asciilifeform admits he is at this very moment... doing his day job
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: once the why is answered, the "make their own" is answered too, fiveseconds later << typically this question gets 'answered' when too late. as in the case of the russian trans-siberian pipeline.
asciilifeform: ^ the fundamental theorem of the media apparat.
asciilifeform: (arm makes a mockery of the whole risc concept, hundreds of weird instructions with a multitude of modifier bits, hilariously varies addressing mechanisms, etc)
asciilifeform: despite being a steaming crock of shit compared to mips
asciilifeform: every day i wonder why the 'arm' architecture so thoroughly beat 'mips' (closest competitor in the 'risc' world) in the markets☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: ever wonder whence we got the crock of shit that is usb ?
asciilifeform: i'll point out that the complexity of the designs, which makes straight plagiarism so irresistible to the asians, doesn't happen in a vacuum.
asciilifeform: for the work to actually be his own, non-plagiarized? in the confucian world, this is actually an anti-value
asciilifeform: for which, i will point out, no practical substitutes are known or, afaik, even contemplated anywhere.
asciilifeform: what does it mean if asia has all of the factories, but is utterly dependant on winblows and a stack of monopoly turdware as tall as empire state building ?
asciilifeform: mircea is mistaken when he writes that china controls ic manufacture.
asciilifeform: i.e. to prevent you from curing the ethernet card.
asciilifeform: at the risk of repeating the last 100+ xilinx threads - the closed architecture of -all- fpga vendors is specifically to enable this 'business model'
asciilifeform: decimation: months of experimentation << the end result is a product which cannot be understood, function of which cannot be rationally explained, and which will break on the slightest deviation from the parent hardware
asciilifeform: conform to the timing diagram - or die.
asciilifeform: just forget a refresh sometimes. or violate one of the many mandatory command sequences.
asciilifeform wrote a ddr2 controller for 'xilinx' chip once. it is amazingly easy to create a dysfunctional one with behaves like, for instance, the one pictured in that paper.
asciilifeform: decimation: overpowers << skeptical until demonstrated in field (i.e. x86 pc) rather than laboratory (fpga with custom dram controller)
asciilifeform: dignork: forget code. the thing, as stated on own site, doesn't even threaten to make elementary sense.
