[conspire] James Mickens - The Slow Winter

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Dire Red (deirdre at deirdre.net):

> All,
> 
> I was talking about this piece last night, and so I thought I’d post
> it to the mailing list.
> 
> It’s essentially a story about early chip design vs. the problems of
> the recent past in chip design, put into a father/son narrative about
> popular culture.
> 
> https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf
> 
> The opening paragraph:

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And, if that doesn't make you want to read the rest of it, you have no
poetry in your soul.