News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

trevman

Re:My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames on Friday June 21, 2019 @09:10AM (#20242186)
I do think it's interesting that the quality of the MBP have fallen so much. Obviously, they have improved specs, but my 2013 MBP is still going strong.

I am kinda nervous about the battery swelling; maybe I should open it up and take a look.

Re:Memory efficiency of parallel IO operations in Python on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @09:37AM (#16575956)
If you have a lot of RAM I highly recommend you look at Plasma + PyArrow
Re:The fake Facebook profile industry on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:20PM (#15697667)
Intervention did a fantastic episode on "Greg," a man who had a large cash windfall that managed to squander it all on internet scams. You'll probably cry; I know I did.

http://intervention-directory.com/2011/12/episode-105-greg/

Me too.

At first blush KDB is orders of magnitude faster, especially if using a GZIP card.

But Timescale is open source and not core locked.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I only run into this issue when I try to watch replays (previously streamed content). Which sucks... frankly. I hate navigating through content on YouTube.
If you liked this, you might like this data analysis of CYOA:

http://samizdat.cc/cyoa/

Re:Fluent Design System on Friday May 12, 2017 @10:09AM (#14324050)
Just an FYI, click 'Build' in the upper right for actual information.