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Bryan Cantrill

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Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

Right. And this is like having the recovery path be the primary path, Adam. It's like this is so you don't you don't have this kind of path that you rarely execute that when you needed to execute doesn't work. And it also because this is a real problem with like Nix have gotten really, really complicated. And it's like, oh, by the way, there's another computer over there.

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

Right. And this is like having the recovery path be the primary path, Adam. It's like this is so you don't you don't have this kind of path that you rarely execute that when you needed to execute doesn't work. And it also because this is a real problem with like Nix have gotten really, really complicated. And it's like, oh, by the way, there's another computer over there.

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

I mean, it's not really clear like who's in charge of the system anyway. And especially with like, you know, smart necks, they're being pretty overt about like, no, I've got my own CPU. I've got like, I load my own OS image. And it's like, no, no, no, we don't want any of that.

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

I mean, it's not really clear like who's in charge of the system anyway. And especially with like, you know, smart necks, they're being pretty overt about like, no, I've got my own CPU. I've got like, I load my own OS image. And it's like, no, no, no, we don't want any of that.

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

We want to actually be, we want to have all this information flow in a way that it's attestable, that we know exactly what we're putting out there, where we're So we don't want that level of autonomy out of the system. We don't want this thing for a bunch of reasons. Security, reliability, a bunch of things. So...

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

We want to actually be, we want to have all this information flow in a way that it's attestable, that we know exactly what we're putting out there, where we're So we don't want that level of autonomy out of the system. We don't want this thing for a bunch of reasons. Security, reliability, a bunch of things. So...

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

I mean, this felt like a huge, uh, win that we can use this manufacturing mode to do this. I mean, they're really a real important aspect. I mean, it kind of reminds me of the, our, the fact that we, we don't actually do warm resets. We only boot because we don't want to have this kind of like state accruing in places.

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

I mean, this felt like a huge, uh, win that we can use this manufacturing mode to do this. I mean, they're really a real important aspect. I mean, it kind of reminds me of the, our, the fact that we, we don't actually do warm resets. We only boot because we don't want to have this kind of like state accruing in places.

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

Yeah, actually, this is a very good point, Robert, because it's like, I do feel that when we, you know, I had always thought that like, you know, there's kind of this back and forth over the what controls a certain aspect of the system, whether it's the SP or the kind of the host CPU.

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

Yeah, actually, this is a very good point, Robert, because it's like, I do feel that when we, you know, I had always thought that like, you know, there's kind of this back and forth over the what controls a certain aspect of the system, whether it's the SP or the kind of the host CPU.

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

And there's a kind of a Conway's law thing that, you know, you've got different orgs that are kind of dueling for power, which we don't have at Oxide.

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

And there's a kind of a Conway's law thing that, you know, you've got different orgs that are kind of dueling for power, which we don't have at Oxide.

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

But like, even if you are like, you have like total organizational harmony, just when you have something that is effectively dual ported, that is kind of owned by two things, you have all of these like electrical issues that are really thorny about, as you say, like level translation, which is a bunch of stuff that,

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

But like, even if you are like, you have like total organizational harmony, just when you have something that is effectively dual ported, that is kind of owned by two things, you have all of these like electrical issues that are really thorny about, as you say, like level translation, which is a bunch of stuff that,

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

And so when you say it does not train, what does training a link mean? Who's doing that training, and what does it mean when it fails to train?

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

And so when you say it does not train, what does training a link mean? Who's doing that training, and what does it mean when it fails to train?

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

It's amazing. Yeah.

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

It's amazing. Yeah.

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

So that is what it means to train. So when we're not training occasionally in manufacturing mode, we're just giving up on this. That device is just not working. I don't know why.

Oxide and Friends
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

So that is what it means to train. So when we're not training occasionally in manufacturing mode, we're just giving up on this. That device is just not working. I don't know why.