I work with Lior at Caltech. He's an amazing guy, probably the only person I know who is capable of doing first-rate work in both biology and mathematics.

I saw an ebay link for 4 cameras pulled from a HiSeq 2000. I am interested in using the cameras to build a digital microscope, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to interface the cameras to a PC, or if they need optics to work. Any ideas? Here is the link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Illumina-HiSeq-2000-Hamamatsu-S10...

I'm confused: wasn't it already mainlined?

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-...

That's async sendfile, it doesn't do TLS.

Yes, but 9th gen has fixes: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13400/intel-9th-gen-core-i9-9...

What about concurrency?

There was a lot of work done on that in the C11 release with updates to the memory model and thread.h. I have heard some criticisms of thread.h APIs which could be addressed, such as the ability to specify stack size.

There are C++2x proposals to add a green thread/goroutine style mechanism. I'm not convinced that it's something which belongs in the C core language or C standard library though.

What do you think of the Talos?

I really like it. It runs fairly cool and quiet, the hardware works great and the software support is now at the point it can be a daily driver. Plus, it builds Firefox at -j24 in a half hour (I have an 8-core SMT-4 system). If the sticker price on the big T2 makes you shiver, wait for the Blackbird, but Power ISA on the desktop is totally viable again as a workstation.

I had Chris as an instructor when I was an undergrad. Great guy, super smart.

I actually read some of this paper! I liked your FFT trick.

Thanks! Do you use that algorithm for anything in your research?

Not directly. I briefly thought that a certain computational number theory problem might involve subset sums, but alas, it turned out to be the wrong approach.