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mircea_popescu: i mean yes, it DOES seem
to be simply miserable
typing in openssl,
they have nfi what ints even are over
there
mircea_popescu: no see, i know
that. but
these are really bullshit answers obviously.
mircea_popescu: for
that matter splitting a 31 bit paload in a 32 bit envelope into "odd/even" or "upper/lower" is, intuitively,
the same damned
thing. or should i say "from a
theoretical, numeric persepective". why does it make a difference ?
mircea_popescu: its not
that i suspect
the holy grail is spirited
there. i just don't grok what it does is all.
mircea_popescu: because i don't now, as i didn't in 2013, understand
this.
mircea_popescu: what i want
to know is, what is
the mathematical significance of narrowinfg
the S space.
mircea_popescu: (this is really why
this is such a
triviality. so min er x no longer accepts old style
txn ? costs fifty cents
to put a muxer in between)
mircea_popescu: maintaining backwards compatibility is one
thing, maintaining backwards delusionality is another
thing.
mircea_popescu: it'd be nice if
that functionality was available. it eminently is not.
tough and who doesn't like it knows how
to get in
the wot and start crac kin.
mircea_popescu: at no point was
the promise made
that one can rely on pre-loaded
tx
BingoBoingo: All sorts of changes appeared
to happed
to key.cpp between 0.7 and 0.9
BingoBoingo: Oh, of course Gavin had
to refactor key.cpp so changes we might want
to play with now are in a practically different language.
mircea_popescu: on github.
the
thing is social media for derps.
they comment because
their food is late,
there.
mircea_popescu: heck,
the guy's pull request got, rather symptomatically, 0 comments.
mircea_popescu: so in
that sense... if
there's a superclass fix, and we find it, good. if not, entrenching around
this seems a waste of
time.
mircea_popescu: but
the way which, whether it delegitimizes anything or not, nevertheless serves bitcoin,
to do
the switch, is by making sure
that
the proposed solution actually is a good solution for
the proposed problem.
there's a lengthy history of narrow, poorly
tho9ught out, unreviewed and borderline nonsensical "solutions"
that had
to be reforged and
then re-reforged, even 3-4-5 passes.
mircea_popescu: in any case, i see little value in
the political
thinking proposed. im not even sure it's all
that political.
mircea_popescu: o hey not bad, guy gets
to go
to costa rica hang out with
the other lamers on "what's left after divorce" budget
ascii_field: ftr, i do not believe
that it has a long-term future.
jurov: well,
then we can end with
turdball like gcc (due
to rms' political reasons discussed here recently)
ascii_field: my point was
that we do not want
to be in
the position of answering
the enemy in real
time.
ascii_field: dunno how much sense
this will make
to a nonplayer
ascii_field: familiar with jp
terms 'sente' and 'gote' ?
ascii_field: jurov: if you recall, i began with a backport of
the orphan fix
jurov: ascii_field: can i read
that like you will reject any patch
that resembles anything from members or people affiliated
to phoundation or "dev
team"
mircea_popescu: more importantly :
the entire malleability / bip 62 / sipa chjanges (such as linked) are 2013 material.
ascii_field: if i had 'specifically' i would be submitting
the patch now.
ascii_field: if
this is an actual flaw, it ought
to be fixed in a way which marginalizes and lowers into pederasty
the phoundation, rather
than legitimizes it.
ascii_field: for perhaps
the first
time, i remind mircea_popescu
to
think of
the political, and not vice-versa
mircea_popescu: in any case :
the actual significance of
this switch in crypto
terms could benefit from a review.
ascii_field: for so long as openssl, bdb, are in
the mix,
the bug mine is bottomless.
mircea_popescu: i dun see it's imposed by anything but
the dubious quality of code writing employed
throughout
this project.
mircea_popescu: but
the reaosn
they weren't is specifically
that we knew
that it's early.
ascii_field: there is no known end
to
the supply of
these.
ascii_field: the way i see it, usg continues in
the effort
to force folks off classical clients
ascii_field: which afaik is harmless
to anyone who isn't a moron
ascii_field: nobody asked me, but letting
the enemy spray his relevance-piss-pheromone on
the
thing is far more of a nuisance
than
the existing malleability.
BingoBoingo: Power rangers are claiming
this wasn't introduced until 0.9
BingoBoingo: The
thing is does 0.5.X produce low-s
transactions?
mircea_popescu: i
think
this is how it works with women and ass grabbing
too.
BingoBoingo: If widely deployed
this change would eliminate
the last remaining known vector for nuisance malleability on SIGHASH_ALL P2PKH
transactions. On
the down-side it will block most
transactions made by sufficiently out of date software."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile righyt here, expert C in field p says something so outrageously stupid (and it's not just one
thing - all his forays into finance and investing read like he's a vocational school most likely
to succeed from kharkov) in e
that it's actually...endearing.
mircea_popescu: here's a puzzling fact. in some cases, expert A in field a saying something stupid in field b not only
turns me off on A, but sometimes even makes me reevaluate his expertise of field a.
mircea_popescu: there is no inflation, if
there it is
two, maybe
three years out at
the earliest.
This is massive deflation before your eyes, not even including
the outstanding credit card balances and other personal loans which will never get paid, especially when
the jobs start evaporating."
mircea_popescu: "I'm putting myself on
the record (not
that I haven't a dozen other
times on
this site):
mircea_popescu: they make like 500bux for
the journalistic integritits.
ascii_field: 'This 1 Simple
Trick "Fixes" Your Erectile Dysfunction.'
ascii_field: from same publication: 'How
To Destroy Any Attacker In Seconds Using Only Your Bare Hands.'
mircea_popescu: it probably served half
the
teens in romania by now, if numbers have any meaning.
ascii_field: 'how cock is sucked'. but engl. lacks reflexive, how
to ~really~
translate ?
mircea_popescu: that article is lulzy - it was
the 2nd most read article each month since pretty much its publishing
BingoBoingo: In other news St Louis passed
their 2014 homicide
total
today, with 2.5 months
to go
mircea_popescu: now, if only
they had sane people in charge, doling out
those missed paycheques.
mircea_popescu: because near-everybody
there, like everywhere, is also an imbecile.
ascii_field: but
the present day crop of hobo is not evenly distributed, no.
ascii_field: anyway in usa it is a very simple matter, as described by herr orlov: near-everybody
there is 2 or 3 missed paycheques away from hobo-dom.
ascii_field: perhaps. but my mind boggles at
the picture of a hobo bush.