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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12812 @ 0.00049357 = 6.3236 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 108100 @ 0.00049639 = 53.6598 BTC [+] {6}
BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 455.26, vol: 8980.89302582 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 451.924, vol: 8656.66382 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 454.94, vol: 23011.32065649 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 438.0, vol: 0.06027771 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 462.795472, vol: 90346.73590000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 456.0, vol: 67.80392621 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 447.446, vol: 26.91770615 | Volume-weighted last average: (1 more message)
BingoBoingo: ;;more
gribble: 460.175706018
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45200 @ 0.00050228 = 22.7031 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 41900 @ 0.00050228 = 21.0455 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37250 @ 0.00049979 = 18.6172 BTC [-] {3}
BingoBoingo: ;;bc,stats
gribble: Current Blocks: 389934 | Current Difficulty: 9.34486707963238E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 391103 | Next Difficulty In: 1169 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 0 days, 20 hours, 17 minutes, and 43 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
phf: ;;later tell asciilifeform another minimal unix http://ulixos.org, this one is 31k loc of noweb. has threads and fs caching
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20200 @ 0.0005015 = 10.1303 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 98900 @ 0.00049506 = 48.9614 BTC [-] {5}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20565 @ 0.00050172 = 10.3179 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5735 @ 0.00050543 = 2.8986 BTC [+]
deedbot-: [Qntra] Two Milestones Pass On Bitcoin Blockchain - http://qntra.net/2015/12/two-milestones-pass-on-bitcoin-blockchain/
BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 457.68, vol: 9100.39254540 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 455.002, vol: 9169.10483 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 457.26, vol: 23903.20851982 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 438.0, vol: 0.07037461 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 465.946776, vol: 95604.35230000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 456.98999, vol: 75.51392621 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 448.376, vol: 43.78180127 | Volume-weighted last average: (1 more message)
BingoBoingo: ;;more
gribble: 463.157188567
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 48250 @ 0.0004935 = 23.8114 BTC [-] {3}
funkenstein_: greetings BingoBoingo et al.
funkenstein_: new zhou tonged is out
BingoBoingo: Merry chiralmas eve
BingoBoingo: What is zhou tonged?
funkenstein_: thank you kindly, and to you :)
BingoBoingo: Is that liek tradefortressed?
funkenstein_: musical arranger of note, named after bitcoinica something or other
funkenstein_: yes lol :)
BingoBoingo: I'm still not certain whether they are or are not the same person
funkenstein_: also dave barry's new year in review is out
funkenstein_: from which i quote
funkenstein_: Speaking of potatoes: Tensions rise in Europe when the Russian government announces that it is launching a new business start-up called Tuber, described as “like Uber, except with tanks.”
BingoBoingo: Also funkenstein if you may any comments on Qntra last week you gotta remake them. If you didn't you still have to make new comments anyways.
BingoBoingo wouldn't mind having a T-34 to convert into a camper van
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15350 @ 0.0004935 = 7.5752 BTC [-] {2}
funkenstein_: my calculations are showing 14,998,400 in circulation still
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21550 @ 0.00049472 = 10.6612 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 46164 @ 0.00049472 = 22.8383 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/continut-platit-no-more/#comment-116065 << that beautyon fellow is giving occasion to a very satisfying convo.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 68300 @ 0.00049472 = 33.7894 BTC [+]
ben_vulpes: is it old news that gnupg dgaf about linefeed types?
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351518 << U calculate how? With node of full chain?
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 07:32:23; funkenstein_: my calculations are showing 14,998,400 in circulation still
ben_vulpes: and whitespace on linefeeds in between blocks of text in signed files?
mircea_popescu: it's complicated.
ben_vulpes: 'cause i'm looking at 2 text files with different shasum 256's and the precise same text except for linefeeds
ben_vulpes: and both fucking verify
ben_vulpes: i must be the last person to have figured this out or something.
mircea_popescu: goes in the summary header of "gpg is a pos".
ben_vulpes: armor -- most poorly-named flag in the history of nix tools.
ben_vulpes: how the fuck on earth is one supposed to know if the original text had \n, \r, \r\n or whatever the original hodgepodge of linefeeds was to begin with?
mircea_popescu: one is supposed to simply assume it had whatever he uses on his machine.
mircea_popescu: "unix philosophy".
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351238 <<< ahahaha THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR QUITTING BIZNATCH!!1
assbot: Logged on 23-12-2015 19:45:54; cazalla_: ;;later tell BingoBoingo y u delete muh star wars comment from qntra? censorship! need to put qntra on a blockchain obv :P
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351243 << aww fuck. i forgot that stupidity's still in there.
assbot: Logged on 23-12-2015 19:47:18; ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351210 << didja '-connect' it ? or '-addnode' ? because the latter is 'merely suggestion'
mircea_popescu: this is the problem of having a trb in the first place : the temptation to assume it's sane is just too great.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351253 << in fairness, sqlite works for all usecases that aren't this. or that. or in general.
assbot: Logged on 23-12-2015 19:50:53; ascii_field: it was the reason phuctor was sloooooooooooow
mircea_popescu: sorta like a birthday balloon works in all usecases that don't require anything of it.
ben_vulpes: aha yes
ben_vulpes: i know first hand the costs of making it do...stuff.
mircea_popescu: it's a great classroom tool i guess.
ben_vulpes: actually what's an embeddable-via-c relational db that does r-trees besides sqlite?
mircea_popescu: lol. hey, how's life with the thunderbird, the wife, the studio and the new kid ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno... apache derby ? :D
mircea_popescu: anyway. this is how bitcoin ended up with bdb i suspect. infinitydb might be an option. they all suck.
ben_vulpes: corvette is hiding from the rain, wife is back in the kitchen, and child is inflating at normal biological rates
ben_vulpes: i suspect maintaining that java/c layer would be more expensive than just beating adequate performance out of sqlite was
mircea_popescu is reasonably impressed. had ben_vulpes pegged for "this guy's managed to put himself in a texbook model of a place where guys crack".
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes doesn't gcc compile B ?
mircea_popescu: im just messing around.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36883 @ 0.00049412 = 18.2246 BTC [-] {4}
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351265 << this is probably true, but you know... gotta comprehend the data structures before this can be, gotta cut out a whole lotta crud out of the pastabowl before THAT can be, and so on.
assbot: Logged on 23-12-2015 19:58:01; ascii_field: but imho the db thing needs to be a simple mechanism written specifically for bitcoin
ben_vulpes: you're full of spunk tonight
mircea_popescu: on the downwind of a sort of irish wake.
mircea_popescu: well... the drinking part anyway.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351282 << am i a bad person if i actually prefer the upper version ?
assbot: Logged on 23-12-2015 20:39:49; ascii_field: http://www.mobiletechworld.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Super-AMOLED-vs-Retina-Display-4.jpg << the 'pentile' thing returneth
BingoBoingo: I thought it was because you "discovered" this morning
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo sex only lasts so long. death overtakes.
BingoBoingo: so smaller
mircea_popescu: but hey, that was good for a few hours.
ben_vulpes: quelle mort
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351296 << aww, i guess it does huh. listen, i'm not saying you should be forced to use it. just... i happen to like old newsprint. and the scent of gasoline.
assbot: Logged on 23-12-2015 20:42:20; ascii_field: jurov: IT MOTHERFUCKING IS NOT
mircea_popescu: ironically, i suppose both the impairment and the sewer comments apply. life!
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell linton_s_dawson http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351345 << not anyone afaik. theoretically speaking it wouldn't likely work too well yet - not enough resources on the pi to be a real node. nevertheless, as a didactic / research sort of project rather than something to go in production trying would be interesting, if for nothing else then because nobody;s tried it yet.
assbot: Logged on 23-12-2015 22:25:35; linton_s_dawson: Anyone running thebitcoin.foundation client on a Raspberry Pi 2? I'd like to assemble a node and see if the Pi is a good idea.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351348 << dude srsly... let people try things wtf.
assbot: Logged on 23-12-2015 22:26:16; ascii_field: short answer: bad idea
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351351 << yet. at the rate we're going, this is coming.
assbot: Logged on 23-12-2015 22:29:00; ascii_field: thestringpuller: be grateful that you don't have to modular-exponentiate by hand.
mircea_popescu: and it'll be on a 1024px wide pentile display.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell linton_s_dawson http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351365 <<< /me supports this.
assbot: Logged on 23-12-2015 22:38:37; linton_s_dawson: If something ca be done in an easy-to-use manner, it should be done. I'm aware of the "if you're too lazy to learn you don't deserve it" logic but I don't completely agree with it.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: who's this guy anyway ?
mircea_popescu: !rated linton_s_dawson
assbot: You need to specify one nick.
mircea_popescu: !gettrust linton_s_dawson
assbot: Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user linton_s_dawson: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. |http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/trust/?from=mircea_popescu&to=linton_s_dawson | http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/linton_s_dawson/
ben_vulpes: tonight is whitespace night in the sweet republic of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: !rate linton_s_dawso
assbot: Need a name to rate and a rating, optionally comment.
mircea_popescu: !rate linton_s_dawson
assbot: Need a name to rate and a rating, optionally comment.
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 13:40:58; mircea_popescu: midnightmagic http://qntra.net/2015/12/after-xt-failure-gavin-andresen-supports-jim-crow-for-signatures-on-the-blockchain/#comment-81695 << see ? why even bother. \
mircea_popescu: !rate 1 linton_s_dawson New blood.
assbot: 1 is not registered in WoT.
ben_vulpes: you can do it!
mircea_popescu: this is a new definition of "blind drunk"
mircea_popescu: !rate linton_s_dawson 1 New blood.
assbot: Request successful, get your OTP: http://w.b-a.link/otp/8e26369d5447b582
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.linton_s_dawson.1:273d20a03740ae777bb12c9e71a486bf6cc40dc9d5273b684a21934cd0c17dce
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 1 for linton_s_dawson with note: New blood.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell mike_c does your wot thinger spit out json anywhere?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42350 @ 0.00049726 = 21.059 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Yes. On the plus side now people have to read everything.
mircea_popescu: i think teh qntra backuping process suffered some improvements lol
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 77202 @ 0.00049493 = 38.2096 BTC [-] {4}
thestringpuller: mod6: ben_vulpes anyone seen this error? 'unable to join the environment' in db.log ?
ben_vulpes: sounds extremely familiar
thestringpuller: something from bdb, but I thought that was all statically linked?
thestringpuller: i'm running mod6's new test2 script with alf's version string patched in.
ben_vulpes cannot recall what triggers this message
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller so you got a bitcoin binary pressed ?
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 02:00:29; asciilifeform: funny, given how i'm just about to (mostly) stop...
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: bitcoind: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
mircea_popescu: well done, eh.
thestringpuller: dunno why bdb is giving me shit tho
mircea_popescu: you using rhel ?
thestringpuller: Debian Jessie
mircea_popescu: do you have old lockfiles scattered around for any reason ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351451 << i was rather distantly downwind of that. along with most everything else in the civilised world.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 02:11:02; asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/12/on-19th-day-of-christmas.html << add the 19 ukr fission plants to list-of-thing-you're-no-longer-down-wind-of
mircea_popescu: but hey, at times i enjoy my painstakingly recreated version of the 80s.
mircea_popescu: "But for the US, and for the EU, it is now yet another major foreign policy embarrassment, and the less said about it the better."
mircea_popescu: heh. this perennial willingness to NOT discuss, if at all possible to UNdiscuss all the fuckups is so fucking dumb already.
mircea_popescu: "Prime Minister Yatsenyuk was recently hauled off the podium by his crotch; how dignified is that?" << coming soon, to a white house near you.
mircea_popescu: if not this bahamas, the next bahamas.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 57000 @ 0.00049727 = 28.3444 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: "Now, here's what it all really means. With so much going wrong, the Ukraine has been unable to secure enough natural gas or coal supplies to provide a supply cushion in case of a cold snap this winter. A few weeks of frosty weather will deplete the supply, and then pipes will freeze, rendering much of the urban areas unlivable from then on (because, recall, there is no longer any money, or any industry to speak of, to
mircea_popescu: repair the damage). That seems bad enough, but we aren't quite there yet." <<< this much is exactly factual, as romania is well aware since its very difficult early 90s. as far as temperate habitation is concerned, you have strictly to options : either produce enough energy to keep the heating pipes unfrozen through the winter, or else lose the possibility of urban settlement and as a result return to 1800ish (the wor
mircea_popescu: d for which in 2015 is, by and large, "Africa").
