@bcantrill "When hardware and software development is divided among different organizations, as it is in the Windows, VMware, and Linux worlds (or, alternatively, the Intel and AMD worlds), exploiting error injection technology for product improvement is much more difficult."
@bcantrill "Of course, companies such as IBM and Oracle that control both the hardware they sell and the software that supports it are best positioned to take advantage of error injection technology to improve the handling, diagnosis, and containment of errors by their respective systems, as having the hardware and software people all in a single organization allows the necessary continuous interaction between them as new hardware and software is developed."
@bcantrill Of particular note:
"Since the e-cache parity crisis, error injection has become a core competency of what is now Oracle's Systems organization. As new processors and their supporting ASICs are designed, error and diagnostic reviews make sure they have the appropriate ability to inject errors into their internal structures, and the error injector is enhanced to inject those errors so that we can test our error handling, diagnosis, and containment software in an end-to-end fashion."
@bcantrill I'm sure many at oxide would find this quite interesting (if one can overcome the ecache traumas :P)
"Injecting Errors for Fun and Profit"
"Error-detection and correction features are only as good as our ability to test them."
It is 2000. I'm 18 years old. They say my job won't survive quantum computing (IBM is really close).
It is 2005. I'm 23 years old. They say my job won't survive visual IDEs.
It is 2010. I'm 28 years old. They say my job won't survive smartphones.
It is 2015. I'm 33 years old. They say my job won't survive web3.
It is 2020. I'm 38 years old. They say my job won't survive AI.
It is 2025. I'm 43 years old. They say my job won't survive quantum computing.
@neauoire I was reading your post on computing and sustainability (https://100r.co/site/computing_and_sustainability.html) and noticed you included excerpts (below) of a comic I'd seen before but can't remember the name of or where.
Which comic is this? Is it one you or Rek are working on? I thought it was really cool and would love to be able to read it again! ❤️
![A somewhat cluttered collage in black and white, with most prominent element being an old-school (80's?) macOS desktop with three windows open. One has code written in pascal for handling graphics on the left and another larger window open behind it and visible on the right. This 2nd windows contains an illustration in simple one-bit-per-pixel black and white. The illustration is a comic or manga with a single frame, depicting what appears to a white church-like building. A third small window with what appears to be a table of properties used by code is visible in the bottom right. The first window is titled "Graf3DStructures.p" while the illustration window is titled "Neauismetica" behind it. The small window in the bottom left appears to be titled "model.[pi]" where the file extension is a mathematical pi symbol.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/928/478/841/047/212/original/48706603670e1495.png)
@soller Any idea when NVK will become generally available in Pop? Would love to ditch the nvidia drivers.
Any idea what the process of swapping from one to the other might look like?
@bagder What are your feelings about https://github.com/rustls/rustls and perhaps some of the other (non-OpenSSL) implementations of SSL?
Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.
It’ll be great to see GivennameFamilyname@mastodon.famousnewspaper.com or whatever domain they want to use.
Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.
Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.