yakhu
@gremble.xyz
Mathematician | Computational Scientist | Uncompetitive competitive weightlifter.
Into synths, programming and whatever else tickles my fancy.
www.gremble.xyz
Into synths, programming and whatever else tickles my fancy.
www.gremble.xyz
Almost 100k code written in the last 6 months. Spinning up a brand new system is a lot of work. I am very ready for some leave.
December 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Almost 100k code written in the last 6 months. Spinning up a brand new system is a lot of work. I am very ready for some leave.
Nothing infuriates more than corporate acronyms. You mean to tell me you won't learn what "variance" means but get bleak at me for not caring what "EBIDTADSA" and "w/c" means? How about we circle back to this when you can tell me what a Hausdorff space is.
December 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Nothing infuriates more than corporate acronyms. You mean to tell me you won't learn what "variance" means but get bleak at me for not caring what "EBIDTADSA" and "w/c" means? How about we circle back to this when you can tell me what a Hausdorff space is.
I am so pleased that this is a colourful control unit. It is jut a shame that the stand did not come with the same colourway.
December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I am so pleased that this is a colourful control unit. It is jut a shame that the stand did not come with the same colourway.
You can really just email an industrial equipment manufacturer/supplier and ask them to sell you something. Now I have a reasonably nice soldering iron on the way.
December 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
You can really just email an industrial equipment manufacturer/supplier and ask them to sell you something. Now I have a reasonably nice soldering iron on the way.
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Whenever I see a creator getting piled on for using (or being suspected of using) AI, all I can think about is how we're willfully making the destruction of our industry as painless and convenient as possible for billionaires and VC firms.
My literal 14 year old niece has complained about people demanding to know if her art is AI.
At some point people need to stop and take stock of the harm they are doing by pointing fingers without reasonable proof.
At some point people need to stop and take stock of the harm they are doing by pointing fingers without reasonable proof.
If you consistently ask artists if their work is generative AI, you're actually being more discouraging than generative AI is.
December 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Whenever I see a creator getting piled on for using (or being suspected of using) AI, all I can think about is how we're willfully making the destruction of our industry as painless and convenient as possible for billionaires and VC firms.
Gonna get my proat on. Decided to get DSP specific prototyping boards, instead of fiddling with the STM Discovery boards I have lying around.
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Gonna get my proat on. Decided to get DSP specific prototyping boards, instead of fiddling with the STM Discovery boards I have lying around.
An uncontroversial opinion that I hold is that _at the very least_, we should have free movement with our direct neighbours. There is no reason that Zimbabweans need to be exploited when they come to work here.
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
An uncontroversial opinion that I hold is that _at the very least_, we should have free movement with our direct neighbours. There is no reason that Zimbabweans need to be exploited when they come to work here.
Optimising markup for token efficiency is really the stupidest direction we can go in. Fucking hell.
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Optimising markup for token efficiency is really the stupidest direction we can go in. Fucking hell.
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I'm gonna tell you about a guy named Peter. He called for support often and it wasn't stupid stuff. But it was complex.
He drove a BMW. He was divorced. He was of course a sales person. Probably the most successful sales person in California and maybe the country.
He serviced the government.
He drove a BMW. He was divorced. He was of course a sales person. Probably the most successful sales person in California and maybe the country.
He serviced the government.
You meet the users where they are to stop them doing the stupidest shit imaginable.
You have no idea how much this paid off. The number of infected media players people downloaded in the age before Windows Media Player had more than three codecs is unimaginable
Who knows if I saved the firm
You have no idea how much this paid off. The number of infected media players people downloaded in the age before Windows Media Player had more than three codecs is unimaginable
Who knows if I saved the firm
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I'm gonna tell you about a guy named Peter. He called for support often and it wasn't stupid stuff. But it was complex.
He drove a BMW. He was divorced. He was of course a sales person. Probably the most successful sales person in California and maybe the country.
He serviced the government.
He drove a BMW. He was divorced. He was of course a sales person. Probably the most successful sales person in California and maybe the country.
He serviced the government.
I was perusing softsynths that I don't want to buy and looked at Reaktor from NI. They just have this page:
www.native-instruments.com/en/products/...
This is so cool
www.native-instruments.com/en/products/...
This is so cool
www.native-instruments.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I was perusing softsynths that I don't want to buy and looked at Reaktor from NI. They just have this page:
www.native-instruments.com/en/products/...
This is so cool
www.native-instruments.com/en/products/...
This is so cool
As a treat I got myself building blocks and syntorial from audible genius and I would like to put it on the record that I am not an audible genius. This shit is hard.
