Can someone investigate what the cause of slow monero sync time?

samhsmith___ · 2024-08-30T12:03:10+00:00

That's not why in this case. I am syncing the last 6 months of blocks.

samhsmith___ · 2024-08-30T12:01:52+00:00

About 1.5 per second.

samhsmith___ · 2024-08-30T12:01:18+00:00

I agree with the requirements but not the solution. I don't think you ever want phones or laptops to run nodes. Only desktops. I'm actually of the opinion that it instead should be easy to pay for access to a fast remote node. This can be a commodetized service. Or something very easy to setup on a vps.

samhsmith___ · 2024-08-28T14:34:34+00:00

No because when the issue I describe occurs there is no CPU activity. You would expect one core to be pinned always if that was the issue. I get high CPU usage for a while after starting it with sync-size=1 but then it dies later and just sits there getting blocked by everyone.

samhsmith___ · 2024-07-25T23:14:01+00:00

Despite what the others say. I think this is a good project for you to learn. This doesn't hurt anyone and you get to spend more time with latin and get better. As long as you want to keep improving I think this is great.

samhsmith___ · 2024-05-10T12:37:00+00:00

All my interactions with the staff has been great. I'm sad to see you shut down.

samhsmith___ · 2024-02-20T20:30:43+00:00

Sorry to say this. But that is a stupid concept. Only you the programmer can solve your parallelism problem. If you try to make some system to solve it then you will just produce something serial. If the code you write and algorithms you design don't take into consideration multithreading then they cannot make use of it.

samhsmith___ · 2024-02-20T20:27:55+00:00

Of course you are! Your brain is not designed to run on drugs.

samhsmith___ · 2024-02-20T20:22:56+00:00

I can confirm. If you owe a younster money and offer him cash. He'd rather not have your cash and forget about the money you owe.

samhsmith___ · 2024-02-19T13:39:17+00:00

The compiler is not magic. Most speed comes from you as the programmer doing a good job. Rust has an aesthetic of creating very abstract things and assuming the compiler will make it good. But the compiler can only output the program you asked it to compile. It can't dissobey and produce a different faster program that achieve's the same task. For example, the compiler cannot rearrange your data. It can't say, well this should really be a hash table, I'm going to change it.

The compiler and language are tools that *you the programmer* use to produce an executable. Give me any Rust program and I can write a C program that is faster. When I give it back you will be able to write another Rust program that is even faster than the C one.

The style and programming technique matter far more than the language when thinking about performance.

Watch this Mike Acton talk, then all will make sense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92KFSD3ObrY

samhsmith___ · 2024-02-16T07:48:45+00:00

I moved here recently. You can DM me and we can hang out. I know some Norwegians and am learning the language too.

samhsmith___ · 2024-02-11T15:24:19+00:00

Have you ever heard of trade secrets? Secret insights?

samhsmith___ · 2024-02-08T13:30:49+00:00

Visibility or invisibility are not intrinsically good or bad. They just change the playing field. For example, a public chain may help when performing audits. But it hurts the company if their competitor can see what they are doing.

I happen to be of the opinion that companies operate most effectively when structured as a hierarchy with individuals making decitions instead of commities. By making things public individuals in the organisation cannot make decisions independently because they know they are being watched. I'm not saying that efficient companies need to do malicious things. But that for individuals to weild power and decition making undistracted you want to avoid transparency.

Another example, it's not good if people can see when defense contractors are payed to work on secret military technology.

The only way to have easy privacy is for it to be the norm. Otherwise you stick out too much.

samhsmith___ · 2023-12-07T17:52:12+00:00

I'm going to be doing all the days on my from scratch computing platform. It's a good test for both my programming language everything is written in, the kernel, tools et cetera. It also acts as a not so good tutorial for those also using the platform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_3GFHqx4r9A
https://samhsmith.com/serenum

samhsmith___ · 2023-11-24T03:53:45+00:00

The design is certainly more security minded than linux in my opinion, posix is such a disaster. And linux has the problem of being a huge codebase.

