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ascii_field: (msdos, as we know, won't eat a +2G fs - but doesn't give a damn what you say to the disk controller. so roll your own.)
ascii_field: 'each block as a file' strains filesystem
ascii_field: as so the thing doesn't end up running in O(N) time
mircea_popescu: honestly the only sane arrangement would be either a) store each block as a file, or else b) store blocks in arbitrary sized files, each starting at offsed 1Mb * block_count
ascii_field: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=29424.msg370335#msg370335 << as pictured here
mircea_popescu: as it does have a daddy, just, daddy got married with a wanton slut
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 02:51:53; asciilifeform: if his blk** are ~original~ - as in, they were formed ~as the blocks happened~ - they can contain orphaned (in the traditional sense) blocks
mircea_popescu: <jurov> otherwise either kernel stalls or pipe is congested(dropped packets, whatever) << i thought this may well be it previously, as load was uncharacteristically high for this application. but solved that problem and apparently no improvement.
decimation: well, as far as bitcoin exchanges are concerned
mircea_popescu: so they spent 250k (abnd counting) so as to lose 4mn off a schmuck's home connection ?
decimation: as for mechanical drives the best info I can find is here https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/
mircea_popescu: there are many considerations here. for instance, as an exercise to the trainee : calculate the minimum storage space required to GUARANTEE bit=wise identity over X bytes of information.
mircea_popescu: as it is i have nfi what to do about it.
ascii_field: and as someone pointed out in last night's thread, let's compute the energy lost by failing to boil visa, mastercard execs into biodiesel
mircea_popescu: nah, they had the "unsustainable" crapola on the back burner for a coupla years, as they were hoping they may actually elbow themselves into relevancy all through 2013-14
punkman: "We have always been able, on the authority of the home secretary, to sign a warrant and intercept a phone call, a mobile phone call or other media communications, but the question we must ask ourselves is whether, as technology develops, we are content to leave a safe space"
mircea_popescu: i mean, there were occasional spikes in load in the previous incarnation, and i figured those may be it. but now it's smooth as butter.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: all i can say is that i'm seeing ~exactly~ same pattern as before
ascii_field: same pattern as before
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182970 << misread, with last line, as 'go forth and sniff glue' ☝︎
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182852 << did this. posted as of this morning to ml. ☝︎
ascii_field: media lied, as is sop
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 15:57:34; pete_dushenski: "Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) said on Tuesday it would buy OpenDNS, a privately held cloud-based security company, for $635 million in cash and equity awards to beef up its security business." << might as well consolidate the crown corps, save on letterhead.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as usual for orlov : the intro is right : yes, the average expenditure average us citizen can expect to make reasonably is ~1 dollar a day. yes things are going the way of http://trilema.com/2014/the-battlefield-of-the-future/#selection-137.333-137.381
mircea_popescu: now, it existed as a cleaner, more useful thing before being coopted for this purpose, of course. much like anything else that's now being used to make large population densities possible was a lot nicer before being shat on
mircea_popescu: anyway, the broadly fraudulent proposition that "you can make yourself better through X Y Z" be they hard work or prayer or anything else fundamentally exists as a direly needed social control mechanism. because the social cost of the ambitiously ungifted is plainly immense, societies have universally and often independently constructed this method to deal with the afflicted.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as far as i can tell, it was an ~actual~ cosmic ray
asciilifeform: jurov: would it be painful to modify turdatron such that it displays images, in the same way as .txt ?
trinque: ben_vulpes: as I understand it, this is like... emscripten bytecode
trinque: I've looked around for a common lisp on llvm, as that's what farts into webasm
ben_vulpes: and i say that as a guy who duct tapes jet fighters to submarines
ben_vulpes: i'm speshul tho. i'm cool and i get to drive my car as much as i want :P
decimation: as Jesus says, you will know a tree by its fruit
cazalla: tfw buying a deciduous tree in the winter and feel like i bought a stick for $20 lol (Hovenia dulcis if anyone cares as much) ☟︎
trinque: decimation: I've seen that not handled well too, but this time he was just sitting there as if connected
decimation: "Mark Peterson, a spokesman for Wave Broadband, said an unspecified number of Sacramento-area customers were knocked offline by the latest attack. He characterized the Tuesday attack as "coordinated" and said the company was working with Level 3 and Zayo to restore service."