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4625 @ 0.00049727 = 2.2999 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: if you don't keep the pipes above 0, they freeze. if they freeze they split. if they split you can't keep the [mostly concrete prefab] dwellings livable, not now, not ever.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 71175 @ 0.00049732 = 35.3968 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: " And the way to keep it from breaking is to replace all the bits that are listed on the replacement schedule no later than the dates indicated on that schedule. It's either that or the thing goes “Ka-boom!” and everyone's hair falls out." << yes, except for the cynical west that actually wouldn't mind a few more nuclear "accidents". so what if they were fully preventable, deliberately man-made disasters ? at least
mircea_popescu: the oh-so-precious "alternative means solar, wind and any other inefficiency" lobby can push it's "the only energy source that works doesn't work - buy our shit" narrative.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 81000 @ 0.00049348 = 39.9719 BTC [-] {2}
ben_vulpes: anyone recall offhand how to get gpg to crap out signed data sans header/footer?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 109250 @ 0.00049925 = 54.5431 BTC [+] {6}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 115700 @ 0.00049322 = 57.0656 BTC [-] {6}
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351462 << BECAUSE, importantly, the only remaining function of the british colony, its only significant export and sole raison d'etre left is exactly this playing the extraterritorial base for the USG role. you know, obama is not spying on you, the queen is (and sharing the results). we hope this legalistic subtlety makes all the difference to you!
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 02:17:45; assbot: NSA Helped British Spies Find Security Holes In Juniper Firewalls ... ( http://bit.ly/1ObwhxY )
mircea_popescu: at any rate, "nsa laundered the vulnerabilities it planted in juniper firewalls through an offshore platform". britain, panama, whatever pacific island, what the hell's the difference.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9919 @ 0.00049248 = 4.8849 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/068FQ43.txt << seriously, these derps classified as secret/foia extempt some derp-ass $50-a-pop market research crapolade that's ~maybe~ one step above a wikipedia cull ?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: nuked everything in /path/to/.bitcoin with `rm -rf /path/to/.bitcoin/*`
thestringpuller: anywhere else they could be hiding?
mircea_popescu: there's at least fifty billion "market research" houses more than happy to provide one with this crap.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller nop.
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351542 << I've worked with some fairly large sqlite dbs, obviously if you are doing a full table scan on 500gb of data, it's not gonna be fast, but it motherfucking works.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 08:05:05; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351253 << in fairness, sqlite works for all usecases that aren't this. or that. or in general.
mircea_popescu: doing what punkman ?
thestringpuller: also getting:
thestringpuller: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): You must set myip=<ipaddress> on the command line or in the configuration file:
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you must set your ip, the binary has no way of knowing.
assbot: Logged on 22-12-2015 04:58:44; mircea_popescu: You can then run this with something like LC_ALL=C nohup ./bitcoind -myip=<yourip> -addnode=trusted_node_1 -addnode=trusted_node_2 -verifyall 2>&1 &
punkman: mircea_popescu: the largest one had compressed web pages and metadata, but pretty much anything that doesn't need a db server
mircea_popescu: yeah well.
mircea_popescu: many reads few writes is a particular usecase, not really what's at work in the cases discussed.
thestringpuller: okay so it ran, but doing an RPC call: `LC_ALL="C" ./bitcoind -rpcuser=leffuy -rpcpassword=moomooman getinfo` killed the daemon
thestringpuller: it dropped out of top like instantly when I ran that command^
punkman: I don't see how bitcoin needs a db server
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: check debug.log?
mircea_popescu: you don't need rpc u/p to get a getinfo
ben_vulpes: lol but should it crash with those?
mircea_popescu: punkman well that's maybe a point, but nevertheless it currently uses one, and it uses one mostly to update and insert
punkman: bdb does not have a server either
ben_vulpes: notrly a server
punkman: it's a term of art
ben_vulpes: external process
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 08:09:51; mircea_popescu: anyway. this is how bitcoin ended up with bdb i suspect. infinitydb might be an option. they all suck.
mircea_popescu: java is best coffee.
ben_vulpes: punkman: just write some cffi
ben_vulpes: it ain't hard
ben_vulpes: that's why eulora's looking for mapgen in $yourlang
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 09:13:27; ben_vulpes: anyone recall offhand how to get gpg to crap out signed data sans header/footer?
assbot: gpg_multisig.py · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1QJEfRB )
punkman: on second thought, probably not what you meant
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 118400 @ 0.00050092 = 59.3089 BTC [+] {4}
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: tail -f debug.log >> http://dpaste.com/1K1MMEC.txt
thestringpuller: db.log has one line >> 'unable to join the environment'
thestringpuller: but that happened before thing crashed
thestringpuller: all i did was:
thestringpuller: LC_ALL="C" ./bitcoind -rpcuser=leffuy -rpcpassword=moomooman getinfo
thestringpuller: error: no response from server
thestringpuller: which is different than error: couldn't connect to server
punkman: thestringpuller: do you have a config file? might need to pass it along with getinfo
thestringpuller: nope. i set all the flags on cli like in mircea_popescu 's example
ben_vulpes: does it work with a getinfo and no rpcuser/password?
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351521 << good thread, maybe warrants a separate post
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 07:40:49; mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/continut-platit-no-more/#comment-116065 << that beautyon fellow is giving occasion to a very satisfying convo.
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes:
thestringpuller: error: You must set rpcpassword=<password> in the configuration file:
ben_vulpes: try setting them in the config file
BingoBoingo: Yeah, gotta do that. And change the password.
BingoBoingo: !up wywialm
wywialm: thanks, BingoBoingo
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351677 << do we have any measurements? if I had to guess I'd say there's a lot more reads than writes (after initial sync at least)
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 09:40:34; mircea_popescu: punkman well that's maybe a point, but nevertheless it currently uses one, and it uses one mostly to update and insert
mircea_popescu: i thought the initial sync's being discussed.
ben_vulpes: i'm curious to know what data structures people who understand data structures would suggest for storage and indexing
punkman: even during sync, you can commit blocks to disk in batches, really cuts down on required fsyncs
mircea_popescu: i guess.
BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all
punkman: sqlite could work fine for the foreseeable future, main objection is that it comes with unneeeded complexity/kiloLOC
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 457.5, vol: 9796.69936891 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 453.001, vol: 9044.55735 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 457.69, vol: 24715.03879966 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 438.0, vol: 0.07037461 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 457.0, vol: 84.63627215 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 455.49761096, vol: 73.59684583 | Volume-weighted last average: 456.672206381
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: server just goes down when it makes correct connection
thestringpuller: i'll try it on different machine :\
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22196 @ 0.00049931 = 11.0827 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 48282 @ 0.0005043 = 24.3486 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 84800 @ 0.00050535 = 42.8537 BTC [+] {4}
deedbot-: [Trilema] Tin Men - http://trilema.com/2015/tin-men/
ben_vulpes: bloody wacky thestringpuller
ben_vulpes: run it under gdb?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 41161 @ 0.00049931 = 20.5521 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 95624 @ 0.00049767 = 47.5892 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 83600 @ 0.00050393 = 42.1285 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 81750 @ 0.00050295 = 41.1162 BTC [-] {2}
jurov: thestringpuller: run the daemon in gdb. it really should not get killed via RPC.
assbot: Coffee Sleeve Recall (Sleeves Used Before April 2015) – Kaldi's Coffee ... ( http://bit.ly/22qpu9Y )
BingoBoingo: The hazards of metallic inks
punkman: such hazard
jurov: banknotes too ignite in microwave. better recall them!
BingoBoingo: For real, paper money is dangerous
punkman: I'd guess UStards expect the default state of things to be microwave-safe, whereas other people expect "it will probably catch fire/melt/etc"
BingoBoingo: Prolly, but in other spam http://dpaste.com/110PEB0.txt
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 09:06:33; mircea_popescu: the oh-so-precious "alternative means solar, wind and any other inefficiency" lobby can push it's "the only energy source that works doesn't work - buy our shit" narrative.
assbot: EU trade case: 120 companies, associations to participate in MIP expiry review: pv-magazine ... ( http://bit.ly/1YDAtYT )
assbot: EU: Anti-circumvention duties for Chinese solar products shipped via Taiwan, Malaysia: pv-magazine ... ( http://bit.ly/1YDAufl )
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punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351377 << so the feds just wanna keep more of it to offset budget cuts?
assbot: Logged on 23-12-2015 22:50:35; deedbot-: [Qntra] US DO"J" Stops Sharing Bounty Of Theft With Locals - http://qntra.net/2015/12/us-doj-stops-sharing-bounty-of-theft-with-locals/
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 58450 @ 0.00050183 = 29.332 BTC [+] {3}
BingoBoingo: prolly also saving up to afford a gendarmie
BingoBoingo: But they'll prolly unveil it as gender.me
BingoBoingo: Which will also be their recruiting slogan
punkman: heh
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 44650 @ 0.00050204 = 22.4161 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 66 @ 0.0154 = 1.0164 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: ^ Oh shit a Havelol made the main channel ticker
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 59200 @ 0.0004986 = 29.5171 BTC [-] {5}
fluffypony: it's still going? who knew
BingoBoingo: Seriously
assbot: My fat neighbor is going to hospitalize himself | fatpeoplehate ... ( http://bit.ly/1Tj8AnA )
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BingoBoingo: what the fuck
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351549 << we don't need a db in the usual, general sense. we need an indexer for the things we need an indexer for.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 08:08:25; ben_vulpes: actually what's an embeddable-via-c relational db that does r-trees besides sqlite?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 47250 @ 0.00049024 = 23.1638 BTC [-] {3}
asciilifeform: ;;later tell phf http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351490 << this is yet another 'school os' - it has x86 32-bit retardation heavily baked in. pretty useless for our cause imho.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 06:51:07; phf: ;;later tell asciilifeform another minimal unix http://ulixos.org, this one is 31k loc of noweb. has threads and fs caching
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: i don't ever want to see a task state segment again. and don't see why i oughta.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351554 << i will take no part in anything involving java in whatever capacity.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 08:10:52; ben_vulpes: i suspect maintaining that java/c layer would be more expensive than just beating adequate performance out of sqlite was
asciilifeform: and it boggles my mind that this was being considered, even in passing
asciilifeform: (unless i misread ??)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351565 << bad picture. the effect is considerably less annoying in photos, and virtually invisible in a video - which is HOW THEY GOT AWAY with having SHARED blue pixels
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 08:17:37; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351282 << am i a bad person if i actually prefer the upper version ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351572 << i ~also~ like old newsprint. but not simply from the moire pattern in the photos, but because TEXT WAS BLACK
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 08:21:56; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351296 << aww, i guess it does huh. listen, i'm not saying you should be forced to use it. just... i happen to like old newsprint. and the scent of gasoline.
asciilifeform: in the pentile shit, TEXT IS NOT BLACK
asciilifeform: it has dancing buzzing crud around the edges when your eyes move
asciilifeform: because 'who wants to read text'
asciilifeform: 'good enough for arsebook'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu get thee to an electronics shop and sneak a peek at the abomination. e.g., 'samsung s2 tablet' etc.
asciilifeform: i bet even colourblind fella will notice.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351575 << i tried it! on pi-1. not enough i/o bandwidth. but the problem with all 'pi' machines is rather different - it is the presence of a dedicated, always-on usg mysterymeat cpu core
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 08:27:45; mircea_popescu: ;;later tell linton_s_dawson http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351345 << not anyone afaik. theoretically speaking it wouldn't likely work too well yet - not enough resources on the pi to be a real node. nevertheless, as a didactic / research sort of project rather than something to go in production trying would be interesting, if for nothing else then because nobody;s tried it yet.
asciilifeform: which is not something a sane person would want on a node
asciilifeform: (and yes recent intel boxes have precisely same issue)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351639 << it'll happen with usg diesel dispensed on usurious credit - as in bulgaria
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 09:00:51; mircea_popescu: repair the damage). That seems bad enough, but we aren't quite there yet." <<< this much is exactly factual, as romania is well aware since its very difficult early 90s. as far as temperate habitation is concerned, you have strictly to options : either produce enough energy to keep the heating pipes unfrozen through the winter, or else lose the possibility of urban settlement and as a result return
asciilifeform: (usg is happy to preside over the mothballing of perfectly-working su nuke plants, this is a very effective colonization instrument)
BingoBoingo wonders if anyone here has experience with laptop coolers that have fan pulling air out through CPU exhaust vent, considering one.
