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pantantrant··on Am open to constructive criticism: My Halting Problem solution
After a finite amount of time, it will either report "Halt" or "Infinite Loop", but my program won't take forever, just a finite amount of time.
pantantrant··on Am open to constructive criticism: My Halting Problem solution
Yes, this infinite loop solver would take longer than the universe's age to print all possible configurations of this 4k monitor, but it would take a finite amount of time as opposed to infinite. (Provided that the integer n is big enough as a arbitrary precision fixed point unsigned integer)
pantantrant··on Am open to constructive criticism: My Halting Problem solution
Example:

ax is a 2 bit register initialized to 0.

100: add 1 ax

101: jmp 100

ax is 0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 1, 2, 3

0 is compared to 1, 1 is compared to 3, 3 is compared to 2, 2 is is compared to 2, wait, that's an infinite loop...

pantantrant··on Ask HN: What laptop are you using to daily drive Linux?
I like a all in one that comes with a battery, the HP Envy Move. I really can use it like a laptop and it has a 23.8" touchscreen.
pantantrant··on GoboLinux
Both aren't that reproducible, I keep running into sha256 hash nondeterminism when upgrading packages on nixos from source after not updating for a while and guix may be better at this.
pantantrant··on GoboLinux
I tried it and I'd rather # make install to install a program and # make -n install | xargs rm -rf to uninstall a program.
pantantrant··on What if there's a voting system where one needs 43% or more to win? (explained)
I changed the printf line of code to this (printf("%2x", integer);) to make it a pseudorandom number generator and made a post about it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39462913 (10 Lines of code 3.4 bits of noise per byte weak pseudo random number generator)

I compiled it, ran ./vitalixprng &> output.txt and then ran Detect It Easy's entropy measuring tool on output.txt to give me around 3.41 bits of randomness per 8 bits.

It outputs 2 hex characters (hex character = half byte = 4 bits) per clock cycle.

It gives out pseudorandom output that looks like this:

28595827262617506937569201755869372950673748294758392

pantantrant··on What if there's a voting system where one needs 43% or more to win? (explained)
Which such systems have a system where ideas that are 43% or greater usually win? I want to know.

Edit: My dad says that Ukraine has such a system where 40% or more, cool.

pantantrant··on Is Go fast enough for large computations?
const int randomnumber = 4;

// It was picked with a dice roll.

pantantrant··on ChatGPT helps me figure the max probability of other life in our Galaxy: 1/400
It's 100% and on Earth and everywhere.
pantantrant··on A NetBSD/amd64 guest can now boot in 18ms
What's the firecracker command for this? (and also for Linux)
pantantrant··on What are you most interested in?
Whatever new thing is distracting me.
pantantrant··on Ask HN: Let's generate some startup ideas in 2024
Are you making a pipelined FPGA architecture or a systolic array?

How would you improve my FPGA? I have two directions that I could take my FPGA architecture such as adding analog Logic Blocks and adding beamforming LUT interconnect.

Can you explain how you would go about getting an MVP manufactured?

pantantrant··on Looks like someone used a password as a URL
Maybe they were on RedoxOS
pantantrant··on Ask HN: Let's generate some startup ideas in 2024
I like this, want to brainstorm with me further?

I raised $372.03 for my FPGA chip on my profile and I've only sketched out a rough mock prototype of what I want the architecture to be.

So far, it works with any amount of silicon defects, can be up to the size of a silicon wafer, and the larger it is, the more it can reconfigure itself in parallel, which is directly proportional to its size growth.

pantantrant··on Ask HN: Let's generate some startup ideas in 2024
Instacart but you know when the order arrives.
pantantrant··on AMD proposes an FPGA subsystem user-space interface for Linux
What percentage of problems would benefit from parallel reconfiguration? I'm raising money for an FPGA in my profile where programs aren't bottlenecked in FPGA reconfiguration but instead are reconfigured in parallel.
pantantrant··on Ask HN: Ideas for Tech Nonprofit
Ways to reach out?
pantantrant··on Ask HN: Techies, how do you keep yourself physically engaged?
You just do.
pantantrant··on Gentoo goes Binary
Gentoo did have a GUI installer in the past, what year was it?
pantantrant··on Gentoo goes Binary
I can't install Gentoo, specifically, the part where I have to install a BIOS or UEFI grub2 bootloader. No I did not use a musl and / or clang profile. With this being my first impression, unless Gentoo or a downstream fork comes with a installer, I won't consider it.

I'm going to install Solus OS / Solus Linux soon, had a good first impression with it's package manager, which claims to be reproducible but not like nix or guix are.

pantantrant··on Are AI language models in hell?
What would such an LLM's threshold for censorable text be?