trinque: << According to his biographer, Ellison sees death as “just another kind of corporate opponent he can outfox.” >>
asciilifeform wonders how many modern charlatans would carry on business if the consequence of failure to deliver were molten lead down their throat, as it often was for alchemists
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: so which obscure german academic is going to have 'known about this for a year' ? same fella as they trotted out for phuctor ?
asciilifeform: (for the same reason as mircea_popescu's)
asciilifeform: if his blk** are ~original~ - as in, they were formed ~as the blocks happened~ - they can contain orphaned (in the traditional sense) blocks ☟︎
decimation: blk0001.dat and blk0002.dat have the same size as this thread (at the bottom) https://bitcointa.lk/threads/reduced-final-state-blk0001-dat-with-pruned-index.59545/
decimation: same as yours
asciilifeform: ^ he got 7aac5826b91b4f87a2e9534e0e38e8d64ed21aff8a4eb8ff8dde4e726e67fe1a as well
asciilifeform: (same as for all my synced 0.5.3's)
shinohai: That same tired argument has echoed from every supporter of PoS for as long as I can remember.
shinohai: @ BingoBoingo I have been able to run it against termcoin, which I don't recommend as a real wallet.
trinque: shinohai: I noticed that as well
trinque: someday soon they're going to start calling this kind of shit something as stupid as "micro-terrorism"
trinque: While Google’s efforts to solve this problem are admirable, it’s still troubling that it happened at all. As Alciné wrote on Twitter, “I understand HOW this happens; the problem is moreso on the WHY.” << oh for fuck's sake
ascii_field: it sure as fuck does
BingoBoingo: <jurov> ascii_field probably isn't aware that exactly the same thing as dumpblock output is the phoundation's bootstrap.dat << As far as I'm aware the "bootstrap.dat" never got implemented in a way that worked beyond the first 2GB of blockchain on pre-v0.8 clients
mircea_popescu is going to get top the logs just as soon as he's done hammering the seeder into shape
jurov: ascii_field probably isn't aware that exactly the same thing as dumpblock output is the phoundation's bootstrap.dat
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell menahem lol at travis ! 1 btc for a lifetime membership to his tardsclub. as fucking if.
pete_dushenski: i'm as fond of rooftop patios as anyone
ben_vulpes: yeah, all over here as well.
ben_vulpes: http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2015/06/21_a-tour-of-bitcoind-booting-to-its-first-thread.html#ak47.sh << i've been working with this. it uses bash, so less portable, but it fails on any error which makes it easier to debug, as the script exits whenever anything goes wrong
ben_vulpes: Jautenim: yeah, i ran into that one as well
pete_dushenski: "Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) said on Tuesday it would buy OpenDNS, a privately held cloud-based security company, for $635 million in cash and equity awards to beef up its security business." << might as well consolidate the crown corps, save on letterhead. ☟︎
mod6: <+Jautenim> shall i submit a patch to the mailing list? it's quite a simple fix << If you're in the WoT (looks like you are) feel free to submit a patch as you like.
ben_vulpes: i don't think that it's *unnecessary* or anything, i'm just curious as to why it needs explicit enabling.
