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I think the subsequent level is 'Distinguished Engineer.' That's terminal AFAIK. Maybe they'll need a 'Sr DE' someday?

This is great to see. Google has role-modeled open source hardware/silicon with efforts like https://opentitan.org/ and https://developers.google.com/silicon in the past, too. I wo…

"History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes" - Mark Twain https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/mylifebits/

Very interesting. It sounds like tuning at the PTX level can increase workload efficiencies, such as quote "Specifically, we employ customized PTX (Parallel Thread Execution) instr…

Intel does have https://www.clearlinux.org/

+1, especially the 'Grand Inquisitor' portion. And a close 2nd would be Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment.'

This article is a nice addition to the community since rarely is a complete rewrite of a firmware corpus possible. Speaking of Rust and host or boot firmware, the recently publishe…

This is a good read. Dr. Blaise Agüera y Arcas was a keynote speaker at https://attend.ieee.org/newera/program/ here in Seattle a week ago but he didn't really get a chance to delv…

"Universal" is also a term that doesn't typically engender happiness in technologists.

In Ocaml, interesting. I was similarly surprised when I learned that the firs Rust compiler was written in Ocaml, too https://users.rust-lang.org/t/understanding-how-the-rust-com..…

This reminds me of the saying https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/success_has_many_fathers,_fai... that I’ve seen often played out in big companies, too.

There is still support for CSM in the open source https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Compat... and even nice projects like https://github.com/coreboot/seabiosto …

Fascinating work. The ARC std https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(specification) was used to boot the Dec Alpha Windows machines, along w/ MIPS, etc. Anyone know of other open sourc…

Seems to be a trend including work like https://www.linuxboot.org/ .

I recall trying to debug a crash in QNX during the mid-90's. I was impressed by the svelte OS that could load from a 3.5" floppy. The failure scenario was coincident with one of my…

Weaponizing data for ads and https://nypost.com/2024/06/06/business/costco-to-stop-sellin... . Feels about right for our post modern world.

Some interesting links on topic at bottom of https://www.rioslab.org/2023/04/14/open-source-hardware-ip-r...

Reminds me of article https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/17/what-happens-when-hy...

RISC-V has defined support. See "3.4 The RV128I Base ISA" https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.p... . You can find an emulator "RISC-V system emulator support…

An interesting example of that flocking from some tech talent in the Pacific Northwest https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/omniva-stealth-st...

Maybe baremetal BSD 4.4? That's the codebase for the Unix personality layer of OSX (which is Mach as ukernel + a Unix layer on top). Or FreeBSD like Netflix uses for their first-pa…