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leighleighleigh

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About leighleighleigh

meet.hn/city/-37.8142454,144.9631732/Melbourne

Socials: - github.com/leighleighleigh

Interests: IoT, Startups, Robotics, Programming, Open Source, Networking, Hardware, Hacking, Data Science

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #43442827

    I also use UUID's everywhere - primarily due to concurrency requirements - but I ended up writing a bunch of functions (`MACRO`s) that lookup UUIDs and join them to other tables wh…

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    Comment #43077678

    I've been looking for a service just like searchcode, to try and track down obscure source code. All the best, hope it can be sustainable for you.

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    Comment #42353486

    Really helpful introduction to DRM for the uninitiated, thanks

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    Comment #42348250

    I am beaming with joy upon opening this game, I've had a long day and this is just what I needed. Perfect game, the alert math question popup made me laugh out loud

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    Comment #42151005

    I've been learning Postgres and SQL on the job for the first time over the last six months - I can confirm I've learnt all of these the hard way! I'd also recommend reading up on t…

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    Comment #42081639

    1. good to hear! 2. The bulk of them are convenience wrappers which resolve UUIDs into other values, so most are read-only with only a single table lookup.

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    Comment #42080709

    Definitely checking this out today! I use postgres for ~30 GB of machine learning data (object detection) and have a couple workflows which go through the Postgres->Parquet->DuckDB…

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    Comment #41886931

    It's my first time encountering your writing Steve, loved it! Time to give JJ another crack...

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    Comment #41536702

    Regarding the custom PID controller script: I could have sworn the Linux kernel had a generic PID controller available as a module, which you could setup via the device tree, but I…

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    Comment #41406904

    Thank you for publishing the free chapter, it felt very down-to-earth and relatable. Looking forward to reading the rest of it!

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    Comment #41223518

    A lotta negativity in here... My immediate reaction was "fuck yeah I always wanted to host OSM but I couldn't figure out how last time". thanks dude :)

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    Comment #40944686

    I couldn't really tell you why, but I wrangle many gigabytes of UUID-keyed data for work, and adding a BRIM index yesterday sped things up by 400%. Just my two cents!

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    Comment #40095500

    Hell yes, I just spent half a day theming my Linux box with Chicago95! I've already got Space Cadet pinball from Flatpak, and now I've got Solitaire - nostalgia levels are off the …

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    Comment #39623760

    That is awesome to hear! Good riddance to Matlab!

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    Comment #39623739

    keen to see it! I'll definitely give it a whirl using ReRun as a front-end, it looks like it would pair really nicely.

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    Comment #39623696

    ahh what a bummer... 'naming things' continues to be an ongoing challenge in programming lol

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    Comment #39623690

    also while I'm asking annoying, non-profit-driving questions... how about a self-hosted option? ;)

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    Comment #39623685

    There is a huge talent pool of student engineers who compete in the University Rover Challenge each year, who would love to have access to this. Would you guys consider a non-comme…

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    Comment #39623634

    Hell yes, this looks awesome - do you see a future where Gazebo uses this as a physics engine? Also just in case you were unaware, the name 'nox' refers to a popular Python testing…

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    Comment #39608842

    This fad of using an AI-generated image as the tacky doormat of an otherwise interesting blog post is making me pissed off /uncaffeinated

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    Comment #39254436

    This is written so thoughtfully - thank you to the author! :)