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Smart things are the worst shit ever. They make everything take longer, given the debugging/upgrading overhead. Not buying into that. What would be smart, would be a washing machine that cleans, dries, sorts and folds my clothes. Without talking to facebook. I would buy into that, but I don't need to share my washing machine status on instagram

Comment · 1 year ago

Well, the things that got him canceled were and are wrong obviously. But anything (i know of) software related was right

Comment · 1 year ago

Since Rust is not directly hardware, here is a nice tutorial on some simple OS basics: https://operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app/en/

There was also some Rust specific OS tutorial somewhere that was written nicely, but I can't find it right now.

Also if you want to get real hardware, there is the neorv32 that has nice documentation: https://stnolting.github.io/neorv32/ https://github.com/stnolting/neorv32

It's a risc-v core written in VHDL

Comment · 1 year ago

There will also be the visionfive 2 lite in (hopefully) a moment for more risc-v capabilities. I am excited about it. Haven't looked too much into it, but what I've heard is that the visionfive 2 is not too bad. Lacks a few drivers or performance in them. Will see. I am also curious how easy it can be used for some OS dev.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/starfive/visionfive-2-l...

And if someone wants to get fancy and do some HW-SW-Codesign with risc-v and FPGAs, then there is the PolarFireSoC. A lot cheaper than AMD/Xilinx products and okay-ish to use. Their dev enviroment feels kinda outdated, but at least it's snappy. Also the documentation feels kinda sparse, but most stuff is documented __somewhere__ - you just gotta find it.

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/development-tool/MPFS-DISCO-...

Fun fact: The dev board costs less than the chip itself. (Apparently that's often the case, but I just noticed that the first time)

Comment · 1 year ago

Well, at least they made it incredibly annoying with the auto translated AI voice. At first I didn't even find the setting on youtube shorts to switch to the actual audio track.

They should keep going though. Maybe someday I will be so annoyed that I finally stop using this website

Comment · 1 year ago

nice 9.5/10 (minus half a point because my brain got hurt a little)

Comment · 1 year ago

This!

Some time ago I was actually thinking about the exact thing in his statement. I mean even if the problems are structurally almost the same each year, it must be a huge time investment to come up with the stories and give them a little twist each year.

Either Eric should chill out and make it smaller, while still keeping the fun or some rich guys should pay him lots of money to make this his full-time job. The former is probably the healthier path for eric and the game

Comment · 1 year ago

I was thinking the same, but then it will probably be hard to get past day 6, because the complexity will ramp up faster

Comment · 1 year ago

Oh that sounds really interesting. I was searching for something like that to render something on a fun-hacky-ledscreen with an embedded processor. All things I found weren't satisfying. But if I understand that correctly, I should be able to just compile this and then software render stuff? For my tiny 192x128 pixels this should be fast enough on any kinda system. Time for fun animations

Comment · 1 year ago

> It's gone on my infinite todo list of projects

The best thing that helped me: Force myself to one single project only. And if I really don't want to do the current one, do a ___really___ small one, that's pure fun. I have to remind myself of that again and again, but it helps

Comment · 1 year ago

Another ADHD person here and I think my vision is almost the same as the creators. My goal is to build a fully self-hosted risc-v computer from scratch.

It now took me 3 iterations and 3 years to get a somehow working risc-v CPU written in VHDL, that I am mostly satisfied with. It's a crazy hard struggle (finally pipelined though!). Everything breaks, I constantly get headaches and almost want to quit, but somehow I can keep on pushing this project. It helps me a lot.

Almost nothing works, things break all the time, it doesn't even look cool. But somehow it's satisfying that I can type words with a PS/2 keyboard on a VGA screen getting processed by my own RISC-V CPU (running Rust btw lol. I ditched that by now though, the struggle was too big). See here: https://i.imgur.com/PtKeAYt.mp4

I have no idea how far I can make it, maybe not fully self-hosted, but a small OS should be doable. I have interrupts and timers working, so I should have everything I need.

The downside is, I am way worse than OP and have no documentation at all. I should do that, but that's where the motivation is missing.

Edit: I type so slow in the video because I did poll the scancodes (too slow) and had to think which characters not to press, because i dont accept all yet and was scared that it breaks

Comment · 1 year ago

He really is. I find it even more awful when you are pointing out that Claude did something wrong and it responds like that. You can even accuse it of doing something wrong, if it gave a correct answer, and it will still respond like this (not always but often). When I use claude chat on the website I always select the "concise" style, which works quite nice though. I like it