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cazalla: my god this hag of a wife, god must be punishing by introducing her to me before bitcoin
ben_vulpes: take a look at the first patch on therealbitcoin.org
undata: stating the obvious
undata: if that's so
undata: ben_vulpes: statement behind the question is 95% of this build crap can go
gernika: undata to the ovens with techies?
thestringpuller: reddit is full with turds
undata: "Fuck techies" << to the ovens with you
BingoBoingo: bounce: Well, executive director of the CoinLab Foundation for the promotion of scams and Redditurds
bounce: did I get that about right?
bounce: so, the guy that's going to actively support unleashing lots of onerous gov't regulation on this bitcoin thing is now executive director of the bitcoin foundation
assbot: Here's What the Mission Riots Looked Like After the Giants' Victory
PeterL: question: my scoopbot dumps links from posts into the chan, should I ask to have assbot ignore it or provide the title of each link?
assbot: The Next Chapter | The Bitcoin Foundation
BingoBoingo: WTF does that mean?
undata: or we can get to the point and get something done
undata: I can send you a disassembled rube goldberg machine every time I open my mouth
undata: the same value applies to communication.
undata: asciilifeform: were we not talking about the kelvin way of versioning code?
undata cuts the knot in half
asciilifeform: straight to sword then.
undata: asciilifeform: exercise to reader eh?
asciilifeform: undata: might want to investigate why the original does not, in fact, work.
undata: I'll just grind out code and leave the speak to the pros
thickasthieves: maybe the foundation should take it over
thickasthieves: undata this is sorta started in the b-a wiki, which anyone with voice can add to probly
gribble: You're gonna have to learn that variety speak pe Trilema - Un blog ...: <http://trilema.com/2013/youre-gonna-have-to-learn-that-variety-speak/>; #bitcoin-assets +m pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2014/bitcoin-assets-m/>; Pro idiotas, which obviously means, people who have ... - Trilema: <http://trilema.com/2014/pro-idiotas-which-obviously-means-people- (1 more message)
ben_vulpes: ;;google trilema variety speak
mats_cd03: a game of catching the falling knife?
asciilifeform: flee - need diamonds for schindler's train.
mats_cd03: what is this.
mats_cd03: asciilifeform fears for his life, but won't flee to save it.
asciilifeform: right now we can't even make drama, the actors are drunk and spewing over the stage
asciilifeform: so, in peacetime, if i live that long, i can take it to forest and write a 'popescuan' replacement.
thickasthieves: so he can go to forest and see if it's broken
undata: good outer bound though.
asciilifeform: or is it obvious to alert reader.
asciilifeform: do i need to explain why i asked for the book?
asciilifeform: why take my word for it - try it.
asciilifeform: this is not tolerable.
asciilifeform: ^ someone suggested this as a 'fix' for wedged blockchain load
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform wants valground turd and...what is this 'delete blkindex'?
asciilifeform: the more gavin removal, likewise, the better
asciilifeform: the bare naked minimum worthy of nubbins` book, is a gadget that functions, reliably, on current network
asciilifeform: but now i don't see this thing as going anywhere
asciilifeform: my next patch was going to be a removal of the magic strings (seed ip table, etc) and replacement with ascii configs, as suggested by mircea_popescu.
undata: but poking the thing is desirable
asciilifeform: didn't even touch api
asciilifeform: in my patches, thus far, nothing truly earth-shaking, just a surgical removal of what i consider clearly poisonous
undata: different enough to be enjoyable
ben_vulpes: if i don't have a thing going on on saturday we could even go so far as to pair
undata: alright. I'll take a look at it saturday.
undata: process to submit is patch with signature?
ben_vulpes: i halfway think the gpg signature turdatron blocking merges and discussion needs to be nuked and implemented by some eager beaver later
ben_vulpes: undata: we're currently blocked on a mailing list thinger that may or may not see the light of day anytime soon
asciilifeform: undata: but i have very little to do with it otherwise...
asciilifeform: undata: i sorta initiated this thing, by pure accident.
undata: what are the standards for "this goes"
BingoBoingo wonders if there is anyone with more projects on their public plate than alf...
ben_vulpes: grab those patches, review, add sig if you want to put your ass on the line.
undata: I didn't initiate this thing; ben_vulpes do you have a desired process?
asciilifeform: no one, yet, saw it fit to comment at length on them
asciilifeform: signed by yours truly
asciilifeform: ^ other patches thus far
undata: there are myriad bugfixes that will need to be backported
asciilifeform: undata: earliest (lightest-weight, least lines of gavin) version that is known to be compatible with the extant net.
undata: how was the 0.5.3 choice made?
asciilifeform: undata: http://therealbitcoin.org contains origin tree. 'chicken' lists the remaining files after first trim. rm_... is ben_vulpes's patch;
BingoBoingo: undata: No, you do things. You just have to understand the obstacles as you make your cue.
undata: life is too challenging
undata: BingoBoingo: lets do nothing then
BingoBoingo: <undata> asciilifeform: that is a problem of the artists and not painting << No, this is a problem of no one fucking reading and the world burning because the entire stacks sucks because unread. Worked until it didn't
undata: asciilifeform: where's the source
asciilifeform: undata: yes, we know the ru/jewish saying 'the bad dancer is hindered only by his arse.' this should be seen as an invitation to the good dancers.
undata: asciilifeform: that is a problem of the artists and not painting
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> why am i even telling this, go run it << sir you are a gift to the logs
BingoBoingo wonders about serious matters such as will Cardano prototype factory make the eventual loper prototype
asciilifeform: undata: this is how we got the extant bitcoind. if you like it - you know where to find it
undata: I'm not going to argue the merits of open source
undata: there's ample evidence in the market that one can reduce cost and increase quality by open sourcing the things not directly in your moneymaking pipeline
asciilifeform: undata: the orthodoxy wants to be proven wrong. don't wait! fire.
BingoBoingo: undata: Well, avoiding starvation and the sword are obstacles on the road to goals.
asciilifeform: the idependantly wealthy - straight to sword.
undata: receiving money isn't the only way to invest in your own goals
asciilifeform: i would love to see it proven that what i've said is a load o'shit.
asciilifeform: hero? straight to sword.
undata: everything is shit but the speaker
asciilifeform: turd sans scatole is still turd.
undata: if only there were some way to organize the efforts of a large number of people around projects
undata: asciilifeform: yep I was around for that convo
undata: I'm not going to bother.
undata: BingoBoingo: that metaphor has no resemblance to what does and does not benefit the functioning of a decentralized network
BingoBoingo: undata: Alright. Spz you're a Jew in olden times coming onto the battlefield with your nifty bronze sword. Now the Assyrians emerge from the horizon, but instead of bronze they have Iron!
undata: if there's an existing stripped down client the deturdification process is a waste of time
asciilifeform: i will answer the secret question which i can answer. 1) i personally can't pay rent with btc without giving up every other one to usg. 2) cost of extrication from gravity well is inconceivably high. 3) no one crowned me hero to begin with, why even ask.
undata: BingoBoingo: justify the aptness of the metaphor first.
undata: it's a bit difficult to steer the direction of a decentralized network with no offering.
asciilifeform: perhaps his only runs on gurlz with arithmometers, how the fuck would i know
chetty: curiosity killed the cat
assbot: Logged on 24-10-2014 20:24:45; mircea_popescu: maybe once it's over in the sense of, we're all drunk in the retirement home.