asciilifeform: when you plug a lamp into a mains socket, is that also a 'streaming query' ?
asciilifeform: 'the new state-of-the-art destroyer, her ambitious captain and seemingly fumbling crew were placed under arrest and sent to Bermuda for trial. it was the first time in the history of the United States Navy that an entire ship and her company had been arrested. The William D. Porter was surrounded by Marines when it docked in Bermuda and was held there for several days as the closed-session inquiry attempted to find out what ha
asciilifeform: but afaik no one posted a meaningful dumped block
asciilifeform: (stump on mac?!?)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i somehow got the impression that you were considering gentoo-on-applehw
asciilifeform: ^ example
asciilifeform: hence - compressed.
asciilifeform: incidentally, the biggest downer of 'djvu' wavelet compressor is that it... actually introduces typos like this (!)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a little more complicated than this. just like quite a few folks who have never drawn a proper 'federal' paycheque are really members of usg, quite a few folks (tens of millions) in usa are in fact 'policemen' though they do not know it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do not convey a feeling of falsity << ahahaha. i'm nearing the end of what must be my 5th rereading of mr o's complete output.
asciilifeform: imagine having to put up with the company of the whole muppet pyramid.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: impudence... he can't round up... and shoot the lot << remember michael hastings ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: b) they're all reasonably loaded (for a clerk) a) they're generally old enough, not necessarily for impotence, but to mostly lack interest.
asciilifeform has not met especially many specimens of u.s. military brass, but the ones he saw alive gave the impression of being something quite like professional actors.
asciilifeform: or rather, if you implement one of the error codings discussed earlier, you can shoot out a small signed gibblet at a time, yes
asciilifeform: now compute the maximum payload.
asciilifeform: adlai: when i laboured under the delusion that i could write a useful trading automaton, i found it simple enough to 'trade' with imaginary btc, gold, etc.
asciilifeform: choosing where to go for dinner with a coprophagiac; compromise - eat only a little shit.
asciilifeform: there are quite a few, i think, who are grossly underequipped - intellectually - to actually operate a computer
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/mips-creator-ci20-released-interesting-though-not-very-useful << for your collection. i own the pre-release version of this thing. it works. but full of oddities. there is a (supposedly) complete data sheet for the chip.
asciilifeform: there also appear to be at least half a dozen compatible products, of similar cost.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now try expanded mindfuck. think of what this picture will look like once apple implodes.
asciilifeform: anybody bother to look into the competitors of 'pogo' (seagate nas, etc.) ?
asciilifeform: note that you can build for pc if you replace the cross compiler with standard gcc
asciilifeform: consider, any spammer in need of a ddosnet can simply walk into #b-a
asciilifeform: re: ddos: i'm still at a loss at how snmp/ntp amplification ddosnets can carry on existing without a 'tragedy of the commons' situation - recall, anyone here could in principle invoke the chumpnet at any time
asciilifeform: but is contract (implicit, 'shrinkwrap', otherwise) where one promises to break a law, a valid contract ?
asciilifeform sits and contemplates mircea_popescu's software license, and increasingly likes it
asciilifeform: was it the stooge, proclaiming 'Then you shouldn't be pushing for btcd in the post. Btcd is harmful to consensus. Your proposal to have miners run multiple consensus implementations doesn't require btcd to exist and its existence doesn't benefit it.' ?
asciilifeform learned from a previous chumpapade that the ones molded to occupy the space taken by ordinary bulb, are laughably dim
asciilifeform total chump, came back from buying super-pleasure-led light bulbs only to discover that they won't fit in a single fixture he has
asciilifeform: orlov himself is in no hurry to trade his computer for a spear.
asciilifeform: why, i wonder, did he pick the indians as an example of 'the true path' and not, say, a stray dog ?
asciilifeform: ^ this article exemplifies everything i personally most dislike about herr orlov.
asciilifeform: it made palatial micromanagement of an empire at least thinkable.
asciilifeform: tradition, but the job of administering the Empire had ceased to appeal. Few able men went east of Suez if there was any way of avoiding it.'
