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Not in those terms, but an autobiography is coming, and bits and pieces are being explained. I expect about 10 people to buy the book, as all of the socialists will want it for free. I am negotiating with a publisher as we speak on the terms.

"financial incentives"

This is the most ignorant response I've seen yet. We don't expect monetary gain from publishing a book. We expect our costs to be covered.

This is about the consumer, not the publisher. If we lived in a socialist system, they would still pirate our publications and we will still be in debt over it.

So, there are books out there. I use Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by Hennessy and Patterson. Recent revisions have removed historical information. I understand why they did remove it. I wanted to use Stallings book, but the department had already made arrangements with the publisher.

The biggest problem on why we don't write books is that people don't buy them. They take the PDF and stick it on github. Publishers don't respond to the authors on take down requests, github doesn't care about authors, so why spend the time on publishing a book? We can chase grant money. I'm fortunate enough to not have to chase grant money.

Sure you did. What were they? The only successful transputer was the T414 and it never made it outside academia.

I tell students today that the best way to learn is by studying the mistakes others have already made. Dismissing the solutions they found isn’t being independent or smart; it’s arrogance that sets you up to repeat the same failures.

Sounds like you had a good mentor. Buy them lunch one day.

I see what you did there.

Obviously you missed the sarcasm.

Inmos was a disaster. No application ever shipped on one. EVER. It used a serial bus to resolve the problems that should have never been problems. Clearly you never wrote code for one. Each oslink couldn't reach more than 3 feet. What a disaster that entire architecture was.

"I believe there are two main things holding it back."

He really science’d the heck out of that one. I’m getting tired of seeing opinions dressed up as insight—especially when they’re this detached from how real systems actually work.

I worked on the Cell processor and I can tell you it was a nightmare. It demanded an unrealistic amount of micromanagement and gave developers rope to hang themselves with. There’s a reason it didn’t survive.

What amazes me more is the comment section—full of people waxing nostalgic for architectures they clearly never had to ship stable software on. They forget why we moved on. Modern systems are built with constraints like memory protection, isolation, and stability in mind. You can’t just “flatten address spaces” and ignore the consequences. That’s how you end up with security holes, random crashes, and broken multi-tasking. There's a whole generation of engineers that don't seem to realize why we architected things this way in the first place.

I will take how things are today over how things used to be in a heart beat. I really believe I need to spend 2-weeks requiring students write code on an Amiga, and the programs have to run at the same time. If anyone of them crashes, they all will fail my course. A new found appreciation may flourish.

Yep, transputers failed miserably. I wrote a ton a code for them. Everything had to be solved in a serial bus, which defeated the purpose of the transputer.

Let’s be honest, saying “just fix the page tables” is like telling someone they can fly if they “just rewrite gravity.”

Yes, on Apple Silicon, the hardware supports shared physical memory, and with enough “convincing”, you can rig up a contiguous virtual address space for both the CPU and GPU. Apple’s unified memory architecture makes that possible, but Apple’s APIs and memory managers don’t expose this easily or safely for a reason. You’re messing with MMU-level mappings on a tightly integrated system that treats memory as a first-class citizen of the security model.

I can tell you never programmed on an Amiga.

Please explain how these "worker cores" should operate.

Unified memory doesn't mean unified address space. It frustrates me when no one understands unified memory.

Wait until they get to code generated by AI. All of this Rust code that people are using and sticking in various Linux services. It won't be covered under the GPL. It will flat out be public domain.

Don't you love people make claims and the can't substantiate the claim? They just down vote your comment.

Which company?

Which dot com was that?

Activist investors are a problem. Most recent activist investors have been centered around climate and DEI. Exxon had activist investors try to get on the board. There was a lawsuit over it, I believe it was Arjuna Capital.

Whoever is funding these activist investors, probably a nation/state, is doing it on purpose. Natasha Lamb has to be the dumbest investors to ever live, next to Cathie Wood, IMO. You could invest in an S&P index fund and perform better at 264% for the past 11 years, compared to her 132% realized, and taking far less risk.

I get everyone has their idealistic views of how the world should work, but capitalism dominates every other society, providing better living standards, and security. It is unfortunate we have had leftists in the Democratic party take control of it, and pushing some very strange agendas, that doesn't reflect reality. These strange agendas have been exploited by other nations, like China.

Some activist investors have brought better function management and boards. Carl Icahn is a great example. But he has also brought his fair share of problems.

No, it's not a choice we made as a society. It was a choice the shareholders made. You didn't make that choice, you were not part of it.

This is a terrible opinion piece. Layoffs do work. Cutting hours does not work. I am always amazed how few people understand how a business operates. They think its a community organized event where there is unlimited revenue.

There are a few basic accounting principles employees need to understand. It all revolves around Assets = Liabilities + Owner’s Equity. If you think otherwise, take a "Cost Accounting" course. This is a pure numbers game. Everyone wants to wrap a psycho analysis into something that has ZERO relevancy.

