ML/CV/Software Engineer, unsafe Rust addict, real estate investor, Touhou fan, doujin developer @bevy.org/smol-rs Maintainer, TouhouFest Programing Manager, Gensokyo Eurofest IT Director, Touhou Wiki SysOp Signal: james71.32 Website: https://no-bull.sh.https://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.shhttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mlyr542t7c2zI need less work-like hobbies. Even my vacations have been very work-like for a few years now.16 May 2026 21:11 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlyr542t7c2zhttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mlv6ikbvpk2mIt's been a week. Life hasn't really given me the chance to breathe, let alone grieve. Cortisol levels are maxed out. The memorial service was yesterday, and I couldn't be there in person. Watched it streamed on YouTube, crying while muted in a video call for weekly stand-up: "No updates from me."15 May 2026 10:59 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlv6ikbvpk2mhttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mltt6utvus2iI fucking love doujin metal albums. Cover art will be a disgustingly cute art of a moeblob anime girl, it'll be titled "Shout at the Devil", and you listen to the tracks and they'll be shredding hard enough to summon Satan.14 May 2026 22:05 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltt6utvus2ihttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mld6ahnnis2eLife is a cruel joke. His body is still warm, the tears have not dried, and the family is inconsolable. Like a branding iron on an already open wound, this is the first thing I see opening this damn app. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 07:07 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mld6ahnnis2ehttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3ml5mlrdras2oI am sitting here next to the man who helped me transition into life as he transitions out of it. Sitting here counting his final breaths, he's too weak to even sit up straight on his own, yet his mind is sharper than it ever was. Even now I'm still learning from his experience and wisdom.06 May 2026 02:08 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5mlrdras2ohttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mkrkc4mhmk2cWhen creators put out media for others to enjoy, they can either react to their audience's reception like Jonathan Blow or like Billy Herrington. "9/10 but review was surface level" vs "I love you guys, ASS WE CAN." Be like Billy. Be like Aniki. Embrace what others love in your work.01 May 2026 06:55 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrkc4mhmk2chttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mkgc2gkmes2pI already loathed C++'s copy-by-default semantics, but I somehow am still finding places where we have temporary strings with huge encoded images being allocated. OpenCV's image decoding is also pretty inefficient when you expect RGB and not BGR. We're down 92% on RAM and 88% on CPU! [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Apr 2026 19:28 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkgc2gkmes2phttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mjyu4xmpgk2qGoing through Mandarake is truly like dumpster diving. My last run through the adult games section in their Akiba store found this insane pull from the late-90s/early-2000s buried in a mountain of pornography.21 Apr 2026 11:14 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyu4xmpgk2qhttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mjw6pcyf7k2vFinally, a good soba restaurant in the US. The noodles are just the right firmness and the broth was really rich without being overpowering, with a deep smoky flavor. The duck meat was of equal quality. @ Soba Dining Sora in SF20 Apr 2026 09:46 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjw6pcyf7k2vhttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mjooc7asgk2oTIL you can decode a specific partial region of a JPEG/TIFF image instead of decoding the entire image then cropping it. This damn ML pipeline has been running for nearly a decade doing the latter. This alone reduced our CPU usage by 78%!17 Apr 2026 10:03 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjooc7asgk2ohttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mjkos27jts2cGonna shut this up myself. First time soldering something since uni, fingers crossed I don't burn myself again. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Apr 2026 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkos27jts2chttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mjihnngj7c2cFirst time in 10 years needing to use a thread local in C++ and I'm tearing my hair out. I feel absolutely spoiled by the API design of Rust's thread local implementations.14 Apr 2026 22:48 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjihnngj7c2chttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mjhw2lsfh22cLLMs keep you from developing your own skills, which is great when you're forced to learn skills that make you dumber when you have them, like knowing C++14 Apr 2026 17:33 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhw2lsfh22chttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mjgyb26ia22mEvery year my taxes get more and more complex. I keep telling myself to get a CPA to handle this for me, but the last idiot I hired did a worse job than I could.14 Apr 2026 08:40 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjgyb26ia22mhttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mjddunt6lk2mAnother month, another PG&E outage.12 Apr 2026 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjddunt6lk2mhttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mjafb5b3ek2aI wonder how much power and CPU compute is being spent globally for proof-of-work based anti-bot measures. I load a website and each page load has an extra 5 seconds for these measures.11 Apr 2026 17:44 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjafb5b3ek2ahttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mijpkjhhv22zMagnitude 5 earthquake turned my bathtub into a wavepool. O_O02 Apr 2026 17:17 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijpkjhhv22zhttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3micp3crvxc2uDamn, only $100m in funding and already choking down the VC chode and calling for the construction of the Basilisk. Y'all know you can wait to get *billions* before fucking over your userbase, right? [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Mar 2026 22:20 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3micp3crvxc2uhttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mibf6pf2nk22Friends and I have started on that Anki grind! I'm on day 3 of reviewing Chinese and picking up Japanese. I wish human languages were as easy to learn as proglangs 😭.30 Mar 2026 09:50 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mibf6pf2nk22https://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mi5qnwi56k26First sub-25 second solve! Hoping to get my average that low soon.28 Mar 2026 23:05 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi5qnwi56k26https://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mhyghob4ts2aCaught a product manager at work self-correcting themselves from "genAI" to just "AI", mid sentence. Got some mad side-eye from higher management nearby. Is this a common experience? Felt really fucking cult-like.26 Mar 2026 20:19 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhyghob4ts2ahttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mhwnbhhgls2y26 Mar 2026 03:16 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhwnbhhgls2yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mhr6qfhamc2kMy city has been building more density and bike lanes for the past few years and decided to finally buy a new bike, after having the last one stolen during the pandemic. E-bikes have really come a long way. The pedal assist feels natural. Only concern is having it stolen yet again.23 Mar 2026 23:12 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhr6qfhamc2khttps://blacksky.community/profile/no-bull.sh/post/3mhll6daytc22Rest in peace, Yorhel, you were a real one. VNDB has been indispensable for me. I have over 300 VNs on my list, many of which I wouldn't have tried if it weren't for the site. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Mar 2026 17:39 +0000at://did:plc:4z5njzztpwdqafvvzs74yfuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhll6daytc22