TIL `nvme id-ns -H /dev/nvme0n1`

#ISC25 on-demand content is now available for free. eu.avolio.swapcard.com/ISC/2025/reg...

The inaugural High Performance Software Foundation Conference offered updates from HPSF projects, insights on processor & system trends, active discussions around the future of interoperability, and more. ▶️ Find our #HPSFCon recap and links to all the recordings at: hpsf.io/blog/2025/hp...

I'm running Ryzen Master to measure which cores can be undervolted less than 0.03V in 0.001V steps. Puts the old days in perspective where you could buy a Mendocino Celeron or Thoroughbred Athlon XP, slap a decent heatsink on top and just bump its frequency by 50% for free.

Ready to open an OnlyNaNs account

"Moreover, while GenAI can improve worker efficiency, it can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving." www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Barely getting 25MBps reads out of old data on a WD SATA SSD. One would expect the controller to refresh cells every once in a while...right?

Is anyone doing #HPC with any of the new languages competing with C++? Rust seems to get in the way of playing fast and loose a lot. Zig seems to be an overall improvement but it probably doesn't bring enough to the table to justify switching.

It didn't take long for bluesky to become as depressing as Twitter.

Had to agree with the orange site on this one: Ghostty is a good terminal not because it's the fastest or has the most features but because it has sane defaults. Install, set your font and theme, set TERM in your ssh config, you're done.

Spent a week working on an ancient piece of code with exponential runtime, only to figure out a solution in linear time in the shower. 🤦‍♂️

Congratulations to Team UKSCC on winning this year's #SC24 IndySCC!

No such thing as free internet

Keeping our #SC24 IndySCC team Carpinchos well fed with an asado

Spack v0.23 is out! This is the last 0.x release before we go to v1.0 in June. * Language virtuals * ABI splicing (build with mpich, deploy with mvapich2) * ML stacks for grace hopper, dev stack for macOS * UI improvements 👇 More in the release notes! github.com/spack/spack/...

Updating the firmware on a soldering iron feels so wrong.