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00:12 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: that was long ago on my conveyor, and direly needs doing
00:13 asciilifeform tx and block hashes both
00:14 ben_vulpes mk
00:16 ben_vulpes i have the block hash untruncated in the one place i wanted it recently, have not yet ploughed through the rest of them.
00:16 ben_vulpes "recently", months ago.
00:18 asciilifeform in other historic lulz, https://archive.is/cXS43
00:18 asciilifeform >> 'On May 13, 1985, at approximately 5:28 p.m., two, one-pound bombs were dropped onto a house at 6221 Osage Avenue. The bombs were dropped from about 60 feet above the house by a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter. It was recorded, that the 500+ police officers at the scene, fired approximately 10,000 rounds of ammunition in the direction of the house in 90 minutes...'
00:28 shinohai ♫ "In West Philadelphia, bombed and razed ...." ♪ ♫
00:34 ben_vulpes shinohai: lel
00:35 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/702E5F468CDF045A6FBBA8349FED8F4F932B48041884E4BFF4CC5C53375258BE << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1365...8207 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '187.8.236.178 (ssh-rsa key from 187.8.236.178 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (187-8-236-178.customer.tdatabrasil.net.br. BR SP)
00:35 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/702E5F468CDF045A6FBBA8349FED8F4F932B48041884E4BFF4CC5C53375258BE << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1779...6193 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '187.8.236.178 (ssh-rsa key from 187.8.236.178 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (187-8-236-178.customer.tdatabrasil.net.br. BR SP)
00:36 asciilifeform in yet-other noose, guess who appears to read the l0gz: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2017/05/14/technologies-which-did-not-live-up-to-the-hype
00:36 asciilifeform 'QC deserves the right to a fair and speedy trial. It’s been 32 years.'
00:39 ben_vulpes he's wrong about gas turbines too
00:40 ben_vulpes just had to wait for people to realize y'hook 'em up to batteries and not the tranny directly of course.
00:41 asciilifeform lol what battery
00:41 asciilifeform the lipo thing you gotta buy again every 3y or so ?
00:43 ben_vulpes lead acid'll do just fine, it's not a store, just a load balancer over time.
00:43 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655439 << i have a bunch of these here, they're mighty spiffy
00:43 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 00:28 trinque: asciilifeform: samsung "850 evo"
00:43 ben_vulpes double-reads-the-logs with the stolen "fucking love science" slams
00:44 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: keep a ups with lead acids? ever try not changing them for 3+y ?
00:44 asciilifeform secondary batteries are shite, 0 exceptions discovered to date, sadly
00:44 ben_vulpes far cheaper than lipos, no?
00:45 asciilifeform nope, surprisingly, per A-h
00:45 asciilifeform cn cornered lead market.
00:45 ben_vulpes fe-ni?
00:45 asciilifeform and TcO is astronomical
00:46 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: laughable W-hr/kg
00:46 ben_vulpes my point is don't use the battery as anything other than a temporal load leveler, and bam you have yourself effectively a clutch.
00:46 asciilifeform there are no acceptable batteries !!
00:46 ben_vulpes yes, you replace the clutch plate it is a wear part.
00:46 ben_vulpes dude it's not a store, listen to me.
00:46 ben_vulpes the gasoline is your store, you burn it and use the battery to supply temporary current while the turbine goes from off to optimal regime.
00:46 asciilifeform if you think it doesn't wear when you shallow cycle, think again.
00:47 ben_vulpes clutch also wears.
00:47 asciilifeform clutch doesn't cost 40k.
00:47 ben_vulpes what, fe-ni does?
00:47 asciilifeform price some time what one with 500mile range would cost.
00:48 ben_vulpes why on earth would you need the 500-miler.
00:48 asciilifeform ( and no, 'tesla' aficionado does not get to redefine what an auto ~is~ )
00:48 ben_vulpes are you reading what i write or just repeating from your queue of stored battery slights?
00:49 ben_vulpes battery is /temporal load leveler/ for /onboard turbine that burns gasoline/
00:49 ben_vulpes entirely reasonable power train.
00:49 asciilifeform 5fig maintenance every 3-4yrs is 'reasonable' !???
00:50 ben_vulpes to be clear, 5 figs for the 500 mi battery, correct?
00:50 asciilifeform for, last i knew, 'tesla' battery
00:50 asciilifeform and 2x that if usg weren't subsidizing
00:50 ben_vulpes why would you need a battery with that kind of capacity IF YOU ARE DOING ONBOARD ELECTRICAL GENERATION?
00:51 asciilifeform 'prius' , let's take, then
00:51 asciilifeform .. 7k ?
00:51 ben_vulpes poor example; must be compact, lightweight.
00:52 asciilifeform i suffer these in lappy, and it is infuriating, 20-40% capacity loss/yr. why the everliving fuck would i volunteer to suffer this in an auto.
00:52 asciilifeform and for 2x the cost of petrol, even.
00:52 ben_vulpes no, you don't get to avoid the fe-ni battery proposal.
00:53 asciilifeform or flywheel !
00:53 asciilifeform asciilifeform's father designed, iirc a city bus on old home planet, with flywheel accumulator
00:53 ben_vulpes shall i go get my sophistry canister?
00:53 asciilifeform no, it worked.
00:54 ben_vulpes also the prius does not have a fully-electric transmission.
00:54 asciilifeform ( was trolleybus. flywheel allowed it to go brief stint out if wire range )
00:54 ben_vulpes worst of all worlds.
00:54 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: incidentally, why not
00:54 ben_vulpes because they use the motor to power the transmission and not the battery.
00:54 asciilifeform i rode in a 'prius' taxi not long ago, and was astonished to discover this
00:55 asciilifeform but WHy
00:55 ben_vulpes because legacy drivetrain.
00:55 ben_vulpes dude that you are engaging on the topic and are recently surprised at the state of the art is pretty funny.
00:55 ben_vulpes prius has a dual-input transmission.
00:55 asciilifeform yes but why!!
00:55 asciilifeform i dungetit
00:55 ben_vulpes because honda car division makes ic engines and ic trannies
00:56 ben_vulpes toyota?
00:56 asciilifeform aaah junkyardwars ol
00:56 asciilifeform ok
00:56 ben_vulpes anyways, "volt" does this correctly.
00:56 ben_vulpes and i await the drivetrain's arrival in trucks eagerly.
00:57 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: phunphakt : heavy mining trucks in su were 100% diesel-electric
00:57 asciilifeform a la prius or ww2 sub.
00:57 ben_vulpes dual-input or electric to the shaft?
00:57 asciilifeform because a house-sized mechanical transmission is idiocy
00:57 ben_vulpes prius is not electric to the shaft, as we just discussed. it has electrical supplement to the shaft.
00:58 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: motor per wheel
00:58 asciilifeform aah
00:58 ben_vulpes yeah, not how prius works.
00:58 asciilifeform sub then
00:58 ben_vulpes yes, sane design.
00:58 ben_vulpes prius is plastic tech designed to appease american consumer, nyooz at whenever.
00:58 ben_vulpes great mileage, zero accel.
00:58 ben_vulpes zero torque, etc.
00:59 ben_vulpes perfect self flagelletory greentech.
00:59 asciilifeform btw ben_vulpes -- know where i can get a ni-fe cell ?
00:59 asciilifeform or whichever size
00:59 ben_vulpes sadly, no.
00:59 asciilifeform *of
00:59 ben_vulpes but the chemistry is of kindergarten grade. go, buy railcars of ni, fe, assemble.
00:59 asciilifeform lolyes
00:59 asciilifeform why not pebble reactor.
01:00 asciilifeform if assembling.
01:00 * ben_vulpes fumbles for the spare canister
01:02 asciilifeform this being said, if ben_vulpes builds with own hands an electric auto with ni-fe cells, made by own hand, i will clap!
