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trinque has a 4-core g5 xserve right here he was planning to ship to bbisp
asciilifeform: though to be fair i have not tested sparc , so possibly there is a third...
phf: if we mandate smallendian, we simply cut out a bunch of cheap, reliable hardware
a111: Logged on 2018-01-28 15:24 mircea_popescu: in other news, to share with the group for comment : the idea is that even if we do mandate smallendian, it would still be proper to have a bitwise implementation, even were it slow, as a proper model of sorts. so it'd be both of these.
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-28#1777688 << there's a handful of lords that are running ppc hardware, which is big endian. there's also sparc, that like ppc, is a somewhat saner cpu than x86, and that can be had for cheap for server etc. purposes ☝︎
mircea_popescu: yeah i found that too, but yes, this is a reference not the thing
mircea_popescu: i recall it as a conversation between us, you were saying something and that was my retort.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you happen to have a link to the original "how much would a crate of tomatoes cost" thread ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, to share with the group for comment : the idea is that even if we do mandate smallendian, it would still be proper to have a bitwise implementation, even were it slow, as a proper model of sorts. so it'd be both of these. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: hey, mp is willing to risk a btc on http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-11#1724167 ☝︎
asciilifeform: supposing mircea_popescu is happy to risk a coupla btc of crate 'in 1 basket'
mircea_popescu: i pay teh airfare you pay the steaks&tampons, you got yourself a[nother] vacation eh.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform would be an one-time thing. but hey, you get to see uruguay. it's jenuinely not bad, can go for a week, take pet on trip to bsas for a few days... the city is lovely if one doesn't mean to stay << Rocha, Cabo Polonia, and Colonia are all highly recommended by the vacationers
asciilifeform: what's a couplea moar.
asciilifeform: from BingoBoingo's photos i picture a slightly shabbier buenos aires . but yes, i already have 3 crates that want to go
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform would be an one-time thing. but hey, you get to see uruguay. it's jenuinely not bad, can go for a week, take pet on trip to bsas for a few days... the city is lovely if one doesn't mean to stay
BingoBoingo: Everyone I have talked to here is a fan of the suitcase method. "when we fly to Miami everyone comes out of the woodwork with a shopping list"
mircea_popescu: speaking of which : hey diana_coman it is upon you to produce a dreamspec eulora machine nao. hit me.
asciilifeform: i suspect that the suitcase method only beats the 22% vig if 2-3 machines at a time are moved
mircea_popescu: maybe we get alf to send you his pet for a week or so. petexchange programme.
mircea_popescu: this is a point.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what's wrong with fedexing it! << Box that enters the country via FEDEX is going to certainly get hit with customs and the 22% IVA. Box that comes in suitcase is almost certainly going to get waved through as a personal effect. It's a math problem of whether to pay an import duty or plane ticket.
mircea_popescu: this is going to be a standard retort now, "shut up so-and-so, i bet you don't even understand hair theory!"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other chicks can code moments, "I earned my degree and license in cosmetology and had a horrible career as a hair dresser that I ended in 2015 due to social anxiety. I still love hair theory, and I even really enjoy working on people with whom I share a close relationship, but now I'm in pursuit of a new path."
mod6: im having a grand ole time
a111: Logged on 2018-01-28 01:01 mircea_popescu: trinque the fundamental point is that if they shit in it, it'll be ~their~ shitting in it. obviously orcs will be orcs, anyone recall say http://trilema.com/2015/internoc24-llc-aka-internoc24com-is-a-scam-or-how-milan-dragan-slatjovic-stole-700-euro-from-me/ or w/e
mircea_popescu: but i can't go that way after having specifically organized a painstaking and complex process to rule out teh comcasts.
trinque: at question wasn't the amount of money, but that two different answers came out of a vendor. I have dealt with many, many a credit card processor.
mircea_popescu: trinque the fundamental point is that if they shit in it, it'll be ~their~ shitting in it. obviously orcs will be orcs, anyone recall say http://trilema.com/2015/internoc24-llc-aka-internoc24com-is-a-scam-or-how-milan-dragan-slatjovic-stole-700-euro-from-me/ or w/e ☟︎
mircea_popescu: trinque i expect you know exactly how it goes, a couple hundy extra puts you way at the top of ~the excel spreadsheet~. which is worth it from a service pov. i think you follow the strategix involved.
