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asciilifeform: then say 'what a fuckhead, he shit himself.'
asciilifeform: north kr is simply a large-scale version of the thing wonderful civilized americans like to do to prisoners, chain'em up to a post until shits himself. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: note that this is a political stance, not a scholarly one.
asciilifeform: everything that happens in north kr, that jurov reads about and goes 'eww', is a creation of the west.
mircea_popescu: i suspect a lot of the bombing enthusiasm past decade has to do with all that impotent rage bottled 1972-1980
asciilifeform: jurov: we had a pretty good 'best korea' thread
asciilifeform: there may however be such a thing as 'bridge too far'.
asciilifeform: i literally don't give a femtofuck re how many dead peasants n1 rocket was made of.
asciilifeform: otherwise ancient greece - is a snore.
asciilifeform: i only give half a fuck re peaks.
mircea_popescu: it creates tp for everybody for a decade or two.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-01#1561511 << incidentally i was in a '5-star' hotel in usa and they had '1-ply' tp. so perhaps saying no to 3000 ton rockets, doesn't magically create tp-for-everybody. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: all the su stick produced was a horde of anal children. almost as if humans are all on the same mind, and even if you keep the borders locked and the sticks sticking, idiot ru citizen will mirror idiot eu citizen nevertheless
mircea_popescu: it's a great theory that failed spectacularly in the field.
asciilifeform: 'consumer' deserves 1 'consumer good', a stick, to be beaten with, so that he might become something more than consumer, and possibly... produce even.
mircea_popescu: actually consumer goods were never a priority.
jurov: asciilifeform: actually i said nothing about 80s, mircea did. but non-food production woes were a thing
mircea_popescu: you know, when they shot a dog in a bushel of wheat into space.
jurov: phf yes, they eventually learned to produce or trade grain. but anything beyond that was never a certainty
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in that sense the ukraine's been nothing but a famine.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform eh that's a laughable notion. ru was starving even more than ro by 1985.
asciilifeform: to answer the q in the earlier thread, su was a superior culture (vs the anglos, of any time after isambard brunel died) simply because their cult was culturally superior in effect. su pharaoh orders n1 rocket for his pyramidal glorification. anglo pharaoh orders 1,000,000,001 fupas to be fattened.
asciilifeform: can try to fix it, possibly, mircea_popescu-style, by breeding a wholly different crop of people, but this takes millenia, and nobody alive here and now will live to see the smallest lick of it.
asciilifeform: trinque: consider: a 'saturn' and the maersk cargo fleet cost similarly. but they are unlike: 'saturn' is a cult/religious object (in the sense where nobody seriously attempts to calculate its roi) , rather more like the great pyramids. ☟︎
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: I'll change it the next time i'm in the lab with a pen and a pad.
trinque: not the name, but it was a mammoth rocket
asciilifeform: su incidentally had a considerably larger item, which is not famous where trinque lives, because it exploded on the launch pad (killing the bulk of the su space command at the time)
trinque: some guy also launched a Saturn V once
asciilifeform: there was a mircea_popescu thread re this
trinque: not to mention a different kind of culture among the wealthy ☟︎
trinque: my point was that you have to have a different distribution of wealth
asciilifeform: it is an absurdity, rather like trying to make a movie to show to just 1 rich d00d.
phf: some kid pulls up with chrome dipped bugatti rims now i'm thinking it's three in the am i'm walking he in a bm drop top 3 and don't even see me but you gonna believe he saw my gun in 3-D ☟︎
trinque: there's another scamatronic component, where they are often being rented - say by a rapper - from an agency meant to make him appear rich
jhvh1: phf: PatchRequirements - Semantic Web Standards - W3C: <https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/PatchRequirements>; Re: encouraging good use of p2p from Sandro Hawke on 2005-06 ...: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2005Jun/0112.html>; A Pen by Artem Bilodid - CodePen: <http://codepen.io/artbels/pen/EVjrEv>
a111: Logged on 2015-04-02 02:24 asciilifeform: this is 'the hole through which the night walks in', to borrow a mircea_popescuism
trinque: perhaps this is why I hear asciilifeform and phf sound a bit wistful for alt-sov future; at least time to time they horked up a weirdo ekranoplan
trinque: anyhow why's a bugatti veyron exist but a million dollar computer does not
trinque: the guys exist, but the current structure of "wealth" precludes there being a healthy market for their products.
phf: i know an astrophysicist who does botany for a hobby, he's from soviet union though..
