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peterdstallion

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peterdstallion··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
I am a paying subscriber to Gemini, Claude and OpenAI.

I don't know if it's me, but over the last few weeks I've got to the conclusion ChatGPT is very strongly leading the race. Every answer it gives me is better - it's more concise and more informative.

I look forward to testing this further, but out of the few runs I just did after reading about this - it isn't looking much better

peterdstallion··on DuckDB can be 5x faster than Spark at 500M record files
This test was done on a small dev laptop with 16GB of RAM, scanning a 500M row (record) 23GB Parquet file. DuckDB proved to be 5x faster.

A bit of an obvious one - small data tech is faster at small data. It serves more of a lower bound reminder of what "small data" is nowadays.

The article rightly starts with:

> Processing power on laptops has increased dramatically over the last twenty years. This allows single laptops to accomplish what we needed multi-node Spark clusters to do ten years ago.

peterdstallion··on iPhone 1 (2G) vs. iPhone 17 Pro Max: Look at 18 Years of Progress
The technological progress is astonishing. But so is the societal degradation that came with it.
peterdstallion··on Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander
It's my go-to keyboard. I can't recommend it enough. My only regret is I didn't buy it earlier.

It's definitely way more ergonomic - I believe that's incredibly important if you're going to be spending decades in front of a screen. At the very least don't make it easy to be hunched over.

Last but not least - coming from a non-mechanical keyboard before - the switch is super satisfying.

peterdstallion··on Amazon S3 Tables
Nope, they seem to have their own catalog library that translates it: https://github.com/awslabs/s3-tables-catalog