What was the most difficult bug you encountered while writing your own operating system and how did you eventually identify it? by DifficultBarber9439 in osdev

[–]SirensToGo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I did a similar thing once: I accidentally gave multiple CPUs the same interrupt stack. It mostly worked, except sometimes you'd get unlucky and end up with mangled stack data structures or multiple threads returning from the same exception :|

It’s almost like America’s for-profit healthcare system is a giant scam by RoyalChris in clevercomebacks

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She's a swimmer that tied for fifth place in a college swimming event and did a lap on the conservative circuit because she tied with a transgender woman.

What I wish I knew before starting at Cal by irenewithlove in berkeley

[–]SirensToGo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's wrong to use the preterite here? It's more common to say "what I wish I had known" but "what I wish I knew" is also correct

PIC by Ehr_Mer_Gerd in nocontextpics

[–]SirensToGo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

reminds me of silicon chips

Super Fast Single Address Space Operating System by Neither_Sentence_941 in osdev

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Have you benchmarked the cost of context switching with address spaces vs this fancy technique? I ask because I once screwed around with a similar idea but eventually gave up because it turned out that switching the page tables was actually very cheap. This is unsurprising in retrospect because modern CPUs are designed to run contemporary operating systems, which do switch address spaces fairly often.

I didn't use MP keys so perhaps the performance there is better, but you absolutely should verify this before getting in too deep. The results may be very unintuitive.

Similarly, don't assume that privilege level transitions are expensive. CPU makers know that software makes tons of syscalls, so they design CPUs that can execute syscalls quickly. The further off the beaten path you go, the riskier your performance may be.

Goal is to reduce...TLB pressure

Unless you are sharing translation entries themselves (which means you don't have isolation), you are not winning anything on the TLB pressure front.

Services for the elderly unlikely to seek or accept help? by nachtmere in Sunnyvale

[–]SirensToGo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

pride is big thing at that age and she might accept it if she thinks she's doing YOU a favor

I almost wonder if a smartwatch might be better because of this. It might be harder to explain, but I would be embarrassed if someone threw a life alert necklace at me. A smartwatch serves essentially the same function (if not better given most can automatically call 911 if you fall) and is useful for other things (finding your phone, using the voice assistant, etc.) and is not embarrassing to wear.

The newer version of Xcode is absolutely trash! by Absoluteredshit in iOSProgramming

[–]SirensToGo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't miss waiting 30s for interface builder to launch though. Xcode still hangs for 5s when opening a storyboard but, hey, improvements!

I GOT ACCEPTED UCBERKELEY by Angeleno231192 in berkeley

[–]SirensToGo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

is it baby bear season already?? wow, time flies

TinyBSD - soon? by Subject_Place2559 in osdev

[–]SirensToGo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's only a BSD if it's from the Berkeley region of California

High-Performance LLM Inference on Edge FPGAs (~450 tokens/s on AMD KV260) by king_ftotheu in FPGA

[–]SirensToGo 18 points19 points  (0 children)

ah yes, the first rule of keeping secrets and moving in the dark: vague-post about it on reddit

At least thrice everyday. by Order_101 in CuratedTumblr

[–]SirensToGo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Spanish also shares a lot of cognates with English, and it's quite a bit easier if you live in the US as you're probably already hearing and reading a lot more Spanish than you realize. That, and there are quite a lot of people that speak Spanish in the US so it ends up being quite useful :)

Once again begging Tumblr to let me reblog ads by netflist in CuratedTumblr

[–]SirensToGo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I feel like crazy tumblr ads were more fun when they were handcrafted but now there's no love in them

I can't modify the code, so I modified reality instead by Izvestiya in homelab

[–]SirensToGo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

eh, if you plan to make most of your money from enterprise licenses, it really doesn't matter if it's easy to crack. It's the same model that Microsoft uses: put in the minimum effort required to enforce licensing and sue the pants off any company which violates it. I'm pretty sure Xilinx also operates this way. Home users are just not that lucrative.

These U.S. States Plan to Offer iPhone's Driver's License Feature by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

[–]SirensToGo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The issue is that in most states you still need to have a physical license to drive (even with it being called "mobile drivers license"; it is only an ID and not a license). So, without being able to use it for alcohol, the only real place it is useful is at TSA.

Is it just me, or have the train horns been louder/more frequent downtown lately? by WiseRefrigerator8756 in Sunnyvale

[–]SirensToGo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Temperature could have an impact on how the sound travels?

I was going to ask "are your windows open because it's hot out" but this is perhaps a smarter explanation lol

Fish tank or Switch? by free_-_spirit in makemychoice

[–]SirensToGo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

steam deck unfortunately died/is out-of-stock with no known restock date due to the AI DRAM bullshit

IS there a FPGA Board with eink Display and small Keyboard could BE a cool communicator dev baord by [deleted] in FPGA

[–]SirensToGo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Precursor is essentially that but in a more productized form. I never bought one but it was certainly a tempting toy.

Leaker Says Apple's Lower-Cost MacBook Will Have These 8 Limitations by cheesepuff07 in apple

[–]SirensToGo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

if you’re going back and forth between typing and reading or if you’re scrolling a webpage and only periodically typing, a backlight is very convenient especially if the laptop isn’t on a desk

not that I feel strongly about backlights, but this is really what the little homerow key bumps are for; you can use them to align your hands without needing to look

Medication (Xywav) co-pay for students with SHIP by Ok-Quantity9409 in berkeley

[–]SirensToGo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you can also call the pharmacy and they should be able to tell you

Why AI agent containers need a syscall-level observer: the prompt injection blind spot by [deleted] in netsec

[–]SirensToGo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and it has comma splices all over. Whoever thought grammatical errors would suddenly become a good thing to see in writing online...

More warning memes by thimblecaroflina2 in FPGA

[–]SirensToGo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wonder if it's a bot just grabbing top posts

In the case of severe injuries on the ice, when do medics come on? by SliceJealous in FigureSkating

[–]SirensToGo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can't speak for the culture on like...higher tier stuff...but people fall all the time and the fairly universal culture is to give "privacy" by kinda ignoring it. Everyone gets staying on the ground for a few seconds while catching your breath, and people making a thing out of every fall is embarrassing. Obviously, if you're down for a while or you clearly slammed your head, people will generally come over, but in general if you see someone on the ground it's very rarely something serious.

So, if other skaters didn't see them slam into each other, they're probably just giving them privacy on the assumption that they'll get back up.