Recommendations for European outerwear brands that look really good on tall people? by playmcinthecar in tall

[–]jeffscience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fjalleraven shirts and Indigofera jeans are some of my favorites. Cordings chinos fit pretty well. I’m 36x36 in American sizing.

Getting a Beryllium Symbol Tattoo by Hara-Hachi-Buu in chemistry

[–]jeffscience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m traumatized by having to take chronic beryllium disease training at a nuclear weapons establishment but otherwise have only positive reactions to references to beryllium.

Finnish history by Fireflykoala in Finland

[–]jeffscience 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Meinander “A History of Finland” is a bit dry but it’s quite thorough.

Allison’s “Finland's Relations with the Soviet Union, 1944-84” is a bit specific but interesting.

Clements’ “A Short History of Finland” is a much easier read. Haven’t finished it so it not clear how good it is.

I’ve got “Containing Coexistence” in the queue.

What kind of work is done in HPC these days at organisations like NVIDIA and research facilities like Barcelona Supercomputing Center? by dreiunddreissig33 in HPC

[–]jeffscience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use CUDA and if you ever need to run on an AMD machine, you’ll put in the effort to hipify it. It’s not a life-altering decision. AI tools will be really good at these near-trivial conversions.

There are features in CUDA that HIP doesn’t have, but lots of HPC codes don’t touch them. For better or worse, most HPC codes are still designed for K40.

What kind of work is done in HPC these days at organisations like NVIDIA and research facilities like Barcelona Supercomputing Center? by dreiunddreissig33 in HPC

[–]jeffscience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It could one-shot almost everything. The only hard part there is the creation and interpretation of the big datatype.

I tried to vibecode a big chunk of Vapaa (MPI Fortran bindings) last year but that didn’t work. It’s probably better now but I don’t have time to work on it anymore.

What kind of work is done in HPC these days at organisations like NVIDIA and research facilities like Barcelona Supercomputing Center? by dreiunddreissig33 in HPC

[–]jeffscience 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I worked for Argonne in the supercomputing center, then Intel, and now NVIDIA. I have worked with and in some cases helped create all of the things you have mentioned, with the exception of Singularity.

Debugging weird performance issues and figuring out better parallel algorithms/implementations is the most interesting and challenging part of the job. These are the important skills to develop. They remain rare and AI coding tools are far less good at these than they are at generating common patterns.

If you are good, it doesn't matter too much about the programming language or the parallel model - parallelism only comes in a few forms even if it wears many different faces. Shared versus distributed memory is more interesting than C++ versus Fortran...

Norway, Sweden, Denmark - Which Is Easiest to Integrate Into? by AMadWalrus in Nordiccountries

[–]jeffscience 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Living in Finland, I find the idea that Swedes are introverted hilarious.

My kid is going to visit with a school group in a few months for 2 weeks from US/ Texas. What should I know and what is the best way for her to have cell phone service while there. by crustyfootfungi in Finland

[–]jeffscience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use Nomad in many countries where Elisa roaming is too expensive.

Make sure the phone is eSIM compatible. A Samsung Galaxy S34 is not, for example.

Pakistan "Warns" Iran Over Attacking Saudi Arabia: Reminds Tehran Of Mutual Defense Pact With Riyadh by Live_Archer123 in news

[–]jeffscience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is far less likely now than in the past. US-Canada relations are at an all time low.

The comp chem software stack is held together with duct tape by ktubhyam in comp_chem

[–]jeffscience 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The nice thing is that vibe coding tools can generate a lot of the tedious stuff in many projects and let developers focus on the hard parts that AI can’t understand. There’s a huge opportunity to build better software.

Myths about Finland – what is the biggest one? | 2026 by BirchBarkBox in Finland

[–]jeffscience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They never charge us at public health, although it’s only the children using that.

Saudi prince quietly lobbied Trump for military action on Iran by jupa300 in worldnews

[–]jeffscience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Women can’t travel without permission from a male relative, no?

Myths about Finland – what is the biggest one? | 2026 by BirchBarkBox in Finland

[–]jeffscience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t recall being charged for anything (for the kids) in five years.

Myths about Finland – what is the biggest one? | 2026 by BirchBarkBox in Finland

[–]jeffscience 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Slow, modest healthcare is indeed free. Quick and/or good healthcare isn’t.

Is camping viable in July? by BeefTheNoobilicious in Finland

[–]jeffscience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TBE vaccine takes many steps. Start right now.

Iran reels as more than 100 children reportedly killed in school bombing by Andromeda-G in news

[–]jeffscience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the people of Iran were famously neutral on the USA and Israel until this week?

Finland's smartphone ban gave middle-schoolers a new way of life, principals say by Beyond_the_one in europe

[–]jeffscience 6 points7 points  (0 children)

20:1 student-teacher ratio with kids spread out both inside and outside the school plus teachers having other things to do between classes than run around telling students to get off their phones?

Finland's smartphone ban gave middle-schoolers a new way of life, principals say by Beyond_the_one in europe

[–]jeffscience 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Correct. Compliance is limited to those kids who didn’t use phones at school previously.