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mircea_popescu: i dunno that's got anything to do with it at all.
Mocky: like 65yo granny needs that level of 'modesty'
Mocky: a lot of the time i was thinking, "pretty sure you look better covered"
a111: Logged on 2018-11-16 13:55 Mocky: i kind of got used to seeing what few chicks there were draped in black with only eyes showing
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-16#1872755 << supposedly this is indeed very easy to get used to. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: and "disk" is no solution, china owns indonesia notwithstanding hilarity posturing to the contrary. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: for as long as only slanty eyes has horses, all horse races however drafted will have their fucking horses winning. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're naive if you think "asic resistant" will break "chinese monopoly". you don't like that, get someone else to make some chips. ☟︎
Mocky: but didn't realize that was serious
diana_coman: I think they call it myanmar nowadays
mircea_popescu: then again, considering how much arab cunt you got to see anyway....
mircea_popescu: i thought you hate azn cunt.
mircea_popescu: is this your way of saying you wanna go to burma ?
Mocky: but next time with driver's license and gold crown
mircea_popescu: well yes, irl there's no such thing as proof of a negative.
Mocky: seems less like proof and more like testimony of "i looked hard but didn't find"
Mocky: I don't feel bad about it, or regret or anything like that. I'm happy with the whole thing. It just doesn't appear to me as success.
mircea_popescu: "don't come telling me there's no even prime numbers larger than my mother!!! COME BACK WHEN YOU FOUND SOME!!!"
mircea_popescu: so all the mathematicians who prove negatives, such as "there's no circle with square corners" are ultimately failures at mathematicing ? ☟︎
Mocky: well that's success for you! I was looking for something and turned out either not there or well hidden.
mircea_popescu: it's not fucking "people are impressed". it's always "well, should Y question be raised, z opposition is available to it, and it'll fucking stick". the latter part, that's success.
mircea_popescu: all success ever is, because of all success EVER COULD POSSIBLY BE, is the reduction of such a case to a specified alternative among the alternatives.
mircea_popescu: so then why isn't that a dimension of success ?
mircea_popescu: now, at ~that~ juncture, would you say the matter will be adjudicated as "damn you idiots, qatar tried and nobody fucking helped" or as "damn you qatar, fucking idiot, people tried you just won't fucking listen" ?
mircea_popescu: at which point i say "bullshit!" and if the point's at all contentious i point to you.
mircea_popescu: so they're looking into what qatar's been doing with itself, and the discussion isn't going all that well, at which juncture qatar says "fuck you guise, we were ~at least trying~ and nobody would fucking help!"
mircea_popescu: suppose there's the forum-in-heaven, exactly like this one, but in heaven. every agent (ie, entity capable of self-reflection) has an account in ~that~ wot ; and ultimate-form-mp sits presiding, in its ultimate form of whatever it is, "alien dragon being of pure energy".
mircea_popescu: Mocky let's engage in the following gedankenexperiment.
Mocky: over there, every day was like a new out-of-comfort-zone experience and all the work involved asking "wtf should I best be doing right now?" It was exciting even though I don't see success along any dimension except personal learning.
mircea_popescu: silence is a terrible error isgnal on irc.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-15 16:40 trinque: if the thing doesn't confirm back to you that the !!pay happened, didn't
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-15#1872488 << thinking about all this, shouldn't the bot say "i don't know who X is" rather than spit out a pad it knows anyway won't be honored ? ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <Mocky> like, "holy shit, chix walking around in yoga pants and short shorts.. how could I have forgotten that these things exist?" << It's definitely going to feel weird when I finally pick up an air cooled VW and start driving again
Mocky: but those who were draped in black, covering the eyes as well with some see-thru black cloth: i never got used to that, always felt disconcerting and I don't know why. not like its that much different
BingoBoingo: First Lettuce not forget how Fluffypony came to the attentions of these halls http://trilema.com/2013/why-finance-shouldnt-be-open-to-your-average-schmoe/
Mocky: i kind of got used to seeing what few chicks there were draped in black with only eyes showing ☟︎
diana_coman: BingoBoingo, invoice me via deedbot then
asciilifeform: but it'd prolly have to be in africa, and i'd rather not africa
asciilifeform: just once i gotta go to some place that's moar of a shithole than here, just to see what it feels like.