01:03 ben_vulpes on an eeeentiiiiirely different topic, it took months but i recently got the part of my output indexer that excises spent outputs from the index map to compile, which i believe brings the indexer part of this foray to completion. i invite any who'd like to read and comment to download the (unsigned!) vpatch from here cascadianhacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/export_outputs.vpatch
01:03 asciilifeform one time i went to an exhibit of electric vehicles, there were not only modern machines but lovingly handcrafted (from ordinary chassis) items, from as early as '80s, still working
01:04 ben_vulpes now i have to decide how to test it, for the odds are that it does not work as-written. but i do invite commentary on the design!
01:04 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: describe briefly what this does plox
01:05 ben_vulpes this patch adds an rpc command that eats as input one address, and walks the blockchain for outputs that spend to the address.
01:05 asciilifeform doesn't importprivkey do this ?
01:05 ben_vulpes at the end of the walk, it writes the unspent outputs to a file in a format amenable to normal unix tool examination.
01:06 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: what use has anyone for the wallet?
01:06 asciilifeform aaah that's what it was
01:06 asciilifeform neato ben_vulpes
01:07 ben_vulpes once this patch works (which it almost certainly does not, as i have only finished drafting it), it will serialize unspent outputs to disk in a simple format for...later use.
01:07 ben_vulpes ty asciilifeform
01:08 ben_vulpes the patch adds a struct to use during the indexing, and a new overload of IsMine that uses the script solver to find outputs relevant to the given address.
01:09 asciilifeform i'ma read this when i wake up
01:09 ben_vulpes once it works for a single address, it will be trivial to index multiple at once.
01:09 ben_vulpes please do!
01:12 ben_vulpes i am considering testing this in conjunction with a solipsistic miner, but may test it against the extant blockchain instead. input on this also welcome
01:12 asciilifeform if it works on arbitrary addrs, seems like it'd be wuite asy to test
01:12 asciilifeform *quite easy
01:13 ben_vulpes aye
01:14 ben_vulpes the time it takes a fully-synced node to shutdown and reboot is painful, though.
01:14 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: kill , then when db syncs ( grep tail of log ) kill -9
01:15 asciilifeform < 1s
01:15 asciilifeform i haven't waited for a node to shut down in years
01:15 asciilifeform now warmup, yes, slow.
01:15 ben_vulpes aha, this.
01:15 asciilifeform and will get slooooooower
01:16 asciilifeform hence why all of asciilifeform's trb work from month or so ago and forever more, is about losing the cpp hairball.
01:17 ben_vulpes this nqb is an entirely new client, is it not?
01:17 asciilifeform it is.
01:17 asciilifeform idea , however, is that it will run blox past trad trb ( netless , mempoolless trb ) as 'final court'
01:18 ben_vulpes it may take some time, especially at my glacial pace, but i think slicing the wallet from the reference implementation (which i don't think is going anywhere?) a worthwhile endeavour.
01:18 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: yours, and others', works, are quite worthwhile !
01:18 asciilifeform reference trb gotta keep working, uninterrupted,
01:19 asciilifeform per http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-14#1626921 thread..
01:19 a111 Logged on 2017-03-14 15:11 asciilifeform: and 'dead bitcoin', esp. if it dies on enemy's terms, would imho be a technogenic catastrophe, quite comparable to, e.g., chernobyl. ( not for mircea_popescu 'i'm rich anyway, fuck everyone' , and not for other folx, who might not even have any; but for the concept of 'gold sans the guard labour')
01:23 ben_vulpes and in "today's nobel, tomorrow's homework", eventually bitcoin clients will be the republic's software engineering masterwork project.
01:24 asciilifeform tbh, i doubt it
01:25 asciilifeform a watertight bignumatron, for instance, is , turns out, quite tricky
01:25 asciilifeform even being 1960s tech
01:26 ben_vulpes did say, 'masterwork'.
01:26 ben_vulpes not 'journeman'.
01:26 ben_vulpes journeyman*
01:27 ben_vulpes anyways, /me off
01:27 asciilifeform goodnight ben_vulpes
01:27 ben_vulpes nn asciilifeform
01:28 * ben_vulpes will be doting on the mothers in his life on the morrow
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01:54 deedbot http://qntra.net/2017/05/cost-of-running-shitware-continues-bull-run-to-the-moon/ << Qntra - Cost Of Running Shitware Continues Bull Run To The Moon
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04:48 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655445 << on the contrary.
04:48 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 03:54 ben_vulpes: any objections to a vpatch doing away with the truncation of hashes in the trb log?
04:50 mircea_popescu jesus 1985 philadelphia is ugly.
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05:08 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655457 << doing a mediocre job of it, too. stem cell research actually yielded various practical results. mostly obscure bone marrow diseases, but hey, it's only obscure until you get it.
05:08 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 04:36 asciilifeform: in yet-other noose, guess who appears to read the l0gz: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2017/05/14/technologies-which-did-not-live-up-to-the-hype
05:10 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655460 << most hybrids have some kind of turbine under the hood, even if masquerading as a more traditional something or other.
05:10 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 04:40 ben_vulpes: just had to wait for people to realize y'hook 'em up to batteries and not the tranny directly of course.
05:13 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655475 << he has a point though, every redesign cycle the momentum-based store (like they use in eg F1 cars) comes back to the drawing board. turns out having a small heavy well spinning real fast is not really much worse than trying to store energy in batteries.
05:13 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 04:46 ben_vulpes: my point is don't use the battery as anything other than a temporal load leveler, and bam you have yourself effectively a clutch.
05:14 mircea_popescu wheel*
05:17 mircea_popescu oh i see flywheel is mentioned downstream anyway.
05:17 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655525 << electric to the shaft.
05:17 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 04:57 ben_vulpes: dual-input or electric to the shaft?
05:18 mircea_popescu ro train engines were that way for a long time too, owing to the peculiar terrain.
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08:19 Framedragger HN spit out https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check , dunno if any good, maybe need to check later. to be clear, AMT won't be provisioned "by default", and it being provisioned is the worser thang.
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09:57 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655600 << not on this here planet, wat
09:57 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 09:10 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655460 << most hybrids have some kind of turbine under the hood, even if masquerading as a more traditional something or other.
09:57 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655608 << ALL trains made after 1950 or so...
09:57 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 09:18 mircea_popescu: ro train engines were that way for a long time too, owing to the peculiar terrain.
09:59 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655609 << 'Requires that the mei_me driver (part of the upstream kernel) be loaded.'
09:59 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 12:19 Framedragger: HN spit out https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check , dunno if any good, maybe need to check later. to be clear, AMT won't be provisioned "by default", and it being provisioned is the worser thang.
10:00 Framedragger loaded by default in stock ubuntu, say
10:00 asciilifeform now why would the module be loaded on a box without it
10:00 asciilifeform srsly??!
10:00 Framedragger (yesyes ubuntu is not an OS, etc)
10:00 Framedragger yep
10:00 asciilifeform nuts.
10:00 Framedragger not on debian, it seems. checked on a xeon cpu which has AMT, but module was not loaded
10:01 Framedragger and on x220 lappy with ubuntu, AMT was enabled (will check bios settings later), but not provisioned.
10:02 Framedragger (for posterity, x220 is i5-2520M, xeon server is W3520)
10:04 Framedragger (^ may as well check phuctor box, but module probably won't be loaded.)
10:05 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655598 << 100% ~adult~ stem cells, afaik
10:05 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 09:08 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655457 << doing a mediocre job of it, too. stem cell research actually yielded various practical results. mostly obscure bone marrow diseases, but hey, it's only obscure until you get it.
10:06 asciilifeform ^ was the most expensive, gram for gram, substance asciilifeform ever worked with, incidentally
10:08 asciilifeform Framedragger: didja read the linked code? How about the kernel mod it depends on?
10:09 asciilifeform suppose it ~enables~ something, say.
10:09 asciilifeform why not do same test by attempting the original ( now - public ) remote diddle ?
10:09 Framedragger well, that's why i said "dunno if any good". on *cursory* glance, nothing mischievous, but obvs wouldn't v-sign it
10:09 phf` that article was inoffensive, but sloppy. some offhand points i think required elaboration (i.e. missing republican footnotes!), others were superfluous
10:10 Framedragger asciilifeform: remote diddle only works if AMT is not only enabled but also *provisioned*.
