Dr Hippy Van Danke
@gumpy.bsky.social
In the HPC mines at Nvidia. Storage, Bruins, Views my own, blah blah. Not a real doctor but I am a real worm, I am an actual worm.
After 20 years in the UC system and 16 at Berkeley Lab, I’m taking off to try out the private sector. Incredibly surreal day. I’ll miss this view and the community here a whole lot but something interesting came along and I decided I can’t pass it up.
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
After 20 years in the UC system and 16 at Berkeley Lab, I’m taking off to try out the private sector. Incredibly surreal day. I’ll miss this view and the community here a whole lot but something interesting came along and I decided I can’t pass it up.
Was playing through some Atomfall DLC a week or two ago and found my cat's namesake! (she's Abby Normal)
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Was playing through some Atomfall DLC a week or two ago and found my cat's namesake! (she's Abby Normal)
As is traditions, some rando got a temp picture in place
October 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
As is traditions, some rando got a temp picture in place
Years ago, I stole my wife's nose (like one does a toddler's) and hid it. It's one of the more gravely serious things in our relationship. We had some particularly spicy thai tonight and she said "my nose is running!" to which I asked "what nose?"
Reader, there was genuine anger in the "fuck you"
Reader, there was genuine anger in the "fuck you"
September 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Years ago, I stole my wife's nose (like one does a toddler's) and hid it. It's one of the more gravely serious things in our relationship. We had some particularly spicy thai tonight and she said "my nose is running!" to which I asked "what nose?"
Reader, there was genuine anger in the "fuck you"
Reader, there was genuine anger in the "fuck you"
Ope! Hayward fault still knows how to shake them hips!
September 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Ope! Hayward fault still knows how to shake them hips!
On the final image of a 8-step firmware update chain across 2 director switches. So ready for this to be done
August 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
On the final image of a 8-step firmware update chain across 2 director switches. So ready for this to be done
Upgrading to proxmox9 and run rke2 on your hypervisors? NFS CSI not working? Intel gpu driver all sorts of pissed?
set "disable_apparmor=true" under [plugins.'io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri'] in /var/lib/rancher/rke2/agent/etc/containerd/config.toml.tmpl
Obv a temp workaround. That was so fun...
set "disable_apparmor=true" under [plugins.'io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri'] in /var/lib/rancher/rke2/agent/etc/containerd/config.toml.tmpl
Obv a temp workaround. That was so fun...
August 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Upgrading to proxmox9 and run rke2 on your hypervisors? NFS CSI not working? Intel gpu driver all sorts of pissed?
set "disable_apparmor=true" under [plugins.'io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri'] in /var/lib/rancher/rke2/agent/etc/containerd/config.toml.tmpl
Obv a temp workaround. That was so fun...
set "disable_apparmor=true" under [plugins.'io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri'] in /var/lib/rancher/rke2/agent/etc/containerd/config.toml.tmpl
Obv a temp workaround. That was so fun...
My wife's never seen The Naked Gun. This is an amazing viewing. She has no idea Enrico Palazzo is in this!
August 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
My wife's never seen The Naked Gun. This is an amazing viewing. She has no idea Enrico Palazzo is in this!
Been waaaaaay too long
August 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Been waaaaaay too long
gitlab runner on an emulated aarch64 vm running on x86_64 proxmox building node images for machines that don't yet exist. bonus points for going in to the lab to steal an actual aarch64 node from an disused ceph cluster to speed up the builds (and hopefully test aarch64+warewulf)
life is weird...
life is weird...
July 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
gitlab runner on an emulated aarch64 vm running on x86_64 proxmox building node images for machines that don't yet exist. bonus points for going in to the lab to steal an actual aarch64 node from an disused ceph cluster to speed up the builds (and hopefully test aarch64+warewulf)
life is weird...
life is weird...
Today's a pretty good day to donate to the Transgender Law Center. transgenderlawcenter.org/donate/
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June 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Today's a pretty good day to donate to the Transgender Law Center. transgenderlawcenter.org/donate/
Has anyone heard any clarity on the NERSC10 storage?
