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Grant Gould

@nonnihil@hachyderm.io
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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 comments
* Default-case Turing completeness
* Hegel
* Plantigrade bipedalism
* XML for data-at-rest
* Political legitimacy
* Avocados
* Software-in-the-loop eStops
* ISObus
* Implicit mutability
* Reference semantics punning
* Nations
* Especially Hegel
* cmake

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Joined November 13, 2022

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Grant Gould @nonnihil@hachyderm.io · Aug 04, 2026
Grant Gould
@nonnihil@hachyderm.io

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 comments * Default-case Turing completeness * Hegel * Plantigrade bipedalism * XML for data-at-rest * Political legitimacy * Avocados * Software-in-the-loop eStops * ISObus * Implicit mutability * Reference semantics punning * Nations * Especially Hegel * cmake

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Finally got around to reading @cwebber@social.coop 's https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/ ... and yeah, that's exactly what it feels like. I think she nailed it. 😔
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Grant Gould @nonnihil@hachyderm.io · Jul 13, 2026
Grant Gould
@nonnihil@hachyderm.io

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 comments * Default-case Turing completeness * Hegel * Plantigrade bipedalism * XML for data-at-rest * Political legitimacy * Avocados * Software-in-the-loop eStops * ISObus * Implicit mutability * Reference semantics punning * Nations * Especially Hegel * cmake

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Replying to @nikitonsky@mastodon.online
@nikitonsky@mastodon.online If you move in any way near it, a poster unfurls over the whole front reading "subscribe now for your free article!" If you attempt to interact with that, a second, smaller poster unfurls at the bottom asking if you want cookies. All of the drawers then lock.
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Grant Gould @nonnihil@hachyderm.io · Apr 27, 2026
Grant Gould
@nonnihil@hachyderm.io

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 comments * Default-case Turing completeness * Hegel * Plantigrade bipedalism * XML for data-at-rest * Political legitimacy * Avocados * Software-in-the-loop eStops * ISObus * Implicit mutability * Reference semantics punning * Nations * Especially Hegel * cmake

hachyderm.io
Replying to @sofia@chaos.social
@sofia@chaos.social Plus in the post-red world you'd be stuck with only red-button-pushers. Seems like a really unpleasant place to live.
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Grant Gould @nonnihil@hachyderm.io · Mar 31, 2026
Grant Gould
@nonnihil@hachyderm.io

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 comments * Default-case Turing completeness * Hegel * Plantigrade bipedalism * XML for data-at-rest * Political legitimacy * Avocados * Software-in-the-loop eStops * ISObus * Implicit mutability * Reference semantics punning * Nations * Especially Hegel * cmake

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Replying to @nonnihil@hachyderm.io
@ZachWeinersmith (The exception here is obviously Larry Ellison who already does have a classic volcano + megayacht supervillain lair. Credit to Larry, he has always known exactly what he is.)
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Grant Gould @nonnihil@hachyderm.io · Mar 31, 2026
Grant Gould
@nonnihil@hachyderm.io

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 comments * Default-case Turing completeness * Hegel * Plantigrade bipedalism * XML for data-at-rest * Political legitimacy * Avocados * Software-in-the-loop eStops * ISObus * Implicit mutability * Reference semantics punning * Nations * Especially Hegel * cmake

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Replying to @ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social
@ZachWeinersmith ...and it particularly doesn't make sense from the point of view of the AI companies themselves. "This time next year you will own a billion superhuman slaves" and you are still arguing about funding deals and compliance and government contracts? You should be building antarctic supervillain lairs or taking repentant refuge in a mountaintop monastery or something!
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Grant Gould @nonnihil@hachyderm.io · Mar 22, 2026
Grant Gould
@nonnihil@hachyderm.io

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 comments * Default-case Turing completeness * Hegel * Plantigrade bipedalism * XML for data-at-rest * Political legitimacy * Avocados * Software-in-the-loop eStops * ISObus * Implicit mutability * Reference semantics punning * Nations * Especially Hegel * cmake

