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decimation: and leo is
the only answer
to
the latency issue
mircea_popescu: basically, if you're gonna do leo
telecoms it's either 1k or go home
decimation: so you a continuous parade
to maintain coverage yes
decimation: leo is only visible for a few minutes at a
time
decimation: speed of light delay from earth
to geo and back is intolerable
mircea_popescu: decimation ok, sure. but all you need is one up. having
to up helps maybe some. 200 ? marginal utility decays pretty fast
decimation: low earth satellites can only 'see' a small fraction of
the earth
mircea_popescu: and
then mom asked "in what currency" and i said "doesn't matter"
assbot: Logged on 25-06-2015 04:12:48; asciilifeform: no one in natoreich has so much as smelled $bil except by mercy of
the crown.
decimation: apparently his airline is still going
to shit
mircea_popescu: i don't get something. what does having more satellites help ? you still have
the same problems of intsat whether
there's
ten or
ten
thousand.
mircea_popescu: if
they stacked shit
that high he could have a
twin brother, go whiterafting with
the bitcoin godfather pair.
mircea_popescu: decimation isn't he
the original "how
to make a small fortune ? start with a big one" ?
decimation: yeah, point of db admin is
to actually
think about how
to arrange data
mircea_popescu: this "without installing a database management system or requiring a database administrator." reads
to me like "car
that can be used without breaks"
decimation: yeah he also invested in
that 'space
tourism' loltron
decimation: without db admin, or
thinking person involved
decimation: ^ guy had
to wedge relational database into ancient unix shit
decimation: "Hipp was designing software used aboard guided missile destroyers, which were originally based on HP-UX with an IBM Informix database back-end.
The design goals of SQLite were
to allow
the program
to be operated without installing a database management system or requiring a database administrator."
decimation: no, actually it was originall designed
to be wedged into a usg radar system
decimation: yeah, I
think yarvin's 'state vs dod' proxy wars make a fair bit of sense
decimation: yeah he is just
the crazy guy who yells at people until he is placated with rice
funkenstein_: i'm not in
the know, but always assumed various usg hat wearing agencies mostly competed with other usg hat wearing agencies
decimation: if only
to make it obvious
that usg employees can't
trust usg
to keep
them safe
decimation: of course
the opm hack did about 1000x more damage
to usg
decimation: yeah, but dpr has already shown how
to annoy usg
punkman: there's like 3 dozen of
them
decimation: asciilifeform: actually what amazes me more is
that kim-jung-il doesn't run his own 'silk road'
☟︎ decimation: these skills are not
the same 'ting' as
taleb wrote
decimation: knows more about how
to pile asics
than how
to program bitcoind
☟︎ decimation: at any rate, making
the reference client attractive
to miners would be wise
decimation: I suppose
they can find
through out-of-band comms with miner or by 'did it make it into block'
decimation: but it would be nice for
the miner
to send a polite rejection 'add yer fee'
☟︎ decimation: asciilifeform: one can imagine an entire new 'metaprotocol' for sufficiently pleasing a miner
to accept your
txn
decimation: as in, why does non-miner node even bother with
txns?
decimation: or a conf flag for sorting
txns by value for a miner
decimation: or by setting a conf flag for 'how long does
txn sit'
decimation: thus, node may flush
txn at its pleasure
decimation: if you failed
to make it in a block, your
txn doesn't exist, resend
decimation: a new block is found, some of
the
txns in memory are now contained in
the new block
decimation: well, imma node, I hear
txns,
they all come from previous blocks
decimation: so when new block is found, and
the new block only contains a subset of
the existing
tx pool
assbot: Logged on 05-06-2015 00:42:31; asciilifeform: mod6: he rebroadcasts until finds a node
that can accept it without 'jam
tomorrow'
decimation: asciilifeform: so does
the
tx pool consist strictly of
those
txns which originate from previous block only?
Vexual: cunt runs a
tight ship
decimation: asciilifeform: in
the future, it would be useful
to set
the 'buffer size' for incoming
txns in
the conf file
phf: asciilifeform: i ran into log rollover, and had
to restart syncing process from scratch. yet another "convenience" anti feature
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah it's certainly not
the most pressing problem with bitcoind
decimation: it's amusing
to watch
the
thing jump around
decimation: phf: I made a patch
to note from which node each block comes
phf: asciilifeform: unfortunately not, parsing
the log files
decimation: the only solution I can
think of is
to spoon feed nodes in a 'known good' order
decimation: I did a small sample of
this, but not
the whole deal