Gabriel Heinrichs

@gabrielheinrichs@akademienl.social
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Philosopher, designer, campfire singer.
🫶 Music, books, comics, science, sci-fi, games.
🔬 Philosophy of science, measurement, judgment aggregation, peer review, accreditation.
💼 PhD candidate, U Groningen & Avans UAS.
✊ Rooting for #climateaction, better #publictransport, #FOSS, social justice.
🏳️‍🌈 ally, he/him. Toots 🇬🇧🇳🇱, opinions own, posts deleted ±quarterly.
Personal homepagehttps://www.heinrichs.nl/
Header image taken from Hicksville (1998) by Dylan Horrockshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hicksville_(comics)

🧪 Scientist: “My findings are meaningless if taken out of context.”

📰 Media: Scientist claims “Findings are meaningless.”

#Science #Media

Pro tip: on Black Friday, all of your favorite Linux distributions will be FREE to download.
A billionaire can never be held accountable. Therefore a billionaire must never make a management decision.

Just a reminder to never trust AI. I had a problem with a SQL query, so I asked AI. The 'fix' it suggested would have deleted all the data if I had run it.

I needed to lowercase a row in my table, but it wasn't updating it because the row itself was case insensitive. So, AI suggested I fixed it be setting everything in the row to '' (nothing), and then try to lowercase it.

Again, if I had done that, it would have deleted everything.

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.
Dit is echt veel te gemakkelijk. ‘Dat was bekend’: nou, niet bij de lezers. En dat had wel gemoeten. ‘Het was al twintig jaar geleden’: juist in deze context heeft hij ook na 20 jaar de schijn tegen. En de hele gang van zaken heeft die indruk alleen maar versterkt. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Geek alert: I'm really enjoying a recently remastered version of the soundtrack of TIE Fighter, the 1994 PC game that I have played to bits.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/tie-fighter-full-117433352

Sure, it sounds a bit cheesy and pompous, especially in the (MIDI) orchestral version. It's not exactly the Bach, Liszt, Reich or other 'proper' classical music that I was raised on. But game scores by Clint Bajakian and Michael Land a.o. are just as much part of my musical upbringing. Pure nostalgia!

If only I could always be as productive and laser-focused as I am between ± 14:30 and 17:30 hrs. I would surely finish writing my dissertation in no time.

Now that would be convenient, not least because exactly one year from now, my doctoral grant will run out. 😱😅

"Qualcomm-owned #Arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform."

(source: Adafruit https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adafruit_opensource-privacy-techpolicy-activity-7396903362237054976-r14H)

Oh boy, that was fast! Somehow we need to find more future-proof models for open-source hardware. Letting the market do its thing is showing its true colors once again. Pure evil! 👿

#opensource #hardware #fablab #makerspace #electronics

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