Nicole Heinimann

You can ask for cheaper consumer GPUs without having a meltdown about datacenters as if they're ontologically evil.

I want one too but I don't shape all my beliefs on technology and politics around what's essentially a treat.

Convincing people that it’s actually pronounced ep-ih-TOHM in German is really fun, you should try it.

Why is the GStreamer API stupid typed?

How does using an i32 for a resolution make sense?!

Early adopter wizards out there pondering their toruses

Apparently compiling hello world exactly as the README says to is an unfair expectation of the software.

Claude. I said MAKE NO MISTAKES

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

Who asked for the new-ish ACM DL reader that automatically adds requires an additional click and adds a useless cover page when trying to download a PDF?
Genuinely, who wants that?

I just want to download a PDF...

in the nato alphabet her name is charli xray charlie xray

everyone and their dog keeps going on about custom harnesses and memory systems and work orchestrators and I'm getting the feeling that they are predominantly a way to get endorphins by producing work-shaped things rather than doing work

Bluesky is mad because people here fetishize the physical object of a book as a symbol rather than the meaningful information it contains. I’m sure Elsevier et al would love the hypothetical IP regime where you only have usufruct to your books and it’s illegal to destroy them or transfer ownership!

ACM SIGPLAN Special Interest Group on Programming Languages The ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) explores programming language concepts and tools, focusing on design, implementation, ...

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The patient needs discourse to live!

Always have been

Python code names = list(map(lambda x: x.name, a)) names = ", ".join(names) foo = list(map(lambda x: x.foo, a)) bar = list( map(lambda x: list(map(lambda y: y.to_string(), x)), foo) ) bar = list(map(lambda x: " / ".join(x), bar)) bar = "(" + "; ".join(bar) + ")" thingy = thingy[fnord]

This is your brain on functional programming.

Symbol names have been changed to protect the guilty.

dozens of Chiquita shipping containers

how about Ananas Archive and it's just a facility storing a vast quantity of pineapples

Another expression of concern for former Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Four of his papers have been retracted.
retractiondatabase.org/RetractionSe...

Unfortunately not (yet?). The closest thing we have, Futhark, doesn’t get peak performance out of GPUs.
The biggest problem is not parallelizing the compute but precise control of when, where and how to move memory, when to reuse it or recompute values and how to synchronize.
See descend-lang.org

Modified from: https://rakhim.org/images/honestly-undefined/blogging.jpg Image created by my wonderful partner: @ember.pet Chart plotting "Number of projects finished" vs "Number of posts about elaborate vibecoding setup" These points in the top-left corner are labeled "prolific peak of hype-doesn't matter": - CODING SETUP FROM 2004 - READS OLD-ASS DOXYGEN DOCS - WEIRD CHICK WHO WON'T USE AN IDE - COOL MIT PROFESSOR - THAT GIRL WHO NEVER STOPPED USING STACKOVERFLOW These points in the bottom-right corner are labeled "code gen basin": - COPIES CODE FROM CHATGPT.COM - GEMINI FAN - "MY PROMPT CHAINING PL" GIRL - MOVED FROM SONNET TO OPUS - AUTHORS OF GAME JAM DMOS One point in the bottom left corner labeled: - 5b8cf6 8 years ago One point in the top right corner labeled: - SUPER HUMAN FROM THAT POPULAR TWITCH STREAM

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

In an age of LLMs this 122 year old Marxist still denounces the culture industry the old fashioned way

I wish he would miss for once

Lighting fireworks in the Berlin metro is only legal 3 days before and after New Year’s Eve, get it together smh

Just kidding... unless, a story as old as time

I mainly watch Go matches for the unearned sense of smugness after guessing the right move once and forgetting the 28 times I guessed wrong.

I think you can get access to their cli tool and API if you send them a friendly email, they are quite generous.

"Harmonic at home"

Damn I was thinking of glueing smth like that together, very cool.

the Buddha released you from the obligation to have a take

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[guy who’s spent the past 72 hours watching videos on Gnosticism]: gonna be a huge year for Gnosticism I think