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mircea_popescu: davout if proof was needed that the 'teh-code-is-teh-spec' approach is fundamentally braindamaged, well, look no further
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< clearly. not to mention the recent ecdsa openssl debacle, which is pretty much exactly a replay of the bdb stuff. "oh, we included code but we had no idea what it does" sort of approach to code-is-spec specwork
mircea_popescu:
<sgornick> The (bdb) rule wasn't (widely) known before v0.8 caused the fork, but it was coded into v0.8.1.
<< it is technially correct to say that the 8.1. version is in fact more restrictive than the pre 8.0 version.
mircea_popescu:
<sgornick> First, gotta get some vocabulary simplified. When we had the unplanned hard-fork March 2013, we had the protocol "pre-v0.8' and "v0.8" . What do we call this protocol with the hard fork implemented vs. that without the hard fork (i.e., unchanged? )
<< bitcoin vs gavincoin.
[\\\]: "All readers are entitled to five free articles each week."
<-- How do I go about getting my five free articles?
mircea_popescu:
<davout> trying to solve other people's problems that don't exist yet, the recipe for success :D
<<< kinda the meat and potatoes of socialist government eh.
mircea_popescu:
<davout> would transactions still propagated accross fork branches in the event of a hard fork scenario?
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< hard to tell, but mostly yes.
mircea_popescu:
<kakobrekla> but on that i think we are still way under limit.
<< and i think women are overweight, by and large. what do we do ?
kakobrekla: "is a hardfork successful"
< since this is bb, hf successful only if mp submits.
davout: BigBitz: "do you even network bro."
<<< the point is precisely not to
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron "This whole hard fork drama is part of the bigger brain-damaged notion that Bitcoin isn't about money."
<< you actuyally have an excellent point here.
mircea_popescu: " i do agree with the original statement that the particular way in which intellectual property is handled today makes the world richer rather than poorer."
<< meant it exactly backwards. poorer rather than richer.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic: what is a shadowban?
<< graham came up with this brilliant "let's ban users but not tell them" on the theory that users are idiots and won't notice anyway.
decimation: asciilifeform: re: jaron lanier
<< his "open source is stealing the future" idea seems rather silly
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> i dunno, something about oversalted leberwurst.
<< Also the shift from a menu one can get full eating to some sort of "trendy" tasting menu based on appetizers.
mircea_popescu: yeah html hates
< separators. but for some reason they seem the best way to convey the intent here
artifexd: Tip to future copy/pasters: Don't include
<< in the text or everything after it will get routed to /dev/null
cazalla: ben_vulpes: also hey qntra would you drop gravatar for the "here's my domain, please serve domain/avatar.png" icon model?
<<< done
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "I don't perceive a smartphone's worth having. Much like an AK-47, if not for the same reason."
<< i think it's clearly stated. like an assault rifle, a smartphone's not worth having. not for the same reason tho, but nevertheless, not worth having.
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> but the dishwasher!?
<< it probably uses less water if you put less clothes in
ben_vulpes:
<thestringpuller> have no idea why they haven't split the node from the wallet
<< mostly time.
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> [] the default change behaviour is asinine (owing to how it destroys wallet backup as a concept) but i cannot recall how it can be seen as 'vulnerable'
<< wallet notion itself is asinine
kakobrekla:
<mircea_popescu> no chance of it, either.
< putin thinks otherwise.
mircea_popescu: xiando: I thought I'd mention that openssl 1.0.1k apparently breaks bitcoin-core
<< this, of coruse, was discussed for the past few days :)
☟︎ TomServo: kakobrekla | i just find the whole fetch command thing silly.
<< If it was named scoopdog that'd be one thing...
mircea_popescu:
<xe4l> think TOR but you always do 10mbit FD
<< o that's what this is, you fixing what you read about tor vulnerabilities recently ?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i got a piece of junk mail once, advertising specially-made capsules (for folks who have no idea how to use a saw or glue?) for buring rifles.
<< Obvious hypothesis, they found a Wasp cache and kept the rifles
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: actual woman on dating site? lol wtf
<< Site in question kept my dick wet through Library school.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: why are you on a zoophile site ?
<< it's not a zoophile site. it's a women's site.
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> Related: We just detected that you’re now among the most attractive people on OkCupid.
<< Profile picture is a Llama. Not metaphorically or anything. Picture is actual shaggy Llama.
<< ahahaha wut.
BingoBoingo: Related: We just detected that you’re now among the most attractive people on OkCupid.
<< Profile picture is a Llama. Not metaphorically or anything. Picture is actual shaggy Llama.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> at any rate, why would the phoundation's handlers cut their funding now ?
<< Hearding 101. If the sheep don't want to move on you let them get hungry in their overgrazed pasture. Makes them more receptive to new grass.
mircea_popescu: joecool> cool, you want any patches submitted for review on stuff like this?
<< definitely that part.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> sure, personal's anothermatter, especially if you had any assets.
<< Nah, you get the lawyer in personal ESPECIALLY when you don't have assets
BingoBoingo:
<joecool> mod6: solid, i'll open a bug to get it included in gentoo (and troll Luke-Jr)
<< He prolly has a historical version of his patch set s should be fine with it.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> you actually do better by not even hiring a lawyer.
<< Personal bankruptcy differs in that you get a lawyer because it compells phone spam aggro to their number and not yours
mod6:
<+joecool> mircea_popescu: nice domain for the foundation, did you guys actually fix 0.5.3 to fetch all blocks???
<< yup.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> (using the latter, conceivably, you might leave your receiver running for three days and in the end a light comes on; and then you can hear an hour-long broadcast.)
<< could leave it right to the rainfall collecting bucket
decimation: asciilifeform: "Germán Armando Plett’s knowledge was scraped together from the ‘Deutsche La Plata Zeitung’ (German La Plata Newspaper) and the nightly German radio broadcasts he was devoted to."
<< shortwave broadcast is dying, I guess because internet
PeterL: " bullets with enormous electric charges would be accelerated in a special valve and emmited with several times the velocity of light."
<<< lol
punkman: mircea_popescu: punkman is off the deedbot project after the horrid failure of the past month
<< I accept that
punkman: asciilifeform genuinely wonderf wtf happened to deedbot 2
<< lack of hosting admin, mostly
PeterL: mircea_popescu: "I do not now nor will I ever care about the "readability" or "elegance" of codebases worth 5 bux."
<< These are things that the programmer should care about, because he will have to maintain the thing in the future.
PeterL: From Trilema "Jobs Board" post: "You are expected to negotiate your own pay."
<< This is where I demand 1200 USD/mo for upkeeping scoopbot, right?
mircea_popescu: "In 1980, the average Politburo member was 70 years old, as opposed to 55 in 1952 and 61 in 1964."
<< in this view the soviets fell because they couldn't find enough 85 yos for the 90s