Notices by jjg (jjg@social.coop), page 11

@tbeckett Yeah I definitely want to pick up some of the older stuff.

Not something I thought I'd enjoy, but there it is.

@MightyPork nice!

Now that I'm starting to dabble in designing boards I'm always excited to see a rendering float by in the tootstream :)

@bob

Yeah, I've met a lot of people like that. It's really depressing actually and I'm kind of afraid of it happening to me at some point because I don't exactly understand *why* it happens.

That said I'm all about mining good ideas out of the past, even if the people who thought of them went some other direction :)

@amphetamine

Current status
https://social.coop/media/5s0fNuFdrqLvqp8BlkQ

@Antanicus I never thought of that but it’s an interesting idea...

@Antanicus would you use electricity to heat the water for a traditional steam engine, or something different?

@zatnosk I’d love to “check that out” sometime ;)

@cynicalsecurity @Kensan this one is mine :)

There is another that @vertigo mentioned last week (raspi-based) that I was talking about as well.

@hackaday did a nice post about #rainpsc

https://hackaday.com/2018/03/21/everyone-needs-a-personal-supercomputer/

If we somehow make it further in the competition the prize money will certainly help accelerate completion of a prototype (and possibly the development of a kit...)

I miss you all.

Vacation is fun and I’ve seen many cool things, but I’m looking forward to getting back to the lab and hacking on some shit.

“working” remote today
https://social.coop/media/sYzV4qnVpswllEckNMQ

@vertigo fortunately this is a problem I’ve been thinking about for *decades* and feel uniquely qualified to solve.

It’s almost as if all my work up until this point has positioned me to bring all this together.

@vertigo That’s part of my motivation to make the move to RISC-V, as well as develop more advanced hardware using FPGA, etc.

It also made it clear that the *software* side of the system is where I could really differentiate my work, because if I want to make these machines useful to a wider audience,I need to make it a lot easier to write programs for them that take advantage of all the hardware. This is a long standing challenge in high-performance application development.