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ivas··on Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot
> but legally you're not doing a clean room implementation, you're looking at the original and creating a new functional replacement

Interesting legal question: if Claude reverse engineers the original and writes a spec, and ChatGPT implements the spec without seeing the original, is that a clean-room implementation? Asking for a friend with a trillion parameters

ivas··on The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2
Checked my connection via VPN by Google/Cloudflare WARP: "Proxy/VPN not detected"
ivas··on Do Not Log
In your code, you don't have to use exceptions to indicate a failure but you still have to catch exceptions thrown by third-party libraries (or their dependencies).

It is not easy to stay away from exceptions if your language supports them.

ivas··on The Last Soviet Generation
"Job by distribution" was no secret and it is a well-known thing among people from post-soviet countries. Graduates were obliged to work at assigned place, usually for three years.
ivas··on The Last Soviet Generation
It was illegal not to work in the Soviet Union. There was even a name for such people who weren't officially employed - "tuneyadets".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism_(social_offense)

ivas··on Renesas enters FPGA market with the first ultra-low-power, low-cost family
It will have BRAM. There’s a detailed information about one of these ICs in their software - ForgeFPGA Workshop.

SLG47910V has: 32kb of BRAM; 900 LUT4 equivalent; 1.8k DFFs; 5kb of distributed RAM; integrated 50MHz OSC, PLL.