OMG 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
JF Bastien
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Build & scale platform — working on humanoid robotics 🤖 🔗 https://jfbastien.com 🔗 https://tlbh.it 📍 東京、日本
When visiting Japan, please respect local customs and laws. 🙇 Watermelon law is serious.
For 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!
As 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...
Do I know anyone who can endorse on arxiv CS? I’m not cool enough to publish 😭
We told them story points are for complexity, and time is measured in T-shirt sizes.
France: 𝒜𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓁𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒹’𝑜𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓉𝑒́𝑔𝑒́𝑒 Japan: Just so you know… this one’s gonna STINK (it’s really good)
My 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...
The entire world is running out of RAM and for once it’s not Chrome’s fault. 🙏
Having some retro-TUI fun in preparation for my NDC TechTown talk at the end of the month.
I had a dream: AInux • Packages are prompts • Install = generate + test + sandbox locally • Output = unique binary tuned to you No apt. Just prompts. Shipping tarballs? Shipping intent!
When are they rewriting Unix `tee` in Rust? It’s only 350 lines of code. 🦀 Seems to me like the easiest way to achieve memory safe tee everywhere. 🙃
How do you figure out which Belgian beer is your favorite? You do abbey testing! 🍺
discourse.llvm.org/t/2025-asial... AsiaLLVM agenda is out!! It looks like it’s going to be good!
2025 AsiaLLVM Agenda
AsiaLLVM Conference Agenda - June 10 Hello all! We are pleased to announce the complete agenda for the inaugural 2025 AsiaLLVM Conference on June 10, 2025 at The Westin Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan. Regist...
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Ok I found a HUGE plot hole: does Jesus ever even use the gold, frankincense and myrrh?!?
Student travel grants for AsiaLLVM are available. This is an opportunity to meet LLVM developers from across the LLVM community in person, and discuss compiler development in Tokyo. Deadline is March 31. See post for details. discourse.llvm.org/t/2025-asial...
2025 AsiaLLVM Student Travel Grant Applications Open!
Applications are now open for student travel grants to attend the 2025 Asia LLVM Developers Meeting in Tokyo, Japan on June 10, 2025. To submit your application, please use this form: https://forms....
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Is…. Wikipedia just casually foreshadowing a prophecy about DOGE… ? 👀
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It's going to take a bit more time for the collaborative trip report to make r/cpp, so here's an explanation on what happened with C++ profiles, their relevance to safety/security, and why this is a great outcome for quality of the feature and speed of delivery.
Join our Tokyo C++ Meetup on “Abstractions for Low-Level Programming”, featuring @lefticus.bsky.social ! Learn how to balance performance & complexity and more. ✅ Date & Time: February 20, 2025, 6:30-8:30 pm (JST) 👋 RSVP by February 13th at 12 pm! peatix.com/event/4273915
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C++ Meetup in Tokyo - Abstractions for Low-Level Programming (日本語は英語の後に続きます) Programmers w...
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