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Agreed. Was gonna post this if it wasn't up already. After this, The Birth and Death of Javascript: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... He could've taken the concept further tho. I think there are real hardware simplifications you could do if the OS is a jitting VM - no memory mapping unit and take out the expensive fully-associative TLBs.
this is quite outdated
Rich Hickey "Simple Made Easy" https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
After lots of talks I started going to the library and found out it's a lot more effective to grow knowledge. Maybe I'm too ADHD-able when watching videos.
Learning to skim text quickly for what I need is probably the single most important skill I possess.
Not quite as low-level as some of the other talks, but I love watching LazyGameReviews "Tech Tales" series when ever a new one comes out It's fairly high level, but he really burrows into computer history and it's simply fascinating to watch, helped by the fact the person is extremely passionate about what he does https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB1vrRFJI1Q&list=PLbBZM9aUMs...
On that note you may also like Techmoan - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN2yCnHTG_6qxmv_pdBxW... , The 8 Bit Guy - https://www.youtube.com/user/adric22 and Gaming Historian - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbvPS_rXp4PC21PG2k1UVg
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It's like a tech talk combined with a stand-up comedy, two-in-one.
That's Bryan's talks in a nutshell. And it is glorious. Standout moments from his talks: -"The Lawnmower" -"Nazis in Oracle Allegory" -"AWK" -"Architectural Review Board (Keep your compiler people in little boxes)" -"madvise MADV_DONTNEED writes lazily to disk?" -"A piece of on-the-fly software engineering (or: you're f*ked)" Also, from Brendan Gregg's lighning talk in 2013: -"SO LET's JUST CUT THEM OFF!" -"Their rep…
It completely changed my perspective on how design shapes our world.
Explains a lot of recent mass-market innovations that keep the semiconductor manufacturing industry rolling, and goes into detail about the many tricks used to ensure scaling down to the 22nm node.