I'm assuming Vast with the recent Dell moves but Lightning is kinda on offer in that timescale and there's always other x-on-dell-hardware offerings
I'm assuming Vast with the recent Dell moves but Lightning is kinda on offer in that timescale and there's always other x-on-dell-hardware offerings
May 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Has anyone heard any clarity on the NERSC10 storage?
I'm assuming Vast with the recent Dell moves but Lightning is kinda on offer in that timescale and there's always other x-on-dell-hardware offerings
I'm assuming Vast with the recent Dell moves but Lightning is kinda on offer in that timescale and there's always other x-on-dell-hardware offerings
I think I accidentally just gave @wkamaubell.bsky.social the stink-eye. If so, the hick-lookin dude with the handlebar mustache was just tryin to tell his brain to be cool!
April 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I think I accidentally just gave @wkamaubell.bsky.social the stink-eye. If so, the hick-lookin dude with the handlebar mustache was just tryin to tell his brain to be cool!
We mustn't dwell. No, not today. We can't! Not on Rex Manning Day!
April 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We mustn't dwell. No, not today. We can't! Not on Rex Manning Day!
Hulu’s max device download limit is simply far far too low. Barely 2 short seasons of a show? I have a 1.5, 12, 1.5 hr flight string, man.
March 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Hulu’s max device download limit is simply far far too low. Barely 2 short seasons of a show? I have a 1.5, 12, 1.5 hr flight string, man.
(Trying to distract myself from the country crumbling around me) How has Snakemake become such an annoyance to me so quickly? Reproducibility is laudable but how is it so easily misconfigured that I need to chase users with 250Mil inodes and they don't even know it's there?!
March 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
(Trying to distract myself from the country crumbling around me) How has Snakemake become such an annoyance to me so quickly? Reproducibility is laudable but how is it so easily misconfigured that I need to chase users with 250Mil inodes and they don't even know it's there?!
See, these are the Bruins I grew up with. Kicking me in the head when everything else already sucks. Guess I get to see what it's like viewing Brad Marchand from the other side now!
March 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
See, these are the Bruins I grew up with. Kicking me in the head when everything else already sucks. Guess I get to see what it's like viewing Brad Marchand from the other side now!
Every once in a while I get to do something really weird in a ludicrously important place. Today it was getting a 2-hop (o2ib->tcp, tcp->o2ib) lnet router going between 2 IB fabrics at 2 datacenters 50 miles away across a 2x100Gb link. So now we have a single slurm/lustre/warewulf cluster in 2 DCs
March 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Every once in a while I get to do something really weird in a ludicrously important place. Today it was getting a 2-hop (o2ib->tcp, tcp->o2ib) lnet router going between 2 IB fabrics at 2 datacenters 50 miles away across a 2x100Gb link. So now we have a single slurm/lustre/warewulf cluster in 2 DCs
I don't know who else needs this but after a rude message from my browser today, I found a Manifest v3-compliant version of Proxy SwitchyOmega. I would be in a world of hurt without this extension:
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/proxy...
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/proxy...
Proxy SwitchyOmega 3 (ZeroOmega) - Chrome Web Store
Manage and switch between multiple proxies quickly & easily.
chromewebstore.google.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I don't know who else needs this but after a rude message from my browser today, I found a Manifest v3-compliant version of Proxy SwitchyOmega. I would be in a world of hurt without this extension:
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/proxy...
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/proxy...
Ah? One of those new-fangled French cars
February 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Ah? One of those new-fangled French cars
Very belated bday dinner gift from my wife. Gonna try to unlock my jaw and enjoy this.
February 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Very belated bday dinner gift from my wife. Gonna try to unlock my jaw and enjoy this.
A friend is building a cluster at home and had this freakin wonderful exchange with a part vendor
January 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A friend is building a cluster at home and had this freakin wonderful exchange with a part vendor