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@PawelK Wait there was that weird Texas Instruments thing too on the OMAP processors. I don't think they used Mali. It was PowerVR. That was a long time ago.

@PawelK They always want to keep their secrets even if they are no longer relevant.

@PawelK I like it somewhat. Old classic hax are making comebacks in a new way. A powerful GPU makes hax easier to carry out.

@PawelK The deeper I go the more I see FPGAs being the solution. Unfortunately I've never had the opportunity to use a FPGA. I keep seeing Xlinix and Altera popping up in electronics. I know what they are capable of and I want to play with them.

They are being used in projects to develop open wifi adapters, open graphics and some other cool areas. The efficiency is getting better and something is going to be needed to deal with acceleration on RISC architectures. One could increase the complexity of the RISC processors but they are better off running the less complicated instructions as fast as possible. An FPGA could effectively be the coprocessor for the more complex logic and run as fast as it can. Two different heat zones and hardware doing what it is best at.

It sounds dumb but one hypersonic missile allegedly uses a RISC design and an FPGA for terrain mapping and following terrain at Mach 5. It might not sound like a big deal but one mile per second of complex readings and controls that are needed IRT puts it far ahead of anything I've ever seen.

This arms race is actually going to be challenging enough to be fun.

@PawelK AMD/RADEON/ATI, Intel and Nvidia.

@igelsQTs There was a Russian proverb that said that a man who smiles without reason is simple minded. I don't smile but I don't hold onto anger. I don't know why people hold onto anger or why Americans are on Fedi.

@igelsQTs It doesn't help to keep such emotions around. Carpe diem.

@igelsQTs Essentially the early relationship between the USA and the Russian Federation.

Updating UEFI on a Thinkpad just feels like it's going to break. It does use TianoCore so that's something cool. It just keeps me updated with compatibility for the latest malware.

@PawelK Ghidra uses Sleigh and Sled so it is somewhat like that but more abstraction. It doesn't need to be fed much information at all about a processor. It's not like any other disassembler or decompiler I've used before. I only needed pcode and cdefs I think to build a custom processor. I followed the NSA material to do most of it.

@lupyuen It's funny how they called them owners. Car as a service.

@lupyuen I have an RFID tag that was used by the military for similar purposes but these were put on personal lockboxes. I can't post a picture of it but they were effective for keeping track of items.

NFC was already being used with some passports. Airlines are the last to adopt any reasonable technology. (They need to handle any personal electronics for security reasons.)

I will never fly on an airliner if there is any other option. I remember when an airliner carried the original SARS to the USA. I remember when COVID-19 came the same way, mutated to be more deadly and returned to the country of origin before anyone realized it.

@lupyuen I'm beginning to think that burnouts are inevitable and even helpful. If one is doing enough work to cause a burnout and the only thing mitigating it is pacing, perhaps there's something that is being missed.

Perhaps one needs to fail to be able to reevaluate what they are facing. It's the paradigm shift that holds the key. How can one truly know what they are capable of without these events? There's also the change in thought that leads to realizations about life outside of work.

It might be devastating for someone that hasn't experienced it before but it is likely a turning point if they don't give up.

I can only speak from my own personal experience when I say these things. I can't say that I've burned out before. I've been hospitalized or needed medical attention when I didn't take the advice of others about burning out. The advice of family, friends, professors, doctors and military brass.

Everyone is different and some, like myself, are too hardheaded to fully understand burnouts. It's not hopeless even for those who are too weak to move much, they still have a hardhead. One doesn't need to question what they will do when they can stand again. Perhaps they approach the problem differently the next time.

@thor Or one does both and has to take electrolyte powder. In the summer heat I will go through around 750ml of water every hour or less. Every other bottle is electrolyte powder.