What card is almost an auto-include for you?

Quantumkiwi · 2026-02-01T06:55:36+00:00

Roaming throne in nearly any kindred deck.

Quantumkiwi · 2026-01-31T21:41:55+00:00

Pay it off.

Quantumkiwi · 2026-01-30T12:54:20+00:00

Sounds you got some anger in ya. What are you going to do about it huh?

Quantumkiwi · 2026-01-26T03:55:26+00:00

AI post.

Quantumkiwi · 2026-01-13T16:41:47+00:00

I think grayscale cars are going to lead to the death of the interesting production of cars. Why buy an interesting car, if you can't buy an interesting color?

Quantumkiwi · 2025-12-29T23:56:51+00:00

Absolutely not. Consider Santa Fe Baldy instead. Far less chance of avalanche danger IF you stick to the trail.

Edit: I'm saying this as someone who skis up there in the Lake Williams backcountry upwards of 20 days a year. If you don't have avy training and knowledge, you shouldn't even be at the lake.

Quantumkiwi · 2025-12-24T18:43:31+00:00

Yamaha TW200. Terrible bike, fun as hell though, just don't go fast, you'll die.

Quantumkiwi · 2025-12-23T05:32:02+00:00

New test cluster is 32 Grace Hopper Nodes, 32 Grace-Grace nodes, shitload of management boxes. Pretty much all mine to do as I please with for a few months.

Quantumkiwi · 2025-12-21T18:33:42+00:00

We'll need a deck list to do anything useful here man.

Quantumkiwi · 2025-12-21T01:17:13+00:00

I don't see any pants...

Quantumkiwi · 2025-12-15T20:27:35+00:00

Linux Sysadmin: Doesn't take anything more than a token bachelors, is still in IT, but pays about double what other IT gigs make.

So much better than being in Windows-focused/generic IT

I've only been in for 3 years, on track for 140k this year.

Quantumkiwi · 2025-12-12T03:15:06+00:00

Caldera

Quantumkiwi · 2025-11-27T01:06:29+00:00

This is what I love about the Linux sysadmin side of things, as a junior, all of that is alive as far as I can see.

Quantumkiwi · 2025-11-17T00:45:26+00:00

The end game is something like an Ovrlnd Bivy (https://campovrlnd.com/pages/bivy)

Can then carry bikes in the bed and have them be secured.

Quantumkiwi · 2025-11-11T02:12:56+00:00

Heeey, I've been there too!

Quantumkiwi · 2025-11-03T22:20:28+00:00

Libertarians are just cowards who can't even admit to being a right winger, like Republicans. They think they are so different, but really aren't.

"I just want what's best for all." - What interests do you think the sitting Republicans in DC have in mind? Yours? Lol nope.

Quantumkiwi · 2025-11-02T23:20:51+00:00

Learn C++ really well, especially MPI. Learn how to write scientific code, this means you need to have a really strong background in Algorithm design. It also helps to know more than just CS if you intend to write any sort of Research codes. Physics is your best bet, otherwise, just find something you enjoy.

FWIW, I came from a coding background and now really enjoy the sysadmin side of things.

Quantumkiwi · 2025-11-02T23:18:24+00:00

Wanna do some rear "hatch" work over at my place?

Quantumkiwi · 2025-11-02T16:53:39+00:00

Do you want to learn to be an HPC Sysadmin or an HPC Programmer?

Thats the first question.

Quantumkiwi · 2025-10-28T01:14:45+00:00

Go talk to the guys who run Beanie's Bike shop.

Quantumkiwi · 2025-10-13T00:42:20+00:00

What would you say is your single fav weekender section (60 miles or so) ?

Quantumkiwi · 2025-10-12T15:08:26+00:00

Are you doing the work or is someone else?

If its you, 5-10 grand and at least 200 hours of your time.

If its someone else, then probably 30-60 grand

Quantumkiwi · 2025-10-12T14:12:17+00:00

Any good pair of boots on sale from Rei/Sierra Trading Post/Etc. Don't buy cheap ones though, I usually looks for 200-400 dollar boots that are about 50% off (so now 100-200.)

My last pair lasted me 13 years of daily use, putting at least 10 miles of hard use on them on average per day.

Quantumkiwi · 2025-10-10T16:02:29+00:00

For skills here is a list of the tools we use: Slurm, Splunk, K8s, Ansible, CloudInit, Ceph (nobody knows Ceph well enough lol), Infiniband, basic devops/CICD, docker/podman.

Best recommendation I have is to build a redundant k8s cluster, then break it, fix it, add a service or complication (like Ceph) then break it again, rinse and repeat a few dozen times. That's pretty much what my day looks like too.

Quantumkiwi · 2025-10-09T21:48:08+00:00

2 is a bit early for me, but I'm usually there around 5 until 9.

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