[GTALUG] interesting new approach to forking

David Collier-Brown davec-b at rogers.com
Thu Feb 19 20:08:51 UTC 2015


Plonk!

--dave

On 02/19/2015 10:51 AM, Russell Reiter wrote:
> The Trochedactyl says, save the earth, eat a Tree whugger today.
>
> On 2/19/15, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
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