Getting watched by your parents is far different than getting watched by the government. It's no different than parent watching out of the window on kids playing in backyard
> And then people wonder why authoritarianism is on the rise...
It's on the rise because of utter failure of progressive govt to do what people want them to do. People want country to be more prosperous, not to have bleeding heart activists import immigrants or other leftist bullshit. Authoritarian turn is knee jerk reaction to that beacuse they are only ones promising the country for the citizens of the country. If you want less of that, make left that cares about country's people
Still, at some point you do have to give some privacy to your kids. I know the trend is helicopter parenting but it's not helping the kid to be overprotecting.
NetBurst was supposed to be the application of RISC principles to x86 taken to its extreme (ultra-long pipelines to reduce clock-to-clock delay, highest clock speed possible --- basically reducing work-per-clock and hoping that reduces complexity enough to increase clock speed to compensate.) The ALU was 16 bits, "double pumped" with the carry split between the two, which lead to 32-bit ALU operations that don't carry between the lower and upper halves actually finishing a clock cycle faster than those with a carry.
I don't know if that construction might allow for a more efficient transistor count and it's totally impractical - 1KHz clock speed, 1-bit ALU, etc. - for almost any purpose, but it is technically a RISC-V implementation significantly smaller than 26K
That sounds like a microcoded RISC-V implementation, which can really be done for any ISA at the extreme expense of speed.
If I'm not mistaken, microcode is a thing at least on Intel CPU's, and that is how they patched Spectre, Meltdown and other vulnerabilities – Intel released a microcode update that BIOS applies at the cold start and hot patches the CPU.
Maybe other CPU's have it as well, though I do not have enough information on that.
ARM was never a "speed demon"; it started out as a low power small-area core and clearly had more complexity and thought put into it than MIPS or RISC-V.
When I multibooted Linux, DOS, Windows, and MacOS (Hackintosh) a long time ago, I had a huge FAT32 partition for this purpose as all the OSes could read and write it.
These days, ExFAT should also work for bigger files.
And then people wonder why authoritarianism is on the rise...
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