[GTALUG] interesting new approach to forking

David Collier-Brown davec-b at rogers.com
Wed Feb 18 02:47:31 UTC 2015


Speculation about the effect of the sexual proclivities of power systems 
on XML is probably off-topic for this list (;-))

--dave

On 02/17/2015 09:02 PM, Russell Reiter wrote:
> <SNIP>
>> What do any of those have to do with VLIW?
> No offence intended, but check your notes on DELTA vs. WYSE AC Power.
> I believe I have pontificated on this list about that quite enough in
> the last decade to correct YOUR errors Lennart.
>
> You didn't even know what the centre tap is, so how could you be
> expected to understand dirty AC and the power's relationship to 64 bit
> ARCH, VLIW, UART, LSBinit, SGML, HTML, XML, dependency based booting
> in Debian, or why they are called script kittys, or the universe in
> near and far field effects, randomness and time modification in
> transmissions.
>
>> They apply equality to CISC and RISC as well, but at least those tend
>> to be designed to run real code generated by real compilers rather than
>> imagined code generated by imagined magical compilers that don't exist.
> Whatever exists in your imagination regarding real compilers and
> imagined magical ones are just another ponzi scheme of big oil money
> IT, apparently now centred in Alberta. The rest of us try to use a
> DELPHI consensus of experts, sort of a Canadian Intelligence Agency.
>
> I cut my teeth on the IBM blue wire fix, no reason for me to jump ship
> now. I've been pushing for clean air and clean power in Toronto for a
> long time. God bless IBM for opening up their architecture when every
> one else was closing up shop. I wonder why they did that?
>
> I might be premature but I believe a trusted compiler is in the works,
> it just needs some funding after the dirty power issue is cleaned up
> bit bya bit.
>
> Regression testing is a bitch, but you do have to do it one tiny bit
> at a time. Believe me I spend a shit-load of time trying to fix up my
> own mistakes but the bosses won't let me, so I just have to eat them.
>
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