BracketMaster

This is something Im' working on. I'm wondering if other folks would like to learn how to design their own CPU, compiler, or how to write kernel drivers...

I've gotten the basic guts of an IDE working that runs in the browser. 1st version was written in Rust - currently rewriting in pure Elm targeting page loads under 500Kb. I've even got programming FPGAs from browser working in Chrome over WebUSB.

Budget so far has been pretty minimal(less than $2k US) which was enough to stand up twelve servers I got liquidated from a warehouse.

I got the idea for this after working on https://yehowshuaimmanuel.com/posts/sunsetting_fastwave/

Sounds like a viable path. Do you have any university or contacts in mind? Perhaps there is a forum where I can post about this?

WDYM by royal collective?

My guess is its the vocal minority - if I were Elon I wouldn't pay much attention to it.

Although, I also hope Elon isn't biting off more than he can chew. I look forward to actually affordable space flights one day...

I'm trying this one more time... I really want to know what others think about this...

Already posted with no responses before: 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31430932 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31772495

I'm seriously curious to know what people think.

I've only designed a PCB once - but collaboration wasn't really the first issue that came to mind for me. They raised 12M apparently - maybe I'm missing something? Who would use this?? https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/13/browser-based-hardware-des...

I've only designed a PCB once - but collaboration wasn't really the first issue that came to mind for me.

They raised 12M apparently - maybe I'm missing something? Who would use this??

https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/13/browser-based-hardware-des...

hope I don't owe you money - it got flagged - sigh

> However, I'm not convinced that "small government" is the answer. Many of our economic issues are due to the issue of a few megacorporations dominating their industries, but "Small government" advocates are typically OK with letting corporations do as they please as if the Constitution didn't explicitly list the regulation of interstate commerce among the powers delegated to Congress.

All good points. Actually, overall - your answer has a refreshing sense of humor to it. Even as a small gov't advocate, I will concede that we probably need a military given the number of nation that want to blow the U.S. off the map - and yeah, divesting ATT in the 80s and the subsequent 10x drop in phone call prices probably wasn't all that bad either.

But fast forward 20/30 years later, and people use whatsapp, FB, and telegram - I can't help but wonder if monopolies will work themselves out eventually as technology re-invents itself.

Fair, yes mostly anecdotes, although the COVID article had some numbers about how COVID affects black people more and the margins relative to white people. Yes - interpretation. I may have to eat my words that BLM arguments fall apart, if they only fall apart in my interpretation.

But I'm not so convinced that BLM is helping anybody AFAICT.

I'm just now learning about structural racism. Thanks for this.

What are your own experiences, if I may ask? I'm curious.

I should note I'm not entirely against wellfare like programs - but like you pointed out, their current implementation doesn't help much.

I get that sometimes, people just need some cash to get through the day. But how can you make sure your program doesn't train people to be dependent on it?

I wonder if there is a clever optimization hiding to this problem somewhere.

I will concede however that racism did have a negative affect on black culture up to the mid 1900s and we're reaping the fruit today.

But twitter-mobbing and taking to the streets everytime somebody gets shot will never in a million years make real progress. Neither will zoning laws, or wellfare... Etc. These are only patches to the problem.

And as a black person, I'm embarrassed frankly - to have the media always portray black people as victims.

The solutions must come from within each black individual - the resolve to take lemons and make lemonade - which(even with all its faults) is a basic tennet of conservatives. I believe in sending the message to every person that you can make it in life - no matter how tough things get - and like I said before, this is basically the diametric opposite of the liberalism which seems to focus on equalizing outcomes in society rather than empowering people to escape victim mentality.

There are countless stories of people born and raised in abject poverty who are now millionaires... Why do you think I'm running a software Rust/ML consultancy? :P

So here is an interview with a BLM organizer in NY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5XHGo_CTg4

The guy on the show is a respectable character, but he somehow manages to turn every issue into a race issue.

When I say basic statistics, I'm referencing the fact that BLM supporters will talk about issues that affect everybody and magically turn it into a race issue.

I'm not disputing for example that black people are affected more by COVID in the U.S.(https://sph.umich.edu/news/2020posts/covid-19-and-the-dispro...) but systemic racism?? Please...

OK - so the article says that black people tend to work lower income jobs than white Americans(this is true where I live) - so they had more interactions and chances to spread the virus... Fine. How on earth is that caused by racism?

Some will try to say that black people are zoned in poorer school districts and don't get as many oppurtunities. Somewhat true - I'll admit personal experience reflects this.

But, where I went to HS(where sent one black student to harvard a couple years before I graduated), most black students were simple uninterested in academics.

We had 20% asian, 25% black, 35%white, 20% other roughly. I've actually observed this consistently - black people just don't give a crap about trying in school or on the job - and it pains me to say this as a black person. I've observed a few exceptions to the rule. When I was in HS, black people always cared about new shoes, basketball, and hair.

And if you want to pretend that BLM leaders actually care or represent black lives... - https://www.npr.org/2022/04/07/1091487910/blm-leaders-face-q... - https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse... - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/us/black-lives-matter-fra... - https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-based-activist-faces-federa...

