By implementing a hedged read strategy taking advantage of (undocumented!) channel scrambling offsets, I've gotten as much as 15x reductions in tail latency.
Works across Intel, AMD, Graviton, DDR4, DDR5, x86, ARM, you name it.
Check out the C++ lib I wrote, watch the video, and try it yourself!
If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately*
Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code.
GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH
github.com/settings/cop...
📣 The CFP for All Systems Go! 2026 is now open!
Submit your talk about foundational user-space Linux technologies now 👉 cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-...
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🎫 Tickets go on sale in April.
Embedded World 2026 is over, and we're already hyped for next year! So many conversations, so many friends, so many precious moments at our booth - lots of love goes out to everyone who dropped by and all the people who made it happen!
reality bites
blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony...
it was going to happen, death comes for us all. but man. what a legend
I've always had a stone in my shoe about being a college dropout. So naturally, I just became a Fellow at Harvard Law School.
www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/03...
go get ‘em
James Bottomley taking us through the ins and outs of TPMs at SCaLE 23x.
#SCaLE #Linux #kernel #infosec #confidentialcomputing #measuredboot #LUKS
hello. are you an incredibly good UI designer? want to work with people who will love and respect your work and your process? want to make $250k (same as every other employee) and work fully remote? take a look
nice vinyl collection
Live somewhere else and want to lecture people on the ground right now?
As an alternative, may I suggest fucking off into the sun
I have Gas Town derangement syndrome and spent the last few weeks writing thousands of words on agent orchestration patterns; how they shift our bottlenecks and force us to ask whether and when we should stop looking at code
maggieappleton.com/gastown
legend. enjoy.
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
The closing event for this year’s #Linux Plumbers Conference was held at Gonpachi on Saturday night. You may recognize this #Tokyo restaurant from Kill Bill Volume 1.
#opensource #ultraviolence #Tarantino
Oxide is hiring in the embedded space. If you enjoy baffling choices by hardware vendors and debugging performance issues come join me.
oxide.computer/careers/sw-e...
Erlang
EFF was created for scary moments like the one we’re facing now. For 35 years, EFF has fought to ensure your rights follow you online and wherever you use technology, and we're here and ready to Take Back CTRL. Join us at www.takebackctrl.org.
Music: how the future dies by mobygratis.
Added some shenanigans about Capture Functions and forward declarations.
I probably have a bunch of typos and incomplete sentences all over the place, but I've been working on this basically for weeks in the midst of handling DV crap. Hopefully ready to submit soon.
thephd.dev/_vendor/futu...
WANT
Very sad news about Rainer, who passed away earlier this week. If you can help support #ALS research please consider donating.
My thoughts are with his family. We as a C++ community were lucky to have him.
branding
Some news from @oxide.computer: we got a raise! Our annual salary now stands at $235K. oxide.computer/blog/oxides-...
So we're outsourcing initial job interviews to AI now? You'd think all the productivity gains would free up humans for the important things, like interviewing our future co-workers.
At this pace, every candidate will need their own interview bot to keep up. Soon, bots will be interviewing bots.
Hacking the Mesh with SDR: I took a Raspberry Pi laptop and HackRF to SFO last week to see if I could decode messages at Open Sauce.
While it wasn't complete success, I learned a lot about GNU Radio, Meshtastic, and even tracking airplanes with ADS-B! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_lb...
Photo of a booth at OpenSauce. Three tables are covered with vintage electronics of various sorts. Mike is working on the Apollo CDU at the left.
We're at OpenSauce 2025, showing off Apollo hardware, electromechanical computers, the MOnSter 6502, and other treats. Join me, @tubetime.bsky.social, and Mike at the CuriousMarc booth!