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
As a treat I got myself building blocks and syntorial from audible genius and I would like to put it on the record that I am not an audible genius. This shit is hard.
Update on this, turns out the the data can be in formats even more fucked up than I could imagine; and I can imagine a vector space of cows.
Excel is the bane of my existence. Nothing fucks up my day more than someone asking me to do data analysis from data in a spreadsheet because I absolutely know that it will be in the most fucked up format imaginable.
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Update on this, turns out the the data can be in formats even more fucked up than I could imagine; and I can imagine a vector space of cows.
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If I may present an alternative opinion on cloud outages:
Occasional short reminders of fragility in centralization and smoke-testing of our societal systems with effectively inconsequential events, is important.
There is going to be day gigaoutage culminates, due to lack of minoroutage warnings.
Occasional short reminders of fragility in centralization and smoke-testing of our societal systems with effectively inconsequential events, is important.
There is going to be day gigaoutage culminates, due to lack of minoroutage warnings.
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
If I may present an alternative opinion on cloud outages:
Occasional short reminders of fragility in centralization and smoke-testing of our societal systems with effectively inconsequential events, is important.
There is going to be day gigaoutage culminates, due to lack of minoroutage warnings.
Occasional short reminders of fragility in centralization and smoke-testing of our societal systems with effectively inconsequential events, is important.
There is going to be day gigaoutage culminates, due to lack of minoroutage warnings.
This isn't a fully formed thought yet, but I think there is a difference between programming and tech. I program like my mother knits or crochets, and the spaces that I grew up in (like IRC) also had this mentality. This is juxtaposed to tech where the primary drive is to make money at all costs.
November 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This isn't a fully formed thought yet, but I think there is a difference between programming and tech. I program like my mother knits or crochets, and the spaces that I grew up in (like IRC) also had this mentality. This is juxtaposed to tech where the primary drive is to make money at all costs.
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Most people should use a password manager, but there's no one-size-fits-all recommendation. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...
Choosing a Password Manager
Password breaches are a common occurrence, and if you use the same password on every site, that may grant access to bad actors who try out that password elsewhere to get into your accounts. The best way to protect yourself is to use a unique password everywhere (and two-factor authentication,...
ssd.eff.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Most people should use a password manager, but there's no one-size-fits-all recommendation. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...
I bought myself Pigments since it is on sale and I am fascinated by the design requirements of creating a complicated and understandable user interface.
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I bought myself Pigments since it is on sale and I am fascinated by the design requirements of creating a complicated and understandable user interface.
Are we re-reinventing phrenology?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Are we re-reinventing phrenology?
Packing is arguably my least favourite thing to do. If I had an inequitable amount of wealth, I would just never pack. The flaw in that plan, naturally is that I also hate shopping. So the solution that I'm leaning to is to just not travel.
October 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Packing is arguably my least favourite thing to do. If I had an inequitable amount of wealth, I would just never pack. The flaw in that plan, naturally is that I also hate shopping. So the solution that I'm leaning to is to just not travel.
@techconnectify.bsky.social Since No-effort November is looming and you did a video on digital pianos 3y ago, I think you may just have an excuse to look at an electric piano. They're just neat
October 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
@techconnectify.bsky.social Since No-effort November is looming and you did a video on digital pianos 3y ago, I think you may just have an excuse to look at an electric piano. They're just neat
Do you know what would be funny? If in my life-time we went from pre-indexed internet where you had to be in IRC and bulletin boards to find websites, to a post-google-indexing internet where you have to be on IRC and bulletin boards to find websites.
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Do you know what would be funny? If in my life-time we went from pre-indexed internet where you had to be in IRC and bulletin boards to find websites, to a post-google-indexing internet where you have to be on IRC and bulletin boards to find websites.
It must be so wild to make vocal samples and then hear your own voice cut-up, resampled and stitched together on so many tracks.
October 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
It must be so wild to make vocal samples and then hear your own voice cut-up, resampled and stitched together on so many tracks.
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Stop firing and deskilling librarians and archivists please
Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life
Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life
Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Stop firing and deskilling librarians and archivists please
This is very "back in my day" but I fucking hate that CSS is now inside the markup. I know that I am working with react and all bets are off, but I am not having a good time
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
This is very "back in my day" but I fucking hate that CSS is now inside the markup. I know that I am working with react and all bets are off, but I am not having a good time
It is always fun when trying to apply for something and they're like "Oops, you didn't do high school physics. Fuck off to the left :)"
September 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
It is always fun when trying to apply for something and they're like "Oops, you didn't do high school physics. Fuck off to the left :)"