And right outside where I grew up, black officials in Atlanta regularly embezzle funds... Our roads are continually rundown and the water runs inconsistently... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasim_Reed#Bribery_charges_and...

Kaseem Reed had a huge cartel - many of which were corrupt black people.

There are obviously many great black people in the city too such as the late John Lewis.

But pretending that black people suffer in modern society because of "systemic racism" is mostly a lie. Yes, black people consistently come last in many metrics behind other people groups, but now it has more to do with black culture and less with racism.

I think the primary issue is a lack of fatherhood in many black communities. It may sound old fashioned, but 60 years ago, there was a 20% fatherlessness rate in the black community - now its more like 60%

Props to all the single moms out there, but two people seem to be better than raising children than just one.

Then there are the social issues...

Racism will always exists - it even exists in various African countries(more as tribalism) - I have relatives in various countries.

After doing research into BLM and watching various debates, BLM's arguments register to me as sensational and consistently seem to fall apart in the face of basic statistics.

With regards to LGBTQ, I had a trans friend who killed himself. He was really miserable and I'm not sure "transitions" are really a good first option - they should be a last resort. Also, he didn't kill himself because he was ostracized. People actually liked him...

I used to be a little softer on abortion, but after watching a video I can't unsee, I just can't swallow that anymore.

Are you in FPGA/finance or FPGA/defense?

This is sort of a braindump - so pardon me... But here goes

There are a number of reasons. I like small gov't. I'm actually not entirely against gov't programs - but having grown up 20 miles outside the hood, wellfare just seems to breed more wellfare.

Also, my parents worked their butts off to get where they are. One of my parents is an immigrant, the other grew up lower middle class. One went to MIT and did quite well.

Growing up and hearing these stories and growing up in strict discipline really instilled the value of hard work and making lemons from lemonade.

Liberal values just seem to want to coddle everybody's issues.

All this talk about hate speech and don't offend somebody else sickens me. If somebody says something racist to me in public, I don't get mad. I'll actually sit down and have a conversation with them to understand why they feel that way.

This is very interesting! I actually tried doing an FPGA related contract for a customer a year ago now.

FPGA engineers are so few and far between these days - and a rather under-appreciated skill...

Yes - this is well known. I'm wondering if anybody has had a "black conservative programmer" sighting I guess - that's all.

Now why am I interested in sightings - IDK...

I also wanted to answer any questions others might have about why I might be a black conservative programmer.

I can comment a bit as a black programmer(as aformentioned). I'm mostly for small government. I think the left simply exploits social issues every four years before election cycles without providing actual solutions.

I think looking to gov't for solutions is a dead end and that in general, the gov't should be much smaller...

IBM also cells POWER9 workstations: https://www.ibm.com/products/power-system-s914/pricing

IBM charges 11k for their 8 core POWER9 CPU alone...

I have a POWER9 system actually - it has a number of shortcomings that make it not so practical as a daily driver. For one, it doesn't go to sleep and draws 27Watt at a minimum. It also has no integrated graphics which means I need an AMD or NVIDIA graphics card which have spotty support at best on POWER...

Not to mentioned it takes anywhere between 90s and 5 minutes to boot. It spends over one minute doing init including things like training DDR4 and PCI-e serdes links.

A repost of a question I posted a little over two years ago. I'm wondering who actually buys IBM POWER9 systems - and does IBM actually net money off POWER9?

My other concern is that their tooling works in the browser which probably means either typescript or js. If they have simulation support, I hope it's not implemented in ts or js...

I know wasm is also a thing now - so maybe they compiled C or Rust to Wasm or something.

Has anybody used FluxAi? Most PCB designs strike me as not so difficult. IMO PCBs get hard when you introduce RF or high speed signaling. I wonder how flux deals with this and if they have support for simulating RF or design rules for laying down SERDES links such as PCI-e for example...

Thanks - there are a number of these actually. I guess my title of "no electron alternatives" should have been "no native alternative to popular electron apps such as slack or discord"

There is jitsi - but it doesn't have a native client.

There's also iced.rs

Basically - I have a full time job, so I need to be convinced that spending another 5 - 8 hours a day on a zoom replacement over the next few months is worth the trouble - or find a way to fund myself to do this.

I'm kind of hoping some people might have some comments or answers or two cents.

While I love the trailblazing Tesla has done for EVs and smart cars, it's moments like these that make me cringe.

Obviously, we don't know right now if the driver was at fault or not - but I'm a capable coder and have some exposure to control theory as well as microcontrollers - and would be more than happy to audit Tesla's firmware.

Even more, I think there's a case to be made here for formal verification and high assurance languages such as SPARK.

It would be nice if you could pass the Tesla codebase to a formal solver and ask the solver "prove that pressing the brake never accelerates", and then have the resulting code and proof be made public.

so this guy was a software engineer and then he became a dentist, and he decided to do everything stallman style, designing all the dental software and hardware himself on Linux from scratch.

He wrote drivers for the xray machines??!!

I say laser because its kinda hard to make narrow beams with traditional waveguides.