sterlinm

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by sterlinm 10mo ago
It’s surprising to find a join waitlist button for an open source project. I see that it looks like it will be self-hostable and that the repo is forthcoming but I had to scroll a lot to see that. Looks interesting though!
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by sterlinm 11mo ago
I spent a while mixing this up with PiKVM and was having trouble understanding how any of it would fit in with that project. Made a lot more sense once I got over that.
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by sterlinm 11mo ago
What type of battery life do you see when running these off of a power bank?
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by sterlinm 1y ago
This is the book I like for an overview of the problem. https://www.amazon.com/Temporal-Relational-Kaufmann-Manageme...
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by sterlinm 1y ago
[grizzled kdb+ user considers starting an argument but then thinks better of it]
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by sterlinm 3y ago
Looks interesting! It's not obvious to me on the website what the pricing or licensing situation is with DBSnapper. How does that work? Thanks!
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by sterlinm 3y ago
Very excited to hear this! Congrats!
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by sterlinm 3y ago
Obviously there is no actual model. ChatGPT is just tens of thousands of people writing responses to user's queries in realtime.
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by sterlinm 3y ago
Would the licensing of Grist allow for building widgets/components to use it in dashboard tools like Streamlit, Jupyter, or Holoviz's Panel? Looks cool!
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by sterlinm 3y ago
Pandas, Django, and Flask.
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by sterlinm 3y ago
I’ve found the Python Speed [1] site an excellent resource for the quirks of working with Python in containers for data science use cases. [1] https://www.pythonspeed.com
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by sterlinm 3y ago
I've been wishing that JetBrains and Posit (nee RStudio) would adopt the devcontainer standard, but then I just read this article [1] about how MSFT is using VS Code's weird mix of open-source and proprietary components to fractur
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by sterlinm 3y ago
I'm kind of obsessed with this space and have spent way too long setting up VS Code and RStudio IDEs on my homelab. One area I struggle with when thinking about building container-based development environments is the best way to avoid
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by sterlinm 3y ago
Why does “pip install gcc” keep failing then? ;) Conda isn’t perfect but takes on a lot of problems that pip doesn’t deal with at all. Regular conda is really slow these days but you can use mamba instead or just configure conda to use the
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by sterlinm 3y ago
If you use conda there are extensions that can help with this by automatically registering any available conda environments that include ipykernel in your Jupyter Lab environment. nb_conda_kernels is pretty reliable but not actively maintai
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by sterlinm 3y ago
Nice article, thanks! It would be great if DuckDB handled this itself, but it seems like to be competitive with Athena on really massive datasets, you need to have a metadata layer that is used to figure out which parquet files in S3 DuckDB
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by sterlinm 3y ago
I think the issues of privilege are worth considering, but I think they’re not the only dimension worth thinking about. Consider this hypothetical. You’ve got two equally wealthy kids who go to the same private school, take all the same cla
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by sterlinm 3y ago
How so?
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by sterlinm 3y ago
Really wish they'd released this as open source. Sounds interesting.
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by sterlinm 4y ago
Portable hard drive is probably the most practical. Another option not on this list would be rclone [1]. [1] https://rclone.org/docs/
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by sterlinm 4y ago
Yeah I've just got a mess of bookmarks in various different services, including several different lists of bookmark/note organization services. Tools like Obsidian[1] and Roam[2] seem to be all the rage these days (in a very small
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by sterlinm 4y ago
Designing Data Intensive Applications is pretty popular. https://dataintensive.net/
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by sterlinm 4y ago
I’m really excited about the potential for this in my work. I’ve worked in data science / data engineering roles and had to learn a lot of random web stuff that I honestly didn’t really want to learn (e.g. CORS, HTTPS, etc). I’d much r
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by sterlinm 4y ago
Quarto is also pretty interesting for this.
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by sterlinm 4y ago
FWIW, I think the comparison with Bloomberg is a bit of a distraction. It seems unlikely that you can live up to that 90% claim, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a good product or good value. It looks like you’re targeting a different market
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by sterlinm 4y ago
Honestly, I’m skeptical that Bloomberg chat is really going to add much value to a random individual who springs for a Bloomberg terminal. If you’re a bond trader at some bank and all the other bond traders are chatting on Bloomberg, you’re
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by sterlinm 4y ago
I made a similar transition at 35. Have you looked at quant developer roles? They may value your experience and background more and be more willing to compromise on your software engineering experience.
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by sterlinm 4y ago
This is really interesting! Have you given much thought to either type annotations or decorators. One or both of them could potentially be useful for attaching schema information to the DataFrame inputs/outputs of functions and for red
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by sterlinm 4y ago
Agreed about the similarities between Excel and Pandas. I started out as more of an data analyst and am now a SWE and I think one of the things that SWEs who dismiss Excel and Jupyter don't understand is how little you can assume about
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by sterlinm 4y ago
Postmodern Pandas sounds like a great title for a blog post.

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