Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition

I used to be on kbin as [email protected] before it broke down.

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Cake day: November 27th, 2023

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  • I thought I wanted to be a game developer back then and was making a bunch of hobby projects with Game Maker, had taught myself C++ (to a mediocre level), was writing (not very good) music, and generally burning myself the fuck out. -.-

    The programming turned into a career (not in gamedev though). Everything else turned into an anxiety disorder.










  • These days people usually just call it a “cluster” w/o reference to the Beowulf system from the 90s.

    The amount of compute you can fit in a single box w/o having to deal with distributed systems BS is kind of insane now though. You probably don’t need a cluster to do a lot of things you would’ve needed one for in the past – a single computer is often already good enough and way simpler to manage…







  • I went to a lot of different schools growing up. Some of them were not-very-well-funded public schools, but others were international schools for expats and private US schools – some of which might qualify. Most of the schools I went to had a cafeteria with a typical “go through the line with a tray and get whatever they cooked that day in bulk” kind of system. Some of them also had a store where you could buy snacks, prepackaged sandwiches, and such. I remember bringing lunch from home a lot – either sandwiches or leftovers from dinner the previous night, usually. One of the schools was so small it didn’t even have a real cafeteria for us and all the students (6th~8th grade in the US system) brought lunch from home and ate on fold up chairs in the multi-purpose room every day. I also went to a boarding school for a couple years. That one had a cafeteria system too – but the students were pressed into working on a rotation schedule (wiping down tables, cleaning dishes, and such – I don’t remember preparing any of the food). I don’t recall anything particularly outstanding one way or the other about the regular lunches there, but that one had periodic formal dinners (once a month or so, IIRC) where I had to get dressed up (e.g. put on a tie) and they broke us up into small groups of students and teachers. I remember those being stressful, but also having better than average food.