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Based on the highly successful SRP@Berkeley Lab, Sustainable Research Pathways for High-Performance Computing (SRP-HPC) is designed to connect students from (and faculty working with) underrepresented groups* with Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratory scientists to encourage lasting collaborations and jump start careers.

https://shinstitute.org/srp-hpc/

Applications close 31 Dec 2021

#research #usa #careers

it takes a ridiculous amount of time to compile #Firefox on a laptop

It's funny. We make bug report templates, ostensibly for newbies, but as an experienced software developer I'm pretty careful to fill in the fields if they're offered. I know the pain of a poorly written bug report.

"I'll put it this way, Kurt: our lovemaking has been consistent, but... incomplete."

-- Gödel in marriage counseling

#jokes #math

well, I gave in and just added a couple more teaspoons of activated yeast, incorporated, kneaded, and shaped. turned out ok, but a didn't get any of the interesting flavors I had sought with a longer ferment... probably because nothing was fermenting. so many dead yeast cells in this loaf😔😂

I'm liking #kenken so far. I rediscovered Sudoku lately, but after solving a few puzzles, I think I've kinda hit the limits of it being interesting -- once you know the rules, it's the cognitive equivalent of chewing gum. With KenKen, I've followed what I thought were good deductions and hit contradictions multiple times before arriving at the solution: it's fun!

#puzzles #games #logic

my dough is sure taking its time proofing...
#baking #bread

I'm either wrong, or it's blindingly obvious, so not much discussed, but it seems like we could have had a drastically different internet that was more peer-to-peer in nature if we had started with something closer to IPv6, even just in terms of a larger address space. Like, the limited address space forced us into extensive use of local / site address spaces that required translation to access the wider internet. The need for translation, in turn, made network protocols that directly addressed one personal computer from another more difficult to implement.

Then again, with something like BitTorrent or ED2K, you can set up port-NAT, so it's not all that difficult really: a few extra user interface elements on the respective clients. Maybe it's ultimately more of a cultural thing. The lay person may not see the architectural short-falls of the intermediaries in our communications, or maybe they think the benefits outweigh the risks. Maybe the peer-to-peer tools just need to be better advertised.

#internet #network #p2p

I honestly don't understand why you wouldn't tell someone you didn't like their gift. Don't be mean about it, obviously, but do you want them to give you something similar next time? Do you *want* to construct some fictional alternate history every time they ask about it or anything related to it?