Reposted by JF Bastieneli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026OMG i live in japan and love signage can you please tell me what grocery store this is in!!! i will go see it at some point (DMs are ok too!!) see also: a grocery store sign i went to see two years ago 141
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 30/05/2026They had a Japanese sign too, I didn't get a picture though. I bought one of the 3 watermelons, and took it home for some pranking. 030
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 29/05/2026It’s this fruit place in an alley in Minamiazabu: maps.app.goo.gl/GUdDJmdajg4d...maps.app.goo.gl 110
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 29/05/2026When visiting Japan, please respect local customs and laws. 🙇 Watermelon law is serious. 240
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 21/05/2026For all the recent supply chain security attacks, I find it fascinating that C++’s standard package manager hasn’t been attacked. Tells you a lot that nobody is criticizing C++’s security right now! 7507
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 06/05/2026As a systems & compiler geek, I like finding and fixing inefficiencies. We stumbled upon neat low-lying fruit in VLMs: they keep paying for the same background over and over. We got huge speedups, 14.9–35.9×! Website: vlmaxxi.ng Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.03351 Code: github.com/jfbastien/VL... 020
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 05/05/2026Thanks all! I just got an endorsement. Now for the fun part... 😀 030
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 04/05/2026Do I know anyone who can endorse on arxiv CS? I’m not cool enough to publish 😭 221
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 27/03/2026We told them story points are for complexity, and time is measured in T-shirt sizes. 271
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 24/02/2026France: 𝒜𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓁𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒹’𝑜𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓉𝑒́𝑔𝑒́𝑒 Japan: Just so you know… this one’s gonna STINK (it’s really good) 120
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 13/01/2026I'd love to see it! @lefticus.bsky.social you gonna do this? bsky.app/profile/jfba... 030
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 03/01/2026Fun fact I learned about Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing", after having chosen the talk's title 🫣 040
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 03/01/2026I actually asked people at the conference about what the longest NOP was, and other silly facts about NOPs. 130
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 03/01/2026This specific talk started in 2018 😅 x.com/jfbastien/st...x.comJF Bastien on X: "I just thought of a fun warm-up interview question for assembly dorks: "tell me about no-ops in your favorite ISA". I'm sure I'd learn a bunch every time I ask this! 🤓 Make it a @CppCon ⚡️ talk?" / XI just thought of a fun warm-up interview question for assembly dorks 110
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 03/01/2026ADHD viewer: Oh I should look it up 🤔 Oh. Oh… (rabbit hole intensifies) 120
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 03/01/2026I slop coded one is more accurate 😅 It was a learning experiment! I probably used 20% of what I had slopped. 110
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 03/01/2026It’s pretty interesting! Not sure it’s true… but I want to believe. 110
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 02/01/2026My talk about "nothing" (what does a computer do when it has nothing to do?) is now online! 👨🏻💻 I had a lot of fun with this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgl0... 3336
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 15/12/2025The entire world is running out of RAM and for once it’s not Chrome’s fault. 🙏 85513
JF Bastien @jfbastien.com · 05/11/2025Oh!!! I challenge you to a duel!! 🤺 Kill Bill restaurant, November 11th, we’ll see who leaves the most skewers behind. 100