Vexual: good luck getting it okayed as a saloon car
punkman: german citizens about as clueless as the greeks
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181553 << yes, there will be plenty of 'work' to be had there, re-converting the island back into a u.s. bordello as it was in batista's time; 'privatizing' and demolishing the spiffiest pharama plants in the western hemisphere; shipping the best doctors to drive cabs in nyc; etc ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mats: some of the more interesting aspects are, as always, corner cases. e.g., how does x86-64 treat self-modifying code? how does this impact cache? can unpriv. ('ring 3') code learn cache state? (to some extent - always!) etc.
mats: ive been studying asm for months and i still feel as lost as my first day
decimation: lolz as if puerto rico was anything other than a vassal of usg
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 03:21:55; decimation: "I've written code for a JIT that stores 64-bit virtual ptrs as their hardware based 48-bits. This is a valuable optimisation, even if it's not strictly OK. (anon)"
asciilifeform: (or, for that matter, refer to bits in code word unless such was designated as a 'return 8-bit constant' instruction)
decimation: "You can go much stronger than that. Many security mitigation techniques rely on being able to XOR a pointer with one or more values and recover the pointer later by again XORing with one or more possible different values, (whose total XOR is the same as the original set). (Richard Black)"
decimation: "I've written code for a JIT that stores 64-bit virtual ptrs as their hardware based 48-bits. This is a valuable optimisation, even if it's not strictly OK. (anon)" ☟︎
decimation: asciilifeform: it seems like a clever script could stuff into bitcoind 'as is'
asciilifeform: (easiest method is to actually understand the changes, as one ought to in any case, and re-apply them by hand, then produce new patch)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181363 << even if rms no longer writes (and i'm informed that this may be the case in recent years) he is still tremendously useful as a 'fire magnet' for shitgnomes ☝︎
asciilifeform a bit biased, as he uses vertical displays
mod6: ok actualy, those graphs dont looks as bad as I had thought.
trinque: insofar as the LSB thing took
trinque: the filesystem hierarchy standard is as lulzy as TLDs
ascii_field: which may as well be uclibc!
assbot: Logged on 29-06-2015 15:56:59; decimation: as far as I can tell, nobody has named who at univeristy college london threatened to fire Tim Hunt if he didn't resign
ascii_field: iirc it's down for maintenance as of last night
decimation: as far as I can tell, nobody has named who at univeristy college london threatened to fire Tim Hunt if he didn't resign ☟︎
cazalla: and here i thought it was as common as international words
mircea_popescu: Along these lines, Meerloo offers a prescription: “We must learn to treat the demagogue and aspirant dictator in our midst just as we should treat our external enemies in a cold war – with the weapon of ridicule. The demagogue himself is almost incapable of humor of any sort, and if we treat him with humor, he will begin to collapse. Humor is, after all, related to a sense of perspective. If we can see how things s
asciilifeform: (as in army)
gabriel_laddel: I'm not protesting, just noting that perhaps not everyone is *quite* as sexually driven as yourself .
mircea_popescu: "The fuel, as usual, is the emotional blackmail of people of goodwill, the uses of mass mobilization to exploit that goodwill, then, finally, to render all such goodwill meaningless."
gabriel_laddel: I'd sort of imagined the camus as a set of WoT-enabled buildings.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-06-2015#1180705 << no need to be suicidally brave. what it does is, "people's checkpoints". as in, anyone may run a bitcoin with a chain starting with an arbitrary block. ☝︎
ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel: 'tain't about the youngsters except insofar as their parents are in the wot
decimation: "It?s as though Americans are buying into a fast-talking sales pitch without being allowed to read the print, whether it?s large print or small."
asciilifeform: i'm not thrilled with the idea of folks doing this as daily practice
ben_vulpes: as i said: 'if you care'
trinque goes off to encode dickbutt.jpg as transaction outputs
ben_vulpes: trinque: does it have 'naughty dog' as well?
asciilifeform: 'macivory' was on the other hand pretty much as good as it got
trinque: asciilifeform: it does seem as per your write-up, that there was a far more inventive apple once upon a time, which jobs put to a stop in favor of iOS appification
asciilifeform: (as seen in http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568 )
assbot: Logged on 28-06-2015 19:13:22; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-06-2015#1180433 << as you clearly notice, the pipe is authenticable does not equal gosspid : we can have out of band authenticifaction as per the above mechanism.