gribble: Error: 'FIRST!!!' is not a valid currency code.
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 378.27, vol: 13543.66759622 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 382.724, vol: 8758.31056 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 377.49, vol: 62224.11038134 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 382.99, vol: 6.2435984 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 384.88072, vol: 79125.12340000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 379.91559, vol: 613.79457287 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 385.572769, vol: 50.78882564 | Volume-weighted last (1 more message)
gribble: Error: Failure to retrieve ticker. Try again later.
gribble: Bitstamp BTCJPY last: 45800.3168, vol: 13547.40184749 | BTC-E BTCJPY last: 46355.40976, vol: 8757.95763 | CampBX BTCJPY last: 46387.7488, vol: 6.2435984 | BTCChina BTCJPY last: 46630.877384, vol: 79126.78360000 | Kraken BTCJPY last: 45500.0, vol: 46.76868694 | Bitcoin-Central BTCJPY last: 46698.41221, vol: 50.78882564 | Volume-weighted last average: 46495.7976395
gribble: BTCChina BTCRMB last: 2534.1, vol: 79113.51580000 | Volume-weighted last average: 2534.1
shinohai: ;;ticker --market all --currency sweet young virgins
gribble: Error: 'sweet' is not a valid currency code.
gribble: Estimated percent change in difficulty this period | None % based on data since last change | 11.54629 % based on data for last three days
punkman: bitfury's 40MW datacenter could do 600petahash with their 16nm chips
BingoBoingo: shinohai: It takes currency codes only so instead of "sweet young virgins" you gotta enter "cntvs" for "cunt, virgin sweet"
funkenstein_: eh let captain kirk go where no man has gone before
punkman: ;;genrate [calc 12 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000]
gribble: The expected generation output, at 12000000000.0 Mhps, given difficulty of 1.20033340651e+11, is 50.2766828319 BTC per day and 2.09486178466 BTC per hour.
punkman: ;;calc 50.27 * [avgprc USD 30d]
punkman: (12 petahash, aka one bitfury container thingie)
punkman: "16nm chips for total hashpower of 12PH/s, 1.5MW (rev1) or 16PH/s, 2MW (rev2)"
punkman: guess that 40MW-600phash calculation I saw in some comments somewhere might be off a bit
punkman: 2mw per day at $0.15kwh ,,calc 48000 * 0.15
mod6: ok lemme try to answer some questions here...
mod6: <+pete_dushenski> mod6: 99996k built and running. back to scarfing blocks. should be synced early next week. << ok awesome, glad you got it working
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> You must install 'bc' on your build machine << ah, ok.
BingoBoingo: Looks like fiat intends to declare war on Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus
mod6: what's the cannonical makeclean, rm -rf * in /rotor ? << yeah, i would just blowaway the entire 'rotor' directory along with all the V stuff. the stuff that I would save is just the .wot dir, the keys contained therein, and of course, your ~/.gnupg stuff (ofc. have backups etc (this is for everyone who blew their keys away once)) : then totally restart the entire script.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> ftr mod6 : i ended up with two rotor.sh scripts, one under rotor the other under rotor/test2 << yeah, if all goes well, you should ~only~ need to just execute the build script -- if you have to execute either of the rotor.sh scripts, then something went wrong.
☟︎ shinohai: I just nuked my entire rotor directory on build machine every time I am doing an update
mod6: obviously this is not how we want things to be -- will be the main focus to be to get rid of the build script we're using today and move to a version of trinque's makefiles.
mod6: it doesn't scale obviously for everyone to have these issues. for my own sanity, we need to make it so that a guy just basically does one thing and then it builds.
☟︎ mod6: no exceptions to this.
mod6: so yeah, after the first, will be a main focus there -- all are encouraged to help me get to this goal.
shinohai: you have my support for as many hours of testing and reporting as needed. o7
mod6: <+hanbot>
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-01-2016#1389355 << if this isn't already a standard example, anyone feel like talking me through this option jungle? (starting v99996 for the first time) << so i think all that is really required here is `LC_ALL=C ./bitcoind -myip=A.B.C.D -addnode=W.X.Y.Z &`
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 29-01-2016 21:39:38; shinohai: ascii_butugychag: LC_ALL=C nohup bitcoind -conf=/home/shinohai/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf -datadir=/home/shinohai/.bitcoin/ -setverstring=bitcoind -setvernum=99997 -logtimestamps -myip=127.0.0.1 -verifyall 2>&1 &
mod6: But it totally depends. It depends on if you have ~/.bitcoin available for your blockchain repo, or if its in a different place.