asciilifeform: stead of employing one guy for a few days, the budget will get chopped up to a half dozen people, it will take months instead of days, and I won’t get what I want anyway. Sure, they can build things now that they couldn’t have before, but there is something missing in the food chain: the guy who can screw around in the machine shop and build something that works from a pencil sketch. There are guys who want to do that, who are ca
asciilifeform: d me a cryochamber with electrodes and X-ray windows in it for keeping a torr of helium in a UHV system, and he’d go away and build the freaking thing from a piece of aluminum, he’d come to me a few days later, and it would work. There is no guy like that now. Now I have to go through a CAD designer, who will send it to a CAM shop, and the thing will come back with something missing, like no wires to hook up to the electrodes. In
mircea_popescu: yes, the world before america became great was truly a great place.
asciilifeform: up for a house party, because, again, supersonic (maybe hypersonic) flight is super cheap in the 1967 future.'
asciilifeform: ' They had no way of knowing the oil crisis would come, just as they had no way of knowing you’d need to arrive 3 hours early to the airport because of imbecile US foreign policy hubris. Remember you didn’t even need a photo ID to get on a plane until 1999 or so; you could go to the airport with a bundle of cash and fly anywhere you wanted to; just like in 1967. In a later scene in the video, pals from Philippines and Paris show
ben_vulpes: most recently, the montgomery bumped a lock wall got herself an 18" long crack
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 17:39 thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: that john blocke fellow copied a bunch of log discussions and qntra articles then made "his own propagandas", whereas it's just plagarized Qntra material repurposed for r/btc consumption.
mircea_popescu: except if she's been treating an anal tear, in which case her rectum is stopped by a very disturbing, bio-like gelatinous mass. sort-of like a buttctopus.
ben_vulpes: "when you kiss another human being, you make a long meat tube with a butthole at each end"
thestringpuller: i would blame the parents for telling all the kids "college is how you get a good jerb!"
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: that john blocke fellow copied a bunch of log discussions and qntra articles then made "his own propagandas", whereas it's just plagarized Qntra material repurposed for r/btc consumption. ☟︎
shinohai: It's blog is a treasure trove of lulz as well: http://www.alexandraerin.com/care-and-feeding/ "If I exert myself too hard, I pay for it later."
asciilifeform: soooo somebody linked this turd, https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/575 , and i read the paper to try an' see how the fuck a gizmo that requires you to send bitcoin to folx you don't know can be 'trust-free'. took exactly 30 seconds to read to the point where it relies on 'timelocked' transactions.
jurov: mod6: mailinglist fixed, emails go through a ssh pipe which got clogged
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-01#1561303 << orlol described the process well, imho, imaginarily 'posh country-set parasites 'boosting revenue' by sacking low-rent 'we MADE A HOME HERE!11111' desk parasites, and simultaneously also the expensive r&d folk who 'only contribute to costs' ☝︎
BingoBoingo: Sure, now's as good a time as any. I was going to save rickets for a very Qntra X-mas story, but a holiday is a holiday.
asciilifeform: 'As of 2016, the independently-funded company is staffed by a team of seven, all of whom joined with a security background, with the majority of that experience coming from the US Dept. of Defense.' << i'ma die of lulz nao
BingoBoingo: trinque: Yeah, a line-wrapping hazard has been reduced to many platform benefit
BingoBoingo: Very visible, you can even say a "top" level change
BingoBoingo: In my estimation this design change improves mobile usability by a grave 30%, at least
BingoBoingo: http://qntra.net/ << OMG a meta-morpho-change-asis
mod6: jurov: thanks. haven't seen a bounce or anything on my side...
BingoBoingo: "Such apocalypse fiction is in effect the yearning of the inauthentic sissy soul of civilized man that his baby-crib existence not be imperiled by a call to masculine action."
BingoBoingo: "The insertion of any Howardian character in the sissy story line of passive collective sacrifice that my eyes were so pornographically subjected to last night would utterly ruin the story. Watch this episode and image Conan or Bran Mak Morn or Solomon Kane in Rick’s biblical place and the story of a tormented, kneeling father reeling in mortal helplessness evaporates."
mircea_popescu: n exist. there's a lot of similarly broken stuff in there, and then there's strange notions i can't readily evaluate. it is also much too long, yet it evidently is too sparsely written in most nodes. do yourself & teh world a favour and rewrite this thing.
