Bill Arndt
@larofeticus.bsky.social
High Performance Computing. There are at least 511 workflow management tools. An organizer of Urgent+Interactive HPC workshops. LLMs are a bubble. Phi Sigma Pi and University of South Carolina alumni. Mindustry multiplayer server owner and operator.
Oh good bsky can now accept this video!
This is my Dad's childhood Lionel 1654.
It is heavy. It is loud. It shoots sparks out the sides.
The dog has very strong feelings about it.
This is my Dad's childhood Lionel 1654.
It is heavy. It is loud. It shoots sparks out the sides.
The dog has very strong feelings about it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
didn't smash mouth die?
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
didn't smash mouth die?
oh Parasite. never change
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
oh Parasite. never change
The phrase I always had in mind was "unintelligent design"
Like... look at all this useless redundancy? And so many points of failure? Vestigial complexity just hanging around doing nothing? It's a mess.
Like... look at all this useless redundancy? And so many points of failure? Vestigial complexity just hanging around doing nothing? It's a mess.
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The phrase I always had in mind was "unintelligent design"
Like... look at all this useless redundancy? And so many points of failure? Vestigial complexity just hanging around doing nothing? It's a mess.
Like... look at all this useless redundancy? And so many points of failure? Vestigial complexity just hanging around doing nothing? It's a mess.
Who is the doing that took a look at pie crust and thought:
"Here is the most temperamental pastry component, while also being completely mid in the best case. Let's make it the core foundation of the entire dessert."
Bad crust ruins pie. Bad crust cheesecake? I didn't even notice it had crust.
"Here is the most temperamental pastry component, while also being completely mid in the best case. Let's make it the core foundation of the entire dessert."
Bad crust ruins pie. Bad crust cheesecake? I didn't even notice it had crust.
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Who is the doing that took a look at pie crust and thought:
"Here is the most temperamental pastry component, while also being completely mid in the best case. Let's make it the core foundation of the entire dessert."
Bad crust ruins pie. Bad crust cheesecake? I didn't even notice it had crust.
"Here is the most temperamental pastry component, while also being completely mid in the best case. Let's make it the core foundation of the entire dessert."
Bad crust ruins pie. Bad crust cheesecake? I didn't even notice it had crust.
"forward, men! They'll be talking about us on bluesky 162 years from now!"
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"forward, men! They'll be talking about us on bluesky 162 years from now!"
Analog pipe dream.
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Analog pipe dream.
Doing rhymes with boing; it's a pejorative
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Doing rhymes with boing; it's a pejorative
mmm what really need is whatever lives in that 4th quadrant; this "problem isn't real" x "This solution really solves it (convinces the mark it's gone forever)"
That technology is the exorcism the world needs right now.
That technology is the exorcism the world needs right now.
November 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
mmm what really need is whatever lives in that 4th quadrant; this "problem isn't real" x "This solution really solves it (convinces the mark it's gone forever)"
That technology is the exorcism the world needs right now.
That technology is the exorcism the world needs right now.
I need to drive up to gridley CA soon and get more tube track; hopefully before tree time.
Should get some more old indestructible gondolas, too. *That's* where the fun comes from.
Should get some more old indestructible gondolas, too. *That's* where the fun comes from.
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I need to drive up to gridley CA soon and get more tube track; hopefully before tree time.
Should get some more old indestructible gondolas, too. *That's* where the fun comes from.
Should get some more old indestructible gondolas, too. *That's* where the fun comes from.
Right; I'm not thinking the problem needs to be real or true.
A media and social environment that implants the idea "crime is bad and getting worse" despite it not being confirmed by the lived experience of individuals contaminated with that idea. That's the base upon which grifts are executed.
A media and social environment that implants the idea "crime is bad and getting worse" despite it not being confirmed by the lived experience of individuals contaminated with that idea. That's the base upon which grifts are executed.
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Right; I'm not thinking the problem needs to be real or true.
A media and social environment that implants the idea "crime is bad and getting worse" despite it not being confirmed by the lived experience of individuals contaminated with that idea. That's the base upon which grifts are executed.
A media and social environment that implants the idea "crime is bad and getting worse" despite it not being confirmed by the lived experience of individuals contaminated with that idea. That's the base upon which grifts are executed.
I've only seen Glonzo described in terms of prices; i'm fairly certain the opaqueness of any process (in this example, the market for energy prices) is load bearing.
