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by timlatim 1y ago
Without questioning this idea on political grounds, I am not sure if it would be at all possible for an Ascend 910C cluster to enter the supercomputer rankings. I could not find a public datasheet on this chip (would appreciate a link), but
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IBM and AMD on Hybrid Classical-Quantum Supercomputers(nextplatform.com)
2 points by timlatim 1y ago|0 comments
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by timlatim 1y ago
Not the poster you've asked, but I think you might be interested in Mark Fisher's "What is Hauntology?" (10.1525/fq.2012.66.1.16). It argues the contemporary culture is incapable of coming up with genuinely new idea
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by timlatim 2y ago
Even the Chinese Character Heroes competition mentioned in the article seems a lot like the spelling bee in the US, doesn't it? I wonder if the anecdote about the PhD students has a cultural dimension in addition to language proficienc
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by timlatim 2y ago
The official specifications are more conservative than what is possible with memory overclock profiles like Intel XMP and AMD EXPO. The Phoenix tests show 285K at both DDR5-6400 and DDR5-8000. It is possible to go higher than the official 5
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by timlatim 2y ago
This review is focused on Linux application performance, where Arrow Lake is generally strong. Compared to its predecessor, 14900K, it ends up both faster (barring some outliers) and significantly more power efficient. Compared to Zen 5, ho
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Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Delivers Strong Linux Performance(phoronix.com)
1 points by timlatim 2y ago|4 comments
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by timlatim 2y ago
What problems have you encountered on Fedora that were caused by a distro upgrade? Asking this because I've been using Fedora for years across different machines and can't recall any breakages that were direct consequences of an u
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by timlatim 2y ago
> It's simply that Gnome is too 'chaotic'. Just to offer a different point of view, I see it as the opposite. I like a lot of things the KDE community is doing and I think it's particularly good at power user oriented
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by timlatim 2y ago
I have to use Windows at work, and one thing that hugely improves the experience is the "Everything" search tool [1]. It searches across all files you have in something like a second or two, and when you type it narrows down sugge
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by timlatim 2y ago
Text-based workflow has one significant advantage over GUI-based design: diffability. This enables patch-based collaboration: you can easily share your diff with others, review changes line-by-line, resolve conflicts between concurrent modi
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Ryzen 9000 Series Community Update: Gaming Performance(community.amd.com)
4 points by timlatim 2y ago|0 comments
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by timlatim 2y ago
It's worth noting that AMD had worked with Microsoft on Zen-specific optimizations in the past, too. Ahead of the Zen 2 launch, they touted improvements of up to 15% from Windows scheduler changes for CPU topology awareness [1]. And wi
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by timlatim 2y ago
If your typical workloads are covered by Phoronix tests, take a look at their energy consumption results. In LLVM compilation, for instance, 9950X does run at higher average power (188W vs 140W for 5950X), but because it finishes the task m
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by timlatim 2y ago
The 9950X seems more exciting than the last week's 9700X/9600X. It is comfortably ahead of the previous gen (including X3D) in code compilation and video/image processing, which I care about more than performance in games, an
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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X Deliver Excellent Linux Performance(phoronix.com)
26 points by timlatim 2y ago|10 comments
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by timlatim 2y ago
Glad to see I'm not the only one missing Google Inbox! I don't believe it was widely popular, at the time I may have been the only one in my circle to use it, but for me its workflow was just perfect. It gave you a clutter-free ma
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by timlatim 3y ago
Apologies if I'm misreading your intention, but are you suggesting that Valve's work on Wine is somehow worse than asking game developers to target Linux/other OSes natively? As a Linux desktop enthusiast, I much prefer the V
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Intel Meteor Lake Arc Graphics Battles AMD RDNA3 Integrated Graphics(phoronix.com)
2 points by timlatim 3y ago|0 comments
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by timlatim 3y ago
Steam is also the reason Linux desktop is becoming more and more viable for everyday use (yes, including gaming) through Valve's involvement with Wine, Mesa, and other parts of the stack. As a consumer, I'm glad this is where the
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by timlatim 3y ago
I'm not sure I agree that "most people don't care about the stuff you (as a Linux user) would care about". Some people put up with Windows problems because they don't know it could be different, to them that's
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by timlatim 3y ago
I love using Rust in my toy projects (and wish my job was more open to anything but C++, but oh well). With its functional-style iterators, sum types and pattern matching, Rust lets me write code in a way that just feels natural. And the bo
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by timlatim 3y ago
GPUs do not have thousands of physical cores, though. What's called a "CUDA core" is essentially a programming slash marketing abstraction for a SIMD lane. A closer analogy to a CPU core would be a Streaming Multiprocessor (R
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by timlatim 4y ago
Personally, I struggle to see what's good about unspecified-but-fixed-width integer types as in C/C++. A lot of real-world code I see uses uint32_t (sometimes typedef'd to u32) and the like to get predictable data layout and
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by timlatim 4y ago
The point, I believe, is not about Linux kernel but rather "Linux userland". I'm sure you could replace "iOS" with "Android" and the meaning will stay the same: smartphone OSes go to great lengths to isola
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Rails developers write some Rust: a review of Axum 0.6(thoughtbot.com)
1 points by timlatim 4y ago|0 comments
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by timlatim 5y ago
I agree with your point of view, it does seem to shift some of the teaching burden from instructors to project maintainers. I generally like the way student performance is assessed, with more emphasis on the technical quality and presentati
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by timlatim 5y ago
I wonder if we'll ever see FPGAs in consumer CPUs, given AMD's expertise with chiplets and interconnects. Say, for programmable specialized instructions. The relatively recently published patent "Method and apparatus for effi
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by timlatim 6y ago
I think algorithmically detecting paid stickers on upload can work. I needed to detect duplicate images for a pet project once and I've got satisfying results out of using perceptual image hashing. Building up a database of hashes for
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by timlatim 6y ago
The problem is how the author frames it in the README: "an experiment to disprove some of the falsehoods about performance and optimisation regarding software and interpreted languages in particular", "unfortunately many prog

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