mod6: if so you need to use -datadir=
mod6: if you want to verify all signatures in a block; use -verifyall
mod6: if you want to send btc and not get malleated, you may use: -lows
mod6: if you want to connect to just a single node instead of many, use: -connect (instead of -addnode)
mod6: if you have .bitcoin/bitcoin.conf -- then you shouldn't need to use the flag: -conf
☟︎ mod6: for sure let me know if there are other ones that you wanna know about :]
mod6: TomServo: ok, something very bad (tm) is happening on your end.
mod6: Please, let's work together to discover what that might be. I'm worried that either V is failing on your side for some reason (it seems to not be pressing out the tree correctly) -- maybe you tried to build over an old build space, or who knows.
mod6: But we should attempt to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible.
mod6: There are steps that I can let you know about to walk you through setting this up and logging your every move so we can all discover what it is that isn't working on your end. Because I'd bet dollars to donuts that for somereason you are ending up with a super downlevel version of db.cpp -- which is why you're getting stuck on 252`450
shinohai: Ok my old Ubuntu server and the other Deb machine both built with the script pete_dushenski posted earlier
mod6: ok sweet. that's a good thing.
shinohai: The Ubuntu server is remote - lost connection and had to reconnect
mod6: if hanbot and Mr. P. can get through it ok, then we'll deedbot it -- not that I feel good about it - I don't. The thing isn't what we really want... it's just what we have, for now. :/
mod6: the entire build process is incredibly complex and we need to desperately reduce that compelxity as much as we can.
☟︎ shinohai: I can work with it because I've used variation of it for so many builds. But I understand the issues at hand.
shinohai: I won't lie those, there are times I cry " mod6 HALP!!!!"
mod6: my goal is that someone who doesn't really know much -- but at least enough to install Linux can build this with a "single button push"
mod6: Yeah, the good news is: We have a statically linked bitcoind that has come quite a long way from where we started. Infact, the original version flat out will not work any longer -- ala TomServo's issue.
mod6: However, the process to build said binary is quite arduous and we need to perfect that part.
mod6: Then we'll be ready to take on the more challenging parts this year -- i.e. the mempool etc.
mod6: But we can't work on that, until we have something that people can use today.
mod6: what good is fixing the mempool or other things if they can't build it and use it today?
mod6: if someone says "hey fuck these ``Classic and XT clowns, I want REAL BITCOIN'', then we need to ensure that they can build that.
shinohai: It goes with the territory though. So many moving parts and this is relatively young in it's existence
mod6: Yup. It's complex. We've come a long way.
mod6: trinque did us all a huge favor, but we need to perfect the thing and make it a "no brainer"
mod6: that will be my main goal as soon as the SoBA for january is complete.
mod6: which, I aim to work on tonight :]
mod6: As soon as we have our new build process in place, and it's sane, and "Works" and "fits in head" and all that, then we'll release.
mod6: And hopefully, this will end some of our tooling issues for a while, and we can focus on the large engineering issues at hand.
punkman: mod6: my goal is that someone who doesn't really know much << wouldn't this guy be better off downloading a signed binary?
☟︎ mod6: this to me always seems like a shaky idea -- ONLY even a possibility if we get all the compiler garbage fixed so that it produces (bitwise) the ~exact~ same binary every single time.
mod6: i do think, as a republic, we're laying the groundwork for that at some point to be a possibility.
mod6: so stragicially, we're moving in the correct direction there.
shinohai would contribute a .deb package with same result
mod6: Look at how much stuff we accomplished in January!
mod6: I feel good about the work that you all put in this month. Thanks to everyone who helped the republic be successful this month.
punkman: does the trb server have room for a buildatron that eats patches and craps out bitcoind's?
☟︎☟︎☟︎ assbot: Logged on 29-01-2016 20:10:39; mod6: and upon a few others successfully building, trinque, can you work your magic with deedbot and place that guy in there so its like deedbot.org/build-bitcoind-v99996K.sh or whatever?
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2016 20:34:34; mod6: as soon as i get through the end of this month, a renewed emphasis will be put on ditching this script, and getting to a finished place with trinque's makefiles that'll hopefully be easier to understand.
assbot: Logged on 24-01-2016 08:18:57; phf: as it stands foundation doesn't support openbsd, and when someone wants to build on openbsd, i just support them directly
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2016 20:10:39; mod6: and upon a few others successfully building, trinque, can you work your magic with deedbot and place that guy in there so its like deedbot.org/build-bitcoind-v99996K.sh or whatever?
mod6: <+trinque>
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=29-01-2016#1389272 << there's some tweaking I'd like to do, would be happy to have your thoughts on the thing when you're able if you see other improvements << yeah, please, if you have the time, i'd really like to work with you to help us not only get the makefiles updated with the latest V and other things, but to also figure out all of this stuff.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 29-01-2016 20:34:34; mod6: as soon as i get through the end of this month, a renewed emphasis will be put on ditching this script, and getting to a finished place with trinque's makefiles that'll hopefully be easier to understand.
