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<rekado_>here’s a silly idea: a Guix service that receives a list of package specifications and returns a pack

<rekado_>there are no HPC clusters on rented VMs; the closest we can get is Kubernetes, which operates on the level of container blobs (no shared file system)

<rekado_>so having a service that generates these container blobs on the fly would allow us to use Kubernetes with Guix without having to generate container blobs manually

*rekado_ is in a call about cloud deployment of scientific workflows

<rekado_>I’m disappointed with the state of rented computing (aka cloud stuff)

<rekado_>the obsession with container blobs makes easy things harder than they should be.

<rekado_>HPC clusters have shared file systems but Kubernetes does not, so you keep copying data around when you have multiple processes that need access.

<civodul>rekado_: that makes sense!

<civodul>i remember discussing it while walking in Brussels a while back :-)

<civodul>there's https://nixery.dev/

<civodul>ahem, a year ago, we were in the process of writing https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2020/02/guix-hpc-activity-report-2019/

<civodul>i have the intuition that zimoun could champion coordinating work this year :-)

<rekado_>bah, this new FOSDEM mode is not working for me. I always relied on being able to just wing it and work on slides in the train.

*rekado_ works on slides

<rekado_>while putting off actual work on the slides I wrote a little extension for the picture language to create highlighted code snippets

<rekado_>it’s a little easier than manual highlighting in inkscape

<civodul>rekado_: yeah this FOSDEM mode was equally frustrating for me

<civodul>picture language & highlighted code?

<civodul>how does that relate? :-)

*civodul curious

<rekado_>I now have code->pict, which takes a code snippet as a string, applies a lexer, and then converts each marked-up string to an SVG text node with provided styling applied.

<rekado_>then it glues together every chunk and every line and returns a picture of syntax-highlighted text

<rekado_>SVG does not do text layouting, unlike HTML

<civodul>oh neat!

*rekado_ tries to remember how to use the blender sequence editor for video editing

<civodul>i didn't do any editing, because i'm incompetent and tired

<civodul>i read that kdenlive is a good tool for that, though

<rekado_>I need editing because I’m even more incompetent!

<rekado_>:)

<civodul>heh :-)

<rekado_>I’m in love with publicdomainreview.org. Lots of good material for slides.

*rekado_ downloads a drawing of a giraffe skeleton

<civodul>heh, fun :-)

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