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bitcoinpete: princessnell: from your rt: my wife works in the same field as her dad and my mother works in a related field to hers.
mircea_popescu: And despite people saying "RAID is not a backup"" << "... i classified it as off-site so it is in a sauna somewhere which is the highest security level there is."
Naphex: "Actually I have to admit I am a little suprised at the negativity I'm getting over this, it's as if people automatically assume every failure is intentional."
xe4l: sadly, as much as is I love building the perfect thing on the first go, it's not terribly pheasable unless it's a b2b business
xmj: mircea_popescu: then that's just you doing it very very wrong as those shouldn't be part of your business in the beginning.
pankkake: as for github I'd say under 10%
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I'll be writing them in Swift << and in a little while you can be known as rapedpony
fluffypony: xe4l: last year I had to reindex a large database table (a necessary evil occasionally). I thought to offload it to a VPS provider, Linode or DigitalOcean or someone, so as to avoid needing to choke my db server. Needless to say, 12 hours in they shitcanned the VPS slice because of "excessive resource usage".
fluffypony: costs me the same as a dedi box
xe4l: unless your saying private colo, as in you alone have physical access
xmj: jurov: as long as they have python installed, no problem
decimation: re: dataflow: I've been browsing the academic papers on "dataflow" computers. Most of them are crazy "C machine" and "Dataflow sidecar" hybrids. Makes as much sense as putting a massive aircraft engine in a car: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJn7LHE83cc
kakobrekla: ok so this newlisp is slow as fuck even if they claim otherwise.
decimation: asciilifeform: after reading that chapter, it appears that ferroresonant transformers help with voltage regulation, suppressing harmonics and transients, as well as riding through nasty undervolt conditions (that kill switching power supplies). They aren't very helpful for momentary outages, as you have said.
benkay: (def maxint-apps (capacity-planner nerds-as-what-need-pimping-out))
benkay: no as in like "only one?"
mircea_popescu: in summa : you are approaching it as a hard problem. it's not, it's quite soft
mircea_popescu: as a reddit/facebook/whatever social media site, bitfinex is just as good as any one of a thousand third hand niche things
mircea_popescu: is what i've known osx as since about 3.0
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, no, as in, without having made a specific appointment to discuss bitcoin and urbit
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: random person i ran into today had actually heard of bitcoin, AND of urbit << random, as in, on the streets of ar ?
mircea_popescu: i read that first as "dick secrets"
jurov: and i wanted it to submit as "Active Mining Deactivated" but...
fluffypony: "Swift takes the best features from the C and Objective-C languages. It includes low-level primitives such as types, flow control, and operators. It also provides object-oriented features such as classes, protocols, and generics"
artifexd: Rephrase: asciilifeform, I accept your statement as an acceptable representation of reality.
kakobrekla: re fw, one of the ways to make it easy one yourself is to keep it as small as possible.
asciilifeform: jurov: the way i understand it, you see 'architectural purity' as an optional frill, like the 'non-conflict zone minerals' folks, or enviro-whiners. i do not.
mircea_popescu: Up until recently it was practically impossible to become embroiled into any sort of dealing with the subgroup, their ownership being strictly assumed and their lives strictly subsumed by the corporations competent at dealing with the human cattle : fastfood providers, supermarkets, the government. Both as employers and providers these specialised bureaucracies have the necessary tools, including cattle prods (or what ☟︎☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: they see it as "bitcoin isn't ready for apple" << they're right, too. i don't have a mpoe-pr large enough to swat all the fucktarded us consumers thinking they'r eentitled to shit because their govt paid me taxes or something
asciilifeform: jurov: olpc was a microshaft brainwashing project (admitted as much! hence why it shipped with an x86 turd instead of a cheaper risc cpu)
asciilifeform: jurov: python, ruby, etc. are, arguably, cheap 'soviet style' copies of common lisp. as admitted by, for example, matsumoto (author of ruby)
asciilifeform: (e.g. power station on every street corner, wall wiring as thick as your arm, etc) ☟︎
asciilifeform: it is possible - and has been done - to build cpu which executes high-level language more or less directly. but, given as i have an entire blog about this, i will omit the details here.
asciilifeform: people who design baroque contraptions (ml, haskell, ocaml, go - tradition) for 'smarter compiler' - that ends up grinding the original semantics of a program into incomprehensible soup - as if god came and said to mortals to use pdp-11 forever - are solving the wrong problem.
Naphex: and had some php scripts running as daemons over sockets to emulate IPC and threads
mike_c: Naphex: mtgox would have managed to suck in any language. i just feel bad for good programmers who somehow have ended up using php. probably the same as asciilifeform feels for all of us that don't use lisp.
benkay: jvm issues are unless i miss my read (which is possible and do correct me plz) along the lines of 'don't let people have access to your box and don't run java as a consumer'
pankkake: or as a way to reduce the hipster population
Apocalyptic: *as
nubbins`: they see it as "bitcoin isn't ready for apple"
nubbins`: consider that as far as feature implementation goes, apple is relatively conservative
danielpbarron: if payment is expected in BTC, it might make more sense to put the "otherthing" quantity in as "25/{bitstampask}"
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why exactly, as mike_c aptly pointed out size and especiallyu outsize is the worst enemy of good financials,
mircea_popescu: "I almost listed something on Cryptostocks, but think I will wait and reassess before I do. What we need as a community is to not accept these low standards of service. "
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation well, the DC part of argentina's "washington dc" is roughly the size of france. it's a huge country. as such, it's upper germania, illyricum, syria, v
mircea_popescu: people use it as an abrasive.
