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Arno V 🌻
@velarno.bsky.social
French Engineer(d) working with data & LLMs 🤖
Curious about anything tech/science/econ, currently interested in self-hosting, devops, data-engineering, IoT, edge-computing

Speaks 🇺🇸/🇫🇷 - amateur cook 🧑‍🍳
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Potatoes as we know them today are the product of a hybridization that took place 9 million years ago between two plants, one of which was an ancestor of the tomato. www.wired.com/story/scienc...
Science Reveals the Surprising Origins of the Potato
Potatoes as we know them today are the product of a hybridization that took place 9 million years ago between two plants, one of which was an ancestor of the tomato.
www.wired.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Hostility toward homosexuality remains common in many of the world’s largest countries—

This chart shows the share of people who say homosexuality cannot be justified across five of the world’s most populous countries.

Together, these countries are home to nearly half of the global population.
August 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Here's each G7 country's cumulative increase in real GDP per capita, since just before the pandemic:

🇺🇸 +9.9%
🇮🇹 +7.3% (thru Q1)
🇯🇵 +3.6%
🇫🇷 +2.4% (thru Q1)
🇬🇧 +0.1% (thru Q1)
🇨🇦 -1.1% (thru Q1)
🇩🇪 -1.9% (thru Q1)
August 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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This isn’t about left vs right; it’s rules vs rulers. If you want strong American business, defend the nerds with calculators and the central bank with a spine.
August 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
In the past years, I've worked both as a PM and as a Data Engineer.

When I showed @cursor.com.web.brid.gy to my SE friend, he said:
"I think that means PMs will start to prototype more, but actual devs will still do man-made work"

Apparently he was right !
Google Gemini’s head of product says PMs are ditching PRDs for vibe coding prototypes.

But PRDs define what you’re building and why, priorities, success metrics and its features while prototypes only show its features.

Skipping these is risky as teams may ship without clarity on goals or tradeoffs
August 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Google Gemini’s head of product says PMs are ditching PRDs for vibe coding prototypes.

But PRDs define what you’re building and why, priorities, success metrics and its features while prototypes only show its features.

Skipping these is risky as teams may ship without clarity on goals or tradeoffs
August 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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the degree to which these guys are just literal, straight up Nazis is both shocking and massively undercovered by the media
One thing I did not include in my profile of Trump's BLS nominee, E.J. Antoni, is his boosting anti-Churchill far-right histories!
August 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Small vacation in the french South-West !

Spending time with relatives and kids is a great way to stop thinking about work for once 😌
August 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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As a general purpose technology, AI has all kinds of unexpected uses that are hard to anticipate.

Example: this study finds blind users turn to AI to describe sensitive materials (pregnancy tests, checking appearance), they know it is not 100% accurate, but it provides privacy where there was none
August 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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We just launched Foursquare Spatial Desktop – a geospatial analysis tool powered by embedded DuckDB and built on sqlrooms.org. Everything runs locally: your data stays on your machine, no cloud needed. A modern reimagining of Kepler.gl. Mac only for now. More coming.
foursquare.com/products/spa...
July 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Papra has been featured in @selfh.st 's "My Favorite Apps Launched in 2025"!

Really proud to be listed among such inspiring open source projects 🥰
July 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM