AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

@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.

@inference Glad to hear it. Those shots would send students and faculty back home when they got a dose. People walking out mid class with side effects and looking like they were quite ill.

Maybe the vaccine is safer now. I hope you have some time between the next shot and the journey. The second dose is the one that will have the side effects. Perhaps it was because the pharmaceutical companies couldn't be bothered to make sure that a dose wasn't two doses. The US government gave them immunity from being sued so why care right?

@PawelK I think VDHL or Verilog would work better for that kind of work. That code and a beast of an FPGA are going to be the proving grounds for a custom core. The architecture is so flexible that the ISA for the core I worked with was wrong in the memory mapping.

Even the D1 core doesn't make sense as anything but a 4x4 configuration. It just works as a single core. It's absurd. You want the fastest embedded controller? RV64GC quad cores with custom extensions and more cache. It could fetch information faster than an interface could handle without issue.

It's so crazy but power isn't going to be an issue. China used OpenSPARC for accelerators that out performed the Xeon Phis they were using. Then Ali introduced the Xuantie C910 which is RISC-V. SiFive barely out performs it and it sounds like it is a derivative of the C910.

This is what real competition and progress looks like. In two decades the architecture has gone from curiosity to Super Computer applications. This is the power of an open standard. The only thing Intel and AMD have discovered in the same amount of time is how they are going to have to swap over or die off.

Hopefully RISC-V graphics are coming along well because it's time to end the plague of Red, Blue and Green. With 400w cards being estimated, they are coughing up blood. No one will miss them. They can't mine crypto anymore.

@PawelK pcode and two others It's in Sleigh and Sled documentaion along with their build system Skeleton?

Someone had already made the RISC V processors and they used something different than what I had to read in all that documentation. In Mathematics it's called slick but they are based af for simplifying it like that.

It took the complicated part and made it link to smaller portions to build the processor. They made a modular system in a modular system.

I just hope you have an accurate ISA to use. Apparently they change. It is the kind of clarity that a few stiff drinks bring to the surface. I don't remember how many different codes I had to learn and understand to get a working custom processor but I didn't sleep much during that time. Might have been around 48-72 hours of work. That's essentially how that project went.

I've heard that sleep deprivation causes brain damage. It's a wonder how scientists can know a subject so well and not understand how to function socially. Perhaps it's akin to having spare magazines. One can burn through more and still have more than others.

@thendrix Oh no, not my Hellcat!

@igelsQTs I have approximately 7-8% body fat so I give off heat but I don't have much insulation. The weather during the summer is in Red or Black for how long it will take to get heatstroke. It's very humid here so sweat doesn't evaporate well.

It's what the Deep South of the US is known for. Not that hot but humid all the time. When taking voltage measurements I usually see around 70% relative humidity.

The PowerPC Architecture is supposed to be around into the 2030s.

@igelsQTs I usually sleep in 27-30C temps during the Summer and 4-10C in the Winter. I have low body fat but I do like to be somewhat acclimated to the weather I'm in.

@thendrix They end up being Briggs & Stratton 3.5 hp engines.

@thendrix Those look like absolute trash. The Uval carbine looks like the barrel isn't to spec. It looks like it has harmonic problems. The full size barrel versions look like they were attempted to be free floated.

They look incredibly scuffed. The rear optic is just a cheap rail mount. These seriously look like ban era parts kit AKMs made with the wrong parts. It should have been a sign when police weren't being hit in that fine china.

Politicians want to ban them. They might have luminescence as it takes craftsmanship to make trash like that functional.

I've tried another FSF Approved Distribution and it is surprisingly good. The test computer was a 4th gen Intel board with iGPU. Linux-libre did what it could to mitigate and it managed to do well. It's a 4rd Gen Intel CPU and microcode patches don't exist for all the vulnerabilities. 5 are mitigated by Linux-libre, 3 require microcode patches and one is just there. Perhaps there are other exploits but I didn't install this to be secure.

Performance is great and I would definitely recommend this to anyone who wants a FSF distro. It's Guix and I'm enjoying it. It's not like every other distro unless I'm using a terminal. I haven't compiled and tested my usual software for it yet. It feels very solid and mature. I used Trisquel for a few years and I might use Guix for a few years too.

Tl;dr I have been testing a FSF Approved Distribution and it is really cool. Skip their other distros and pick this one. It is one of the few Linux distros that really impressed me.

@inference You still feel okay?