trinque: I will probably be out all day tomorrow, but the next day or sometime next week will work for me.
mod6: <+trinque>
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=24-01-2016#1384068 << I designed the makefiles to take a BUILDER variable, of which there is currently only rotor. ... << for now, as far as I'm concerned, this is totally ok. we'll have to worry about other *nix's after we perfect getting linux x86-64 done with a CD to boot also.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 24-01-2016 08:18:57; phf: as it stands foundation doesn't support openbsd, and when someone wants to build on openbsd, i just support them directly
mod6: <+trinque> I will probably be out all day tomorrow, but the next day or sometime next week will work for me. << no rush here. i'd like to dig into this sometime next week.
mod6: I feel like, if you and I put some serious effort with help from #b-a, for like 2 weeks, we'd really be somewhere by the end of february.
mod6: which would allow us some full testing time - at the end of which, we sign patches and call it a release.
mod6: two weeks kinda sounds like it might be a lot, but you know how this stuff goes ;)
mircea_popescu: mod6 and in the same vein as prev comment : why does bitcoind end up in /bitcoin/src ?
mod6: mircea_popescu: no specific reason, we just leave it in place after compilation. moving to trinque's setup resolves this.
mod6: you think i should copy it somewhere in the v99996 build script before i jump onto other things? i'd rather just let sleeping dogs lie there, just because very soon we're gonna ditch it anyway.
mod6: btw, did it ever build ok for you after the 'bc' issue?
mod6: hanbot: did you get it to work too?
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2016 19:57:06; mircea_popescu: hey, best part of physics lab was the blackboard imo
PeterL: I always hated when we had to use a room in the physics department, they used whiteboards
mircea_popescu: mod6 : latest trb v99996 on 91.218.246.31 says "blocks" : 4500, "connections" : 13,
shinohai: btw mod6 I still have to add the export PERL_MM_OPT= to mine to get it to run, dunno what weird issue I have that causes it.
mircea_popescu: minor snags as detailed in logs. but nothing really worth the mention
mod6: shinohai: that *is* weird.
mod6: mircea_popescu: hey, just because im curious -- let me know if you get past 252`450 -- or if you'd rather, check and see if you have the most recent db.cpp
mod6: TomServo's issues have me a bit curious there.
mod6: Thanks Sir. Much appreciated.
mircea_popescu: mod6 565faf3ef371f5e2178ae30c45b08b93415eeb92263486e68f2ac2e8f4c7900056e628804bf5c0707a90be946e0aeaebfcd0a391aab40de2e5d56e6bcbdccb1e db.cpp that help ?
mod6: Thanks Sir. Much appreciated.# sha512sum db.cpp
mod6: 565faf3ef371f5e2178ae30c45b08b93415eeb92263486e68f2ac2e8f4c7900056e628804bf5c0707a90be946e0aeaebfcd0a391aab40de2e5d56e6bcbdccb1e db.cpp
mod6: oops, copied too much there.
mod6: yah, looks good to me. very good.
mod6: hmm. perhaps he has something environmental going on. be interesting to get to the bottom of that mystery.
mod6: just dial: 1888-MOD-6HLP
mod6: running -verifyall ?
mod6: ya, i agree with that when sync'ing up. get a verified chain from a trusted node.
mod6: then make a backup (for those who haven't)
trinque: shinohai: I'd type env in a terminal of yours, see what your system is setting
trinque: also, deedbox will be down shortly for SSD installation, whenever the DC pulls it
hanbot: mod6 v99996 up and running here, couldn't've asked for something smoother.
mod6: wow, hanbot. congrats!
mod6: Thanks for the feedback. :]
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 01:10:38; mod6: <+mircea_popescu> ftr mod6 : i ended up with two rotor.sh scripts, one under rotor the other under rotor/test2 << yeah, if all goes well, you should ~only~ need to just execute the build script -- if you have to execute either of the rotor.sh scripts, then something went wrong.
mircea_popescu: anyway mod6 this is a milestone for teh foundation, got three instances spun up on the same fucking day of the release.
mod6: ok, on that note then; we've got myself, shinohai, bitcoin_pete, hanbot, Mr. P. and who am i forgetting that have built v99996 build script -- i'd say let's put it in deed bot and update the wiki.
mod6: mircea_popescu: that's great! very nice progress indeed.
mod6: Couldn't have been possible without all of you.
mircea_popescu: anyway, im only going to announce the new nodes once they're synced and i open them to public i figure.
