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BingoBoingo: I imagine too many people read the news to realize how much it sucks
decimation: it's sad that the male homosexual is the guy who is willing to call out feminists for their bullshit. I mostly chalk this up to actual people having better things to do, but I don't understand why actual people can't run the news - like qntra
decimation: hehe, that's pretty much like the daily caller
BingoBoingo: decimation: Dunno. Gizmodo/Lifehacker/Deadspin seem to keep the rest of the empire afloat. That and those New York librerals now take ad dollars from high end firearms manufacterers like Weatherby and Hornaday: http://indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com/how-math-makes-smaller-bullets-deadlier-1627307057
BingoBoingo: He had money and instead of doing the Paul Graham get bought as fast as possible thing, he built himself a playground.
decimation: what was gawker's rank on the meatclick charts?
BingoBoingo: "And for obvious reasons I have never been comfortable in a company dominated by territorial men. I hope I have made space for others who don’t fit the mould. And I pray that my information networks are still good enough to identify those leaders too busy being capable to promote themselves. At Gawker, despite the reputation of our journalism, nice guys finish first. And women." -Nick Denton
BingoBoingo: "Heather will be my deputy. She’s perfect for this, a much better official representative of the company than a half-Hungarian homosexual could ever be." - Nick Denton
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well Hungarian homosexuals can have imaginations too.
decimation: yeah there might be something to that. They are so super-'aryan' that they are able to import infinite little brown brothers without possibly threatening their own strength
mircea_popescu: cause they delude themselves with this theory that you know, they're assimilating everyone.
BingoBoingo: "The fact is that I would like to end my career as a behind-the-scenes powerbroker, a Deng Xiaoping of Gawker Media, exerting discreet influence through obscure committees." -Nick Denton
decimation: if usg is the spiritual child of the nazi regime, why are they friendly with the invasion of the third world masses?
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assbot: Privacy advocates unmask Twitter troll | Technology | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1DpPUP5 )
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'm honestly surprised there aren't more cases arising that cite that one John Lithgow movie. I mean in that case Mathew Broderick forgot to build any lens into his excavator.
mircea_popescu: check it out, an english speaker somewhere realises that female societies intrinsically suck ?!
mircea_popescu: "Men created most of what is good about the world. The excesses of masculinity are also, to be sure, responsible for much of what is bad. But if we are to avoid sliding into decline, mediocrity and a world in which men are actively discriminated against, we must arrest the decline in social attitudes towards them before so many victims are claimed that all hope of reconciliation between the sexes is lost. If that happe
mircea_popescu: why would the us behave differently from its spiritual parent, hitler's national socialist state ?
asciilifeform: 'Unlike the powder form, the liquid packets have indistinct borders and can therefore resemble regular bowel content. That means a suspected drug mule would have to be processed all the way through to a CT scan' (from same site)
mircea_popescu: hey, the protocols of sion thing was used to legitimize the reich
assbot: An Obviously Fake Guide to Building an H-Bomb Was Used to Legitimize Torture | Motherboard ... ( http://bit.ly/1yKS5dd )
mircea_popescu: it's somewhere at the confluence of "the better typewriter" with "the better pattern loom" and "the better phone switcher"
asciilifeform: ^ for weavers, not knitters, but the concept is perhaps the birth of programmed machine
BingoBoingo: 'String Theory' Exists, but mundane strings are still a hard problem
gribble: Jacquard loom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom>; Jacquard loom: <https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Jacquard_loom.html>; The Jacquard Loom - Columbia University: <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/jacquard.html>
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'm not laughing. I'm just admiring an actual physics problem that could probably be solved for less than 8 figures of expenditure.
asciilifeform: but what language they are programmed in remains a mystery to me
asciilifeform: and you can buy them.
asciilifeform: then saw, years later, that it was of course done long ago
asciilifeform: and thought 'this ought to be mechanized'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: laugh, but i thought about this as a boy. mother had (still has! we dragged it along to usa!) an east german knitting machine. manually-cranked, but you get to set patterns with myriad knobs and switches.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, these things have only so many design choices to be made and... Rhodesia was right
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: FOr a while yesterday it seems the reddit 5-0 took a break from here to slow down qntra a bit
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: for some reason reminds me of the famous 'leopard' minefield truck: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Rhodesia-Leopard_Security_Vehicle-001.jpg
mircea_popescu: i thought there were some random noobs talking here yest or so.
mircea_popescu: o that still going ?
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assbot: This Futuristic Armored Assault Wagon Is Russia's Answer To The Humvee ... ( http://bit.ly/1uxMAXJ )
asciilifeform: or the hell where you're responsible for (and are the only available set of hands) for a missing magic ingredient in six different angry kitchens
mircea_popescu: not so much of a hell, that one.