mircea_popescu: oh and btw -- if your expensive imported german car isn't rolling on tubed tyres, do try them on. it... it makes a fucking difference.
asciilifeform: where mircea_popescu gave a picture, 'i'ma buy a 6th item in the place that has the correct 1-5 already, and even for moar dough'
mircea_popescu: i don't because i want them to have a vested interest in sucking my cock.
trinque: well for starters, when I get a quote out of folks for something that's 200 cheaper than another quote, oughta be understood that I'm helping the damned negotiation. that was annoying.
mircea_popescu: ^ guy somehow managed to get a boxful of pogos through customz.
asciilifeform: ( they are readily inserted in most rackable boxen that have internal usb port , but if it's a 1u then you need a 90degree adapter for the plug )
asciilifeform: mod6 oughta charge a markup
mircea_popescu: we'll be needingf a buncha fgs anyways.
mircea_popescu: this is a good idea.
asciilifeform: not quite empty, iirc BingoBoingo thought a few moves ahead, brought some boxes in suitcase
trinque has been a pretty vocal interested party in a 1U for a while
mircea_popescu: had a battery tackon and erryhing.
mircea_popescu: trinque i have been pushing him to produce me a list of machiens that can be bought for what, three weeks now ? six ?
trinque: I'm definitely not flying a box to bbisp
trinque: idea of this is nonsense. why don't I contract with latechco directly for a 1U if I have to do that
asciilifeform: maybe i'm thick, but , let's say mircea_popescu wants a server magicked into existence. would he want to pay the cost of a asciilifeform-carries-in-suitcase-in-airplane-to-BingoBoingoistan in the cost of said box ?
BingoBoingo: Someone here has to need a vacation, mircea_popescu might be the only other person in the republic with better weather scheduled for the next two months.
mircea_popescu: and in case it's not obvious: there's a MAJOR opportunity here for someone wanting to deliver a service for pay. why is nobody advertising "i will produce boxes and ship them to bb" ? have "the boundless blablas" buffett assigned to america died QUITE that dead ?
BingoBoingo: Anyways musl servering is going well, building a trb on the box because gotta test for republican standards compliance.
mircea_popescu: a
asciilifeform: maybe if all the jars were in a proper incubator, with thermo/hygro-stat
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is suggesting new peaks of luxury. they spend ~half hour waiting for their wings to dry / batting them slowly. if you get a few dozen coordinated chrysalises you could have quite the grandiose dinner table.
asciilifeform: it's been a quarter century, can't recall how much gold speck...
mircea_popescu: i suspect this is slightyl different, iirc northerner monarch chrisalis looks more like a turd
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: This summer there were a few in my garden
emmylark: I was wondering if I might make a request?
emmylark: It is a pleasure indeed.
mod6: emmylark: no offence intended with my comments a few days ago. was just having some fun with unknown n00bs.
mod6: it's a bit deep to walk in alf's big footprints through the adventure.
mircea_popescu: ie, a toy item rather than production ready.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-27#1777409 << a properly rewritten trb-blockchain would actually work ok on plated disks. ☝︎
asciilifeform: imagine year is 1985 and you hammered it in from a magazine page...
a111: Logged on 2018-01-27 17:29 spyked: !~later tell mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-26#1776901 <-- neato! ftr, it seems that pingback responses vary a lot across web server configs, wp versions etc. some blogs. for example wordpress.com-hosted blogs give undocumented (or sometimes empty) responses, probably as an anti-spam measure. (after filtering out non-pingbackabble sites, I sent all pingbacks manually, just to look at responses)
mod6: Lords and Ladies of The Most Serene Republic, I present to you a pre-patched *EXPERIMENTAL* version of my vtron (99993), along with a patch to show changes from V (99994): http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2018-January/000287.html
asciilifeform: dulap-II had a serious striped-raid ; still took 5x as long to verify same block as fist-sized, raidless ssd zoolag.
mod6: not a bad idea asciilifeform
asciilifeform: it will readily reveal the cause of a 'behind' node
a111: Logged on 2018-01-25 19:29 asciilifeform: btw i'll mention again a simple method to speed up sync (to a point) 1,000x or moar -- signed hashes ( a la the programmable checkpoint thread from 2yrs ago )
asciilifeform: potentially they could work at something like normal speed, with something like http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-25#1776380 . but that's not a Troo Adult Noad ☝︎
asciilifeform: really a kind of tarpit.
