amszmidt

amszmidt, 22 days ago

@glitzersachen Will you try and vet each and every contribution through this filter? What if such a contribution "sneaks" past your filter, when what?

If a contribution is made, and if for all intents and purposes cannot be discerned that it came from A or B which ever is good or evil, it does not matter..

If previous contributions where suspect, those contributions (not contributors) should be put under a microscope.

E.g., if a Russian submits a patch should one dimiss it because of Putin?

amszmidt, 22 days ago

@glitzersachen Better yet, should all US contributions now be disregarded since the US participates in the Gaza genocide?

amszmidt, 22 days ago

@glitzersachen My point failed to make across as well, I do not understand what copyright law has to do with the topic at all, this is about projects either dismissing or accepting contributions based on some criteria, which seems irrespective of copyright law.

E.g., in the case of NixOS and that drama ..

amszmidt, 22 days ago

@glitzersachen FOO in this case is some company. I do not think such dismissal is ever warrented.

The comparison with Nvidious is also not apt, the contribution in question would be free software.

amszmidt, 25 days ago

@yeti I had a nice little rant on the topic .. maybe @screwtape has a link to the thread. 😉

amszmidt, 26 days ago

@jschwart It is the creepy and frustration that is drawing me in. Fighting stupidity .. and just longing for dumb shit 😠

amszmidt, 26 days ago

@jschwart Yesterday I spent 2-3 hours figuring out some dumb CMake dependency nonsense.

Now I'm debugging some stupid low level code that used to work and no longer works, and most probably due to some stupid change in the compiler, that sadly I am probably the culprit for ... but that was like 5 years ago and I forgot what.

The red spotted green toad looks like a pleasure to lick right now :-)

amszmidt, 26 days ago

@jschwart AFAIU Swift is FLOSS no? Not that it matters, I'm just frustrated over the current state of GNU/Linux and FLOSS systems making it just annoying to do even simple things...

Language wise it looks nicer than Rust/Go, and all that other garbage like C++ ..

amszmidt, 26 days ago

@jschwart Seems like it is FLOSS .. did muck about with it, sorta cute little language. Cranked out a simple number guessing game.

amszmidt, 26 days ago

@jschwart Sadly, it seems like one of those terribly slow languages. Loop over 5 million and print the digit takes 3 seconds (yes, super scientific!). Which is on par with random Lisp implementation ...

amszmidt, 25 days ago

@loke @jschwart did you print to stdout? It isn’t ver scientific was more comparing thing in my local crappy box…

amszmidt, 25 days ago

@loke @jschwart As I said, unscientific with faults. It was a crud comparison .. yet GCL and GNU Clisp was faster or on par….

amszmidt, 27 days ago

@aylamz kicking out people from FOSS is the exact opposite what the software freedom movement is about: everyone should have software freedom even people you dislike.

amszmidt, 27 days ago

@tyil That is uncalled for. You are doing exactly the same. Multiple things can be important at the same time, and people can have diverging, and conflicting opinions and still work on FOSS.

amszmidt, 1 month ago

@amoroso ”Everything” — not sure how to explain in 500 octets. How memory is handled, how the microcode simulator works… it is also much easier to understand. When it works well enough I will probobly get rid of paging.

amszmidt, 1 month ago

@amoroso might add that the existing simulator while it works really well, has a really nasty bug in how memory is accessed,which newer microcode would halt the simulator on (it assumes data is available before it actually is). This got fixed by adding a NO-OPing delay instruction.

amszmidt, 1 month ago

@amoroso What's the difference in your book?

amszmidt, 1 month ago

@amoroso I've mostly given on on differentiating them since as you say there is no clear explanation of either that is very good

amszmidt, 1 month ago

@amoroso If that is it, then are there any emulators (unless doing it in HDL)? Even a simple 74181 would be hard to do in software. All you can do is model the behaviour, which then would be a simulator ... It feels like the same thing as "compiler" and "transpiler" ...