asciilifeform: dministration. And what was true of the official world was true also of the commercial. The great monopoly companies swallowed up hosts of petty traders. Instead of going out to trade adventurously in the Indies one went to an office stool in Bombay or Singapore. And life in Bombay or Singapore was actually duller and safer than life in London. Imperialist sentiment remained strong in the middle class, chiefly owing to family
asciilifeform: Mandalay. The one-time empire builders were reduced to the status of clerks, buried deeper and deeper under mounds of paper and red tape. In the early twenties one could see, all over the Empire, the older officials, who had known more spacious days, writhing impotently under the changes that were happening. From that time onwards it has been next door to impossible to induce young men of spirit to take any part in imperial a
asciilifeform: ess room for individual initiative. Men like Clive, Nelson, Nicholson, Gordon would find no place for themselves in the modern British Empire. By 1920 nearly every inch of the colonial empire was in the grip of Whitehall. Well-meaning, over-civilized men, in dark suits and black felt hats, with neatly rolled umbrellas crooked over the left forearm, were imposing their constipated view of life on Malaya and Nigeria, Mombasa and
asciilifeform: 'Thirty years ago the Blimp class was already losing its vitality. The middle-class families celebrated by Kipling, the prolific lowbrow families whose sons officered the army and navy and swarmed over all the waste places of the earth from the Yukon to the Irrawaddy, were dwindling before 1914. The thing that had killed them was the telegraph. In a narrowing world, more and more governed from Whitehall, there was every year l
asciilifeform digs in log, fails to find, mircea_popescu's line about state-imposed star topologies
asciilifeform: trinque: better to just give unto bezzledom what is bezzle << consider the implications of the well-known u.s. court case Wickard v. Filburn.
asciilifeform: the above is not a statement of 'history is a boot stomping on a human face forever', but a testable hypothesis about actual near-future observables.
asciilifeform: so, the chump can travel wherever he wants, to zimbabwe if he likes, but if we were to rock the boat - a bureaucrat flips the switch, and -bam- - he's a pauper.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: ianal, but it is not the mere act of not paying, but what they consider to be an attempt to weasel out of having the tax assessed or collected, that constitutes the offence in the usa penal code
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: big fat news, usa is simply moving to the taxation system customary in most of the orcish world - levy exorbitantly high tax, and hope it makes up for spotty collection
asciilifeform: it's a usg newspeak term that encompasses not only paupers, who have no business in a bank regardless, but also folks resisting bezzle who consciously stay out of bank
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's how you end up with 'the spec is the implementation' crapolade
asciilifeform: the_scourge: better example - 1918, lenin's boys experimented with cancelling money.
asciilifeform: (to the latter, there are some possible exceptions, see the ancient inca empire)
asciilifeform: the_scourge: that king cannot simply order arbitrary objects monetized, or forgo the use of money entirely
asciilifeform: the_scourge: we have mats and adlai here, also former (or possibly reverse) army men in various corners of usa vassal empire
asciilifeform: (possible criminal complaint if you don't pay, and referred to collections apparatus as a civil debt)
asciilifeform: the_scourge: this means bitcoin in much the same way that computing means semiconductor.
asciilifeform: you end up with, at best, a statistical sample
asciilifeform: the_scourge: from packet dumps taken by myself and at least 2 other folks here, appears that mr. ddos uses mainly 'amplification' method (ssdp, ntp)
asciilifeform: email that actually sends what you want and nothing else would be a worthy project << would have to be present at every hop of the message. a direly implausible project, sadly
asciilifeform: trinque: chisel is not simply a very thin and unpleasant hammer.
asciilifeform: it's like collecting random sample of water from sewer
asciilifeform: i.e. random sampling of planet
asciilifeform: zap whatever compartments and cliques may have formed naturally (or unnaturally...) in the graph.
asciilifeform: 'if the chinese were to jump from stools 1 metre heigh upon hearing the signal over the radio...'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didja ever have a ru physics textbook with the jumping chinese example ?