10:10 asciilifeform phf`: which one
10:10 Framedragger makes sense to know if only enabled, too
10:10 phf` locklin
10:10 asciilifeform Framedragger: what does enabled-but-not-provisioned do ?
10:11 Framedragger tl;dr is "i have nfi"
10:11 Framedragger but it seems that it's then possible to run *local* exploit (privilege escalation)
10:11 Framedragger where was that link to intel's content-less advisory... it had two parts, one remote, one local
10:12 asciilifeform Framedragger: privesc on all intel boxes is trivial.
10:12 Framedragger asciilifeform: ah: https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00075&languageid=en-fr
10:12 Framedragger and computers are not computers in the first place; does not negate the point about "if enabled, still bad, and good to know/check."
10:13 phf` http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-11#1654941 << so i got a replacement copy, in it's in even worse state than the first one! this one the entire lower edge is butchered during cutting. automated self-publishing ftw
10:13 a111 Logged on 2017-05-11 21:24 phf`: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-10#1653984 << so i got a copy, mine had a mechanical looking gash in the spine, had to send it for replacement. otherwise it's not horrible. it's a cheap thermal binding, but the paper is crisp, and the source is TeX so it looks reasonable.
10:13 Framedragger asciilifeform: see bullet point "An unprivileged local attacker could provision manageability features gaining unprivileged network or local system privileges on Intel manageability SKUs"
10:13 asciilifeform Framedragger: tell me why i should give half a fuck re intel's, or microshit's, patch to re-nsaonly-ize an nsahole.
10:13 Framedragger so in theory, a wordpress hax0r could provision AMT if AMT was enabled, thus opening up the remote diddling thing
10:14 asciilifeform good.
10:14 Framedragger asciilifeform: i linked to illustrate the diff between enabled vs provisioned. let's not do another confused is/ought debate
10:14 asciilifeform if somebody physically ignited every box on the planet having amt, that would be great.
10:14 Framedragger for schizzle
10:16 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655645 << interestingly, i have never seen this. auto-printed b00kz often suffer from terrible (microshit!) formatting, layout. but physically perfect
10:16 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 14:13 phf`: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-11#1654941 << so i got a replacement copy, in it's in even worse state than the first one! this one the entire lower edge is butchered during cutting. automated self-publishing ftw
10:17 asciilifeform at least all the ones i have here.
10:17 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655626 << not really. peripheral blood stem cells, placental, various.
10:17 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 14:05 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655598 << 100% ~adult~ stem cells, afaik
10:17 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: link to useful result from the famous embryonic ones
10:18 asciilifeform afaik it ended up summing to 0.
10:18 phf` right, well the originals are presumably TeX formatted ps files, so it's impossible to butcher that part. somehow they can't seem to get it pressed properly. maybe it's just my luck
10:19 asciilifeform ( though , unlike locklin, i will not rule out wreckers as the explanation )
10:19 mircea_popescu !~google katie sharify
10:19 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: Stories of Hope: Spinal Cord Injury | California's Stem Cell Agency: <https://www.cirm.ca.gov/our-progress/stories-hope-spinal-cord-injury>; World's 1st Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trial for Spinal Cord Injury ...: <https://www.cirm.ca.gov/our-progress/video/worlds-1st-human-embryonic-stem-cell-trial-spinal-cord-injury-katie-sharify>; Meet Katie Sharify : A Participant in the World's First Human ...: (1 more message)
10:19 mircea_popescu and i will note that your policy of strongly held opinions in poorly known fields is not working so well. not re turbines, not re stem cells etc.
10:20 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: gonna link to a commercial turbine hybrid ? or somehing other than video with some chick re embryo cell ?
10:20 mircea_popescu sigh.
10:20 asciilifeform project much ?
10:21 asciilifeform i'll point out that a 'onesie' ('apricots cured mr smith!') is ~not~ a clinical result.
10:21 asciilifeform regardless of how made.
10:21 mircea_popescu so far i have an onesie and you have your world famous brand of alf's gut flora.
10:22 asciilifeform which yes, means that penicillin was not yet a result back when it was curing that one brit policeman.
10:22 mircea_popescu !~google hESC macular degeneration.
10:22 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: Treatment of Macular Degeneration Using Embryonic ... - NCBI - NIH: <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4437471/>; Phase 1 Safety Assessment of CPCB-RPE1, hESC -derived RPE ...: <https://www.cirm.ca.gov/our-progress/awards/phase-1-safety-assessment-cpcb-rpe1-hesc-derived-rpe-cell-coated-parylene>; hESC and iPSC-based products in clinical trials : Current status of ...: (1 more message)
10:22 asciilifeform that's moar like it
10:23 mircea_popescu !~google AST-OPC1
10:23 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: AST - OPC1 - Asterias Biotherapeutics - A Global Leader In ...: <http://asteriasbiotherapeutics.com/AST-OPC1.php>; AST - OPC1 - BioTime, Inc.: <http://www.biotimeinc.com/products-pipeline/ast-opc1/>; California Institute of Regenerative Medicine - BioTime, Inc.: <http://www.biotimeinc.com/california-institute-of-regenerative-medicine/>
10:23 * asciilifeform goes to read, update re 'did it ever work'
10:23 asciilifeform maybe meanwhile mircea_popescu will also find hybrid turbine. i'd like one
10:23 asciilifeform ( betcha it was in aston martin or the like... )
10:24 mircea_popescu the statement was "some kind of turbine under the hood, even if masquerading as a more traditional something or other".
10:24 mircea_popescu not that there aren't eg
10:24 mircea_popescu !~google LM6000
10:24 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: LM6000 -PF/PF+ Gas Turbine | Combined Cycle | GE Power: <https://powergen.gepower.com/products/aeroderivative-gas-turbines/lm6000-gas-turbine-family.html>; LM6000 - The LM6000 Engine | GE Aviation: <https://www.geaviation.com/marine/engines/military/lm6000-engine>; General Electric LM6000 - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_LM6000>
10:25 asciilifeform that looks like a naval engine, mircea_popescu
10:25 mircea_popescu right.
10:26 * asciilifeform pictures auto with subj !
10:26 mircea_popescu what is your idea of, eg, turbo-diesel ?
10:26 mircea_popescu or w/e, turbocharger.
10:26 asciilifeform turbochargers are found in many high end auto ( iirc ben_vulpes had one )
10:26 mircea_popescu which is what i fucking said.
10:26 asciilifeform but is not a turbine engine
10:26 mircea_popescu and why not ?
10:26 asciilifeform where 1 moving part
10:27 asciilifeform turbocharged piston engine is own, ww2-era item
10:27 mircea_popescu but on what grounds do you disqualify it from "turbine", other than "it successfuly masquerades as something else, fooling me"
10:28 asciilifeform because they are wholly different items ??
10:28 mircea_popescu like, say, an apple.
10:28 mircea_popescu wholly different.
10:28 asciilifeform srsly are we having the '2-cycle diesels' thread again ?
10:29 mircea_popescu no, we are having the thread where "turbine is not nao turbine because it's different"
10:29 mircea_popescu you ever saw the fucking item ? how is it not a turbine ?
10:29 asciilifeform but if mircea_popescu direly wants to drive a land vehicle with actual turbine engine - there is at least one ! : abrams tank.
10:30 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: by same token as your reasoning above, my comp is a turbine engine ( has turbine fan in it , hey )
10:30 mircea_popescu your computer does not burn a fuel.
10:30 asciilifeform but in your supercharged bugati, pistons provide the motive force, not hot gas turning turbine
10:31 mircea_popescu the hot gas turbine provides SOME OF the force.
10:31 mircea_popescu which was the original fucking contention dear lord.
10:31 asciilifeform of the O2, for the stoichiometric mix - provides. force, nope
10:31 mircea_popescu in this sense jet engine does not power the jet because... gases moving about do.
10:32 mircea_popescu mmkay. it's really the air under the fore wing that's the plane's engine.
