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Grant Gould

@nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

Roboticist, meticulous software dead-ender, Im in ur C++ objecting to ur barepointers. Cambridge, MA; he/him; grumpy but anarchist-ish. No time for: * LaTeX in code […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hachyderm.io/@nonnihil, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I'll get right on that then...

A scary red warning message that Jenkins will no longer support Linux after the end of 2099

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I guess Bluesky has at last achieved its final form and blocked every last user. Internet accomplished.

A bluesky error message, "Unable to resolve handle"

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

[silly internet games] Okay, I had radically misunderstood how to score optimize this game. I get it a little better now.

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Okay, I think I totally smushed it today.

A 474 point perfect game on today's daily smush

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

The cardinal at our feeder has one random feather sticking up and looks like a total doofus. Nobody tell her.

A female northern cardinal with a super goofy lookin single crest feather stuck in up mode.

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

#silentsunday #zazen

A black and white cat is seated on a meditation cushion in a morning sunbeam.

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

One side effect of running user-generated props on a (fake-money, bragging-rights-only) prediction market is that I have to ponder whether unnamed secret service agents are closeted furries.

A screenshot of the text, "If it turns out that Allen did not get a shot off at all, and that all the shooting was done by security, the term "shooter" in these answers still refers to Allen. That is both to maintain consistency with the already-resolved answers, and with the media reports that I'm using to resolve off these answers, and with what I expect was the intent of the proposition authors, and to save me having to figure out whether a random Secret Service agent is secretly a furry."

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

Happy tyrannicide day for all who celebrate! We can worry about the prudence of disorder every other day, and fret that the sturdy root of tyranny outlives its visible flower. But on this day we can remember that all rulers are mortal.

The tyrannicide coin, a Roman coin showing Brutus on the obverse and two daggers and a freedman's cap on the reverse with the text "Eid. Mar."

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

Beginning to worry that putting the whole universe on ports 80 and 443 was a mistake and it is time to start having new protocols again.

The Osiris blocker image, announcing "Oh noes!" because it believes that you are a secret robot.

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

Kinda wondering if our workplace training was borrowed from the @TormentNexus employee handbook.

Entering a confined space without following all required procedures and having an effective emergency rescue plan can result
in serious injuries or death. More than 60% of confined space fatalities occur among would-be rescuers.

Confined spaces are deceiving and often appear to be harmless. Danger signs (such as dead animals, rusting walls, and
odors) are often not apparent and the space may have been entered before without incident. Never assume that conditions are
unchanging and that the space is always safe for entry.

Has an internal configuration such that an entrant could be trapped or asphyxiated by inwardly converging walls or by a floor
that slopes downward and tapers to a smaller cross-section

A mysteriously charred access panel labeled "interspatial area access point"

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

Niche achievements

A crimson website banner declares, "BELGIUM 🔓 UNLOCKED"

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

Heard of slow zombies. Heard of fast zombies. Driving zombies, that's a new one to me. www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn839xqdn…

BBC News headline: "ICE agent shoots dead man who tried to drive at agents, officials say"

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

Mega Mosaic tells me that I burned 64 hours of anxiety compensation into this game. Honestly one of the best game purchases I've made; huge props to Mark Ffrench / dividetheplunder.com for this ultimate stimming toy.

Steam Achievement badge for 100% completion.

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2024

Happy holidays from the robots!

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2024

Genuinely baffled what charcuterie means at this point.

A menu listing describing fruits and chocolates as "sweet charcuterie".

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2024

@thomasjwebb My favorite version of this distortion is "what is closer to Texas than Texas." www.theatlantic.com/technology/arch…

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Grant Gould @nonnihil.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2024

I really appreciate this emerging pattern in ML that you can get people interested in negative results if you frame them as publishing a benchmark. Like every field ML needs _a lot_ more negative results, and this seems to be one productive way into the problem.

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