Michael Jennings

LANL HPC Platform Integration Engineer; VP of HPCXXL; lead dev for LBNL NHC, Mezzanine, & (long ago) Eterm/LibAST; HPC Container Whisperer.
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[Michael Jennings @mej0]

If you couldn't make this year's @hpccouncil Stanford Conference, both video and slideshare from my "#Container Mythbusters" talk are now available at https://t.co/HAvxS0cwZW courtesy of @insideHPC!

You can also d/l slides as a PDF from @LosAlamosNatLab:
https://t.co/8IMSuU1Ue2

[Michael Jennings @mej0]

Ashley nails it here.

How do you recognize the real pros in Cybersecurity? They get it right, even when it seems like the rest of the world is getting it wrong.

[Ashley - Serious Security Scientist @Infosec_Taylor]

Unpopular opinion: The LastPass Breach isn't as big a deal as people are making it out to be.

- LastPass disclosed in a reasonable timeframe for people to protect their accounts. That's pretty great of them to do.

[Michael Jennings @mej0]

@MattSmithFOX13 @aronro Only 73? I have that many just on my phone!

My main computer has 344 tabs in 6 windows on my work session and 276 tabs in 7 windows on my personal one!

(GitHub+5*GitLab+BB)*(Issues+PRs+Docs+Wiki)+(3*GAccounts+2*MSAccounts)*(Mail+Cal+Docs...)... Count gets big fast! #HPCsysadmin

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Master class in responding to a heckler

[adafruit industries @adafruit]

PARENTS: please carefully inspect your kids’ Halloween candy! We found Doom running inside this Milky Way bar.

Candy of Doom - Do not eat if it's turing complete

#adafruit
#halloween
#candy
#doom

[Aviation @xAviation]

An Emirates A380 appearing from the clouds 👻

📸 tomjones.22

[Michael Jennings @mej0]

@r_c_thomas @glennklockwood I can't make any promises (obviously), but if such stickers were to somehow find their way into my possession, I would do my darnedest to affix them to at least one of the three systems! (The team would love it, but the program might not...) 😁

[HPC Guru @HPC_Guru]

.@LosAlamosNatLab Installs Sapphire Rapids-Based ‘Tycho,’ First Phase of #Crossroads #Supercomputer

Tycho’s filesystem, for the first time in the lab’s supercomputing history, will comprise entirely solid-state drives

https://t.co/uxHgflCMGp

#HPC via @HPCwire

[Michael Jennings @mej0]

@glennklockwood @GooberPyle5 They are. It's true that there are lots of occurrences of "Tycho" out there -- my very first Unix cluster had a Tycho...along with a Vulcan, a Romulus, and a Starbase -- but the folks who named these systems based them on the show. Never heard anyone mention the books either!

[Michael Jennings @mej0]

@georgeb_ @glennklockwood Don't bother Googling; all of the interesting specs are still NDA. I'm sure we'll hear more in the next month or two....

As for Gary and our amazing filesystems team, I'd encourage you to also tune in to info regarding our cutting-edge IC system, Venado, also due next year. 😃

[Michael Jennings @mej0]

What's even worse: I chose that name for literally no other reason than "you link it by putting '-last' on the gcc/ld link line." Yep, that's it. Just my 20-something attempt at subtle geek humor.

I wholeheartedly apologize to all those Linux users I have harmed! 🙏🙏🙏

[Michael Jennings @mej0]

I just stumbled across this today (as I start to return to social media after a lengthy hiatus), and as the author of that library, I couldn't agree more! 💯

If there really are Linux distros still shipping it...just stop. Nobody still uses it (or Eterm) but me!

[Patrick Walton @pcwalton]

It's a crime against compiler writers that Linux distros are saddled for all time with a 90s library called "libast" that is not, in fact, about abstract syntax trees and is instead short for Assorted Spiffy Things

[Michael Jennings @mej0]

@RcvGenderfucked @pcwalton As Bill Joy once said about vi (and I now routinely say about Perl), "It was created for a world that no longer exists." 😁

[Michael Jennings @mej0]

@RcvGenderfucked @pcwalton To be fair, it was mostly my proof-of-concept of ways to reproduce OO patterns (particularly runtime-selectable implementations of a single"interface class") in C at a time when C++ was borderline unusable and notably slower.

[Michael Jennings @mej0]

@NicoleHemsoth I will not be attending. Too much work to do (just changed jobs), and I have 3 young kids to consider, 1 of whom is 4 and just got vaccinated. And with the long-term effects still unknown, I can't risk it.

But I ❤️💛💚💙💜 @science_dot's reason too! #TransRightsAreHumanRights

[Michael Jennings @mej0]

This really hits home for me because I don't have one either. (And I ❤️ Stanley Roberts! #PBB)

I've rarely been rejected, as I have literally decades of experience+expertise...and so does he!

So I have to wonder...actually, no I don't. Racism played a role here, no doubt. 🤬

[Stanley Roberts 📺🎥 @StanleyRoberts]

I have submitted more than 30 online applications for various communication jobs in the Bay Area as well as Arizona. Only to be met with the exact same results: "Thank you for applying, we will not be moving forward because you do not have a Bachelor's degree"

[Michael Jennings @mej0]

I believe the correct -- and the only morally & ethically defensible -- response to this is:

Bye Felicia. 🙋‍♂️🙋🏿‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️

#NoSCinSL

[Amber Jennings @CnyttanSpinnan]

I've been looking for a new companion dog since my last dog passed away. I found this sweet female puppy at a nearby shelter and thought she'd be a good fit for me and my family. 🥰

[Spack @spackpm]

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[Michael Jennings @mej0]

I think that's called "Diane Warren." 😜