FullyFunctional

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by FullyFunctional 6mo ago
Ollama made it trivial for me to use claude code on my 48GB MacMini M4P with any model, including the Qwen3.5…nvfp4 which was so far the best I’ve tried. Once Ollama has a Mac friendly version of Gemma4 I’ll jump right on board (and do edu
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by FullyFunctional 6mo ago
absolute n00b here is very confused about the many variations; it looks like the Mac optimized MX versions aren’t available in Ollama yet (I mostly use claude code with this)
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by FullyFunctional 7mo ago
Thanks :) I’ll try to remember
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by FullyFunctional 7mo ago
> AV1 on RK3576, which has very preliminary support This peaked my interest, but I have no idea which device might have a RK3576
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by FullyFunctional 10mo ago
Backwards. The incompetent Transmeta board picked a VP from NVIDIA to be the CEO and his first action was to kill the IBM contract and move to TSMC, and forced TSMC to use a new unqualified process. This left us without chips to sell for
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by FullyFunctional 10mo ago
The Dynamo project was the genesis of a similar effort at Sun Microsystems which was the genesis of Transmeta Corp (all founders came from Sun). The question remains if the original study was flawed or if the situation was just too differe
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by FullyFunctional 11mo ago
I wrote an entire graphical Go-game tree based editor in Lisp, with a stylus on PalmPilot. I considered it an artistic expression.
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by FullyFunctional 11mo ago
As I hate tapping on glass, mistyping non-stop, I’m always evaluating options. This is an awesome project and a great write up, but we want more! :) Please consider published a video so we might see it in action (also showing the build pr
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by FullyFunctional 11mo ago
Twiddler really isn’t the same product at all
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by FullyFunctional 11mo ago
Yes, but this is way beyond that IMO. Really lovely project that I of course must build
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by FullyFunctional 1y ago
Back then it was extremely rare for me to play anything more than a few minutes but Syndicate was fun, not too hard, and I remember finishing it. I was recently feature on a retro gaming YT channel which I suppose is why it’s here.
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by FullyFunctional 1y ago
I haven’t tried it, but it claims to compress better than zstd which is a bold claim. The perf claims are meaningless without citing the exact benchmark platform details.
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by FullyFunctional 1y ago
Completely false. The 4 KiB page size came from a machine with a total of 512 KiB (1962 Atlas, 3072B pages, 96k 48b words). It hasn’t scaled at all for inertia reasons and it has real and measurable costs. 64 KiB would have been the bett
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by FullyFunctional 1y ago
Or some combination of the two. Obviously sounds expensive but 20 years ago this would have been fiction. I think it’s entirely likely that energy storage and production will continue to fall enough in price to make this realistic.
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by FullyFunctional 1y ago
why is that funny? I’ve done exactly this (in a processional setting): c2rust to get something functional and then incrementally rewrote the code while producing unit tests (approval tests via insta are particularly handy). The end result
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by FullyFunctional 1y ago
I vaguely remember the NEWS workstation at the time, but it was seen as weirdly different and it wasn’t that cheap compared to the competition. Also, loads of companies came out with diskless terminals — is there any evidence that Sony w
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by FullyFunctional 1y ago
Hmmm, I still don’t understand why I would care. Andy’s videos show a UI that is geektastic, as in, I could probably work with this but my non-technical peers couldn’t be bothered with anything more complicated than WhatsApp or Signal.
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by FullyFunctional 1y ago
That’s pretty neat. I’ve always been in two minds about J/APL but at least now I can read the semantics in a precise manner.
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by FullyFunctional 1y ago
Thanks. I'm curious about the internal representation. Is Turboshaft using literal SSA names for sources and destinations, or are destination implicit somehow?
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by FullyFunctional 2y ago
Thanks, finally a signal in this thread of noise. I found it unbelievable that all media presented it as if it was his decision. Of course it wasn't. I "predicted" this three months ago (really, it was inevitable), but gave
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by FullyFunctional 2y ago
The floppy drive in the Itanium I owned used the IDE interface. Go figure.
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by FullyFunctional 2y ago
That's not even true as you can get lots of exceptions for the same instruction. For example a load can all of these and more (but only one will be reported at a time): instruction fetch page fault, load misaligned, and load page faul
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by FullyFunctional 2y ago
Example: this is a small program int main() { for(;;); }
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by FullyFunctional 2y ago
That was my first introduction to C and I hacked a lot on that code. A very enjoyable time was had. My only regret with Rust is that a “Small Rust Compiler” will be an order of magnitude larger.
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by FullyFunctional 2y ago
I have 40 years of C muscle memory and it took me many tries and a real investment to get into Rust, but I don’t do any C anymore (even for maintenance- I’d rather rewrite it in Rust first). Rust isn’t in a difference class from C, it’s a d
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by FullyFunctional 2y ago
I didn't read the whole thing, but the author briefly mentions VFIO which would have given him access to interrupts so it would have been possible (but for flat-out performance, polling is the only thing fast enough). I wrote a small N
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by FullyFunctional 2y ago
These features keeps me solidly with ZFS (since a decade): 0. Cross-platform (I use ZFS on Linux, FreeBSD, and [previously] macOS). 1. Pervasive check-summing/scrubbing, protection from silent bitrot 2. Low-cost COW snapshots (which ca
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by FullyFunctional 2y ago
There is a lot of stuff behind the scene you don't know. You statement about "other companies" is completely wrong.
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by FullyFunctional 2y ago
The expansion of a 16-bit C insn to 32-bit isn't the problem. That part is trivial. The problem (and it is significant) is for a highly speculative superscalar machine that fetches 16+ instructions at a time but cannot tell the bound
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by FullyFunctional 2y ago
Due to speculative out-of-order execution, it's not just "a few cycles". The LSU has a hard, small, limit on the number of outstanding loads and stores (usually separate limits, on the order of 8-32) and once you fill that,

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