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trinque:
<< According to his biographer, Ellison sees death as “just another kind of corporate opponent he can outfox.” >>
decimation: and
http://www.helionenergy.com/ < "By combining our years of experience in fusion, newly available electronics technologies, and a revolutionary design using cutting-edge physics, Helion is making a fusion engine 1,000 times smaller, over 500 times cheaper, and realizable 10 time faster than other projects."
☟︎ phf: fwiw dumpblock is expensive, because walks blockchain in order. a "dumpdb" that iterates over mapBlockIndex and does ReadFromDisk/
<< for each block might be a reasonably fast way to split .db into separate block files
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform has the same ill feeling an astronomer might have were 'seti' signal to appear
<< We've outgrown everything but Z80+ECC and somehow that is too slow
trinque: "That makes Bitcoin about 5,033 times more energy intensive, per transaction, than VISA"
<< what a crock of shit
trinque: While Google’s efforts to solve this problem are admirable, it’s still troubling that it happened at all. As Alciné wrote on Twitter, “I understand HOW this happens; the problem is moreso on the WHY.”
<< oh for fuck's sake
mircea_popescu: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'DbException'
<< teh sound of unhappy. i'll be doing shasums for the rest of the day by the looks of it.
BingoBoingo:
<jurov> ascii_field probably isn't aware that exactly the same thing as dumpblock output is the phoundation's bootstrap.dat
<< As far as I'm aware the "bootstrap.dat" never got implemented in a way that worked beyond the first 2GB of blockchain on pre-v0.8 clients
ascii_field: presently, while i'm doing entirely other things, it it running pmap -XX
<pid> after each eat
mod6:
<+mod6> plz clearsign your email, and attach a detached signature of the patch file
<< along with the patch itself i might add!
pete_dushenski: "Heritage Royalty owns about 4.8 million acres of royalty interest and mineral fee title lands in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Royalty lands are privately held oil and gas properties that are not subject to the royalties that producers pay governments for operating on publicly owned lands."
<< ok that's actually a super interesting detail. so cenovus is offloading the land that's -exempt- from royalties w
pete_dushenski: "Teachers' said the latest deal offers diversification benefits and a hedge against unexpected inflation."
<< lol! unexpected for who ?!
pete_dushenski: "Cenovus Energy Inc (CVE.TO), Canada's second-largest independent oil producer, said on Tuesday it has agreed to sell its portfolio of oil and gas royalty properties to Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan for about C$3.3 billion ($2.66 billion)."
<< speaking of deals, a big one for canada.
pete_dushenski: "Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) said on Tuesday it would buy OpenDNS, a privately held cloud-based security company, for $635 million in cash and equity awards to beef up its security business."
<< might as well consolidate the crown corps, save on letterhead.
☟︎ mod6:
<+Jautenim> shall i submit a patch to the mailing list? it's quite a simple fix
<< If you're in the WoT (looks like you are) feel free to submit a patch as you like.
ben_vulpes: "filein >> block;"
<< this overloaded operator still baffles me.
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> that doesn't mean they don't occasionally drop a bomb or two
<< Puerto Rico is basically USG brown people practice range
mod6: asciilifeform: re: ... the first time to carry out FULLY DETERMINISTIC tests ...
<< yeah this is great!
decimation: ""We recovered a 20-gauge shotgun from Matt's body at the location," said D'Amico."
< of course
mod6: www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/manual/diagrams.html
<< check out the section about half way down that says "elements in the graphs generated by the dot tool have the following meaning:"
trinque: "unreconstructed"
<< unbanked, unequal, unenlightened, unsaved
punkman: are they gonna take everyone's money again ?
< one way or another
mod6: so if i do a `pmap -x
<PID>`, i do see: gconv-modules.cache in there.
mike_c: ben_vulpes: "I want to know who does this: ./proggy -? to get documentation"
<< that's the default on windows
mircea_popescu: hould be, we can see how askew they can get, and we can recognize distortion when we are confronted with it.
<< for the record, this is rank nonsense. it only seems to work because americans are the worst of all german stocks - incredibly stolid, unhumorous fellows.