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Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by dist1ll »

helf wrote: post #57

The fact so much hardware these days is running a full real-time OS all the time annoys me. I know it is normal and understandable but everything is such a black box and it has already caused headaches (looking at you, Intel).

There's this great USENIX talk by Timothy Roscoe [1], which is part of the Enzian Team at ETH Zürich.

It's about the dominant unholistic approach to modern operating system design, which is reflected in the vast number of independent, proprietary, under-documented RTOSes running in tandem on a single system, and eventually leading to uninspiring and lackluster OS research (e.g. Linux monoculture).

I'm guessing that hardware and software industries just don't have well-aligned interests, which unfortunately leaks into OS R&D.

[1] https://youtu.be/36myc8wQhLo

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by lbotos »

dist1ll wrote: post #61
helf wrote: post #57

The fact so much hardware these days is running a full real-time OS all the time annoys me. I know it is normal and understandable but everything is such a black box and it has already caused headaches (looking at you, Intel).

There's this great USENIX talk by Timothy Roscoe [1], which is part of the Enzian Team at ETH Zürich. It's about the dominant unholistic approach to modern operating system design, which is reflected in the vast number of independent, proprietary, under-documented RTOSes running in tandem on a single system, and eventually leading to uninspiring and lackluster OS research (e.g. Linux monoculture). I'm guessing that h…

Also one by Bryan Cantrill recently around the stack of black boxes:

https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-...

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by liuliu »

helf wrote: post #57

The fact so much hardware these days is running a full real-time OS all the time annoys me. I know it is normal and understandable but everything is such a black box and it has already caused headaches (looking at you, Intel).

I don't know. This sounds very computer-sciency-ish. We build smaller tools to help build big things. Now the big things are so good and versatile we can replace our smaller tools with the big things too. With the more powerful tools, we can build even bigger things. It is just compiler bootstrapping happening in hardware world.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by tgcordell »

bitwize wrote: post #60
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #2

Apple should upstream their drivers. Who is Asahi Lina? Is that an actual person?

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I understood deadnaming to generally pertain to gender identity. I don't think it's far-fetched to initially consider Asahi Lina's name as a Pseudonym/Alias/Pen-Name, as many creatives (authors, artists, musicians) have been doing for hundreds of years.

If it is a gender identity decision, I still don't view it as malicious for the OP to ask. The context just isn't there in the blog post to make that clear.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by rychco »

psychphysic wrote: post #18

What an interesting tale. But I feel like an anime character described it to me. I'm totally fine with it (I'm grateful the story is being told at all), but it is surreal tone for technical writing.

I'm actually very happy about the rise of VTubers/live avatars. I imagine that there are a lot of people that would love to interactively share their knowledge/skills on youtube/twitch but avoid doing so because they're not conventionally attractive or just too shy.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by robocat »

nicoburns wrote: post #13
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #2

Apple should upstream their drivers. Who is Asahi Lina? Is that an actual person?

> Apple should upstream their drivers. Apple don't have linux drivers. It would be great if they wrote some, but it's never going to happen. > Who is Asahi Lina? Is that an actual person? The virtual persona of an actual person who has chosen to remain anonymous (hence the name which would be a crazy coincidence otherwise).

While anonymous, they did put in some personal information at 10 minutes into: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LonzMviFCNs

They are Canadian born, currently studying in Japan, so that explains some of the cultural mix.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by amelius »

psychphysic wrote: post #18

What an interesting tale. But I feel like an anime character described it to me. I'm totally fine with it (I'm grateful the story is being told at all), but it is surreal tone for technical writing.

> But I feel like an anime character described it to me.

Mario Brothers would make more sense though. Whoever created this is a plumber par excellence.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by wilsonnb3 »

rychco wrote: post #66
psychphysic wrote: post #18

What an interesting tale. But I feel like an anime character described it to me. I'm totally fine with it (I'm grateful the story is being told at all), but it is surreal tone for technical writing.

I'm actually very happy about the rise of VTubers/live avatars. I imagine that there are a lot of people that would love to interactively share their knowledge/skills on youtube/twitch but avoid doing so because they're not conventionally attractive or just too shy.

> I imagine that there are a lot of people that would love to interactively share their knowledge/skills on youtube/twitch but avoid doing so because they're not conventionally attractive or just too shy.

Couldn't they just not show themselves on camera at all?

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by wilsonnb3 »

wincy wrote: post #36
dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And, sorry for continuing this thread, what is a "vTuber anime persona"?

It’s like a full time filter where the only online identity someone presents is as an anime girl. I think it was popularized by a company called HoloLive that has Japanese girls do this as a full time job? It’s a VERY niche culture thing. Check out the Asahi Lina channel to see what I mean. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LonzMviFCNs

Surprisingly it is not that niche anymore - for example, the hololive subreddit has 800,000 subscribers which is about half of the hockey subreddit.
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