2006
This is Alyssa Rosenzweig. She reverse-engineered Apple's M1 GPU with no public documentation and also developed an open-source Linux driver. (europe.pub)
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[–] 77 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I have such immense respect for people who know how the bits are physically flowing through a machine. I took classes about it but I can't imagine doing that daily, it's so tedious.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    And imagine doing it without expecting a cent!

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    It’s the challenge of it though.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    thaaaaat’s the shit, when it finally cracks and you laser focus on implementing your solution. better than drugs.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The high of cracking an intractable problem (pre-AI) was just unreal. I’d struggle to sleep, awaiting the morning so I could get back at it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    Nothing groundbreaking but writing my own Huffman compressor in C and seeing the whole thing work knowing where nearly all the real physical bits were going, was seriously satisfying. Recommended exercise ☺️

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