I can't see how it would have been better with a 6502. The 8080 family had multiple clock cycles per instruction cycle, thus if you are hooking up a scope and watching, there is more going on to see, and if you grok what's happens at each clock transition, you will have learned more about timing and the internal propagation of signals through stages of logic gates. It's somewhat similar to CISC vs RISC, both may be elegant designs, but understanding more complexity is a greater intellectual puzzle and the 8085 had more microcode.
"you have to live in a tall building to see which are the other tall buildings" -- a wise man once said
this is one of those "if you have to ask, you won't understand" situations. jwz is a genius, as insightful as you find him unciteful, and with a lot of relevant experience to support his worldviews. He's not for everybody, but true genius frequently goes unrecognized.
Well, I too confuse the words Baltics and Balkans while trying to recall one or the other, but on the basis of their sound, nothing to do with geopolitics, so I can easily see confusing Macestonia and Esdonia in memory also based on sound, rather than category confusion. It's not like Estonian teens wouldn't be capable of setting up a money making scam site, or any other type of teens for that matter.
your idea has an interesting parallel in econ/finance: trading on inside information (misnomer: insider trading) has the economic effect of moving the prices of securities in the direction they're supposed to go, which is a public good. Stock markets are meant to "crowd source" a price which accurately predicts the future value, and illegal trades by insiders do that precisely, move the price of the security toward its new equilibrium.
If you hold the market portfolio (i.e. invest in a broadly diversified market index ETF, as you in most cases "should") this impacts you by helping you more accurately assess your current postion and make more knowledgeable trades like "sell some now and buy a house" or "retire". Before you object to that, remember these effects occur on margin (econ, not finance)
The fact that this got published when the work was already searchable verbatim on the internet tells me that the review process was virtually nonexistent. Searching prior work is pretty much the first thing I do as a reviewer.
what you are saying may be correct, but you are "overloading" the term "order of evaluation" to encompass atomicity (atomicity of operations like i++); is that kosher?
Indeed I am. What I want to convey is, between 2 sequence points, C is actually non-strict. Any effect is like unsafeInterleaveIO from Haskell. Which is why I rarely mix up effects together or with a computation in a single instruction.
just to clarify the wording of your essentially correct supposition, the radio signal emanated from across the street "completely external to the device", but when this signal encountered the device, the device resonated (like an opera singer breaking a glass across a room, or even like your eardrum vibrating while listening, except EMF waves not sound) and the listeners across the street could detect the signal from this modulated resonance... so ultimately, not "completely external" to the device.
this type or degree of "vibrating resonance" is passive "signal electronics" rather than the active power electronics inside RFID, which uses a stronger signal resonance to generate power to power up an active broadcast and computing circuit.
it's not entirely unlike bouncing a laser off the outside of a window to detect the conversation inside, though that higher tech and frequencies means the system does not need to be tuned to a resonant frequency.
Does anybody know, does Peter Thiel get any of the "credit" for helping this to happen, i.e. since it's the same attorney, was it part of his same funding effort? If so, it would be somewhat hilarious--"Thiel supports claim that email was invented in 1982"--but more seriously points up more clearly that big money supporting lawsuits for revenge is not always as "civic minded" as the clear privacy issues of the Bollea case.