mod6: Thanks for doing so! That's awesome.
mircea_popescu: currently kinda useless to advertise nodes that run in -connect
shinohai: I'll open mine to public when I finish my battle with Comcast.
mod6: give 'em hell, shinohai
PeterL: does it sync faster in -connect rather than -addnode?
mircea_popescu: PeterL probably. moreover, it allows the trb network to be built in depth. what the fuck do we even have the fronteer nodes for if not to protect us
mircea_popescu: i haven't the slightest curiosity to find what rando i couldn't tell from adam thinks the blocks look like.
shinohai: mod6 Atlanta is one of the cities they decide to start enforcing data caps on. :/
mod6: shinohai: wow. perhaps, it's not a horrible idea to look at a hosted solution instead of saturating your home conn.
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 01:15:55; mod6: if you have .bitcoin/bitcoin.conf -- then you shouldn't need to use the flag: -conf
mod6: mircea_popescu: I believe they should.
mod6: shinohai: you use the conf file quite a bit right? does it seem to work "as expected" ?
mircea_popescu: and also, could we bundle a pre-created .conf file with the release ? something to include say all the public trb nodes as -connects and stuff, with a comment to explain to people how to turn it into a public node ?
mircea_popescu: # to make this node public, make sure port 8333 is open, comment out the line above and uncomment the line below
mod6: hmm. i'd feel like that maybe that's a bit sticky incase IPs change or what not -- maybe an addition to the wiki would be a better place to start there?
mircea_popescu: defaults are defaults, people are free to change them. but it's nice to have when out of the box like this
mod6: sure. that makes some sense. if it reduces confusion, i think its positive.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, just throwing it out there, for ppl to weigh in
shinohai: mod6: it works as expected for me, maybe I'll draft one up in next couple of days
mod6: hey hey, there you go bud.
mircea_popescu: certainly gets it one step further to the "one command and it runs" ideal
mod6: yah, shinohai that's be super helpful.
mod6: you know something that is a lot different participating in TMSR as opposed to any other place i've worked at?
mod6: people in here ~care~ about problems. they wanna pitch in and help and make things better.
mod6: in typical US work environment, its mainly a lot of "oh, that's not my problem... talk to so and so..."
shinohai: If you don't care about Bitcoin, you shouldn't be here.
mod6: seeing us pull together and get problems solved, warms my heart.
PeterL: maybe you just need to find better workplaces?
shinohai: What good is being part of a Republic, if you do not contribute for the good of said Republic?
mod6: lol, ive actually worked at a lot of places. it's totally different. people go there to get paid so they can continue buying shit they don't need and eating food that isn't food.
mod6: this, like shinohai said, is different because people want it.
mod6: "sound money is better than anything you've got"
shinohai would not have nice new lappy without sound money!
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 01:20:35; mod6: the entire build process is incredibly complex and we need to desperately reduce that compelxity as much as we can.
shinohai: Chillax and smoke more weed mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: "blocks" : 88213, man that first coupla years go fast...
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 01:34:33; punkman: mod6: my goal is that someone who doesn't really know much << wouldn't this guy be better off downloading a signed binary?
mircea_popescu: for one thing, the VERY CONCEPT of signed binary no longer exists.
mircea_popescu: for the other thing, no. it promotes this anti-computing, anti-intellectual, outright evil view of software being something that is given the user, like an item, rather than the correct view of software being a command given to the computer.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 01:42:16; punkman: does the trb server have room for a buildatron that eats patches and craps out bitcoind's?
shinohai: But it's what the user expects!
punkman: I don't think "guy that doesn't know much" doing "curl deedbot.com/build.sh | sh" is great either
phf: i'm using graphviz, v.lisp produces a file of 'digraph G {"bitcoin-asciilifeform.4-goodbye-win32" -> "asciilifeform-kills-integer-retardation"; ...' format, everything else handled by graphviz
phf: it gets the job done :]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33550 @ 0.00056225 = 18.8635 BTC [+] {4}
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 01:42:16; punkman: does the trb server have room for a buildatron that eats patches and craps out bitcoind's?
TomServo: mod6: Please assume I've mucked something up before all else. Let me know what I can provide that can be of help.
TomServo: mircea_popescu: System has 2048 MB of RAM.
TomServo: doh dbenv.set_lk_max_locks(10000); :(
punkman: "If you've never peddled the flesh of subhuman garbage creatures to human garbage, you've never lived, and living is a nightmare. Eat arbys"
mod6: Well, you may have not have `mucked' anything up. Perhaps we can walk through this a bit.
mod6: if you're around tonight, i'd like to walk through some steps.
mod6: If not, tomorrow is fine too. Just want to ensure that we take a look at what might be going on there.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35500 @ 0.00056029 = 19.8903 BTC [-]
mod6: ok, let's pick it back up in the morning. night!