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Replying to @frogglin__dup_1360@theblower.au
@frogglin I love the term "portal litter". Early 2000s enterprise web aesthetic was 100% portal litter.
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Grant Gould @nonnihil@hachyderm.io · Feb 18, 2026
Grant Gould
@nonnihil@hachyderm.io

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 comments * Default-case Turing completeness * Hegel * Plantigrade bipedalism * XML for data-at-rest * Political legitimacy * Avocados * Software-in-the-loop eStops * ISObus * Implicit mutability * Reference semantics punning * Nations * Especially Hegel * cmake

hachyderm.io
Replying to @esther_alter@mastodon.social
@esther_alter If you have any robotics experience, my employer ( https://tri.global ): we're desperately hiring a research engineer role, there's AI going on but barely any LLM, humanely sourced data, and it's not commercial hyperscale glurge. If you don't mind a bit more AI in the company mission, our recent "too commercial for a research lab" spinoff is also hiring https://ats.rippling.com/walden-robotics/jobs ; again, it's not LLM glurge sort of AI, but it is supporting the gradient descent of tensors. Their job descriptions are less "already know about robotics" I think but also as a new startup their pants are on fire all the time.
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Grant Gould @nonnihil@hachyderm.io · Feb 09, 2026
Grant Gould
@nonnihil@hachyderm.io

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 comments * Default-case Turing completeness * Hegel * Plantigrade bipedalism * XML for data-at-rest * Political legitimacy * Avocados * Software-in-the-loop eStops * ISObus * Implicit mutability * Reference semantics punning * Nations * Especially Hegel * cmake

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Replying to @QasimRashid__dup_1936@mastodon.social
The dog is the perfect subject to showcase Ring's power -- it has no consent to give, nor would anyone think twice or have the least scruple about tracking it. It is a small thing, an owned thing. But it gives away just how Ring means to treat anyone who crosses the range of one of their cameras: Like a dog.
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Grant Gould @nonnihil@hachyderm.io · Aug 26, 2025
Grant Gould
@nonnihil@hachyderm.io

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 comments * Default-case Turing completeness * Hegel * Plantigrade bipedalism * XML for data-at-rest * Political legitimacy * Avocados * Software-in-the-loop eStops * ISObus * Implicit mutability * Reference semantics punning * Nations * Especially Hegel * cmake

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Replying to @rechelon@mastodon.social
@rechelon Bravo, congratulations, and best of luck!
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Grant Gould @nonnihil@hachyderm.io · Aug 06, 2025
Grant Gould
@nonnihil@hachyderm.io

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 comments * Default-case Turing completeness * Hegel * Plantigrade bipedalism * XML for data-at-rest * Political legitimacy * Avocados * Software-in-the-loop eStops * ISObus * Implicit mutability * Reference semantics punning * Nations * Especially Hegel * cmake

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Replying to @rechelon@mastodon.social
@rechelon Seemed to work fine :-) I'm looking forward to reading it.
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Grant Gould @nonnihil@hachyderm.io · Aug 06, 2025
Grant Gould
@nonnihil@hachyderm.io

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 comments * Default-case Turing completeness * Hegel * Plantigrade bipedalism * XML for data-at-rest * Political legitimacy * Avocados * Software-in-the-loop eStops * ISObus * Implicit mutability * Reference semantics punning * Nations * Especially Hegel * cmake

hachyderm.io
Replying to @rechelon@mastodon.social
@rechelon alas no luck :-(
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Grant Gould @nonnihil@hachyderm.io · Dec 13, 2024
Grant Gould
@nonnihil@hachyderm.io

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 comments * Default-case Turing completeness * Hegel * Plantigrade bipedalism * XML for data-at-rest * Political legitimacy * Avocados * Software-in-the-loop eStops * ISObus * Implicit mutability * Reference semantics punning * Nations * Especially Hegel * cmake

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Replying to @janetlogan@mas.to
@janetlogan SPOILERS!
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