Glonzo wouldn't manifest under the circumstances "i don't mind the cost of electricity and we're not having blackouts"
Glonzo wouldn't manifest under the circumstances "i don't mind the cost of electricity and we're not having blackouts"
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I've only seen Glonzo described in terms of prices; i'm fairly certain the opaqueness of any process (in this example, the market for energy prices) is load bearing.
Glonzo wouldn't manifest under the circumstances "i don't mind the cost of electricity and we're not having blackouts"
Glonzo wouldn't manifest under the circumstances "i don't mind the cost of electricity and we're not having blackouts"
I think this really supported by the differential amount of talent and effort demonstrated by grifters vs confidence gamers.
Constructing and deploying that problem in order to profit from the mark is hard work.
Showing up with the hard work already done and simply picking up money, however...
Constructing and deploying that problem in order to profit from the mark is hard work.
Showing up with the hard work already done and simply picking up money, however...
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I think this really supported by the differential amount of talent and effort demonstrated by grifters vs confidence gamers.
Constructing and deploying that problem in order to profit from the mark is hard work.
Showing up with the hard work already done and simply picking up money, however...
Constructing and deploying that problem in order to profit from the mark is hard work.
Showing up with the hard work already done and simply picking up money, however...
Ok, counter theory: it's not the realness of the problem that distinguishes a grift, it's the external and pre-existing nature of it.
Cons create their own setup, then act upon it.
Grifts act upon perceived problems that are already extant.
Cons create their own setup, then act upon it.
Grifts act upon perceived problems that are already extant.
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Ok, counter theory: it's not the realness of the problem that distinguishes a grift, it's the external and pre-existing nature of it.
Cons create their own setup, then act upon it.
Grifts act upon perceived problems that are already extant.
Cons create their own setup, then act upon it.
Grifts act upon perceived problems that are already extant.
I feel like this is in conflict with glonzo theory. Many things that feel reasonably classified as "grifts" are operating on imagined, hallucinated, or deluded problems under the hood.
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I feel like this is in conflict with glonzo theory. Many things that feel reasonably classified as "grifts" are operating on imagined, hallucinated, or deluded problems under the hood.
Why did they end those projects? I've got a friend that works with secondary metabolites at JGI and it always sounds like there is a massive wealth of useful and interesting things just waiting to be dug up and sequenced.
November 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Why did they end those projects? I've got a friend that works with secondary metabolites at JGI and it always sounds like there is a massive wealth of useful and interesting things just waiting to be dug up and sequenced.
the only right answers are:
Live tree
T5 bulbs, rainbow
Tube track Lionel oval old enough to shoot sparks as it runs
Live tree
T5 bulbs, rainbow
Tube track Lionel oval old enough to shoot sparks as it runs
November 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
the only right answers are:
Live tree
T5 bulbs, rainbow
Tube track Lionel oval old enough to shoot sparks as it runs
Live tree
T5 bulbs, rainbow
Tube track Lionel oval old enough to shoot sparks as it runs
All things, with one exception, have to end
After years of sharing #HPC news and insights, it's time to log off
It was fun while it lasted and I remain grateful to all of you who followed and interacted
Stay curious, stay kind!
— @hpcguru.bsky.social signing off
#HPC #Farewell
After years of sharing #HPC news and insights, it's time to log off
It was fun while it lasted and I remain grateful to all of you who followed and interacted
Stay curious, stay kind!
— @hpcguru.bsky.social signing off
#HPC #Farewell
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Oh I failed to mention, this ran on a 1978 era VAX machine
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Oh I failed to mention, this ran on a 1978 era VAX machine
Wouldn't the funniest be:
SCOTUS eats the plate of shit and overturns the ruling to save them, *then* the gerrymanders collapse
SCOTUS eats the plate of shit and overturns the ruling to save them, *then* the gerrymanders collapse
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Wouldn't the funniest be:
SCOTUS eats the plate of shit and overturns the ruling to save them, *then* the gerrymanders collapse
SCOTUS eats the plate of shit and overturns the ruling to save them, *then* the gerrymanders collapse
Crooked Mohawk labradoodle ass Christmas
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Crooked Mohawk labradoodle ass Christmas
The same vampires have been the dentists of every financial bubble since tulip mania
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The same vampires have been the dentists of every financial bubble since tulip mania