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mircea_popescu: hegel was
the same way, in
the cluj universitarian library. supposedly
the european expert in hegel resided
there.
mircea_popescu: they're, contrary
to what
the "consumers have come
to expect" like
to pretend, very easy
to find
mircea_popescu: i generally manage
to identify
the actual experts in fields.
mircea_popescu: so he did. i recall reading it and not understanding what he meant at
the
time
mircea_popescu: in
the manner people write fucking books. or at least did, before
the great usian likbez pogrom
mircea_popescu: really, find me a piece of code written with a clear contrite consideration of "people will read
this
tomorrow"
mircea_popescu: this is no argument in
this discussion,
tho. historically
there has been great profit in all sorts of dumb shit.
decimation: re: ~must code~ : historically
there has been great profit in it, working or no
mircea_popescu: i don't code. principally because i can't be arsed
to do a good job of it.
mircea_popescu: the idea
that you ~must~ code, whether it works or not, no matter what, is scandalous.
mircea_popescu: this is like "originbally,
the bridge standing at all was impressive"
decimation: every hardware vendor succumbs
to
the
temptation
to pwn its audience
decimation: mircea_popescu: just like (nearly?) everyone who opens a bitcoin exchange succumbs
to
the
temptation
to run 'fractional'
mircea_popescu: the casual perusal of openssl
that earlier article
triggered has crystallized
this point in my head.
mircea_popescu: i don't
think
there's many fields outside of perhaps psychology where "practitioners" have for so long acted with such intense disregard for posterity.
mircea_popescu: anyway, just
to add :
the people who have come before us have embedded into
the very history of computing such burning, enraged contempt for us,
that really damnatio is
too good a fate.
decimation: I can see why you would want
to ensure
the security of your drive, but
that's a seperate matter
mircea_popescu: i want, in
this order a) a fully b-a computing stack for bitcoin ; b) utter disrespect for antecessors made manifest.
decimation: I guess I don't see much point, considering
that even having a sata bus implies you have a computer
decimation: so you want
to
talk
to
the db over
the sata bus?
mircea_popescu: right. in which line : since all hdds come reflashable anyway, how hard would it be
to rape a ssd like we're raping
the pogo, i wonder ?
assbot: Logged on 10-10-2014 17:08:55; asciilifeform: (easiest solution: forget file system in
the 1st place, just use raw block device. and
then you don't even need msdos for anything.)
mircea_popescu: as in,
trivially : make
the sectors
the size of a block
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what i had in mind
tho, was more specficially "for blockchain only".
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 04:31:31;
trinque:
this fs/db hybrid has been
talked about for a damn long
time
decimation: ^ same reason you can bounce radio waves off of metor
trails
through
the upper atmosphere
decimation: aye, breakdown voltage greatly reduced once
there is plasma
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'danger, 1,000,000 ohms!' << i forget, what's
the resistence of 1mm of air ? like 1mn was it ?
ben_vulpes: righto, let's stroll
through
the cemetary
trinque: ben_vulpes: I'm about
to pass out mang
ben_vulpes: optimal for me is always going
to be somewhere around "gives me leverage on data"
ben_vulpes: i really have no interest in optimized for min storage or max whatever
the fuck
ben_vulpes: <decimation> ben_vulpes: it strikes me
that a relational db is a bit 'heavy' for storing
the blockchain
tree << i want
to say "select * from outputs where output.spent_transaction is null;"
trinque: or more importantly, whether you know
those questions exhaustively in advance
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: applying software
to business problems.
decimation: ben_vulpes: it strikes me
that a relational db is a bit 'heavy' for storing
the blockchain
tree
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: should i be concerned with
these pure performance issues?
ben_vulpes: <decimation> but in reality you want structure <<
this
trinque: decimation: I don't believe
that unstr... yeah
that
decimation: they are perfectly fine if you really just want
to store gobs of unstructured shit
trinque: and invariably worse
than what came before
trinque: decimation: as
those monstrosities "improve"
they
tend
towards what rdbms has done forever
ben_vulpes: i'll have no
truck with unstructured languages
that don't support querying
trinque: nosql is
the same hipsterism
that gets us nodejs
trinque: decimation: fuck
that shit
decimation: ben_vulpes:
the new hotness
these days is some kind of nosql running on a cluster
decimation: it's probably better
than oracle my sql
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: your objections
to
things suffer from
the "boy who cried wolf" problem
trinque: and it doesn't slow down your queries, as
the big shit is stored elsewhere of course and made reference
to
trinque: say you want
to put your big-ass mkv movies in postgres along with
their metadata
trinque: heh, and wife-killer
tainted
tech
too!
ben_vulpes: trinque: 'large objects' << no,
tell me more
trinque: this fs/db hybrid has been
talked about for a damn long
time
☟︎ trinque: I
think (but am less familiar with) reiserfs has
the same sort of metadata querying