BingoBoingo to bed.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if laptop needs external cooling, it's a pos
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asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351645 << kinda funny, same thing petro-pipe-era (1970s+) su used to do to the west (funded 'activism!11111' against fission, etc)
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 09:06:33; mircea_popescu: the oh-so-precious "alternative means solar, wind and any other inefficiency" lobby can push it's "the only energy source that works doesn't work - buy our shit" narrative.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351650 << this flowed predictably out of the post-ww2 bitchdom that gave us orwell's apt 'airstrip one'
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 09:26:49; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351462 << BECAUSE, importantly, the only remaining function of the british colony, its only significant export and sole raison d'etre left is exactly this playing the extraterritorial base for the USG role. you know, obama is not spying on you, the queen is (and sharing the results). we hope this legalistic subtlety makes all the difference to you!
asciilifeform: uk is just an 'unsinkable aircraft carrier' for usg. like taiwan.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351654 << y'know, the janitor's schedule at ft meade is also classified. 'sources & methods' (tm) (r)
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 09:31:41; mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/068FQ43.txt << seriously, these derps classified as secret/foia extempt some derp-ass $50-a-pop market research crapolade that's ~maybe~ one step above a wikipedia cull ?
asciilifeform: it's an intro blob for 'mba' to read
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351660 << ahahahaa i'm a laugh to death, we want a sql parser to grind every motherfucking time a tx is fetched ??!?!?
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 09:35:36; punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351542 << I've worked with some fairly large sqlite dbs, obviously if you are doing a full table scan on 500gb of data, it's not gonna be fast, but it motherfucking works.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351715 << even initial sync has vastly more reads than writes. thinkaboutit
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 10:10:20; mircea_popescu: i thought the initial sync's being discussed.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351721 << it is a turd and barely works for the purpose it was designed for. and NO MOTHERFUCKING SQL in bitcoin
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 10:16:31; punkman: sqlite could work fine for the foreseeable future, main objection is that it comes with unneeeded complexity/kiloLOC
asciilifeform: srsly what part of this is hard to understand.
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asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351584 << to mutilate the old saying, 'things oughta be as easy to use as possible, but not easier'
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 08:29:37; assbot: Logged on 23-12-2015 22:38:37; linton_s_dawson: If something ca be done in an easy-to-use manner, it should be done. I'm aware of the "if you're too lazy to learn you don't deserve it" logic but I don't completely agree with it.
shinohai: I strongly believe linton_s_dawson "just wants an app for that"
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351578 << anybody who wants to build for ARM can use my recipe, it is in the ml, and it wurx
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 08:28:05; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351348 << dude srsly... let people try things wtf.
asciilifeform: and also 'rotor' is a generalization of it
asciilifeform: you can build for whateverthefuck you like, build for nintendo, build for cray
asciilifeform: anything with a gcc available
shinohai is evidently too retarded to build using asciilifeform 's recipe. T_T
asciilifeform: shinohai: what was the issue
shinohai: I just cannot understand how to use buildroot, despite reading manuals for hours upon hours.
asciilifeform: i don't recall my recipe needing understanding
shinohai: Maybe I need the proper drugs.
shinohai: Once I figure it out I am definitely going to write an idiot's guide to cross-compiling.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell phf http://mikhailmasl.livejournal.com/4852.html << mega-b00k. afaik never published in dead tree. the only known memoir of mathematician working in kgb, lived through the '90s no less. the fella who designed that crackpot calculator for central bank.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: i've been reading it for a couplea days now and it's a riot.
asciilifeform: when martin & mitchell famously ran away from nsa to su in 1960, su decided to open own nsa
asciilifeform: and built a kind of first-rate maths school cum military academy
asciilifeform: the book is interesting not only from anthropological pov but also because it reveals why 'gost' is a piece of shit
asciilifeform: (was cheap ripoff of DES, and deliberately)
asciilifeform: 'Idiosyncrasies : Eats raw chicken because he likes the taste.' << from mitchell's fbi file
asciilifeform: strictly for pro entomologists!
mircea_popescu: the stuff you read.
asciilifeform is about halfway in
mircea_popescu: in another life you could have been a happily employed girlie, reading this crud of your own curiosity an' making summaries for terrorists.
asciilifeform suspects that he reads moar of it, and more attentively, than the pro gurlz
mircea_popescu: possible.
asciilifeform: 'Martin is said to have criticized American women and marital laws. Martin and Mitchell have both been described as socially awkward and Mitchell has been described as unsophisticated and naive about the practical world.' (p.60)
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asciilifeform: (tldr: the brass, in at least as far as the Official Truth doc releases reveal, were obsessed with whether m & m were buggering one another and spent millions investigating this)
asciilifeform: also many, many pages on 'suspected' masochism
asciilifeform: l0l! even viktor kamkin bookstore (rip) and its owners figured in the case!
asciilifeform: !s kamkin
assbot: 3 results for 'kamkin' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=kamkin
asciilifeform: any old usaschwitz inmate knows: 1960 in usa was the middle of 'the fifties'
mircea_popescu: in my head it's all "time when the pre-cocksucking lusers lived"
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asciilifeform: 'Martin and Mitchell's effects reveal their interest and activity in photography, music, Russian language, French, and travel. Mitchell also possesses much athletic and sporting equipment, firearms, and a large liquor supply.'
asciilifeform: and the tone with which the usgdroids describe one of the fellas watching japanese strippers diddle one another, it must be read to be appreciated.
asciilifeform: or how they tried to hunt down everybody with whom they... played chess
mircea_popescu: it's funny how all the soviet defections were proof sovietism dun work (it didn't) but all the various us defections weren't proof usgism dun work (it... didn't).
mircea_popescu: omaygawd teh bad ppls in this world.
mircea_popescu: in the end not substantially different from the su's own "sluggard schizophrenia" in response to that age old question that's the bane of every mature bureaucracy : "why would anyone want to leave paradise!"
asciilifeform: m and m blew the usg minds for the simple reason that, as far as anybody could tell, they weren't bribed
mircea_popescu: recall the north korean girly that killed herself in paris rather than come back home to the ~very priviledged~ household of her commanding daddy in best democratic thingamagig ?
asciilifeform: (not that you could actually bribe a usian, in those days, to move to su)
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mircea_popescu: "f0or as long as we define bribing in terms that make it impossible, it was impossible to bribe an usian to move to su in those days"
asciilifeform: but as far as publicly known, neither martin nor mitchell was running 'from sins'
mircea_popescu: wanna bet ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bribe in the ordinary sense
asciilifeform: (with money)
mircea_popescu: that's not the ordinary sense.
mircea_popescu: go, bribe someone. WITH MONEY.
mircea_popescu: the most you'll get is a can of coke out of a vending machine.
asciilifeform: well, yes, normally you need something to make the money stick
mircea_popescu: anyway. "traitorous homosexual network of communists" ftw.
asciilifeform: aha, bulk of the turd is literally about this.
mircea_popescu: anyway. if memory serves the actual cia conclusion was "social ambition drove it", which is EXACTLY what a fucking bribe is.
asciilifeform: that was the demented summary aha
mircea_popescu: the point isn't "the money", the money is always and everywhere as it is here a token. the point of the bribe is that the bribed becomes part of the clan of the briber, it's exactly a fucking wedding.
asciilifeform: from the actual words of m & m, in as far as they have been recorded in su, it was (in at least the case of the domainant fella, i forget which one that was) on account of... mathematics
asciilifeform: schmuck thought that 'su respects maths! i will be respected!11111'
mircea_popescu: which is why women generally confront the "either you put out or we rape you" and bureaucrats generally confront the "play ball or go sleep with the fishes".
asciilifeform: the detectives were baffled because they only looked for the simple knobs - bag of money; or failing that, 'ideological rot'
mircea_popescu: didn't they famously say natasha fucks better ?
mircea_popescu: prolly why the us went all overboard with "faggits!"
asciilifeform: but m & m wanted to go straight for the 'wedding'
asciilifeform: and yes their goodbye letter (it leaked out, iirc, years later) mentioned chicks
asciilifeform: but in re: mathematics:
asciilifeform: one of the reasons why there are not more defections among the house slaves is,
asciilifeform: that most healthy cultures piss on turncoats
asciilifeform: k. philby famously drank himself to death on account of this
asciilifeform: (he actually thought that he might be trusted with serious business in su, imagine)
asciilifeform: 'rome does not pay traitors'
mircea_popescu: this is a difficult point.
mircea_popescu: it;s not that most healthy cultures piss on turncoats. it's that turncoats generally go psychotic.
mircea_popescu: who was the classical general that busted his own face, pretended his king did it, went to the enemies who bought it and then raped them in their sleep ?
mod6: mornin'
mod6: thestringpuller: did you ever git your bitcoind up and going?
mod6: s/git/get/
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7522 @ 0.00049864 = 3.7508 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 64900 @ 0.00049 = 31.801 BTC [-]
mod6: once you have a 'bitcoin.conf' in place in either ~/.bitcoin or '-datadir' with an 'rpcuser' & 'rpcpassword': `LC_ALL=C ./bitcoind -myip=127.0.0.1 -connect 173.73.235.152 -verifyall &`
mod6: bah
mod6: `LC_ALL=C ./bitcoind -myip=127.0.0.1 -connect=173.73.235.152 -verifyall &`
mod6: or !
mod6: `LC_ALL=C ./bitcoind -datadir=/path/to/.bitcoin -myip=127.0.0.1 -connect=173.73.235.152 -verifyall &`
mod6: should do the trick.
mod6: im not sure what this is about:
mod6: <+thestringpuller> db.log has one line >> 'unable to join the environment'
asciilifeform: sounds like a b0rk3d db
mod6: i looked for 'environment' in the code -- didn't find any relevant matches as far as I can tell: http://dpaste.com/1QDGFPN.txt
asciilifeform: mod6: bdbism
mod6: ok. hmm.
mod6: weird.
mod6: was this started from a /clean/ env or is this trying to load up a blockchain from christmas past?
asciilifeform: gotta ask him
mod6: thestringpuller ^
mod6: i had to laugh at that last orlov
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351909 << from the standpoint of the other fella, turning on your fellow soldiers ~is~ a psychotic act
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 16:22:07; mircea_popescu: it;s not that most healthy cultures piss on turncoats. it's that turncoats generally go psychotic.
mod6: 'NPPs require power all the time'
asciilifeform: mod6: they do though
asciilifeform thought that this was well-known
mod6: ya, makes sense. sucks if you can't afford to buy the coal or what not
asciilifeform: at any rate, usg has quite likely already sent the same disassembly squads they used in bulgaria
asciilifeform: ua will run on usg diesel until ragnarok
mircea_popescu: mod6 understant, there's no "turned off the universe" switch. whether you have "an use" for it or not, teh sun's still gonna shine, and the radioactive will still decay.
