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bitonic / vectorized-atan2f.cpp
Last active April 16, 2024 12:17
Vectorized & branchless atan2f
// Copyright (c) 2021 Francesco Mazzoli <f@mazzo.li>
//
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// purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
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//
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The Freenode resignation FAQ, or: "what the fuck is going on?"

IMPORTANT NOTE:

It's come to my attention that some people have been spamming issue trackers with a link to this gist. While it's a good idea to inform people of the situation in principle, please do not do this. By all means spread the word in the communities that you are a part of, after verifying that they are not aware yet, but unsolicited spam is not helpful. It will just frustrate people.

Update 3 (May 24, 2021)

A number of things have happened since the last update.

@yorickdowne
yorickdowne / GethBEHAVE.md
Last active March 13, 2024 01:10
Pruning Geth 1.10.x, 1.11.x, 1.12.x

Note: PBSS in Geth >=1.13.0 removes the need to prune manually.


Old content for reference

Overview

Geth (Go-Ethereum) as of July 2022 takes about 650 GiB of space on a fast/snap sync, and then grows by ~ 14 GiB/week with default cache, ~ 8 GiB/week with more cache.

@F1LT3R
F1LT3R / ytm3.sh
Last active September 11, 2020 19:48
Split long YouTube Videos into 5min MP3 Segments
#!/bin/bash
# USAGE: ytm3 https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=rQLBitV69Cc
# DESCRIPION: Download Audio from YouTube videos, Convert to split MP3s (5 Min)
# PURPOSE: Studying w/ iPod shuffle
# PRE-REQS: Node.js, YTDL, FFMPEG
# Author: F1LT3R.io
for URL in $@
do
import SwiftUI
import PlaygroundSupport
// constants
let cardWidth: CGFloat = 343
let cardHeight: CGFloat = 212
let spacing = 36
let animation = Animation.spring()
let cardColors = [
Color(UIColor.systemRed),

Foreward

This document was originally written several years ago. At the time I was working as an execution core verification engineer at Arm. The following points are coloured heavily by working in and around the execution cores of various processors. Apply a pinch of salt; points contain varying degrees of opinion.

It is still my opinion that RISC-V could be much better designed; though I will also say that if I was building a 32 or 64-bit CPU today I'd likely implement the architecture to benefit from the existing tooling.

Mostly based upon the RISC-V ISA spec v2.0. Some updates have been made for v2.2

Original Foreword: Some Opinion

The RISC-V ISA has pursued minimalism to a fault. There is a large emphasis on minimizing instruction count, normalizing encoding, etc. This pursuit of minimalism has resulted in false orthogonalities (such as reusing the same instruction for branches, calls and returns) and a requirement for superfluous instructions which impacts code density both in terms of size and

PoW vs PoS - Environment and Security

Date: Jul 21, 2019
Updated: See Github revisions timestamps

In questions sprouted from this thread: https://twitter.com/taoeffect/status/1151941939157012480

I copy them here into this gist in the hopes that it will serve others and so that in the future I have something I can link people to. My thanks to @Jehan for the opportunity to put my thoughts on this subject into a somewhat easier-to-read medium.

I've always had trouble understanding the narrative that the owners of huge

@jfet97
jfet97 / _objectsFlattening.js
Last active June 12, 2019 23:02
objects flattening
const obj = { a: { b: 1, c: 2, d: { e:4 , f:[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0]} }, g:42 };
const res = Object.fromEntries(flatProps(objectRecursiveEntries(obj)));
/*
{
"a.b": 1,
"a.c": 2,
"a.d.e": 4,
"a.d.f.0": 1,
"a.d.f.1": 2,
@Lekensteyn
Lekensteyn / inject-tls-secrets.py
Last active March 13, 2024 15:31
Extracts a subset of TLS secrets and injects them in an existing capture file (requires Wireshark 3.0).
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# Extracts a subset of TLS secrets and injects them in an existing capture file.
#
# Author: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
import argparse
import os
import shlex
import subprocess
import sys

How do I verify the Sapling MPC?

What you'll need

  1. Install the Rust compiler. A version from a year ago will work but the recent one is fine too.
  2. Download the transcript from the Powers of Tau MPC. (See the links here.)
  3. Download the params file from the Sapling MPC.
  4. Check out the attestations for the Powers of Tau MPC. (Similar can be found for the Sapling MPC but participants chose various ways to distribute their attestations, they have not been coalesced into a single repository.)

Step 1: Verify Powers of Tau