How do you kill a Supercomputer?



(Accidentally) using radioactive solder is a good way.



IBM’s Blue Gene/L frequently crashed when running simulations at LLNL.



Turned out that alpha particles from the lead solder in the board carrier were slamming the L1 cache with bit flips.

At least you're not nasal, plummy and British.

THE PATCHWRIGHT | Cyberpunk Short Film YouTube video by Gossip Goblin

GossipGoblin has been using AI to build visuals for his cyberpunk stories for a while. Now he's graduated from reels to a short film. Unapologetic slop for slop's sake.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rzl...

INTRODUCTION TO SPHERICAL HARMONICS FOR GRAPHICS PROGRAMMERS

finally done.

gpfault.net/posts/sph.html

NASA recently released a breathtaking image of Earth, as seen from Space.

With a fast enough shutter the bones are clearly visible, the secondary bounces for SSS appear later in the process so technically it's temporal GI.

Something hundred heads? Translate isn't helping much today

The backwards compatibility was basically a JIT compiler that patched OS calls to native code and recompiled the rest to Cell. Written initially in SCEA R&D at Foster City by one guy, then eventually three. R&D had a library of every PS2 game in a cupboard room that they had to work through.

"Who loves you and who do you love!?"

Could you nerd any harder?

Comic. [Sign above four people. A person sits at a desk working on a laptop. A person with ponytail is talking to person with white hat. A person with short hair walks away.] SIGN: It has been [-0.00000000000000044] days since our last floating point error

Day Counter

xkcd.com/3228/

Oh, you actually meant a simple text editor editor and not a complete and fulfilling lifestyle app.

Best Linux editor, pffff. Where's the Lisp?

Rebel MC is still recording under the name Congo Natty and has been happily married for many years to Page 3 stunna Maria Whittaker

Yes, it's the Rebel MC
Rough like a ninja, stinging like a bee
Back by public demand
Something something rocking something

Pure form and light plus GI. Perfection.

Fred again.. & Thomas Bangalter (USB002, Alexandra Palace, London 27 February 2026) YouTube video by Fred again . .

fredagain vs. Thomas Bangalter, a powerhouse duo showing what open format DJing can be. Everything from D&B to Prince to LFO to UK Garage to Gil Scott Heron to Daft Punk mashups. Just extraordinary.

youtu.be/gfF8jzBVWvM

1977 is a good run for a free mug.

{gasp} that poster!

Wait til they find out about the diamond-exit rule.

Jensen Huang floats giving engineers tokens worth half their annual salary as a recruiting strategy Jensen Huang said engineers will soon be asking "how many tokens comes along with my job?" and is willing to pay them tokens worth half their salary.

I hear there will be a lot of devs wanting to offload AI tokens for something useful. Stickers are something.

www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-ceo-j...

Stephen, is that you? Still trying to muster up interest in that book?

Experimental: PickyPalette — a color picker that shows you the weight of each color as you build your palette.

See how much space a color claims. Every color fights for its territory in the color space. So you know exactly how dominant or subtle your pick is. WDYT?

meodai.github.io/color-palett...

The bones may be good, but I have doubts about its lungs.

Do you enjoy old computers and live in the US Pacific Northwest? We're six weeks out from the first Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest since 2019!

We'd love to see you there and we'd love your help getting the word out. Reposts appreciated!

vcfpnw.org

The OC is soul sucking cultural void.
Hi everyone who works at Blizzard Entertainment!

There were two movies as students where we got to the end and all just sat there for a while unable to say anything useful: Ghost in the Shell and Akira.

Then we went on a bender, binging Fist of the North Star, Tetsuo the Iron Man, etc.

I was taken to watch Ghost In the Shell by my housemates, at cinema release in the UK 1996, sight unseen. I had no idea what I was in for.

The nicest article about JPEG compression, by @sophielwang.bsky.social The moment there are color stats involved, I’m in.

It’s so well done it makes me think we need some kind of online library where articles like this get preserved.

www.sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg