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New comment by Fronzie in "Reflections on 30 years of HPC programming"

Fronzie — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:41:43 +0000

It's close, but not quite. Getting it to do 'y = ax + by' like vector operations without superfluous reads/writes is tricky.

New comment by Fronzie in "US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it"

Fronzie — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:30:40 +0000

(Home) batteries are quickly becoming cheap and per-hour electricity rates can be implemented at a reasonable time. With that, the grid owner can influence the grid stability without having to build capacity or generation itself.

New comment by Fronzie in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

Fronzie — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:39:37 +0000

Do they require anti-cheat kernel drivers? If not, there's a good chance proton/steam to runs them.

New comment by Fronzie in "Linux is good now"

Fronzie — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:09:03 +0000

With debian and KDE (both personal preference), but no snap or flatpak, it works wonderfully. Power/sleep-management has become better than a default windows install. All hardware, including the fingerprint sensor, just works.

New comment by Fronzie in "Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds"

Fronzie — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:35:41 +0000

There are EV's which have drum-brakes. That's only possible because the regenerative braking takes most of the load. Also, there are stories of brake-discs rusting out on EV's. Both point to less (friction)-brake use on an EV compared to an ICE.

New comment by Fronzie in "Guitar chord karaoke with Vamp, Chordino, and FFmpeg (2022)"

Fronzie — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:32:52 +0000

Steinberg spectral Layers is one of the commercial ones. It sounds really good.

New comment by Fronzie in "Nanoimprint Lithography Aims to Take on EUV"

Fronzie — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 16:11:43 +0000

And the tin droplets are in vacuum, with contamination of the wafer being very critical to control.

New comment by Fronzie in "CUDA Moat Still Alive"

Fronzie — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 08:53:42 +0000

There has been some testing within llama.cpp, which supports both Vulkan and ROCM-Blas. When it works, the latter is about 2x faster than the Vulkan version.

New comment by Fronzie in "CUDA Moat Still Alive"

Fronzie — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 08:52:01 +0000

> From what I've seen, AMD has done... none of this.

There are a number of pull-requests to ROCMblas for tuning various sizes of GEMV and GEMM operations. For example: https://github.com/ROCm/rocBLAS/pull/1532

New comment by Fronzie in "Serial to Parallel Port Converter"

Fronzie — Fri, 10 May 2024 22:01:13 +0000

ISA cards, like the soundblaster had the MIDI and joystick on the same connector. The joystick had up to 4 analog inputs, maybe that's what's meant here.

New comment by Fronzie in "A peek at Intel's future foundry tech"

Fronzie — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:55:55 +0000

And ASML relies on Zeiss, which is as big a bottleneck as ASML and TSMC.

New comment by Fronzie in "Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system"

Fronzie — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 21:07:06 +0000

As far as I know, even with LTO, it requires -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections in order to strip out unused functions.

New comment by Fronzie in "The Curse of Docker"

Fronzie — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 10:37:47 +0000

If there's a chain of dependencies (libraries depending on other libraries), a single process might end up with different versions of the same library in it's memory. That's not going to work, since the interface/API of the library is typically not versioned.

New comment by Fronzie in "The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of"

Fronzie — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:01:52 +0000

Currently, Russia is moving it's military away from the Finnish border. So NATO being on it's doorstep is apparently not a thread.

New comment by Fronzie in "Metformin shown to prevent long Covid"

Fronzie — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 10:23:04 +0000

Yes, I know of friends and coworkers who have had to change career because they couldn't do their old job anymore. This after a year long recovery. They aren't happy about it, they really want to do their old job, if only they could. Then there are a few more who where home sick for 1 or 2 months. They all seem to have recovered.

New comment by Fronzie in "England is facing an imminent water crisis"

Fronzie — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 11:22:09 +0000

In the Netherlands the same happened with the railway and healthcare coverage. The motivation was that market pressure would lead to increased efficiency. In practice, there's a tendency towards monopoly and a forest of product variants leading to more confusion and people buying sub-optimal. The net effect over here is negative, in my opinion.

New comment by Fronzie in "Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California"

Fronzie — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 07:06:26 +0000

In the 70's, the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands was renovated from car central to bike central. That only took a few years, bike paths aren't that expensive.

New comment by Fronzie in "How and when the chip shortage will end"

Fronzie — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 09:46:44 +0000

The last few years ASML's problem was not supply chains, it was a very high demand. Production was ramped up successfully, but not enough to meet that demand. With regards to Peak IC: atoms aren't getting smaller, Feynmans' "Plenty of room at the bottom" might indeed run it's end.

New comment by Fronzie in "Whitest paint is now thin enough to coat cars and planes"

Fronzie — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 20:08:57 +0000

reflection is coherent, a single physical process. The light keeps it's phase and polarization. Re-radiation is incoherent, caused by multiple particle interactions (physical processes). So there's quite a difference in physics.

New comment by Fronzie in "FLAC – Format overview"

Fronzie — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 20:39:18 +0000

The first CD's were not that great, being effectively around 14-bit. Better D/A converters and noise-shaping during mastering greatly improved the sound quality. After that, the loudness wars destroyed it again.