David Aronchick
@ironyuppie.com
CEO, Expanso. Prev: Protocol Labs, MSFT, K8s, Kubeflow, GOOG, AMZN, etc. 4x founder/CEO. The universe is a vector in Hilbert space.
Despite the click-bait-y title, I don't mean that this is NVIDIA v. Google! I _DO_ mean there's space for more...
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NVIDIA Built the Most Powerful Chips Ever. Google Trained the World's Best AI Without Them.
In 2020, NVIDIA released the A100 with 54 billion transistors, 80GB of memory, and 2 TB/s bandwidth. Engineers called it revolutionary.
In 2022, the H100 arrived with 80 billion transistors, the firs...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Despite the click-bait-y title, I don't mean that this is NVIDIA v. Google! I _DO_ mean there's space for more...
www.distributedthoughts.org/2025-11-24-n...
www.distributedthoughts.org/2025-11-24-n...
me: it's jumped the shark. it's jumped six sharks. it's jumped six-seven sharks.
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
me: it's jumped the shark. it's jumped six sharks. it's jumped six-seven sharks.
this is what it looks like when you work with a company that doesn't actively hate their users.
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
this is what it looks like when you work with a company that doesn't actively hate their users.
TIL that before chilis migrated back from the Americas, Sichuan cuisine was not spicy!
November 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TIL that before chilis migrated back from the Americas, Sichuan cuisine was not spicy!
Thank you for your vote.
Fun non-spoilery Pluribus detail - this is actually the mayor of Albuquerque
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Thank you for your vote.
Everyone involved in this policy should be tried for murder.
While pregnant, Tierra Walker had a cascade of health complications that threatened her life.
Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Everyone involved in this policy should be tried for murder.
Reposted by David Aronchick
If you'd like some tooling around that YAML, you may be interested in taking a look at ConfigHub.
itnext.io/introducing-...
itnext.io/introducing-...
itnext.io
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
If you'd like some tooling around that YAML, you may be interested in taking a look at ConfigHub.
itnext.io/introducing-...
itnext.io/introducing-...
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It was this; I wanted to share his post if he had posted it here.
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It was this; I wanted to share his post if he had posted it here.
Reposted by David Aronchick
LOL. I appreciate the candor here, but if an sec people tell you this, RUN.
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
LOL. I appreciate the candor here, but if an sec people tell you this, RUN.
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Sil vous plaît, où puis-je éjaculer
November 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Sil vous plaît, où puis-je éjaculer
Today's reason a pipeline broke:
Problem: The workflow was using awk '{print $3}' to extract metrics, but the emoji "📊" was throwing off field counting.
Solution: Changed all field extractors from {print $3} to {print $NF}, which always gets the last field.
Problem: The workflow was using awk '{print $3}' to extract metrics, but the emoji "📊" was throwing off field counting.
Solution: Changed all field extractors from {print $3} to {print $NF}, which always gets the last field.
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Today's reason a pipeline broke:
Problem: The workflow was using awk '{print $3}' to extract metrics, but the emoji "📊" was throwing off field counting.
Solution: Changed all field extractors from {print $3} to {print $NF}, which always gets the last field.
Problem: The workflow was using awk '{print $3}' to extract metrics, but the emoji "📊" was throwing off field counting.
Solution: Changed all field extractors from {print $3} to {print $NF}, which always gets the last field.
I am absolutely LOVING Pluribus
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I am absolutely LOVING Pluribus
Won't someone PLEASE think of the data engineers? A plea for tooling for the underserved folks :)
www.distributedthoughts.org/data-enginee...
www.distributedthoughts.org/data-enginee...
While We're Measuring Developer Productivity, Won't Someone Think of the Data Engineers?
Nicole Forsgren just dropped a new book, and I absolutely CONSUMED it. It's called Frictionless: seven steps to help engineering teams move faster in the age of AI. Forsgren created DORA. She created ...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Won't someone PLEASE think of the data engineers? A plea for tooling for the underserved folks :)
www.distributedthoughts.org/data-enginee...
www.distributedthoughts.org/data-enginee...
i cannot believe contoso.com redirects to microsoft. come on man, you could have a fake company name and everything!
Microsoft – AI, Cloud, Productivity, Computing, Gaming & Apps
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contoso.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
i cannot believe contoso.com redirects to microsoft. come on man, you could have a fake company name and everything!
Maybe one of the most genuinely evil things I’ve ever heard www.the-independent.com/news/world/e...
Investigation launched into reports of ‘sniper tourism’ during siege of Sarajevo
Around 11,000 civilians were killed by shelling and sniper fire
www.the-independent.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Maybe one of the most genuinely evil things I’ve ever heard www.the-independent.com/news/world/e...
Shape of _ountain (4)
November 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Shape of _ountain (4)
can i get a hell ya in the gc
November 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
can i get a hell ya in the gc
What if Kubecon was not ONE conference but TWO conferences? Enjoy :)
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Two KubeCons, One Conference: While Everyone Demos AI Agents, Engineers Are Fighting With Syslogs
KubeCon North America 2025 was actually two different events happening simultaneously in the same building.
The first KubeCon lived on the exhibit floor. Every third booth featured some variation of ...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
What if Kubecon was not ONE conference but TWO conferences? Enjoy :)
www.distributedthoughts.org/while-everyo...
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It's a bummer that we had this idea five years ago with the sameproject.ml but i'm VERY happy it exists in the world! Really!
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November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It's a bummer that we had this idea five years ago with the sameproject.ml but i'm VERY happy it exists in the world! Really!
thenewstack.io/jupyter-depl...
thenewstack.io/jupyter-depl...
When you have a kid and they are more legit than you, there is no greater feeling
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
When you have a kid and they are more legit than you, there is no greater feeling
I just lost the game
November 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I just lost the game
These people who say Tesla will have the largest GPU fleet in the world - am I crazy or does that not help at all? Like you can’t use geographically separated GPUs for pre/post training or inference (unless I’m badly mistaken), what are they good for?
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
These people who say Tesla will have the largest GPU fleet in the world - am I crazy or does that not help at all? Like you can’t use geographically separated GPUs for pre/post training or inference (unless I’m badly mistaken), what are they good for?
“Like Mexican street corn and cornbread had a baby” I think I just blacked out
"Delicious, unusual and a big hit with guests." This pudding is like Mexican street corn and cornbread had a baby. nyti.ms/47O0T6M
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“Like Mexican street corn and cornbread had a baby” I think I just blacked out
Just crazy. Hard to imagine a guy more instrumental to a team. Literally the most valuable player.
Cal robbed of the MVP this year.
“Right fielder hits real good” vs “Starting catcher carries and elevates team while breaking records."
Absofuckinglutely bullshit.
“Right fielder hits real good” vs “Starting catcher carries and elevates team while breaking records."
Absofuckinglutely bullshit.
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Just crazy. Hard to imagine a guy more instrumental to a team. Literally the most valuable player.