asciilifeform: 'We, the true "only official foundation of Bitcoin" declare ourselves the new leaders. Our main goal will be hookers and blow for everyone! Our main concern will be beer and Bitcoin of course. We will represent the bitcoin community from now on in the correct way to the outside world and all important people need to bow to us and bribe us to get a foot in the door. It will also be lucrative for the people in power to infiltrat
asciilifeform: punkman: hence ought to contain an example of miner.
asciilifeform: this is, recall, a -reference- implementation
asciilifeform: and this is quite impossible with binaries
asciilifeform uses bitcoin as a scientific toy, curio, but if he had been firing it in anger for years as mircea_popescu had, would have finished own implementation eons ago
asciilifeform: the proggy itself has never been large in comparison
asciilifeform: ~1.2 compressed
asciilifeform: i don't know any serious computer user who does not have a multitude of spinning disks at all times.
asciilifeform: not just for what it is, but for how it's implemented. (metric shit-ton of xml garbage, book-length standards doc)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: doug h is sui generis. can't really place him in a genre. he wrote a number of tomes for folks who like mathematics (in particular, logic and theory of computation), languages, translation. he is also a fairly good translator of ru->eng, even rhyme-preserving pushkin. blew my mind.
asciilifeform: punkman: nothing whatsoever. the recipe is complete, total, perfect.
asciilifeform: no, in some schools of thought, one is supposed to emplace them in orbits
asciilifeform did not invent this particular flavour of crackpottery, but has seen a good sampling thereof
asciilifeform: except for the obvious implication that - why is the reader reading?
asciilifeform: although his colleague, 'heartiste', once referred to yours truly as 'the moldbug of computer science'
asciilifeform: 'In the interest of the reference implementation being a robust solution that requires minimal trust of its peers the header's only approach favored by the Vessenes' foundation's forks' developers.' <<< wat?
asciilifeform: comparable to satellite launch today, possibly
asciilifeform: and to answer the objections of possibly lurking idiots in advance - no, it is not because bitcoin is mathematically complicated
asciilifeform: and i will say that none of the items i have worked with (and they were samples of malware, in some cases elaborately obfuscated) remotely approached the ugliness and gnarliness of bitcoind.
asciilifeform: 'Software may be "open sourced" by various companies who depend on that software to do their business (Puppet, Chef and Go are all excellent examples of the pattern: monolithic software projects of such scale that they either approach or actually are their own languages for which the source is freely available, but the source for which nobody is really supposed to read), but in nearly all of those cases the code may as well be
asciilifeform: a substantially more compact but logically-equivalent mechanism is possible, i dare say
asciilifeform: actual computers not banned yet
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the simplest way is to run it inside the loop
asciilifeform: phillipsjk: talk to kakobrekla, he will give you a place to drop the dumps, if you believe that you have discovered something peculiar therein
asciilifeform: it's an amplification, by definition (attacker sends N bytes, victims receive k*N for some positive k)
asciilifeform: phillipsjk: the amplification attack you found in your packet captures (we discussed it here about a month ago) is a pure ddos vector
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu, mod6, danielpbarron: if any of you wanted armv5 binaries to play with, ask jurov, they're in his dust bin, where turdatron dumped them despite valid sigatures.
asciilifeform: jurov: if you are using a demented dwarf with abacus instead of a computer, please fire him and replace with an actual machine.
asciilifeform: jurov: so far i've managed perhaps 2 messages in, out of five times this many attempts.
asciilifeform: ultimately any interface between analogue and digital 'worlds' is a sampling system
asciilifeform: mats: no attempt is made to isolate pc 5v power from rng;
asciilifeform: i mean, i get it, it's become scarcely distinguishable from other pumpcoinz
asciilifeform: the original point of my objection to the qntra piece was that, afaik, 'litecoin' was different from every other altcoin in the sense that it was not simply an existing source tree with a dozen constants changed.
