Matthijs De Smedt

Computer graphics person. Currently work at NVIDIA. Opinions my own.

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2025-05-16 19:39:11 UTC

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Not as uncommon as you might think. Max Cavalera mostly plays 4 string guitars. And Wes Borland does on some songs.

2025-03-17 19:14:30 UTC

Whenever we have Dim Sum I just think about NumPy.
Programmer brain.

2025-03-10 20:45:35 UTC

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Hey everyone wore a suit in the 1800s
Very important
Apparently

2025-02-27 15:49:45 UTC

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I shouldn't have said "Nix language" when I meant the "nixpkgs API" if you can call it that.
Almost every line there is part of a complex multilayered API. I just wanted to run Rust 1.85, not wonder about why there's a dozen different ways to import nixpkgs, why there's an external flake-utils package in this example, etc.
I pretty much understand all these things, but I think dev shell declaration syntax could've been a lot simpler for simple usecases. I don't know of any other platform which requires normal users to learn their packaging API for routine tasks.

2025-02-27 03:01:38 UTC

I'm seriously beginning to question the sanity of relying on #NixOS
The ideas behind Nix and NixOS are very clever and very powerful. And superficially as a distro it's been working quite well.
But the Nix language is one of the most craziest overcomplicated-by-default designs I've ever seen.
It wouldn't be so bad if there was one clear way to do something, but when looking around I typically find half a dozen completely different approaches. I'd practically have to learn *all* of Nix and NixOS just to make sense of it. And that's really frustrating when I just want to, say, get the Rust 1.85 toolchain to build run a little hobby project...

2024-11-19 06:11:22 UTC

TIL Michiru Yamane has a YouTube channel where she plays through some of the excellent music she's created for the Castlevania games over the last 30 years.
Bonus: Cat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU6h4XzWpb4
#vgm #castlevania #retrogaming

2024-10-23 03:19:03 UTC

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