------------------------------- Wed Jul 19 06:42:09 PM EDT 2023 ------------------------------- Transcript of Chat box from BLU meeting, Wed, July 19, 2023 Meeting held online via Jitsi Meet In attendance (18 total): Speaker(s): * Shankar Viswanathan BLU officers: * John Abreau * Jerry Feldman Attendees (named): * Arnold Peterson * Brendan Kidwell * Brian DeLacey * Chris Allen * David Mankins * Dick and Jill Miller * Edward Piecewicz * Eric Chadbourne * John "maddog" Hall * Kurt Keville * Tariq Ahmad Attendees (anonymous): * han * Randy C Laptop * rs * VRDude ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Allen says:need to step away for a sec, brb 18:39 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John "maddog" Hall says:The library has air conditioning John "maddog" Hall says:New Hampshire John "maddog" Hall says:The Intrepid Brazilian(TM) is also here 18:54 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Keville says:Phoenix had it's highest low temp for July ever... Kurt Keville says:Good places to fab chips... 18:55 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John "maddog" Hall says:I had an attic fan in my home that was built in the 1960s, It has been there at least since 992 when I bought the house. John "maddog" Hall says:1992 18:56 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shankar Viswanathan says:fabs and datacenters in Arizona baffle me 18:58 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan Kidwell (NYC) says:Phoenix baffles me. don't know why they chose to build a city there. 18:58 Brendan Kidwell (NYC) says:it's a nice city though 18:58 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John "maddog" Hall says:Phoenix rose out of the ashes.... 19:00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shankar Viswanathan says:ha ha 19:00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Allen says:I wonder this week, if the heat exhaust coming from a data center in Phoenix is cooler than the air outside? 19:00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy C Laptop says:I got the Chinese Coronavirus 19:01 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says:You could be right 19:02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:As oposed to the Portugese or Swahili coronavirus? 😛 19:02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arnold Peterson says:my mic and vid is off. 19:04 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says:I just look at the vids 19:04 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy C Laptop says:The mutated version from the Wuhan lab Randy C Laptop says:only 2 day incubation Randy C Laptop says:much lower quality from shankar than before 19:05 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne says:yes 19:05 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says:They engineered the virii just for Randy 19:06 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne says:lol 19:06 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy C Laptop says:Chairman Xi and Dr Fauci customized it 19:07 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne says:holy echo Eric Chadbourne says:muted here 19:07 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy C Laptop says:I remember one conference call and the manager shouting "put it on mute!!" 19:08 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shankar Viswanathan says:can anyone hear me? 19:10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy C Laptop says:no 19:10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shankar Viswanathan says:is there still an echo? 19:10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says:no 19:10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne says:sounds like somebodies fire alarm needs a battery 19:11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy C Laptop says:I've forgotten about memory 19:11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shankar Viswanathan says:don't know what is going on 19:12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Feldman says:JABR's smoke detector needs a battery but he can't reach it. 19:12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shankar Viswanathan says:let me reconnect 19:12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne says:i haven't been to a meeting in ages. so nice to see familiar names 19:13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy C Laptop says:yes 19:13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shankar Viswanathan says:can you hear me now? 19:14 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne says:yes 19:14 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy C Laptop says:yes 19:14 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shankar Viswanathan says:ok 19:14 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy C Laptop says:green means go! 19:15 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne says:i heard him 19:15 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John "maddog" Hall says:I can hear him 19:16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy C Laptop says:I can hear him 19:16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Keville says:I can hear 19:16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John "maddog" Hall says:sounds good...don't change anything 19:17 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy C Laptop says:just use and AI Randy C Laptop says:...an AI 19:17 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan Kidwell (NYC) says:there's essays out there about "person names", "unicode", and "calendars and dates" that everyone should read, too 19:21 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:My favorite format for "person names" is the GEDCOM standard. GEDCOM is short for "Genealogical Data Communications". John Abreau says:A NAME record is of form "Firstname M. /Lastname/ Jr." John Abreau says:Takes care of various different and incompatible naming format internationally and throughout time. 19:28 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Allen says:cccccbbhkdfjcvefthinufrlkcvctkhjeliufdbliduj 19:30 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan Kidwell (NYC) says:tell the cat to have a seat 19:30 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:Is that a Yubi key? John Abreau says:😛 19:30 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Allen says:oops, i accidentally pressed it. that thing has a hair trigger Chris Allen says:cccccbbhkdfjbbidkjtgcgvctbernrivnlltdihccjgk Chris Allen says:see, happened again when trying to remove it 19:31 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John "maddog" Hall says:What type of memory is used for the micro-code of a CISC CPU? John "maddog" Hall says:Am I correct in the idea that if DRAM is not clocked properly the capacitors will discharge even though the power is kept to the memory? John "maddog" Hall says:Static RAM does not have this problem? 20:06 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Mankins says:"SRAM" is expensive --- in terms of chip area (since the fabrication of either is automated)? Maybe power too? David Mankins says:Data in cache line is 64 bits? 20:11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:bytes? not bits? 20:12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John "maddog" Hall says:The DEC Alpha had 128 Bytes of Cache.....one reason why it was so fast. John "maddog" Hall says:Nice talk..I have to leave 20:14 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Mankins says:Also, see "false sharing": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_sharing 20:40 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Piecewicz says:Thank you. 20:40 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Mankins says:Thanks, great talk! 20:41 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Chadbourne says:Thanks 20:42 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy C Laptop says:thank you 20:42 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- meeting ended at Wed Jul 19 08:45:17 PM EDT 2023