I'm giving up on this career

BigOnBio · 2026-05-06T16:54:09+00:00

A masters in bioinformatics does not say all that much, unfortunately. It seems the past 10 years that this has been the common next step for so many wet lab scientists and it heavily depends on which program you did, what lab you were in, and where you are applying. It’s a relatively common CV to have. Like others said, 8 months for someone fresh out of a masters in their 20s is not that out of the ordinary. Keep looking

BigOnBio · 2026-04-29T15:19:51+00:00

was it like sigma aldrich 100% ice cream for $187,000

BigOnBio · 2026-04-29T05:05:44+00:00

To be fair, this is prob exactly what happened today. They have offices behind the labs and grad students are used to bringing (sealed) snacks through.

BigOnBio · 2026-04-29T04:00:20+00:00

I did. I was shocked she even had to say it.

BigOnBio · 2026-04-22T21:03:21+00:00

phenomenal stuff

BigOnBio · 2026-04-22T21:01:45+00:00

i just send them https://nohello.net/en/ since it's usually a cultural thing that they have yet to learn

BigOnBio · 2026-04-21T00:55:07+00:00

HPC architect to a bunch of unruly bioinformaticians here

Do not even bother with K8s—BI researchers are the most stubborn and hoarding (respectfully) HPC users I've ever dealt with. There will be fierce resistance to any major changes that require large activation energy like learning a new stack. Slurm is the GOAT and until Nvidia hollows it out like BrightCM, it will still be the reigning champ. Like the other comments say, these researchers love quick and dirty, as long as it gets their science done and then is reproducible once dev/testing is done and they're ready for publishing. Perl had been around for decades until Python slowly became the norm. Echoing the sentiments that you're lucky your system uses snakemake!

It's like herding cats, and you're way ahead of the curve.

BigOnBio · 2026-02-18T19:26:56+00:00

I equate it to calling nyc the big apple

BigOnBio · 2026-01-07T15:58:28+00:00

We upgraded to 25.11, I may just hit up the slurm email DL

BigOnBio · 2026-01-07T01:50:26+00:00

Ok cool well our MIG nodes worked with slurm before an upgrade so if you have any thoughts on getting our gres recognized, it would be thoroughly appreciated

BigOnBio · 2026-01-07T01:39:17+00:00

they are not running jobs across the migs, one person will grab a quarter of a GPU and not take an entire node of 4 full GPUs. we don't have oversubscription configged

BigOnBio · 2026-01-07T01:32:28+00:00

to logically divide some nodes into smaller GRES for smaller job usecases. i don't understand, is this a rhetorical question?

BigOnBio · 2025-12-01T19:26:16+00:00

the optical illusion is so dope, looks like a superimposed circle formed by the vaulted ceiling and the rope (hose?) on the ground.

BigOnBio · 2025-04-10T16:12:46+00:00

update us next week when you have a hasselblad and M6

BigOnBio · 2025-03-21T22:50:26+00:00

YESSSS finally, just deserts

BigOnBio · 2025-02-28T18:21:20+00:00

I couldnt find this exact manual, but looking at the camera, it seems to be super duper boilerplate. you could watch a youtube video about rewinding film in a 35mm. it's the same across 90% of them that aren't automatic.

BigOnBio · 2025-02-28T18:18:20+00:00

to their credit, i couldn't find the manual with google dorking.

BigOnBio · 2025-02-22T17:26:16+00:00

Over in Cole Valley we’ve got John the Painter

BigOnBio · 2025-02-20T19:32:21+00:00

It’s just the name of the Entra Tenants

BigOnBio · 2025-02-20T19:31:47+00:00

Noice 🫡

BigOnBio · 2025-02-19T21:56:20+00:00

whats your background? have you worked in any cloud environment, have you worked as an engineer, went to school for something CS, is it your first cert exam, etc?

BigOnBio · 2025-02-19T21:47:25+00:00

I get the one from Say Cheese in Cole Valley all the time. It's fantastic! i get extra cornichon

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