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Modern CPUs are actually pretty good at predicting the indirect branch inside an interpreter loop, _contra_ the conventional wisdom. We take a deep dive into the ITTAGE indirect branch prediction algorithm, which is capable of making those predictions, and draw some connections to some other interests of mine in the areas of fuzzing and reinforcement learning.| Made of Bugs
For one of my network storage PC builds, I was looking for an alternative to Flatcar Container Linux and tried out NixOS again (after an almost 10 year break). There are many ways to install NixOS, and in this article I will outline how I like to install NixOS on physical hardware or virtual machines: over the network and fully declaratively.| Michael Stapelberg
