Hmm. And I was just about to ask about how PoK seemed to be a non-event.

It was quiet. Too quiet.

It's not that opaque. After all, I've been accused of poor opsec.


Yup. Disk latencies have up till recently hidden universes of poor design in other layers of the storage stack, OSs, middleware, and applications themselves. With the widespread availability of NAND's much lower latencies, a more efficient protocol than ATA or SCSI -- namely NVMe (though SCSI's SOP/PQI would have been in my opinion a superior technology ((though it's hard to fight Intel))* ) -- is necessary to unlock it's native performance.

*::hrumph!:: what's another borg-ian windmill against which to tilt?

However, NVMe itself is really not efficient enough for NAND. SW stack latencies are still greater than the underlying media's access times. And with a new generation of Storage Class Memory -- another order of magnitude faster than NAND -- just around the corner, this problem will only become proportionally larger.


Even further. As recognition of the inefficiencies that have allowed to fester for a half-century become more widespread, attention will turn to the entire storage stack, the POSIX interface, and applications, ushering in a complete rearchitecting of canonical computer system architecture.

I'd challenge that assertion as well -- at least as a blanket statement -- but we're treading darned near religious territory anyhoo.


You can thank me later


Yes. Also AT bus cards. Though they were DIPs at the time.


That's not an Apple tax. That's a stupidity tax, imposed by OCZ and their downline supply chain.


I figured. Just busting your chops a bit.


You can thank me later

Montroll did not 'make wrong decisions'. He defrauded those who put trust in him. Then stonewalled any and all inquiry in an attempt to cover his tracks.

Even if he were to remain a free man -- even if he were to accept responsibility for his actions (he won't) and direct all his labors (really?) until death toward restitution (as if) -- you'll never get more than a penny on the dollar from him. He is utterly incapable of such. Your willingness to turn the other (ass) cheek (as he bends you over one more time) is a fool's forebearance.

At some point you need to accept that you've been royally screwed, have no hope of recouping your losses even with the hand of the state enforcing it, and move on to making him pay for his misdeeds. If not as punishment, at least as a signal to others who might be contemplating a similar life of crime.

edit:

As stated above: Mr Montroll should be sentenced in line with any other common grifter who preys upon innocent bystanders. Period.

Yes, Shavers got off lightly. I see no benefit in perpetuating such a miscarriage of justice.

Incidentally, I'm pretty emotion-free in this statement. I wrote that loss off a long time ago; it no longer stings. Doesn't mean I don't desire justice.

Let's make it a Thursday.


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Indeed.


To the contrary. Big blocks ARE the solution. However, I fear that through echo chamber propaganda, all y'all segwitters might be throwing away humanity's one chance to throw off the yoke of our unjustly enriched fiat oppressors.

As was a high-spec laptop, at least back when I jumped from Win to OS X. Similarly configured offerings from Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. were all more expensive than Apple's high end at the time. I've not done the analysis since, but I'd be unsurprised to find that top of the line are at least similarly priced even today.

I reiterate:

To add insult to injury, Mr Montroll has made no effort to make restitution to his victims. He has continued to act in an opaque and cavalier manner, being non-responsive to any inquiries from the wronged parties. He has refused even to acknowledge the amounts stolen from the victims. This displays a contempt of those upon whom he preyed.

Frankly, I do.

Let's be real. BTC has lost 80% of value because FOMO got ahead of itself and we had a spectacular blowoff top. If you'd have polled even the Bitcoin faithful three years ago as to whether BTC would be comfortably above $3500 at the start of 2019, few would have put money on that notion.

A successive series of blowoff tops may be normal for price discovery for such a radically new form of asset.

So an 80% price drop is noise. It's the market dominance drop that signals danger.

Dude... An iPhone running $100 worth of apps from Korg (for example) is synth sound generation capability we couldn't have dreamed of at any price even in dedicated HW little more than a decade ago. Add a couple free metronome and tuner apps, serious memo recorder for capturing ideas, guitar amp sims (external converter desired - impedance mismatch between pickups and mic input make for lousy signal), drum machines, MIDI remappers, BandHelper, ... it just goes on and on.

The miracle of personal computers is that they do more than Fortran calculations - they've become incredible multipurpose extensions of our personal capabilities. And the miracle of smartphones is that they do more than make phone calls - they're general purpose computers with a full suite of IO that's with you at all times.

Hmm... this branch took kind of a weird turn, considering all I really wanted to say was 'I can understand that choice of platform is a singular thing, but to call Apple products flawed incapable garbage is nonsense'.

My hope is that it would be SV. As time goes by, hope diminishes. I will continue to think big blocks is the proper scaling solution regardless of the outcome.

If SV or ABC hit anything approaching 100k, I win extra-bigly. If BTC approaches 100K, I win something less bigly. Either way, future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.

There's another halving in that timeframe. I'd say more like 75-80%. Not to say that it would stay there, but I think the next blowoff top will likely be well over $100K.


Maybe 5-10%


::wink::

At least you properly identified your statement as speculative.

Any defense by bitcoin_diamond on their rather stupid statement?

Best wishes for grin. Seriously.

Of course, it is not yet a Bitcoin reality.

In the meanwhile 'dumb parameter fiddling' -- as you so eloquently put it -- would have been the smart choice.

Answered upthread. Yes, I have HW more suited to the task. But it's not in my pocket 'round the clock.

The point is, a recent iPhone -- maligned in the post to which I was replying as 'Apple, therefore inferior' -- is up to the task.

If your laptop can't handle a 50-track session, that's an awfully limited laptop by today's standards. The laptop I recently demoted after 6 (yes six) years of nonstop service as my do-everything machine had no problem with handling such a load. With negligible latency.

4 years? Maybe 80-85%

Agreed. If nothing else, the tiny touchscreen makes a limiting interface for serious work. But the point is that the HW and OS can handle it. Mostly, I am just challenging your assertion regarding apple products being subpar.

Plus, a CME XKey and Korg Module running on the thing you have with you always anyhow makes for a great little always-at-hand musical instrument.

Oh - I'm guessing you meant NVMe above?


Let's hope not. If it tanks again, I'm gonna start to wonder...

I do have such equipment. The point is that you can on iOS, and expect good results.

The outward challenge was a quip about sub-par crappy products whose only merit was the marketing behind them. In my experience, apple products tend to reside at the upper echelon of performance, and of generally higher build quality than most of their competition. I won't go into the 'elegance' aspect, as that is really a subjective matter. But to malign apple products in broad strokes as subpar quality is just silly.

Besides, having essentially a fully equipped studio in your pocket at all times is a useful tool.

And as a single anecdotal data point, I steadfastly resisted iOS, waiting for years for Android to solve their audio latency issues. I finally gave up. Maybe today, you can run music apps such as soft synths, DAWs, drum machines, etc. on Android. Back when I made the switch, the unbounded variable latency made it impossible on Android, no matter the manufacturer. The iOS users have enjoyed rock-solid reliability for such tasks for years.

What are you trying to do, tank Bitcoin down to $1500?


Perhaps you have been buying counterfeits. Try tracking a 50-channel DAW session at 24-bit/96kHz though top-flight conversion (e.g., Apogee), with all the plugins needed for a good mix, on your Androne, and let me know how it goes.

Provocative. Source?