mircea_popescu: time_elapsed_nanos = timer_end(time_init); << trhis is ns precision now ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform always worth hounding down in my experience.

mircea_popescu: lol jurov cute

mircea_popescu: ah shall get to it

mircea_popescu: and what the fuck caused that outlier.

mircea_popescu: incidentally what is your ns counter method ?

mircea_popescu: fopen() times given 100000000 iterations: min = 1761 ns, max = 1506074 ns, avg = 2326.51 ns, << holy shit what.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624551 << these are actually pretty encouraging as such ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624534 << word, exactly. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: if you have no relationship with your whore, it will provide some anchor for pointless, idle pretense while you "focus on your career"

mircea_popescu: acid is not a bad idea in the sense "valentine's day" is not a bad idea.

mircea_popescu: psssh.

mircea_popescu: (they do this, and they think they're smart for it, too.)

mircea_popescu: Framedragger i just meant "don't fucking rebalance my tree, behind the scenes, idiot!"

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624528 << and this not worth doing, either, because just do p when it comes out and be done with it ☝︎

mircea_popescu: compare and contrast with the mit offering.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in any case this is turning into QUITE the course on caching!

mircea_popescu: this theory of yours crashes on the jagged shores of a meaner reality.

mircea_popescu: there is no practical way to tell postgresql to do slave reads ; nor any way to tell ~any db to do unbalancing btree stores.

mircea_popescu: there's still a lot of noobs.

mircea_popescu: that nobody else uses it... well.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624517 << don't knock it too much, bunny-hop fuck-chair is fine tool for she who for the first time took her clothes off in public today. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: Framedragger yeah that's exactly it, the distributions

mircea_popescu: "your kink is not my kink"

mircea_popescu: the rebalancing above a fine examplke of the fundamental problems.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, no, nothing of the kind. i was contemplating no hardware whatsoever, just the tower of crud that builds up to consumer fs

mircea_popescu: this is exactly contrarty to the engineering assumption in "balancing"

mircea_popescu: because any arbitrart hash has equal chances to be seen as next hash as any other.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624512 << rebalancing the tree is actually a terrible idea for bitcoin block storage. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: myeah

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624508 << you also need a guarantee against being "slow" (term of art) ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624496 << experimentally this is almost never above 50% ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624481 << you can most assuredly cheat by you know, virgin hdd. but kludge of kludges and metatronium nonsense besides. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624468 << very much this. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624446 << there may be a lot of merit in this. even l1-l4 implemented via kernel table may be faster than freestanding l1 with "occasonal" (to be defined) cache miss aka collision. ☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624436 no guarantees, but likel;y, yeah/ ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624420 <<->> http://trilema.com/2013/things-that-matter-these-days-things-that-dont-matter-these-days/#footnote_3_50058 2013. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624417 << this is not accountable in dollars. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624413 << this truly isn't a concern. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624406 << they try; but yeah hehe. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624395 << your emulator stil lsucks what can i tell you. ai winter! ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624381 << very much so. reminiscent of ye olde http://btcbase.org/log/2016-01-21#1379603 ☝︎☝︎

mircea_popescu: -9*

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624375 << confirmed, this is safe. just don't issue the -0 before it hd a chance to settle down. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624374 < heh. though this be a taller order than meets the eye. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624370 << god help us. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: yeah srs.

mircea_popescu: sorry to hear.

mircea_popescu: yeah. well...

mircea_popescu: did she smoke ?

mircea_popescu: some do survive it. but myeah.

mircea_popescu: 1 in 10 shot or what.

mircea_popescu: that's not good.

mircea_popescu: o.o

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624365 << quite so. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: because yes, alf is entirely correct, the hdds piss out 4kb or more per call

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624352 << this is a major part of the savings in fsdb ☝︎

mircea_popescu: yea

mircea_popescu has seen architerctures where there were de facto 3 different disk caches

mircea_popescu: ,m

mircea_popescu: afaik it bundles a lot fo that in

mircea_popescu: dispensing with the kernel's accumulated gunk comes at no cost to the wizard, but at disability to anyone else.

mircea_popescu: im not against the idea in the slightest. i'm just very unpersuaded by the theory hard drives work, to any spec, in any sanemanner. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone correctly represents the tower of accidental good luck that stands between a disk seek and your desired pron.

mircea_popescu: it's more the case that those 10k lines of ??? actually contain the mystery bullshit that makes the whole pile of crap evern work.

mircea_popescu: the noion that hdd is usable or useful is a cute pipe-dream of the web generation, unsupported in cold reality. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: Framedragger it sounds great on paper and then crashes irrecoverably six weeks in.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624307 << it is the case, one collision a year sort of deal./ ☝︎

mircea_popescu: meh.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624297 << this sounds like a quite elegant solution, yes. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624290 << contiguity is the big problem. perhaps it can be resolved through "alternative starvation', as in, running naught else. but that is liable to run into the genius of "dwim" "modern" linuxhit ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624278 << this blowing seems altogether a foregone conclusion. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: and in other news, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtnTaUcMLjA

mircea_popescu: prolly.

mircea_popescu: possibly their best.

mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y << spare time.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624254 << there are habits that die easy and habits that die hard. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: the race is on*

mircea_popescu: i said years back the race is won. but meanwhile the usg utterly lost it, ot little concern of anyone, itself included.,

mircea_popescu: yet move - he won't.

mircea_popescu: myeah.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have to protest re the scheme. i'm merely needling you in my spare time.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform usg really can't make anything. you're basically saying "siliconed botoxed cali chick could cook a decent meal." of course she could. of course she won't.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-10#1624243 << does the lady know your only true love is strange addressing schemes ? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: +/-

mircea_popescu: that is certain. the nsa is fast losing the tech battle.

mircea_popescu: not unlike tv advertising to my chained girl, "a better life". really ? i think if she wanted that "better" she'd have found her way by now.

mircea_popescu: quite

mircea_popescu: just pointing out, they've been spending by the million/day in hitler notes for the past week with this nonsense.

mircea_popescu: ah, i don;t particularly care. anyone googling me who ends up on etoro deserves his punishment.

mircea_popescu: no, the bitcoin "etf" vehicle. give us dollars so we buy bitcoin "For you" thing.

mircea_popescu: "social trading brokerage". doing its best to eat the third world naivite.

mircea_popescu: some usg-approved "investment" scam.

mircea_popescu: no doubt in my mind the selva selvaggia be deep and readily surprising.

mircea_popescu: quite.

mircea_popescu: btw, the usg is out in force advertising its ersatz bitcoin. "etoro" taking out google advertising on my own name (no doubt along million other strings) and so on.

mircea_popescu: Framedragger i didn't intend any distinctiuon betrween "symlink resolution" "directory traversal" et al.

mircea_popescu: aha!

mircea_popescu: aha.

mircea_popescu: dc89/c1f2/b589/09d3/814b/250a/731a/9b9b/791b/0927/5955/3e3b/a657/9ffa/ad3a/7565.symlink