reflections on OSS, HPC, and Ai/ML engineering, with occasional considerations on Cognitive Neuroscience
Archive
2025
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Episode 44: "Leaving ORD, minimalism yes please." Episode 42: “We’re leaving. Take only what you need to survive” 🩷
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Episode 42: "We're leaving. Take only what you need to survive!" ETA, 2 hours till movers arrive, in yet another episode of… “Take only what you need to …
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Memories of a Younger Era — Tokyo Hiroshima Kyoto Memories of Japan are easy to get lost in, the time period was often a blur. Capsule hotels, bullet …
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System Migration Complete, and Now it's Cherry Time Sunday offers an EOD and EOW wrap up thoughts, with some meandering grammatical …
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Need more PCIe slots, not more lanes, but slots. Staring at this board, mentally converting PCIe lane count to device requirements, only to consider …
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Women's Safety Online: Why I'm No Longer on LinkedIn or Twitter The vast and varied subject of ‘Women’s Safety Online’ is a topic which impacts …
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The demise of Fedora as a Developer Distro I stand behind my position that Redhat has been too hands-off in conducting standards requirement …
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🌐 Nvidia Ai Cluster for Traveling 🌐 A little travel cluster, all set for Ai engineering and development. 1x Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX …
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🌐 Weekend Hardware Update 🌐 Yet another HomeLab update, featuring Xeon hardware repurposed from a VM host into a new router for …
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🗑️ Import Your Failures! 🗑️ Instead of “Protector” by Heaven Shall Burn, you give me "Protector" by …
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Memories of Harmonic Distortion, Descending Carson Pass While training for The Death Ride one year, so many years ago, I had quite a surprise while …
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💻 Mozilla Thunderbird - The Failure of a Once Great Client 💻 Thunderbird, wtf are you doing where you need 83% CPU plus ~50GB (virt) and 20G (res) of RAM …
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4am Dev Box - GPU & RDMA Hardware Shuffle Some photos from a bit of 4am dev box maintenance earlier this morning, focused on hardware …
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The non-Controversial Controversy of BTRFS Some clarifications on some points here about the history of BTRFS as it relates to Oracle, Sun …
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💾 Updates on Remote Access to POWER9 💾 Some quick progress notes for a few FreeBSD and OpenZFS devs, which will be accessing one of my …
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⚒️ Linux Kollektivs - Oh Please ⚒️ I love a lot about the linux world, and there’s a lot of positive aspects to the kernel …
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🩷 Good Morning Stormy Spring Weather 🩷 #chicago #morning #photos #stormy #sleepy
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🤯 "Hyper-Focal Pre-Optimization" 🤯 Coders from all over likely already know of this quote, or would certainly would benefit from …
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FreeBSD Articles 2025 Q1 [projektierung] These are the topics that I’ve been spending time with, on no specific schedule, with no …
2024
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💖 Siren Song of the UltraSparc 💖 02:42, awoken to first-morning, 4hrs sleep 02:55, at home office standing desk 02:58, navigate to …
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A Minor Commentary on SED/Opal Encryption Data-At-Rest Encryption is a common topic, but one which is often misunderstood. Having led …
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Performance & Regressions -- How Orgs Ship Code to Production See that image? Right around the mid-section we see a common problem with the manner in which code …
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Everyone Loves Ansible Test post. The variable value specifies the vicissitudes of vectorized validity of variablities.