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00:41 verisimilitude I think about the seven laws a decent bit, asciilifeform.
00:42 verisimilitude On this Lemote Yeeloong, it's being slow for some reason, so I foolishly tried to use a ``traditional'' UNIX utility, renice, to adjust scheduling.
00:45 verisimilitude I didn't expect it would lock my machine for over half an hour, to give two Emacs instances negative twenty priority, the highest priority, because some jackass thought those were good numbers for this.
00:45 verisimilitude Also, in writing that last message, it was lost because of SSH errors, so I got to type it twice.
00:46 verisimilitude So, the options at my disposal were to reboot and lose state, or wait to renice again, so I waited.
00:47 verisimilitude Only a fool thinks the ``superuser'' should be allowed to unintentionally lock the machine up for over half an hour.
00:47 verisimilitude This machine can do millions of calculations per second; just what was it doing, I wonder.
~ 46 minutes ~
01:33 verisimilitude The solution is, of course, to use hardware massively more powerful than necessary.
~ 8 hours 57 minutes ~
10:31 asciilifeform verisimilitude: see also.
10:31 snsabot Logged on 2021-01-04 11:50:41 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i'll add what the schoolbook ~won't~ tell you : the shared-resource bottleneck is ~not~ the greatest catastrophe of the vn model of computation. rather, it is the shit-sandwich of broken abstractions based on the interrupt.
10:33 asciilifeform ( and also. )
10:36 asciilifeform $ticker btc usd
10:36 btcinfobot Current BTC price in USD: $34656.18
10:36 asciilifeform !w poll
10:36 watchglass Polling 15 nodes...
10:36 watchglass 185.85.38.54:8333 : Could not connect!
10:36 watchglass 205.134.172.26:8333 : Alive: (0.081s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=665426
10:36 watchglass 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.113s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=665853
10:36 watchglass 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.094s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=665853
10:36 watchglass 71.114.46.209:8333 : (pool-71-114-46-209.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.157s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=665851 (Operator: asciilifeform)
10:36 watchglass 205.134.172.28:8333 : Alive: (0.084s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=665853 (Operator: whaack)
10:36 watchglass 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.085s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=665853
10:36 watchglass 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.142s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=665853
10:36 watchglass 192.151.158.26:8333 : Alive: (0.145s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=665853
10:36 watchglass 213.109.238.156:8333 : Alive: (0.253s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=665304
10:36 watchglass 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.253s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=665853
10:37 watchglass 185.163.46.29:8333 : Violated BTC Protocol: Bad header length!
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16:12 verisimilitude It's always disappointing to click on the website links of loper-os commentators to find empty domains or link farms.
16:14 verisimilitude Does it seem unrealistic, asciilifeform, for me to believe many corporations and other large groups could be replaced by single programmers who were simply able to use the machines to their fullest?
16:15 verisimilitude It's truly sickening, to see the omnipresent waste, given this perspective.
~ 1 hours 50 minutes ~
18:05 asciilifeform verisimilitude: in what sense 'replaced' ?
~ 3 hours 16 minutes ~
21:21 verisimilitude I mean in the sense of equal or better results.
21:25 asciilifeform verisimilitude: lol, what 'results' ?! what do most of these orgs produce, that anyone other than similar bands of grifters actually needs or wants ?
21:25 asciilifeform wouldja miss e.g. microshit if erry single biped on its payroll were sent on 1way ticket to pluto tonight ?
~ 16 minutes ~
21:42 asciilifeform verisimilitude: 99+++% of what currently passes itself off as 'software industry' simply ~would not exist~ if the machines were to ~actually work~, i.e. not operated simply as instruments of busywork, 'menial tasks by mouse instead of by lever'.
21:44 asciilifeform no one actually wants or needs e.g. operating system to have 1e6 (much less the current 1e9+ !) lines of tardcode. it's simply tumour mass.
~ 1 hours 3 minutes ~
22:47 verisimilitude That's part of my point.
22:47 verisimilitude Cut away ninety-nine percent of the fat, and allow good tools, languages, and systems, and I see no reason why one man couldn't do the work of millions.
22:48 verisimilitude Care for an interesting story which struck me recently?
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