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 38750 @ 0.00056081 = 21.7314 BTC [+] {2}
TomServo: Sorry, I had to step away. I've rebuilt w/ v99996k and am seeing the correct max_locks.
TomServo: Still have the original build dir if that is any help.
TomServo: Back up and running but no joy yet. Is unwedging unlikely?
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 02:44:42; mircea_popescu: for the other thing, no. it promotes this anti-computing, anti-intellectual, outright evil view of software being something that is given the user, like an item, rather than the correct view of software being a command given to the computer.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 56400 @ 0.00056275 = 31.7391 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36200 @ 0.00055816 = 20.2054 BTC [-]
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski 'hysterical raisins'!
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2016 23:10:49; mircea_popescu: ie, infantile delusions of sovereignity through "privacy". this doesn't work. sovereignity behaves publicly and with impunity. that is the fucking point.
ben_vulpes: saying "no" to a hundred thousand dollars from Conde Nast is worth approximately 5x the bezzlebuxx in question.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 01:11:50; mod6: it doesn't scale obviously for everyone to have these issues. for my own sanity, we need to make it so that a guy just basically does one thing and then it builds.
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2016 19:58:18; ascii_butugychag: with ink markers
ben_vulpes: but black is the only acceptable dry-erase color.
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2016 18:58:55; ascii_butugychag: the overall idea i am trying to teach is that anybody changing a line of trb ought to be mindful of the work this creates for others
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2016 18:31:10; ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: it bothered me that polarbeard apparently does not yet fully grasp that every line he writes is a unit of ~work~ for other people to do.
ben_vulpes: first: node.js. second: "naw, vpatches are for faggots". third: 2.5kloc patch degendering reference implementation log statements.
ben_vulpes: i am unconvinced that the six months have been paid, or that if they have any impression has been made.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8650 @ 0.00055816 = 4.8281 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 73400 @ 0.00055794 = 40.9528 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6279 @ 0.00055821 = 3.505 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 38200 @ 0.00055939 = 21.3687 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17400 @ 0.00056046 = 9.752 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 221850 @ 0.00056194 = 124.6664 BTC [+] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 98900 @ 0.00056358 = 55.7381 BTC [+] {3}
thestringpuller: Has Gavin really been turned into kid who eats glue in class? Cause he really seems that way when he says stuff like:
thestringpuller: "Gavin: ... that's another form of centralization that I find much more worrying than network security. If the only entities participating are only high-net worth people, then those are pretty easy to get at and control."
thestringpuller: Yes cause people like mircea_popescu are so easy to control.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11200 @ 0.00056263 = 6.3015 BTC [-]
thestringpuller: The SEC tried that you big dummy. Go back to MIT and continue to eat glue.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32200 @ 0.00056403 = 18.1618 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36950 @ 0.00056468 = 20.8649 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 73668 @ 0.00056545 = 41.6556 BTC [+] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23591 @ 0.00056555 = 13.3419 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 155105 @ 0.00056605 = 87.7972 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16070 @ 0.00056607 = 9.0967 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 179230 @ 0.00056735 = 101.6861 BTC [+] {6}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 58015 @ 0.00056805 = 32.9554 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 76203 @ 0.0005695 = 43.3976 BTC [+] {3}
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller idiots actually moved to 100% discussing what i say, STILL can't fucking say my name ?
mircea_popescu: seems the matter of control is squarely resolved in the field. mp can get to anyone in usg, to anything to them he damned well pleases. so it goes.
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 06:16:40; ben_vulpes: saying "no" to a hundred thousand dollars from Conde Nast is worth approximately 5x the bezzlebuxx in question.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39450 @ 0.00056679 = 22.3599 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: i had archive.is preserve the dpaste just in case anyone wants it after it expires. assbot has the link.
mircea_popescu: "so as to cease being dependent on foreign supplies." the chinese dream since forever. and they'll get it, too.
kimowski: 19s4DPDAw6F6nkjbUX1Rywb7vnjtGxdFX6
AKWAnalytics: hello #bitcoin-assets. MP, thank you for voice. Cheers.
