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ben_vulpes: alf sez he has a boojum in the blockchain
mats: heh, today's xkcd
HeySteve: hey, thanks
BingoBoingo just back from pissing on the runt rosebush, could use the nitrogen
trinque: wont use the 10th amendment to piss in the NSA's cheerios, but we'll certainly use it for that!
ben_vulpes: aha trinque well goodness me
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: this whole eatblock/dumpblock/compare hashes thing really is stellar
ben_vulpes: population flows aren't hard to predict in this neck of the woods
ben_vulpes is unlikely to get dedicated testing time over the weekend
BingoBoingo: Just avoid the black walnuts, Their culture kills everything around them
trinque: speaking of which, the other weedy trees are legal here at midnight.
decimation: yeah, I agree, would be nice. Apparently the former owners let a weedy russian olive tree grow too
cazalla: decimation, walnut would be a bonus.. i want to get a few pine nut trees but can be up to 10 years before you get anything from it
asciilifeform: i'm off to bed. will wake up to the boojum, if it appears.
cazalla: i've been buying em online, was a suss about that but all of em have turned up fine so far
decimation: as Jesus says, you will know a tree by its fruit
decimation: cazalla: I recently bought a new house, and I'm trying to figure out what trees I have
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
trinque: cazalla: there he is if ya need it ^
trinque: I'm starting to dislike this golang bot
trinque: might be a fun common lisp weekend project to redo it in that
trinque: it thinks its connected on its end
trinque goes to beat deedbot with a wrench
phf: asciilifeform: blk format is magic 4 byte sequence (http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/main.cpp#1779), then int32 size, then cblock
asciilifeform: ff your cock and balls. That day you'll become a man. vii
asciilifeform: - It's a symbol, in the shitvi, explained his father, the King. You have to experience real loss to understand the importance of respecting the subterranean world and its rules. It's not easy to do. That's why when someone does it, he's considered truly an adult and counted with people. Until then his notions don't matter. I know what I say may seem absurd to you, but then again one day you'll be prepared, and willing to cut o
asciilifeform: - But do I actually have to cut off my cock and balls ?! Couldn't I just promise not to have kids and like, squirt outside ?
asciilifeform: And the Prince inquired, like all boys his age, upon finding out what The Ritual actually was :
assbot: Romanian bloggers, part 2 on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1IM4Kwt )
decimation: asciilifeform: let this be a wake up call, if you don't have your parachute ready...
trinque: probably already done 100 times
trinque: sci fi story idea: they claim to have invented the immortality treatment, is actually a procedure for implanting your mind control chip
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."
asciilifeform: often the egress point, between the underground conduit and the switch box - is naked entirely
trinque: << According to his biographer, Ellison sees death as “just another kind of corporate opponent he can outfox.” >>
asciilifeform: today they are in plastic pipes, and - unless belonging to cia/nsa in particular - marked with a bright orange public stake
asciilifeform: there once was a time when usg cables were armoured in concrete tubes
assbot: The Immortality Financiers: The Billionaires Who Want to Live Forever - The Daily Beast ... ( http://bit.ly/1IM4cXi )
asciilifeform: and they didn't even need a fusion-powered death ray, it seems
trinque: I will be so sad if a fusion breakthrough happens in the USA for that reason...
asciilifeform: and so expect it to become an obsession
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu correctly observed that perpetuum mobile is pretty much the only thing that could save the shitempire
decimation: and 10 times more realizable too!
trinque: ah man, I'll be able to bolt one of these to my emdrive and colonize mars ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'our perpetuum mobile is far more perpetual than that of other projects'
decimation: according to their infographic
decimation: they are going the magnetic bottles route
decimation: "this time it's even more realizable!!"
decimation: and http://www.helionenergy.com/ < "By combining our years of experience in fusion, newly available electronics technologies, and a revolutionary design using cutting-edge physics, Helion is making a fusion engine 1,000 times smaller, over 500 times cheaper, and realizable 10 time faster than other projects." ☟︎
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
assbot: UPower Technologies, Inc. ... ( http://bit.ly/1KpwL0V )
asciilifeform: wake me up for the philosopher's stone startup
midnightmagic: well. be sure to post your 'wow' signal somewhere prominent when you find it.
BingoBoingo: Indeed, all they wanted was to spam boner pills and invent people for FakeBook profiles
asciilifeform: thought they were signing up for a quiet life of sending viagra spam
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: They'll pull out another. They can invent new ones when they run out.
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 ?
BingoBoingo: midnightmagic: God is sitting this one out, All we have is math.
BingoBoingo: midnightmagic: For tremendous gain
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midnightmagic: decimation: I'm not sure. That's why I'm asking.
assbot: Logged on 23-11-2014 05:22:35; kakobrekla: mircea_popescu no the question was did someone abuse the britneychain
asciilifeform: see also the sacramental http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=23-11-2014#932006 ☝︎
decimation: midnightmagic: what do you think it means
asciilifeform: if you want certainty, you will have to wait.
midnightmagic: asciilifeform: Why do you call it "enemy fire" and why are you certain it is that?
asciilifeform: midnightmagic: the details remain to be learned
asciilifeform: consult the src (linked earlier in this thread)
asciilifeform: phf: by far the simplest possible way is to simply walk the binary
phf: fwiw dumpblock is expensive, because walks blockchain in order. a "dumpdb" that iterates over mapBlockIndex and does ReadFromDisk/<< for each block might be a reasonably fast way to split .db into separate block files
asciilifeform: (then again, this ragnarok will still be there tomorrow..)
asciilifeform: at this rate, he's gonna miss ragnarok.
asciilifeform: where the hell is mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: alternatively wait for me, but i'm up to my ears in backlog of work
mod6: yah, there's asciilifeform's way, and there's that python thing
asciilifeform: can try that.
asciilifeform: there is a python thing floating around, iirc
decimation: yes true
decimation: something that parses .dat files?
decimation: the question is, how do we make a portable tool to suck blocks from bitcoin nodes?
decimation: yeah, gotta take it block by block
mod6: glad I looked at that
mod6: i would have though with all the same version (pretty much) that they would have all been the same hashes.
mod6: im suprised they diverged that much.
mod6: yeah, totally agree.
asciilifeform: this is probably when i say that it will be necessary to walk the blocks.
mod6: so one of them seems to be more screwed up than the others. but there were blocks like blk0009.dat & 10 where all were different.
asciilifeform: anything peculiar about that node ?
asciilifeform: mod6: where are the 3rd items in these triples from ?
asciilifeform: (on the 'eater' node)
asciilifeform: sha256(blk0001.dat) is equal to the expected value.
asciilifeform observes that the 'eater' has completed blk0001
asciilifeform: they were moved from an earlier disk, where the thing was going from late 2010
asciilifeform: (for the same reason as mircea_popescu's)
mod6: seems to diverge for me starting with blk0008.dat
mod6: whats the full size of your blockchain? mine's like ... ~38Gb
mod6: these were fully sync'd up to ~320`000 blocks or so. they were shutdown after full sync was achieved. each goes upto like blk0017.dat
decimation: yeah if it's the last file, it's incomplete
asciilifeform: (because if sync is not complete, then naturally last blk**** will differ)