Downtown Vancouver seems like a strange location for a datacenter given the housing crisis but the important thing is to keep Ken Sim away from this place so he doesn’t try to mine Bitcoin #vancouver

Shut up everyone, the Korean government and Israeli government are beefing

I made a day trip to check out the Sen̓áḵw development and they’re even cooler IRL.

Several years ago I posted about how Congress is skewed much older compared to the US population, and recently I decided to visualize this info. This is the age distribution of the current members of the House, Senate, and both chambers. The last chart is the median age of Congress since 1970.

This is such a succinct depiction of where I am politically.

We started watching Heated Rivalry, but it was a struggle to get my wife to get through some of the first episode because she’s so disgusted by sports.

I started paying attention to politics in 2001, and one absolute truth I’ve observed is that every single day the Republican Party is worse than the day before it.

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

Hot Chips 2025 is up as well (I'm a few weeks late this year): www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

This is how I found out the guy whose studio came out with Titanfall and Jedi Survivor died 😢

I lived in ATX for 11 years, I am ready to be cancelled for this joke.

Ever wonder why compilers use `xor eax, eax` to zero registers? It's smaller AND faster—CPUs optimise it out entirely! Day 1 of Advent of Compiler Optimisations: xania.org/202512/01-xo... Video: youtu.be/eLjZ48gqbyg #AoCO2025

There has been one other person with so much power that they were able to shoot a layer in the face, hospitalizing said lawyer, causing that lawyer to have a heart attack, and then the lawyer apologizing to the guy that shot him in the face.

This is so funny to me

I am a dummy and took the wrong test.

What a processor’s front end sees

I watch horror movies primarily because it’s my marriage tax but I genuinely enjoyed Weapons. www.imdb.com/title/tt2658...

Conversion therapy is another term for child abuse.

It’s 4:15 am here and after four attempts over the span of a month I finally completed my language test. It is now time for dog snuggles.

I wrote my first and maybe only Substack post. This is a follow up to my Colwell post because I found a 2007 technical report by two MS employees who interviewed folks from MS, AMD, and Intel about the history of the transition, and I learned a lot! computerparkitecture.substack.com/p/the-long-m...

Love this photo www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Hazy skies from wildfires in the Pacific NW

Is Todd Austin running for office? 😆#TeamLittleEndian

Reading other sources and it seems like UChicago lost $20 million on crypto? 😬😬😬 stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...

I love this post by Todd Austin equating running a kitchen to a modern out of order microprocessor, especially with the inclusion of precise interrupts, prefetch, and power gating.

Great interview with my (boss’ boss’ boss’ boss’) boss. My Lisa story is that in early 2020 we had a buggy driver launch that caused a game to crash repeatedly. I emailed Lisa telling her that the driver was buggy, my horrible experience with Radeon drivers in 2001 made me

I’ve lived in Texas, Colorado, Ionho, Nosava, Ilana, and Ventanr.

PCIe 8.0 has been announced, so a reminder that since Gen 3, the link transfer rate is 2^(PCIe gen), and from there you can derive the bandwidth for any link width. e.g. Gen 8 x16 = 256 GT/s * 16 lanes / 8 bits/B * 2 directions = 1024 GB/s = 1 TB/s www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Not to brag, but I edit text and clean my apartment with vim

Gaza faces a severe humanitarian crisis as Israeli restrictions on aid lead to widespread malnutrition and starvation, with hospitals overwhelmed by malnourished children.

Intel’s Clear Linux distro has shut down 🫡 community.clearlinux.org/t/all-good-t...

This was another fun trip down memory lane. Magny Cours was the 4th revision of the Barcelona (Greyhound) lineage. I worked on the die-to-die communication link in the MCM package used for control signals like power management. bsky.app/profile/chip...

you’re telling me republicans are now going to call democrats communists since zohran won? they’ve never done that before it might be over

This is a cool read into the past during the early days of our CPU/GPU integration efforts. If you compare block diagrams you can see the lineage from the Unified North Bridge (UNB) to Infinity Fabric. open.substack.com/pub/chipsand...

I needed IT to fix my laptop, so I got to visit the AMD Vancouver campus

White paper on the UALink 200G v1.0 spec by Nathan Kalyanasundharam ualinkconsortium.org/wp-content/u...

I was explaining Little’s Law to my intern today when I used Netflix to illustrate an example. Me: “Do you remember when Netflix used to mail DVDs?” Intern: “Uhh, no. I think that was before I was born.” Me:

This sounded like something @srasgon.bsky.social would say, and it turns out it was. ca.investing.com/news/transcr...

Going through photo archives and I forgot how gorgeous my ex-gf’s cat was with his heterochromia. #cats #catsky #catsofbluesky

Just wrapped tomorrow's episode of Better Offline with @gamersnexus.bsky.social on tariffs and PC gaming, out at 12AM ET

Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada

Absolutely devastating, a senseless tragedy. Condolences to all those affected 💔 This is a message from Lapu Lapu Day organizers Filipino BC.

I really enjoyed this. LLMs and ML are good at certain tasks (summarizing documents, language translations) and absolutely should not be used for other things (logic questions, writing entire software stacks). But this reinforces my view that AI can’t “think” and AGI isn’t happening anytime soon.

This is awful ☹️ www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

My team is hiring. Primarily looking for a SW dev with experience in: * DX12/DXR graphics engine development. * Tool development. Potentially ideal for a game dev looking to make a pivot. Location may be negotiable. (Ignore the AI/ML label in the title) careers.amd.com/careers-home...

I took my periodic US export controls course for work, but it feels hollow now considering all that’s been going on. It’s not even clear that export control violations can/will be enforced given government staffing cuts? www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/p...

I highly recommend reading this fantastic interview with Zen’s dad Mike Clark. He reiterates what my fellow microarchitecture nerds have known about the relationship between ISA and power consumption (the internet overblows it)

This happened in my county, not far from where I live.