There's an intriguing feeling one gets when reading something with lingo that you don't understand, right?

The titles you mentioned are achieved by accruing lots of masterpoints, which are obtained by doing well in ACBL sanctioned events. The masterpoints and titles demonstrate experience more than anything, since you can never lose masterpoints like you can with a fide chess rating. Also, even if you don't play very well, your bound to win some events, since bridge - despite being a game with an insane skill curve - has a large amount of variance (more than poker.)

Also, as i'm sure you will be shocked to here (sarcasm), masterpoints have been inflated away. A masterpoint from 50 years ago is probably the equiv of 20 masterpoints today. So your grandmother's titles are certainly worth more than someone's "same" title that they achieved today.

Exercise as soon as you wake up, ideally in bright light.

afaiu, natural light > artificial (even when cloudy, sunlight is undefeated). If you are using artificial, red light is best upon waking as it mimics the sunrise.

sometimes in life you have to torture people

I lol'd.

Anything section tagged with [WIP] is not complete and probably won't work.

@awt I tried to download the akris tarballs from your site, the link you provided http://v.alethepedia.com/akris/akris-genesis-99999.tar.gz does not work.

It solves a huge problem that Blatta had with initial sync, where it would just dump the logs to the console as your station syncs.

When you peer initially on Akris, messages appear in order, latest first, as they arrive.

Additionally:
- it's multithreaded, so it's faster (depends on how fast your peer is - Blatta is slow)
- builds and loads jonsykkel's C serpent implementation
- pest links are clickable and open up in a tab - solves a long standing problem with timestamp or id based ordering in the web logs.
- you can search the logs in the console, click on a line to open it up in a tab with context
- fixes a major bug Blatta has with netchain tracking
- it can run in headless mode and provides an API that can be used by any client
- it allows you to run the gui client on your local machine and connect to a headless server instance
- bunch more stuff

We should talk about manaloning next time we meet up. WRT bitcoind and bitcoindexplorer, while I might be able to help with integrating bitcoindexplorer with Pest, I think my strengths lie outside of software and I would get more bang for my proverbial buck funding someone else who's actually good at it or using skills I have a natural talent for, such as writing.

WRT marketing, tmsr had several products that were not marketed well, including itself.

I would market Pest and bitcoind on behalf of the post republic. Without results marketing anything successfully, I would keep working on that aspect to ensure that further efforts don't disappear down the memory hole. I am aware certain people don't give a shit if anyone uses their stuff, but I don't find that motivating at all.

I see how that's frustrating to work on something that ~no one seems to give a shit about. FWIW you did also implement PEST and that seems to have had some good success, I tried out the earlier versions, and perhaps I'll give your new gui a shot to join back on that channel.

Anyways, it seems like the recent work you did was a case of manaloning. As you self diagnosed, this was done as an escape and maybe you chose the gui b/c it was something you got pleasure out of working on, rather than it being particularly important. But on the bright side you still produced _something_

Would you have any interest in working on bitcoindexplorer? I am sometimes concerned that this is a ~useless tool for various reasons, but overall i think it is a necessary part of (post) republic infrastructure. I have an article explaining why in the oven. Another worthwhile use of time may be reading the fucking bitcoind code and documenting it. Bitcoind is a wobbly engine that could choke at some point in the future... and I think other than maybe jfw there is no one actively maintaining it.

And idk if marketing was really ever the need, maybe scouting. What would you market on behalf of the post republic? There's nothing even to sell lol.