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mircea_popescu: i have no idea, but
the performance issue
triggers my everpresend paranoid suspicion
thestringpuller: "Thank you for posting
that article! Brother
Taaki knocks it out of
the park." << like really
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: hmm. maybe gavin is
trying
to
tip us off below
the radar of his handlers?
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> "And
then divide by… uh, I
think 5, because Pieter’s libsecp256k1 code is 5
times as fast as OpenSSL << honestly, at
this point i'd want everyone
to give a good look
to libsecp256k1
thickasthieves: i always assume
the spikes are a new batch of miners
testing
then shipping
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mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski>
they didn't forget as much as were attracted by
the *new shininess* in
the first place. now new
thing is shiny. <<< or, moreover, aren't even bitcoin in any sense. notice
the earlier guy with his strange "irc is insecure" notions. he probably
thinks he's involved. his choices and mental processes however do not reflect
that.
assbot: justusranvier comments on Gavin Andresen Proposes Bitcoin Hard Fork
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assbot: multithreading - What's
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mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> some jobs simply do not parallelize. << i have
trouble coming
to
terms with
this concept. wtf do you mean ?
they'd better parallelize or else can't work on a
turing machine
BingoBoingo: It's
the derps who see adds about hosting prices falling or staying constant and
the connections offered increasing... Don't realize how infrequently... people who keep
their own machines upgrade
their connections... Unless
they are running a data center.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: What
took me so long was building a full
txindex.
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mircea_popescu: dude i go make some porn websites with stolen false names for five minutes and when i return
the log scrolled off my desk
BingoBoingo: Apocalyptic: I mean right now it would be feasible
to put a Bitcoin node pretty much anywhere with a wired internet connection other
than Nepal or
the Desert, yet...
this constant bandwidth grow really only happen consistently in data centers.
Apocalyptic: <BingoBoingo> pete_dushenski: Notice how he never addresses bandwidth growth seriously //
this is indeed a worthy issue
to address
bounce: those numbers are not
that important. he could be off by a factor of
ten and nobody'd notice.
the "paying attention
to
the needs of EVERYBODY" is killer,
though. in light of his committing
those same EVERYBODY on upgrading
their connectivity every year.
pete_dushenski: chief scientist should be spending his
time figuring out a plaintext emoticon for "drool"
pete_dushenski: "uhh let me make up numbers and not even mask
the fact
that
they're made up because i'm
typing in my retardedness."
pete_dushenski: "And
then divide by… uh, I
think 5, because Pieter’s libsecp256k1 code is 5
times as fast as OpenSSL." << love
this line by gavin.
bounce: ring ring.
those guys.
pete_dushenski: gavin must drive a lexus because he's definitely in
the pursuit of perfection.
assbot: How A Bigger Blockchain Is Less Secure And Why Block Size Ain’t Gonna Increase Any
Time Soon | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
pete_dushenski: which brings up gavin's latest, yes, make
that his
THIRD comment on contravex
today:
bounce: don't be silly. how did you
think ma bell got
to be big? it wasn't from lack of
traffic!
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: and incidentally exactly, but EXACTLY how idiots just like gavin end up with mortgages
they can't pay. << such forecasting
these guys.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: moreover,
the way net neutrality etc is going, not
to mention
the realpolitics of you know, actual wars, financial or otherwise, it wouldn't be surprising if in 20 years
the average us citizen is on dialup << only
then will
their derping be
tamed. when it actually costs something.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: and i don't care specifically because we want bitcoin
to
take over
the financial, and with it
the political power in
the world. all of it. << so *that's* why we're here!
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:
thestringpuller: so average bandwidth in US (where Gavin is based) is 10Mbit. An incearse of .5 per year is like what 15 next
then 22.5 after
that etc etc <<< in 20 years
the per-block subsidy will be just about 40 bitcents. at
that same
time, gavin's block size will be 110 mb. << whoa.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: yet somehow
the bitcoin crowd is supposed
to have forgotten why it got into bitcoin in
the first place, and apply
the inflationary economy it's ran off from here <<
they didn't forget as much as were attracted by
the *new shininess* in
the first place. now new
thing is shiny.
bounce: what's
the fastest
the labs (not fabs) can do now? 60GHz or so with graphene 'tors?
bounce: true enough. and so
the best you can have
there
today AIUI is a 5+ GHz IBM
thing in a massively overpriced package
bounce: you don't like sparc and ppc either
then?
bounce: they can charge quite a lot before it becomes more economical
to buy non-chicken cpus
bounce doesn't begin
to have
the soldering skills for
that. or
the rest of
the ee skills. will have
to work on
that.
bounce: there's
that. sort-of implied by
the high finance and military as proposed applications.
bounce: protection against
the uncool people
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bounce: alright, if
that's how you wanted it.
hanbot: bounce
treacle, sugar refining byproduct. a brownish, sickly-sweet gunk. perhaps a little awkward in
there ::shrugs::
mircea_popescu: check it out,
that's a choke ain't it. 2 on >200 1 on < 600
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mircea_popescu: thickasthieves i knew a guy who basically had a soundstage, because he wanted
to record all his fucking sessions, which he
then catalogued and manically preserved for old age.
bounce: more like something
that'll get you nice and
tired for a good night's sleep but not something
that's so demanding it's easy
to give up on
thickasthieves: i
think i mentioned pot before, but it doesnt suit you
bounce: worse
than. possibly quite a lot worse, depending on how much of a party
the insurers are going
to
throw with it
xanthyos: i just don't want
to spend hours a week comparing
the lengths of my fingernails anymore.
bounce: V got a little out of hand, making it less
than useful
hanbot: i don't put
too much stock in
the whole dsm classification stuffs.
bounce: shit, every version of
the DSM has MORE reasons
bounce: there's more ways and reasons
to feel hopelessly inadequate and unfit for life
mircea_popescu: btw, im kinda surprised none of
the evil-overgovernment conspiracy
theorists have identified
the oecd as
the mechanism.
mircea_popescu: hanbot wait, you got schizopersonalify disorder and ocde/whatever
too ?