asciilifeform: mircea_popescu was not fond of 'cement', because sees (correctly) that it is a kludge. but imho given the single-threaded classical trb, it or something like it, is necessary

asciilifeform: what i also dun know, is how well this meshes with Mocky/mircea_popescu's mission in Mockystan, presumably Mocky was not sent specifically to sell FG or mircea_popescu would have issued one already. so lessee what mircea_popescu says 1st.

asciilifeform: when mircea_popescu wakes up, we'll see what he says re taking one of asciilifeform's seekrit spares and sending Mocky sample.

asciilifeform: lessee what mircea_popescu thinks; this is a classic example of the type of knot i rely on him to cut.

asciilifeform: i'ma let mircea_popescu ponder whether this kind of thing is worth doing ☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: classical FG also fits very reluctantly in servers, but currently i dun have a good idea re what specifically to do about this ( the 'obvious' pill is to have a pci variant, but ice40 is too small for the necessary logic, which in itself is quite gnarly )

asciilifeform: happy beaching, mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was asking specifically re events that trigger reorg logic ( as seen in http://btcbase.org/patches/asciilifeform_aggressive_pushgetblocks/tree/bitcoin/src/main.cpp#L1028 ), with arity defined as the length of the eventually discarded forklet chain

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you still have the 100blox log spew on tape somewhere, would like to see..

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: observed on a trb node concretely ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc ben_vulpes had an experiment that demanded custom 'checkpoints' but i do not nao recall what it was ( and can't seem to turn up in l0gz )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can you personally picture a scenario where you'd want to use this ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unrelated to anyffing: i have a tentative thing that eats a http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-20#1864354 and gives trb option of replacing 'checkpoints' with it ( i.e. on boot, tests all already-stored blox against it, and if any blox in the tape are not yet present, then it requests & accepts them and only them, 1 at a time ). do we want this for field use ? (if so i can put on conveyor for cleanup) ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had an old piece re subj ; it explains quite a bit re ameri-corporate world

asciilifeform: ( from ancient mircea_popescu piece, quoted e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-18#1524864 ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu coupla yrs ago wrote about trying a caching thing

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc i last changed mine in... 2008, or so

asciilifeform: dns is a decorative thing, e.g. asciilifeform , mircea_popescu , have dns names for www , but really ought to remember that it is decorative .

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: main dust src in practice is... the human. rather than external air.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if installed correctly, good for 20 yrs, yes. but! needs an orc who can install correctly..

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: rrright but that requires an orc who can maintain central plant

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the uruguay folx, do !!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what do they do, whack you with scimitar and stretch fresh camel's stomach over yer shaved head, and leave hogtied to dry in the desert ?

asciilifeform: ( late-su made ~exactly mircea_popescu's winged-bus thing )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dun forget the blinker-siren

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i.e. for whacking uppity lackey, rather than other sword ?

asciilifeform: there was an old mircea_popescu piece with gypsies living in abandoned tunnels, where they had a desk fulla old sov-era phones, with 0 wiring, strictly for 'rolexism'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if pete_dushenski was to be believed, rolex per se is 100% chump market item in recent yrs, strictly for http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-23#1852974 people ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, diana_coman : '6.3. The server will issue type 5.2 messages encrypted to the corresponding client RSA key in response to any client messages for as long as it doesn't have a preferred client Serpent key set. The client is responsible for either maintaining or explicitly burning ~all~ of these, and will pay for them in any case' means that if a serpent key is currently set, serv won't issue another unless client explic

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: precisely what length is the rsa key currently ?

asciilifeform: ( so far from Mocky's description, picture seems like entire place consists of -- handful of natives, owning the petropipe, and much larger set of gastarbeiters servicing pipe + palaces + plumbing etc.; 0 agriculture, 0 industry, pipe economy, possibly ~0 lumpens, quite unlike mircea_popescu's egypt )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought harem were sop in arabistan tho

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: btw what's the intended profit model for those ? fat-rendering ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: possibly

asciilifeform: ( i dun recall whether mircea_popescu revealed whether this is troo in egypt, also, come to think of it )

asciilifeform: js is used pretty much entirely for mircea_popescu's linkable-text-selection thing

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: imho yes

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i had one of these not long ago !

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: stalin pioneered

asciilifeform: Mocky, mircea_popescu : the 'professions not given driver license' thing dun make much sense imho; why not much shorter list of who ~is~ given, 'titled baron', 'ceo of co listed on exchange', 'fuhrer', etc

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ar is still historical puzzler to me -- they sprayed and sprayed, and no end of roaches; what was the issue, notenuff spray ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: trad in ru also

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: by all accts, typical escape in su proper was during conveyance . prisons had well developed systems of stoolies, capos, cells packed like sardine can, not much lock fiddling there.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: capital-B thief ? or lower case

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: possibly naively, i pictured that the clink is the 1 place that regularly frictions against actual-human folx. but whoknows, after N gens of reddit, this.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/liO9c << subj.

asciilifeform: i guess 'less than that' if yer a gurl and mircea_popescu likes yer bust, or how else.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey, coke will merge with pepsi, lion with lamb, such it was written in sybiline prophecy or wherever.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is theoretically possible to write 3600 emulator without much brain work, the instr set is (mostly) described in their 600 (!) page patent. but there's very little to be gained from doing so, the 3600 arch is before they cleaned all of the mit shit-hackolade out of the thing, it has million idjit warts inherited from when the thing was a refrigerator-sized dumpster of 74xxx discretes

asciilifeform: and of course there is a mircea_popescu to laugh, cuz it's pretty laughable state of affairs

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik nobody's even picked up enuff frags with which to make even half of a serious attempt, at that

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: by my reckoning, the actually valuable and not-yet-leaked stuff, is in 'indiana jones' warehouse, behind http://btcbase.org/log/2015-06-10#1158785 , rather than on swiss cheese php www etc ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fortunately errybody present speaks human langs, and knows that mircea_popescu was trying to say 'can can'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: d00d did spill that he dun keep 'crown jewels' in his house.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik amberglint is the 1st digger to actually share , normally bolix folx avoid asciilifeform like the plague, as detailed in old thrds, for whatever psychopathological reasons

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope, tho possibly phf might , he appeared during prev bolix/ivory thread

asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu were to park his merc in johannesburg, orcs might steal the tyres, but not the cunt (can only borrow..)

asciilifeform: unrelatedly, while mircea_popescu is awake -- mircea_popescu do you still have a 'mpb' noad running on public net ? would like to try my exerciser on one

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only this, but if folx build on the right slab, they can get 9000x less complex proggy in the end

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the mmap thing is major labour-saving item, lets you fughet about db etc, you define the data structure you want and it gets persisted to disk / loaded as-needed into ram, transparently to proggy

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: reminds me, i prolly oughta genesis 'horsecocks' aka mmap-for-ada

asciilifeform: chinese examtaker , or the '2030' people mircea_popescu linked, resemble 'fast comp but without rng'