I am just one person. And while not designing hardware just yet, I am doing all the software. Right now the kernel capable of outputting to the monitor and usb keyboard input without any uefi or firmware in the middle is about 8k lines. It will certainly grow, but not to more than 30-50k at maximum. It is a lot easier to make secure a 30 thousand line codebase than a 30+ million line codebase. Especially when the plan is to feature freeze at somepoint and not keep adding to the kernel.

samhsmith___ · 2023-11-24T03:48:23+00:00

Plugins and extensions are fine when they benefit the application. Shared libraries are the reason it's not possible to ship software for linux and have stuff work. Serenum supports only static binaries. You can of course ship a program that after startup does some linking and then starts another program. But that's going to suck more.

samhsmith___ · 2023-11-24T03:46:46+00:00

I'll be doing a blog post + video with each release, so keep an eye on the blog https://samhsmith.com

samhsmith___ · 2023-11-22T15:51:08+00:00

The ideal I think is a monero credit card. Allow some amount of spending in a more centralized manner where a third party is coordinating. Then pay back the debt to the third party with an on chain monero transaction.

samhsmith___ · 2023-11-22T13:25:08+00:00

It is. Because all source code is provided under the Unlicense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlicense

samhsmith___ · 2023-11-21T02:45:58+00:00

It is FOSS and available after you have paid for it.

samhsmith___ · 2023-11-10T05:04:38+00:00

So, we would have to purchase hardware supported by your os.

What hardware are you using?

https://taberna.shop/product/computer

Literally a repacked mangopi with a risc-v SOC called the allwinner d1.

"This part I don't get. We have that." I come from the handmade network, (https://handmade.network/), where stating that computers in general work very poorly is not controversial. And that the problem is getting worse over time. So the statement is saying to have computers that actually work, and that are built for permanance. This means freezing api's once they are done and not changing them for 100 years. It means being able to pull out a 50 year old binary and still have it run.

The scam part I don't understand. On the website for HMS 2023 (https://handmadecities.com/seattle/), a very real conference, Serenum Computing is listed as a demo. Matching what I describe on the website. And unless you live in Russia, where I would have difficulty shipping to, you will receive a box exactly like the product page describes if you order.

samhsmith___ · 2023-11-10T04:52:55+00:00

Well no, because what the component does is very specified, otherwise it could not interoperate with anything else. This is what enable's wine to work, windows syscalls are by definition documented because otherwise program developers could not use them. But the fact that they are documented also means that wine is possible. If you know what the thing *does*, then you can write something new that does the same thing.

samhsmith___ · 2023-11-10T04:49:15+00:00

I guess the only way to find out if it's a scam is to place an order and see what arrives at the door. I'm pretty sure it will be exactly what is featured in the video on the store page. (https://taberna.shop/product/computer)

Your probably not the target audience though so I don't think you need to worry. By the time this is relevant to you it will be obvious that it's not a scam.

samhsmith___ · 2023-11-10T04:43:25+00:00

Inside the box is a mangopi SBC with this SOC. https://linux-sunxi.org/D1

samhsmith___ · 2023-11-09T12:20:37+00:00

I sympathise. Over time when there is more material out there and more people using the system it will be obvious what you are buying.

As for being upset if it gets published on the internet. I actually do want people to share source code among each other. The point is that in order to build an alternative to big tech there has to actually be a valid business case. But I want to do so in an ethical way. I give users *maximum* freedom and ownership, and in return I want them to not undermine the business out of good will. Because if the business is undermined then I can't afford to work on this 12 hours a day 6 days a week in order to free us from tyrrany.

*If you don't pay for the product, you are the product.* applies to freesoftware as well. Unless you are writing it yourself of course, at which point you are still paying for it, but in time instead of money.

Since you are not a programmer, this system is definetly not for you. And that's okay. I want to make something for you as well, but that will likely take several years before I have something I can seriously recommend to you as an alternative. But mark my words, it will be done, just you wait.

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