this nice beefy workstation but i'm still using my 10 year old hard drives
danielpbarron: or more
than one; does it make sense
to make a raid? and for
that matter what's
the right
thing
to buy for
that?
danielpbarron: and
this line of questioning interests me; i've been meaning
to get one of
those
things
too
BingoBoingo: Many of
them will include
the bracket in
the retail box
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: mhm. can use mounting bracket
too if you don't feel like
taping it on. i guess
the 2.5" size meets
the 90% of buyers using it for laptops and
the 10% of buyers using it for desktops aren't excluded either.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> ok. now any idea why ssd's are all 2.5" ? << You know
these
things work in 3.5" and even 5.25" bays... Even work with same cables.
mircea_popescu: especially seeing
that glass storage
thing i read about.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag> why
the fuck provision for rewriting bits
that will ~never~ be rewritten. <<< ironically, cheaper
to save on hdd
than on
the mask rom. yet.
☟︎ jurov: (but yes
that's HARD, i believe electrum does
this and it makes full sync almost impractical even on ssd)
jurov: ok. anyway, should be not hard
to have a bit in
the index saying
tx has all otutputs spent with 1000... confirmations
jurov: ha! let
the enemy start moving his precious pre-2011 coinz
ascii_butugychag: (when it becomes known
that asking for old blocks makes you spin a motor)
jurov: so? burn
the old half
to bd-r. checkbox marked.
ascii_butugychag: mask rom is approximately indestructible, costs precious little
to make, uses minimal current, etc
ascii_butugychag: why
the fuck provision for rewriting bits
that will ~never~ be rewritten.
jurov: but if it was not spent often so far, i hardly expect
that
to change
jurov: but feeding new nodes is not random-access affair. spending old coin, now
that's something else
ascii_butugychag: jurov:
that was because ~nobody is actually setting up new nodes
ascii_butugychag: and if pete_dushenski is really asking why
there are no 3.5" ones, it is for same reason as why not 5.25
jurov: after syncing i have moved older half of blockXXX.dat on spinning rust and it did not access
them very often
BingoBoingo: SSD market pretty much consists on Samsung, Intel, and other firms
that just use surplus parts from samsung
☟︎ BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Avoid SSD's which seem inexpensve for
their capacity
assbot: Zotamedu comments on Bitcoin core will soon replace
the industry standard random number generator with a homebrew script. Sorry for your loss (of entropy) ... (
http://bit.ly/1Q8QotN )
pete_dushenski: aha. good
to know as i'm on
the hunt for a new node hard drive and, given
this, might as well spring for ssd.
mircea_popescu: hybrids are one of
those "maybe when it grows up"
techs.
jurov: so I imageine it's
the same with hybrids
jurov: pete_dushenski: gigabytes of RAM alleviate
the problem, but only if it's not
too far behind
ascii_butugychag: pete_dushenski:
the hybrid
thing seems like
the worst of both worlds
pete_dushenski: rather
than just "oh some small block zealots are afraid of progress" such and such
assbot: Paul Sztorc on
Twitter: "It seems
that [Mircea Popescu] has internalized Bitcoin's full node externality. Initial reaction: "Wow."" : Bitcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1Kmlp0t )
trinque: felipelalli:
that is a good
thing;
this present round of woes shall be rememdied in a few days, I
think.
trb node shall have reached
the
top. It's at about 385k right now
felipelalli: trinque, lol! I
think I have killed deedbot- many
times unintentionally.
trinque: felipelalli: I
thought
the cause was something
to do with your deed earlier, deleted it, now jurov's has gone
through, and yours is next
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag seeing how
there's memory leaks... not a bad bet.
trinque: felipelalli: yes, he got shot in
the head again and is catching back up, is at 396128
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: actually i would be only slightly surprised if prb could be persuaded
to jmp into a block.
mircea_popescu: incidentally ascii_butugychag i had dc price 1tb ram.
the guy... lifted an eyebrow.
mircea_popescu: more
than one person in china lolled when
they saw it.
mircea_popescu: this is
the amusing chinese-ness of
this all. basically we're reading
the other direction.
mircea_popescu: actually...
take
the rainbows, write
them ACROSS
the bitfield, got
the blocks lol.
mircea_popescu: but you get what
the
tree grew, not what you want
to eat!
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: WHy is
this surprizing. Oakland sucks and Oakland
terminal has been struggling.
ascii_butugychag: incidentally, does
this actually incentivize storing
the blocks? or only
the rainbow
table!
mircea_popescu: honestly
the way i expect practical implementations
to work (at least "originally") is, best effort sort of
thing.
ben_vulpes: whoa oakland
terminal is filing for ch 11
ascii_butugychag: quite! nobody will be plagiarizing old verilog from fpga docs
to bake
this one.
mircea_popescu: and mind
that while in no means do i propose
this is "Asic resistant", from a designer perspective you must appreciate i'm giving you a fun job
to do.
ascii_butugychag: other hashes also accept infinite bits but
they eat where
they shit.
mircea_popescu: i don't need
to explain what i meant by not finite
then ?
ascii_butugychag: btw between
that
thread and now i went and read
the keccak spec
assbot: Logged on 01-02-2016 19:29:18; ascii_butugychag: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu in what sense is adoptinc keccak a rejection of usg standards? it was actually adopted as sha3...
ascii_butugychag: incidentally all of
this exists in sad pieces in
the cellars of my sad
tower
BingoBoingo: I suspect
this will magically emerge as a surpise on some pseudorandom weekend
mircea_popescu: ima do some shoup encoding on avenida cramer just for
the fucks of it.
mircea_popescu: once you do
that ima want shoup implemented just
to have it nearby
ascii_butugychag: (this is
the biggest point of divergence with r5rs standard, it ~demands~ it)
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: lemme guess,
they're all on
the same street
too?
BingoBoingo spz's
that Shiva is probably
the right place
to get a less retarded wallet
to
talk
to Bitcoin node.
BingoBoingo wonders with
this nuggest alf will show of lisp once he can find
the right bolts
to keep Shiva attached
mircea_popescu: leaving aside
they're
trying
to pass off a 70 cent chinese bit of crap for 20 bux in a poor country que no es un pais pobre : why
the fuck bother
to have a dozen shops
then ?!
mircea_popescu: in other news : mp decides new heels and dress would go very well with a shiny-red lacquered leather ball gag. proceeds
to inquire with a dozen or so sex shops in
the farming
town.
they ALL have
the same exact item.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag he has
the right method
tho, you know ? what in beginner writer classes is called show, don't
tell.
mircea_popescu: might also be
the first
time lisp was used for an actual purpose in its entire history