ben_vulpes: Y'ALL ARE BEING MEAN I'M GOING TO MUCK OUT THE STABLES AND THEN CALL REDDIT POLICE
ben_vulpes: "gotta order n bags of coffee..."
ben_vulpes: either that or the whole team just really hates their customers.
ben_vulpes: i suspect its the 19yo queer girl who "doesn't put substances in her body" that ordered this miserable filth delivered to my door.
ben_vulpes: <punkman> mircea_popescu: well the racks are closed at least << these aren't the racks you're looking for
ben_vulpes is still reeling from the "rural america jab"
ben_vulpes: ~1/15
ben_vulpes: get stuffed with ennui you seasoned metropolitan
ben_vulpes: but why rural america? i don't live in the boonies and the company office is fifteen blocks north
ben_vulpes: haw now that i'll buy.
ben_vulpes: i've *been* in the leasing company's office.
ben_vulpes: probably the dyke upstairs.
ben_vulpes: the best part was the awful awful awful christmas card signed by the office staff with nothing but signatures inside.
ben_vulpes: i can't tell if i'm being trolled.
ben_vulpes: landlording company left a pound of ground french roast on my stoop yesterday.
ben_vulpes: is the blockchain cpu-bound on ssds *and* spinny-drives?
ben_vulpes: *any* lisp.
ben_vulpes: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#batteries-included << notice the *complete* absence of lisp.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell vexual great wub
ben_vulpes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKTknLD9eWw << bitcoin as written in cpp by satoshi nakamoto
ben_vulpes: ;;seen punkman
ben_vulpes: pretty crucial bit of infrastructure for la serenissima.
ben_vulpes: ;;seen punkbot
ben_vulpes: !up Vexual
ben_vulpes: sure lol
ben_vulpes: ;;gettrust jyap
ben_vulpes: altcoinland never fails to amuse
ben_vulpes: undata: no, nubbins`
ben_vulpes: do you buy trading cards too?
ben_vulpes: great scam opportunity.
ben_vulpes: plastic physical coins.
ben_vulpes: totally out of scope for the forseeable future but neat nevertheless.
ben_vulpes: not like it's usable 'till you have the whole thing anyways.
ben_vulpes: download the blockchain torrent style, verify and stitch the segments together as appropriate.
ben_vulpes: i can't help but think that the serial download is entirely unnecessary.
ben_vulpes: if i'm reading correctly.
ben_vulpes: sure, but processing is cpu bound, so if you skip ESDA there's a speedup to be had.
ben_vulpes: obviously not a thing to work on any time soon, but a nifty idea.
ben_vulpes: just spot checking my own bitcoin technical knowledge :P
ben_vulpes: on the fly, yeah.
ben_vulpes: would it be possible to replace the checkpoints with randomized sampling of specific blocks' signatures?
ben_vulpes: if i'm reading this correctly, checkpoints speed up the blockchain download process as signatures aren't checked, but they're assumed valid if the signature on the checkpoint blocks passes.
ben_vulpes: yeah.
ben_vulpes: either trust the source from which you got the code or trust the network.
ben_vulpes: checkpoints or network canvassing.
ben_vulpes thinks.
ben_vulpes: hm.
ben_vulpes: why slower without checkpoints?
ben_vulpes wonders in what special ways btcd misbehaves without checkpoints
ben_vulpes: --nocheckpoints Disable built-in checkpoints. Don't do this unless you know what you're doing.
ben_vulpes: btcd runs with checkpoints as well
ben_vulpes: maybe i only go with a few hundred gb
ben_vulpes: still gonna be like sixty bucks/mo
ben_vulpes is in the process of standing up an aws instance with a full TB of storage
ben_vulpes: decimation: disk storage is the *bane* of bitcoin testing.
ben_vulpes is learning all sorts of things about taxes lately.
ben_vulpes: the way i understand it is that company a owns the assets, b leases them which reduces its apparent income. lease payments come into a and are not categorized as passive investment income.
ben_vulpes: hang on let me dig up the language
ben_vulpes: well, corp a buys a machine and leases it to corp b at a "fair value".