mircea_popescu: either you cool it or it cools you.
mod6: yeah
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im not terribly sure avbout that. for one thing, the us is poor these days. for the other, it's always been perfidious, and the blown nuke plants are perhaps more valuable to it.
asciilifeform: nuland & co. don't personally relish sitting in a hot zone
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mircea_popescu: cheaper to move one fat woman than all that diesel.
asciilifeform: nor the entire floor (!) of ua parliament bldg devoted to cia
mod6 wonders if he'll have to buy trainloads of coal one day
mircea_popescu: and i'm not overstating the screaming, onctuous poverty they're in one little bit. have you seen the footage from that meeting of perry with random nobody in ukraina, that took place in a room smaller than the very cramped table ?
mircea_popescu: the guy's expensive shirts make an incredible situation with the "we couldn't afford a hotel room so we paid the porter to let us use the utility closet" thing
asciilifeform: orcs are met with in the orc stall in the barn
asciilifeform: humans - in human hall
trinque: http://deedbot.org/build-bitcoind-151224.sh << made minor changes such that there's a build dir and binary's crapped into bin in the current dir
mod6 looks
asciilifeform: this thing really oughta be a makefile
asciilifeform: for one thing, that would let you cache the www turds locally
trinque: yep, I may take that on next.
trinque: the above is just about 4-5 lines tweaked
asciilifeform: btw a v-ified variant of 'make' would be spiffy
asciilifeform: here's how:
asciilifeform: it would build ITEMS OF SPECIFIC HASH rather than name
asciilifeform: sorta like a v press-to-hash (feature i never got around to implementing)
trinque: neat, makes sense.
asciilifeform: (take a known hash, do whatever is necessary to end up with file of that hash)
asciilifeform: curl -s http://openssl.org/source/old/1.0.1/openssl-1.0.1g.tar.gz -o distfiles/openssl-1.0.1g.tar.gz << we're still doing this ?!!
trinque: so outermost makefile would do what this script is doing, then call a rotor makefile.
asciilifeform: aha except that it oughtn't load anything from the net if the necessary file is in a local distfiles dir
asciilifeform: the whole 'load from net' paradigm for builds is imho sad
trinque: yup
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trinque: but gotta get them from somewhere
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351968 << and incidentally, this is probably a good time to point out that 'v' as it is presently seen is not the most generalized treatment of the subject
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 17:00:29; asciilifeform: sorta like a v press-to-hash (feature i never got around to implementing)
asciilifeform: must understand that 'patch' is simply one possible operation for a vtron
asciilifeform: 'v' is meant as a general sane solution to the 'must-x-before-y' problem
asciilifeform: like gnumake, but with hard crypto
asciilifeform: and hard pinning of all intermediate 'lemma'
asciilifeform: (gnumake does not know, or care, what the actual binaries it ends up with at whatever step were)
trinque: sounds like a type of shell script, where one can perform-action then check-hash-of-state, then continue or die
asciilifeform: well no
asciilifeform: because it has to be able to form a topological walk
asciilifeform: and compute paths
mircea_popescu: <trinque> yep, I may take that on next. << not a bad idea yeah.
asciilifeform: but yes, you could theoretically implement in whatever shell. my original attempt at 'v' (unpublished) was in awk & sed
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (take a known hash, do whatever is necessary to end up with file of that hash) <<< this is actually a great approach, if it weren't for off-by-dword issues
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the issues come from retarded compiler
mircea_popescu: well of course.
asciilifeform: the solution to which is arduous but in no sense mysterious
mircea_popescu: and we're calling it retarded because we don't know it's subverted. yet.
asciilifeform: (pinning down gcc in the killing jar)
mircea_popescu: at the rate we're going tho...
mircea_popescu: btw, phuctor back online yet ?
asciilifeform: not quite yet, actually working on it as we speak
asciilifeform: rewriting with a traditional db
mircea_popescu: ah, you went into the guts ?
asciilifeform: and multithreaded gcd--er
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351997 << this brings us to another thing i've been doing for past 6 mo. or so
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 17:11:18; mircea_popescu: and we're calling it retarded because we don't know it's subverted. yet.
asciilifeform: which is, dredging through the actual bin
asciilifeform: (the ~4MB elf we get from a rotor run)
mircea_popescu has not found anything, which merely makes /me convinced his reversing installed capacity is marginal at best.
asciilifeform: slightly more than half is openssl turdism
mircea_popescu: i meant in the specific sense of thompson's compiler.
asciilifeform: 'science!!111111' has progressed since herr thompson, y'know
mircea_popescu: i have exactly no faith in this theory.
asciilifeform: don't expect a 100kB turd in there.
mircea_popescu: just looking for noteworthy "mysterious" polymorphisms etc.
asciilifeform: gonna be more like an off-by-one array access 'plausibly accidented' in somewhere
asciilifeform: and incidentally c++ makes looking for this virtually impossible without elaborate automation
asciilifeform has been digging deep into cpp internals
mircea_popescu: anyway, 100kb is not required, about 512 bytes would trigger atm.
mircea_popescu: which... whatever, huge holes.
asciilifeform: again the more realistic scenario is 1bt of 'plausible optimization!111' that lets you spray in the 512
mircea_popescu: i guess.
mircea_popescu: i'm a fundamentalist rather than a realist at heart. who knew.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 84200 @ 0.00049206 = 41.4315 BTC [+] {2}
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352012 << welcome to the club of everybody else who buys reversing. even usg has mega-sh0rt4g3z
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 17:13:21; *: mircea_popescu has not found anything, which merely makes /me convinced his reversing installed capacity is marginal at best.
mircea_popescu: "This guy barely ekes out a living wage in Romania. Rule #1 in building a cult of personality is to pose as if you're raking in the cash, no matter how poor you are. But any idiot can see that (a) this guy cannot even travel to the US because of the legal problems with MPEX, (b) he makes no money from any source, and (c) he's a loser."
mircea_popescu: o hey check me out, i'm eking a living in romania.
asciilifeform: why not namibia ?
asciilifeform: if gonna spew idiocy, why not full bore ?
mircea_popescu: lazy, i guess ?
asciilifeform: i guess
mircea_popescu: anyway, this chick's been rather obsessed with me for a while now. hey sciencehatesyou... i'll pay for your tits you know ? just like everyone's else.
asciilifeform: it's a chick?!!
mircea_popescu: who the fuck else is this FUCKING EQUALITARIAN, huh ?
asciilifeform: perl script ?
mircea_popescu: shouldn't i get brownie points for taking all comers ? eh ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a font of endless amusement to me, how the limits of people's heads reside in people's heads to much obviousness for everyone but the limited in question.
mircea_popescu: chicks wanna-be a feminist and lalala women's rights, is not sufficiently self-possessed to pose topless.
mircea_popescu: this, however, at no point raises any consciously-visible exception in her software. because...
asciilifeform: these selfsame folks will happily pose topless, or opencunted, etc. ~in the right place~
mircea_popescu: doubt it.
mod6: /topic lalala women's rights
mircea_popescu: hmm... free and open cuntware. now that's an apt observation.
asciilifeform: the exception is thrown because 'disgusting male gaze' or whatever it was called
mircea_popescu: lol MobGod
asciilifeform: rather than because missing cuntcover
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform except that's the local symbolic name for the global that's HER OWN FUCKING GAZE\
asciilifeform: in the fyootoor (tm) shrinks will have a specially-crafted conlang for describing the thought processes of madness
mircea_popescu: really it's what lacan and co were going for.
asciilifeform: ended up with, at any rate
mircea_popescu: it didn't work (imo the best summary of the problem is - they ran into recursive cyclic graphs and couldn't recover)
asciilifeform: this is what happens to folks innocent of mathematics
mircea_popescu: in fairness, the guy wasn't exactly dumb, and the problem itself is not exactly trivial.
mircea_popescu: and even to folks nocent.
asciilifeform: cycle finding has reasonable solution
assbot: Tortoise And Hare ... ( http://bit.ly/1YEeKA2 )
mircea_popescu: sure sure, but finding is the easier part.
asciilifeform: ^ yet another thing i was gonna put in 'v' but snipped in the interest of time
mircea_popescu: "now fix it" "what ?!" "make it flat" "are you stupid ?"
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351837 << mega-b00k describes a kgb legend: the first man who explained to beria how otp is provably 'perfect'-secure, was allowed to leave lubyanka - but at the door they took his employee pass
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 15:13:51; asciilifeform: ;;later tell phf http://mikhailmasl.livejournal.com/4852.html << mega-b00k. afaik never published in dead tree. the only known memoir of mathematician working in kgb, lived through the '90s no less. the fella who designed that crackpot calculator for central bank.
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asciilifeform: http://aklepov.com/index.php?page=elektronika-mk-85c-en << finally found an english www describing the thing maslennikov (author of earlier b00k) built
assbot: Elektronika MK-85C | Клепов Анатолий Викторович ... ( http://bit.ly/1PmSBWz )
mod6: trinque: building ur script changes now.
asciilifeform: it sucked pretty hard, by his own admission, but he insists that it saved ru central bank from total annihilation (plague of fake transfers in the '90s by chechens)
asciilifeform: was primitive pubkey signature machine.
asciilifeform was not there, cannot vouch for the truth of this tale
assbot: CNN iReport Assignment Desk ... ( http://bit.ly/1PmT4Yx )
asciilifeform: 'cnn' hosts spam now ??
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asciilifeform: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/world/asia/china-landslide-shenzhen.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1 << after reading this, hard to doubt that here, just as in the chem factory explosion, usg was involved
assbot: Log In - The New York Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1PmUK4w )
asciilifeform: just try to wrap your head around the tone of the pravda article
asciilifeform: 'this is what cn gets for trying to be sovereign'
assbot: Log In - The New York Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1U7cyQq )
asciilifeform: 'Investors and executives generally get protections in a start-up that employees do not. Many investors have preferred stock, a class of shares that can come with a guaranteed payout. Executives frequently get special bonuses so they will not leave during deal talks. ... In contrast, start-up employees generally own common stock, whose payout comes only after those who hold preferred shares get their money. In Good’s case, t
asciilifeform: he board’s preferred stock was worth almost the same as all 227 million common shares outstanding.'
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351819 << wasn't trying to say that we need/want sql. but as far as dbs go, I've always found sqlite to be a reliable tool and there's no reasonable alternative for most of my use cases. I've never looked at the source, so no comments there.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 14:49:21; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351721 << it is a turd and barely works for the purpose it was designed for. and NO MOTHERFUCKING SQL in bitcoin
asciilifeform: '...a private company with a valuation of more than $1 billion. The high valuation increased the paper value of employee shares — and thus the income tax bills levied on their stock when they received the stock grants, or when they bought and sold shares. To pay those taxes, some employees emptied savings accounts and borrowed money.'
asciilifeform: punkman: i'm actively de-sqlite-ing a 'small' and - seemingly - reasonable - use case as we speak
punkman: asciilifeform: it does say on the tin that it's not great when you want many concurrent writers
asciilifeform: even 2.
asciilifeform: 'The Internal Revenue Service levied taxes on some employees when their Good stock was still considered a valuable asset and worth multiples of what they actually received. One person’s tax bill came to more than $80,000, while another paid more than $150,000....'
asciilifeform: riotously lulzy
punkman: asciilifeform: even 2 yes, can only have one writer at a time.
asciilifeform: but this isn't why it sucks for bitcoin
asciilifeform: (why the everliving fuck should there be a sql interpreter in the binary? or runtime interpretation of hardcoded sql proggies ???!!!)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 55296 @ 0.00050495 = 27.9217 BTC [+] {2}
punkman: sure, unneeded complexity
asciilifeform: it is screaming idiocy.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26454 @ 0.00050543 = 13.3706 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30412 @ 0.00050157 = 15.2537 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'cnn' hosts spam now ?? <<< the "mainstream media" is sinking, and has been, for twenty years now. there is no bottom for them.
asciilifeform: aha but this was a new mindfuck
asciilifeform: gigantic dir full of straight-out sp4m0l4d3
assbot: iReport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1U7e0lE )
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> lulzy, nyt reads the logz and rips off mircea_popescu's summaries <<< then forgets to mention this, muppets sit around and wonder who could this guy be etc.
mircea_popescu: "To pay those taxes, some employees emptied savings accounts and borrowed money." << ahaha loot at the cute chumps!
