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mircea_popescu: it's a halfway world, right ? i hope you survive
the indignity :)
chetty: argies use almost all cash, hotels are for
touristas
mircea_popescu: because, poor ex-billionaire mp doesn't know how
to be a ex-billionaire correctly, like whatever frail us schmuck.
mircea_popescu: ima have
to cart bricks of cash
to
the hotel nao. and i will.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and
there is
truth
to
that, yes. but not just.
Chillum: They want a custom built auto, but
they want it already made and waiting for
them
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from
the other pov, because in
the rest of
the world
this machine is part of bezzleworld.
mircea_popescu: this because russians know enough
to not have it any other way.
mircea_popescu: well
the reason
they haven't is
that wallet code is so damned bad.
nubbins`: first out of
the gate,
they probably still haven't counted all
their money
nubbins`: mircea_popescu asicminer made *thousands* of btc selling
those useless keychain miners
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, most people
that survived a halon dump also heard
the pov
that "the machine just does
that when it's displeased"
mircea_popescu: "this is your new computer ms. robinson. and
to repeat our warning : if you misspell it will whip you."
Chillum: best case scenario would be
to fail safe, instead of fail silently
Chillum: not good for
the ram
though
Chillum: you can induce random failures in RAM for
testing purposes with a hair dryer
mircea_popescu: "heterogenous cpus calculating same problem" seems
to me like you maybe had
too much of
the good stuff.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> actual luxury doesn't
take out ad space in GQ <<
this is really just a more benign and socially acceptable restatement of alf's meta-nsa
thesis.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu a good example of
this is when
the nintendo wii came out, and researchers
the world over started buying wiimotes for
their labs
mircea_popescu: exactly along
the lines described in "you're
the kid not good enough
to sling dope"
nubbins`: if
this cpu flips a bit, burial at space
mircea_popescu: because car makers, like any software designers, are more
than willing
to externalise
their costs
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, if
there's some dubious / experimental stuff, it gets put into
the luxury item
mircea_popescu: nubbins`
the key of
the article being,
that if
there's a genuinely "Better" anything, it will be in
the mass market item, because
the savings
there are major. nobody is foregoing putting a GOOD something in an item
that gets baked > 100mn units.
nubbins`: actual luxury doesn't
take out ad space in GQ
nubbins`: well ya know. luxury branded as such is precisely marketed
towards
the aspirational
chetty: mircea_popescu,
to be fair it doesnt kill a running server, just keeps it from starting :P
mircea_popescu: <chetty> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. <<
this is me
trying
to alter eulora database. because you really want a mmorpg server
that segfaults when game designers futz with game data.
Chillum: I guess it would be a box at
that size
Chillum: a bottle
that big would be hard
to carry
Chillum: wine can cost more
than $50???
mats: after some reinvestigation, SECDED ECC is not good enough
to stop row hammering, because it can cause many bit flips. Halvar, et al found up
to 25 flipped bits
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> it's either consumer 50 or else spend 5mn. exactly like wines. <<< exactly like *everything*. you'll mollify some rubes with "prosumer" but
that's really just $50 with more chrome
mircea_popescu: "and if i find a
ten foot
tall
transparent (not
translucent!!!) woman, i might stick my penis into her
Chillum: but I
think
that would invalidate
the contract
Chillum: yes, in
theory it could change after it is checked
though
mats: there's a checksum at
the end of an address no?
Chillum: what if
the error happens in your cpu or hard drive cache?
Chillum: I wonder if
that would work on an address
mircea_popescu: Chillum
that's why he's such an error correction fanboi.
mircea_popescu: no other consideration can beat
the advantages of commonality i dun
think.
mircea_popescu: i don't imagine
the wallet can ever be anything but pc.