asciilifeform: by all rights he should have attempted the asic
asciilifeform: (see 'lifecoin' for example of algorithm that actually requires increasing physical space as difficulty grows)
asciilifeform: this would have the side effect of encouraging the construction of machines which are not entirely useless for other extravagant computing projects
asciilifeform: it is interesting to contemplate why no one (afaik) suggested a third workfunction
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: equating 'litecoin' with other sc4mc01nz is a mistake. it was a genuine, if misguided, attempt at something genuinely else
asciilifeform: danielpbarron, anyone else having trouble with cross-compilation - 'buildroot' will build, among other necessary things, the toolchain.
asciilifeform: anyone who wants to try bastard, can make a temporary copy of tree merged up to 5.3.1 and apply the skull'n'crossbone patch.
asciilifeform: actively pumping.
asciilifeform: go can be statically compiled can it not << it has a runtime.
asciilifeform: expects exactly empty start
asciilifeform: as in, run with just the tarballs and the required empty dir.
asciilifeform: that's a sure symptom that it was unable to install to specified local dir
asciilifeform: what cross-compiler ?
asciilifeform: 'So, I have a question - why do we need such an OPEN technologies, that can be BLOCKED tomorrow? Today - it's me, but who knows what will happen tomorrow, and which countries or companies will decide to block their, so called open, tools that you use.'
asciilifeform: build on actual computer.
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: didja miss the part about -cross- compiling
asciilifeform goes to buy a Pretty Good Computer
asciilifeform: assuming there was any actual comparison
asciilifeform: even if for some peculiar reason it were not possible to reduce consumption, the thing ought to know when about to be killed - and shoot itself in the head with some decorum, rather than wait
asciilifeform: who the hell writes a program as hungry as this, that is entirely unaware of its own resource consumption and lacks any feedback mechanism ?
asciilifeform: Attempts to undermine the legitimate currency of this country are simply a unique form of domestic terrorism. While these forms of anti-government activities do not involve violence, they are every bit as insidious and represent a clear and present danger to the economic stability of this country. We are determined to meet these threats through infiltration, disruption, and dismantling of organizations which seek to challen
asciilifeform: pretty sure complete copy would leave a man not only dead but street pizza
asciilifeform: but that it is not entirely impossible to find a pill against whatever kind of resistance
asciilifeform: not trying to argue that usg will somehow transmogrify into inca empire when it 'needs to'
asciilifeform: complete with collectivized agriculture.
asciilifeform: it is worth reading about ancient slave empires
asciilifeform: 'Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered. He spends part of his time in a fantasy world in which things happen as they should in which, for example, the Spanish Armada was a success or the Russian Revolution was crushed in 1918 and he will transfer fragments of this world to the history books whenever possible. Much of the propagandist writing of our time amounts to plain forgery. Materi
asciilifeform: 'On the cruelty of really teaching computing science' (dijkstra)
asciilifeform: would be more economical to simply chop the connection
asciilifeform: if connects to a peer who insists on pumping it full of bastards, cyclically, of course it wedges.
asciilifeform: nd Free Software are proofs that computers are alienating in the old Marxist sense and the Open Source and Free Software projects are reactions to this sense of alienation, in order to make the person stand out from the computerized nothingness.'
asciilifeform: i bet you can think of some examples of this, from your own practice
asciilifeform: (for non-usa folks: the 'college racket' does not consist merely of tuition and housing that go up ~10%/yr., but also miscellaneous vampirisms like textbooks that stay almost exactly the same but for the exercise set orderings, at 100-400 usd a pop, moving target every semester)
asciilifeform: them's chumpers.
asciilifeform: i can't believe that people want to fuck around with sidechains and altcoins when there's interesting work to be done in improving how the satoshi codebase <<< not only sloth, but avarice, is involved. nobody gets rich from honestly fixing satoshi's bugs
asciilifeform: block downloading is almost certainly fated to be 'embraced and extended' by a sane implementation
asciilifeform: they are simply blocks received hopelessly out of order
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the wretch was ordered to use only systems fully compatible with traditional usg spyware used on such occasions
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: implicit.