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> even 2. << 2 is technically many in computing.
asciilifeform: quite enough for deadlock
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (why the everliving fuck should there be a sql interpreter in the binary? or runtime interpretation of hardcoded sql proggies ???!!!) << because at the time satoshbi made it he didn't have a clear design document and the usg stoolies anchored themselves on such chinks in the armor to "extend" and so forth.
asciilifeform: 'if two trains meet one another on a track, neither shall move until the other has passed.' (supposedly from a 1880s american state law)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we don't have sql in there now. this was re: the notion of using sqlite.
mircea_popescu: was discussing "runtime interpretation" bit.
mircea_popescu: aka "script"
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> gigantic dir full of straight-out sp4m0l4d3 << surely it was an accident for which nobody paid anyone inside two happy meals.
mircea_popescu: and all the talking heads i fucked to date were not common prostitutes but journalists and so forth.
mircea_popescu: "Page Not Found We’re sorry, we seem to have lost this page, but we don’t want to lose you." << apparently nyt piece you linked diappeared.
asciilifeform: holy shit
punkman: still there for me
assbot: When a Unicorn Start-Up Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt - The New York Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1mCjwSQ )
assbot: Page Not Found ... ( http://bit.ly/1mCjxpM )
asciilifeform: see above
asciilifeform: and it still loads here
mircea_popescu: this is bizarre.
asciilifeform: seems like they only ban t3rr0r1stz!!111
mircea_popescu: a wait, html vs htm
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351774 << conversation wasn't strictly about trb but dbs in general
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 14:25:03; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351549 << we don't need a db in the usual, general sense. we need an indexer for the things we need an indexer for.
ben_vulpes: why the everloving fuck would trb care about rtrees
mircea_popescu: "r. In an investor document about the sale that was distributed to shareholders, employees discovered their Good stock was valued at 44 cents a share, down from $4.32 a year earlier. In contrast, preferred stock owned by Good’s venture capitalists was worth almost seven times as much, more than $3 a share."
mircea_popescu: and amusingly enough they can't actually block it.
asciilifeform: trb needs a 'db in the usual, general sense' like it needs a gene sequencer.
mircea_popescu: "Good’s final sale price down to $425 million, less than half of the company’s $1.1 billion private valuation. The paperwork also showed that Good’s board had turned down an $825 million cash offer just six months earlier, in March."
mircea_popescu: oh lordy... please derps, run more SV. mpex not good enough for you, by all means, go for it.
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assbot: Corbett Sues TSA Over New Policy to Refuse Opt-Outs | Professional Troublemaker ... ( http://bit.ly/1U7f2yb )
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, so the guy rewards the naughty child with attention in the hopes it'll stimulate it to... think about how it's been naughty ?
punkman: "professional troublemaker"
mircea_popescu: it will alright. for as long as TSA disputes end up in federal court rather than in burning baltimore, it'll be thinking right about how well being naughty works for its goals.
mircea_popescu: get a pen, poke TSA's agent eye out.
mircea_popescu: an eye for a scanner, good business.
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2014 18:48:15; asciilifeform: this is why i simply don't get people who continue to think of their relationship with the u.s. court system in legal, rather than military, terms.
assbot: Logged on 13-07-2014 03:53:10; asciilifeform: BayAreaCoins: what you don't appear to understand is that this is a 'military' puzzle, not a 'legal' puzzle.
asciilifeform: also mircea_popescu would make a first-class army recruiter... for the old jp army! the one where you got one of these, http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/jp_tankhunters/fig1_japanese_lunge_mine_antitank.jpg
asciilifeform: and 'ohka' plane, 'kaiten' submarine...
asciilifeform: and other man-as-bee apparatus
mircea_popescu: by the time your country has failed to the degree tsa exists, you ARE bee. whether you're ready to admit this or not is entirely in your own mind.
mircea_popescu: "I didn’t want a startup, but an actual business that generates revenue, and Cusoy would not fulfill that personal goal for me without a full-time team, 1-2+ years of funding, multiple years of hard work (3-5+ years at the very least?) trying to answer the if/when questions of whether or not Cusoy could make money (very expensive questions too, might I add — not only in money but time, my most valuable asset).
mircea_popescu: While I know there might be a possibility I could hustle incredibly hard and try to set up partnerships, the time investment required far outweighed the already incredibly slim chances of generating revenue."
mircea_popescu: holy shit, someone's not entirely dumb ?!
asciilifeform: i guess he realized he was a bee
asciilifeform: or sumthing
mircea_popescu: "|Yes, Yelp has a tag for “gluten free” but it only has 44 restaurants in San Francisco with that tag (do it yourself if you don’t believe me and NYC actually has double the number of restaurants tagged gluten-free), which is a very low and deceiving number."
mircea_popescu: motherfucker, the entire city of buenos aires has like... ONE actual restaurant.
mircea_popescu: "More importantly, it does a terrible job of giving people like me actual relevant information for gluten free: Does the restaurant train its staff? Do they have separate cutters for their gluten free pizza? Are they flexible and accommodating? Do they have a separate gluten free menu? What ingredients do they use? etc."
assbot: Palantir Technologies Raises Further $200 Million - WSJ ... ( http://bit.ly/1mCl8Mg )
asciilifeform: (this on top of existing, what, 500m from cia)
mircea_popescu: "III. WHY I SHUT IT DOWN (ALTERNATIVELY, WHAT I WOULD’VE NEEDED TO CONTINUE). Four reasons (in order of least to most important): No team ; No funding ; No longer aligned with my personal goals anymore ; No clear or predictable way to sustainability (B2C is extremely, extremely hard to monetize)"
assbot: Seinfeld: No resources, no skill, no talent - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1mCle6P )
asciilifeform: 'i woke up in a ditch in drunken haze and with a company, i have no idea why i have it'
mircea_popescu: tellingly, the nut in there ALSO thought time was the true issue. because hey, everyone's time is valuable now, in lalaland.
mircea_popescu: "1. No team. It’s really hard to do a startup by yourself, especially if you’re a non-technical founder. No kidding, right? However, being non-technical wasn’t my excuse since WordPress came to the rescue and I basically bought the development through using cost-effective themes."
mircea_popescu: holy shit check that crazy out.
mircea_popescu: wordpress themes TECHNOLOGY ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you're wondering why the figure's so low (srsly, palantir raises 200mn, whatsap sells for 20bn ?), the reason'd be that most of this has to be actual turkey buying dollars.
asciilifeform: hey, to an illiterate cave dweller all voodoo is the same, aluminum airplane or straw airplane
mircea_popescu: straw aluminum alloy!
mircea_popescu: hightech composite!
asciilifeform: and why does it have to be actual dollarz? most of it goes right back to rent racket
asciilifeform: like mains current
punkman: I saw gluten-free bread in the local bakery earlier this year. The only bread that had a brochure and brand-name. Didn't last long.
mircea_popescu: punkman the story of the bread ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform complicated. but their key people don't actually buy into the stupid.
asciilifeform: incidentally, maslennikov derisively cites kgb indoctrination ('in the west, yes, they pay you 5k usd/mo, but most of it will be spent on house and medicine') as if it were somehow false
asciilifeform: quite like other post-sov folks
asciilifeform: somebody oughta drag them, kicking and screaming, to washington, and make'em live here
mircea_popescu: hahahaha
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would they do that ?
mircea_popescu: they just move on. say to mexico.
asciilifeform: well m moved to kr
mircea_popescu: who's incidentally already pushing pretty hard.
punkman: mircea_popescu: more along the lines of "Why don't you try being a gluten-tard? Might be just the thing for you"
mircea_popescu: "We hired a local operations manager in Denver (Sasha Juliard) and soon launched at Shotgun Willie’s (the highest-grossing strip club in CO) and two other bars. We made about $1,200 on each deal (50% went to DexOne, we spent $800 on each launch event and we had $500 in hardware costs), this was the only sales revenue Flowtab ever made. We were tightening up our sales process, but it was hard to market ourselves prope
mircea_popescu: rly in those bars without being there. It quickly become a distraction to our operations in San Francisco."
mircea_popescu: holy shit, what ?
mircea_popescu: "flowtab joined my two life's passions, inept geekery and strip clubs"
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352205 << the beautiful magic involved here is that it is ~actually possible~ to, in some cases, give yourself various dietarytardisms by 'trying'
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 19:04:16; punkman: mircea_popescu: more along the lines of "Why don't you try being a gluten-tard? Might be just the thing for you"
asciilifeform: esp. if you're a kid
mircea_popescu: yup. take chicken liver. i love it. so does everyone who had sane enough parents to have it as a kid.
asciilifeform: rather like a sort of inverted dope addiction
mircea_popescu: you know who can't stand it ? everyone else.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: funnily i loved it as a kid, then did not have it for some years, and now can no longer stand it
mircea_popescu forces slavegirls to eat livers. it's a show, i tell you.
asciilifeform: perhaps one day i will be fortunate enough to crash on an island and eat livers of neighbours and will enjoy it again
mircea_popescu: "Partnering with a uni friend, we pitched our concept to a whole bunch of web developers we knew. The challenge we posed was that it couldn’t be customisation by drop-down list or radio buttons (solutions we were offered repeatedly). This was 2005. We needed to show customers high-quality photographic customisation, where every selection changes your product. Custom-made product required a strict no-refund policy, so
mircea_popescu: customers needed to see exactly what they were going to get.
mircea_popescu: All of them said the site we wanted was impossible, apart from one who quoted upward of $40k for build, excluding the photography and image editing that would be needed. At this stage we only had $20k total capital for the entire venture — sampling, pattern making, inventory and production. So my co-founder taught herself to code. She worked day and night — we did all the operational planning during busines
mircea_popescu: s hours, and when I went off to a night job managing a restaurant, she’d code, with Sex and the City for company, until 1 or 2am when I stumbled in again from night shift."
mircea_popescu: see ? the women are okay.
mircea_popescu: it's the men that are the fucking problem.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 14:31:29; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351554 << i will take no part in anything involving java in whatever capacity.
punkman: mircea_popescu: link to that?
ben_vulpes waves at Naphex
mircea_popescu: "Why did we launch with 12 million variants? Because we thought we needed to. Would the market have been happy to customise just the length? If we’d done proper validation, we would have known, that yes, it would have been happy — thrilled even. It only became apparent, too late, that 90% of our orders were for very typical jeans from atypically tall women. Stonewashed stovepipes with a 36-inch leg, anyone?"
mircea_popescu: *I* could have fucking tell you that.
assbot: Internet Startup: Lessons from failure — Medium ... ( http://bit.ly/1mClSRM )
punkman: speaking of clothing and software, there really is nothing reasonable out there
mircea_popescu: "So we decided to wholesale, on the condition we could establish a cost-effective supply chain. This might all seem like a juvenile, ill-informed, poorly researched, gamble. And it was mostly, but I heard an irrepressible voice day and night,asking what if it works?
mircea_popescu: We added a line of jersey basics to our denim line, packed up our lives, ended the lease on our house, loaded our portfolios and patterns into suitcases and boarded a plane for Malaysia, where I had some contacts in the manufacturing industry. At one factory after another, we were wooed by the boss, we got the grand tour, we were asked our volume projections…. and we were shown the door. Our (very inflated) annual fo
mircea_popescu: recast of 5000 units per style was daily output for these guys."
