Posts by fg_swe

Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy

Nope

There are/will be plenty of ARM- and other ISA-based designer-manufacturers around. Apple, Amazon and the like. Apple has created an ARM-based CPU which has more single threaded horse power than any other (public) chip designer.

Nicely coded application programs run just as nicely on ARM as they run on x86. Just rent them from Amazon, Hetzner or many other cloud vendors. Or buy an Apple notebook. The latest RPI will also do for many personal server needs.

https://www.cloudpanel.io/blog/hetzner-offers-80-core-arm-based-server/

https://www.hetzner.com/press-release/arm64-cloud/

Import Duties

No need for heavy-handed "banning". Industrial Policy using Import Duties suffice.

Of course this is still a delicate thing, because there exist powerful forces who give a rodent's backside about national or other security interests. It would also help to have a mentally capable president in charge.

Dependence on Taiwan and South Korea is a Strategic Risk that should be dealt with.

US govt halts medical study into Havana Syndrome, cites 'coercion' of participants

Rationality

They are one of the best funded organizations of the world with some of the best contacts to all kinds of engineers, scientists and top notch high tech companies from Keysight to Perkin Elmer.

But they cannot deploy HF wave monitors, they cannot sample their food and check with the latest analytical machinery ? They cannot deploy sound loggers ?

Instead they can just GUESS and theorize ?

I can also guess: it is the fear of operating inside hostile countries without speaking properly to the locals. The fear of talking to the enemy. Every day. Maybe they should work on dialing down the fear ? Just talking to a KGB guy does not hurt, but it could lead to better understanding of the other side.

Besides, when you talk to a random Russian or a Cuban, there is approx. a 80% chance you do not talk to the opposing force. Many of them are actually very interested in your viewpoint, your way of life, your hobbies etc. And they will share something of their life. That in turn will reduce your own stress levels.

Rust for Linux maintainer steps down in frustration with 'nontechnical nonsense'

False

IBM mainframe and its specific OS seems to be alive and kicking in all kinds of business and finance applications. Banking, insurance, flight reservation, taxman and the like.

"Same Way As Ada"

Ada is used for some of the most demanding and also most successful aeronautical control system projects.

Here is a hint: https://www.adacore.com/company/our-customers

Summary

It is possible to build OS kernels in memory safe languages.

Looking Into The Future Through The Rear View Mirror

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Large_Systems

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1463321/was-algol-ever-used-for-mainstream-programming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICL_VME

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_%28operating_system%29

Re: The age old problem

More "church of fast food ".

xBSD Waiting

...to replace Linux, if/when needed.

Zuckerberg says Biden administration pressured Meta to police COVID posts

Worse

It's coordinated, multi channel Lying Operations. Covid exposed this.

Yeah

And the mainstream media lies in 66 of 100 cases in favor of oligarchy and corporations.

So much better !

Re: A Serious Question for the Editors

Now all substantial Covid posts deleted. All hail to oligarchy, I guess.

Sure, AC

We must never criticize the WHO and the media bought by Pharma investors. Can't do that to these nice persons.

Re: A Serious Question for the Editors

Some of my Covid related posts were removed in the past. Got better, though.

Telegram eats Zucks business.

If that ACTUALLY is a problem, display a national flag next to each post.

Then we can see who is an Ivan.

Of course label VPN exit routers with a special flag.

The Americans realize Telegram has been eating their business.

Noone needs U.S. Marxists censoring willy nilly. People moved off US platforms en masse.

Telegram founder and CEO arrested in France

Re: PRAWDA ?

During the Covid Operation, it was crystal clear that outlets such as NYT were mouthpieces of BigMoney, BigPharma and so on. No proper journalism whatsoever, instead rather silly propaganda in support of the PharmaMafia.

Freedom Internet Technology

+ Linux

+ xBSD

+ DeltaChat

+ Bittorrent for video distribution

+ Personal Web Server on an RPI at the DSL modem

+ LibreOffice

+ GNUpg for secure communication

+ Rumble Video sharing, uncensored

+ Bitchute Video sharing

PRAWDA ?

You prefer the New York Prawda ("NYT"), eh ?

CIA $hitting Their Pants

By means of the CISA shell they tried to censor the h3ll out of the internet during the Covid Scare, aka. GATES Cr4p Selling Operation.

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-report-reveals-cisa-tried-cover-censorship-practices

https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html

Telegram was then one of the few Free Speech Platforms. Highly valuable.

Now CIA leans on Paris to harass Durov.

Windows 11 Insider preview brings new Sandbox features and fatter FAT32

Useful Sandboxing

What is still missing is a *useful* sandboxing concept for MS Office and similar software.

For example, an Office Script's effects should by default be limited to the file itself. Especially when it comes in from a different organisation by Email or messenger. Office should never be able to touch unrelated files such as C source or CATIA drawings. Users should be able to Label files according to security aspects. Database connections should be off limits for Office scripts, except when explicitly turned on. Office script code should be cryptographically signed by the author, such that only "in house, approved" scripts have serious powers to do damage.

