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this has been the exact analogy I've kept in my mind with LLMs
Re:VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) on Thursday September 24, 2026 @07:31AM (#49829177)
not to tell you that it's better or worse but you might like helium if you are using ungoogled chromium
Re:US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average on Friday September 04, 2026 @08:55AM (#49563920)
deal for he, heel for thee
by concentrating the load into a single location like that, you would likely overload the transmission system at that location and trigger a ton of system upgrades. so they would likely need to build their own generation and still probably upgrade lines if they just took over a county.
Re:DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1) on Friday June 19, 2026 @10:57AM (#48599376)
I really hate SQL as a language for doing data-related tasks, but the core tech for it is often much better in terms of reliability (and is close to having performance parity IME)... specifically for working with larger-than-memory datasets. I think the team at Polars is working on improving larger-than-memory operations though.
Re:DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1) on Friday June 19, 2026 @10:53AM (#48599323)
In my experience it works OK with spilling to disk so I haven't had too much of a concern with memory usage... previously I had issues with it OOM'ing and failing (or maybe this was a skill issue?), but haven't had that happen recently.
Re:Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years on Friday June 05, 2026 @11:27AM (#48413849)
the I in ACID stands for isolation, not idempotency
I'm a TI guy, but really like RPN and there is (was?) an excellent RPN package for the TI-89 https://old.reddit.com/r/calculators/comments/fdytes/lars_fr...
Re:Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive) on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @11:46AM (#47427252)
also I would recommend looking at videos from matt harrison for polars or pandas, e.g.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ekw2Ou3s0

Re:Programming in K on Monday March 02, 2026 @04:58PM (#47224752)
dang I had no idea you wrote the asof join for pandas. thank you for that
Re:What's New in Python 3.15 on Sunday December 21, 2025 @04:31PM (#46348716)
I usually do REPL driven development in Python via emacs but you can tell it's not the natural way to do things, esp. if you start doing stuff with async. But I still feel that it makes me way more productive than I would otherwise be
Re:IBM to Acquire Confluent on Monday December 08, 2025 @07:38PM (#46199821)
Always Increasing
Re:Microsoft Python Driver for SQL Server on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @12:58PM (#45278391)
You might be able to do it with ibis. Don't know about the performance though
Re:Using Emacs Org-Mode With Databases: A getting-started guide on Friday September 12, 2025 @03:24PM (#45225677)
I also use: https://github.com/kostafey/ejc-sql for stuff not natively supported by sql-mode in emacs FWIW
not sure if it counts as a list of case studies, but a relevant and recent video nonetheless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZeIEiBrT_w

also in general bayesian statistics

random medium article: https://medium.com/pythoneers/monte-carlo-simulation-ideas-a...

Comment history says yes to your second point
trickle down economics?
Re:An illustrated guide to Amazon VPCs on Thursday June 05, 2025 @01:10PM (#44193587)
are you planning on turning this into a book also? if so I'd be interested. the blog posts were very helpful :)
Don't know about radar but here's a good book on classical CV https://udlbook.github.io/cvbook/

even though I think Simon admits that most of it is obsolete after DL computer vision came about

Seems like you're unfamiliar with enterprise IT
Re:Full power outage in Spain and Portugal on Monday April 28, 2025 @01:46PM (#43824041)
> But with solar, how is the synchronization provided? In like a giant buck? Or in software somehow? Does the phase shift matter as much as in the electromechanical systems?

If you mean how does solar detect phase and synchronize to the grid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-locked_loop

If you mean how does solar act to reinforce the grid: search for terms like "grid forming inverter vs. grid following inverter" though not all generators are the same in terms of how much resilience they add to the grid, esp. w.r.t. the inertia they do or do not add. See e.g. https://www.greentechmedia.com/squared/dispatches-from-the-g...

Re:The Efficiency of Vim on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:47PM (#43191132)
the vim one is pretty irritating with input delay but the neovim one isn't too bad (the one that hooks into neovim)... at least it makes vs code tolerable enough for me so I don't bang my head against the wall when I have to use it
Re:Homes Withstood the LA Fires. Architects Explain Why on Friday January 17, 2025 @08:34AM (#42737334)
the space is able to be opened up as part of the main living area https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oIeLGkSCMA
Re:Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL on Thursday January 02, 2025 @02:34PM (#42577873)
for those who don't know, the author is one of the best DB researchers in the world
Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:52AM (#42547148)
He was being sarcastic
Re:The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @03:56PM (#42129912)
Not sure if you're making a jungle Brothers reference to Amen break reference :)
I guess depending on how you open them they do indeed have the right to bear arms

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