Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

Bare metal programming is to run a program without an operating system below it.

Or in other words, it is basically implementing an operating system/firmware yourself ad hoc, together with your actual program.

It ain't perfect, but it's decent enough.

From a technical point of view, it can do anything that Microsoft Windows can. Except being forcefully installed on every non-MacOS 2019 computer you can buy.

Ciro Santilli's conversion to Linux happened around 2012, and was a central part of Ciro Santilli's Open Source Enlightenment, since it fundamentally enables the discovery and contribution to open source software. Because what awesome open source person would waste time porting their amazing projects to closed source OSes?

Ciro's modest nature can be seen as he likes to compare this event Buddha's Great Renunciation.

Linux should track glibc and POSIX command line utilities in-tree like BSD Operating System, otherwise people have no way to get the thing running in the first place without blobs or large out-of-tree scripts! Another enlightened soul who agrees.

Particularly interesting in the history of Linux is how it won out over the open competitors that were coming up in the time: MINIX (see the chat) and BSD Operating System that got legally bogged down at the critical growth moment.

You must watch this: truth Happens advertisement by Red Hat.

The real explanation: stackoverflow.com/questions/1780599/what-is-the-meaning-of-posix/31865755#31865755

The OS that the Gods ordered be made.

One is reminded of Ulillillia, see also: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-79yOZ13qg The Story of Ulillillia by Atrocity Guide (2019)

We are all somewhere in the spectrum.

By Andy Haas, an experimental particle physics professor: as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/andy-haas.html What an awesome dude!

899 USD as of 2022, takes a year to ship as they gather up a lot of orders before producing.

Sounds so cool, especially the multi functionality. Shame so expensive.

Projects:

How to decide if an ORM is decent? Just try to replicate every SQL query from nodejs/sequelize/raw/many_to_many.js on PostgreSQL and SQLite.

There is only a very finite number of possible reasonable queries on a two table many to many relationship with a join table. A decent ORM has to be able to do them all.

If it can do all those queries, then the ORM can actually do a good subset of SQL and is decent. If not, it can't, and this will make you suffer. E.g. Sequelize v5 is such an ORM that makes you suffer.

The next thing to check are transactions.

Basically, all of those come up if you try to implement a blog hello world world such as gothinkster/realworld correctly, i.e. without unnecessary inefficiencies due to your ORM on top of underlying SQL, and dealing with concurrency.

This was an intermediate step between the nuclear chain reaction prototype Chicago Pile-1 and the full blown plutonium mass production at Hanford site. Located in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.