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mircea_popescu: what i don't understand is how people like linus don't just return
the "award"
mircea_popescu: this is
the sum
total of a life wasted. what's
to prize in
there ?
mircea_popescu: guy has literally not done anything in his entire life. intern in a meanwhile bankrupt, never relevant
trade mag.
mircea_popescu: they're really labouring hard
to make sure
they actualy get boiled in oil,
these people.
mircea_popescu: let's pick a derp with absolutely no merits
to give
the nobel prize
to.
mircea_popescu: "Vitalik Buterin beat Mark Zuckerberg for
the 2014 World
Technology Network award in IT software.
The award is presented for Buterin's role as co-creator and inventor of Ethereum which has yet
to exist and co-founding Bitcoin Magazine. "
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i recounted various passages
to pet, who cringed << specifically ?
decimation: yeah I remember
the old AT chassis, built like a peice of HP
test equipment
decimation: yeah I used
to call it 'centronics' connectors, didn't realize
their heritage
decimation: the problem with 'taxing
the wave of massive adoption' is
that eventually when
the wave passes on, one needs
to ride
the next wave
to sustain all
the fleas
that have attached
to
the revenue cow
decimation: probably many of
these 'black boxes' were developed by 'startups' funded by usg
tax dollars
through universities
decimation: maybe intel or amd has an actual
toolchain?
decimation: this is pretty much
the business model for every 'fabless chip corp'
decimation: my understanding is
tha altera is generally easier
to deal with here, because
they actually do
their own r&d
to produce
these 'ip cores', whereas xilinx
tends
to contract it out - involving
third parties in your product
mircea_popescu: for
the sort of people who are genuinely surprised
that
their
thing even works.
decimation: and if you are going
to run something in huge quantities, might as well make asic
decimation: it's cheaper
to run a full server
than
to pay for
the engineering
time
to dick with
the fpga
decimation: which results in shitty RTL code
to program
the
thing
decimation: I know folks who have done
this, and suceeded, but it
took many months of debugging and swearing
decimation: 'you can do anything
that we allow in our walled garden, shitty
tools and shitty errata!!"
decimation: but yeah
the number of onboard 'serdes' modules is becoming a big deal
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah or you can buy
the ip core
decimation: the latest hotness in fpga is
to use a serial bus, after folks have lived in
the ddr hell
decimation: it's like entering a
time warp back
to 1979
decimation: asciilifeform: have you ever had occasion
to program
test equipment
that speaks gpib?
decimation: asciilifeform: I suspect
the same pattern one sees with bitcoind is common in free software, 'the ancients' (typically one elite guy) writes something useful,
then shitgnomes dangle
turds on it for decades
mircea_popescu: the hallucination
that "people getting
togheter" "solve problems" is also a recurrent mode of psychotic social behaviour.
decimation: I suspect most folks
thought
they were getting 'free warez'
decimation: or at least,
there wasn't much will
to oppose
decimation: everyone in
the 'free software movement' was happy
to allow redhat
to
take over everything important in userland
mircea_popescu: is bitcoin going
to be a "clean room riff" on core-derpage ?
decimation: didn't linus say he probably wouldn't have done his
thing if bsd was available?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was alive at
the
time it made linux overnight.
decimation: really,
the 'free software' movement was a kind of reaction
to microsoft overreach, which has largely splintered into a hundred different corporate factions
mircea_popescu: so
the remaining pretenders don't manage
to cling on
to
the shoes of
their forebears.
this should be shocking or what ?
mircea_popescu: well, in
truth
the entire "free software"
thing was dead a while back.
decimation: I don't blame redhat et.al., like larry ellison,
they are just exploiting what
they can exploit