asciilifeform: what of ancient despotisms, with the public impaler, etc. - did not want to be at the stellar configuration center ?
asciilifeform: strong empirical data
asciilifeform: some fool with a short temper, fond of 'death threating' - will be condemned for that
asciilifeform: for non-u.s. folks: gigantic fines like these are imposed in case the condemned owned any real estate
asciilifeform: chumpatronics aside, they also have the more pedestrian objective of creating GBs of turdsactions that bob about in mempool indefinitely, blowing up memory footprint in non-mitigable ways
asciilifeform: 'multisig' is yet another chumpatronic engineering structural element, just as nlocktime is (see link)
asciilifeform: i'd still rather eat actual food and have to import gizmos, than vice-versa
asciilifeform: according to that pile of shit on cryptome, the 'bugs' were mainly omissions of component values in an analogue circuit.
asciilifeform: he did not know the bugs were deliberate... promptly fixed.
asciilifeform: the latter decided it was fit for disinfo use, and sent ru chump to iran to sell it
asciilifeform: not sure why that thing made such an impression on me
asciilifeform thought it was unique to that one dump
asciilifeform: decimation: with the disappearance of forced use of tape to push the requisite bit heaps, no longer any reason for dedicated 'video computer'
asciilifeform: from my understanding, u.s. civilian real estate chumpmeisters are split into two camps - the optimists, who intend to buy the old folks' homes using 'reverse mortgages' - pensions, appealing to folks with destroyed or absent savings, which bargain away the property - and then sell them back to young chumps;
asciilifeform: i'm assuming everybody else here who read the thing, was stumped similarly
asciilifeform: was an ftp full of nice stuff, that one could never get quite enough of, and consequently was tempted to buy the disk
asciilifeform: davout: hence this idea. it did not come from empty space.
asciilifeform: nubbins: use the usb3 jacks. sd simply sucks.
asciilifeform: usb miner was quite another thing from the item here. it promised mega-riches to chumps, and attracted a certain kind of crowd.
asciilifeform: (it's simply a 3-line sh)
asciilifeform: ru intends to match usa at the 'let's pretend to be cretins' olympics.
asciilifeform: decimation: lately they skimp, and use gigantic plastic simulacra of these, in neon colours, filled with rancid rainwater
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha. toy computer needs a little bit of own variant
asciilifeform: (if don't know, learn where the x GHz clock comes from. pll multiplicator of an ordinary quartz! compounded error)
asciilifeform: 2) added c++03 flag, my crosscompiler spewed chunder without it
asciilifeform: just replace the cross-compile gcc with your normal one.
asciilifeform: a deterministic builder of statically linked 0.5.3.xxxxx. for arbitrary cross-compiler. and ran. and turd runs on pogo.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: notice that folks who actually need the cesium fountain for practical work do not bother with the metaphysics. but simply end up defining precise timebase as 'the thing that, if any noisier, now you can't geolocate but to +/-1km...'
asciilifeform: as far as anyone has been able to determine to date, the atom does not temporally misbehave, and so it can be used as clock to the limits of the measurement precision.
asciilifeform: i generally don't discuss music with musical folks because 100% of the time it turns out that they are trying to accomplish something very different with their time
asciilifeform: piano keyboard is meaningless to me. despite plenty of time spent attempted.
asciilifeform is one of those people who can easily compose in his head, incl. polyphony, but can't output
asciilifeform: (summary: walkthrough for construction of simple ecdsa backdoor, for n00bs)
asciilifeform: i don't even believe, necessarily, that they have achieved anything. but in a logically distinct hypothesis that the snowden papers do not prove 'usg is impotent' any more than the famous kgb defections of the '70-80s proved that soviet intelligence was dead
asciilifeform: 'progressives' like to trot out examples of 'the people of the past could not buy an ipNohe for any price'
asciilifeform: perhaps after usg implodes he can buy some people to fill it with
asciilifeform: used him as example because folks here all (?) read him and mr t expounds at great length re: 'what it means to really live'
asciilifeform: if i could live like, e.g., taleb, for 20 years, with the understanding of being impaled after - i would. i don't particularly need being fifty for anything.