ben_vulpes: tax man has brought to my attention the tax benefits in this country of leasing equipment to your own companies.
ben_vulpes: nice (smelling) people for governance only forever everywhere
ben_vulpes: but babes smell so nice
ben_vulpes: adlai: hawala fork << lol
ben_vulpes: ;;calc 12/50000
ben_vulpes: ;;calc 200/50000
ben_vulpes: now it's inanities like the street tax to pave the ghetto.
ben_vulpes: once upon a time it was the schools, and there were bonds, and the people paid, and nothing changed.
ben_vulpes: undata: "street tax" << my parents have called portland a "benevolent communist state" for as long as i've lived here. it's only recently started to pass its inflection points letting the impoverished demand more and more.
ben_vulpes: paas wars are the db wars of 2015
ben_vulpes: HEAR ME ROAR
ben_vulpes: THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE INTERPRETATION
ben_vulpes: "To me, that insistence can only come from one place: that gender—specifically, masculinity—is inextricably linked to software" << or perhaps that that pronouns are gendered in better languages than engris but whatever
ben_vulpes: <mats_cd03> ben_vulpes: what do you need that for? << 's a joke
ben_vulpes: mats_cd03: not enough yaml
ben_vulpes: i'm intrigued to see if any of my contacts pick up when i come back.
ben_vulpes: dockerizing so that deploying CI in the future is a matter of running the provisioner and waiting a minute.
ben_vulpes: gotta send everyone polite notifications of who's responsible each and every time now to make a point.
ben_vulpes: derpy client keeps breaking the build
ben_vulpes: dockerizing jenkins
ben_vulpes: sounds busy
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> but ba bitcoin market is in complete shambles and im getting sick of it. << "retail" integrations aside, i found the actual buy/sell market totally functional.
ben_vulpes: how are you, mats_cd03 ?
ben_vulpes: indistinguishable from similar derps.
ben_vulpes: <badon> More seriously, VC's like to see a business leadership that is personally highly invested into the business with their own financial resources. << lol return of spamgun?
ben_vulpes: night all
ben_vulpes: love even more buying them with pesos.
ben_vulpes: Vexual: or take more btc. arsfolk love btc.
ben_vulpes: back when he was still playing "journo"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: a "bitcoin" "conference"
ben_vulpes: i refuse to claim knowledge of anything anymore. downright dangerous.
ben_vulpes: well, someone with the face plastered everywhere.
ben_vulpes: "him".
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i actually met him once.
ben_vulpes: perhaps your "carpenter".
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: not i.
ben_vulpes: "what could go wrong?!"
ben_vulpes: as we say during deploys
ben_vulpes: let's find out!
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform would hold that "it doesn't work".
ben_vulpes: an 0.5.3 that needs a kick in the ass a few times a day but can still catch up to chainhead trumps a power ranger hardfork with no published and serenissima-signed alternative.
ben_vulpes: there are worse things in the world than restarting the thing occasionally while work proceeds.
ben_vulpes: that said if it does - oh well.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'll let you know if it exhausts memory.
ben_vulpes: i stopped it at 251442 to snapshot the db, and again at 260*** (something) to provide resources to transfer the blockchain bzip elsewhere
ben_vulpes: i've not rebooted it.
ben_vulpes: the BDB docs themselves say to experiment with the lock number until it works
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i've an 0.5.3 that's happily chugging along with the new db config vals.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: can't really see anything like that working anywhere near the speed of sound.
ben_vulpes: 0.5.3 *wedge* is luke_jr's fault
ben_vulpes: 0.5.3 is luke_jr's fault
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: your cable flexer?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "dragonflies" << well who doesn't love excellent cruising performance *and* agility?!
ben_vulpes: "ground effect" << also
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/umx-hyper-taxi-bnf-with-as3x-technology-EFLU4780 << pauper edition
ben_vulpes: artists and armsmiths both need patrons.
ben_vulpes: decimation: it's a wartime project.
ben_vulpes: pwm control.
ben_vulpes: decimation: bang bang pneumatic valves aren't terribly hard to put together.
ben_vulpes: decimation: active stabilization.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: that's the only kinda vtol that'll work
ben_vulpes: what part?
