asciilifeform: ... cement testbed at 402k+ .
asciilifeform: $ticker btc usd
busybot: Current BTC price in USD: $37871.99
asciilifeform: !w poll
watchglass: Polling 14 nodes...
watchglass: 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.112s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=724457
watchglass: 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.068s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=724457
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watchglass: 205.134.172.27:8333 : Alive: (0.083s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=724457 (Operator: asciilifeform)
watchglass: 71.191.220.241:8333 : (pool-71-191-220-241.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.082s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=724457 (Operator: asciilifeform)
watchglass: 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.153s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=724457
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asciilifeform: !q uptime
dulapbot: asciilifeform: time since my last reconnect : 251d 11h 6m
asciilifeform: cgra et al : possibly pertinent ancient thrd re: 'wtf takes so long in block-eating'
dulapbot: (trilema) 2017-02-24 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: here's typical example: block 454521 on dulap : AddToBlockIndex: ~90 sec: http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/main.cpp?v=makefiles#1212 << 99.98% of this interval
verisimilitude: Great, now that I've a name for it, I see graphomania all around.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: there's over9000 folx whose main affliction is soul-sucking boredom, and/or desire to 'show how clever'
asciilifeform: ... often enuff, they do this by spewing out elaborate justifications for the unjustifiable.
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-21 22:09:43 verisimilitude: I like how the first comment concerns how the article triggered a thought-terminating checklist that had the reader lose interest.
verisimilitude: My favourite part of that idiot's comment is how he argues evolution is better, unawares of the real mathematicians and programmers using something that really resembles evolution, and not, as I put it, ``simulating it with C language programmers writing shitty software''.
verisimilitude: I can see his response, ``No! I meant this other thing called evolution!''.
signpost: only solution is for these to starve.
verisimilitude: Even when these idiots think they've backed someone into a corner, they're wrong on several levels.
signpost: they're yet fed, so why stop.
verisimilitude: No, feed them with bullets.
signpost: you first.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: favourite tactic of erudite tards -- draw wholly spurious parallel, proceed as if had sumthing to do with fact
verisimilitude: I'd prefer not to, signpost.
signpost: that was more or less my point.
verisimilitude: I probably wouldn't bother commenting so much, if I weren't able to litter the comments with links to my website.
verisimilitude: Okay.
verisimilitude: I could discuss what I'd really like to do, and how, but I'd rather not, signpost.
signpost: how's this impotent talk different from the kind you're complaining about?
verisimilitude: EGO MELIOR SVM QVAM ILLE
verisimilitude: I am better than he.
verisimilitude: But, yes, let's shift topic.
verisimilitude: I'll be studying that Python implementation of online codes at some point, signpost; that will allow me to shortcut reading those papers I need to read.
verisimilitude: Does it require an in-depth knowledge of Python, or should I be able to read it well enough without such?
signpost: doesn't use any hanky pythonisms that would be unclear.
signpost: the "bigdown" paper is still worthwhile, if you haven't the time to eat the other one.
signpost: pretty short, practical.
verisimilitude: I'd appreciate a link to it.
signpost: I'm sure you can find it if you can be roused.
verisimilitude: That's fair enough.
asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-02-22#1080296 << these generally are academiwank curios, rather than actual effective solutions to anyffin, ftr. for fundamental reasons.
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-22 16:52:38 verisimilitude: My favourite part of that idiot's comment is how he argues evolution is better, unawares of the real mathematicians and programmers using something that really resembles evolution, and not, as I put it, ``simulating it with C language programmers writing shitty software''.
dulapbot: (trilema) 2014-03-22 asciilifeform: we had a homework of evolving (genetic algo) - rather than, as usually done, 'training' a small NN
dulapbot: (trilema) 2017-07-20 asciilifeform: because unlearns faster than learns.
asciilifeform: for all the entertainment value of such demos, what you end up with is a simulation of the least desirable aspects of meat.
dulapbot: (trilema) 2014-11-14 asciilifeform: the one where not a single thing about the circuit made sense to the human dissector
asciilifeform: i.e. instead of deterministic mechanism, get 'worx if not carried to next room and if voice of america is playing same track as it was during the evol. run'
dulapbot: (trilema) 2017-08-31 asciilifeform: deterministic machine ( i.e. where it is not acceptable for output to vary with phase of the moon and which elvis track 'voice of america' is playing ) entails ints.
