Why are there SO MANY interesting talks at the same time at #FOSDEM 🥲
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Why are there SO MANY interesting talks at the same time at #FOSDEM 🥲
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Why are there SO MANY interesting talks at the same time at #FOSDEM 🥲
Way cool! Are they being recorded?
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Why are there SO MANY interesting talks at the same time at #FOSDEM 🥲
Wow. Flashbacks from Android KitKat. Is this a more modern version though?
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Way cool! Are they being recorded?
@serpicojam I think so!
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Wow. Flashbacks from Android KitKat. Is this a more modern version though?
@h3artbl33d as in the UI? This is the official #FOSDEM app 😅
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Why are there SO MANY interesting talks at the same time at #FOSDEM 🥲
@Gina You don't go to FOSDEM for the talks, they are recorded and the rooms are full anyway.
You go to FOSDEM for the Hallway Track.
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Why are there SO MANY interesting talks at the same time at #FOSDEM 🥲
@Gina it is the yearly puzzle...
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Why are there SO MANY interesting talks at the same time at #FOSDEM 🥲
@Gina Because it's a continent away and there's no chance I can go to any of them??
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@Gina Because it's a continent away and there's no chance I can go to any of them??
@mike @Gina well, there is a way to be there for the talks
live.fosdem.org/watch/janson (and similar links for the other rooms, you can get to them from fosdem.org/2026/schedule/ )
there is no chance for you (or me, this year) to go to the best part of FOSDEM, which is everything that is happening outside the talks, but to some extent the streaming is actually *better* for watching talks than being there
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@evanskaufman it's in notepad now?!?!?
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@bitsplusatoms Looks like hamradio is quite popular, I didn't expect so much interest.
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Today in 2018.
I named this photo "After the fog, there will be more fog"#ThrowBackThursday #Photography #Photo #Italy #Italia #PianuraPadana
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@EnigmaRotor ehehe true! Still, it did a generally great job as the photo is totally untouched.
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The Inner Workings of the Intel 8086’s Arithmetic Logic Unit
In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them. Whereas the 6502 used separate circuits for operations, and the Intel 8085 a clump of reconfigurable clump of gates, the 8086 uses microcode that configures the ALU along with two lookup tables. This complexity is one of the reasons why the Intel 8086 is so unique, with [Ken Shirriff] taking an in-depth look at its workings on a functional and die-level.
These lookup tables are used for the ALU configuration – as in the above schematic – making for a very flexible but also complex system, where the same microcode can be used by multiple instructions. This is effectively the very definition of a CISC-style processor, a legacy that the x86 ISA would carry with it even if the x86 CPUs today are internally more RISC-like. Decoding a single instruction and having it cascade into any of a variety of microcodes and control signals is very powerful, but comes with many trade-offs.
Of course, as semiconductor technology improved, along with design technologies, many of these trade-offs and disadvantages became less relevant. [Ken] also raises the interesting point that much of this ALU control technology is similar to that used in modern-day FPGAs, with their own reconfigurable logic using LUTs that allow for on-the-fly reconfiguration.