10:32 asciilifeform the part which is moved by expanding gas, in a combustion engine, is the one of interest re 'which type of engine'
10:33 asciilifeform at least on the planet i'm posting from
10:33 mircea_popescu whether you attach the items to the drive train via electric exchange ; or whether you attach them via the historical arrangement known as turbocharger, in point of fact you've put some items to work for your transmission.
10:33 asciilifeform how to do transmission is separate q from engine
10:33 asciilifeform (was original thread)
10:34 mircea_popescu point being that in the modern diesel, a turbine is attached to the carnot engine, much in the manner in which in a modern hybrid, a carnot engine is attached to the electric motor.
10:34 mircea_popescu ie, there's some power sent to the wheels through engine 1 by engine 2.
10:35 mircea_popescu and yes, the turbo was originally a ship-and-train tech, in the 20s or w/e.
10:35 asciilifeform theoretically. but if you go to auto dealer and ask for turbine engine, a very confused d00d may or may not sell you an abrams..
10:35 * asciilifeform finally sees at least where mircea_popescu got the idea.
10:35 mircea_popescu if i take my cues from dudes working in auto dealers, i might even end up with no bitcoin and a dozen credit cards.
10:35 asciilifeform lol
10:36 mircea_popescu "very confused salesman" test. i gotta remember this one.
10:37 asciilifeform btw abrams illustrated a certain minus of proper (1 moving part, gas turns shaft) turbine : high revv-up cost
10:37 mircea_popescu yes, but in a proper arrangement (electric, gasoline, gas) hybrid, the gas turbine needn't cover all power curves.
10:37 asciilifeform i always wondered if this is intrinsic to the tech, or just american stupidity
10:38 asciilifeform yes but engine still turns for a few hrs in a human auto, vs weeks at, say, sea
10:38 mircea_popescu anyway, to revisit upstack : putting "quantum computing" in the same pile of failed technologies as stem cell research is beyond idiotic. holy hell, every woman that ever was pregnant got the embryonic boost, measurable and measured, wtf.
10:39 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the ideal functioning of, eg, semi, is that engine turns at 4800 for 8 hours straight.
10:39 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: workings of stock meat are not a technology
10:39 mircea_popescu this ideal is actually achieved, in middle usland.
10:39 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: harvester , say
10:39 * asciilifeform pictures harvester with gas turbine
10:40 asciilifeform would be spiffy
10:40 mircea_popescu item dun really need so much power i don't think, but certainly used in the higher power tractors iirc.
10:40 asciilifeform abrams, for instance, runs on just about any flammable liquid
10:40 asciilifeform could burn liquishit, i bet
10:40 mircea_popescu !~google ford typhoon tractor
10:40 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: A jet-powered tractor ? - Successful Farming: <http://www.agriculture.com/machinery/tractors/antique-tractor/a-jetpowered-tract_201-ar26626>; View additional information about Turbine Tractors . - Marvin ...: <http://www.marvinbaumann.com/turbinetractors.html>; Typhoon II Ford Typhoon II - Marvin Baumann Antique Tractors: <http://www.marvinbaumann.com/typhoon2.html>
10:41 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: ^
10:42 asciilifeform looks like it was made in example of 1 .
10:42 mircea_popescu somehow the "conspiracy to supress" ~never mentions this. always impresses me re the culture and literacy of the little john smiths us soil keeps popping like mushrooms everywhere
10:42 mircea_popescu asciilifeform iirc a half dozen or somesuch. but taken to faires and so on
10:42 asciilifeform why not caught on, i wonder
10:43 mircea_popescu nfi. one of those puzzlers.
10:43 asciilifeform possibly ben_vulpes knows.
10:43 mircea_popescu was certainly displayed in public, to great excitement.
10:43 asciilifeform some engine sound great on paper, but painful in practice
10:44 asciilifeform ( expensive to make, or vibrate, say, to early grave, or , or )
10:44 mircea_popescu if it had such a tail i dunno of it.
10:44 asciilifeform iirc mircea_popescu linked once to an interesting example of this
10:44 asciilifeform opposing-piston thing
10:45 mircea_popescu right
10:46 mircea_popescu when fishing through the (rather consistent) history of engines, one's always to be careful. lotta curly items in there.
10:49 mircea_popescu anyway. to be perfectly fair and generally speaking sane : the actual technological need driving the modern hybrid craze has ~nothing to do with the declared reasoning (envirobs) and everything to do with the desperate attempts of engineers who noticed they have a pile of ~useful items to arrange them in an optimal configuration.
10:49 asciilifeform aha, the lappy battery
10:49 mircea_popescu it's not hard to observe, as a theoretical physicist at least, that ~all engines to date are stumbling at a general problem with naive assumptions.
10:50 mircea_popescu you got a turbine, which'll burn ~anything but does not spool, you've got a gasoline engine, which will this but not that, there's electric which is most efficient but uses the most volatile of fuels, make something of this!
10:50 asciilifeform incidentally 'hey, we have a pile of shit' is how we got he light petrol auto to begin with
10:51 asciilifeform ( so folx in petro business can sell it, instead of flaring it )
10:51 mircea_popescu quite.
10:51 mircea_popescu contrary to what "the people" of "our democracy" have in mind, nobody made cars "so that" little miss humpernickle can take her groceries home easierlier.
10:52 asciilifeform noshit.jpg
10:52 mircea_popescu yah but tell it to her daughters you get a reaction quite like yours re turbo hybrids above
10:52 mircea_popescu "oh we've never read it stated like that before!!" "mkay, i'm sure such happenstance does something"
10:53 asciilifeform hey i was half convinced that i slept for 20yrs and mircea_popescu was about to show me a proper gas turbine auto, lol
10:53 asciilifeform because that would be massively neat
10:53 mircea_popescu the other item i'm vaguely surprised they're not deplyoing is the actual oxygen purifier engine. srsly, put atmospheric air into your chamber ? because you hate yourself or why.
10:54 asciilifeform ( no pistons, no misfires, run on anything that burns... )
10:54 mircea_popescu "80% nitrogen is great!!1"
10:54 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: how'd that work ? zeolite ?
10:54 mircea_popescu i have nfi, what am i, a carmaker head engineer ?
10:55 mircea_popescu but it seems, very from-the-satellite view, that it should work somehow. at least to my eye
10:55 asciilifeform and out of what would you make the combustor.
10:55 mircea_popescu chinese earths.
10:55 mircea_popescu they can make a touch screen, they can make a chamber for o3 reduction.
10:55 * asciilifeform pictures tungsten engine block
10:55 mircea_popescu for instance. what of it ?
10:55 mircea_popescu tungsten coat, $1.5 in quantity.
10:55 mircea_popescu gotta to something with aqll the wolfram they're not using for proper lightbulbs anymore.
10:56 asciilifeform and how much engine will weigh ?
10:56 mircea_popescu the public LOVES their car being heavy.
10:56 mircea_popescu make better bearings, lose nothing.
10:57 asciilifeform at any rate could work at sea
10:57 mircea_popescu or could work miniaturized. imagine, alf, 125 gram half horsepower engine.
10:57 asciilifeform but do ask the rocketeers how great pure o2 is to have around. corrosive, explosive.
10:57 mircea_popescu yeah well.
10:58 mircea_popescu (typical carnot cycle does not miniaturize well. turbine however... might.)
10:58 asciilifeform model engines are a funny thing, use interesting fuels
10:58 mircea_popescu aha!
10:58 asciilifeform e.g. nitromethane
10:58 mircea_popescu ie, they asymptotically tend towards... o2 reductor / h2 donor.
10:59 asciilifeform aha
10:59 mircea_popescu and evidently the metalworking tech to make the 100 gram turbine is here. wasn't here say 1980.
10:59 asciilifeform interestingly, pulse jet ( yes, of german 'v1' ) miniaturizes well
10:59 mircea_popescu what got me thinking of this to begin with.
11:00 asciilifeform somebody actually built a laptop-powering gas turbine iirc.
11:00 mircea_popescu ah they did ?
11:00 mircea_popescu that's the other thing - gas turbine works great with electric gen.
