asciilifeform: for folks who are mystified by this thread, a 'risc' (reduced instruction set) cpu is typically one where 'instruction set fits in the back cover of your textbook.'

asciilifeform: it also happens to be the worst known such architecture by virtually any conceivable measure.

asciilifeform: the only living representative of the cisc school of thought is the x86, which survives purely from symbiosis with microshit

asciilifeform: move to 'risc' was driven mainly by desire for auto-optimization (pipelining, out-of-order instruction sequencing) in the pursuit of 'fast' (see http://www.loper-os.org/?p=300 ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: aha, jurov has it.

asciilifeform: x86 is a cisc (interestingly, the internals of modern x86 compatibles are pure risc, with emulation layer for the ancient crud baked on)

asciilifeform: kakobrekla is posting through time warp from 1985? i don't recall seeing 'risc' or 'cisc' mentioned on a crate, since, i don't know when

asciilifeform: i must be missing something

asciilifeform: sticker?

asciilifeform: no such animal.

asciilifeform: (why? see http://www.loper-os.org/?p=55 etc)

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: name a 'cisc' (that is, 'complete', or, in more practical terms, optimized for hand-written asm that is a minimum of pain to write -and- read) chip designed in recent years.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: but if you're thinking about the ancient 'risc vs cisc' debate, it isn't really any kind of contest today, as there is no architecture of past 20 yrs. or so design that could really be classified as a 'cisc'

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: my dislike of 'arm' has very little to do with the architecture.

asciilifeform: (gentoo)

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: recent 'intel' box with 8g

asciilifeform: irreproducible bug is best bug.

asciilifeform: how far in?

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: got a wedge?

asciilifeform: or even 'a scanner darkly.'

asciilifeform: undercover agents << 'the man who was thursday.'

asciilifeform: why ilkka did this - i do not know. some necromancer here can perhaps resurrect him and ask.

asciilifeform: whole thing can be 'eaten' in an evening.

asciilifeform: herr kokkarinen made a point never to write an essay more than 1 paragraph or so in length.

asciilifeform: tens thousands lines?

asciilifeform: excised what?

asciilifeform: ah, wai, wat

asciilifeform: what's it running on?

asciilifeform: and in no case can result in inconsistent state

asciilifeform: so that 'kill -9'-style death is always the correct behaviour.

asciilifeform: incidentally this is why a correctly-implemented blockchain db is isomorphic to a 'journalling' file system.

asciilifeform: for debuggery - aye

asciilifeform: next, what, want fast reactor shutdowns?

asciilifeform: how often does a sane person shut down 'bitcoind' anyway?

asciilifeform: i think they want the cover & the turkish bubblegum smell.

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: this is the book, which was a 'best of' (in his view) of his last site, 'fourth checkraise.'

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/ilkka.txt << herr kokkarinen's 'musings', deturdified.

asciilifeform: ^ ilkka's book. mutilated but readable.

asciilifeform: www.mediafire.com/download/df86bg0f9lbxx2n/wingnut_musings.pdf

asciilifeform: (seagrave wrote only foreword)

asciilifeform: err, e. leslie

asciilifeform: and other aspiring 'mad maxes'

asciilifeform: recommends especially to BingoBoingo

asciilifeform has the book, it is lovely

asciilifeform: esp. last paragraph.

asciilifeform: see also http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2008/09/survival-of-nicest.html (solely for the quote from seagrave's 'castaways')

asciilifeform: the folks blessed with the talent of 'not care' on-demand - probably tended to not end up behind the wire in the first place.

asciilifeform was not in treblinka, knows only what the contemporaries saw fit to write down

asciilifeform: when mother, sister, wife - buried - they swing axe with the grace of ballet dancer.

asciilifeform: when 'they'll xxx my mother, sister, wife' - folks hesitate to swing axe

asciilifeform: the way historians seem to present it, it was less 'listening' and more 'no hostages'

asciilifeform: nein. only that they were already dead.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: iirc, the magic ingredient - no women

asciilifeform: (unless counting warsaw ghetto)

asciilifeform: notable for being the only major one inside the barbed wire

asciilifeform: notable historical case study is treblinka uprising

asciilifeform: swinging the axe - another matter altogether.

asciilifeform: except everyone, i think, knows this

asciilifeform: !s solzhenitsyn axe

asciilifeform: obligatory:

asciilifeform: and recall how that went.

asciilifeform: 'Physicist Steven Jones, who first pointed to the use of thermite in the destruction of the two towers had to agree to having his university buy out his tenure or his university was faced with losing all federal financing.' << example from herr orlov. ( http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/09/911-after-13-years.html )

asciilifeform: (it being a kind of property right, traditionally - fat surprise.)

asciilifeform: any more than property.

asciilifeform: tenure doesn't actually exist in angloworld now.

asciilifeform: (note, this is 'sixteen volts,' his early site. not 'fourth checkraise')

asciilifeform: (presently)

asciilifeform: afaik the only copy on the net.

asciilifeform: loper-os.org/pub/ilkka.zip

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was taken to политотдел.

asciilifeform: there is a mostly full one. somewhere.

asciilifeform: nah, just incomplete

asciilifeform: nm, borked

asciilifeform: ^ ancient backup of 'sixteen volts', kokkarinen's first site.

asciilifeform: http://hardwick.fi/ilkka/16v0830.htm

asciilifeform: decimation: there are folks who do it for a hobby.

asciilifeform: ask 'biofeedback' aficionados.

asciilifeform: fiddybucks buys you all the components, in a manageable pocket size.

asciilifeform: incidentally, you don't need the jailed quack to 'study lie detector'

asciilifeform: etc.

asciilifeform: or those with naturally 'immobile' vital signs

asciilifeform: and in general for folks who don't give a flying fuck

asciilifeform: about the same thing that hot coals ordeal has to do with 'truth.'

asciilifeform: that is the apparatus pictured in the photo

asciilifeform: the 'polygraph', as the name implies, combines several instruments (eeg, ekg, conductometer)

asciilifeform: late 19th c. physiologists discovered skin conductance meter (as sanctified by 'scientology')

asciilifeform: (discussion thereof)

asciilifeform: re: ilkka: >> http://isteve.blogspot.com/2006/09/16-volts-silenced-by-his-university.html << the demise of his first site

asciilifeform: hence zip.

asciilifeform thought he explained this

asciilifeform: because he is never free.

asciilifeform: his score is nil

asciilifeform: and the destroyers - will pay. one day.

asciilifeform: they will come out.

asciilifeform: going right back to 'attribution' point - these libraries - did not burn.

asciilifeform: and that's just one man's archive.

asciilifeform: easily worth ten thousand of today's internets put together.

asciilifeform: ^ example of what remains.