Henry Merrilees
@henrym.bsky.social
Software at Diderot — LA+Chicago My much cooler twin: @kristinmerrilees.bsky.social at phonetime.news
In this week's post, I talk about Karpenter, scheduling, bin-packing, and why it's all a giant can of worms. Enjoy! blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/karpenters... #kubernetes #karpenter #k8s
Karpenter's consolidation behaviour is counter-intuitive
OK, this story starts off with a colleague messaging me at 9am on a Tuesday morning: “Hey, drmorr, Karpenter is behaving a little bit strangely in this cluster, could you take a quick look?”
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Heyyyy you guuuuiiiiiise I decided one Kubernetes simulator wasn't enough so last week I wrote another one. github.com/acrlabs/sk-s...
GitHub - acrlabs/sk-spark: Discrete event simulator for Kubernetes spark jobs
Discrete event simulator for Kubernetes spark jobs - acrlabs/sk-spark
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This week's blog post is about the work that my students at Harvey Mudd College did to turn SimKube into a reinforcement learning arena for AI agents! blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/simarena-a...
SimArena: A reinforcement learning arena for training autonomous Kubernetes AI agents
Happy June, everybody!
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Giving jj an honest try finally with a new repo. @steveklabnik.com is a big reason I'm trying it out, so of course I'm following his tutorial on it! steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tuto...
Introduction - Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial
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Yeah my opinion has rapidly gone from "cautiously positive" to "oh no". You can use AI to turn code into rust, but you can't use AI to make developers care about rust's values.
People should not sleep on the new EVoC clustering algorithm. It's got me rethinking a lot of my widgets and bulk labelling tricks. youtu.be/1roN51JXuX8
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The Most Satisfying Method to Explore Embeddings
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It's new content Monday! My article about SKEL (the SimKube Expression Language) is now available and all you PLT nerds can check it out. blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/introducin... #simkube #kubernetes #plt
Introducing SKEL: The SimKube Expression Language
We just released SimKube 2.5.0, which as I said on Mastodon, feels like a big milestone for mainly “I like round numbers” reasons; but I think this is actually a pretty major release, as it’s the firs...
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I have been more or less silent on the dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter, and even though the algorithm will prevent anyone from seeing it, I felt this needed to be said...
banging on my "what's good for humans is good for robots" drum
I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
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nobody talks about how atproto is fundamentally a CAR-driven platform #urbanism
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that
I really think Noem’s plans to “liberate” California from its democratically elected government with military force should not have gotten lost in the news cycle but that appears to be exactly what is happening
What a contrast: On the one hand, one grandiose spectacle in the nation's capital, a panorama of propaganda put on by an aspiring autocrat. On the other hand, thousands of assemblies of free citizens across the nation, authentic celebrations of the proposition that here the people rule.
"It's a republic, not a democracy," say the conservatives as they get very excited for a big display of military force moving across the river into the capital.
nervous to go to protests? Don’t be. They will be peaceful family affairs. Go with a group, peel off if anything makes you nervous, don’t stay to the bitter end. This moment calls for all Americans to express their rights. And when some cannot, it’s important for others to stand in their place.
did u know that u can just invent the torment nexus? literally no one will stop u
I need a lot less focus on "illegals" and a lot more focus on invasives.
Comma v0.1 1T and 2T-7B are two brand new LLMs trained exclusively on public domain and openly licensed text! I got the 2T one running locally on my Mac after porting it to MLX - notes on that here: simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/7/c...
Comma v0.1 1T and 2T—7B LLMs trained on openly licensed text
It’s been a long time coming, but we finally have some promising LLMs to try out which are trained entirely on openly licensed text! EleutherAI released the Pile four and …
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San Antonio police have walked back on a previous statement that there was no evidence of a hate crime in the killing of actor Jonathan Joss, with the police chief now calling the statement “premature.”
Police take back statement dismissing hate crime in gay actor’s killing
Jonathan Joss, who acted in “King of the Hill” and “Parks and Recreation,” was shot in San Antonio by a man who yelled “homophobic slurs” at him, his husband said.
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As American senators openly wish for violent attacks on Greta Thunberg, this piece that I wrote in 2019, when she first sailed to America, is sadly still relevant. It's quoting academic research on links between antifeminism and climate denial: newrepublic.com/article/1548...
The Misogyny of Climate Deniers
Why do right-wing men hate Greta Thunberg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez so much? Researchers have some troubling answers to that question.
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