"CompanyConfidential" labelled files should not be accessible to scripts of external or unknown authorship.

But I guess we will need to see several more rounds of encryption attacks before MSFT gets this done. Too many customers will buy their wares no matter how craptastic they are. As long as they look polished.

Kaspersky says Uncle Sam snubbed proposal to open up its code for third-party review

Migration Weapon

Then they want to use Arab migrants to destabilize the EU, in true KGB thug fashion. Three days before KGB man PUTIN claimed he "wants to preserve Europe".

A little thug he is. No principles except raw power.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/11/world/belarus-poland-border-migrants#tensions-escalate-at-the-poland-belarus-border-as-migrants-face-dire-conditions

Plus: ABC Weapons

They also like to use ABC weapons against their traitors, in very dangerous ways. This already killed two innocent British citizens, because they disposed of the weapon in a highly unsafe manner. True Russian bumbling.

It Is Very Simple

There is a war ongoing in Ukraine, somewhat similar to Korean war. US weapons against Russian weapons. Two power centers duking it out.

Even if Mr Kaspersky is totally no longer a KGB man, some of his employees will be KGB and GRU assets. Even if he does not know, they can insert backdoors or use the gathered data for purposes of the Russian state.

Moscow threatens nuclear Armageddon weekly. They apparently want to kill more people than have died in Hiroshima, Dresden, Tokio, Hamburg and so on. Also, they like to complain about "Fascists", all while acting like such.

So, find a truce and then a peace and we can use your products again. Until then, no chance.

Getting up close and personal with Concorde, Concordski, and Buran

Transportation

In theory, almost each and every German village can be reached by train+bus. Google Maps knows the schedule. In practice, you should always assume unexpected delays of 2 hours or more for 5 hours of travel. And overcrowded trains, even ICE. Bad organisation.

So using the car is in most cases much more comfortable. Traffic jams can and do happen, though.

For airline travel to Swabia, Stuttgart is the main airport, but Karlsruhe+RyanAir is prolly cheaper.

From Paris and London you can use the TGV/ICE/similar.

You can combine all of these options by car renting.

Re: Eating Tips

If you are lucky it's two beers. 25 for proper lunch, 5 for a beer in the best case.

Of course you can use the butcher route, then it's just 15€: 10 for the lunch and 5 for six bottles of ALDI beer. Just don't buy much more at Aldi.

Or Maybe

It was typical Russian recklessness. If you want to rule an empire of unparalleled size, you must be able to take serious risk. There is a fine line between calculated risk and being reckless.

The Russians know that perception sometimes is more important than facts, when it comes to politics. This works often, but sometimes it fails.

Recently a russian test pilot flew a Sukhoi SuperJet into an Indonesian mountain, despite the ground-collision warning system alerting him. The dead prospective customers (who were in the plane) convinced the survivors not to buy the plane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Mount_Salak_Sukhoi_Superjet_crash

Google Translate

Whenever I visit France, GT is invaluable for me. I assume the same is true for English speakers in Germany, even though many basic words are almost identical to English (Arm, Finger, Hand etc).

Make sure you have a working SIM card in your smartphone, so that you can use GT and Google Maps.

Car Navigation is also best done using GM, to easily get around plenty of road building sites.

Re: Bavaria: Deutsches Museum

Been there, friendly soldier-guides. But this is in Prussia, far away ;-)

Eating Time, Bakeries

Proper German Gasthäuser are only offering meals between 11:30 and 13:30 and then usually from 17:00 to 21:00.

Only low quality fast food and prolly asian meals can be obtained at other times.

Breakfast you can get at local bakeries, also much better than fast food places. Use Google Maps ("Bäckerei", "Konditorei").

Cakes are also an important part of German eating. You usually go to a Bäckerei or a Konditorei from 14:00 to 18:00 to have a coffee and a good piece of cake. E.g. Käsekuchen(Cheese cake), Apfelkuchen(Apple cake), Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte(Black forest special with a bit of alcohol), Frankfurter Kranz and prolly 20 more types of cakes. Highly recommended.

When you are hungry "in between", I suggest buying a German sandwich (belegtes Brötchen) with Butter, Salami, Pork/Schinken or Cheese. The bakeries have them usually on offer or can make them on demand. Take the Vollkornbrot (full grain oat, dark-looking) as bred. Healthier and will keep you non-hungry for a longer time.

Re: Eating Tips

During lunchtime (11:30 to 13:00) many butchers offer "Mittagstisch", which is similar food as described above, but at much lower cost (10€ or so). You take it away and eat it e.g. at the autobahn parking site.

Definitely better quality than what you can get at almost same cost at fast food places.

Google Maps (query: "Metzgerei" or "Metzgerei Mittagstisch") can find you these butcher shops quite efficiently.

