New blog post: on that time when I decided that if being able to panic one Rust program is good, then a feature that lets you panic other programs would be better, right?
No, really, it's awesome. Here's Hubris's oddest syscall.
@cliffle I noticed the alt text on the IPC flow graph. Yeah, it sucks that a plain string isn't adequate for describing those kinds of images. FWIW, since that image is an SVG, there are ways of rendering it as a tactile graphic, if one has access to the right hardware (e.g. an embosser). There's even a tutorial on writing SVG by hand, targeted at blind people wanting to produce tactile graphics. https://blindsvg.com/
Anyway, thanks for thinking about describing the image.
@cliffle yep. And i understand the Erlang part. Erlang solve the problem by convention. Nearly everyone use the standard library supervisor and having logic in supervisors is frowned upon. But yeah I can see how you would find it too lax for your kind of environment.
But yeah, crashing a lot in isolated restartable components is something that we tend to not explore enough.
It forces a lot of good design on the code runnning there.
@cliffle@thejpster i occupy an interesting middle ground here, where i don't consider myself human, and operate those and only those smart devices that can become a seamless extension of my will. which isn't many of them but it's a non-zero amount
@whitequark@thejpster Strictly speaking I'm a cyborg collective, I just restrict myself to including devices for which I wrote the firmware. And mostly built the PCBs. For similar reasons.
And, yes, patience should not become the "paradox of tolerance." My patience for bad-faith behavior is very limited -- much like the Hubris kernel's.
@cliffle@thejpster nice! I always find it fascinating how one's way of existence is reflected deeply in the code one writes
e.g. my Amaranth, Yosys, and general HDL toolchain work is intended to be comforting to those who have burned out repeatedly and completely; to the extent there is technical excellence beyond that, it is because it appeals to me aesthetically
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