mircea_popescu: "The single factory willing to work with us said they’d quote on our items while showing us around the facility. When our guide accidentally led us full-circle, we caught their product team copying our patterns and that was the end of our sourcing trip."
asciilifeform: the funny part is, a machine that '3d scans' your carcass and stitches a reasonable suit, is entirely possible from technical pov and would cost what a garbage truck costs, at the most. but you will sooner see a machine that serves you your own liver to eat, than this
mircea_popescu: how you figure ?
asciilifeform: which half ?
punkman: both
mircea_popescu: the latter.
mircea_popescu has enough experience with 1990s state of the art 3d modelling for games on basis of laser scanning nude female models to not need the first part explaiend.
asciilifeform: i'd rather hear mircea_popescu's hypothesis re: why said machine does not presently exist, first
mircea_popescu: why didn't "Better Homes And Gardens" exist in 1980 Moscow ?
asciilifeform: mine - reduces to the 'excluded middle' discussed in the old thread
mircea_popescu: a) the people who had a dacha were happy as is, no need to chase it
mircea_popescu: b) nobody gave a shit about the peons. srsly.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this would make sense except that it DID exist
asciilifeform: and even there was a car mag !
mircea_popescu: circulation 45 ?
punkman: static scan doesn't give enough information for tailor, never mind machine designer
asciilifeform: massive circulation
mircea_popescu slept through this.
asciilifeform: every car owner was a 'gearhead' by necessity
mircea_popescu: punkman i never had a tailor go "breathe in" "now exhale" before.
assbot: Архив журнала За Рулем ... ( http://bit.ly/1mCmsPr )
punkman: mircea_popescu: you gotta at least move your limbs a bit, no?
asciilifeform: punkman: who said anything about static, necessarily
mircea_popescu: not really, no. you're supposed to stand naturally.
mircea_popescu: you ever been fitted for a suit ?
punkman: nope
asciilifeform: http://www.zr.ru/archive/zr/1988/09/planiruietsia-zastoi#1 << hey check out this lulfest, folks wide awake to the automotive slavery of usa
assbot: ПЛАНИРУЕТСЯ ЗАСТОЙ? - Сентябрь 1988 года - архив За рулем ... ( http://bit.ly/1U7gBfy )
mircea_popescu: "More importantly though, people really didn’t really LIKE anything about our product. No one that used the service thought it was that cool. In fact, some people that participated in the sale didn’t even like our “dynamic pricing” system."
mircea_popescu: look at that.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: many 'startup' schmucks actually plan to make a 'product' which lusers simply stumble into, like flies into a carnivorous plant
asciilifeform: (hoping to emulate, perhaps, 'mcdonalds' or other cattle industry)
mircea_popescu: nobody likes mcdonalds.
asciilifeform: nobody likes irs either
asciilifeform: but there it is.
mircea_popescu: hard to beat "cheap calories" as a warm blooded lifeform.
mircea_popescu: "Our first beta test was a disaster when Amazon (who was our payment processor) suspended our account for not complying with money transfer issues. Fans were able to participate in the sale, but we were unable to capture their billing. We ended up paying the artist out of our own pocket and giving everyone his music for free (and we never told him that happened until now)." <<< derps were going to bypass amazon on an a
mircea_popescu: mazon platform.
mircea_popescu: We should have packed it up early right then, but we felt like we had already gone too far to quit. We rebuilt (and re-designed) the majority of the software, got approved by Amazon, and reached out to over 1,700 artists (each individually through different platforms). We got between 1 and 10 artists interested. Again, this just screams “PUT IT OUT OF ITS MISERY!” But we kept going.
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mircea_popescu: "Out of the picture: why the world's best photo startup is going out of business. Everpix was great. This is how it died. The immediate concern in the room was a forthcoming bill from Amazon Web Services, which hosts the 400 million photos stored with Everpix; the team estimated the bill would be about $35,000."
mircea_popescu: dude wtf, a) never heard of it and b) it fucking sucked, get lost.
mircea_popescu: if you pay 35k monthly for hardware you'd better be doing something more interesting than "we store 400 million photos"
asciilifeform: 'we stored 400 million dick shots for ft meade but they forgot to agree to pay us'
mod6: Alexandar's private collection
mircea_popescu: very shitty business to be in actually.
mircea_popescu: people take pictures in total violation of the economic cost of the energy expenditure for the camera, let alone any other considerations.
mircea_popescu: to involve yourself in this is madness
asciilifeform: guess what, they also eat and breathe in total violation of the economic cost...
asciilifeform: even... make moar of themselves
mircea_popescu: "By 2009 both men had left Apple and were working at Cooliris, which makes photo viewing software. Latour set up an office for Cooliris in Japan, and after spending some time traveling through Asia with his girlfriend, he became frustrated with how difficult it was to store and organize all the photos he was taking. He discussed an early idea for a product with Quennesson, who was interested in using math and science t
mircea_popescu: o create better photo software."
mircea_popescu: for fucks sake.
mircea_popescu: after reading that sort of nonsense i half expect the author has some "science" in a jar in his basement
mircea_popescu: keeps adding it to foods and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and for this exact reason medicine is a losing proposition. except THAT gets swept up into "obamacare" and so on. there's not going to be an obamacare for photographolalia, your ft meade wet dreams notwithstanding.
asciilifeform: obamacares are a temporary thing
mircea_popescu: here's a fun fact : the classical gestapo didn't know what to do to keep the idiot population from givingthem tips.
mircea_popescu: the current version's in no different shape
asciilifeform: the schmucks wanted to ride the good times while they lasted
mircea_popescu: Quennesson had noted that the more photos he took, the less likely he was ever to look at any one of them ever again. "People take more and more photos, but paradoxically, they become more and more disconnected from them," he said last month in a conference room at their co-working space. "You don’t want to go back to this whole life that you’ve captured, which is counterintuitive. It's the most important thing —
mircea_popescu: it’s your life! So there’s this obvious problem."
mircea_popescu: this is diagnosable insanity.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the other gestapo did not suffer from delusions of machine learning!1111111111 to help them process somehow infinite tips into an edible portion
mircea_popescu: ironically, it did, but anyway.
asciilifeform: wai wut
asciilifeform: contrary to the ibm legend, there was no nazi palantir.
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asciilifeform: re: photographolalia: interesting to note how the psychology of photo changed over time:
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asciilifeform: when emigres (incl. my own parents) packed up, they burned old photos (that would not fit, folks have ludicrously fat binders of these; or for whatever reason not brought along for the ride)
asciilifeform: i never fully understood the reason for this peculiar (and foul smelling! try it) custom
asciilifeform: but there it was
asciilifeform: 'you wouldn't leave'em for the rubbish men'
asciilifeform: sorta like a continuation of the - legendary - indian tribe who 'camera steals your soul'
asciilifeform: whereas today people will spam their photo to all-comers.
asciilifeform: (equally incomprehensible imho)
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asciilifeform: ;;later tell ben_vulpes http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2015/10/18_static-compilation-woes.html << is that... a chick's hand-writing ?!
assbot: static compilation woes ... ( http://bit.ly/1MTT5Cd )
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: a tour of bitcoind booting to its first thread ... ( http://bit.ly/1ONsjId )
shinohai: ^ got to say, his bash scripting is art
mod6: mircea_popescu: going back to the .wot dir being created by default in the `pwd` of V : I would think that perhaps .seals should go in the same place as well; `pwd`.
mod6: Any thoughts there?
asciilifeform: mod6: why is .wot dir ever created automatically ?
mod6: its not
mod6: we've been through this.
asciilifeform digs in log
punkman: /me has cases of negatives and film slides, looked into digitizing, came back with ain't nobody got time for that
asciilifeform: punkman: a very reasonable film scanner costs a few hundy
mod6: errr. wait.
mod6: maybe it just doesn't pull the keys any more.
mod6 looks at cod.e
punkman: asciilifeform: mostly slides, much more work
mod6: someone is gonna have to take over V
mod6: like Mr. P. said, there is no way I'm gonna be able to keep up with all of the feature requests here as well.
shinohai: But that is perl wizardry ...
mod6: ok, No, the .wot dir must be created by hand.
asciilifeform: this is the Right Thing.
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mod6: yeah, the documentation says that you need to 'create a ~/.wot directory' -- which will have to change, but 'you need to create' is the hint in there.
shinohai: Been a few weeks but I manually created it and added everyones keys, but once I made it everything works fine
asciilifeform: pubkeys really oughta live in rom.
asciilifeform: eventually.
asciilifeform: incidentally, why was there never (afaik) an attempt at a laser-programmed fpga ?
asciilifeform: or even fuse rom
asciilifeform: (laser-writable fuse rom, that is)
asciilifeform: we have the optics.
asciilifeform: they cost, what, ten bux.
asciilifeform: one bonus is that it'd be optically-inspectable, too.
asciilifeform: (just picture something like a small cdrom but with si underneath)
asciilifeform: ;;later tell punkman was it you who submitted the patch that removes all remaining wxisms ? if so, would you consider rewriting as a vpatch ?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform is tired of seeing wxisms in the viewer
punkman: asciilifeform: I rewrote and it's there
asciilifeform: in the ml ?
punkman: yep
punkman: in the debug_sanity patch
asciilifeform: does it merge into the existing bleeding edge without complaint ?
punkman: haven't tried
asciilifeform: speaking of which, we still need a thing where folks can drop in vpatches and sigs and redraws the flow graph
asciilifeform has, unsurprisingly, a half-written unusable version of this
mod6: ok so i changed the changes: .wot and .seals in the present working directory, unless specified otherwise. Also I've added the checking of the hashes post-press. **EXPERIMENTAL ONLY** Will post new, signed version [v99996] once fully tested.
asciilifeform: mod6: neato
mod6: here's the hash for v99997: 0810eb4c7209900b3eb7b96fc7b9bfa437360581586e7d073ebc4f2cf88f13f2cafe9340ef5b8953dc43b288e4f74da3d7973998755466252225b5103c72bb99
mod6: If you add the above patch, you should end up with:
assbot: [BTC-dev] Some test patches and my V implementation ... ( http://bit.ly/1NZjGPg )
mod6: 11ece4221d6264bef4e17805e549f686b575142227aff9a00cd379110ccfcc56096a5b6924c9f614c2c6823bd687f876142b115b0d30da17c237e663deb04f11
mod6: vpatch also declares this at the top.
mod6: :]
asciilifeform: punkman: ah i recall
asciilifeform: punkman: i like this patch except imho 1) patches ought to do One Thing 2) printf hardcoded to stdout is Wrong Thing
mod6: <+asciilifeform> speaking of which, we still need a thing where folks can drop in vpatches and sigs and redraws the flow graph << mine does this.
mod6: just have to tell it to draw the graph again.
asciilifeform: mod6: i meant on trb www site
mod6: oh.
asciilifeform: as in, a place where i can go & drop it in
asciilifeform: and then punkman doesn't end up writing a patch that needlessly conflicts (or vice versa)
mod6: ah, gotcha
asciilifeform: y'know, sorta like heathen versionatrons do
asciilifeform: except with actual crypto
mod6: yeah, we need something for that.
asciilifeform: replacement for turdatron.
mod6: well, the ML has a place - although, the filename munging would be nice to go away.
punkman: asciilifeform: printf is redefined though and is how everything goes to log
mod6: but.. yeah, a separate thing that could be fed for this purpose would be super great
asciilifeform: punkman: ah
asciilifeform: btw my gcc does not like redefined printf etc
punkman: one thing to watch out for is that I replaced some wxMessageBox(_("Error:") things with fprintf(stderr, "Error:"), which I have no idea why now
punkman: I assume those won't end up in debug log
mod6: all: btw, if you do use the above test patch for V, please remember you may need to run a dos2unix on the dpaste [dpaste.com/12M99KB.txt]
mod6: first
asciilifeform: has anybody here written own 'pastebin' ?
asciilifeform: (perhaps i missed this)
mod6: anyway, i'll keep testing on this for a bit and see how it goes. and if all is well, i'll repost the entire thing (including the few changes to the automated tests) to the ML
punkman: also need own browser, because they tend to add \r
mod6: <+asciilifeform> has anybody here written own 'pastebin' ? << we desperately need this.
