froonly

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by froonly 5mo ago
If the UK was still relevant in the world, the BBC would continue to fund this.
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by froonly 9mo ago
California should do something similar to what Massachusetts did & implement a state income surtax of 5% for those making over $2M/yr. That way, there's no arguing about net worth, etc... https://www.mass.gov/n
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by froonly 1y ago
It's not just the AIs that steal... Thom Yorke is well known for his sticky fingers... https://www.reddit.com/r/radiohead/comments/19266y3/does_any...
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by froonly 1y ago
HPC folks who care about performance don't use gfortran. It's borderline dishonest to compare rust performance unless the target compiler is something like Intel's Fortran compiler from the OneAPI suite, or the newer flang co
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by froonly 2y ago
it would be nice to be able to open papers in a new tab or window on Firefox instead of this thing hijacking the standard user interface.
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by froonly 2y ago
is there a github for this?
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by froonly 2y ago
Getting closer every day. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-76900-1
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by froonly 2y ago
If what Elmo did at twitter is anything to go by, this is just a fricking disaster of gargantuan proportions waiting to happen.
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by froonly 2y ago
Allan Holdsworth isn't on this list. Which means whoever wrote it knows less about guitar than they think they do.
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by froonly 2y ago
Doesn't mention Geisberg forcing Mike Payne to leave PTC and Mike joining Solidworks to head their development.
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by froonly 2y ago
For a while you could view Netflix online and rent DVDs from them.
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by froonly 3y ago
I got paid to do the LAPACK port, back in the mid 2000s, for a federal contractor working on satellite imaging type apps. I was still a good coder, back then... Took me about a month, as I recall. Maybe 6 weeks. But I'm one of those o
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by froonly 3y ago
Never said it would hurt NVidia, only that CUDA itself isn't as strong a barrier as people seem to think it is. But with GPU target support in LLVM, in most cases you won't need to resort to CUDA anymore.
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by froonly 3y ago
Back in the late 90s, there was a project at SGI, called Bali, to make all their pipelines work in IEEE 32-bit floating point (they were using Intel i860 chips) so that they could do HW rendering of scenes written in Pixar's Renderman
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by froonly 3y ago
I have 40+ yrs of HPC/AI apps/performance engineering experience & I was one of the 1st people to port LAPACK and a number of other numerical libs to CUDA. Moreover, many of those major DoE + AI sites are my customers. You sho
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by froonly 3y ago
Mostly true, and you'll get no argument from me on the AMD & Intel are fuckwits front. Intel does ok, but AMD in particular has completely dropped the ball on the SW front, and has been doing so for at least 25 yrs. The point I wa
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by froonly 3y ago
CUDA is a shallow moat whose effectiveness depends entirely on NVidia convincing people to be mortally fearful of water.
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by froonly 3y ago
lmfao at the Meta folks not giving any credit whatsoever to the company that actually came up with and implemented the infrastructure work.
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by froonly 3y ago
wish someone would redo these books, the way they did w. the Feynman lectures. Some of the volumes were so badly printed, as to render them almost illegible.
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by froonly 3y ago
this is misleading.... she didn't design TM's compute/networking HW, only the systems' chassis & skins. Which is to say she was responsible for how those machines looked, but not for how they worked... She did a stel
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by froonly 3y ago
503 error
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by froonly 3y ago
Julia was meant to be a better Fortran/C++
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by froonly 3y ago
https://theoreticalminimum.com/
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by froonly 3y ago
the twitteresque counter.social social network is run by one guy, has been operating since 2017, and afaik the bills are paid simply through crowd funding. In that light, I'd say that whether you can avoid investment capital in favor o