11:00 asciilifeform demo, in qty 1, it was hyped in '90s iirc
11:00 mircea_popescu which is how we ended up with THAT entire bs.
11:00 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i guess was asleep at the time.
11:01 mircea_popescu i mean... asciilifeform i guess I was asleep at the time.
11:03 asciilifeform and yes - turbine is probably the most well-known example of recent qualitative jumps in what can be made, from advance in metalworking
11:03 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655633 << if you mean the locklin piece, guess what! was my first impression of the dood five years ago as well.
11:03 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 14:09 phf`: that article was inoffensive, but sloppy. some offhand points i think required elaboration (i.e. missing republican footnotes!), others were superfluous
11:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform aha! and it doesn't seem, from casual survey of the field, that they actually put to work ~everything available. the silicone people are cutting metal masks to the three atom widths ffs.
11:04 asciilifeform photo-lithography worx great for flat objects
11:04 asciilifeform not so much for 3d
11:05 mircea_popescu when one metalworking gets it within 3 A and the other metalworking gets it to the 3 micrometers, you know there's room for some "nobody could have predicted" qualitative jumps.
11:05 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you know, computers work great for printing 2d, not so much for simulating 3d, also!
11:06 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: recall the electrolytic machining thread ?
11:06 mircea_popescu yeah
11:06 asciilifeform srsly perplexing example of 'lost tech'
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11:27 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2011/de-fapt-de-ce-nu-folositi-voi-linux/#comment-122036 <<< the sad corrolary of existing in public. you get people thanking you in 2017 for your 2011 article recommending ubuntu as a simple "hey, why not linux again ?" stop gap.
11:29 Framedragger http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-11#1625794 << just to update that recommendations had been made, are going through, and my sincere thanks to tmsr as always
11:29 a111 Logged on 2017-03-11 21:15 Framedragger: @all thanks to this chat i'll now make some urgent recommendations to startup i'm involved with. maybe it's not even gonna be fucked in the ass if moves decisively away. a bit ashamed i had $opinion on $thing-not-researched in the first place.
11:29 mircea_popescu !!up sageprobes
11:29 deedbot sageprobes voiced for 30 minutes.
11:43 ben_vulpes in other things asciilifeform doesn't know about turbines, some nutjobs will run super-rich mixtures such that gases are still burning through the exhaust manifold and into the turbocharger. this obviously torches the poor turbo in short order, but the temporary power boost is astonishing.
11:43 ben_vulpes also turbochargers are approximately standard these days. new civics come with them stock. efficiency and emissions, baby!
11:43 mircea_popescu i thought you were specifically not supposed to do that
11:43 ben_vulpes car world is full of nutjobs.
11:44 mircea_popescu that it is.
11:44 ben_vulpes "it does wear the soap, doesn't it?"
11:45 ben_vulpes http://www.wrightspeed.com/ << production drivetrain, as described. battery, not described however.
11:45 * mircea_popescu recalls used to laugh with friends at "racing experts" with the tell-tale flame out the tailpipe.
11:45 ben_vulpes (promo videos showcase semi cab with the horsepower to drift around the desert)
11:46 mircea_popescu https://www.carthrottle.com/post/heres-how-to-make-your-car-exhaust-spit-flames/ << check it out, thgere's even guides.
11:48 mircea_popescu speaking of batshit insane designs,
11:48 mircea_popescu !~google rotary engine
11:48 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: Rotary engine - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engine>; Rotary Engine - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D6BCgl2uumlI>; How It Works: the Mazda Rotary Engine (With Video!): <http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a7103/how-it-works-the-mazda-rotary-engine-with-video/>
11:49 ben_vulpes the wankel!
11:49 mircea_popescu "why not rotate the whole fucking assembly!!!"
11:49 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: hey, some men just want to see the catalytic converter burn
11:49 mircea_popescu all dat platinum!
11:49 ben_vulpes also "it's only yours if you're willing to destroy it"
11:49 ben_vulpes that reminds me, i have a rear differential to weld together.
11:53 * shinohai used to be quite the rx-7 aficionado, owned 2 and loved them both.
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12:13 asciilifeform i almost bought a wankel car once
12:13 asciilifeform for bitcoin, no less
12:14 asciilifeform rx7 even.
12:14 asciilifeform re flames, first time i ever rode in a jet, as a boy, was Very Disappoint to see 0 flames coming out of engine
12:15 asciilifeform ( has, of course, nfi re konsoomer jet having 0 afterburner )
12:21 mircea_popescu in other shocking developments, /me learned yesterday that some people actually believe serving a l'anglaise (ie, in their bastardized notion, pre-plated items) is an acceptable manner for waitstaff!
12:22 shinohai !!up alex__c
12:22 deedbot alex__c voiced for 30 minutes.
12:23 shinohai I kinda liked the wankel, would rev to ~10k without batting an eye, perfect marriage for bigger turbos
12:24 * mircea_popescu was never a fan
12:25 asciilifeform the interface with the shaft, iirc, is the weak point
12:25 asciilifeform and never was solved.
12:26 asciilifeform ( would be a pretty great engine if somehow rotor were coupled ONLY magnetically to outside, and in fact part of a generator )
12:31 mircea_popescu i guess
12:36 ben_vulpes "our demoooocracy!": https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy , also, further hijinks in the era of epsilon snr
12:37 asciilifeform snorematic
12:38 mircea_popescu wtf is "britain heads to polls again" for ?
12:38 mircea_popescu "keep voting until you get an acceptable result" ?
12:39 mircea_popescu and i swear if i see another one of these ustard precious cuntlet ledes with "o nso and so date so and so insignificant schmuck just like the author was being part of an imaginary sequel of seinfeld" ima kidnap some "innocents" and sell them in gabon.
12:41 asciilifeform while(!result){vote();} is the established classic algo of eu
12:41 mircea_popescu fucking ridoinculous "our democracy" bs.
12:42 mircea_popescu uk had three referendums in its entire history, now they want one a year ?
12:42 asciilifeform until Correct Result aha
12:43 Framedragger > opens the guardian piece
12:43 Framedragger > first sentence includes phrase "big data"
12:43 Framedragger > ok
12:44 trinque also matrix numbers, very serious.
12:45 shinohai Can't have a conspiracy piece without Matrix binary, just isn't proper.
12:45 trinque ultimate lulz being that this will be the lasting memory of this page of history, if anybody takes the paragraph point five to write it
12:46 mircea_popescu i dunno that anyone reads the guardian for purposes other than superman magazine or hustler.
12:46 mircea_popescu if you got that particular fetish/brainhole, stroking it is pleasurable, but once the spunk comes out that's it.
12:47 trinque "uh I don't know, people started cutting their dicks as part of a mass mental breakdown. I think they had quite fair skin."
12:49 trinque http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655846 << /me had a serious dining wtf last night; folks had no idea how to handle the (romanian, actually) chef coming to greet our table
12:49 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 16:21 mircea_popescu: in other shocking developments, /me learned yesterday that some people actually believe serving a l'anglaise (ie, in their bastardized notion, pre-plated items) is an acceptable manner for waitstaff!
12:50 mircea_popescu why not ?
12:50 trinque my back was to the poor guy or I'd have handled it from the beginning, only noticed because idiots were getting uncomfortable across from me
12:50 trinque by the time I shook his hand and started chatting with him, guy was uncomfortable and I let him depart
12:50 trinque then two women at table wail "oh he didn't shake our hands"
12:50 trinque I used this as a teachable moment for all
12:51 mircea_popescu good.
12:51 mircea_popescu the (very indian) chef of great local place actually came out of kitchen to see these two people who were eating all the stuff i rodered ; but couldn't summon the courage to more than bow from a distance and scurry off.
12:51 mircea_popescu possibly, through having had a lot of muricans in the joint over the years.
12:51 trinque my own grandfather was chef and owner of a great steak place for decades, did this nightly.
12:52 trinque and wtf, he's supposed to interject himself between the men and women without introductions? this while trying to be a good host?
12:52 deedbot http://www.contravex.com/2017/05/14/the-real-bat-lives-on/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - The real BaT lives on.