AKWAnalytics: Just some guy. I need to verify ident as AKWAnalytics. My real name is Adam Wyatt.
mircea_popescu: "In the government’s earlier efforts to boost domestic manufacturing of solar panels and LED lamps, it spread its largesse among a lot of local firms, resulting in excess capacity and slumping prices. This time it seems to be concentrating its firepower on a more limited group of national champions. For instance, SMIC of Shanghai is set to be China’s champion “foundry” (bulk manufacturer of chips designed by ot
mircea_popescu: hers). And HiSilicon of Shenzhen (part of Huawei, a maker of telecoms equipment) will be one of a select few champions in chip design.
mircea_popescu: Most intriguing of all, Tsinghua Unigroup, a company spun out of Tsinghua University in Beijing, has emerged in the past year or so as the chosen champion among champions, a Chinese challenger to the mighty Intel. Zhao Weiguo, the firm’s boss, started out herding goats and pigs in Xinjiang, a remote province in north-western China, to where his parents had been exiled in the 1950s, having been labelled as dissidents.
mircea_popescu: After moving to Beijing to study at the university, Mr Zhao made a fortune in electronics, property and natural resources, before becoming chairman and second-largest shareholder (after the university itself) at Tsinghua Unigroup."
mats: moar arm garbage incoming
mircea_popescu: im rather curious what their strategic choice will be to unseat intel.
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mircea_popescu: why not ? will be great. lumbering chinese golem strong enough to fracture nato, force whatever remnants are actually worth saving into #b-a, crush the rest into alabama.
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 14:08:37; mircea_popescu: i'd imagine they'd opt for "countless multitude"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it happens to be the correct strat for the table.
mircea_popescu: and they'll get some bonus from redditard going "oh, this will make chips like 3d printable!11"
mircea_popescu: which is why the prisons are full of orcs with "booze and women put us here" rather than the other way around
mircea_popescu: no idea where this mineral idea came from, but if you look on the net china is an importer of minerals. be it canadian oil or euro gold, they mostly buy.
mircea_popescu: they're getting a lot of mileage out of the rare earths.
mircea_popescu: much moreso than say saudis are getting out of their oil.
mircea_popescu: im actually curious which happens first, trb hardware delivery or cn hardware delivery.
punkman: asciilifeform: there are more "server ARM" things coming out lately, might eventually have a workstation
mircea_popescu: "i always found it interesting turks can not only not design own greek fire, but can't even produce shit copy!"
punkman: they wouldn't really sell a lot of bootleg-intels. shit ARM copy does power the megatons of phones though.
mircea_popescu: cn has made a career out of an inability to feel the heat.
mircea_popescu: i'm kinda curious if they're in for another great leap forward actually
mircea_popescu: so far they were fortunate to get very liberal minded leadership
mircea_popescu: the ru "90yos get together to decide which 70yos should retire" thing in full swing, but producing much less spew than the ru version did
mircea_popescu: notice incidentally how isis isn't making a single move in THAT direction.
mircea_popescu: whole fucking thing's driven by china and they don't even have to do anything.
mircea_popescu: in other news, oldest txn in mempool ? first seen jan the 25th, usual 14.7kb crud with 0.00015 fees.
mircea_popescu: this faux "use" of bitcoin capacity has been ongoing for close to a year now.
mircea_popescu: and they are getting included, and basically EVERYONE is stuck storing 14.7kb in exchange for a one time payment of nothing at all in btc or about 5 cents to a third party
mircea_popescu: it's fucking ridiculous. the current cost of 14.7kb is something like
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so basically, if 10k people store the blockchain, it takes just as much in hard drive costs to store the damned txn as the miners get for including them.
mircea_popescu: and this is no fancy sort of setup with raids and backups and whatnot. just man and his single cpu single hdd playstation.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually the whole power ranger array threw a hissy fit, started bitching about censoring txn and whatnot,
mircea_popescu: i had to publicly bitchslap them and privately threaten burning and pillage to get them to shut the fuck up already.
mircea_popescu: but THAT was not only an economic activity - it was the only economic activity in bitcoin at the time.
mircea_popescu: this inept jockeying and pointless us-style politics bs...
mircea_popescu recalls the times when provisioning a bitcoin node came with "just set quota 100 gb or something, it'll never get there".
mircea_popescu: now i can't even buy SSDs - admitting i somehow wanted to - because lol what, sub tb space ?!
mircea_popescu: and even the current state of the art spindle drives... they won't last for ever. that'll be an interesting bitcoin-fs application
mircea_popescu: because that's how bureaucracy goes in and then never leaves.
mircea_popescu would have never bought. "sell me the half dozen or go to hell."
mircea_popescu: "your honor, i tried to buy a hdd and they refused to sell me. vendor told me they have an illegal arrangement to promote the business interests of Amazon cloud services. I want 100 dollars in liquidated damages and 10bn in punitive damages kthx."
mircea_popescu: i don't live there nor have i yet run into the problem.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, the plan's very simple, go to large nat'l retailer, load half a dozen disks, when the cashier refuses to sell them sucker punch him, get the police report to say he wouldn't sell you the drives, pay the whatever it is to have punched a dude and settle for whatever coupla mil they're willing to pay to avoid discovery.
mircea_popescu: your cut should be more or less the coupla mil, minus cab fare.
mircea_popescu: if what you mean is that large buyers get volume discounts, well doh ?