fluffypony: has anyone played around with hamsterdb as an embedded keyvalue store?
benkay: saved me a lot of work recently with simple stuff that works-as-expected like lazily moving the cursor through huge tables integrated with list comprehension in python
jurov: benkay: have you tried sqlalchemy? as soon as one needs to create query programmatically, it's much better than gluing together sql strings
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu this'd be the pill against your smoking hdd controllers, as i gather.
nubbins`: but it has a certain mystique as-is
benkay: so who are the blockchain-as-a-service providers?
kakobrekla: do you have the breaks on auto as well?
mircea_popescu: aite ima drop it as a comment on bottom
thestringpuller: yea. sadly the n00b me should have invested in MPCD, but as you once said. We pay for our lessons.
mircea_popescu: i fail to see how some forum nitwit implementing badly what he's read of mpoe-pr's posts counts as anything.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: the funny thing is usagi claims you copied his NYAN fund. But in actuality you took the concept and did it correct. Despite how many scammers were parading as "asset issuers", you managed to recoup ~52% of the original capital invested. MPCD.A based on your statements actually made a profit (since MPCD.A got paid out before B and C of course), etc.
decimation: vox populi, vox dei. So as long as you get the people to say/think/do what you want, it's legitimate
pankkake: that's what got me - I have more EUR than initally but would have done better if stayed in BTC. not that I really care as I wanted to stay in EUR for the time being
decimation: Volume parsing as it relates to a file container
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Thanks, I am indeed trained as one.
BingoBoingo: chetty: Maybe if you are on an elemental diet for digestive issues. I imagine mixed with crushed flintstones vitamins it might be useful as a crude form of TPN.
BingoBoingo: I think slurry of miscelaneous carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids in aqueous suspension is as specific a description as possible for the slurry
BingoBoingo: get usb key with giant plastic case, use empty space to hide chip from another usb drive, swap chips to access secrets hidden as [fill-in-the-blank]
fluffypony: Blazedout419: maybe as a joke thing, like "hah hah I bought some AM shares back in the day'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as for what the germans did there - if i recall, they built self-contained villages and had little to no contact with the locals.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where, as a boy, right before leaving, i traded a shoebox full of toilet paper money for 1 usd.
nubbins`: phun phact, quality degrades as you get closer to the middle
fluffypony: and if you do a woman's one I'll order 2 for the wife as well
mircea_popescu: i can sorta visualize the bezzle as this very raunchy bubble butted 20something mulatto
nubbins`: worst hangover of my life yesterday, struggling not to vomit as i get out of bed, glance at FB on my way to make coffee and see that a friend is selling a trumpet
mircea_popescu: im regarding it purely as a graph theory / algebraic structures isse
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: apparently you called bitcoinpete out as being a liar - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=631605.msg7070591#msg7070591
mircea_popescu: i guess coming up next week, obama promises the us will never use its nuclear arsenal, as part of the inauguration of a primary school in a provincial town in kenya.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony, lol that'll go over well im sure. their userbase is just as cash strapped.
pankkake: fluffypony: as always, MP did it first
asciilifeform: the lock, as all locks, 'keeps honest man honest'
asciilifeform: just as not all things which aren't poisonous are good to eat for dinner
mircea_popescu: so what is to gain from this jerking in this circle as opposed to others?
asciilifeform: scratch that - iem appears to be actual headphone. thought you meant plugs, as used by construction crews
chairforce1: so my track record for reading is almost as bad as my investment ability
kakobrekla: stored as learning material
chairforce1: so what is to gain from this jerking in this circle as opposed to others?
benkay: if you're going to be a while, you might consider getting into the web of trust as well
fluffypony: pankkake: seems to say that now for me as well, it didn't say that on a few pages
kakobrekla: also if you dont have it, you get a bottle of it in the footer as a reward for going through the entire page
asciilifeform: (transformers buzz from 'magnetostriction' of iron. varnish acts as a dampener.)
asciilifeform: plus, the bigger, the better it works. think of it as electrical equivalent of flywheel.
asciilifeform: damn, as usual.
jurov: n IT-related diploma and has at least the same knowledge as an A+ network technician.///fluffypony that does *not* imply knowledge of backup strategies
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla, wtf was goat going as in 2012 ? btcking something or the other ?
fluffypony: ;;rate usagi -2 Doesn't know how to backup in any way, shape, or form. I'll adjust this rating after he has gone and done an IT-related diploma and has at least the same knowledge as an A+ network technician.
fluffypony: ;;rate usage -2 Doesn't know how to backup in any way, shape, or form. I'll adjust this rating after he has gone and done an IT-related diploma and has at least the same knowledge as an A+ network technician.
pankkake: as for the newer ones, yeah that's obvious, I'm not even arguing it :)
jurov: fluffypony: okay, as long as it isn't rapeghost
fluffypony: I come back as fluffyghost if ZNC can't secure my nick, for instance
BingoBoingo: The best part of BitBet has to be that I would get 3+ BTC if as we type an erect Brock Pierce is pulled out of a cub scout
BingoBoingo: punkman: I'm not supposing it as a thing to be supposed yet.
BingoBoingo: punkman: I would definitely be a unique application of Bitbet as a hedge, at least so far.
BingoBoingo: punkman: I think price dependent I'd throw a BTC on "No" and put my best Eagle Scout skills into avoiding capture. I'd plan on using the bet as a hedge.