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sensor networks, embedded systems, space engineering. he/him. CS/EE. Will mentor freely via DMs. Center for Advancing Chronotype Awareness. Unresolved marching band issues.
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...at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then...
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I design software and hardware systems. I've worked on orbital launch vehicles and satellites. I can talk about "space stuff" all day. I design sub-sea ROV systems for fun.
One day hacking on gateware, the next a byte-code interpreter, the next a PCB, the next a Linux kernel driver, etc. I wrote game engines for a time.
I'm recurrently obsessed with artificial general intelligence (Goertzel-like formulations), artificial life, computational behavior (not ML).
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we want to get the first batch of the LS1028A open hardware CPU/RAM module for MNT Reform (or your own projects!) off the ground. you can preorder 8GB and 16GB versions now and will get a refund if we shouldn't reach 70 orders by end of 2022 (this should be doable, right!?).
link: https://shop.mntmn.com/products/mnt-reform-ls1028a-module-preorder
A McNugget number is a positive integer that can be obtained by adding together orders of McDonald's Chicken McNuggets (prior to consuming any) https://mathworld.wolfram.com/McNuggetNumber.html
I recently installed Gitea https://gitea.io/ and was pleasantly surprized. A really nice self-hosted git hub solution.
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Encouraging first power up! (pardon the ugly display photo -- phone camera and monitor did not get along -- zx81+38 is hooked up via a $12 composite->hdmi adapter).
@swetland @trevorflowers FWIW due to the way freecad constructs hexagons (bunch o constraints), this number of features practically made freecad fall on its face. [a panel with a vent I hat cut a few months ago]
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Ok, I now have permission to talk about this project in full and in public. I'm working with Alan Kay to build six replicas* of a Xerox PARC Alto display for use in a museum exhibit**. Visitors will see a real Alto and then walk over to one of the replicas to futz with Smalltalk '78***.
Here's a nice writeup of a different project that rejuvenated an actual Alto.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-restoring-the-legendary-1970s-gui-computer/
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Got a 12 mile trail run in. Set my watch to keep me in Z2 which meant a lot of walking.
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So, you might be asking "Brian, what's with the pile of DIP ICs on your kitchen counter," to which I would say, "well, have you seen this project re-creating a Sinclair ZX81 using discrete chips instead of the ULA? It's pretty cool!"
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=254492
https://github.com/mahjongg2/ZX81plus38
https://revspace.nl/images/9/94/ZX81plus38Rev1%2C8.pdf
Cleaning up the lab a bit and came across this old size test for a phone project. Turns out...
Great minds, amirite?
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It's possible to run Doom inside of Doom https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/07/its-possible-to-run-doom-inside-of-doom/ #Video #FPS #Mod
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I wonder how many kernel patches are like "this other party fork is impossible to merge but they fixed this one thing for which I am including the patch" ... or is that... uncouth?
Turned out there were no locks around the atomic commit so it was only atomic if it page flipping was synchronous. If another commit came in it would clobber the commit obj and/or abandon the completion event. Vendor solution in the unholy fork was to disable async page flipping to a terrible performance hit. But they also actually fixed the bug later. :facepalm:
Well, this seems like a race condition. If I turn up drm.debug in sysfs, no memory gets leaked. Heisenbugs [sigh]
This seems incredible on mainline though. Current theory is ioctl for page flip seems to perhaps be leaking `struct drm_pending_vblank_event` (bleeding kmalloc-64 slabs). Perhaps a missing send_event* ... maybe based on vblank + async combination.
f'realz tho...
# grep drm_atomic_helper_commit /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak | wc -l
51838
- horrorbird
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sensor networks, embedded systems, space engineering. he/him. CS/EE. Will mentor freely via DMs. Center for Advancing Chronotype Awareness. Unresolved marching band issues.
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