Jarkko Sakkinen
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkkoPolkaVM is based on RVI20U64, which is a RISC-V profile lacking machine (M) and supervisor (S). The ALU of RVI20U64 has 47 opcodes in total.
I also noted FENCE and FENCE.I are in the profile. Are they useful for a single core CPU package?
Does this architecture have pmpcfg* registers? It would not make any possible sense to me so I’m only sanity checking here.
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@mairacanal Reminds me last Fall ;-) https://github.com/keystone-enclave/keystone/issues/378
Tons of fun with:
- Incompatible CPU implementations
- Incomplete and ambiguous specification
Tons of fun with:
- Incompatible CPU implementations
- Incomplete and ambiguous specification
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" It’s a paradigm shift for the Linux desktop, crafted in Rust."
OK great it is written in Rust, but what is the paradigm shift? I see windows, icons, a docker and shit.
https://www.both.org/?p=7014
OK great it is written in Rust, but what is the paradigm shift? I see windows, icons, a docker and shit.
https://www.both.org/?p=7014
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The FreeDOS Project
freedosproject@fosstodon.orgHere's a fascinating look at the first IBM PC 5150, from my friend David who wrote the training documentation.
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Paul Chaignon
pchaigno@hachyderm.ioI had missed that AWS discussed how they use #eBPF to implement network policies, optimize TCP performance, and reduce Lambda function cold starts.
Recording: https://youtu.be/pVJHljuz1F0
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@ljs In 21 years of working professionally in software projects from 3D engines to operating systems, I've yet to witness the "we have a shortage of code, please start pushing up the SLOC or hell is breaking loose" situation. I've saved a few projects in the past by deleting tons of useless bad code and rewriting it.
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@ljs Often when someone tells me about how AI making code is so great I usually say that I could switch to Windows fucking Notepad and be as productive as I'm now. My time goes mostly to evaluating code and solving problems ;-) I'm not a SLOC generator as a person. I don't even use auto-complete because it confuses me. I RTFM instead, take things in slow motion and finally get what I'm looking at.
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@ljs Thanks and I know :-) I see no value in AI because I have no use for it.
For blockchains I thought that they are equally bad until I realized that the S3 object storage that I love was based on blockchain but only for B2B rewarding from shared space to the network: https://www.storj.io/. It works great and is not slow. I just pay for use with my credit card reasonable bills. That led me to the conclusion that while tokens as a "cash" does not appeal me at all, I still can reason the advantages in B2B collaboration. Shared space is the "proof of stake" in this scheme, not "proving work" by calculating hashes for no good reason.
Parity works in this area providing the most scalable network of networks so that similar companies could do platforms just like Storj. I can think a number of services with unfair sharing of profits in music streaming, food delivery and similar, so I want to help people doing slavery as a service, and thus this is my way to make a world a better place ;-) I go to compiler and virtualization team for smart contracts so I have a chance to make a real difference here.
Being excited about a random cryptocurrency per se is just ultimate stupidity and a hoax. It's like someone would sell you IP addresses with no Internet existing.
For blockchains I thought that they are equally bad until I realized that the S3 object storage that I love was based on blockchain but only for B2B rewarding from shared space to the network: https://www.storj.io/. It works great and is not slow. I just pay for use with my credit card reasonable bills. That led me to the conclusion that while tokens as a "cash" does not appeal me at all, I still can reason the advantages in B2B collaboration. Shared space is the "proof of stake" in this scheme, not "proving work" by calculating hashes for no good reason.
Parity works in this area providing the most scalable network of networks so that similar companies could do platforms just like Storj. I can think a number of services with unfair sharing of profits in music streaming, food delivery and similar, so I want to help people doing slavery as a service, and thus this is my way to make a world a better place ;-) I go to compiler and virtualization team for smart contracts so I have a chance to make a real difference here.
Being excited about a random cryptocurrency per se is just ultimate stupidity and a hoax. It's like someone would sell you IP addresses with no Internet existing.
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Matthew Garrett
mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
Edited 1 year ago
Microsoft breaking a bunch of dual-boot systems by revoking insecure versions of grub during a standard Windows update is, uh, not great and was not supposed to happen, but it's worth mentioning that systems broken by this were running known insecure bootloaders and anyone running a distro that's actually on top of security updates was unaffected
(Edit to add: I wasn't terribly clear here. It's not the user's fault if their distro fails to deal with this, it's the distro's)
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@ljs Blockchains felt literally like the more conservative choice than AI. We are living strange times bro ;-) It is founded by Gavin Wood who is co-inventor of Ethereum so I thought also that this can't be the worst. And even tad bit crazy blockchain scene is still flesh and bones humans working together doing stuff that they enjoy. I'd pick any day nutcases over AI ;-)
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@ljs Good to hear!
I got a job too from London actually.
I was also considering offer from this huge GPU/GPGPU/AI company dominating the market that you've probably never heard of but I thought that maybe that is not my passion in the end... Just did not feel it.
I had four interviews to Parity Technologies and I liked everyone I talked to, passed their tests so since it felt good I agreed to make a contract 🙂 Can work remotely of course but I'd predict that there is good chance to be able to visit London sooner or later. Can't wait to get Starbucks country mug to my ever growing collection!
I got a job too from London actually.
I was also considering offer from this huge GPU/GPGPU/AI company dominating the market that you've probably never heard of but I thought that maybe that is not my passion in the end... Just did not feel it.
I had four interviews to Parity Technologies and I liked everyone I talked to, passed their tests so since it felt good I agreed to make a contract 🙂 Can work remotely of course but I'd predict that there is good chance to be able to visit London sooner or later. Can't wait to get Starbucks country mug to my ever growing collection!
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@raggi Thanks for the comment!
I'm a bit concerned about code generation but obviously my concerns might not have as much as weight as I think they do now :-) [never mind to get things wrong, that's why I say a lot of stupid things on Internet so that I continue learning]
C or and Rust without async is for me like that if I look at a patch, i.e. just the diff I can get idea the structure of generated assembly code, as long as I know also the CPU architecture and calling convention reasonably well. For me code with async is not as predictable because vast amount of code generation but maybe with more practice and disassembling such changes that radar would improve over time 🙂
I have to say that best learning exercise using Rust was to write an executor. Took like couple of afternoons to get it working and learned how Future, Pin and other traits play in that game. If I had not done the exercise, I would be still hitting my head against the wall on that topic. That and grasping std::marker::PhantomData can get one far with Rust 🙂
I'm a bit concerned about code generation but obviously my concerns might not have as much as weight as I think they do now :-) [never mind to get things wrong, that's why I say a lot of stupid things on Internet so that I continue learning]
C or and Rust without async is for me like that if I look at a patch, i.e. just the diff I can get idea the structure of generated assembly code, as long as I know also the CPU architecture and calling convention reasonably well. For me code with async is not as predictable because vast amount of code generation but maybe with more practice and disassembling such changes that radar would improve over time 🙂
I have to say that best learning exercise using Rust was to write an executor. Took like couple of afternoons to get it working and learned how Future, Pin and other traits play in that game. If I had not done the exercise, I would be still hitting my head against the wall on that topic. That and grasping std::marker::PhantomData can get one far with Rust 🙂
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