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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one of these traces to hetzner, comsumer in gauteng, johannesburg, sa ; the other is softlayer
mircea_popescu: at first seemed like has immense pool of ips, but in fact only a half dozen or so.
mircea_popescu: "who knows where this car will take us, johnny!" "not me. i'm driving it."
mircea_popescu: items which go to unspecified locations are eminently the tools of the engineer. it's the doctor of divinity that should expect very strictly confined results. engineering is more of an airy, take-things-as-they-come line of work.
mircea_popescu:
https://www.tcl.edu/ <h4>TCL Program of the Week</h4> <p>The opportunities are virtually endless. Get the high-tech, in-demand skills you need for a computer career that can go just about anywhere.<br />
mircea_popescu: "TCL's flat screens and curved screens are the perfect combination of elegance and high-tech performance (HD/4K televisions, Android televisions)."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you mean tcl, america's fastest-growing tv brand ?
mircea_popescu: well, to quote that dood, "at least it's cheaper than at any point in history ; and faster than at any point of history"
mircea_popescu: on the basis of "what the people need", as demonstrated by the people themselves, bitcoin blocks of 64kb would be perfectly sufficient./
mircea_popescu: in other words, bitcoin cash is exactly equal to a proposition of reducing bitcoin blocks from 1mb to 60kb.
mircea_popescu: ~340 kb average (over 10 blocks). considering this 10 represents 1/5 or so of the bitcoin chain, so basically they're about 15 times LESS transaction intensive than bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: in further lulz : the scamchain is ~300 blocks behind bitcoin. here's a summary : 478610 1 hour ago 443.02Kb ; 478609 1 hour ago 141.72Kb ; 478608 2 hours ago 291.50Kb ; 478607 2 hours ago 584.60Kb ; 478606 3 hours ago 174.71Kb ; 478605 554.37Kb ; 478604 3 hours ago 771.29Kb ; 478603 4 hours ago 355.16Kb ; 478602 4 hours ago 158.57Kb ; 478601 4 hours ago 424.27Kb
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back on planet earth : the bitcoin crash difficulty implies a per-scamtoken cost of about 1/4 btc, and the price is about 1/10btc. the remainder comes straight out of the would-be miner's pocket. now tell me again all that jazz about how "miners decide" and whatnot bullshit idiots were spewing theoretically in theory.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as best i can see for the past coupla hours bcc hash is actually 0.
mircea_popescu: trinque in principle it shouldn't have anything to do with your node, all that jazz.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but in our terms ; not in zimbabwestan terms. zimbabwestan may not have terms.
mircea_popescu: i thought the guy fixed wannacry. did he make wannacry ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i care what usg thinks its laws are about as much as i think what fat girl thinks her reasons for eating are.
mircea_popescu: let me put it another way : if "the united states" is sorely hurt by a coupla grand wortha software, all those tomahawks'd better win some wars.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so the idea is dood made/sold kronos w/e that was.
mircea_popescu: tbh i very much like the danielpbarron write-up style of "this is how to do x ; if you're lazy i'll do it for you costs this much".
mircea_popescu: yeah, notbad film. anyway. al siding was always a scam, but that's not what i thought you meant by foil.
mircea_popescu: you saw that "tinmen" film btw ? re the early al siding industry ? that enchanted period in the 50s that even gave memes like "wtf are you, an al siding salesman ?"
mircea_popescu: but anyway, the fertilew swamp on which that was produced were "better building materials", ie, "let's make a house out of drywall and insulation".
mircea_popescu: well, in practice the whole "flame retardant" thing never really took off. but this is not because of the rohs stuff.
mircea_popescu: makes eu houses significantly more habitable than us equiv.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the other side of that chasm, of course, is that it's how euros forbade the phtalates (plastic softeners) and polybrominated crapola (flame retardants).
mircea_popescu: "our novel eutectic alloy melts at just about 500 degrees. just as good as proper solder, and also better for the environment!!!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol, alternative desolder to "wick lead in" , vibrate it for 6 months ? :D
mircea_popescu: yet another case of "in discussing idiocy of idiots, sane people find out interesting truffs."
mircea_popescu: if it can'y you really should have a fan made industrially
mircea_popescu: the heatsink/fan assemblage is not heavy enough for the paste to not hold it. esp if upright.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would he hassle dsk for an original fucking fan though. really, copper is expensive now ?
mircea_popescu: if you have an irreversible hash function, it's better than encrypting.
mircea_popescu: trinque can always hash any item that is long to check for conformity in audits.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and speaking of baffling moongineering : why the fuck do they have SQUARE vent holes on places like us navy ships, where they can actually afford to design the cover rather than buy from walmart.
mircea_popescu: lol mkay. i mean this dood. and wtf already, put some probes on the baffling process, this is science ?
mircea_popescu: "So, it appears thermal stress on the Ivory CPU isn't the problem, or that the thermal stress is too great for that small heatsink to keep up with." do they not have laser thermometers where these people live or what is the problem here ?!
mircea_popescu: hey, 0.1% or so by mass, about 33% or so by output of usg.nsa/etc is zekware. and i mean this quite literally.
mircea_popescu: definitely one of the ten best anglo movies ever made, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: ok, well, if you're curious to delve into what did what to your mind, go see it sometime, and see it so that you answer me the question of "what did moore do wrong ?"
mircea_popescu: trinque i'll dare say it's something else. have you ever seen "a man for all seasons" ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reason i even quoted etc is that for all the diversity, no actual stupidity came out. so...
mircea_popescu: really this should be the motto of something. "The moving finger writes ; and, having writ, moves on. Nor all thy Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line ; nor all thy tears wash out a word of it."
mircea_popescu: how did the poet put it, "the writing head does write, and having writ, moves on
☟︎ mircea_popescu: actually b) is stronger than "Read only". FIXED ENTHALPY TIME FLOW.