BracketMaster

Well first impression, I just navigated to the page in Safari on my MBP 2015 i7 2.2GHz and scrolling was incredibly slow...

This could be a Safari thing, as things are pretty smooth in edge for Mac.

Apple really messed up with the keyboard. I've heavily considered going completely Linux - I just can't give up the MBP touchpad or battery life. Second to none...

So I've been programming since I was 7 and used dual boot until I was 15. At 15, I switched to WSL when it came out, and then when I was 19 I bought a Mac.

Mac hands down is just better for programming. Especially with its fantastic touchpad support in my mind. WSL has some file system quirkiness that comes up every once in a while.

Other than that, it's passable. The Mac Finder file browser is super advanced and I use its column mode regularly. On top of that, dragging the current finder folder to terminal changes me into that folder in terminal. Mac is full of tricks like that which can be mapped to keyboard shortcuts. At the end of the day, being the power user that I am, these things matter.

I mainly do RTL, kernel, and some webdev if that matters.

Super fascinating!! Verification is SUPER important I think. I actually wrote an FOSS end-to-end TensorFlow CNN accelerator that can be synthesized for FPGAs using completely FOSS tools.

I'm working on adding formal verification to it. I used FOSS tools such as Yosys and NextPNR, made possible by FOSS hackers who reverse engineered different FPGAs.

I hope to release the full codebase at the end of this summer. https://bracketmaster.github.io/MAERI-RTL/

I also started a company working on a completely FOSS CPU+GPU using similar approaches. https://systemeslibres.org

Everything is fine for me fortunately. The football hall of fame was really hit hard, and the CNN center took some damage from burns.

I really don't understand. ATL is the home of MLK(his house is open to walk-in). There is a sizable appreciation for the black community in Atlanta.

I am aware that part of the black community in Atlanta, especially black business owners don't identify with CNN. But clearly, it wasn't black business owners burning down CNN.

There is another side to the equation. Stone Mountain is also next to Atlanta. Stone Mountain is where the Ku-Klux-Klan(the organization at the heart of racism in the south) was reborn in 1915.

Fortunately, I work in software, so not much has impacted my job security :). In fact, I usually spent most of my day in front of a computer writing software, so not much has changed.

LOL. I kinda hope so.

Well, my friend has a Pinebook Pro. He's capable of writing drivers himself and designing MOBOs for CPUs. He's actually designed a CPU and written a compiler for it.

Being able to get to the core of the system matters very much to him - being able to trust his hardware. Releasing MOBO files strengthens that trust. In addition, he can repair the MOBO himself if need be.

I suppose me and my friend represent a minority of users though.

This is an ARM laptop. Since it isn't intel, that means you can have access to the MOBO schematics as well as the processor data sheet.

This means that the average person can design a computer around the processor without paying a couple million to intel in NDA agreements.

This is a being deal for the FOSS hardware community - I myself am actually working on a project to make an open processor with a GPU. https://systemeslibres.org

I'm actually near Atlanta where some of the looting is. I'm mixed and partly AA, can't say I particularly approve of the violence given how dangerous and destructive it is.

Of course, what originally happened in Minneapolis is not excusable either.

Ah, quite possible - I had not noticed this.

Yeah strange - couldn't find any dates...

Ooh - definitely should go through with that. Also, I'm doing a pilot show interviewing some Tech moguls local to Atlanta. There's a diverse group I'm interviewing from wealthy entrepreneurs to notable employees of bell labs, to people who hold an insane amount of patents. I think you could definitely fit in there somewhere.

Keep on, however, and soon I'm sure you will be the longest serving.

Where do you work now? And also, I've heard that at Google for example, there is prejudice against older programmers? Have you experienced anything like that?

This is pretty cool. Definitely worth documenting I think.

Saw that a year back. Thanks ATT for preserving this.

I feel like this has been tried before. The first GPU@5GFLOPs isn't very good performance, but its a move in the right direction for FOSS hardware.

This truly is amazing.

I've noticed that GPU does help a lot with inference. It would be nice if it were easier to make projects like these mobile.

Google and Apple have SDKs for running nets on phones, but its a shame its so hard to do things like this on the Raspberry pi...

Interesting read and makes sense. Defining an unambiguous language is hard.

The full C grammar isn't very long, however, handling cases such as undefined behaviors between types seems to cause trouble.

Once upon a time, C was the new language in town...

Seems it was also discussed earlier on HackerNews about how POWER9 isn't unreasonably expensive - but couldn't seem to glean who are the real server customers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15859307

Don't get me wrong, I love IBM POWER and am currently contributing to the LibreSOC/LibreGPU

https://libre-riscv.org/shakti/m_class/

project, but what is the real market for POWER besides niche military use?

Who are POWER9 server customers for example? Seems a bit more expensive than competing Xeon.