12:52 mircea_popescu generally it's the job of the maitre d', which in more euro-style restaurants is the you know, favoured louis de funes role, not really rhe chef. but custoims vary.
12:53 mircea_popescu the us tv has brought about this chef-restaurant manager combo. dunno how sustainable it is in practice.
12:53 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: ran when parked << lol
12:54 trinque sadly I think this was a result of a four course meal joint struggling to get by, for same reason as "he didn't introduce himself to me omg"
12:54 mircea_popescu weirdos.
12:54 mircea_popescu incidentally, can you even get a proper (14.) full course meal in teh us anymoar ?
12:55 trinque entirely doubtful
12:56 mircea_popescu fifteen years ago it was good sport to order oyster entree with local fellows present. average american will make faces at the half shell and do it no further harm.
12:57 mircea_popescu of course, even getting oysters fit for the table in the first place was already a dubious matter then.
12:57 * trinque had the benefit of new england lineage, will harm teh oyster gladly
13:01 mircea_popescu it's funny how the shit evolves, though. historically, the maitre d'hotel would be this knowledgeable, older male, exactly equivalent of the village godfather for his little village onto itself. so HE'd greet you and take you to your table, KNOWING FULL WELL who you were.
13:01 mircea_popescu us vaguely heard of this, has inept girly not yet qualified to bus tables in the front office, asking you who you are.
13:02 mircea_popescu bitch, if you don't know who i am you already failed your job.
13:04 mircea_popescu i suppose the next logical step is to you know, "who ordered the this???". make the customer keenly aware you couldn't give less of a shit about 'em and then whine about how you work in the "service industry" ie he HAS TO TIP YOU!!111
13:05 trinque aha. last night summarizes as "how dare you elevate yourselves by pissing on this husk of hand-me-down *culture* to claim you have one"
13:05 shinohai implying they actually perform a service.
13:06 trinque at least the guy didn't open a fucking potatoslurry franchise.
13:07 * mircea_popescu has seen a lot of "comida por kilo" eateries in latinoamerica.
13:07 mircea_popescu they taking over the us also ?
13:07 * trinque often bellowing at unknown, never met ancestors
13:08 trinque they really have you pay by weight?
13:08 mircea_popescu yup.
13:08 trinque epic lul
13:08 mircea_popescu incredibly popular with various young office drone males, evidently living alone in a sort of ship hold.
13:08 mircea_popescu possibly repurposed overhead compartment in airliner ?
13:09 shinohai Lots of oriental restaurants do that around here, pay by weight
13:09 mircea_popescu trinque funny thing being that a) it is infinitely better food than anything pizza hut / taco bell / mcd / kfc etc have on tap and b) it's not really a full dollar a kg from what i've seen.
13:09 trinque should put in a floor pressure pad and turnstile
13:09 mircea_popescu ahahaha!
13:09 trinque one in, one out! no bathroom!
13:10 mircea_popescu shinohai yeah it is possible the azn community is spearheading the reculturation process.
13:11 mircea_popescu lotta chinese folk in latam.
13:14 mircea_popescu but to come back to it : the plague of "handheld devices" did a lot of damage to the marginal socioeconomic utility of a large class of people. they spend all their brainpower correcting quopedoa/wikira/whatever the fuck instead of spending the same undersupplied resorce to keep track of their customers / car direction vector / etcetera.
13:14 mircea_popescu average street urchin in 1917 could be hired on the expectation that after 30 years of either being bored stiff or else payingattention at his job he'd finally make a useul worker.
13:16 mircea_popescu today's street urchin is entirely useless -- he's more than happy to spend 30, 50, 150 years if possible siphoning your salary (which he regards as his living wage / god given right) to pay for the britny spears "music" and entirely similar "start-ups", ie, let a lot of you idiots give us your valuable stuff for free maybe we get enough of it to survive our inept whittling it down and still be somehow worth money.
13:17 mircea_popescu wikipedia loves to compare itself with the various actual encyclopedias it stole most of the material worth reading from, but on a "per line" basis, as if THAT is the fucking point of an encyclopedia, never mind the COMPLETENESS or RELIABILITY parts.
13:18 mircea_popescu they however do not appear willing to compare the 500 hours a dozen men put in to produce an encyclopedia with the 5000 hours a dozen million imbeciles put in to compile the steaming pile of shit aka "online encyclopedia".
13:18 mircea_popescu i could produce more value than what wikipedia's worth by simply boiling the collection of wikipedia "editors" and selling the broth.
13:22 asciilifeform the moar interesting attribute of pediwikia is its ability to prevent actual encyclopaedias.
13:22 asciilifeform ( from existing at all )
13:22 asciilifeform just as britney ~prevents music, etc.
13:23 asciilifeform mircea_popescu has an old article about a giant crushing chairs, etc
13:23 mircea_popescu no skin off my back. so i'll be the last person alive to know anything, and every girl i ever meet who's not a retard feels an irrepressible urge to kneel and beg.
13:23 mircea_popescu o noes, cruel fate, plox no more of this briar patch!
13:23 asciilifeform apres moi le deluge (tm)(r)
13:24 mircea_popescu i'm certainly not saving anyone against his own fucking will.
13:24 mircea_popescu selfsame hands!
13:28 * asciilifeform has often wondered if encyclopaedias, even in the golden age of same (1950s, perhaps) , were useful other than for letting a bright kid know 'approximately what exists' . to adult they served largely same purpose as pediwikia today - 'pulling feeling-knowledgeable cock'
13:28 asciilifeform a kind of intellectual fast-food.
13:29 mircea_popescu imo golden age was 1800s, and their principal utility was to provide ideological allignment for patriarchy.
13:29 mircea_popescu "these are the inferior people to be repressed, for these reasons" is ~the whole point of the original item
13:29 asciilifeform asciilifeform had a 1958 'britannica', made in usa, that he fished out of a dumpster as a boy. it was superb, as far as encyclopaedia goes, about on par with famous большая советская энциклопедия . but today it lives packed in a crate.
13:30 mircea_popescu that the socialist substitute does not work is evident to the proponents, but their interest is of course not in it working. on the contrary.
13:30 mircea_popescu ~exactly identical item to the female photographer/solider war/training exercise heroine.
13:30 mircea_popescu the tmsr log serves a very similar function to diderot's offering, in practice.
13:31 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: aside from 'which savages there exist for you to enslave when you grow up', encyclopaedia had, e.g., which engines exist, what burns in them, how newton tried to make piston work on gunpowder, etc,etc
13:31 asciilifeform general-purpose intro to being a thinking man
13:32 mircea_popescu yes, but the underscore of it all was "these are the things zulus do not know : machine gun, etc. know these so you do not grow up into a zulu."
13:32 asciilifeform well yes
13:32 asciilifeform but important point -- without it , you are a zulu. regardless of what else you might have.
13:32 mircea_popescu asciilifeform not to being a thinking man ; to not being a savage. it's fundamentally negative. know this so you don't end up in the tribe.
13:32 mircea_popescu yet plenty of comme il faut gents were not thinking men. as per babbage etc.
13:33 asciilifeform hence asciilifeform's barf re http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655928 . asciilifeform does not want to live among zulu.
13:33 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 17:23 mircea_popescu: no skin off my back. so i'll be the last person alive to know anything, and every girl i ever meet who's not a retard feels an irrepressible urge to kneel and beg.
13:33 asciilifeform much less chukcha.
13:34 mircea_popescu to be noted that l'encyclopedie (the 1700s item) was a LITERARY WORK. with d'alembert almost a sort of tolkien of his time. it mattered not so much whether the items contained were right or wrong (obviously most were wrong, 1700s) but the fact that you could rely on every respectable gent knowing at least of them.
13:34 mircea_popescu asciilifeform that is not your option.
13:34 asciilifeform ( not as if every item in большая советская энциклопедия were dead on accurate!! )
13:34 mircea_popescu right.
13:35 mircea_popescu note incidentally that even though delayed because slavs retarded, the soviet item served exactly same function -- how to be non-non-soviet.