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asciilifeform: punkman: afaik 'curl' does not
assbot: bartTC/dpaste · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1QKG4he )
asciilifeform: ick turdlibs
assbot: Search · pastebin · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1QKG94t )
asciilifeform: ideally a tmsr 'pastebin' would take input by gpg --encrypt --recipient thingspubkey... | curl -X POST ...
assbot: clbin: command line pastebin. ... ( http://bit.ly/1Okh3T9 )
asciilifeform: or how phuctor submission also worked
asciilifeform: (the curl part, that is)
mod6: cool
mod6: and also noteworthy: `curl -s https://clbin.com/IidZ7 | xxd | grep "0d0a" | wc -l` returns 0
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352312 << the equivalent i had in mind was their very meticulous document processing technology.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 19:39:51; asciilifeform: contrary to the ibm legend, there was no nazi palantir.
mircea_popescu: was later imported and known as "the fbi"
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352330 << i guess. my main concern is that i do not wish to see absolute paths. as long as it puts the stuff somewhere relative to current dir i'm happy.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 19:56:44; mod6: mircea_popescu: going back to the .wot dir being created by default in the `pwd` of V : I would think that perhaps .seals should go in the same place as well; `pwd`.
mod6: ok cool. my latest patch should do just that.
mod6: i'll test a bit as I said and then re-publish a new one when complet.e
mircea_popescu: dun stress out mod6, looking great here.
mod6: yup. no sweat. just wanna stay on top of the V changes, so I can get to the many R.I. things :]
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mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352382 << the concept is sound, however mind that we don't end up with as many patches as linechanges. "one thing" should be liberally construed, "removing remaining wxisms" seems a one thing for me.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 20:19:11; asciilifeform: punkman: i like this patch except imho 1) patches ought to do One Thing 2) printf hardcoded to stdout is Wrong Thing
mod6: punkman: any idea how long clbin will hold these pastes?
mircea_popescu: wasn't it one week ?
mod6: oh is that all
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352416 << sounds kinda like replicated deedbot by now ?
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 20:30:58; asciilifeform: ideally a tmsr 'pastebin' would take input by gpg --encrypt --recipient thingspubkey... | curl -X POST ...
mircea_popescu: This year HBR changed the evaluation criteria from "stock price only"1 to an agglomeration of fuzzy metrics that include stock price in addition to Sustainalytics' proprietary "goodness evaluation" metrics.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha what the fuck.
mircea_popescu: "Jeff Bezos of Amazon has, according to HBR, toppled from #1 to #87 in their list of Best Performing CEOs."
mircea_popescu: aha, and now we understand teh point of the entire exercise.
mircea_popescu: nothing the socialist mob hates more than competence.
mircea_popescu: "All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee;
mircea_popescu: All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
mircea_popescu: All discord, harmony not understood,
mircea_popescu: All partial evil, universal good:
mircea_popescu: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
mircea_popescu: One truth is clear, whatever is, is right."
mircea_popescu: pope ftw.
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mod6: trinque: could deedbot be easily copied and modified to just have variable paste retention into a webdir or db of some kind? it wouldn't send to the blockchain like deedbot. then we could just have our own `pastebot'? is this dumb?
mod6: Don't wanna make more work, just curious.
mircea_popescu: why specifically NOT send it ?
mod6: well, i thought we didn't want to send up all farts into the blockchain.
mod6: sometimes, a guy just has to derp around
mod6: i make plenty of errors that I don't want to chisel into stone. :]
mod6: maybe a dumb idea. and maybe it can't be easily modified to do that.
mod6 will think on it.
mircea_popescu: technically speaking all that goes into the chain is 32 bytes per paste
mircea_popescu: moreover, there's no extra cost for adding more items to one block
mircea_popescu: hm... well, other than the cost of keeping the stuff around forever to verify blocks.
mircea_popescu: yeah maybe putting them in is a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: "Socialists revile the church not for its promulgation of irrational faith but because historically churches have championed the improvement of the world as a thing that the devoted do—not a thing which may (or even should) be outsourced to le etat." << quite exactly.
mircea_popescu: in general, socal ditz does not call the other socal ditz "like, totally, a slut" for any other reason than you know, the slut getting the attention of the boys she wanted for herself.
mircea_popescu: " any increase in return that’s attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market;" << i wish to know on what planet these people live where there's "local" stock markets.
dub: hallo
shinohai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352462 <<< I don't like clutter, but if it pisses Luke-Jr off so much the better.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 20:58:03; mod6: well, i thought we didn't want to send up all farts into the blockchain.
mircea_popescu: shinohai the problem is that for someone to later verify the bundle deed one needs to keep the whole bundle.
shinohai: Understandable.
mircea_popescu: "But we never defined clear hypotheses, developed experiments, and we rarely had meaningful conversations with our target end-users. And while we had some wonderful advisors in the parking industry, we should have met with everyone we could get our hands on. Worst, we rarely got out of the building."
mircea_popescu: this is not a trend among the newly "creative" worthless class, not getting out of the building.
mircea_popescu: these idiots aim to "revolutionize", "improve" and ultimately save a world they do not wish to ever see.
deedbot-: [Trilema] Moment poetic - http://trilema.com/2015/moment-poetic-2/
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 20:49:00; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352382 << the concept is sound, however mind that we don't end up with as many patches as linechanges. "one thing" should be liberally construed, "removing remaining wxisms" seems a one thing for me.
asciilifeform: but original was 'debug sanity' and did 2 very distinct, separable things, in 1 patch, which imho is mistake
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352443 << no!! because deedbot requires privkey use during paste, which is very arduous if you have good hygiene
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 20:50:33; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352416 << sounds kinda like replicated deedbot by now ?
asciilifeform: there is no need to sign all pastes, this actually is the opposite of a pastebin
asciilifeform: a pastebin is an anon crud accumulator
punkman: asciilifeform: but original was 'debug sanity' and did 2 very distinct, separable things, in 1 patch, which imho is mistake << agreed, but most of the wx crap was related to debug
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 21:09:10; mircea_popescu: " any increase in return that’s attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market;" << i wish to know on what planet these people live where there's "local" stock markets.
asciilifeform: and perhaps local arithmetic
asciilifeform: where the decrease of the chocolate ration adds up to an increase of fiddy grams, as per orwell
asciilifeform: 'here in zimbabwe we do not use white man logic'
mircea_popescu: https://medium.com/work-education/play-by-your-own-rules-6152adc41de9 <<< anyone actually ever fucking heard of "gowalla" ?
assbot: Play by your own rules. — Work & Education — Medium ... ( http://bit.ly/1SeHyiN )
mircea_popescu: da fuck.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i guess heh.
asciilifeform: any relation to 'dwolla' ?
mircea_popescu: none that i can see
asciilifeform: besides the seeping pseudoafricanization
mircea_popescu: apparently that pointless foursquare thing is somehow a success that had it's own wanna-bes that meanwhile died.
mircea_popescu: it's apparently very hard to underestimate just how little these people do with their time.
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asciilifeform: i'm not certain this circus actually soaks up their time
asciilifeform: judging by how much time these folks have remaining to soak up on reddit etc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't think it's africanization, to me it seems very ... surfer culture, to be honest. the whole trend with walla this and palooza that traces back to that idiotic aussie band of the 90s wtf was it called.
asciilifeform: idk the consonant clusters scream 'nigerian spam'
asciilifeform: mbwebwengabwebew...etc...
mircea_popescu: w is a vowel.
asciilifeform: dipthong
punkman: -walla is from indian word I think
asciilifeform: as seen in film 'slumdog millionaire'
mircea_popescu: "The growing public attention sparked by the investment became both a heaven and a hell. On one hand, during the course of Gowalla’s life we received more tech press coverage than is right and holy for any startup. On the other, I dare you to find a post about Gowalla that doesn't mention Foursquare."
asciilifeform: 'chaiwalla', 'phonewalla'
mircea_popescu: heh. here's the thing : by far the finest alcohol available in this country is havana club 7 yo.
asciilifeform: lulzy film btw
asciilifeform: has mircea_popescu seen ?
mircea_popescu: some bright minds decided to advertise it. they actually paid money to get outdoor space, and on it they're selling... rum and cola. huge, block lettered 4 stage recipe, 3rd being "bebida cola".
mircea_popescu: fucktards are advertising coca cola with their own money, out of every single drink coca cola makes a dollar fifty if they make a dollar.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently yes, had to ask teh womenz. really fucking retarded movie.
asciilifeform: this was covered in an old mircea_popescu article about early mobile phonez
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but it was ~about~ turd world tardation
asciilifeform: said right on the box.
mircea_popescu: as someone who actually fucks third worlders, i do not buy this.
asciilifeform: india?!
mircea_popescu: it's about california being dumb in a different color scheme , i guess.
mircea_popescu: what, where do you think the gypsies come from ?
asciilifeform: as much relation to modern india as modern italy to the etruscans
mircea_popescu: phenotypically ?
mircea_popescu: not that far off!
asciilifeform: begins & ends there.
mircea_popescu: or did i misconstrue your question and you weren't asking something along the lines of "how COULD you stick your penis in brown!!1"
asciilifeform: was specifically re: turd world
asciilifeform: which is - or soon to be - mostly white folks
mircea_popescu: maybe that's the issue. what "turd world" ? third world ?
asciilifeform: 3rd, but with omnipresent public turds
asciilifeform: as pictured in the film
asciilifeform: go six blocks and see eight open air turds
asciilifeform: smell 78.
mircea_popescu: that thing only exists in trona, ca.
mircea_popescu: btw - ever seen the movie ? Just Add Water
mircea_popescu: it's about this world. a small town next to bakersfield (a sort of california's own ohio)
shinohai: So this showed up in my shinohai@nigge.rs mailbox: https://vc.gg/blog/im-moving-to-romania/
assbot: I’m Moving to Romania | Vincent Canfield's Blog ... ( http://bit.ly/1SeIDqP )
asciilifeform once watched an american sp4mz0r do this
asciilifeform: (from commentz) 'I work as a sysadmin. I got my remote position by working in an office and getting to know everyone, and getting myself in a position where all of my work can be done remotely. Even though I’m near the office should I need to go in, I work from home since there’s not really any need. Other ways include freelance / contract work, or just outright applying for a remote-hire position. There are lots of fully-
asciilifeform: decentralized companies out there, you just have to find them.'
asciilifeform: this fella is a sysadmin, but not on call during american business hours? ... or is he ?
asciilifeform: phun phakt: virtually all american 'health insurance' is void abroad
mircea_popescu: lol " The Maine college drop-out, 21, at center of hoax terrorist threat emails sent to schools across the East and West coasts that sparked college evacuations "
mircea_popescu: this is whjat i get for going "who the fduck is vincent canfield"
asciilifeform goes back to the far moar interesting activity of changing the detergent in the tub where 'northgate' kbd keys are soaking for their 5-yrly wash
shinohai: I applaud the guy for at least putting up warrant canary on server
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> phun phakt: virtually all american 'health insurance' is void abroad << ofcourse it is ? just like soviet ruble vouchers were void in bonn ?
punkman: isn't that SOP everywhere?
