:-) LOL !

That was a neat article.

Great that you had the time to be curious and dig into what was going on. QEMU is quite an amazing tool.

I'm kind of surprised there isn't a fairly robust kernel test around this issue, since it locks the machine down and I think the fix was to prevent a stuck CPU last time as well?

It's also vaguely surprising that this hasn't been encountered more often, particularly by the https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=everlier talking in links to this HN post about "20-30 containers" running simultaneously and occasionally locking up the machine.

If you're still thinking about the bug a little, you could look over how other kernel tests work and implement a failing test around it....?

I imagine the tests have some way of detecting a locked up kernel... I don't know exactly how they'd do it, but they probably have a technique. Most likely since the kernel is literally in a loop it won't respond to anything.. so starting any process, something as simple as creating any process, even one as simple as printing "Hello World!!" would fail and indicate the machine is locked.

Perhaps this is one of those cases where something like UserModeLinux would allow a test to be easily put together, rather than spawning complete VMs via some kind of VM software. Again, would be interesting to know what Linux does with this kind of test.

So wonderful. Thanks for making this so open. I'll show it to my kids. The artwork is very good and the soundtrack too.

It could be a good, relatively portable gas peaker. Though I would have thought batteries might be a better step for peak load management?

This might sit somewhere between peak load and base load?

Since the CO/CO2 exhaust from this turbine should be able to be captured fairly well, would it be possible to capture it on the spot into tanks of some kind? There are most probably some large thermal issues to deal with here.. I also wonder about the MIT COF-99 (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exotic-powder-pul...) that eats up CO2 very efficiently.

If simply CH4 is being passed to the turbine, is the water generated from the combustion being captured anywhere?

What about the sound characteristics of this beasty? There are cases in the US of people noticing the new AI data centre fans whining at all hours.

There'll be an engineer/physicist out there somewhere who'll come up with a generally efficient way to move heat around (Graphene ?) and he'll start a multi-billion dollar business.

I agree. The fine detail on the insects skin/shell is amazing.

I'd love to know the compute hardware he used and the time it took to produce.

Nothing fancy. Postshot does need a nvidia card though, I have a 3060Ti. A single insect, with around 5 million splats takes about 3 hours to train in high quality.

Neat. Thanks!

Thanks for including this.

Hoot looks fantastic. There's a side project, Goblins https://spritely.institute/goblins/ that does distributed development too.

Great to see that people are still supporting Scheme tools. There's a lot of utility here, even if people (and job adds) go for the "latest" tools.

Thanks! Goblins is actually our main project and Hoot is the side project so we can deploy it on the web. Scheme is a really nice language and when you add in some modern features you can do some pretty neat things!

I couldn't find evidence of an interpreter on the scm2wasm github page, but I only did a shallow look.

Hoot (uses Guile Scheme), mentioned above, has a working interpreter, to quote...

   "The toolchain is self-contained and even features a Wasm interpreter for testing Hoot binaries without leaving the Guile REPL."

Thanks for that link. Good to have an (another?) embed-able Scheme interpreter.