OTC CatchUp #136 Summary

KCD Mumbai took a unique approach with Visual Summary to sum up the event contents.

Hussein Nasser

Computerphile

Most laptops come with OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) keys tied to the motherboard of the laptop.

The discussions were about how Windows 8 was a visual overhaul over Windows 7, but many people were not in its favor due to its lack of similarity with the previous versions.

Some people think that Windows phones were ahead of their time.

Overclocking a CPU locks the clock frequency of the CPU to a higher value than the default value, so one should be careful while doing it.

Few people from Harsh Kapadia's team at AMD went for Computex and they saw some interesting products under development.

Harsh Kapadia and Mohit Gangwani shared some interesting videos:

Many people seem to be unhappy with this decision though.

Some helpful Reddit communities are private which otherwise would provide efficient and quick solutions to some problems.

Many communities are private indefinitely.

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cyclic.sh

GitHub Repo

MLH

The code that he writes, generates a circuit that is the logic of the code. He visualized the circuit using Vivado.

HDLBits has Verilog and VHDL as the most famous languages used to describe hardware.

SystemVerilog vs Verilog: page 2 of PDF

Nand2Tetris is a course that teaches you how to build a computer from first principles.

eVM - has a single core so it’s not very performant.

We then talked about eBPF. It is used to safely and efficiently extend the capabilities of the kernel at runtime without requiring changing kernel source code or load kernel modules.

Rishit Dagli suggested that Sysdig and Falco are now powered by eBPF.

It might not be immediate and it’s not just about attending talks and learning from that, but it is also about meeting people and learning from them. ROI might not be immediate in those cases.

Always checking for ROI is not the best. Some things that don’t scale well are okay to do at the start.