nlehuen

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by nlehuen 18d ago
Call it "Computing Science". There, problem fixed!
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by nlehuen 19d ago
While they were at it they should have explored whether those kings were actually the cause of those global climate events. You never know, with enough slicing, dicing and p-hacking you can get interesting conclusions :)
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by nlehuen 1mo ago
I purchased Turbo Pascal 3 for Amstrad CPC 6128 with my pocket money back in 1989(?). That was 1000 FF back then (~275€ today) so quite a big sum for a teenager. My dad took pity on me and funded 50% of it. Best investment ever! Learning Pa
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by nlehuen 1mo ago
French video explaining how one particular telemarketing scam works in France: https://youtu.be/1HoU17dIEos?is=8giBMS_TRJEvmzM3 I'm really curious to see what impact the new law will have on this scourge.
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by nlehuen 2mo ago
Please reconsider this comment. Calling one side superior and the other side insects really doesn't help with the discussion, and dehumanizing a whole swath of people really has dark consequences.
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by nlehuen 4mo ago
This song is a wonderful >24 minutes psychedelic trip and reading lyrics on genius.com is missing out a lot You can listen & watch it on https://youtu.be/JQ2pTamaqQ4?is=T8TaqnsHRx0rqGyZ for instance.
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by nlehuen 4mo ago
I think it's implemented now. Last time I transferred from one Android phone to another, I connected them with an USB cable and the new phone prompted me to enter the old phone's PIN. I was confused why, I guess that's the re
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by nlehuen 4mo ago
https://halupedia.com/spatial-bowel-movement-observatory
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by nlehuen 4mo ago
I'm having a blast adding new seeds :) https://halupedia.com/fcuk-spellchecking-society https://halupedia.com/characterization-of-the-reluctant-peng...
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by nlehuen 4mo ago
Looks like some single quote escaping issue? I suspect the first link to be "Archduke Ferdinand VII's Bureau of Non-Demographic Surveys" and the apostrophe breaks the link.
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by nlehuen 4mo ago
This is excellent, congrats! FYI I manually created this page and some link markup looks malformed: https://halupedia.com/list-of-uninhabited-countries
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Python Is Dead(calebfenton.substack.com)
16 points by nlehuen 5mo ago|11 comments
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by nlehuen 5mo ago
The SQL query they replaced was extremely cringe and amateurish ("let's sprinkle DISTINCT until all those pesky redundant rows that come from our inefficient KV metadata schema go away"). The fact they did not acknowledge tha
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by nlehuen 6mo ago
See also: writing a design doc before writing code :)
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by nlehuen 6mo ago
> Diary entries get a path: diary/2026/march/03/ Date paths should use at least a double digit numerical index so they are naturally ordered when sorted lexicographically. Numbers also give you i18n for free (assuming
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by nlehuen 8mo ago
And just like that, you find yourself implementing a compiler (specs to plan) and a virtual machine (plan to actions)!
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by nlehuen 8mo ago
Actually there are π(N) ~ N / ln(N) primes less than N per the Prime Number Theorem, so π(2 ^ 160) ~ 2 ^ 153.2 - this only drops 7 bits. So that does increase the odds of collision but much less than what I expected!
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by nlehuen 8mo ago
I came here to write that :-)
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by nlehuen 11mo ago
There are at least some in the Paris subway, including one that went at 12 km/h but was decommissioned in 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_walkway#Trottoir_roulan...
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by nlehuen 1y ago
I initially thought that this space was encumbered with parents but Gemini Deep Research says the main patent expired in 2018: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GmWGZMe_cjszV5eEegeFiWXK...
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by nlehuen 1y ago
China is west of the USA.
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by nlehuen 1y ago
Not to worry, there is a 278 page book about initialization in C++! https://leanpub.com/cppinitbook (I don't know whether it's good or not, I just find it fascinating that it exists)
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by nlehuen 2y ago
Holy cow, I created my account in May of 2007. What a different world we live in now.
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by nlehuen 2y ago
I left on 2022-12-18 after some of the muskian shenanigans and I haven't missed it since, quite the contrary in fact. Before that I had to put a time limit on using the app to fight off the dark patterns. Now I'm going to actually
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by nlehuen 2y ago
You are posting this under a pseudonym. If you did publish something horrific or illegal, it would have been the responsibility of this web site to either censor your content, and/or identify you when asked by authorities. Which do you
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by nlehuen 2y ago
Yes it does. Internally Google uses C++20 ( https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#C++_Versio... ) and the model picks the style from training, I suppose.
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by nlehuen 2y ago
I also work at Google and I agree with the general sentiment that AI completion is not doing engineering per se, simply because writing code is just a small part of engineering. However in my experience the system is much more powerful than
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by nlehuen 2y ago
I found this article to be interesting and well sourced: https://examine.com/articles/are-cast-iron-pans-unsafe/ It doesn't find documented evidence of harmful effects of oil seasoning. Buy likewise for Teflo
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by nlehuen 2y ago
OTOH it's sad that a Nobel-winning macroeconomist has to write a blog article about fixing Anaconda's hostile takeover of student machines and setting up a basic Python environment.
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by nlehuen 2y ago
> Learning to coat steel pans in oil to make them non-stick-ish has been a great help. Doesn't this involve cooking oil into harmful polymers?

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