13:35 asciilifeform but mircea_popescu nails it, encyclopaedia is made to be a kind of standards document, for what a cultured man is expected to be aware of
13:35 mircea_popescu quite.
13:35 * asciilifeform wonders what japanese encyclopaedias looked like
13:35 mircea_popescu bushido neh ?
13:36 asciilifeform ^ another set of folx who were late-comers to mechanical civilization
13:36 asciilifeform re bushido, asciilifeform just read a marvelous treatise on seppuku, the only one afaik of its kind in english
13:36 asciilifeform by one j. seward
13:38 mircea_popescu this related to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-11#1654889 ?
13:38 a111 Logged on 2017-05-11 20:09 asciilifeform: if asciilifeform signs and sends this, he will probably have to design the mips box on toilet paper inside bastille, like de sade
13:38 asciilifeform unrelated. perennial interest of asciilifeform's
13:38 mircea_popescu afaik the only modern attempt didn't work out well.
13:38 asciilifeform well yes, like every other attempt to revive wholly dead cultures
13:38 asciilifeform modern worshippers of, e.g., zeus, sum to ~0
13:40 asciilifeform seppuku was not about picturesque way to cash in yer chips, but part of a system.
13:40 mircea_popescu sure.
13:40 asciilifeform ( note for n00bz -- most seppuku was carried out on command from superior )
13:41 mircea_popescu the more interesting subset, imo, is the protest suicide.
13:41 asciilifeform aha
13:41 asciilifeform but even more interesting pretexts existed
13:41 mircea_popescu i confess i can't imagine how the suicide of competeny, loyal underlying could fail to drive competent ruler to redress.
13:41 asciilifeform e.g., seppuku by a subordinate so as to help his commander prep for own seppuku
13:41 mircea_popescu the problem of course being that competent ruler doesn't need you to cut your head off, and incompetent ruler too thick in the first place.
13:42 asciilifeform also apparently bakufu (shogunate) government had serious problem with 'my commander died, now i will seppuku', and tried to suppress it ( subordinate belongs serving the old master's son, what a waste ) but repeatedly failed.
13:43 asciilifeform many interesting details re particulars of the procedure also ( not of the physical aspects, these are well known - but of humint prepwork prior to ordering a seppukation - gotta make sure the 'star' of the show doesn't bolt )
13:45 asciilifeform seppuku-era jp is quite interesting to asciilifeform because it , you could say, took mircea_popescu's 'people-going-their-own-way-is-retarded' knob and ran with it, turned 'to eleven'
13:45 asciilifeform seppuku per se was the cherry on that particular cake, and quite integral part of the scheme.
13:46 mircea_popescu i suppose the view has legs.
13:46 mircea_popescu of course, average samurai cut down >1 peasants before ending self.
13:47 asciilifeform and average american stomps >1 cockroaches before dying of boredom
13:47 mircea_popescu something like that
13:50 * asciilifeform tries, fails to find any scan of the mega-b00k (it is small - 100pg) on www.
13:50 asciilifeform megatonnes of liquishit of every description; the 1 good survey of a subject in english - nodice
13:50 asciilifeform out of print since 1960s also, iirc.
14:01 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: also of interest was the discussion of the slow ~debasement~ of seppuku -- first the introduction of 'kaishaku' or beheader-secondant himself; then later the earlier and earlier finishing stroke, with scarcely any cuts; then the disappearance even of the knife, and replacement with substitutes (fan, pen, etc) for 'token' performance
14:01 asciilifeform followed the apparently inevitable curve of 'the a-students hire the b-students who hire the c-students who ...'
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14:17 shinohai !~later tell BingoBoingo http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/FJoZR/?raw=true
14:17 jhvh1 shinohai: The operation succeeded.
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17:08 ben_vulpes http://68.media.tumblr.com/7152fcfbf988a120de88c4740d40d1b3/tumblr_n55li8SDJy1tb4rdio1_1280.jpg
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17:25 ben_vulpes http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655547 << http://cascadianhacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/export_outputs.vpatch , so things index properly
17:25 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 05:03 ben_vulpes: on an eeeentiiiiirely different topic, it took months but i recently got the part of my output indexer that excises spent outputs from the index map to compile, which i believe brings the indexer part of this foray to completion. i invite any who'd like to read and comment to download the (unsigned!) vpatch from here cascadianhacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/export_outputs.vpatch
17:30 diana_coman !!key Top8
17:30 deedbot Not registered.
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17:57 mod6 So ben_vulpes posted his vpatch: cascadianhacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/export_outputs.vpatch
17:59 mod6 one of the things that, in a 9 second quick review of this that I asked him to consider was in the implementation of "IsMine"; Specifically, "Consider: What do I return from IsMine if I iterate over the entire list and never find a OP_PUBKEYHASH?".
18:00 ben_vulpes well gosh now that you point that out i have to admit that i do not actually know.
18:00 ben_vulpes i'd assumed false, but do not know that for certain.
18:01 mod6 He asked me to post my concern here just to start a general dialog about this, and I think that's just fine.
18:01 mod6 typically, i like to be explicit over implicit, and that's just one of these little things.
18:02 ben_vulpes yeah i'll buy that
18:02 mod6 (style considerations and grinding can be left off until later. as I was saying before, ``first we make it work, then we make it pretty'')
18:03 ben_vulpes lolyes, also worth pointing out that the patch is indented at 2 spaces when the rest of trb is indented at 4
18:03 mod6 aside from that, i have no further comments at this time, i've neither read it closly, compiled, nor tested this vpatch.
18:03 ben_vulpes aye aye, ty mod6.
18:04 mod6 anytime! great effort you've got rolling here, Sir.
18:04 trinque this is neat.
18:04 trinque will test ben_vulpes
18:05 ben_vulpes trinque, asciilifeform, mod6: it does not actually work, unfortunately.
18:05 trinque aok
18:05 ben_vulpes (as i predicted last night)
18:05 ben_vulpes i'm going to step away from testing the indexer /in toto/, and plug this IsMine overload into the test target
18:05 mod6 i can help you try to debug/correct the attempt during the week for sure.
18:06 ben_vulpes mod6: it is certain to take more than a week
18:06 mod6 no problem if it does, no rush.
18:06 * trinque still haxing on the deedbot invoicer anyway, but at some point will greatly appreciate a way to track address balances without having privkeys around
18:06 trinque I'm on deck to help however as well.
18:06 ben_vulpes trinque: you can do this today with the slicer i published a while back
18:07 ben_vulpes parser, i mean.
18:07 ben_vulpes should work great in conjunction with asciilifeform's 'cutblock
18:08 trinque dumpblock you mean, or no?
18:08 ben_vulpes no, he wrote a c proggy that cuts blkindex files
18:08 trinque ah.
18:08 ben_vulpes dumpblock is more useful for realtime work in my experience
18:08 trinque now I recall. so yes, I could roll forward using those
18:08 ben_vulpes tail the debug log for processblock: accepted, and then dump the height mentioned in that line
18:09 ben_vulpes parse, looking for spends to any address of interest.
18:09 trinque yes, but aren't you here working on a better implementation of that?
18:09 trinque deposits shall be a human process in either case; I'll just have more to do manually until this thing's done
18:09 ben_vulpes absolutely, but you can use the previous method today, and this thing promises to take a while.
18:10 trinque sure, so does wallet, not going to ship something that's half-baked
18:10 trinque no need to rush on my account, plenty of strange acts of serial cable mangling and other perversions on my end yet
18:10 ben_vulpes get perverse, yo
18:11 ben_vulpes relatedly, i have a patch in abeyance that fixes the test target. i'll bring that out of the refrigerator and start wiring this new IsMine implementation into it.
18:11 ben_vulpes one wrinkle that occurred to me as i tested this patch against a not-completely synced node this afternoon is that satoshi's early transactions were all of the "pay to pubkey" variety, and not today's standard "pay to pubkey hash" breed.
