Mastodawn

Whoever came up with the system “if you don’t allocate all of your yearly budget, your budget will be smaller next year” is responsible for so much human misery and wasted money

antmanbee Mar 7

Neil Brown Mar 6

From "your OS must enable you to declare your age" to "developers must attempt to verify your age" to "you must declare your age" to "you must prove your age" to "you must verify your identity to go online" in how long?

antmanbee Jan 26

Research Computing Services Jan 26

We are thrilled to share that the University of Cambridge has secured a major £36 million government investment to expand our Dawn AI Research Resource supercomputer — increasing its capacity sixfold by spring 2026. This significant boost will unlock cutting-edge AI computing power for researchers and start-ups across the UK.

👉 https://bit.ly/4qZif9j

Government funding boost for Cambridge supercomputer

• £36 million investment to increase the AI Research Resource supercomputing capacity at Cambridge sixfold by spring 2026. • More cutting-edge AI chips

University of Cambridge

antmanbee Dec 22

My first PR against #fedora was merged today. Which is nice.

antmanbee Dec 20

Dr. Fyzziks Dec 17

Whenever I see a “rice my Arch #Linux w/hyprland” video, I’m like:

You think that’s badass? You should’ve tried getting X11 running on a Linux machine in the mid-90s. You needed your monitor & video card manuals & a calculator (seriously) so you could calculate “modelines” for your X11 config file.

If you got the math wrong you’d fry your monitor by driving it at too high a frequency (back then nearly all monitors were fixed-frequency).

Typing “startx” for the first time was *so* stressful.

antmanbee Nov 5

Christian Horn Nov 5

#podman for #FreeBSD ..
Great to see. It can manage both linux and bsd containers:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/oci-containers-on-freebsd/

An introduction to OCI Containers on FreeBSD | FreeBSD Foundation

I doubt you've been living under a rock for at least the last decade, so I won't explain containers for you. I will, however, mention what the Open Container Initiative (OCI) is, since FreeBSD has just become a part of it. Quoting from their own website: "The Open Container Initiative (OCI) is a lightweight, open

FreeBSD Foundation | A non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and building the FreeBSD Project

antmanbee Oct 24

zool Oct 15

Enjoying the practical depth and case studies in Robert's overview of the work of the Reasonable Performance Computing special interest group of @ResearchSoftEng https://sig-rpc.github.io/

RPC is "a minimum standard of reasonable performance, whereby all “easy performance wins” have been exhausted." - including guides to help researchers diagnose and fix common issues in their code. Checks for anyone to build into their workflow

Reasonable Performance Computing SIG

SIG-RPC is a community dedicated to the research, development and advocacy for performance best practices enabling easy wins for those that work closely with software.

Reasonable Performance Computing SIG

antmanbee Oct 2

Why do I allow myself to be flattered when an LLM responds with "Good question!"?

antmanbee Sep 23

Jost Migenda Sep 22

I really enjoyed being on the #RSECon25 committee this year & look forward to doing it again next year. Care to join me?
https://mastodon.social/@ResearchSoftEng/115247770931160379

antmanbee Sep 21

👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle Sep 21

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That's what my screen reader says when it encounters a picture or screenshot of text with no alt text.
Just wasn't sure if some of you knew that.