asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-22#1701650 << i cannot speak for other folx but possibly i'm not the only one who isn't eager to divulge all-his-btc-addrs ( much as we like pete_dushenski , picture, say , his iron were to be stolen, ect)☝︎
asciilifeform: !~later tell phf https://archive.is/fGAO9 << even moar entomologically, even higher quotient of crackpottery, but imho entertaining, re culianu.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if you find it, plox to repost
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: iirc it's 15-20 lines ( all ~same snip tho, in each, of the truncation )
asciilifeform: !~later tell ben_vulpes was it you who had a trb patch abolishing the idiotic truncation of block and tx hashes in debug.log ? where did it go ?
asciilifeform: all of the pattern 'have you seen this tx?' 'no...' 'but i sent it to your node and got an ack'☟︎
asciilifeform: ( several cases documented in the logs, by mircea_popescu and others )
asciilifeform: chronically very frustrated enemy, in tilt, and he does whatever he can with his few hammers. in this case it happens to be slowing tx propagation.
asciilifeform: i don't much like the phrase 'trusted nodes', when you connect to trb node, you get plaintext tcp, and 0 guarantees re who or what you're actually talking to.☟︎
asciilifeform: and possibly somebody else also ( shinohai ? )
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu has at least 1 public node
asciilifeform: hanbot: the 1st two are mine ( #1 -- zoolag, which is midway through a resyncing, on account of a dead ssd ; 2nd is dulap, which is humming along )
asciilifeform: 'Ten US Navy sailors are missing after a US Navy guided-missile destroyer collided with an oil tanker east of Singapore early Monday, the fourth accident in Asian waters involving a US warship in 2017'
asciilifeform: ( iirc the smallest package is a pqfp-64 )
asciilifeform: spyked: unless you are VERY well-equipped, you will not be soldering ice40.
asciilifeform: ice40 leaves a great deal to be desired ( it is VERY small, comparatively, and doesn't come in a no-flash version, and who knows for how long it will remain in print ) but is by far the closest thing that currently exists to the sane fpga.
asciilifeform: i will be phasing xilinx out of my product line entirely, also.
asciilifeform: i last leeched the xilinx hog in 2011 and don't intend to ever update.
asciilifeform: ( but, i will point out, is MUCH roomier than the xc9572 cpld used in FUCKGOATS )
asciilifeform: if you're used to working with, e.g., xilinx 'spartan' or 'virtex' series, it will feel VERY tight.
asciilifeform: which made it a realistic reversing target, and it was apparently successfully reversed.
asciilifeform: it has a plain matrix-of-LUTs structure, no built-in periphs
asciilifeform: !~later tell spyked http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-21#1701446 >> on second thought, you probably could put this chore off, olimex sells a ice40-8k (largest available) with 512k of sram glued on. and this is theoretically enough to prototype . the more pressing matter is ethernet. ( afaik nobody sells an ice40 + ethernetmagnetics . and just as with ddr dram, answer is 'lattice wants you to use their larger fpgas, with THEIR toolchain'☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: dunno re obvious -- but it is strongly suggested
asciilifeform: imho it is strange that the contract on him had to wait until ceaucescu dead☟︎
asciilifeform: classic 'orc intellectual in emigration'
asciilifeform: incidentally in as far as i can tell, d00d was solzhenitsining for decade+, and very actively Musting Die from a very defensible imho pov
asciilifeform: briefly thought 'hey they cloned altera, the specs must now be on the net somewhere'. turns out -- apparently no.
asciilifeform: either way, it helps us not a whit, these items dun seem to be any moar obtainable than 'elbrus'.
asciilifeform: now it is ~possible~ that the spec is disinfo, and in basement of kgb there is a rewritten alteratronic chain. but imho unlikely.☟︎
asciilifeform: ( and there is no way to verify that the chip was actually reversed, and produced in ru -- other than to present the specs, and a native clean toolchain ! but catalogue says 'use quartus from altera' )
asciilifeform: the problem is that it does not suffice to keep the producer honest.
asciilifeform: the orc packaging ain't a problem, imho it is The Right Thing to ban western smt spec
asciilifeform: examtakers -- optimize for examgrade.
asciilifeform: ( in modern ru mil production chain, they still mandate ancient orcish pinouts and case dimensions, supposedly to prevent substitution with cheap imported chip with name sanded off )
asciilifeform begins to suspect that these folx simply got a hold of american raw dies and make a killing mounting them in sov-era specced ceramic cases with gold pins, and calling it 'new production'☟︎
asciilifeform: ать получить хоть какую-то документацию официальным путем.'
asciilifeform: пусов 20. Корпус выглядит отвратительно, выводы болтаются, отформовать нормально очень тяжело. Ну и на закуску - нумерация выводов НЕ СОВПАДАЕТ с фирменной альтеровской. Так что прежде чем рисовать схему я бы вам все-таки советовал попробов
asciilifeform: 'для проектирования используется САПР ф.Altera − MAX+PLUS II или Quartus II' << pfff yea suggests brute force 'crystal, complete with 'when you care enough to steal the very best' easter egg banner' copy.
asciilifeform: the crud builds up, and you get x86-64.
asciilifeform: phf: i am not convinced that cpu arch CAN be improved on incrementally.
asciilifeform: suggests that d00dz have the spec ! somewhere.
asciilifeform: phf: the notion is to build a box with sufficient ram, horse, capacity to drive xterm, so that you can sit down on it and edit the fpga config per se.