BingoBoingo: diana_coman: I prefer Bitcoin. GPGgram me a destination for the shares and I will arrange delivery with Jurov. Thank you for your interest in Journalism.
asciilifeform: 'grr, time to go back into bigzone'
asciilifeform: Mocky: funnily enuff, whenever i go off the reservation, i ~anti~-miss home
Mocky: like, "holy shit, chix walking around in yoga pants and short shorts.. how could I have forgotten that these things exist?"
Mocky: being in qatar where so many things were different.. I never really missed home, but once I got back everything felt so familiar all of a sudden. I don't really know how to explain it.
Mocky: the cold season is a more difficult transition than normal. In a way I sort of do miss the heat.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-01 19:34 asciilifeform: there is no way to practically compute this value without having a copy of the blockchain. and it also ends up being luby-transformable into any one of the 3 old tx if you have the other 2. a kind of perpetual redundancy in the storage .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: other thing -- i have a vague sympathy for the 'asic-resist' perpetuum-mobile folx; i dun particularly see what's so great about chinese monopoly on mining in classical btc. but it is tempered by the fact that they're some admixture of outright scamola and dumb-as-rocks -- consider, we described a perfectly-usable 'disk-hard' pow algo, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-01#1620665 , and they're still derping with 'ram-har ☝︎
asciilifeform: Mocky: how is gringostan treating you ? miss the desert yet ?
asciilifeform: ( presently ~0 winblowz trojans are mining anyffing else )
asciilifeform: thing also seems to dominate the mining-with-virii niche currently, which is how it came to asciilifeform's attention
a111: Logged on 2018-11-16 05:50 mircea_popescu: guy seemed like "honest, quiet man", then seemed like obvious expert scammer. because that's the problem with sticking to the "honest quiet man" schtick -- only scammers are actually that.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-16#1872728 << the only part of the scheme that dun immediately make sense is how he drummed up exchange rate for his lolcoin; i'ma guess it was with the standard 'wash trade' sleight of hand ☝︎
diana_coman: BingoBoingo, let me know how you prefer to settle
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in spam trap, http://bitcoinrabbithole.org/writings << links to heathens ~and~ mircea_popescu , which is atypical
deedbot: http://bimbo.club/?p=79 << Bimbo.Club - TMSR Log Summary - 11/02/2018
mircea_popescu: ye olde italian "chi non mangia in compagnia o è un ladro, o è una spia" proverb specifically says that the one reason for systematically quiet is affraid-of-own-web-of-lies.
mircea_popescu: with everyone else, it goes away over time.
mircea_popescu: guy seemed like "honest, quiet man", then seemed like obvious expert scammer. because that's the problem with sticking to the "honest quiet man" schtick -- only scammers are actually that. ☟︎
auctionbot: Sell order # 1007 has ENDED: One lot of 14,500 S.QNTR shares SOLD to diana_coman for 150mn ecu. Attn: BingoBoingo
asciilifeform suspects that there are other lulz like this to be found in the 'asic resistant alts' circus, but does not actively follow the subj
asciilifeform: ( it so happens that asciilifeform knows that fpga with 2MB sram became available just as that thing was written )
asciilifeform: i knew about his lossy signatures nuttery, but not about this, it doubles the lulz
asciilifeform: tldr : heathen altcoin hash algo which supposedly 'memory hard', but then you look and it only wants 2MB ( and possibly less, with optimizations) -- evidently so that fluffypony or watshisname could use ~his~ seekrit fpga.. ☟︎
asciilifeform never ran into the thing previously , somehow, and then saw and wtf
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in oddball heathen tech, https://archive.is/p7UYV
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i beleive this Jnrrnnv Ltcmuex, esq shall become a character. << Hey, in a world where only machines can read pdf ocr hell into text, courts have to live with their illegible data writing
asciilifeform: funnily enuff, an almost ~exact opposite~ of asciilifeform's experience in digging up ada ( reputation for gnarl, turns out actually simple & clean 'when used as prescribed' ) , risc-v - reputation for 'simple and clean', turns out ball o' hair
a111: Logged on 2017-11-16 17:41 asciilifeform: moar concretely they go around propagandizing that if you build a fpga board you gotta use it, because 'mips is patented' ( in what country ? even in usa patent is 25y ) or 'risc-v is simplest' ( uh, nope ) and other idiocy.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-16 17:43 asciilifeform: 'risc-v' is a well-crafted attempt to steal the name, much like gypsies tried to steal even the name of the country they lived in
a111: Logged on 2018-06-11 20:57 asciilifeform: fuck riscv. it was deliberately designed with no arithmetical carry, to cripple cryptography.
