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@tibike
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Recently somebody said “I liked hacui in this”, but I forgot who that was…
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@solanaceae @dean I think google must have added me to the list of idiots for asking “potato hardness on mohs scale” and “what is harder talc or potato”
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@NeppyBot
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Eleven rules for a nice cup of tea by George Orwell
http://www.booksatoz.com/witsend/tea/orwell.htm
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@kro @lain
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@GassedUpOldMan
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Each time I read @GassedUpOldMan’s namae, I remember this.
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Fediverse guys made a band @ioi
Listen to their first track: https://music.pawoo.net/@ioi/16542893
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@roka
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@lain I should probably explain, how Soviet engineers happened to be involved.
Years before the USSR collapse engineers were working a new generation of Эльбрус (Elbrus) processors. It was a family heavily aimed at Soviet supercomputers, so it was initially meant to be used in packs (think of SMT and HT, but 40 years ago).
When SHTF Intel Jews poached the core of the engineering team into Silicon Valley – and they didn’t have to offer some mountains of gold to seduce a hungry Soviet engineer. Intel was developing a new “to-be-x64” platform with HP, and they presumably thought, that “if we breed top of Soviet multiprocessor engineering with our money, we will definitely get a killer on the market”.
Alas, what’s good for a Russian stomach is death to a German one. AMD issued a 64-bit processor, that had backward compatibility with x86 and it killed Itanium.
Itanium wasn’t a bad processor per se, it’s just the features it had weren’t in demand. It was never meant as a successor to x86 – it was a crossbreed of Soviet Эльбрус with Intel/HP drafts. It had initially small chance to shift the monopoly of companies producing processors for supercomputers in the US. Indirectly it has pushed the Russian CPU industry into stagnation.
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The story was told to me by an old man. After graduation I worked on a former Soviet factory – now a company – related to the space industry. It went through some suffering in the 90’s, but maintained its core of people and the buildings well. When we stayed late at work, sometimes this old man shared some stories from his past.
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