asciilifeform: chump money that you 'have' somewhere - is not income.
asciilifeform: add a zero if you want complete isolation from economic reality
asciilifeform: 'sleep ad libitum' costs ~100kusd+ of specifically -non-wage- income, for example.
asciilifeform: for example, we know that he decided to have not one but even two childre
asciilifeform: mr mold's example was, if i recall, his '300/mo. book bill'
asciilifeform: afaik it was an example. he wanted to somehow bring the pre-ww1 dynasties back.
asciilifeform: hence example.
asciilifeform: a somewhat arbitrary example - lexis nexis.
asciilifeform: (it costs employer little or nothing, as the vendors the chumps are herded into using - usually pay.)
asciilifeform: sometimes this is even included as... an employment perk. at some megacorps.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: modernized version of this sc4m4tr0n is 'services' where chump pays subscription (xx months Phr33333! l1mit3d t1m3!!!11) to get 'rewards' (coupons for things that he won't use / don't exist / end up costing even more than for others)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ...see how many COUPONS you find. to "save" generally 5-10 bux << popular chumpatronic device in usa, but fading on accout of the demise of dead tree newspapers
asciilifeform: it does. simply not everyone has a nose.
asciilifeform: simply to lazily avoid making yet another change to bitcoind.
asciilifeform: timestamp on fs only works if we had the correct time once
asciilifeform: it is then tempting to omit ntp entirely...
asciilifeform: but can lift from file system timestamp
asciilifeform: so i'm not averse to simply having it reboot weekly or so
asciilifeform: when seals were stamped onto the pages in the binder, the thread - originally white - would turn blue, black, red, depending on the colour of the seal on that page
asciilifeform: hanbot: for various reasons, brown was a good 'example to be made'
asciilifeform: the 'let's run complex proggies in the browser' thing is monumentally retarded. esp. in light of how it actually works in practice (e.g. js and its all-numerics-are-floats, etc)
asciilifeform: it simply needs to get off the planet. it is an instrument of muppetry, plain and simple.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because you showed symptoms of understanding correctly how it works
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i sorta assumed that you either read it, or had it read to you, or wrote compatible gadget
asciilifeform: an actual computer would have, at minimum, an 'oven' oscillator (capsule can also house rng.) or even rubidium oscillator.
asciilifeform: interesting example of latvia, where, iirc, the greater share of adult men are on 'european tour' (sweeping floors in germany for hourly wage)
asciilifeform: decimation: the two habitual mac users i work with just threw out their unicomps (i think they were..) and bought actual 'model m' each.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: what i utterly fail to grasp is why the 'unicomp' is even a thing, when actual 'model m' can be had for 20-50 usd. in working condition (if perhaps in need of a bath)
asciilifeform is compiling a mutilated linux kernel as we speak
asciilifeform: unicomp << a colleague of mine just threw one out. worn springs after ~1 year.
asciilifeform: (earlier links in log, to english examples.)
asciilifeform: as i understand, this is simply cost-cutting to the bone.
asciilifeform: so we just want a simple brutal beast of 0.5.3-on-a-unix-box ?
asciilifeform: i'd suggest sticking a simple status display (blocks synched, connection count) on port 80.
asciilifeform: presently backing up the original contents, to restore later (why? so can test auto-diddler that pumps in everything in one go.)
