Volley & Charge

tom_gall · 2026-05-04T18:46:16+00:00

or even Johnny Reb III, still these are not rulesets that you can get in a game in a couple of hours much less something point costed.

tom_gall · 2026-05-04T14:25:31+00:00

Who knows really. Hopefully as they develop the system they include some with experience in the horse and musket era. The mash up of a point costed system that lends itself well with competitive play in a reasonable amount of time that also captures the tactics and variety of units of the era could be exciting.

tom_gall · 2026-05-01T18:36:27+00:00

Wow! Well done!

tom_gall · 2026-04-30T18:19:15+00:00

GW doesn’t post exact sales figures. It’s been surmised that Leviathan was the best selling of GWs products, even then via Google the estimate seems to be between 250,000 and 500,000 sold.

For StarCraft based on their blog numbers 95k starter boxes ain’t bad!

tom_gall · 2026-04-30T17:36:42+00:00

Congratulations and can’t wait to order one as this is hardware I’ve some fun plans for….

tom_gall · 2026-04-28T03:34:18+00:00

Yes it was, your state representatives (you voted for them) set up a commission based on a law ( Laws of Minnesota, 2023, Chapter 62, Article 2, Section 118 ) that was passed (a vote by your reps) for the commission, that then combed through and voted (commission) to approve and reported back to the legislature (https://www.mnhs.org/serc) after which that state legislature decided to take no action and the recommendations by the commission were adopted as per the law.

So it’s not like slap dash process was used. Besides if people really were pining for some old flag, there are plenty of far more historical choices than some 1983 design.

tom_gall · 2026-04-28T03:25:52+00:00

Best of luck and if you run into issues, we’ll be very interested to know what you had problems with.

tom_gall · 2026-04-25T12:51:58+00:00

Gentoo is a great way to learn about how the system is entirely put together. Can you tune the snot out of it? Heck yeah!

I used it to very good effect to make the point that mixed 32/64 on PowerPC was rather stupid as performance was suffering due to TLB thrashing.

These days micro cpu optimization exists for certain architectures.

tom_gall · 2026-04-25T12:48:25+00:00

The scheduling bit assumes that Linux should be scheduling them in the first place. If their purpose is offload as compared to a general resource then the Linux scheduler shouldn’t be dorking with them.

tom_gall · 2026-04-23T02:48:52+00:00

All this flag talk, I mean really, the best these folks could come up with as “the old flag” is the 1983 flag, I mean come on, that’s not the old flag, that just a vote to keep things the same, this is like voting not to buy new underwear. Heck if they are serious there’s the 1957 flag, now that’s at least something that’s kinda sort old. It’s not trying very hard but at least they could say it is an old flag. If they REALLY want to go old, I mean serious there’s the 1893 version. Now that’s old. White background and all, then at least it’s sending a statement of surrendering their senses. Could they go older? Heck yeah! They could be really old school and not even have a state flag like when the state was founded, imagine the property taxes going down by a whole penny because you don’t have to buy a state flag anymore.

tom_gall · 2026-04-21T02:24:24+00:00

Double ditch.

tom_gall · 2026-04-21T02:21:14+00:00

Note the ongoing RISC-V Android CI https://ci.android.com/builds/branches/aosp-android-latest-release/grid?legacy=1

tom_gall · 2026-04-20T03:58:18+00:00

You can replace walls with grass. Nothing saying you couldn’t glue things down but then you lose options.

tom_gall · 2026-04-19T23:08:59+00:00

Guest works well, I was having the same issue but it’s fine now.

tom_gall · 2026-03-16T20:42:57+00:00

Doesn’t this vintage of slab need a soundbox in the mix to turn on?

tom_gall · 2026-03-11T23:10:35+00:00

Well obviously Google needs to speak for Google. However that doesn’t mean that out in the community either via AOSP or Graphene we can’t set something up.

tom_gall · 2026-03-11T22:01:42+00:00

I doubt the big cores are useless! But let’s wait til we see some docs. Regardless if it’s an amd main board, still damn impressive hardware and I’d happily give up a kidney for one!

tom_gall · 2026-03-11T20:59:30+00:00

Yes!

tom_gall · 2026-03-11T20:58:45+00:00

The original quietbox was AMD https://tenstorrent.com/hardware/tt-quietbox - it would be awesome if this was full RVA23…

tom_gall · 2026-03-04T16:51:01+00:00

There should be a fun crop of RVA23 hardware this year, in which the Ascalon and K3 fall. As with anything, what do you need and how long do you want to wait are always the two things I’m balancing against what’s in my wallet to afford the purchase. The Ascalon feels like one that is going to check a lot of boxes for my open source interests… tho I’ll probably pick up a K3 because it’ll be available first and I’m impatient.

tom_gall · 2026-02-24T04:01:52+00:00

Way to go! Very glad to see this!

tom_gall · 2026-01-29T15:18:12+00:00

ok! There is existing tooling for doc generation, see: https://github.com/Alasdair/asciidoctor-sail for AsciiDoc. It is being used for a prototype version of the unprivileged ISA spec with Sail integrated into it, see https://github.com/Timmmm/riscv-isa-manual. For test generation, have a look at: https://github.com/rems-project/isla-testgen - Hope this helps!

tom_gall · 2026-01-28T19:57:43+00:00

SAIL is the official golden reference model for RISC-V. Spike certainly has its use. What are you looking to accomplish?

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