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James Cuff

@chromamagic.com.bsky.social

unix whisperer & hpc apprentice, ex big dot edu, husband & β€œcmo” for artist & scientist @micheleclamp.com, father to #magicpuss & #chromapuss see color, paint color @ https://chromamagic.com $dayjob: https://linkedin.com/in/drcuff πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§/ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

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As someone who started my science career with powder X-ray crystallography, and a bunch of DEC PDP somethings I’m so psyched to see your upcoming piece!

11.08.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lumafield | Industrial CT from the lab to the factory floor Lumafield's advanced 3D X-ray technology is taking manufacturing into new frontiers of speed, experience, and possibility.

Haha. I just took a wild ass guess. Was right!

www.lumafield.com

11.08.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

X-rays are a solid reverse engineering strategy. 🀣

11.08.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Also. Apple family sharing was a mistake.

/cc @micheleclamp.com

11.08.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve heard many people are installing a Linux to get around these arcane, self inflicted policies. 🀣

*cough*

11.08.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh my! Just noticed the crystal ball icon in your screenshot that basically does this, I assume it’s hooked up to some sorry ass LLM in the dating app. There was me trying to be β€œfunny”, and it’s legit already happening. In the app. Oh boy.

β€œSo how’d you meet daddy? Well, there’s this icon…”

11.08.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’d totally date gee pea tea. They seem hawt.

11.08.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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If this happens again, you can be your true unauthentic self and cheat on your homework.

(The one above was authentic cuff. Although, as I was writing it, I was like I should have an language model do it emoji is hard for me)

11.08.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh rats πŸ€ , y’all could have had a whale 🐳 of a time, but she looks like a total wolf 🐺 in sheep’s πŸ‘ clothing. Oh deer 🦌 what a pile of horse 🐎 poop. Cats 🐈 and dogs πŸ• living together, getting up to πŸ’ business and acting all bat πŸ¦‡ shit on the dating apps as usual!

11.08.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
bot trying to trick artists.

bot trying to trick artists.

bad bots get reported. especially if they're grifting #finance and #art scams trying to trick hard working artists into #nft purchase scams.

thank you @clearsky.app for yet another use of your super service to track down and remove the bad people from the good place(tm)

11.08.2025 03:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Beyond extremely happy to find ourselves on this list!

Reminder: more cats, fewer #hpc. 🀣

bsky.app/profile/did:...

*hugs to @attyepi.bsky.social*

#cats #catpeople #chromapuss #magicpuss

11.08.2025 03:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Learning more with @ssaibal.bsky.social and @silverpebble2.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/ssai...

11.08.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's true, I got me some serious problems. 🀣

www.linkedin.com/pulse/runnin...

#hpc #running #ai #cloud

11.08.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Commissions | GARY BUKOVNIK

I hadn't. Wow. Thanks for sharing Heather!

garybukovnik.com/commissions/

11.08.2025 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

haha! you are the best! *hugs*

11.08.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Superb! @micheleclamp.com won’t ever share her stories of a recent commission that involved her generating 4 giant watercolor pieces (winter, spring, summer and fall).

It did involve serious engineering in her studio, I’ll just leave it at that. 🀣

Good on ya for going big, it wicked difficult!

10.08.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They definitely inhaled.

10.08.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

When life gives you lemons.

Wait. What on earth? Come on humans.

This is what too far looks like in potato chip form.

10.08.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Everytime I get some judgy side eye from Magic, I bust out a very loud vocal

β€œIT DA MAGY PUSS!!”

and we have a head bump.

We remind each other. There’s to be no judgment in this house.

Except Chroma.

She so super judgy. 🀣

#cats

10.08.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

/cc @garywingart.bsky.social

(More of the very best internet friends)

10.08.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

peak judge.

10.08.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

/cc @jasonhifi.com all my good internet friends are here on bluesky! 🀣

10.08.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You’re perfect in absolutely EVERY way.

Also British sarcasm is like wicked subtle.

So I’ve heard.

09.08.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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arrggh! Thanks @vsoch.bsky.social it was the "get" I had wrong. flux-kvs so clever, it knows it's binary and doesn't spew bits to your terminal.

Adding a -r to the "get" sorted it!! Doh!

This is wicked cool. No base64 needed!

/cc @hpcwrangler.com

09.08.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Super.

I’ll toddle over to the slack!

09.08.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
11/Key Value Store Tree Object Format v1 β€” Flux 0.13.0 documentation

asked and answered Cuff, asked and answered. it's base64 values, it's totally fine to process the binary before it goes in. It's like me expecting a URL to be able to take binary. Sorry, slow learning here, I have enough knowledge to be dangerous!

flux-framework.readthedocs.io/projects/flu...

09.08.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

also 1,000 apologies for my superdodgy RPM github pages, I'm kinda doing this ab-initio at the moment. hehe. but then that is the best part of it! Absolutely no worries if base64 is the way. flux-kvs docs are a bit too hard core for me! :-)

09.08.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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yeah it's all working wicked nice!

quick q while I have you here. I've got the KVS working with base64 encoded binary blobs, but alas raw binary blobs aren't going in. happy to use base64, but less overhead if we could use a binary blob.

Example below, you can see base64 is just great!

09.08.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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receipts :-)

github.com/DrCuff/hpc/b...

09.08.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
possible first for fedora42 with rpm and systemd running a flux cluster?

possible first for fedora42 with rpm and systemd running a flux cluster?

a world's first #hpc and #systemd vague post, mostly for @vsoch.bsky.social and @tgamblin.bsky.social

also /cc @hpcwrangler.com 🀣

09.08.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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