Adrian Cochrane
We cannot write a program that generates randomness, because as soon as we've done so it can be used to predict that randomness. We can extropolate (within limits) randomness, mix it, & adjust its probability distribution. But randomness itself must be sourced as input!
There's dedicated circuits for this, & often we can extract randomness from other inputs as sideeffect of the digitization process.
Maybe randomness is just what we don't understand, or maybe its some sort of nonsentient deity.
Adrian Cochrane
Simple Parallel Processing In PHP With pcntl_fork(): https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2013/simple-parallel-processing-in-php-with-pcntl-fork/
Adrian Cochrane
@emsenn I also quite enjoy "Kittens Love References": https://invidio.us/watch?v=qAPy8bHI-ms
Adrian Cochrane
Please develop your software on low-end machines, so you you know it's performant enough for anyone. I do!
https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/23/Why-I-use-old-hardware.html
Adrian Cochrane
Please humor me as I theorize about an alternative CPU architecture.
That hopes to be simpler than what we've got whilst doing a better job at extracting parallelism and protecting sandboxes. Because I don't think imperative programming was the correct paradigm for machine code.
Functional would've been better.
Adrian Cochrane
@teleclimber @Denderix @kosinus Sometimes I wonder what computers would bey like if we switched to a system based on a functional machine code.
That could've been easier for CPUs to extract parallelism from. So much so that we might not have needed to do it in software.
A browser developer posting mostly about how free software projects work, and occasionally about climate change.Though I do enjoy german board games given an opponent.Pronouns: he/him
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