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by nlehuen 2y ago
This video puts things into perspective, mapping the whole of 4.5B years of Earth history to 1 hour: https://youtu.be/S7TUe5w6RHo?si=9rkHNaXA2PXXMJjN
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by nlehuen 3y ago
+1 in France at least, food products must not suggest that mandatory properties like "preservative free" is unique. When they advertise this on the package, they must disclose it's per regulation. Source: https://w
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by nlehuen 3y ago
It's a bit scary to imagine the consequences if this file was somehow corrupted (wrong column headers for instance)!
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by nlehuen 4y ago
You might enjoy this then: http://powerwash-simulator.square-enix-games.com/
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by nlehuen 4y ago
This. Over the last few years of writing C++ on a daily basis, I can count the number of times I used `delete` on both hands (maybe one hand actually). `new` was harder to get rid of because of some flaw in the framework we used, but that h
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by nlehuen 5y ago
This whole research domain is confusing to me. I do get that it's a hard and cool problem to solve and I do see why researcher could work on it on those grounds. But I'm concerned about what solving this is useful for, especially
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by nlehuen 5y ago
Obligatory XKCD reference: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by nlehuen 5y ago
A while ago I wrote Babble, a toy language to teach myself ANTLR4: https://github.com/nlehuen/babble It initially supported both English and French keywords: https://github.com/nlehuen/babble/
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by nlehuen 5y ago
Philips in the Netherlands and Thomson in France went the same way ( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_(marque) ) - after being major manufacturers of consumer products, they are now licensing their consumer brand to
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by nlehuen 5y ago
The stats_agg + extractor function pattern is exactly what I was thinking about in my last paragraph :-). Very cool!
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by nlehuen 5y ago
You can see the same pattern of two-step aggregation with the HLL_COUNT family of functions in BigQuery: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sq... This is really useful for this kind of
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by nlehuen 5y ago
I'm a big fan of the nested set representation. It hits the sweet spot of compactness and expressivity - queries for parents, children, ancestors and descendants are simple integer comparison and pretty fast with the right indices. The