Touch everything

I am going to stick to doing at least one commit today, even if I am insanely busy as I am today. This post is the equivalent of me touching a file while my code is chugging away on EMR.

GNU parallel is a great tool, learn it if you don’t already know it. It is like tee and xargs except it makes rocket go fast and if you can cap 100% cpu on a single core for a script then it can be the laziest path to scaling a process ever.