Cloud Computing's Hidden Hero: The Untold Story of OpenBMC
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Imagine stepping into a modern datacenter—a massive, buzzing labyrinth filled with rows of servers stacked like skyscrapers in a futuristic cityscape. You hear the soft hum of countless fans, the relentless clicking of hard drives, and the quiet chatter of power supplies whispering in unison. This is the nerve center of the digital world, where countless applications run, data flows endlessly, and artificial intelligence (AI) models learn and evolve every second. But amid this symphony of technology, there is one unsung hero that keeps everything running smoothly, often working quietly behind the scenes: the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC).

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People who are really serious about AI should have their own datacenter
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Many years ago, Alan Kay famously said, "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." This statement reflects a profound truth about the relationship between software and hardware: when you control both, you unlock a level of optimization and customization that is simply not possible otherwise. Today, as we find ourselves on the precipice of the AI revolution, it’s becoming clear that those who are truly serious about AI should take a similar approach with their datacenters. Surprisingly, it’s more accessible than you might think.

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Just give it up, no one cares about security
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Use ChatGPT for compiler error regeneration
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ChatGPT is so hot that everybody is trying to use it everywhere. Recently I use it in my compiler to help users on error regeneration. Here's how I do it.

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LambdaChip renamed to Animula
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Hi LambdaChip folks!

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LambdaChip renamed to Animula
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Hi LambdaChip falks!

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万事开头难,可是很重要
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1961年,一个气象学家正利用计算机预测天气,不知怎地突然死机了,还好他的系统比较靠谱能恢复现场,重新开机后恢复中间数据接着算。可是见鬼了,他发现发现中途接着算的结果,跟重头算的结果差异巨大。后来发现,恢复数据的时候小数点后几位被截断了,普通人也许会认为这只不过是微不足道的精度变化,可是从此人类开始意识到天气系统具有敏感的初值依赖性。这并不是人类第一次真正遇到这个问题,在这位气象学家之前100年,庞加莱研究三体运动时就发现了同宿轨道,同样的,他发现了双曲点附近的轨道敏感地依赖于初值,无法预测其运动轨迹。

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GNU Artanis donates to HardenedLinux
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Mae govannen, nothlir!

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LambdaChip v0.4.2 released!
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See changelog.

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LambdaChip platform whitepaper
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Go to LambdaChip site.

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LambdaChip v0.4.0 released!
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See the ChangeLog.

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LambdaChip v0.3.3 released!
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LambdaChip v0.3.3 was released!

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LambdaChip v0.3.1 released!
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LambdaChip v0.3.1 was released!

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Scheme language is good enough for products
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In the past decade, I've been trying to use Scheme programming language in the product environment. The existing lore around Scheme is always fascinating, paradoxical, and mystical. However, although Scheme is prominent in the academy, I'm pretty sure only a few people had tried it in a product. Because I didn't see many discussions about the problems using Scheme in product development. Most people were just following other people's opinions. And less people discusses the real problem, and how to deal with the problem.

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[Video] LambdaChip: a gateway between functional programming and embedded devices
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The plan of LambdaChip v0.1.0 and the current status
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LambdaChip is a Functional Language Virtual Machine designed for embedded system.

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GNU Artanis-0.5 is ready for docker
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First, you need Docker, I recommend the official installation document.

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What's news in GNU Artanis-0.5?
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Recently, I released GNU Artanis-0.5. Here's Relese Note.

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Recon the Hydra Cave: a development note of Rust on GCC (part 1)
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Rust is a strange language.

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隐私时代的销售学
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1997年,有一个叫 Paco Underhill 的家伙写了一本书叫做《Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping》,中文名《顾客为什么会购买》。此书出版后在某个群体内大受欢迎,再版了多次,并被誉为“新时代的销售圣经”。您不用去读这本书,原因待会儿您就知道了。那么这本书里面写了什么呢?它可以说是一本很有洞察力,并且极具实操性的一本书,它主张明智的销售总是顺应顾客的习性而不是试图改变他们,由此它提出在销售场景当中用科学的统计和分析方法,来研究如何通过重新规划物品的摆放、场地的利用、标识的搭配等等来提高顾客的购买率。当然,这本书里所讲的案例是跟具体销售场景密切相关的,经验并不能直接拷贝,但它所介绍的分析方法却是通用的。

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Learn Language Like a Linguist - 3 (Javascript - Literals) 2020
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Learn Language Like a Linguist - 2 (Javascript - Module and Scope) 2020
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Learn Language Like a Linguist 1 - basic concept (Javascript)
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What's new in GNU Artanis 0.4.1
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Today I released GNU Artanis 0.4.1. GNU Artanis is the product level Web Framework for Scheme programming language. Please see the release note for better description.

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Hurd, seL4, thoughts
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In the past 30 years, GNU Hurd has been the official kernel of GNU operating system. The term "kernel" may not be precise here. "The kernel" is the classical concept of the monolithic OS design; in microkernel, there's still the concept "kernel", but it's smaller than monolithic. However, GNU Hurd is not following the simple "kernel + userland" design. GNU Hurd is a collection of servers, which can interact with its microkernel GNU Mach by IPC (Inter Process Communication) for system level requesting. Sounds a little familiar? Try to imagine you're running bunch of dockers on the cloud, and there's a centralized node for scheduling.