mircea_popescu: the concept you're describing is sound, the example you use is utterly idiotic. for one thing "validating" that a video was watched is necessarily a void concept ; for another who even fucking cares if they did. in the path between a and b you've introduced a "simplifying detour" of the format a->moon, moon->b, which is pluriously dysfunctional - there's not even any reason to believe moon exists in any space where a and b ca
mircea_popescu: !~later tell gabriel_laddel so the thing is - you have to rewrite this. there's a lot of very powerful ideas struggling in the mire of very poor (and often rushed) writing. there's no way out, i can't rewrite it for you. while it's starting to emerge into sense it's not yet at the level of development where it can be productively engaged. take but one simple example : "$computation against $uri validate videos were watched".
asciilifeform: 'tis a good thing that not everyone goes to same kindergarten..
asciilifeform: she can be a first class donkey, in sunny afghan
mircea_popescu: hence looking into what ext2 does if you do a lot of simlinks. not like this can't be dry run with bogodata.
mircea_popescu: a block only comes in every x minutes, only has a hundred or so txn if that.
asciilifeform: pile up layers, with poor impedance match, and you get 'a clim'
mircea_popescu: this'd be a ssds in raid thing.
mircea_popescu: what time ? a txid doesn't change what block it's in does it ?
mircea_popescu: whenever you process a new block, you add the needed simlinks in /txid/etc
mircea_popescu: how about this scheme : you do /bitcoin/blockid/aaaa/bbbb/cccc/dddd/ a total of 16 levels, off the blockid, wherein at the end a block.dat 1mb file is found. you also do /bitcoin/txid/aaaa/bbbb/ etc also 16 levels, the last of which you SIMLINK to the correct block.dat dir
mircea_popescu: the only correct way to do this is to make a binary tree out of txids and save that somehow isn't it
asciilifeform: and the glomming of otherwise separate concerns is one of the things that makes reading trb a reliable headache.
asciilifeform: (at no point do i give a fuck what is in mempool, unless i put it there)
mircea_popescu: it's clear that it needs a message queue / interface with the proggy, but that's about all that's clear.
asciilifeform: mempool is a can of worms that deserves own thread
mircea_popescu: the three girls presently in the room have three girls names, but if i have them fuck each other and film the proceedings the filename will be something with a time in it. apparently this doesn't make the walls collapse on my head.
asciilifeform: every time i open a notebook and start in these, i barf upon realizing that there is more of these than of sane design decisions.
mircea_popescu: definitely trb fork will have a sane tx-to-block coding scheme
asciilifeform: btw if shitoshi weren't dropped as a baby, 'which block' would be baked into tx id.
mircea_popescu: a clever design for which would be muchly useful.
mircea_popescu: they are still turds. i don't want to seek in a fucking 2gb file to find block N
mircea_popescu: pop a fresh 8x TB ssd in a 1+0 raid array, ten years later they're within 95% of factory speeds. because never fragmented, because nothing ever deleted.
mircea_popescu: actually, improving logging to add some hooks for profiling in there may be a good idea.
mircea_popescu: mod6 note i'm not even discussing a special fs. that's a while down the road. for now, all that's needed is some serious profiling work, to see how we store the thing. prolly as block = file ? and just use a normal ext4 or w/e
mircea_popescu: and so what, we'll freeze a 2mn loc monstrosity ? you and what army ?
mod6: Agree, we've def. discussed a few times.
mircea_popescu: just the benefit of NOT haviong a whole pile of code in there doing "db" is already immense ; but there's actually no gain from slowing down the disk seeks etc through extra wrappings
mircea_popescu: the thing with the db is, i keep thinking about it and i keep failing to convince myself a db is even needed in the first fucking place. truth be told blockchain is the textbook example of "you don't db this shit son, use the filesystem"
BingoBoingo: Anyways, reall Halloween truth. When Elliot was in that Spielberg movie ET, Elliot did not dress up the alien as a ghost. Elliot dressed the alien up as a klansman.
asciilifeform: not even a stab at gabriel_laddel, but at current hardware drought.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-31 23:37 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-31#1560997 << this is exactly how it goes, on one end of that : everyone has his own boxes / his own process for acquiring boxes. you can't buy them boxes and mail them over, not really, and if you could it'd be a specialized job and wouldn't work like this. and this isn't even the only angle, people are also variously allergic to divers proteins involved etc.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-31 21:45 gabriel_laddel: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-31#1560440 < 2.5k usd. Per month, until I bitched about it and it was knocked down to $600/mo - anyways, it isn't about the money, it's about him doing absolutely nothing with it and making a mess that someone will have to clean up.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-31 21:33 gabriel_laddel: When my life is less shit I'll be setting up a method by which in-WOT people can get it for free. You all, of course, will be able to sell the same product I am.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-31#1561048 << Dicks also works. << You can't have a fucksaw without a sawzall ☝︎