If a company is bleeding revenue, it cannot sustain the overhead of employees. They have to go. Cutting hours does nothing for those on a salary, and those that are hourly, benefit costs are far more expensive than their wage. If a company has stagnant growth, that means leadership has made bad decisions, and things have to change.

Employees feelings don't matter on a Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement. There is not a "Employee's Feelings" column on the ledger. Everyone can be replaced. No one is special, unless you're a majority shareholder.

How? If you enter into a contract with them, it has to be litigated in their tribal court. Who do you think is going to win? The chief sits on the court as the judge and jury.

This code benchmarks mutex contention, not mutex lock performance. If you're locking like this, you should reevaluate your code. Each thread locks and unlocks the mutex for every increment of g_chores. This creates an overhead of acquiring and releasing the mutex frequently (100,000 times per thread). This overhead masks the real performance differences between locking mechanisms because the benchmark is dominated by lock contention rather than actual work. Benchmarks such as this one are useless.

No. It is not. More than 1/3 of the Tor servers are run by US Federal Govt as does other members of the Five Eyes. Israel has a large number as well. Cases are built backwards or in parallel that are from the fruit of the poisonous tree. If you don't know what that term means, look it up.

Use Tor with extreme caution.

He isn't a hydrologist?

RIP.

I enjoyed City of Glass, but Ghost and The Locked Room I found dull. Leviathan was good, it made me curious if he was the Unabomber.

Really? Because this group has not spent a dime on solar, and is funding the protests on Universities. You have fallen for the same Democrat slime ball propaganda.

This same group is under investigation for fraud. It couldn't be because Berkshire Hathaway, one of the largest donors to Democrats, is trying to take over the Texas energy market.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-12/warren-bu...

https://energyandpolicy.org/utility-industry-contributions-p...

Every dime has gone to counties aligned with Democrats. Harris County received the award, and they have steered that money to TEPRI. Electricity is already incredibly inexpensive in Texas compared to other states, why flood Houston with solar panels?

https://tepri.org/

https://www.choosetexaspower.org/electricity-rates/houston/

It couldn't be you want Texans to pay more is it? I mean they pay almost half what California pays.

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration...

https://www.aol.com/news/harris-county-selected-solar-grant-...

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/20...

You have no idea what you're talking about. NONE.

Warren Buffett bought controlling interest in Occidental.

This is power move by Democrats. This has nothing to do with any of what you stated.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/14/buffetts-berkshire-buys-more...

One would think, but Biden is looking at imposing a 30% excise tax on crypto miners. This is directly targeted at Texas, to slow further development and growth in that state. Crypto has been one of the largest drivers for renewable energy in Texas, and now they want to put a dagger in it. Investors are watching closely at putting any money into the grid because of the Biden administration.

If that tax goes into effect, Texas will have far more energy production than it needs, possibly causing an energy-market crash in that state. I don't know, but it almost seems intentional. Texas can consume up to 8900 megawatts in the summer, average around 6500 MW, and crypto operations consuming up to 2500 MW.

There is a lot to think about.

The FTC is upset Amazon executives used Signal. Where do you begin with this?

These are not the net neutrality rules I personally was looking for. They allow a base traffic speed with data caps, and then you buy a la carte for the additional speeds you want. They still allow prioritizing traffic. There is nothing neutral in these new rules.

The rules under Obama were far better, and strangely better under Trump. They have taken the privacy provisions back that were allowed previously. Please read the fine print, and call your congress person, and senator and let them know you demand true net neutrality, and your privacy needs to be protected, with emergency services only having priority above other traffic.

Please read these new rules.

I don't remember if they announced it or not. I've been there a total of 4 times over the past 15 years.

There are these Kiosks where you get Wi-Fi Access. You scan your passport, and it gives you a username and password. It specifically states accessing prohibited internet sites is a crime.

Then you click the link, and Facebook, Twitter, Google, ... are all on the list. They're pretty in your face about it.

There are some odd things though. You can access Steam in some areas, but not in others. Internet Cafe's have signs saying Steam Games allowed, while others don't. Some will say New York Times available.

Leaving the country was much harder than entering now. We missed several flights and were in the Airport for almost 2 days before they allowed us to leave.

This last trip in February, I made the mistake of buying an Unicom SIM card. So get this, I go through US Customs, they point me over to a desk with a curtain, a guy reads my declaration document again, then walks me over to do a door, and opens it. In side is a little waiting area. I sit down, and about 10 minutes later a woman slides the glass window open and asks me for the SIM card. They already knew I had bought it when I arrived. There is no SIM card declaration on the form.

She told me I should probably destroy the phone. I don't think any of us have any idea what is going on.

I won't be returning to China. They have made it very clear they're not interested in Americans investing or visiting.