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朋克式开源
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对许多人来说,“朋克”这个词既熟悉又陌生。音乐上的朋克我很喜欢,因为和弦简单直接,一般就三个和弦不断重复,拨拉开了直接唱,所以唱词才是关键——重点是表达而不是炫技。这种反叛的态度转移到文化上,就成了反主流、反消费主义,说得通俗点,就是有点“老子有才,但老子不卖”的感觉。虽然听起来有些幼稚,但也是真性情,我自己虽然做不到,但无论如何也不能说是贬义词。

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函数式编程,我们这次赶上了吗?
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公元1945年,Samuel Eilenberg和Mac Lane一同建立了范畴论,当时他们只把这个不怎么起眼的东西当作工具来解决一点代数拓扑上的问题。而这个东西是如此抽象和玄幻,以致于在之后很长一段时间内范畴论都在被当作哲学来讨论,直到一个叫格罗滕迪克的年轻人突发奇想把它真正用到数学研究上去,这个后来被封为数学之神的人在那一瞬间启发了凡人数学家们,于是范畴论开始从一门哲学变成了被数学家认真对待的东西。纯数学有太多的东西无法进入应用领域而被人类所关注了,所以绝大部分数学家可能都没有想到,这套玄门秘术会在计算机应用领域大放光彩。

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8 essential patterns you should know about functional programming in C++14
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To C++ folks, if the Functional Programming is still an academic theory or confusing concept to you, then you're out. It's already used a lot in our daily product development today. I'd like to share you 8 essential patterns to help you grab this powerful weapon quickly in a practical way. It's not hard, and I hope you're familiar with C++14 features.

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What's new in GNU Artanis 0.4
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First, I'd recommend newbies try to use docker for painless installation.

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我们赖以生存的互联网标准是如何制定的
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如今是网络已经成为我们生活的一部分,可以说没有网络就没有生活。我曾经也很怀疑自己这个论断,在这个年代难道山沟沟里的人就没有生活了吗?后来有一次我去到一处穷乡僻壤,无意中看到了“村村通”的成果,电话、网络等在山沟里也是可以通到的,淘宝等电商在山沟里也是能享受到的,只不过物流没有那么完美,只能在村里设置个商铺作为接收点,然后买家自己过来拿。所以我越发坚信自己这个论断,即便互联网尚未100%覆盖这个世界,它也已经是我们生活的一部分了。

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中国自由软件的未来
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“争名者于朝,争利者于市。” —— 《战国策·秦策一》


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Install GNU Artanis with Docker
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If you're suffering from the installation and dependencies of GNU Artanis, here's an easier way to go.

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Static files permission issue in Nginx
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If you encounter this kind of error by Nginx:

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A preview of Guile-Lua (rebirth), and some opinions.
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Oops, seems I haven't updated my blog for 11 months. What I'm doing?

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Actor-Model: a revealed black box in Scheme
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There're serveral concurrent models nowadays, CSP, Actors, π-calculus ...etc. It is believed that these concurrent models could bring high performance and scalable concurrent network service. Actor-model(I may call it Actors in the rest of the article) is a hot one that many folks would like to talk about it. But rather than using it, have you imagined to implement one for better learning it? Well, if your answer is yes then this is the article for you. I'll show you a feature-limited tiny actor-model implementation in Scheme, although you may call it a poor man's threading system, hope that's enough for you to understand the principle.

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Do some quick and dirty with Guile FFI
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These days I'm facinated in working on MAL (stands for Make a Lisp) project with Guile. I've done several steps so far, and I'll send pull request when it's all finished. And I found my implementation in Guile-2.1 runs faster than most of others, only little slower than C version. Seems there's something to be expected. ;-)

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[ANN] GNU Artanis 0.0.3 released [alpha]
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I'm pleased to announce artanis-0.0.3 here.

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Simple solution to mkdir a tree
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The problem

Yesterday night I've written command line interface (CLI) for GNU Artanis, after took care of my daughter to sleep, I had only one hour to hack something.

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[ANN] GNU Artanis 0.0.2 released [alpha]
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I'm pleased to announce artanis-0.0.2 here.

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[ANN]Artanis-0.0.1 released!
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Artanis is a new web application framework (WAF) written with pure GNU Guile Scheme. Artanis is free software, under GPLv3 and LGPLv3.

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Convert hex to bin in Guile Scheme
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Unfortunatly, Guile doesn't provide a method to convert hex to bin (When I'm writing, the current version is 2.0.11). People have to write their own one.

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Uroboros: The power of high order function
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According to SICP, high-order function gives us the ability to build abstractions by assigning names to common patterns and then to work in terms of the abstractions directly. It's very useful while you're trying to refactor you code.

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Oba pipeline style!
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The concept of pipeline in functional programming means a succession of functions that operate, one after another, on an array of data, which consists of a chain of processing elements arranged so that the output of each element is the input of the next. One of the famous practices is Unix pipeline.

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Simple, but not so simple
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In spite of a Scheme implementation, Guile is also an extension language platform. This means you can write new language on it, which could be totally different from Scheme. Say, PHP/Lua/Ecmascript...and all these front-end will take advantage of the compiling optimization machenism of Guile.

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A way to write shit with you elegant Scheme language
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Take it easy if you're uncomfortable with the word 'elegant'. This article is not driven by any academic purpose. I'm trying to show an interesting way to write chaos Scheme code. ;-)

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How to build your blog with Scheme programming language
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1. Why bother to do it?

Well, I love Scheme. That's all.

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新博客启用
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折腾了快一个月,总算把这个新博客弄好了。要说有啥特色,其实主要是技术上的特色,本博客完全用Guile写的,采用了Andy Wingo的博客框架tekuti。我做了一些改进,修复了一些bug。

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