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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 …

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 o…

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 …

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 an…

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) a…

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 a…

> 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 par…

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 seco…

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 cha…

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 s…

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 …

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 …

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 workfl…

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 …

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…

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…

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 let…

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 CP…

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…