dulapbot: (trilema) 2016-01-19 ascii_butugychag: the whole point of engineering is to cut apart the happenstance-linked crud from what you actually want.
asciilifeform: soo, verisimilitude , the linked idjit's analogy is apt, simply not in the direction he'd prefer.
verisimilitude: It's wrong on several level, yes.
asciilifeform: at any rate the net is fulla these spews, 'dontcha know, permanently correct software does not exist, could not exist, because reasons' etc
dulapbot: Logged on 2021-11-15 21:29:41 asciilifeform: a properly-adaized replacement-trb (i.e. with ZERO traces of derpcoad and demonstrably bug-free) would be what one could call 'permanent software'
dulapbot: Logged on 2021-11-17 19:33:03 asciilifeform: the very notion that a piece of softs could be permanently finished, afaik srsly discussed publicly only here.
asciilifeform: armchair psychologists have a popular term for such byproduct, 'hamstering'
dulapbot: (trilema) 2017-08-29 asciilifeform: which is why you end up observing what the 'pill' folx called 'hamstering', when confronting them , rubbing nose in it
asciilifeform: i.e. the squeak of the wheel turned by the sufferer in attempt to run away from himself
verisimilitude: They're dead to reason entirely.
verisimilitude: ``Software can't be correct.'' ``Can we get any piece, such as addition, correct?'' ``I guess.'' ``Thus, we can compose correct pieces correctly.'' ``No.''
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: most common, afaik, path to this condition is when reason would require the sufferer to consider wagner&cyanide
asciilifeform: the ones who wake up to reason and bite the cyanide, one doesn't hear from. so what remains is these.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: they're correct re 'we can't compose the pieces', given as ~they~ cannot. but unable to come to terms with the fact that idjit belongs digging holes rather than programming a computer, proceeds to 'no one can'
asciilifeform: apropos, the idjit's cosmography ~demands~ that he make efforts to sabotage anyffin which hints of a potential for permanent correctness
verisimilitude: The worthlessness of an idea can be measured by how readily people accept, celebrate, and discuss the idea in question.
asciilifeform: given as (correctly) sees as existential threat to his kind.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: most of the 'celebration' you'll see in software is of same kind as flies 'celebrating' corpse
verisimilitude: That's a piece of my point.
asciilifeform: the professional idjit fears correctly, permanently-designed systems ~which have no need of his kind~ far moar than fears bullet.
dulapbot: (agriculturalsupremacy) 2020-02-27 asciilifeform: black holes that can absorb ~infinite effort and still suck -- sell. 'job-creating technology'(tm)(r).
verisimilitude: MicroSoft, Google™
asciilifeform: is why you can reliably provoke arbitrarily spectacular lymphocyte storm on just about any tard forum simply by mentioning e.g. commonlisp
verisimilitude: ``I don't need Common Lisp, I like my mental chastity cage, actually.''
verisimilitude: I'm now reminded.
verisimilitude: ``Hardware issues are not unusual at Roblox’s scale, and Consul can survive hardware failure. However, if hardware is merely slow rather than failing, it can impact overall Consul performance.''
verisimilitude: ``Consul is deployed as a cluster of machines in two roles. “Voters” (5 machines) authoritatively hold the state of the cluster; “Non-voters” (5 additional machines) are read-only replicas that assist with scaling read requests. At any given time, one of the voters is elected by the cluster as leader. The leader is responsible for replicating data to the other voters and determining if written data has been fully committed
verisimilitude: Their ``scalable infrastructure'' imploded on its single point of failure.
verisimilitude: This was caused by a logging library that didn't behave as mechanically as thought.
verisimilitude: Throwing bodies at a problem doesn't work when a mental midget constructs a tower to reach the heavens without realizing it.
billymg: whaack: at block 619140 now, it hit the orphan loop at 619141 since my trb isn't built with jfw's dumpblock patch
billymg: nb though considering it started 8 days ago
billymg: only would've needed another day or two to finish (this was with a fully synced trb chain, so the trbexplorer didn't also have to wait for that to sync)
verisimilitude: I was going to send someone an email, but had to first find an address. It wasn't in the license file, but was in the code of conduct, so now I no longer want to send him an email after all.