Autobahn restaurants are low quality and high priced compared to that.

Eating Tips

I suggest not to eat inside the Museums, as they are expensive and not the best quality. Also, town centres are often not the right place for good food.

Rather, enter "Biergarten" into Google Maps and drive a few kilometers to that location.

Then order something like

+ Schweineals (Pork) with Spätzle(Noodles), Bratensauce and Salad

+ Maultaschen

+ Rostbraten and Noodles or Knödels

+ Gulash from deer (Hirschgulasch)

+ Sauerbraten with Spätzle

+ local Beer

+ local fruit juice for the children

That will cost you about 35€ per person.

Bavaria: Deutsches Museum

This museum attempts to display all German(and some foreign) technology achievements from aircraft to Zuse computers. In Unterschleissheim they have an additional aerospace section with Tornado, Phantom, Mig 21, Do 31, Ariane rockets.

More Great Technology Museums in Swabia

+Dornier Museum in Friedrichshafen. It houses an aircraft which leads its class since the 1970s, the Dornier 31 VTOL transport.

+Daimler Museum in Stuttgart. The entire history of the inventor of cars.

+Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. History of Porsche and Volkswagen, minus the Tiger tank ;-)

LLM-driven C-to-Rust. Not just a good idea, a genie eager to escape

Re: Learning Takes A While......So.........

Hamburger recipes are shorter than those for Rinderroulade with handmade noodles ?

Re: Hey ChatGPT - pirate this app for me

That will be true as soon as the LLMs are more than worm-sized brains. Think of cat-sized brains with 1 billion neurons.

Re: Unix on acid

I guess it is a reference to California to be on the left side of most maps. And their desire to "innovate" in social things, most of which would now be called insane.

Re: Hoare: Fortran->Memory Safe Algol

That was OpenSSL, IIRC.

Also, how could a single guy change centrally important cryptographic code is a mystery to me.

But I guess it can be explained by "economics".

Re: Automate the testing

This could definitely work for safety-critical embedded systems, which must have such test batteries on all V-Model levels from Unit to System.

Re: FALSE

There would be lots of illegal copying of SW in industry and commerce without dongles.

Hoare: Fortran->Memory Safe Algol

He did this transpilation (using classic compiler technology) for customers. They then complained that their "perfectly working Fortran programs" experienced Index Errors.

In other words, people (including engineers and scientists) are lazy folks(like everybody else) who do not want to hear about the bugs in their "proven" systems.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billion-Dollar-Mistake-Tony-Hoare/

Last time I used SUN Solaris make(2012 or so), it crashed with a memory error when the Makefile became "too big". Other Unix tools have been reported to be full of memory errors when they were first run under valgrind. So everybody is affected.

Real World Results ?

Has anyone done the LLM-based C->Rust Transpilation yet ?

I am at this point also sceptical, because ChatGPT failed miserably to create a correctly working Enigma for me. It created code that compiled and looked correct on the first sight. But on close inspection it missed the odometer style rotor mechanics and it incorrectly performed the "reverse signal flow".

Add: found this: https://galois.com/blog/2023/09/using-gpt-4-to-assist-in-c-to-rust-translation/

FALSE

I am actively using an automotive R+D software package that costs about 20k Euros per seat (Vector CANoe). It's dongled via Vector's CAN Adapter.

Similar things can be said about Lauterbach Trace32 debugger, the WinDriver(WindRiver ?) compiler and many other automotive SW engineering tools.

Vector seems to be thriving, when I look at their buildings and when I visit their cantina.

Intel's processor failures: A cautionary tale of business vs engineering

European Sluggishness in Information Technology

There were quite a few projects in Europe using Transputers. For example DAIMLER had an autonomously driving car in the early 1990s controlled by Transputers.

But there is no Industrial Policy in computer technology to speak of, while in the US CIA/Pentagon will ensure funding for promising startups such as Google, Facebook etc. HP was probably also a Signal Corps creation, back then.

What is needed is Airbus-style financing, developing, producing and marketing of such projects. There is plenty of scope, given Hambuger Technologies such as C, Unix and the Webbrowser/JS contraptions.

Inmos Inter CPU Links

I recall the inter processor links were rather slow TTL style links. No transmission lines. The problem is, parallel computing needs the highest speed inter CPU links you can think of, to be useful.

Core Python developer suspended for three months

Welcome to Communism

It only works by controlling the Information Sphere. All commie nations have a secret police who will crack down on anyone who exposes the elite commie corruption.

And of course the NATO commies want to introduce this by stealth.

Soviet Of Python

So they essentially want the power to fire people INSIDE their little Python soviet ? No need to ask the plebs.

"arseholes"

So anybody with competence should be "cancelled" ? So that the insane NATO Communists and their oligarch backers can rule undisputed ?

"Shut Up"

In order to have oligarchs ram their agenda through, eh ?

Did you take the GATES $hot ?