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scriba: Logged on 2016-09-19: [18:25:12]
<ben_vulpes> did some late night back-of-the envelope on script length and miminum transaction size and i don't recall it breaching u32
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-19: [18:24:07]
<ben_vulpes> and the whole "if less than 253, that's the number, if equal then read the next octet, if blablabla" is that consistent across c-land?
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-19: [18:15:46]
<asciilifeform> well the thing that presumably drew ben_vulpes to using 'binary-types' is the notion that 'describe the type and never have to manually craft readers/writers'
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-19: [18:13:11]
<phf> the type is called compact size (in bitcoin src parlance), it is simply an number. the reader reads a byte, decides what to do, ultimately returns ~the number~
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-19: [17:53:56]
<asciilifeform> (you don't know that it will be orphaned until later)
mircea_popescu:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160919/#461 << technically you don't know it will be orphaned ever, because "being orphan" is not a quality of a block/chain. if tomorrow we decide to extend an "orphan" from 2014 and in the process strand extant bitcoin, we ~can~.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> "dad i wanna get married" "honeybunch, you'll get old and your tits will sag and it'll suck. don't get married, it's a dead end"
<< LOL
phf: ben_vulpes: well, what you're calling "varint" is called compact size in bitcoin source, and it's used exclusively as a size prefix for variable length lists
<compact size>
<item 1>
<item 2>
<item 3>
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-19: [17:19:45]
<mircea_popescu> give kid as much rope to hang self with as kid can carry.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> wait, literally ? cunt-0 ?!
<< On my box: hole0
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-19: [16:25:37]
<gabriel_laddel> It is a revolt against G-d and all that is good and true that there does not exist a platform, even on UNIX that one can buy for lisp development.
shinohai: "at least he's up to date with the latest in computing technology from windows/apple/mit etc"
<<< lolz
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-19: [16:18:08]
<gabriel_laddel> just a minute, have rebooted both machines.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-19: [15:34:12]
<asciilifeform> in other lulz, 'In the last two weeks many security professionals have praised Apple for reacting lightning fast to the PEGASUS threat that has been actively exploited in the wild. This praise was given because the parties involved kept samples from independent 3rd party researchers and did not reveal any detailed information about the kernel
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-19: [14:52:01]
<asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: and bleeding'em from outside (for the sake of argument positing that they ~have~ an outside) is available to weak/poor/haremless/etc. ??
adlai:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-17#1544387 << nothing near as exciting, i knocked an office toy (magnetic paperclip people) off a doctor's desk while proving a point, which in his book counted as "violence!!!"; then i left the meeting, because they were wasting my time. sufficient cause, in this wonderful medical system, for an involuntary commitment. as one friend interpreted: "pissed off the wrong people"
☝︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "for as another aspiring businessman once wrote before his life had become unmanageable"
<< nothing can happen before had. you mean before became ?
mircea_popescu: "What, as we say, dat? Could Uber be competing to own the vertical and horizontal in a space and failing to bite off an element of the business model that profitability is predicated on the ownership of?"
<< ben_vulpes can you say that again, but in a language, this time ?
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> lafond never heard how caesar died or what.
<< Historicaly common, but was uncommon among the fauna local to him historicaly.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> "the logic of steel" wtf is he about ?
<< Early book of his.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-16 19:47 pete_dushenski: 'I was dead-set on finding a house with a garbage disposal, or "garburator" as our sorry ("Sorry!") neighbors to the North call them,'
<< l0l! love the souble dorry. also, i've never lived in a house or condo with a garburator and may never.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-18: [18:22:30]
<asciilifeform> phf (and any other interested folk) if you have a bit of spare change, buy yourself a 'pcengines api2', either 2 or 4gb model, it's this comp that comes with schematics. then we can play.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-18: [18:14:14]
<asciilifeform> i actually considered all of this in '07 but rejected because 'idiots will patch it to do jit and bring back all of the evils'
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-18: [18:02:22]
<phf> i think main line lua is that way, very tight interpreter, and i guess it's fast enough for gaming (tm)(c)
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-18: [17:55:52]
<phf> back when i knew the guy, i had a plan to stay in his house for a couple of weeks, wean him off his meds and depending on how that goes, give him acid to poke at his brain. he had some odd blindspots in his thinking that i wasn't sure if they were result of medication, or inherent. somehow multiple people were all up in arms against my plan, so i will never
BingoBoingo: 1FundZy7m7b8begbh9haCguKJcAdFopRJ9
<< Supports the work of the real bitcoin foundation. But yes many sites.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-18: [17:51:09]
<phf>
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-17#1544418 << i thought psychosis was pretty common with bipolar, during the manic or depressive phases. at least in usg they prescribe antipsychotics to bipolars, though i'm not sure if that's always the case. supposedly you can take them on their own, because they have mood stabilizing effects
a111: Logged on 2016-09-18 17:51 phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-17#1544418 << i thought psychosis was pretty common with bipolar, during the manic or depressive phases. at least in usg they prescribe antipsychotics to bipolars, though i'm not sure if that's always the case. supposedly you can take them on their own, because they have mood stabilizing effects
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-18: [17:24:27]
<phf> the advantage of something like a vop in general, is that you can emit part of the assembly that you're trying to get working in isolation first, can emit it and call in realtime (i.e. in a repl), can have multiple versions of until you get it right, etc.
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-17#1544418 << i thought psychosis was pretty common with bipolar, during the manic or depressive phases. at least in usg they prescribe antipsychotics to bipolars, though i'm not sure if that's always the case. supposedly you can take them on their own, because they have mood stabilizing effects
☝︎ mircea_popescu: "When you get systems that are too complicated to understand, people respond with superstition. Thousands of years ago, people didn’t understand astronomy. So superstitions arose—like praying to appease the spirits thought to be responsible for an eclipse."
<< this, for the record, is idiocy of the ilk of that-blogger-whats-his-name hurr-durring about how EVIDENTLY us nativism / knownothing movement was wrong because look
a111: Logged on 2016-07-11 12:27 mircea_popescu: "If you are white, no positive, active role is left to you. Either you accommodate yourself to the unreasonable, or you play out your life in some futile back alley. You are doomed to this by the disgraceful history of your kind. Maybe it's fair, maybe it's not, but it is the way things are."
<< from another schmuck with a nobel prize.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160917/#575 << yes, actually, it does. identity confusion is literally being crazy. it's one thing to have notions about supernatural forces which may help you through shamanism or going to church. it's another to believe you're "really" the other gender etc.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160917/#562 << let's instead talk of bridges. badly designed brigde will collapse in rush hour. or maybe not in rush hour. or maybe while closed for repairs, because heavy winds. or maybe just of old age. or perhaps for other reasons. however you model psychoactives - as cars, or as winds ; however you model other people being assholes, cars, winds - fact remains that the less it's used the less it