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I work in HPC and mostly on the shell/console. Without a doubt, the combination of Bash (or another shell) and AWK is truly amazing. Being able to quickly generate statistics, filt…

> I'll disclose one long enough ago: HostGator I was offered a job by them long enough ago, too. When I tried to negotiate a salary I was ghosted by H.R. Looks like I dodged a bull…

> Counterpoint: most shops do not need most of the bespoke cloud services they're using. If you actually do, you should know (or have someone on staff who knows) how to operate it,…

> Out of curiosity, do you know what happens to the decomissioned hardware? is it scrapped for useful parts like perhaps the PSUs? or is gold and other metals extracted from the ch…

We were being harassed (read: annoyed) by rsync's incremental and non incremental backups for our primary research storage, accounting for ~66 TB. We were able to reduce run times …

"I think you have to be a bit of a masochist to use a standing desk alone for more than 15 minutes per hour." I'll agree to a point regarding the 15 minutes per hour when you first…

Agreed, sometimes the reward is just too high to simply "pass on an opportunity". We had an undergrad utilize our then, nascent CUDA nodes. But, simple monitoring of the nodes rais…

Just an update in case that someone is experiencing something similar. 1.) If using RHEL, most likely the latest microcode updated offered via RHEL entitlements will contain the re…

I hate to say it, but I'm also finding myself scratching my head at this one. I've randomly chosen 3 separate Xeon E5 family processors that are in production, and _each time_ I lo…

"sed is useful for making small, line-wise tweaks to text." Couldn't agree more! A great example of this was using (surprised it wasn't mentioned) sed with the -i & 's///g' operato…

Although, I cannot comment personally on what employment chances are after serving in prison, I can state with confidence that having a single, felony drug conviction [0] doesn't a…

I believe it. At least the Lustre developers (pre-Intel) had the foresight to enable extremely good debugging - you could simply enable a few procfs settings and easily find the of…

> GPFS is the gold standard but it's expensive. Confirming! And going on a small tangent (ha!). Our previous configuration was Lustre and XFS/NFS; the former was the scratch file s…