assbot: Bigger Blocks Mean More Decentralization for Bitcoin - Bitcoin News ... ( http://bit.ly/1SeJsA1 )
punkman: /me notices data, hmm
punkman: *date
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha. somebody ought remind herr canfield not to fall ill or have accident
asciilifeform: shinohai: 'warrant canary' is an endearing custom but is quite useless on several different levels
shinohai: https://cock.li/transparency/warrant-canary.txt <<< text of canary is why I applaud him.
asciilifeform: ianal but the standard u.s. freislerian legal instrument in such cases is the gag order, which is not 'a national security letter, on order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or any other classified request for user information'
mircea_popescu: the very fucking notion of "a gag order".
asciilifeform: (the gag itself is not classified, in the sense that it is a separate legal instrument and its disclosure is punished under a separate set of penal code than disclosure of classified info - which in usa, supposing that you did not sign its nda, is not a crime)
mircea_popescu: as if any judge has the authority to order such a wonder.
asciilifeform: auctoritas no, potentas yes
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asciilifeform: and afaik 'warrant canary' has never been tested in any court.
asciilifeform: and considering that secret courts and secret laws are now sop in usaschwitz, perhaps it was tested 1,001 times and was laughed at from day one
asciilifeform: the legal logic behind 'canary' was always dodgy, 'usg cannot compel you to tell lies' - wanna bet ? ask juniper et al
asciilifeform: or ask that one telco ceo who wouldn't sign up for nsa
asciilifeform: (and promptly jailed for 'insider trading')
asciilifeform: nobody gets to count for two shits, in big picture, in usa, without proper strings pre-attached
asciilifeform: (can be as simple as being a pedo, a la brock p)
trinque: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352459 << I am open to doing a paste.deedbot.org; done correctly it does not seem like a massive piece of work.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 20:57:04; mod6: trinque: could deedbot be easily copied and modified to just have variable paste retention into a webdir or db of some kind? it wouldn't send to the blockchain like deedbot. then we could just have our own `pastebot'? is this dumb?
asciilifeform: they play ball, or usg pulls on the strings. will pull until arms, legs come off.
asciilifeform: and anyway why would anybody need to serve a warrant to canfield ? all they gotta do is cancel his job. then he can enjoy living in ro ~on a ro wage~
Azelphur waves at mircea_popescu
Azelphur: Haven't been active in here in a while, howdy :)
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BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351805 << There are a poverty of laptops and portable desktops on the market which are still less POS
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 14:41:47; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if laptop needs external cooling, it's a pos
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thestringpuller: mod6: was this started from a /clean/ env or is this trying to load up a blockchain from christmas past? << I completely nuked the datadir .bitcoin with rm -rf *; whenever I do an rpc call after the thing _tries_ to spin up, it borks. crashes without anything except what was in the db.log. I'm almost certain it's an issue with bdb because no blocks are downloaded or anything. cause it connects to the node I specify gets basic
ben_vulpes: yes but /have you run it under gdb/
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: re handwriting, it is a mystery for the ageists
ben_vulpes: ages, ageists, women in tech
ben_vulpes: oddball pun
asciilifeform: it is beyond my puny brain
ben_vulpes nods in appreciation
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes has actual chix in his shop'o'horrors ?
ben_vulpes: like i said, 'twill remain a mystery
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351815 << have i not yet achieved loglightenment on how to index the transaction set?
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 14:46:59; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351660 << ahahahaa i'm a laugh to death, we want a sql parser to grind every motherfucking time a tx is fetched ??!?!?
asciilifeform: well, we ~already know~ that it can be done WITHOUT SQL ANYWHERE
ben_vulpes: sure, but did you miss the line where i asked "what data structure will work here?"?
asciilifeform: quite a few would work
ben_vulpes opens the door, gestures frantically
asciilifeform: e.g., b* tree
asciilifeform: b-tree rather
asciilifeform: b* if space is more of a concern vs time
thestringpuller: BSP trees?
thestringpuller: i kno those
asciilifeform: at any rate the data structure oughta be optimized FOR THIS PROBLEM and not 'for everything anyone might ever think of forever'
ben_vulpes: how then to sort transactions?
ben_vulpes: i must now admit to only a kindergarten level understanding of data structures, for any who remain un-clued-in to this fact
assbot: B-tree algorithms ... ( http://bit.ly/1m8nDGj )
assbot: B-Tree example - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1m8nC5j )
ben_vulpes: "keys" in this case would be 'txid's?
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352040 << Digging through the newsmines there seems to be a subspecies of aspie neckbeard that occasionally presents so
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 17:21:24; mircea_popescu: who the fuck else is this FUCKING EQUALITARIAN, huh ?
ben_vulpes: please bear with me for a moment, hashes are then actually a sortable thing, a la...integers?
asciilifeform: whatever bitstring you like can be treated as an integer
ben_vulpes: in that any byte array can be used to represent an integer?
ben_vulpes: i am completely out of my depth here.
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352046 << Many can't pose opencunted, because gunt. Pictures in log.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 17:22:53; asciilifeform: these selfsame folks will happily pose topless, or opencunted, etc. ~in the right place~
asciilifeform: 'god created the integers, all else is the work of man' (tm) (r) (gauss)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: fortunately, the mutants in your photos are not actually common
ben_vulpes: okay, this i now dig.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'man strncmp' on your box
asciilifeform: ^ one metric
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You only don't encounter many, because in capital zone they get deported here or Ohio. Or maybe you just haven't much been to walmart.
ben_vulpes: nifty.
asciilifeform: l0l and here i thought it was because they don't get out
asciilifeform: the one time i went to lolmart they destroyed my shoes
asciilifeform: (some clerk spilled a bucket of paint right in my path, led to a circus where successively higher levels of boss appeared to apologize, ending with top shift boss - a pretty gurl - giving me a fiddybuck 'gift card' )
kakobrekla: some serious luck.
asciilifeform: this was eons ago.
asciilifeform: anyway i can't think of any reason to venture into a lolmart in modern day
asciilifeform: (what amazon is for)
BingoBoingo: But no, the circus freaks get out. It's just they most often go places they can sit or ride venue provided scooty puffs.
assbot: Black Jeopardy with Elizabeth Banks - SNL - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1mhWPD5 )
asciilifeform: ick laughtrack
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352005 << neat! i would dearly love to see this.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 17:12:09; asciilifeform: and multithreaded gcd--er
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352122 << this was never actually on the table, the thread was war stories on my part and generalized architectural opining on mircea_popescu's
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 18:35:54; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we don't have sql in there now. this was re: the notion of using sqlite.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32900 @ 0.00050182 = 16.5099 BTC [-]
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352327 << wait, what has changed in the bootup process that would justify an update?
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 19:52:00; asciilifeform: http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2015/06/21_a-tour-of-bitcoind-booting-to-its-first-thread.html << would be neat to see an updated this
ben_vulpes: or, talking about script?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the article
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352445 << oh come on, no citation even?! i spent hours on that research.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 20:51:20; mircea_popescu: This year HBR changed the evaluation criteria from "stock price only"1 to an agglomeration of fuzzy metrics that include stock price in addition to Sustainalytics' proprietary "goodness evaluation" metrics.
ben_vulpes: "research"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 158177 @ 0.00050046 = 79.1613 BTC [-] {4}
ben_vulpes: rooting around in middens
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: do you want a rehash of the GUD stuff? a wholesale reexamination of every point in the piece?
asciilifeform: just more expositions in that vein
assbot: The myths of "the good life" and that work should be fun and happen in a fun place only serve to enslave you to the progressive's hedonic treadmill ... ( http://bit.ly/1OqnvOT )
asciilifeform: l0l, everybody knows that work happens in a uranium mine and a miner lives for about 3 months before succumbing
ben_vulpes is surprised asciilifeform's parser can handle the title, much less the piece
asciilifeform: 'Bezos runs a company, not a playground for millenials.' << actually the interesting thing is that he ~does~ run a playground for millenials
asciilifeform: but it's a different kind, the kind with razor blades in the slides
ben_vulpes: how is it that place can get away without showing a profit?
asciilifeform: pyramid
asciilifeform: (usg-powered, like all other 'superstar' stocks)
asciilifeform: elementarily.
thestringpuller: i thought amazon made a profit?
thestringpuller: also iirc you don't pay any taxes if you technically make no profit.
ben_vulpes: this shit is enough to make me despair of anything but burning everything down.
thestringpuller: i thought we all felt that way to begin with...
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: let mircea_popescu know when you've reached the correct level of despair, he will issue you with a pin with which to poke out eyes of guards
ben_vulpes: i dgaf about guards
ben_vulpes: there are specific heads i'm out for yet.
ben_vulpes: unrelatedly, is there anything to this gdansk deepwater port nyooz?
trinque: +asciilifeform │ (usg-powered, like all other 'superstar' stocks) << wat?
trinque: amazon has been treated on the logs several times
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 22:24:21; mircea_popescu: trinque the fed mostly owns privately issued paper anyway. mostly bond bundles, but most of them are tied to stocks (via banks) so in point of fact the fed owns atm ~118-122% or so of the entire us economy
trinque goes to find current numbers, but iirc they run thin *profits*
trinque: and the strategy is to outrun competitors in this manner.
trinque: I don't see the fault with it.
assbot: AMZN Quarterly Income Statement - Amazon.com Inc. Quarterly Financials ... ( http://bit.ly/1OqoqPb )
trinque: last 3/4 were profitable
trinque: rather, 3 out of last 4
thestringpuller: and they don't pay dividends either
thestringpuller: i think shareholders forced apple to pay dividends cause sitting on as much cash as they allegedly had is extremely risky, cause inflation
thestringpuller: then again all fiat stocks are scams anyways...
assbot: Write for bitcoin news - Bitcoin News ... ( http://bit.ly/1Oqpt1J )
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assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 22:08:21; asciilifeform: and considering that secret courts and secret laws are now sop in usaschwitz, perhaps it was tested 1,001 times and was laughed at from day one
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 22:17:53; Azelphur: Haven't been active in here in a while, howdy :)
assbot: Logged on 25-12-2015 00:38:42; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: http://www.semaphorecorp.com/btp/algo.html or see knuth
mircea_popescu: best use of one's time in this field, deeply recommended for any gentleman anyway.
mircea_popescu: could almost say he's a sort of computing's feynman.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-12-2015#1352675 << beotch, you're like linked from the latest on trilema already :D
assbot: Logged on 25-12-2015 01:19:10; ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352445 << oh come on, no citation even?! i spent hours on that research.
ben_vulpes: aha, yes.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-12-2015#1352698 << i find alf's sarcasm has improved markedly since hanging around here.
assbot: Logged on 25-12-2015 01:30:11; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: let mircea_popescu know when you've reached the correct level of despair, he will issue you with a pin with which to poke out eyes of guards
mircea_popescu: "Keep you title under 156 characters
mircea_popescu: Make sure your article is easy to read. People familiar and not will be reading the articles.
mircea_popescu: Do a proper fact check"
mircea_popescu: shit. i could have written for "bitcoin news" ALL THIS TIME ?
asciilifeform: !s from:mircea_popescu alf improved markedly
assbot: 1 results for 'from:mircea_popescu alf improved markedly' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=from%3Amircea_popescu+alf+improved+markedly
mircea_popescu: you gonna blame the search ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. it was PEN. not fucking pin. pen.
asciilifeform: pen with pin!
mircea_popescu: the pinpen of pain.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 83845 @ 0.0005027 = 42.1489 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28548 @ 0.00050413 = 14.3919 BTC [+]
asciilifeform: http://www.radioscanner.ru/forum/topic23745-6.html#msg682723 << account of su reverse engineering the famous 'ivy bells' device. afaik this has never appeared in english
asciilifeform: or possibly it has
asciilifeform: looks like might even be a back-translation
asciilifeform: (or fabrication..)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21800 @ 0.00050395 = 10.9861 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 84050 @ 0.00050458 = 42.4099 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24200 @ 0.00050678 = 12.2641 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 76294 @ 0.00050427 = 38.4728 BTC [-]
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