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ben_vulpes: eyy, mod6 so i just spun up v.pl on a new box and despite wget not being installed v.pl still claims successful sync
mod6: oh, defect i guess?
mod6: i'll have to check it out. thanks for letting me know.
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mod6: <+ben_vulpes> mod6 and trinque as well << hacking the codebase? << I just build the statically linked bin with rotor via the build-bitcoind script that everyone uses.
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 06:24:52; ben_vulpes: asciilifeform in particular
mod6: i do a lot of testing etc. often if I'm actually going to change a line of code, i'll press out a seperate branch call it 'foo', go in there copy a & b, then make changes in b. make a vpatch. drop it in my live bitcoin branch, rebuild with the rotor. bunch of stuff.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: (reminds me a bit of the "check every return code" naggum line)
mod6: i just re-read what I typed there (sorry, just woke up, slept like the dead), and i don't mean to make it sound like a single line, even if sometimes it is! i just make the changes i need, the most minimal changes possible, then drop 'em in and see.
mod6: but, i typically don't hack straight on the built trb, ususally on a separate branch.
mod6: i use the built thing to test my code changes and other config changes.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> in fact i think it ought to be abolished and replaced with pressed silver cd. << im not sure how to build this excatly. this is part of what we wanna talk about next week.
mod6: not only with the makefiles, but are we actually thinking about distributing all the deps ON CD?
mod6: just a lot of 'em .
mod6: yeah... there's a handful. i dunno, makes me nervous.
mod6: the whole thing maybe lol.
ben_vulpes: we should really do a bsd, and sell the discs for a bitdime each.
mod6: ok, we can revisit this next week.
mod6: ben_vulpes: heheh. its more like: here's the source code, see what you can do with this. unless .1, then you can have CD and volla!
mod6: we're totally not going to do that btw.
mod6: someone asked me why I don't create vpatches of the changes to V.
mod6: and that's basically because it's not "ready" per-se.
mod6: maybe in 6 months to a year, then we'll be in a spot where it's in a more hardened form. takes some time, and people using it to flush some of the shit out.
jurov: "the Emacs unexec() function that converts the running program into a new executable."
jurov: but to hardwire it in the build process and C library?
mod6: oh yeah, and i remember now...
mod6: <+asciilifeform> why the hell not ? << because i tried to kinda sorta do this already... buildroot is hardcoded to download (rsync) all of its deps and stuff it needs from net. we'd have to "hack" our own buildroot.
mod6: i guess v99995 could rip all that stuff out. certainly would condense the code a bit.
ben_vulpes: a small step to the disc would be to slam buildroot, openssl, bdb and boost into a tar.gz and stick it on the website.
mod6: not sure i follow there, what'd be the techincal purpose of that?
ben_vulpes: rather than including procurement of deps in the build scripts, force users to actually download the deps themselves.
TomServo: or a nob to include a local path, else procurement?
mod6: TomServo: hey! did you ever get unwedged?
TomServo: Negative. Was just going to ask if there is any value in keep it..
mod6: i would 100% start over, including in your .bitcoin dir.
mod6: it doens't take long to pass that spot anyway.
mod6: alright, thanks, let us know.
jurov: <punkman> asciilifeform: there are more "server ARM" things coming out... << you really want like, 64 shitty cores on the workstation instead of 4x x86?
☟︎ jurov: i asked punkman, not you
jurov: and i don't have anything to say about non-nato computers3
ben_vulpes: phf: is this mod6's svgerator or your own?
mod6: ok, well i did just rip out all the sync/init/mirrors parts of V
☟︎☟︎ mod6: and it eliminates at least 167 lines of code.
mod6: and seems to work ok... but i'll hvae to test this quite a bit.
mod6: is it worthwhile to rip out my graphing stuff out of V?
☟︎ mod6: alright, fwiw, it does work. could use some more colorization and attention to details like you and Mr. P. have suggested.
mod6: i just haven't focused on that part as much for obv reasons.
mod6: so -- i might need several weeks at min to test out v99995 of V
☟︎ mod6: i gotta re-write a lot of automated tests and stuff too.
mod6: actually, it might just elimiate a bunch of tests.
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 01:42:16; punkman: does the trb server have room for a buildatron that eats patches and craps out bitcoind's?
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mod6: asciilifeform: while i'm on the subject (and anyone else for that matter): is there anything else that should be excised from the current V [v99996] ?
mod6: aside from the sync/mirrors/init stuff?
mod6: i'd like to get this into "battle-ready" shape once and for all.
