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jurov: so..
the ssd passed and
the rotor will have something
to rotate
mircea_popescu: for austin, "taking baghdad" once a week for
three years straight would have been an excellent outcome : over one hundred allied victories!!11
mircea_popescu: also note
that medieval commander answered for permanence. whereas modern commander answers for "accomplishment". very different end goals drive very different behaviours.
ascii_field: not clear
that castle would have changed
the outcome
there
mircea_popescu: there are NUMEROUS contests where people in modern bases lose
to partisans.
mircea_popescu: not so.
there is no contest where people armed with rifles lose
to people armed with bows.
ascii_field: and rifle is an absolutely
terrible longbow, also
mircea_popescu: modern military still suffers of
the problem of
the panzer 80 years ago : can
take any position and hold absolutely none.
mircea_popescu: and it has proven
this point in medieval places, such as iraq.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 11:41:49; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267274 << gabriel_laddel: you are speaking mostly
to folks who haven't grasped lisp. sorta like showing a modern army base
to medieval commander - he will not be able
to see past it being 'a
terrible castle, where
the fuck are
the walls and moats'
shinohai: Whatever you paid for
that was worth every satoshi.
ascii_field: shinohai: as if it were difficult
to make master keys based on disassembled lock.
shinohai: In other copyright news,
the author of
the song "Eye of
the
Tiger" is considering suing Kim Davis for using
the song at her release from jail rally yesterday.
shinohai: Thx. 2600 was like
the first irc server I ever used.
assbot: You rated user shinohai on 03-Jul-2015, with a rating of 1, and supplied
these additional notes: New blood..
ascii_field: 'I did some ink backgrounds for my upcoming artworks, and I
thought I'd share
the
textures with
the rest of
the world. Free for non-commercial/commercial use. Feel free
to post on your blogs etc. Crediting is not required, but would be nice.'
ascii_field: 'You see, not only are
they
trying
to get us
to pay
them for using a few ink splotches, but as it
turns out,
the ink splotches don't belong
to
them in
the first place! Our cover artist happened
to keep meticulous records (probably not something
they anticipated) and
traced
the source of
the ink splotches
to a Finnish artist...'
punkman: "It's indeed impressive
that
Trunk Archive managed
to match
these little ink splotches." << makes one wonder how much computing power is being wasted on
this
punkman: ascii_field, I wouldn't
think fake capacity numbers are a problem, but yeah I guess you gotta write $x GB of data
to it
that can't be compressed away
☟︎ ascii_field: punkman: how else would you propose
to verify
that
the drive can hold
the X MB
that vendor claimed it holds ?
jurov: badblocks
test was inconsequential, cuz
the drive could easily optimize it away
jurov: after rewrite,
there will be read and comapre
the sum
jurov: that it isn't such a scam as
the price indicates and can probably bear
the blockchain
punkman: jurov, well yes, but what is "rewrite it with aes-encrypted /dev/zero" gonna
tell you?
punkman: jurov: what's
the purpose of
these
tests?
ascii_field: these measurements can be deceptive re: pogo in particular, on account of
the latter's sensitivity
to cpu and especially bus starvation
jurov: (urandom gives paltry 18MB/s, another annoyance of
today)
jurov: going
to rewrite it with aes-encrypted /dev/zero, will report
ascii_field: jurov: my experiments led me
to
the conclusion
that usb (at least usb2) won't cut it, period.
punkman: jurov: so does
the cheap ssd work?
jurov: okay but i wanted something cheap and still performant enough
to use with pogo
VariaVarietatis: Never been
to a chinese gadget site, where do you look for such a
thing?
punkman: VariaVarietatis: you should be able
to find
them on your favourite chinese gadget website
jurov: punkman: here
teh manul only says "the word "random", which specifies
that
the block should be filled with a random bit pattern."
shinohai: Make some
tea, roll a doob, go bang a prostitute.
shinohai: Yes you must wait for it
to sync
punkman: jurov: and of! course! it uses same random pattern for every block << it says
this in
the manual
VariaVarietatis: shinohai: I looked in
the logs for
this info found nothing sorry also stuff on maillist is only about building not using.
thestringpuller: 21days 2hours for blockheight 318709 on
this current node.
jurov: had an uneasy feeling, went
to check its source code
shinohai: wait,
that doesnt return balance info ...hrm
jurov: sooo...an scam-cheap "KingDian" SSD came
today from shenzhen, i have proceeded
to
test it with "badblocks -b 4096 -w -t random"
shinohai: Is
this an address you control ?
VariaVarietatis: shinohai: datadir? i'm running one copy connected
then used another copy
to run LC_ALL=C ./bitcoind getbalance 12R4kPeSK6i9427ctH15j2NcJ1ST1FT21C gives me 0.0 but checking on blockchain it shows me
this account has 27 btc
shinohai: I added an alias so I don't have
to
type all
that every
time but it works for me
shinohai: Same as
the old days bitcoind getbalance, etc
VariaVarietatis: point me
to how
to
test my rotor is working? It seems
to be able
to getblockinfo but not getbalance using bitcoin-cli can't seem
to find anything in
the logs, mostly due
to not knowing
that
to search for.
shinohai: What is hilarious ascii_field is *their whole lives are just shattered* because
they cannot monitor
their snowflakes from a screen.
shinohai: Who allows
these people
to reproduce?
☟︎ shinohai: Paper just gives me
the illusion of owning something I actually do not.
assbot: Logged on 17-08-2015 19:35:54; mircea_popescu: irl, settlement's a paperwoirk affair and actual delivery is much disconsidered. as a
token of
the fact
that everyone involved would muchly want reality
to match
their representation
to
the degree of absolute identity. so
they desconsider
the later.
shinohai: Not like
they can't or won't just make it legal/illegal on a whim at
the stroke of a pen.
shinohai: But God forbid you "destroy" it, i.e. melt
to make your own bullion.
shinohai: Surely usg wants you
to buy
their minted gold.
funkenstein_: well if we work for
the benefit of archaeologists, might as well
throw
them a bone once in a while :)
shinohai: The
top 10 clean or ‘least-shady’
TLDs are: .gov and .mil LMAO
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2014 21:36:01; asciilifeform: if you are reading
this - it is almost certainly a
terrible use of your
time.
funkenstein_: "well
then, why not just put some
tinfoil in
there?"
funkenstein_: guy says: "can't find gold, i dig it up every year
to check".
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2014 20:46:17; asciilifeform: but, as every
treatise on
the subject invariably begins with, first
try
to understand what is
to be hidden - and from whom