@writchrd.bsky.social
HPC guy at Intel in NM, previously at U Chicago, Ford, UNM. Hatch Chiles, White Sox, other stuff
I once told a junior sysadmin to never run “bash ./.history” as root which of course they promptly did on their own personal server to figure out why…
19.07.2025 13:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0👆
That’s the primary reason, followed by availability.
Seconded!
24.06.2025 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wait. Those are based on real spiders!?
05.05.2025 01:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
@hankgreen.bsky.social thought you would embe amused at the number of comments
27.04.2025 13:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Welcome back, Darth!
26.03.2025 12:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Unrelated: Reading NSERC the first time through hurt my poor little brain (“don’t you mean NERSC?”)
29.01.2025 17:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When a pipe bursts and floods your datacenter taking out your core Ethernet switch.
26.01.2025 16:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I mean really what the actual fuck
16.01.2025 00:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“12. You had trouble believing that so many Gen-Xers could have voted for Trump until you remembered all those pop-collared douchebros and shoulder-padded mean girls you and your punk crowd in college avoided”
16.01.2025 00:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@iwashyna.bsky.social SPEAKING OF DYING IN ANTHILLS
15.12.2024 18:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Dying on anthills” is truly inspired.
15.12.2024 18:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Is this how you broke threads
11.12.2024 21:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For reals. I mean I did a search and I ONLY have … uh … 1139 …
04.12.2024 19:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Well, it is a BUFFly link after all…
04.12.2024 02:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Some companies distinguish contractors and actual employees with an x appended as the last letter of the username.
03.12.2024 23:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think that Rocks Clusters (www.rocksclusters.org) used BitTorrent for installation.
30.11.2024 15:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That sounds amazing
28.11.2024 23:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0😳
28.11.2024 22:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Miss you too! Some year we would get together again for thanksgiving…
27.11.2024 15:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And pumpkin cheesecake!
27.11.2024 13:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Good kitty. Goood…
27.11.2024 01:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That is clearly a cat. Only cats loaf like that. Please only send dogs. 13/10
26.11.2024 02:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@ctrliq.bsky.social thanks for pointing them out!
25.11.2024 00:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The earrings
22.11.2024 18:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I managed to get one. OpenHPC had one too. AWS also had some cool “Nerd” and “HPC Nerd” stickers. Oh! CIQ had Rocky Linux earrings.
22.11.2024 17:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Bye Atlanta! It was real. #SC24
22.11.2024 02:01 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@darthbluesky.bsky.social I think I figured it out thanks
22.11.2024 00:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I wonder how @mattgertz.bsky.social feels about this darth
22.11.2024 00:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For some of us from the American Southwest it is a beautiful change of pace!
19.11.2024 13:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