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: does he actually do two-way traffic in those, or does he simply have a perl script to broadcast his utterances every which way.
asciilifeform: mats: net-connected air filters, etc. << the 'hammurabic' punishment for having built such a thing ought to be, perhaps, to be placed in a net-connected electric chair for a few days. can be turned on by, e.g., an snmp packet.
asciilifeform: 'If the bootROM detects the 64-bit UART boot pattern (0xBB 0x11 0x22 0x33 0x44 0x55 0x66 0x77) injected by the user, as an indication to start the Xmodem protocol and the UART boot process); it configures the appropriate MPPs to operate as UA0_RXD and UA0_TXD, as in the previous sub-section and starts the Xmodem protocol to load the image from UART to the DDR.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: probably among the most famous examples thereof
asciilifeform: if seriously contemplating this, it is absolutely essential that 'the sapper not err'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu posed a question re: what might be the cheapest reasonably-compact machine that will run 0.5.3.
asciilifeform: a year if you buy their idiot chumpcloud thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it would be quite simple to distribute a binary image that a monkey could pipe to usb flash and insert. for man, rather than monkey, one would prefer a 'thebitcoin.foundation'-style cookbook with signed configs/patches...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: near the end of that page there is a script for cross-compile to mips on a larger machine (e.g. x86)
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: i was sorta assuming that mircea was posing the problem of whether a node could be optimized for 1) minimal cost 2) physical compactness in that order, perhaps to be airdropped behind enemy lines
asciilifeform: basic example.
asciilifeform: !s the camel has two humps
asciilifeform: the author mostly resisted the temptation to add crud
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm speaking as someone who went in for a 'computer science' diploma at an entirely unremarkable american uni.
asciilifeform: mats: if application is safety-critical, buy a series of samples and test to destruction.
asciilifeform: choice, if any, was when jumping.
asciilifeform: i, for one, would rather like to see the machine-gun taken away from the baby, and only then contemplate military strategy
asciilifeform: jumping up and down, to show that your legs work, is an example of what zoologists called 'honest signal'
asciilifeform: 'changetip,' as i understand, answers two usg desires: 1) injection of tard armies into bitcoin, fodder for gavinization 2) the old, tired 'let's put some names/faces/palmprints/arsebook histories on as many btc addrs as we can'
asciilifeform: davout: he's become a kind of proverbial example here, of certain kinds of behaviour
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: in the mid-20th-c., world split into 'prison' and 'psych ward' camps. 'hard' and 'soft'-power, respectively.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: something that takes an ever rarer class of chump to believe.
asciilifeform: and are perpetually tempted to skip the other, honest set, entirely
asciilifeform: not necessarily on account of being stupid. a flunkie, lying from a position of desperation (our friend) - is overcome by anxiety, which inhibits creativity. on the other hand, an official liar, lying from a position of brute strength (e.g., keith alexander), is hobbled by complacency.
asciilifeform: gavinandresen: another question: why precisely do you wish to rescue those who might be tempted to use 'substitutes' for bitcoin ?
asciilifeform: the whole concept of a 'sidechain' is an elaborate chumpatron.
asciilifeform: and by being crafted to give the opposite impression.
asciilifeform: i, for one, would simply like some non-weasel answers to a few basic questions.
asciilifeform: how many need to implode before folks open a game theory textbook and understand that the correct number of blockchains is one ?
asciilifeform: artifexd: the linked article was a very basic example of 'kleptography' (see our old thread)
asciilifeform: gavinandresen: or how otherwise compensate for a 20-fold growth in storage requirement
asciilifeform: decimation: wash., d.c. area specifically. swamp.
asciilifeform: ^ example
asciilifeform: 'improve your memory, guaranteed, with scientology therapy.' ('popular mechanics,' 1958. classified ad.)
asciilifeform: speaking of diamonds (specifically of the synthetic variety), one possible observation here - not concerning the idiocy of the wood thing as such - is that anyone demanding a specific 'colour' (as per the 'monolith' essay) - i.e. provenance - of object, is begging to be chumped
asciilifeform: for sheer idiocy of the expected chump
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: last i heard, not impaled yet
asciilifeform: 'financial discipline' was the imf standard pill for all of eastern europe all through the 90s << it meant, simply, 'privatization' by usg shills.
asciilifeform: the traffic-obeying-impedence and other fluid dynamics laws has been known for ages.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: in real life, the jams begin immediately after the road is widened. because impedence mismatch, elementary. nothing to do with the population around the road, on that timescale.