BingoBoingo: Sounds like you are familiar with that one
asciilifeform: there's the hell where you come up with things to do, none of which are rehashes of previous, ten times faster than you physically could do them, for instance
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> there is. << no there isn't :D
asciilifeform: and this being printed on the crate, no less.
asciilifeform: verizon's turd << what i can't fathom is who would willingly pay for this. it is quite like offering a door lock that is 's3cu43!!!11!' except for rapist, for whom it opens automagically and without fuss
asciilifeform: i can think of a few
BingoBoingo: Is there any other kind of "hell"
asciilifeform: it's like we're boiling in that hell where time repeats forever.
mircea_popescu: tru tru
BingoBoingo: At least that leper wears its bell
assbot: Verizon's New, Encrypted Calling App Plays Nice With the NSA - Businessweek ... ( http://bit.ly/1uxJ4wA )
assbot: Hey, stupid women ? We need to talk. Smart women don't want to be with you anymore. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1uxIdfn )
kakobrekla: yup, the big one.
mircea_popescu: poor people steal little money. not any less thieves.
ben_vulpes: pretty low dough thing to scam over.
ben_vulpes: "We find that regions exhibiting more diverse mobility fluxes, earlier diurnal rhythms, and more correct grammatical styles display lower unemployment rates."
mircea_popescu: re : http://dpaste.com/03VSQQP.txt bet was resolved correctly. fuck cryptocoincharts for being inept scammers, they're henceforth banned from being a resolution source on bitbet.
ben_vulpes: all this durm and strang around confirming the patchset can catch up
mircea_popescu: decimation> I thought this weird 'locks' parameter fixed that? I assumed the issue was that berkleydb itself was failing at that height << yeah the only thing that happened is a block complex enough afaik.
mircea_popescu: <TomServo> I've little experience with this and wanted a working node anyway - figured it was a decent place to get feet wet. << it's not bad.
assbot: Aren't those tins of tobacco right there behind you?
decimation: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1651 << it turns out "due process" was just bullshit all along!! it was always legal to get blank-check warrants! joke's on you us citizens!
assbot: Feds want Apple’s help to defeat encrypted phones, new legal case shows | Ars Technica ... ( http://bit.ly/1uxY9iI )
decimation: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/feds-want-apples-help-to-defeat-encrypted-phones-new-legal-case-shows/ << "In both cases, the seized phones—one of which is an iPhone 5S—are encrypted and cannot be cracked by federal authorities. Prosecutors have now invoked the All Writs Act, an 18th-century federal law that simply allows courts to issue a writ, or order, which compels a person or company to do something."
decimation: didn't we just hear about the all writs act in a different context?
assbot: Project Goliath: Inside Hollywood's secret war against Google | The Verge ... ( http://bit.ly/1uxXSfN )
decimation: lol http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/12/7382287/project-goliath << "The new emails suggest Hollywood hasn’t given up on the idea. "We have been exploring theories under the All Writs Acts, which, unlike DMCA 512(j), would allow us to obtain court orders requiring site blocking without first having to sue and prove the target ISPs are liable for copyright infringement," one email reads."
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-12-2014#952202 < exploring the nature getting to see what other beasts do does not hurt. maybe it even unwedges a chain or two. ☝︎
decimation: I thought this weird 'locks' parameter fixed that? I assumed the issue was that berkleydb itself was failing at that height
asciilifeform: something happened at that block height.
decimation: but it's a separate question as to whether 0.5.3 has a hidden monster
decimation: asciilifeform: if you got it to fully synch, the answer is 'no' as far as the '0.5.3 spec' is concerned right?
assbot: Logged on 23-11-2014 05:22:35; kakobrekla: mircea_popescu no the question was did someone abuse the britneychain
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=23-11-2014#932006 << the mega-question ☝︎
decimation doesn't want to learn enough about berkley db to understand why it needs 'tarded magic numbers to work
TomServo: asciilifeform: now that you mention it, I used your mention of that specific height to determine I was wedged.
mats: what is this wedging business?
decimation: also I think the available berkley db is ancient
decimation: TomServo: you are going to have to muck with some compiler settings to make openbsd work
TomServo: Also running it on openbsd 5.6 if that's relevant - was planning on trying 0.5.3 there next.
TomServo: I've little experience with this and wanted a working node anyway - figured it was a decent place to get feet wet.
TomServo: ben_vulpes | i never confirmed his unwedging << My 0.7.3 unwedged after appling the fix kako pointed out, if it's of any help.
asciilifeform: decimation: i knew this a month ago, yes
decimation: so it seems to stem from main.cpp:1466 which appears to be the code that handles orphan blocks
thestringpuller is wearing sign that says, "Don't feed the trolls"
thestringpuller: valgrind is the most amazing program ever made for debugging memory
asciilifeform: valgrind, yes, as printed on the box
decimation: heh did you run the whole thing in valgrind? must have been slow as hell
decimation: or more precisely, calls to the kernel memory allocator
decimation: I tried running 'perf' to sample calls to 'malloc' and I didn't see any while I was loading from network peers
decimation: interesting, that is useful
asciilifeform: leak is in the transaction processing code, and is not triggered when loading exclusively from a known-good node with full blockchain.
decimation: which implies that the leak might be associated with the network code?
asciilifeform: and, finally, that memory also leaks if bitcoind is loading blocks the usual way, rather than from a tame box with fully loaded blockchain ('connect' option)
asciilifeform: and that the most catastropic memory leak, which devours arbitrarily large system in hours, is only triggered full-throttle upon wedging;
decimation: I saw that around ~260k blocks that my version of bitcoind was taking up nearly 1gig in memory (linux is not exactly precise with memory accounting)
asciilifeform: worth noting that a blockchain, once wedged, never unwedges;
asciilifeform: there was another change, but i'm fairly certain that it was unnecessary and will repeat the experiment tomorrow with it snipped.
decimation: asciilifeform: was the only change that number of locks constant?