I am Director of System Architecture at SCI Semiconductor and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. I remain actively involved in the #CHERI project, where I led the early language / compiler strand of the research, and am the maintainer of the #CHERIoT Platform.
I was on the FreeBSD Core Team for two terms, have been an LLVM developer since 2008, am the author of the GNUstep Objective-C runtime (libobjc2 and associated clang support), and am responsible for libcxxrt and the BSD-licensed device tree compiler.
Opinions expressed by me are not necessarily opinions. In all probability they are random ramblings and should be ignored. Failure to ignore may result in severe boredom and / or confusion. Shake well before opening. Keep refrigerated.
Warning: May contain greater than the recommended daily allowance of sarcasm.
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Borb!
There aren't more than like 10 people on fedi. The rest is just bots. Watch me post this from your other accounts.
Ten charities I have previously donated to, that will never see another pound from me. I hope they weighted their choice to become PR for Waymo before they made that choice.
Reminder: The total value of all of the companies in the markets NVIDIA is in was pre-bubble, around half a trillion dollars. Even after their big crash, NVIDIA market cap is 8x this. Which makes sense only if you believe that, in the medium term, NVIDIA will be able to sustainable generate 8x more profit than the entire industry combined.
Apple's calendar sync with Exchange has a new and exciting failure mode where new events are sync'd, but deletions are not. If an event is rescheduled, both the old and new times appear. If an event is cancelled, it doesn't go away.
I'm confused about the fact that this all seems to work fine on the iPad, which I thought used the same back-end calendar service.
If the Chinese ever teach kittens to ask about microarchitectural details while being scritched, I am going to look really silly for mocking Huang.
NVIDIA’s market capitalisation is down around 3/4 if a trillion dollars this week. But in AI industry maths, they market cap has dropped an annualised $40T this year!
Any GitHub-using project managers: Is there really no way of having automation that adds issues and PRs to a project, in different stages, that doesn't require poking holes in the security model?
#GitHub
I'm not there this week, but come and see our demos and talk to others on the team if you're in Munich!
You can also see the demo of a compartmentalised CAN stack on #CHERIoT if you head to the nearby Fraunhofer AISEC booth. Hugo Melder, who implemented this for his undergraduate final-year project recently joined the SCI CHERIoT team and will be working to build a production-grade version of this.
New proposal for simplifying the GDPR:
Every ‘consent’ dialog in your product that has options of ‘consent’ and ‘maybe later’ with no ‘never’ option has an automatic fine of 1% of global turnover.
Advantages:
Easy to understand.
Clear enforcement policy (no ‘up to’ level for fines, clear unambiguous violation case)
Clear benefit to users.
Disadvantages:
A sudden trillion-Euro influx to the EU budget will cause more work for people on budget committees.
If you were a Chinese spymaster and you managed to get the CEO of NVIDIA to fall for a honeypot, would you instruct your agent to:
Option 1: Extract information about how NVIDIA GPUs work, which he probably doesn’t know in detail and which could also be obtained by compromising a much lower-level employee.
Option 2: Encourage him to throw more and more money into circular financing deals to support an ‘AI’ bubble that will eventually crash and cause immense harm to the US economy and contagion across most of the West.
Now, personally, I’d pick option 2. That’s the one that would have the biggest return for Chinese global power and is something that couldn’t easily be done by other lower-risk means. It’s also harder to attribute because Huang would be absolutely convinced that he never told the agent anything secret and that the investment ideas were all his own.
We just finished the Gears of War: E-Day campaign. There are some annoying bugs in couch coop mode, but otherwise very fun. Nicely fleshed out some of the backstory. It’s a bit weird that they ended it before Dom learns that his wife didn’t die as he believes for half the game, but otherwise good. Nice mix of maps, a bit less than some of the other games. Solid addition to the series but nothing special.
