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nubbins`: at least
tuck it into your fuckin shirt.
nubbins`: how many
tards are reading
that and saying "sucks he lost his
tresor!!!!" instead of "what
the fuck,
the cops siezed a voice recorder?!"
nubbins`: i can't even keep
track of what casascius coins i have right now
mircea_popescu: (numbers entirely arbitrary, hafta look at actual code
to get actual numbers)
mircea_popescu: ie, if
the network
thinks block 2 is mined at 12:00, and your clock
thinks it's 17:55, and
then block
three is, according
to
the network, mined at 12:11 but your clock
thinks it's 18:22 you'll have a problem.
mircea_popescu: basically
the bitcoin requirement is
that your
time is within ~10% ish of itself. so you can
travel at up
to 30Mm/sec.
mircea_popescu: decimation no,
the ability
to keep
time within about a minute of what your previous idea of
time was when
the previous block was mined.
decimation: so
the ability
to run a clock within 1 min of other nodes worldwide is an implied requirement (or finding someone nearby with
the same)
decimation: is
time completely ignored in all
the 'orphan' algorithms?
mircea_popescu: decimation actually
that
tracing is why bitcin was designed so
time isn't a concern
decimation: time is a concern for bitcoin, and I suspect
that 99% of your 'ntp' servers
trace back
to usg
decimation: indeed. or provisions for an external clock
that has
the same
decimation: right, but usually
the oscillator is a shitty plain quartz without
temperature compensation
decimation: the naming of
time is a social phenomenon
decimation: better
to have
the money spent on upgrading
the oscillator
that drives
the cpu, so
that accurate
time can be kept in
the short-run
decimation: re: clocks in computers << yes,
the "RTC" chip with its shitty lithium battery and low-quality quartz is pointless
mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: also I suspect
the 'productive' who didn't like living next
to ru have already left. << quite.
pete_dushenski reflects on distinctly pro-russian, pro-intellectual veins coursing
through his ukrainian ancestry
decimation: asciilifeform: also I suspect
the 'productive' who didn't like living next
to ru have already left.
decimation: I had a professor from Warsaw in EE undergrad: he had a joke: what do you call Prof. Zak in an f-16? Simple Pole in
the complex plane?
decimation: however, what $$ cannot buy is
the will
to use
them
decimation: I can't imagine buying a surplus romanian kalash & a few sticks of c4 for every household would be more
than a few $100 mil
decimation: "In
the meantime, Lithuania is slowly strengthening its military apparatus, aiming
to raise defense spending
to 1.1 percent of GDP
this year, and
to NATO's own recommended
target of 2 percent by 2020."
decimation: note, lithuania didn't draft all adult males into army, issue rifles, and begin
training...
decimation: at any rate, "arch linux arm" officially supports
their port on
the pogoplug I gather
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decimation: yeah
there's something in
the bluetooth stack
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decimation: yeah I would say
that
the unicomp strikes me as 'plastic-y'
decimation: possibly one could remap keys
though, osx actually is pretty good with
that
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: economists would say
that
this is
the function of specialisation in an economy ;)
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: which is easy enough
to do with sizzlingkeys, but
this doesn't work on pre-10.7
mircea_popescu: nothing is worse for a good project
than poorly selected new contributors.
mircea_popescu: no, it is NOT because of "inflated expectations". it is because of
the barnacle effect.
the world consists of a productive minority and a leechy majority. once a small elegant system becomes known,
the previously uninformed majority now has a gradient
to inform it. so
they swarm
the 2nd system, and barnacle it
to all hell.
mircea_popescu: "The second-system effect (also known as second-system syndrome) is
the
tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems
to have elephantine, feature-laden monstrosities as
their successors due
to inflated expectations."
mircea_popescu: "the people" are simply stupider
than
they were even
twenty years ago.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: i'm hardly a power user so i hope mine lasts longer
than
that
mircea_popescu: the much sadder
thing is linux decaying proportionally, and linus is still
there!
pete_dushenski: hacking on
the model m now and also picked up
the unicomp knock-off