Mock the nsight compute tool with a bash script

.devcontainer/Dockerfile

@@ -15,11 +15,6 @@ RUN apt install -y \
     python3.10-venv \
     vim
 
-# the mkdir command bypasses a profiler error, which allows us to run it with
-# host code only to at least check that the profiler parameters are correctly
-# provided; without this line, some tests will fail
-RUN mkdir -p /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nsight-compute/sections
-
 # we create the virtualenv here so that the devcontainer.json setting
 # python.defaultInterpreterPath can be used to find it; if we do it in the
 # post_create.sh script, the virtualenv will not be loaded and features like