asciilifeform: a mechanical-hdd node is possibly even worse than none. causes chronic frustration for its owner and anybody who tries to sync from it
spyked took a look through how mod_security does user agent-based filtering and stumbled upon http://archive.is/ELI4u#selection-1478.0-1518.2 lulz; no idea how a programmatically-generated string can be botched up just like that.
spyked: (and it's not obvious from the error message either; but it's possible that there's a bit more info in the server logs)
spyked: diana_coman: here's the output: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/Nlokl/?raw=true and the script I used http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/z0nep/?raw=true it would seem ngnix expects user agents to meet a particular spec (that I haven't figured out exactly) before delivering pages
a111: Logged on 2018-01-19 18:34 mircea_popescu: !~later tell spyked hey, does your tarpit not send pingbacks or is there some error ? what's the response if you say curl -v -A "Mozilla/5.0" -r 0-4096 --connect-timeout 30 --max-time 10 "http://www.dianacoman.com/xmlrpc.php" --header "Content-Type: text/xml" --data "<?xmlversion="1.0"?><methodCall><methodName>pingback.ping</methodName><params><param><value><string>http://trilema.com/2017/re-reading-is-the-most-powerful-tool/
mod6: heh, that moment where 'mimisbrunnr' is a block ahead of other blockchain sites...
spyked: !~later tell mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-26#1776901 <-- neato! ftr, it seems that pingback responses vary a lot across web server configs, wp versions etc. some blogs. for example wordpress.com-hosted blogs give undocumented (or sometimes empty) responses, probably as an anti-spam measure. (after filtering out non-pingbackabble sites, I sent all pingbacks manually, just to look at responses) ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: there was a bar in new york where ~100 people died /year because people got drunk and starting shooting pistols at each other.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: eh those have been a thing for many years
asciilifeform: ( iirc in all 50 states at this point, if even local cop runs somebody over on his way to arresting a pickpocket, corpse 'hangs' on the pickpocket )
shinohai: There's actually a market for shaved pubic hair! lol
mircea_popescu: i have about $1 trillion in trimmed pubic hairs. they, unlike a "transgender", are actually female, being XX.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-26#1777305 << 'One of Japan’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges said that about $400 million in NEM tokens ...' >> asciilifeform was replacing a ceiling light and lost a screw, which he arbitrarily will value at 500 trillion unified reformed dubloons ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2018-01-26 22:16 phf: "... Only joint action by the G20 countries, as proposed by France and Germany, could be enough to become a game changer. ..."
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-26#1777309 << yeah, right. to reiterate, a) http://btcbase.org/log/2014-02-07#487027 and b) nobody fucking walks. ☝︎☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-01-26 20:04 douchebag: I would like to clarify with someone that I properly understand everything required to create a V implementation.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-26 19:24 asciilifeform: douchebag: does it ever bother you that you sell a $10k info for $1k ?
phf: "... Only joint action by the G20 countries, as proposed by France and Germany, could be enough to become a game changer. ..." ☟︎
mod6: fwiw, if you're comfortable with py, and you're on a learning quest, then start with alf's
ben_vulpes: it is a matter of taste. would you rather read python or perl?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform's elaborates the fundamentals, mod6 has polished his to handle a bunch of edge cases.
ben_vulpes: douchebag: press a trb with non-"release" patches so's you understand usage, ideally sync the binary if you can afford the hardware. then, write your own v, test it, and bring it back for review.
ben_vulpes: there's also http://cascadianhacker.com/07_v-tronics-101-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-most-serene-republic-of-bitcoins-cryptographically-backed-version-control-system
asciilifeform: let the d00d write his vtron. it's a homework, not a heroic quest . then -- beat with sticks. not before.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: imho even a straight cleanroom clone of http://btcbase.org/patches wouldn't be entirely useless
douchebag: That's probably a good idea before I start.
trinque: we'll never know which is a nick reference and which isn't!
ben_vulpes: douchebag: mod6 has a point, consider pressing a trb and syncing it douchebag
asciilifeform: it did not even occur to me that chukcha is a writer and not a reader, and has not used
mod6: before writing a vtron, maybe spend sometime using one.