I think if you can get into the chemistry just a bit, then the math behind the chemistry, it can be a vehicle. I mean it's the same with programming. Why write code (boring, yuck) when you could play video games? Then the kids see code makes video games. Suddenly you have all these programs with kids making Minecraft mods or whatever. But finding each child's "bomb" would be hard for a teacher to do, especially with a common curriculum
First term was somewhat coy. Second term is "yes we're violating the Constitution/law. What are you gonna do about it? Nothing? Ok cool I'll go do that again" over and over and over
Well I think it’s technically pretty similar to 5G, but it doesn’t use existing 5G towers. It’s this company in Denver that sets up receivers on top of certain buildings and distributes using a line of sight connection. What’s weird is that we plug our modem into the phone jack in the wall
Not my area of expertise though so I could be leaving out info
Edit: Starry is the company, I believe they were just purchased by Verizon
Zynq isn't an operating system? And you seem to be mixing OSs and architectures? Zynqs and I believe Versals contain both ARM (R and A) cores and a microblaze core. They can run bare metal, Linux, an RTOS, or whatever because they're just CPUs.
Yeah “I” wrote the OS too, for the Zynq, or at least significantly extended FreeRTOS. See https://atari-xt.com
Zynq is an FPGA with dual Arm A9 cores, on one of which I run the OS, the other is earmarked for the m68k/030 emulator. There’s a hardware 6502 in fabric which has ANTIC, POKEY, and HDMI output (with audio). The OS includes a compositing window manager which uses shared memory to give each GEM window a retained-mode drawing surface.
You can see it booted up, running the emulator in either of:
It's really not. Zynq-7000 can have 1 or 2 A9 cores, Zynq MPSoC can have 2 or 4 A53 cores. It sounds like what you've done is modified the freertos A9 port. It's abundantly clear that you had LLMs do this, trust me.
- The Zynq MPSoc is the Ultrascale Zynq (released 4 years later), not the plain Zynq. A “good” (7020) plain Zynq board with decent I/O ports costs about £100, the very cheapest Ultrascale boards are twice that with far less expansion ports - to get similar I/O you’ll be up in the 3-4x price bracket at least. They’re very different products, fabricated on different technologies (16nm, not 28nm), with fundamentally different internal architecture (eg: Ultrascale has built-in Ultraram, far better power management, quad A53 + dual R5F vs (max)dual A9, codecs on some, ddr4 support,…)
- This isn’t the first OS I (without the quotes) have written for the Zynq. I wrote the OS for the Apple Vision Pro, quite some time before LLM’s existed, when it was a prototype on my desk, consisting of a Zynq being the boot-up device and architecture controller for a bunch of the fastest and largest FPGAs on the planet interconnected with optical fibre. And this one did not rely on FreeRTOS (or any other OS) for anything.
- I would agree with you that it ought to be blatantly obvious that I’ve used an LLM to help out, the timescale itself should be a dead giveaway. However, the very first comment I got (“How is this supposed to be relevant to the article we're discussing?”) seemed to miss the quotes around the “I”. The signoff comment was more a “get a life” response to the subsequent down-voting haters than anything else. LLMs are just tools, you still need the skills and knowledge to direct them and correct them on anything as significant as a compiler.
- “modified” is carrying significant water… XTOS has shared libraries, dynamic linking, can launch external programs from disk not just compiled-in tasks, has shared memory, CoW pages, page-protection (nx, pid locking), swap, threading, system calls, a posix layer, networking, virtual filesystem support, boot-script support, interactive shells with ptys, and a graphical compositing window manager which outputs 1080p HDMI (ie: with the embedded audio islands, not just DVI over an HDMI interface). But yes, “I” still use FreeRTOS for context switching and interrupt control. It boots far far faster than Linux, which was the point. I wanted a switch-on-and-go appliance-like OS, not a visible boot sequence.
Out of self interest, can you please vindicate a feeling of mine? If a tenant in a carpeted but bottom floor apartment calls at 11pm saying the in-unit laundry room is flooding, what/who would you bring when you go out?
We invented recompression because that's what society expected. I've gotten in slight trouble for simple emails like "hi xyz, can you please send abc? Thanks, jkl". They wanted a good morning, how are you, wish your family well, blah blah blah.
Likewise you can't just apply to a job with your resume, no no, you must write a letter about how you're a good fit. Does anyone care? I have no clue. I've never seen a cover letter from any interview I've conducted. I never got a job that required one (the ones that did rejected me).
This is very classic: when the bar is defined as effort, people will try to find a pole to vault over it. Whether that's lines of code, cover letters, degrees, whatever. It's when you define success as maintainable lines of code that you can win. But that's not explainable to shareholders. Tech debt always has and always will be the hardest thing to communicate.
We pay for Disney+ and Hulu as a combo. It was great because Hulu had a good player, Disney+ had a good library. They've started splitting the two and now I wanted to watch a Disney show I'd missed from my childhood. The Disney+ player just wouldn't go. It would play the opening ad just fine, then nothing. Video preview on the scrub bar (?) would work, but it never played anything but a black screen stuck at 0 seconds.
It's always like this. It's always that the site won't play in HD let alone 4k, it won't let me turn off dumb settings, it won't let me guess 4:3 content without cutting it off... They've really ruined a silver platter. Just play the stupid video. We gave you the money. Just play the video, from your server, on my computer. It's all already pirated and stolen anyway, so I just don't get the point. I can screen share a DVD over discord with friends. Truly infuriating how terrible they've made a dumb video player.
But that was through transfer of data. If you don't transfer data, at best you can do what that one researcher keeps pumping out with like ramping fans up and down. But really you'd need to try. Unless the model has some controllable USB switch, physical network separation should do it. I'll also add that modern network security practice is that data flows one direction only. But ideally you're never bringing untrusted data in. Especially never out
I think if you can get into the chemistry just a bit, then the math behind the chemistry, it can be a vehicle. I mean it's the same with programming. Why write code (boring, yuck) when you could play video games? Then the kids see code makes video games. Suddenly you have all these programs with kids making Minecraft mods or whatever. But finding each child's "bomb" would be hard for a teacher to do, especially with a common curriculum
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