Can Linux survive in a space smaller than your thumbnail?
Dmitry Grinberg explains the challenge—and the art of cramming a full OS onto an 8-pin MCU.
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Dmitry Grinberg joined Elecia( @logicalelegance ) and Chris( @stoneymonster ) to talk about running Linux on small microprocessors (physically small and/or 4-bit).
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Dmitry Grinberg joined Chris ( @stoneymonster ) and Elecia( @logicalelegance ) to talk about running Linux on small microprocessors (physically small and/or 4-bit). Boot times vary between minutes and days, depending on the processor.
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From: blenderdumbass . org
Working to make a game which is very hard to optimize a bit more respectable when it comes to performance. Which is easier said than done. This video is a journey of pain that is optimization in UPBGE ( the game engine chosen for Dani's Race ).
Featuring a new soundtracks for Dani's Race called "Light ...
If you use #AI to "be more productive", you are optimizing towards a local minima!
Instead, you should zoom out, get a clear picture of the whole landscape and ultimately land in the global minima.
How? By changing the entire underlying system!
Law 1: Every program can be optimised to be smaller. Law 2: There's always one more bug. Corollary: Every program can be reduced to a one-line bug.
— anonymous
From: blenderdumbass . org
Working to make a game which is very hard to optimize a bit more respectable when it comes to performance. Which is easier said than done. This video is a journey of pain that is optimization in UPBGE ( the game engine chosen for Dani's Race ).
Featuring a new soundtracks for Dani's Race called "Light ...
Stone Soup[1] Optimization:
0) 
think of Great Idea™ to optimize something
1) 
refactor code and implement Great Idea™
2) 
measure and confirm that it is Good
3) 
bask in radiant glow of your magnificence
4) 
revert Great Idea™
5) measure and confirm that it is still Good and that the only improvement came from the refactoring
6) 
go live in a yurt far far away from electricity or computers
From: blenderdumbass . org
Working to make a game which is very hard to optimize a bit more respectable when it comes to performance. Which is easier said than done. This video is a journey of pain that is optimization in UPBGE ( the game engine chosen for Dani's Race ).
Featuring a new soundtracks for Dani's Race called "Light ...
I have started a new blog which will present musings on coding for my research in optimization and its application to industrial engineering problems. I code mostly in Julia and always using Emacs.
https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog
I will post here when new blog posts are posted. I'm hoping to create an RSS feed for the blog in due course.
The blog is written in org mode in Emacs (of course 
).
(edited to add actual link 
)
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