FullyFunctional

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91.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Good list, but as a european in SV I’ll share my $0.02: I’d distinguish “how SV started” from “why it persists”; there are some excellent histories of the genesis of SV and what perhaps few understand is that it wasn’t an organic accident b
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Delay lines are fascinating, but I don't see why this is easier than core memory; seems like you are trading an electronics problem for a mechanical one. Regardless, at the speeds they are targeting, I think delay lines might be diffi
93.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Alas, it doesn't currently work with Wayland (it's in one of the 294 issues).
94.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
This is a demonstration board for the bigger brother, UE-1. UE-1 will be driven by paper tape, though core memory keeps being discussed. I don't think they are considering delay lines -- might be too challenging/fiddly.
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
This sounds promising and I'll almost certainly be interesting in buying an assembled version. I've been trying for years to grab one of the Asante cards that work with the SE/30, but the only one I saw got snatched up befor
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
The main thing I miss whenever I try yet-another mac-like skin is keybindings that actually work. I have decadeS of muscle memory, so when keyboard binding are different, I instantly bail. Now I understand why that's hard (this is a
97.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Exactly this. It is still unclear if this is even possible to do, which means betting the company (GM and Tesla) on it is irresponsible. Of the current efforts, the only that I have heard very positive things about is Waymo.
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
I too have moaned and ranted about this the problem with installing "modern", dependency heavy apps -- it's to the point where it's borderline anxiety inducing. I take the upvotes as a sign it's widespread. There
99.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Hilariously, it must be read in the context that Linus actually hated the P4 for it's very imbalanced performance.
100.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
In my limited understanding two factors contributed significantly to Alpha failing. Business-wise, DEC and Ken Olesen were stuck in an old minicomputer mentality and wasn't sufficiently able or willing to "let it loose" and l
101.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Exactly, I _don't_ want to micromanage devices so I throw them all into a pool (with defined redundancy) and then I allocate file systems and vdevs (for iSCSI) from that. With btrfs (and bcachefs) I have to manually assign devices to
102.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Thanks, that's good news. Unfortunately it seems bcachefs isn't using pools like ZFS but instead, like btrfs, creates file systems directly on a collection of disks. That's a bummer if true.
103.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
The #1 point of ZFS is protections again bitrot, ie. checksums on all data. Does bcachefs do this?
104.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Netflix (and Youtube? I forget) will push an AV1 stream if you have the support. This was even mentioned in Apple's show yesterday. So the egg is already there and the chicken is slowly coming, thankfully.
105.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
100% this. My work-M2 MBP is barely a few month old, but the keyboard already looks very worn out :( OT: I love my M1 MBA and really hate the new style which seems to cut into my wrists and arms :(
106.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
I'm not conflating anything. Why do you need to burden a language with a C ABI when you can just invoke the language independent mechanism directly?
107.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
I don't use Go, but I had the exact same reaction; C is the source of most of the problems and this is just codifies the use of C. The whole thing has a security by obscurity smell.
108.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
It think it was the other way around. The success of the iPhone (and Android) was a large factor behind the BYD movement.
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Threadripper is as the name implies, purely MT focused. I run simulations that are inherently completely single-threaded and I lean on Geekbench which tend to be a good predictor for me. As far as I can tell, Intel still holds the crown in
110.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Ignoring that the article is just an ad for his store, the thing that shocked me was the Orange Pi 5 Plus which includes "onboard microphone". I would NEVER want an onboard microphone unless it was a device I had far more than av
111.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
The link came (indirectly) from a story about virtual machines https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37867144 which has a lot of good tidbits. It's fair to say that the idea of virtual machines is very old, and probabl
112.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
From the Z spec ( https://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point1/s... ): "In practice the text compression factor is not really very good: for instance, 155000 characters of text squashes into
113.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
The optical communication experiment is a very exciting piggyback, but it's disappointing that the press release is 95% background on the Psyche missing and only a tiny blurb about that experiment. Where are the receivers? How far aw
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Bytecode and the Busicom (2022)(thechipletter.substack.com)
18 points by FullyFunctional 3y ago|3 comments
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Thanks, that was an incredible story and much more detail than I had seen elsewhere. The whole series is a goldmine. Eg. I never knew that the registers in the 4004 were dynamic (ie. a cap + 1 transistor) [1]! [1] https://thech
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
That's of course nonsense as others have pointed out, but I still decry the insane electrical implementation: bidirectional differential[1] pairs. Having instead (like Firewire) a dedicated pair in each direction is so much simpler an
117.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
I don't think the line numbers are as key as you think (as long as switching in and out of the editor is low effort), but the interactive REPL is and the fact that the program state is available can't be overstated as it enables s
118.
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Are you talking about Achronix? Because they certainly did tell me that power was the reason they bailed on their original approach. Space-Time ran hot, but I don’t see why they would be using more flip-flops than with a conventional FPGA.
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
My moles claim they simply couldn't get the software to work.
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
I was a huge fan of the concept (time slicing LUTs). The name "Space-Time" actually made sense. Unfortunately, mapping designs to regular FPGA fabric is already hard and it apparently was too difficult for the Space-Time fabric

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