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Wonder if the same thing applies to sea cucumbers or crinoids.

The income is most assuredly not okay in residency, or for that matter, fellowship. Most U.S. residencies and fellowships range from $60-$70K a year, basically the U.S. median income, and on a per hour basis is terrible.

It's interesting they describe the xylitol ones as having less burning. Xylitol tends to have a cooling effect on mucous membranes, so maybe that's why.

ppacman: parallel pacman clear

So does classic PowerPC, SPARC, and many other ISAs. It's the most common way to handle it on RISC. The Power10 prefixed instruction idea just expands on it.

> My understanding is that these are rare

Depends on how many bits you had to start with. On Power ISA they aren't common either, but when they happen you need up to seven instructions (lis, ori, rldicl, oris, ori, then for branches mtctr/b(c)ctr) to specify the new address or larger value. Most other RISCs are similar when full 64-bit values must be specified. This is a significant savings.

Power10 added "prefixed" instructions, which are effectively 64-bit instructions in two 32-bit halves (the nominal instruction size). They are primarily used for larger immediates and branch displacements.

https://www.talospace.com/2021/04/prefixed-instructions-and-...

That's pretty much what this is.

I get that, but if people want choices in architecture, then sometimes economies of scale won't be available for those less-common choices. I'm willing to pay more for a performance-comparable architecture that is more open and less hostile (and, as a bonus, is one I've worked with personally for decades), and I put my money where my mouth is.

Raptor is well aware of their price premium and tried very hard with the Blackbird, though I wanted the expansion power in the Talos II and would have always bought the bigger system first. But they still have to make a profit and I want to support them in it.

I've got one of the Quad G5 Macs too, sitting right next to it (in fact, I upgraded from the Quad directly to the Talos 2).

The Quad is also very quiet in idle, but you have to downclock it in System Preferences to be as silent as the T2 is in normal operation, and even with a well-maintained liquid cooling system the G5's roar at full tilt is loud (it's really loud if it's not). The high speed fans in the T2 are more like a quiet whine than what the G5 generates, let alone the wind tunnel MDD G4 I ran before that. And no LCS!

And the G5 is doing that with four cores and four threads, while the Talos II is doing that with sixteen cores and 64 threads. Now, the Quad G5 also came out in 2005, and I got the T2 in 2018. But thirteen years later I'm happy to say that the noise level is absolutely no worse than any other modern workstation on x86_64.

He meets a rat in that scene (with a nice callback to it in the epilogue), but he shorts out the welding pig to attract service personnel to get him out.

Diamonds is a flawed movie and one of the weirdest Bonds, but it's my favourite because it's so weird.

Yeah, in practical implementations the 32-bit Power condition register is more like eight four-bit ones, and lots of code will run compares in parallel to different fields. It's one of the architecture's notable strengths.

x86 and ARM are well maintained because they're 30-40 years old, but Power (it's not an acronym anymore) is not because it's 35 years old?

I also suspect you're making the typical mistake of confusing PowerPC with modern Power ISA. They overlap strongly and PowerPC was virtually designed to be 64-bit ready from the very beginning, but chips based on the modern ISA are much more sophisticated.

As someone who actually works on ppc64, the biggest two things that bother me about the ISA are the weirdness with r0 and the large number of instructions that must be implemented to be practical on a new design. Those are comparable to the quirks of any other "successful" ISA by your standards. They hardly make it junk.

Price is one thing, but the Talos 2 I'm typing this on is whisper-quiet. I only hear it when the fans spool up during a heavy compute job. Otherwise it's silent except for whatever case fans you choose to have.

(author) Raptor is probably just hosting them on their own cloud platform. My conversations with Raptor indicate it's a different company. I've got an inquiry out to chat with them and it's been passed along.

I see Kantara in your bio. Anything interesting there at the time, other than things like PartBank?

(author) Excellent! A valiant effort. What were the other hangups? Was there any third-party code present?

(author) What did you do at CI Labs? How big was that shop?

For that matter, PA Semi was itself a Power licensee. They were developing the PA6T, which might have been in whatever the next PowerBook would have been. After the purchase, Apple still had to make promises about its availability because it was being used in some military applications even though they would never use the PA6T in one of their own machines. I think the AmigaOne X1000 was the only generally available computer that ever used it.

It's definitely not top of mind for most physicians, no. Even in my hyperspecialized world I need to have a certain level of suspicion, and I've made the diagnosis not infrequently. VF is way underdiagnosed.

It's a disease that we run into in TB control programs in certain areas because it can resemble it on chest X-ray. Most people with it I've encountered did okay with modest or even no treatment, but I had one case who ended up with it chronically and all I could do was suppress it. Trying to control dust and reduce inhalation are right now the best options to prevent it, and everyone acknowledges it's nowhere near enough.

Yes, it can theoretically infect any animal that inhales the arthroconidia (basically its spores), but there has been no documented spread from animals to humans or humans to humans.

And here I thought this was going to be about "Machine Metal Music," which is perversely listenable if you are a fan of tape hiss (no Dolby required). A nice, gauzy snapshot of a tumultuous time.

My Hue lights have never been connected to the Internet, so they'll never have to worry about this. I use my own Perl client: https://www.floodgap.com/software/huepl/

I might not buy another base station again, though, if this gets enforced at that level.

Ah, halon. Fortunately never was around when we had an activation, but I knew other people who kept their running shoes on.

(author) Hey, thanks! I like this watch despite its obvious drawbacks, and Fossil did try hard to make it work despite the form factor and the available technology. I vaguely remember the onHand PC. Seems like a similar setup would work for that too ...

I can see the entrants have really gotten into the spirit of the thing (intentionally or otherwise).

The Wally does have one advantage over the Pismo: it runs Rhapsody the best of any laptop (which is to say merely acceptably). If you're into system archaeology and don't want to allocate an entire desktop to that purpose, the Wally is a good fit. Rhapsody is neat, sort of OS X but where Platinum never died.

I'd figured they were substandard parts to begin with, but it's notable they were already going wrong by then. Still, it seemed that they did a good job when they were new(er), at least. There were many positive reports from schools.

(author) Thanks! Yes, Atari had a lot of irons in the fire back then. I have to give Warner credit for trying.