asciilifeform: i carved out an evening to actually read the standard docs, thinking 'maybe asciilifeform was wrong re http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-11#1823089 , http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-16#1739675 , http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-16#1739666 , etc ' but guess wat. ☝︎☝︎☝︎
mircea_popescu: imo if you're going to use "new processor, cuz simple" it will BETTER not have 1980s imbecile nonsense like "floating point"
asciilifeform: 'you bolt shit to side of rifle, still not hit broad side of barn'
asciilifeform: and buncha crapola -- page table, floating point, etc. that simply dun need to exist.
asciilifeform: ( attraction is supposed to be 'open standard', 'no royalty', whatever. but still bizarrely imho complex. e.g. variable-length instructions -- wai!?? )
asciilifeform: speaking of heathen gnarl, took another look coupla wks ago at 'risc-v' ( e.g. instr set https://archive.is/TfPrq ) and pretty depressing. yes it's the simplest cpu currently targeted by gcc , and somebody even sells iron nao, but still a mess.
mircea_popescu: maybe their trawler wasn't in
asciilifeform: just empty tables, buncha weirdos, and pigeons
asciilifeform: i went 10 times and 0 fish
asciilifeform: funnily enuff they still have one in timis
mircea_popescu: "oh, cuz then you can't have ACCESS CONTROLS!!!" "oh ?" "so we won't implement those, either" "ah i see. and which is the store where they don't have fish again ?"
asciilifeform: recall thread, 'you can have 9000 files' etc
mircea_popescu: who THE FUCK thought it's ok for the fs to not take arbitrary indices, like, ever, in the whole thirty seconds history of sitting-here-quietly-and-thinking-abnout-computers as it stretches from 1971 onwards. ☟︎
asciilifeform: ~O(1) tx load/store.
asciilifeform: ( simply cuz not genesis'd yet , needs massage and will have to wait )
mircea_popescu: cuz we don't have the manpower to write ~general purpose fs~. we don't even have the manpower to write fucking ~narrow purpose fs~, for lack of the manpower to fucking read patches before we mis-add numbers!
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's objection is not 'i dun like mircea_popescu's db, it smells of burnt trotyl and tuica' but 'why machine needs TWO?!'
mircea_popescu: until anhero comes by with the ~correct~ general purpose fs, mysql-on-ext4 is the way to go.
mircea_popescu: this one is the good one, as it's actually correctly designed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it doesn't need THE OTHER ONE
mircea_popescu: however, the db is not at fault for our forebearers being dropped on the head.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: doesn't it ever strike you as odd that the machine needs ~2~ journals, 1 on top of other ?
mircea_popescu: i am not saying very specific applications (such as bitcoin, due to blocks being b locks) can't benefit from purpose made fs. nor am i saying the extant ~fs~ are defensible and not an atrocity against sense and taste.
asciilifeform: iirc got 'journal' thing aha
mircea_popescu: mysql only commits to disk sane records.
mircea_popescu: you lose the uncompleted bit.
asciilifeform: ( laugh all you like, this was actual problem in phuctor initially )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what happens if you were to copy the msql db mid-write ?
mircea_popescu: i beleive this Jnrrnnv Ltcmuex, esq shall become a character.
mircea_popescu: and since you got that, you also use markup and configuration, which are similarily separate, and there you go, your naive "i am an idiot who must make his own nails by hand" "files on disk" has four... directories is it ?