Dr Hippy Van Danke

Dr Hippy Van Danke

@gumpy.bsky.social

In the HPC mines at Nvidia. Storage, Bruins, Views my own, blah blah. Not a real doctor but I am a real worm, I am an actual worm.

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My wife is playing Blather Round on discord with a bunch of friends in the other room and I heard her say "he's not cruel!" and I immediately yelled across the house "are we talking about Tom Nook?!?!" (we were)

automounting nfs exports has been a moving target since macos was osx but i finally broke down today and re-learned the state of things. Yes, automount is still a thing but man it's finicky especially with SIP. TIL you can mount the export and just drag it into your Login Item?!?!

I ordered like $90 worth of instant ramen (Mykuali Penang White Curry) that got stuck in customs for 4 weeks. It finally showed up last month. Today I got this... AND THEY STOLE A COUPLE PACKETS!

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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social

JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

After 20 years in the UC system and 16 at Berkeley Lab, I’m taking off to try out the private sector. Incredibly surreal day. I’ll miss this view and the community here a whole lot but something interesting came along and I decided I can’t pass it up.

Years ago, I stole my wife's nose (like one does a toddler's) and hid it. It's one of the more gravely serious things in our relationship. We had some particularly spicy thai tonight and she said "my nose is running!" to which I asked "what nose?" Reader, there was genuine anger in the "fuck you"

Upgrading to proxmox9 and run rke2 on your hypervisors? NFS CSI not working? Intel gpu driver all sorts of pissed? set "disable_apparmor=true" under [plugins.'io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri'] in /var/lib/rancher/rke2/agent/etc/containerd/config.toml.tmpl Obv a temp workaround. That was so fun...

gitlab runner on an emulated aarch64 vm running on x86_64 proxmox building node images for machines that don't yet exist. bonus points for going in to the lab to steal an actual aarch64 node from an disused ceph cluster to speed up the builds (and hopefully test aarch64+warewulf) life is weird...

Has anyone heard any clarity on the NERSC10 storage? I'm assuming Vast with the recent Dell moves but Lightning is kinda on offer in that timescale and there's always other x-on-dell-hardware offerings

(Trying to distract myself from the country crumbling around me) How has Snakemake become such an annoyance to me so quickly? Reproducibility is laudable but how is it so easily misconfigured that I need to chase users with 250Mil inodes and they don't even know it's there?!

Every once in a while I get to do something really weird in a ludicrously important place. Today it was getting a 2-hop (o2ib->tcp, tcp->o2ib) lnet router going between 2 IB fabrics at 2 datacenters 50 miles away across a 2x100Gb link. So now we have a single slurm/lustre/warewulf cluster in 2 DCs

(also, that lil 'warewulf' throw-in was non-trivial as well but damned if we don't have a single ww head node provisioning off-subnet machines 50 miles away!). A colleague is working on cloud-bursting on the same slurm instance as well!

I’m doing a fairly ludicrous thing because a) hdd density has slowed way down the last few years and b) to get ahead of tariffs. So now I have a cute lil 8-bay sas jbod and accompanying disks showing up soon. A 2nd vdev at home punching up to 210TB usable. This is so silly…

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Swearengen: You yankton cocksuckers don't fully appreciate how the assfuckers become the ass fucked. Me, quietly, to my wife: Yankton is in South Dakota.

exploring a file system I knew was old but... not this old: drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 May 16 1999 irix drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 May 16 1999 hp drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 May 16 1999 dec drwxr-sr-x 4 root root 4096 May 19 1999 sunos