Adam Brouwers-Harries

Hype man for Dr @BrouwersRebecca. Performance tools @Mozilla/@Firefox. Big fan of quirky type systems and old jazz. All opinions my own. He/Him.

[Adam Brouwers-Harries @harriesadam]

I've started trying to write blog-like posts again, and write up some of the projects that I'm working. I'd love to hear any feedback - both wrt the text itself, and the design of the site.

Check it out!
https://t.co/xFfDNImzgn

[The Iain Duncan Smiths @TheIDSmiths]

A mere three days on from Starmer's sombre photoshoot at Auschwitz. Centrism at its convictionless finest 👏👏👏

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

Footage of skulls & decomposed rib cages & femurs and feet are now coming out of Gaza. Make no mistake why Israel isn’t allowing international journalists to enter. It has nothing to do with security.

[Eyup Lovely @eyuplovely]

@bungarsargon Not the first Asperger to do this salute either

[Nick Dearden @nickdearden75]

48 people are still in custody and MPs are being questioned by police for participating in peaceful protest. A real line has been crossed here. This need to be fought be everyone who believes in free speech.

[jeff @comics_jeff]

Yeah Neil Gaiman is fucking done

I felt ill while reading that article bro what the fuck

[Edward Kmett @kmett]

Python is such a great user experience for AI.

I can really see how it took over the world.

You get the joy of installing and reinstalling the same packages with minor variations in cuda support.

Then you get twenty minutes of being told argument after argument is deprecated and that your code will break in 1-2 versions, half of which are being invoked transitively by third-party code you are invoking. disable_exllama? No !use_exllama. Forgot to disable_exllama er.. not use_exllama? No weights for you.

Once you suffer through that workflow, you can start iterating at a rate of half an hour to a day for each run of converting a model to another format, only to get a runtime error at the end that, say, 'quantize' method doesn't exist any more, thanks to transformers taking on that part, but then the 'save_quantized' method that is in all the tutorials doesn't exist anymore, so that part is also bunk.

Now you're 8 hours into a 20 minute project, but you didn't have to deal with any type errors, so I guess you've got that going for you.

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

“Maybe if we were Ukrainian, with blonde hair and blue eyes, the world would care. But because we are Palestinian, we only have one right—to die and be maimed.”

Journalists are being systematically hunted & killed in Gaza, they shouldn’t have to plead for solidarity

[Kashif Chaudhry @KashifMD]

Pakistanis make up just 2% of the UK population, yet:

- 6% of British doctors are Pakistani. 🩺
- 8% of junior doctors and nurses are Pakistani.
- 20% of small & medium enterprises (SMEs) are owned by South Asians, many Pakistani-led. 📈
- The British Pakistani community contributes £1+ billion annually to the UK economy. 💷

Proportional to their population, 2% of all sexual violence in the U.K. is carried out by Pakistanis. Jail them. Hang them. Do whatever with them, as long as it is consistently applied to all offenders of all backgrounds.

We disown this trash. And we will not be known by them. Any attempt to do so must be called out as racism & Islamophobia.

[Just Being Human ❄️💙💛 @Woke_66]

@ThomasWillett9 @miffythegamer @jk_rowling The Nazis used to publish lists of jewish people who were convicted criminals to justify their persecution of the jews, so drawing attention to members of a particular demographic to justify the persecution of a minority is an old trick with a long history.

[Adam Brouwers-Harries @harriesadam]

@ThePrimeagen Skill issue

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

🧵I have watched Western/White/Imperial (these are overlapping categories) remain silent on Israel’s perpetration of mass sexual violence as a weapon of war since Oct 7, 2023. Many of these women are colleagues and some I even considered friends.

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

“Many men couldn't bear to look and were shot in the head. My husband was very stubborn. They raped me in front of him and then killed him before my eyes.”

The silence of White Imperial Feminists about sexual violence perpetrated by Israel damns them all

[Adam Brouwers-Harries @harriesadam]

@reeccephilip Okay, but I need to know where you got those trousers 👀

[bethany @thenightbethore]

the new wallace and gromit telling a cautionary tale of the dangers of ai, the police state, and media smear campaigns

[El 🍉🚂 @ellasrhapsody]

Wallace and Gromit being painstakingly made by animation artists and highlighting how AI is soulless, inherently corruptible and evil #VengeanceMostFowl

[Adam Brouwers-Harries @harriesadam]

I would love to see a serious rebuttal to the builder pattern where an alternative api manages to produce the same level of abstraction, composition, and type safety. I would bet money that it’s /hard/, and that most other “APIs” would seriously fall short.

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

Like guys, what's wrong with

let command = make_command("cargo", "build", "--release");

which is what any reasonable programmer would do?

[Adam Brouwers-Harries @harriesadam]

@alpha_convert Counterpoint: GHC has it somewhat easy, as Haskell is a relatively sensible language with semantics that help GHC in optimise the code. Clang has to deal with the absolute absurdity that is C++, and somehow optimise it with little more than guesswork and good vibes!

[Adam Brouwers-Harries @harriesadam]

@eff_hey Agreed - but that’s an issue either way. Also, similarly, a local council will find it easier to act against smaller local owners.