18:15 ben_vulpes http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655564 << easy to test when complete, easy to show that it does not work, not easy to test in the sense of "i have changed implementation details, and would like to see how the system behaves now"
18:15 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 05:12 asciilifeform: if it works on arbitrary addrs, seems like it'd be wuite asy to test
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19:26 mircea_popescu meanwhile at the other ranch, http://logs.minigame.bz/2017-05-14.log.html#t21:17:35
19:26 lobbesbot Logged on 2017-05-14 21:17:35: <danielpbarron> aaand i have done it. i have a laptop that powers on and without any other touching will end up at the eulora login screen. then when you quit, it drops down to gdb where you can run it again or quit. if you quit, the machine shuts down
19:26 mircea_popescu !!key <Top8>
19:26 deedbot Not registered.
19:26 mircea_popescu !!key Top8
19:26 deedbot http://wot.deedbot.org/DE084EC3E71FBB5B44A92CD58A7A3C2FB60AF2DA.asc
19:36 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1656000 << seems not return anything ? is it ?
19:36 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 22:00 ben_vulpes: well gosh now that you point that out i have to admit that i do not actually know.
19:39 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes i thought fstream is already included. no ?
19:41 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: in bitcoinrpc.cpp? i do not think so... http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/bitcoinrpc.cpp?v=wires_rev1
19:42 mircea_popescu + for (std::map<uint256, std::list<OutputIndex> >::iterator i = relevantOutputs.begin(); i != relevantOutputs.end();) { <<< took me a triple take.
19:42 mircea_popescu is there tmsr rule "no further boost constructs added" ?
19:43 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes i thought it gets inherited. entirely likely i don't comprehend c loading model.
19:44 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: you and me both, boddy.
19:44 Framedragger is that from boost? just looks like modern cpp ^
19:44 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: that is a standard c99 for loop.
19:45 mircea_popescu Framedragger it does ; not from boost ; satoshi'd have written it as a boost thing im sure
19:45 mircea_popescu question is very general and low priority : "just how far does the stick to 4 rather than 2 space indents thing goes ?".
19:45 ben_vulpes i did use one final BOOST_FOREACH in the output serialization.
19:45 mircea_popescu no, i know, which is why i ask, what's the style here
19:45 ben_vulpes i will reformat with 2, did not feel like futzing with emacs to make 4 spaces happen for this.
19:46 ben_vulpes with 4 i mean.
19:46 mircea_popescu right :D
19:46 ben_vulpes happy to replace the dangling boostism, certainly.
19:46 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes to my mind "c99 loop vs boost blabla" is very much in the same chapter as 4/2 spaces etc
19:46 mircea_popescu man gotta know, if / when doing patch work, wtf his stylistic choices are required, expected, desired to be
19:47 ben_vulpes i wish that i could recall my reasoning for using that boostism.
19:47 mircea_popescu we already arguably lost a contributor because he couldn't predict what we wouldn't like about the STYLE, rather than substance of his work.
19:47 Framedragger mircea_popescu: hm. a map structure and an iterator over it seems clear to me, imho. just looks unfamiliar to a c developer. but not arguing further
19:47 ben_vulpes it may have been simply the first thing i did, and so mimicked existing style.
19:47 ben_vulpes after some time in the pit, i stopped boosting.
19:48 mircea_popescu sounds natural.
19:48 Framedragger s/clear/clean/
19:48 mircea_popescu Framedragger i've no problem with it whatsoever.
19:48 Framedragger ah kk.
19:48 ben_vulpes c/++ is not my "first tongue".
19:48 mircea_popescu + BOOST_FOREACH(PAIRTYPE(opcodetype, valtype)& item, vSolution) << more than one ?
19:49 ben_vulpes i had trouble with the pairtype.
19:49 ben_vulpes i do not understand the subtleties of what is happening in script.cpp, and so decided to stick with shown-good semantics.
19:50 ben_vulpes the boost is glued in very tightly in there.
19:50 mircea_popescu so to summarize : ismine logic is false if !solver, true if item.first==op_pubkeyhash and gethash160=hash160 ; false if item.first==op_pubkeyhash and !gethash160=hash160 ;
19:51 mircea_popescu seems it'd have benefitted from a default return ?
19:51 mircea_popescu because seems as it is that it may not return anything specifically in some cases.
19:51 ben_vulpes i foolishly, naively assumed the compiler would detect that.
19:52 mircea_popescu (this is generally the wost sort of problem, when false is the expected return, because undefined often masquerades false, ie it "seems to work")
19:52 ben_vulpes it does surprise me that the function is declared to return a boolean, but the compiler says nothing about a branch where it might not return anything.
19:52 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes it's my understanding that the soul of c is exactly "compiler dun care about this".
19:53 ben_vulpes i am quite glad of the review.
19:53 ben_vulpes possibly the most timely in my tenure with the republic!
19:53 mircea_popescu it might be the first time i had something cogent to say about code.
20:01 ben_vulpes (helps that folks are generally familiar with the base code.)
20:13 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1656038 << prototype prototypes.
20:13 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 22:11 ben_vulpes: one wrinkle that occurred to me as i tested this patch against a not-completely synced node this afternoon is that satoshi's early transactions were all of the "pay to pubkey" variety, and not today's standard "pay to pubkey hash" breed.
20:15 mod6 <+mircea_popescu> we already arguably lost a contributor because he couldn't predict what we wouldn't like about the STYLE, rather than substance of his work. << i kinda agree that some type of loose style guide should be created and posted to minimize churn/rework to assimilate
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21:00 mircea_popescu yeah, mebbe just talk about it a little.
21:08 mircea_popescu incidentally, speaking of buried tech : ~nobody credits diderot with the first coherent rejection of "intelligent design", but lettre sur les aveugles.
21:15 mircea_popescu gutenberg statistics ? 24 downloads for regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre. in a fucking decade. because, of course, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-09#1653782
21:15 a111 Logged on 2017-05-09 13:04 asciilifeform: it is possible that solitary prisoners go mad from simple boredom. notice that nobody is ever imprisoned in a library.
21:18 asciilifeform dunno that you get modem in solitary. or there'd be a queue to sit.
21:19 mircea_popescu library has naught to do with modems.
21:20 asciilifeform gutenberg download counts do.
21:20 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1656068 << waiwat, who?!
21:20 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 23:47 mircea_popescu: we already arguably lost a contributor because he couldn't predict what we wouldn't like about the STYLE, rather than substance of his work.
21:21 mircea_popescu well, the reasoning was, "as they can't be bothered to read online while out ; so can't they be bothered to read books while in"
21:21 mircea_popescu the polarbeard fellow, i thought.
21:21 asciilifeform i disagree that it was about 'style'
21:21 mircea_popescu whyssat ?
21:24 asciilifeform was about megapatches that mangle 25 subsystems at once
21:24 mircea_popescu style.
21:24 asciilifeform imho it is a style-crosses-into-substance
21:24 mircea_popescu perhaps ; but it's not clearly out of the crossing yet, so it may be counted.
21:26 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: fwiw i like paper and generally avoid gutenberg when possible
21:27 asciilifeform the formatting is yuck
21:27 asciilifeform and additionally english is yuck
21:27 asciilifeform ( i can put up with one headache, or the other, but not both )
21:31 mircea_popescu my problems are exactly opposite : http://trilema.com/2016/there-has-not-yet-been-seen-a-simple-thing-even-if-were-drowning-in-simple-people/#selection-23.0-27.60
21:32 asciilifeform yeah i remember that mircea_popescu has forsaken paper -- he is ready for space launch.
21:32 mircea_popescu paper is a miserable fit for the manner in which i read. one day ima actually manage to put into algo form the sort of tree i wish to see
21:32 mircea_popescu ast for literature, fancy that.
21:32 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1656035 << do say moar, trinque
21:32 a111 Logged on 2017-05-14 22:10 trinque: no need to rush on my account, plenty of strange acts of serial cable mangling and other perversions on my end yet
21:34 * asciilifeform dug garden, trimmed trees, changed lanterns, brb, horizontal
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22:57 BingoBoingo The only problem with Mazda wenkels is the stupid insistence on oil injection instead of just running a 2-cycle petroil mix
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23:51 mircea_popescu o brother, this was one of those total oil loss systems was it ?
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