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by alexott 1mo ago
Back ~30 years ago, Delphi wasn’t easy compared to Sybase Power++! for example. At that time it was really GUI based efiting
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by alexott 2mo ago
:facepalm: "orchestration/management layer" that just runs dozens of millions of VMs per day, across the three clouds, with things like model serving, AI gateway, OLTP (Lakebase/Neon), Unity Catalog, etc. Forget Databric
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by alexott 7mo ago
Parquet alone is not for modern data engineering. Delta, Iceberg should be in the list
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by alexott 9mo ago
Want to be at airport at time? Go with DB a day before and sleep at hotel near airport
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by alexott 11mo ago
I’m also was wondering that it wasn’t mentioned. At some point I did all programming in it, compiling via command line, switching to Borland IDEs only for debugging….
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by alexott 1y ago
It really depends. I was at talk of architect of car company when he was talking about need to develop and support a car software for 20-30 years - few years before release, 10-20 years of production, and the critical fixes after end of sup
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by alexott 2y ago
Plain parquet has a lot of problems. That’s why iceberg and delta arise
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by alexott 2y ago
It’s already supported for quite a while: https://duckdb.org/2024/06/10/delta.html
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by alexott 2y ago
For Germany it’s far from reality… it shows from Paderborn to Dortmund in less than hour, but usually it’s good if you get there in two hours by train…
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by alexott 2y ago
I still use muse + emacs lisp to generate my CV into html and pdf (via Latex with custom template)
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by alexott 2y ago
SM-1800 was Intel based, not PDP-11 based. 1800 was based on Russian variant of 8080, and 1810 had both 8080 and 8086 as I remember. https://ru-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%9C_ ... will give overview of
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by alexott 2y ago
Another nice feature was data exchange between different kernels
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by alexott 2y ago
Unfortunately, it didn’t get enough community around, and development has stalled. For some time it was sponsored by Alibaba, but at some point of time, the main maintainer left it. Similar story with other people P.S. I was committer there
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by alexott 2y ago
I was in Thailand in 2017th - mobile internet with 4g was almost everywhere, including small islands. It was a huge contrast to Germany where you need to get 15 minutes drive from most of cities to get only Edge at best, or no mobile covera
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by alexott 2y ago
You can already have it in Delta with Delta Rust and Python bindings: https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs
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by alexott 2y ago
Article (in russian language) about the product and why Scheme was used: https://web.archive.org/web/20210506123442/http://fprog.ru/2...
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by alexott 2y ago
~20 years ago I worked on commercial software for email security that was using MzScheme (before it became PLT Scheme) as the base language. Code was cross-platform (Solaris, Linux, HP-UX) - OS-specific code was in C, with about 1k lines. F
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by alexott 2y ago
A lot of things has changed quite long ago - not everything is notebook, local dev is fully supported, version pinning wasn’t a problem, cluster startup time heavily dependent on underlying cloud provider, and serverless notebooks/jobs
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by alexott 2y ago
It’s less about notebooks, but more about SDLC practices. Notebooks may encourage writing throwaway code, but if you split code correctly, then you can do unit testing, write modular code, etc. And ability to use “arbitrary files” as Python
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by alexott 2y ago
There is VSCode extension, plus databricks-connect… plus DABs. There are a lot customers doing local only development
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by alexott 2y ago
Mosaic AI Training ( https://www.databricks.com/product/machine-learning/mosaic-a... ) as it's mentioned in the announcement blog ( https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-dbrx-new-standa
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by alexott 2y ago
There is another discussion about it - in context of the technical blog post that has more details. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39838104
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by alexott 3y ago
Ah, I remember, the self-extracted .msi file was one of the quite challenging files - it's executable, it's a .cab file, and OLE2-container
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by alexott 3y ago
Mime type detection is very interesting thing. I wrote media type detection for McAfee Web Gateway 7.x and because it was a high performance proxy, the detection speed was a major focus, but also the precision, especially for "containe
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by alexott 3y ago
There are also pneumatic computers. Here is the recent article: https://cacm.acm.org/news/275366-pneumatic-computing-gains-a... , but I remember (around 30 years ago) mentions of them in the field of nuclear reactors…
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by alexott 3y ago
As I remember, delta-rs was started by Scribd, not by Databricks: https://youtu.be/2jgfpJD5D6U , https://youtu.be/scYz12UK-OY
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by alexott 3y ago
Unity Catalog isn’t comparable with Iceberg Catalogs. It’s not required for Delta to function… There was a paper at VLDB about Delta Lake: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p3411-armbrust.pdf - it describes why it
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by alexott 3y ago
Around 20 years ago I worked on commercial email filtering/archiving system implemented in MzScheme (now PLT) - it was relatively small code base, but very powerful. I wrote an article about it in Russian (almost 15 years ago), for som
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by alexott 3y ago
Almost 20 years ago I worked at company that developed a commercial product on top of MzScheme (prior to DrScheme and Racket). There was an article about it in Russian, unfortunately now only available via web archive https://web
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by alexott 3y ago
Yes, but may depends on the DBR version. >= 12.2 (LTS) should work

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