ben_vulpes: nothing but exhaust valves and delta-f control systems.
ben_vulpes: no gimbals
ben_vulpes: (almost needless to say that the vectoring needs to go in both directions)
ben_vulpes: so long as it has ducted thrust at the tips of both the long axis and short axis, you can arbitrarily dictate its angle of attack.
ben_vulpes: you can have a symmetric wing
ben_vulpes: decimation: "diamond" << wave hands
ben_vulpes: wasteful
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: vtol requires ducting thrust orthogonally to operating thrust vector
ben_vulpes: thrust is now reversed
ben_vulpes: decimation: not a "thrust reverser": flip the whole beast around its long axis
ben_vulpes: with this kind of design it's trivial to turn end over end and stop extremely quickly.
ben_vulpes: plus your main thrusters for "oomph"
ben_vulpes: that way you have full control over pitch, roll, yaw
ben_vulpes: two turbines aligned perpendicular to the long axis, with vent outputs from the turbines outputs all the way out at the tips of the diamond.
ben_vulpes: decimation: imagine a really high aspect ratio diamond
ben_vulpes: decimation: that's why i've always advocated going straight up with jets and then drifting sideways for as long as possible
ben_vulpes: decimation: still gotta get from point a to b - i'd like to see a thing that eschewed flaps for ducted turbine exhaust.
ben_vulpes: probably flight planner too.
ben_vulpes: decimation: it'd have to have the controller onboard.
ben_vulpes: adequate, but also wicked performance gained by virtue of being able to control angle of attack.
ben_vulpes: 2 turbines perpendicular to long axis, with piping adequate to vector the thing around any of its axes.
ben_vulpes: i was noodling on a fully-actuated flying wing last night.
ben_vulpes: repeat until scoopbot arrives for inert meatsack.
ben_vulpes: "if necessary - tase again"
ben_vulpes: "tase and loiter"
ben_vulpes: a wait oom error
ben_vulpes: a full 100k+ blocks behind
ben_vulpes: master bitcoin repository repository is currently at 295000
ben_vulpes: ;;bc,stats
ben_vulpes: GET IT
ben_vulpes: that's a great wot handle
ben_vulpes: uh
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> fact is, if works, will be used. << so much this
ben_vulpes: jurov: http://f9beb4d9.org/ml/btc-dev/patches.html << "signed by" col looks a little wacky
ben_vulpes skips the numismatics
ben_vulpes: +nubbins`:i've got some neat physical bitcoins, some strange bullion pieces, etc << don't forget newspapers lol
ben_vulpes: stability zones on the manifold...
ben_vulpes: why would the general public buy asics?
ben_vulpes: ;;google first bitcoin asic
ben_vulpes: asic period*
ben_vulpes: which would be first time in the asic history?
ben_vulpes: no shit.
ben_vulpes: wow diff to drop
ben_vulpes: ah
ben_vulpes: ;;estimate
ben_vulpes: ;;diff
ben_vulpes: at this low weight?
ben_vulpes: huh rly?
ben_vulpes: WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE
ben_vulpes: dang did you guys really crap out over 1000 lines while i was sleeping?
ben_vulpes goes afk for a bit
ben_vulpes: not terrifically surprsing.
ben_vulpes: what are the different meanings available?
ben_vulpes: -assets aside
ben_vulpes: how much time do you spend typing, asciilifeform ?
ben_vulpes: i'll pass on this particular electric fence.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i bow to your wisdom
ben_vulpes: amortizer's an interesting word choice :D
ben_vulpes: ameliorator?
ben_vulpes: bruise prevention.
ben_vulpes: consider the oculus rift. instead of inertial sensors, uses rangefinders/radars to perform orientation analysis and also map surroundings in real time.
ben_vulpes: an example, if you will. not the ideal, but an example.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: what doesn't work? resolution? speed? the whole not being a phased array and so incapable of reconstructing 3d?
ben_vulpes: that the "computer" i haul everywhere cannot make a realtime 3d model of its surroundings is hilarious.
ben_vulpes: point?
ben_vulpes: sounds like a bad engineering decision with small radar modules in the pipeline.
ben_vulpes: who said gloves?!
ben_vulpes: and yet - subvocalization works.
ben_vulpes: hardware to test this does not exist.
ben_vulpes: who said 'in air'?
