Taniwha

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by Taniwha 2y ago
This isn't really combining as the result of the first increment is needed by the intermediate compare, but is a rewriting that removes a dependency (or moves it further back in the stream)
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by Taniwha 2y ago
A lot of that is from clouds that are above the panels
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by Taniwha 2y ago
For those who don't know SERV is a serial RISC-V architecture - really small, fits in a Tiny Tapeout tile https://github.com/olofk/serv
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by Taniwha 2y ago
I would add: disable root logins, create exactly one account that can login, require a password for sudo
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Yeah I agree, I solder parts like those in the video by hand (even occasionally BGAs with hot air)
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by Taniwha 2y ago
And yet Intel just cancelled a multi-billon dollar fab upgrade ... https://www.timesofisrael.com/intel-suspends-planned-15-bill... Israeli ports are going bankrupt .... https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/port
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by Taniwha 2y ago
The towers resend the message for a while so that they get through - some guy might be in a plane on approach to Beirut right now his pager coming into range as they land ....
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by Taniwha 2y ago
They were lucky someone wasn't carrying one on a plane
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Israel's economy is already in the toilet due to them becoming an International pariah because of the ongoing genocide - this will just make it worse
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by Taniwha 2y ago
I'm in the same situation, though I design more hardware - I stopped going in most days of the week and avoided those commutes when my son was born, that allowed me to spend more time with him as a toddler. When he started highschool w
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by Taniwha 2y ago
not "silicone" that's something else. They were rolling their own north-bridge-ish chips at the same time for 2FX and later machines (all pre the power PC switch)
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by Taniwha 2y ago
fastish - our B6700 had roughly microsecond core and as a result was ~1MIP
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by Taniwha 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that Apple's internal silicon group rolled their own version, as I recall it came back after they decided to switch to ARM and worked perfectly. Like a lot of Apple projects of the era someone put their heart and s
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by Taniwha 2y ago
The paper asks "why does this feature exist?" - probably they haven't gone far enough back in history (note I've worked on x86 clones I understand this stuff in far too great a detail) Originally on x86 systems memory wa
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Yeah I've been thinking about this problem for a while from the making gates level, I've been thinking that the problem essentially breaks down to a couple of pop counts and a subtract, it's eminently pipelineable
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Vaxes also had hardware support for ASTs in VMS (unlike NT) - they were essentially software interrupts that only triggered when the CPU was in a process context and no enabled interrupts were pending - so you could set a bit in a mask in a
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Probably a more obvious choice at the time we'd just gone through a point where the early releases of the latest memory generation (64k chips) had come with mysterious memory failures - eventually tracked down to natural alpha radiatio
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Yes, I'm at the cut cartoon stage, just choosing glass it's a long thin panel so I needed a design of about the same shape - what I'm building (actually a full adder, I misspoke above) looks a lot like the design on page 5 he
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by Taniwha 2y ago
The simple openlane flow just uses standard cells, but you have the ability to just tape out polygons so curvyish is possible
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by Taniwha 2y ago
(I already have a 4-bit CPU there)
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Probably best to tape it out to https://tinytapeout.com/ first
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by Taniwha 2y ago
I am pakeha and tangata triti .... now I have an idea for the next window (I was thinking about a neuron ...)
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Actually I misspoke, it's a full adder and very similar to the one on page 5 here https://www.cerc.utexas.edu/~jaa/vlsi/lectures/8-1.pdf
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by Taniwha 2y ago
I'm building a stained glass window for our front entrance, as a sometimes chip designer it's going to be a half adder (so much much smaller than a pentium) - the big challenge is showing all the layers (si, implantation, poly, me
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by Taniwha 2y ago
I remember old timer kiwi radio hams telling me (literally) war (WW2) stories of people laying earth return phone lines (ie a single insulated wire with a watered earth stake for a return path at each end) - they were laid along the front i
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by Taniwha 2y ago
having lived thru switching from miles->km you learn a few simple rules of thumb: 100km==60miles 80==50 50==30 It helped that that also covered most of our posted speed limits - the US with its penchant for speed limits ending in 5 would
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by Taniwha 2y ago
My experience with ACC (broken achilles full reconstruction, 3 operations in the private system and physio, 80% salary for time off) has only been positive - I know some people have a different experience but IMHO when it works it works rea
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by Taniwha 2y ago
ACC levies in NZ pay for no-fault accident insurance - it's paid in part by taxpayers, and (for industrial accidents) paid for by employers (companies that employ coal miners pay more than companies that employ programmers). Our public
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by Taniwha 2y ago
I live in NZ - these unions are very much NOT working for employers
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by Taniwha 2y ago
Parts of this reminds me about an issue I had around the same time, I worked on porting A/UX the Unix port for the Mac II, we reportedly got half of the early production run, they came without plastics in cardboard boxes, with schemati

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