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Bill Arndt

@larofeticus.bsky.social
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High Performance Computing. There are at least 511 workflow management tools. An organizer of Urgent+Interactive HPC workshops. Phi Sigma Pi and University of South Carolina alumni. Mindustry multiplayer server owner and operator.

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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
After a particularly heinous diaper change, the toddler gazes upon what she has wrought: "I didn't chew up all my food."
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Arguing with my wife: she says lord of the rings only has 3 female characters, and I'm arguing it's 4 because shelob counts
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Working on a realistic railroad tycoon game where every time you try to build something you get a popup from the shareholders complaining that you're spending money on something other than stock buybacks
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oh hey. Nailed it.
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The Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
we have spent over a century as a society quietly ignoring things like "one hundred year flood plains" and "are we building a city in the desert" and "it's fine to build houses in fire zones" and now the bill is due
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
just a normal day working with fable: "look for the real-world pool explosion theorem next"
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
did anyone check the Appalachian trail for McConnell
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Platner now _even more_ qualified to be a future MAGA standard bearer
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The resolution of the Trump era will be determined by the quantity and depth of the scars it leaves behind. Only those crimes that cannot be forgotten will draw enough ire to force a reckoning.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
My midlife crisis is paying steam $6 to play Populus again. And it's not even the good version with the candy mice, aliens, or France tileset
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 04/06/2026
The hand is labour. Elmo is capital.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
What's "the east wing"?
this is the cover of jilll biden book. "view from the east wing" but now the east wing is demolished and she shares a non-zero amount of responsibility for that outcome.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I haven't seen a movie since before COVID, but 26 bucks for a ticket feels like a lot Happy to support Director Pixels, tho
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The Lincolnshire Poster @desiderratum.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses"
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Oh no that can't be us there must be a bunch of library ballot measures rending the fabric of local society. "Yes/No on C AI Slop Memes" Welp. It's us. Please I just want to go to the coffee shop without being told the vintage 1940's library is fine it just needs to build up.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Time for another toddler oriented trip to the Golden State Model Railroad Museum
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I was always bothered by capture-the-flag rules. A line instantly reverses who tags who out. Being in jail is no fun. At one point I got some power in an intramural organization and tried to fix it: on contact, both players are out until they touch their base. Nobody understood it was better.
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Tom Steyer @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
ICE is a criminal organization harming and racially profiling Californians. I'll send ICE to jail if they break our laws, all the way up to Stephen Miller.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I ran out of Opus tokens with 3 days left in the week, so i'm using my remaining sonnet to help set up a locally hosted Qwen.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Hey @glennklockwood.com my silicon intern has decided you're a good source of HPC information:
A claude code agent is asking to go to glenns blog while researching
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Don't skip reading your CA Primary Voters Guide; there's some real entertainment hiding amidst the 30 gubernatorial candidates.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I found a California Pipevine a few years ago, and it took quite a bit of nurturing to get the cutting established, but now the goal is accomplished. Yesterday I found a clutch of California Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillars.
Caterpillars eating pipevine.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We're at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum today
Insid the trolly museum
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bye bye @fabriciodias.eurosky.social · 07/04/2026
lol bsky.app/profile/bloc...
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Should have brought PPE or an umbrella in case the poop bombing jet somehow becomes real
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
kharg island tonite 👀
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
my sports bluesky is tuned perfectly, today I got: P0NYO P3NY5 Breaking Ball Breaks Balls Peak performance.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
From the vibes of my local Democratic Club, CA gov race probably won't do the jungle thing. People understand they can't support a single digit candidate even though they like them. They don't like Porter being abusive, Swalwell being pro Israel, or Steyer being a billionaire.
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Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This is horrific. ICE was at SFO kidnapping this mother right in front of her young child. And I have questions. San Francisco is a sanctuary city, which means no city resources can be used to aid ICE. How did two unidentified ICE agents get behind security at SFO to do this arrest?
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I found this image on a UAE tour guide company website. It has a lot to think about.
it's an AI slop map of the middle east suggesting that a railroad will travel from "UMAN", though Yemen, span the Gulf of Aden somehow, and then find Kenya where Somolia is supposed to be.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Surprised I've seen no one discuss it, as I follow train people *and* current events people: UAE has a rail company. It links the port of Fujairah on the eastern coast (with oil facilities!) to Ruwais on the Persian Gulf. They could be using *trains* to avoid the strait of Hormuz...
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Me: "Ok Claude, here is a skill with a glossary of all the words you always get wrong. _Please_ use it." Claude: "Ok, but actually, we're good; I already know all these terms so I'm not gonna waste my time looking at that." *Claude proceeds to catastrophically misdiagnose the issue*
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28
a young, brown-haired, clean-shaven american man in a green army uniform. he looks stern.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Iran can both see USA gas prices in real time _and_ understand that Trumps nature is to quickly say "I win" and move on to the next thing. The optimal play is obvious! 1. Attack energy infrastructure and transit. 2. Pause and wait for Trump to say it's over and prices start to recover. 3. Go to 1
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Looks like Iran got a supreme leader who can read. I'm jealous.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We're gonna need a new term that is like "Lame duck" but it's about the supreme court.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The entire Moomin cinematic universe is composed of weird little guys.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I figure, the plan is to start the war at the end of the speech; don't want It distracting from all the other BS. But he can't contain himself and blurts it out much earlier.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
When a few crayons find their way into the dryer, it's a bad time.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Watching these autonomous coding agents in action is astonishing. They're doing file editing with a surgical stream of seds and awks... it's so alien
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
@ed3d.net So I've been doing claude coding at a basic prompt enough that today I decided to start learning skill/subagent/hook arrangements, so I went and grabbed your plugin marketplace. The experience has been... bizarre and frustrating?
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I agree. I'm looking at nearby individuals, seeing some posts, and adding new people. It feels much more social and community, but it doesn't scale well And I suspect the spacing of clusters is more an artifact of clustering parameters and spacing constraints from projecting 2D @theo.io nice work
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profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Former libertarians for civic virtue pictured in the momdani campaign font
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
to any politicians out there: the only metric by which i am deciding my votes in any future Democratic primary is how far they're willing to go in punishing this administration and i am far from the only one
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
looks like i'm a 3d printing guy, now
a 3d printed test plate
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Matt Rodier @matthewrodier.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I’m most likely never going to write a memoir, so this is what it was like to photograph the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. I got to The Ellipse a little bit after Trump’s speech started. I hadn’t planned on photographing the speech bc I wanted to be with the crowd.
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A Europa Universalis screenshot where a large number of nations have joined a coalition against the player due to aggressive expansion
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Bill Arndt @larofeticus.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Scene: a 21 Club table, mid 90s Trump: "I can build the greatest and most successful casino, anywhere I want on the face of the Earth." Jeff Gural: "That's absurd; there are plenty of places you would try and fail. For example, you could never build a casino on the White House grounds!" "Bet on it?"
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