☟︎ mod6: also, hehe, i downloaded this scheme interpreter to play with on my phone.
phf: asciilifeform: right, it's a state transition graph, with edges corresponding to file changes
phf: that one looks pretty cool
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assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 17:51:53; mod6: i do a lot of testing etc. often if I'm actually going to change a line of code, i'll press out a seperate branch call it 'foo', go in there copy a & b, then make changes in b. make a vpatch. drop it in my live bitcoin branch, rebuild with the rotor. bunch of stuff.
ben_vulpes: think they're going to try the sterile males trick?
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 18:05:48; asciilifeform: and loading them from the jungle every time, not nervous ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i think they're going to try the sit around and talk about it while it goes away or whatever trick
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 18:07:37; asciilifeform: but in all seriousness, a battlefield trb oughta be built on a virginal airgapped box.
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 18:13:03; asciilifeform: how would you feel about a table saw that walks around looking for what to saw ?
mircea_popescu: looky : your design whereby a better water piping system consists of introducing a one foot gap somewhere so people can be employed to run the water across in buckets isn't as brilliant as it seems.
mircea_popescu: if the machine is never going to connect to the internet, building on it airgapped is sane.
mircea_popescu: if the machine will connect ot the internet anyway, what the fuck do you imagine "airgapping" it does ?
mircea_popescu: but the convenience here is exactly that i just compile on the run boxes.
mircea_popescu: which is how i discovered yest that for instance we have an undocumented "bc" dependency in the build tree
mircea_popescu: all convenience is sinful by this measure. there's nothing wrong with a little sin.
mircea_popescu: now, mind, i don't think it's wrong to have a cast cd of the thing, just like i don't think it's wrong to have an iridium idol of the "meter" somewhere in france
mircea_popescu: but don't expect me to go to paris every time i'm about to fit tits for corsets.
mircea_popescu: understand that introducing the ability to read cds is an unneeded kludge.
mircea_popescu: so then you internet a signed binary over rather than a v tree. meh.
mircea_popescu: i much prefer building on the dest box whenever feasible.
mircea_popescu: i don't even see the value of maintaining the cd as a thing in the world. it can go the way of the celuloid film afaic.
mircea_popescu: according to proponents. it's similar to the value of vinyl, in reality.
danielpbarron: the point of openbsd cd is to compare against downloaded version, no?
mircea_popescu: so paper is in this sense the same as --clearsign. a cd is not that, not even remotely.
mircea_popescu: and also it's trivial to rewrite a cd. most of them are rewritable realy.
mircea_popescu: they are rewritable to some degree whether you wantthem to be or not.
danielpbarron: get nubbins` or someone to make some nice artwork on it and i'll buy
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so to summarize : a) they're less resilient than you imagine them to be ; b) they're more rewritable than you imagine them to be ; c) keepi9ng them around requires keeping a whole pile of kludge that never worked right (cd drivers etc).
mircea_popescu: you wanna press a vinyl copy of it... whatevs floats your boat but dun go all fetish-hypster on me
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can we agree at least on the concept that the notation you'll use consists of making different sized holes for 0s and 1s ?
mircea_popescu: the cd remains a sort of vinyl disc, for a, b and c above.
mircea_popescu: it's more or less a 1966 argument that "it is not possible to alter a vinyl disc once printed because hurr durr the plastic will melt"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i gotta go to town. we can continue this when i'm back, but less symbolistic fetishism, more alphabetic monotheism plox.
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mod6: i can take a look, give me a few.
mod6: ok do i understand this right? (i haven't done this since before the re-bake of tinyscheme)
mod6: for the sake of this test, i'll just rename these in my .seals dir as they should be.
mod6: ok pressed out & compiling...
mod6: if this works, i'll do a clean and then grab the file hashes.
mod6: ok compiled cleanly.
mod6: with V [v99996] pressed out cleanly when:
mod6: ./v.pl p v rotor/TEST2 asciilifeform_malleus_mikehearnificarum.vpatch
mod6: awe crap, sorry my manifest file is in the list.
mod6: looks like our header files differ for sure.
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mod6: yeah, we got a bunch of files that differ. but i might have built something that you haven't.
phf: mod6: thanks! well more common then different
phf: i pressed it programmatically, without "patch" utility, before leaving home, so didnt have time to test it
phf: so its encouraging that at least some files match
mod6: asciilifeform will have to confirm/deny that i used the correct patches.
mod6: ah ok. just to see if you hit that same PERL_MM_OPT thing? or just on another OS?
mod6: we need to get that script into deedbot so we can update the wiki
shinohai: I'm doing a fresh, vanilla image so imma see what happens.
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