[GTALUG] interesting new approach to forking

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Thu Feb 19 15:43:09 UTC 2015


On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:02:56PM -0600, 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.

I think you win the price for the most incomprehensible message I have
ever seen on this list.

None of what you wrote had anything to do with what you replied to.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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