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: i have no idea.
ben_vulpes: pm if you have questions. more than happy to lend a hand.
ben_vulpes: obviously there are subtleties with static assets, but you get the gist.
ben_vulpes: deploy pattern is "get code, load deps file into docker,rebuild image with that, if build fails bail, run image, smoke test new container, if new container fails bail, then shut down old container and shoop new container into its place"
ben_vulpes: well, build containers for all persistent services (redis, postgres, mongo in your case).
ben_vulpes: build pattern is: "install docker. then, deploy apptuation."
ben_vulpes: mats_cd03: the sj deploy hairball is entirely bash with a squirt of python to marshal aws resources
ben_vulpes: mongo ha oh boy the machine in question's what - 3 years old?
ben_vulpes: docker will keep containers up on its own just fine.
ben_vulpes: shell script supervisors hm?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: "refuse" << lolk
ben_vulpes: what part is most annoying?
ben_vulpes: mats_cd03: WELCOME TO CLUB
ben_vulpes: +asciilifeform:and the notion of moving fingers without any feedback springs is lunacy << hardly. feedback via optic nerve is entirely reasonable.
ben_vulpes: Coinsetter's order book."
ben_vulpes: cazalla: "Coinsetter is now promoting participation in the bitcoin market to professional market makers by offering maker-taker pricing and a new equity incentive program beginning today. The 'Market Making Equity Incentive Program' will set aside 10% of the company's equity for distribution to institutionally-capitalized designated market makers (DMMs) who provide at least $300k of liquidity to
ben_vulpes: +asciilifeform:every penny i spend is recorded. even at parking meters. << you've got this weird habit of just doing what they tell you. i don't get it, especially given your proclivities and tendencies. it's almost as though you're...an ironic mole!
ben_vulpes: latter*
ben_vulpes: +decimation:few actual important details have been released, like "where they are gonna buy bitcoin" and "how they gonna index btc price" << the later is actually public knowledge
ben_vulpes: +asciilifeform:http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/patches.html << only displays one << jurov, paging jurov to the turdatron
ben_vulpes: +asciilifeform:kakobrekla: i take it turdatron functions to spec now? << what spec
ben_vulpes: mats_cd03: what are you doing with dockerfiles?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i've only just now started appreciating good wines, i don't care to get into "good" monitors too.
ben_vulpes: dunno how i hit enter there...
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i've only just started to appreciate it
ben_vulpes: "Currently, digital currencies lack the basic protections consumers have come to expect when transacting online. For example, contrary to a consumer's experience when paying wit a MasterCard product, if a consumer uses digital currency to make a purchase on line and the merchant fails to deliver the goods, the consumer has no recourse through the digital currency's network." << oh lordy
ben_vulpes: ;;ticker
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: training wheels on a function wave?
ben_vulpes: undata, danielpbarron: things on the manifold of reality find trajectories of stability away from each other because niche specialization
ben_vulpes is curious as to the total take
ben_vulpes: opera doesn't have browse history?
ben_vulpes: rithm: f9beb4d9.org
ben_vulpes: adlai: fentanyl: yes please
ben_vulpes: re qntra advertising: advertising is downright wacky. the numbers say "don't do it" and yet people are constantly doing it.
ben_vulpes: salud RagnarsBitch
ben_vulpes: mhm.
ben_vulpes: > written about in regards to
ben_vulpes: promises by someone out of the wot are to be taken seriously? :P
ben_vulpes: if you're bored :P
ben_vulpes: is the dosser of the uncloaked still around?
ben_vulpes: fuel for the fire
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: helluva dicelist
ben_vulpes: humbug
ben_vulpes: nevarious*
ben_vulpes: presumably the upgrade can be forced upon one by nef4ri0s micr0
ben_vulpes: !b 4
ben_vulpes: again.
ben_vulpes: kakobrekla: no you don't understand unless it's a perfect solution it's entirely worthless
ben_vulpes goes back to building the engine hoist
ben_vulpes rolls eyes