I’m more worried that the query planner requires more compute than the query.
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However, about half way through the author writes
> The only place on the whole island where the two worlds nearly collide is the Markham valley […]
Author then goes into a bit of detail on that place before giving two reasons why he believes “that”. Two reasons I cannot for the life of me parse
> The reason why I believe that, despite the minimal trade that existed, the highlands were functionally cut off, is that when the Europeans occupied New Guinea, they themselves did not ever speak of or show knowledge of the highlanders. Similarly, when the highlanders first encountered Australians, they had no concept of the coastal people, or where the shells came from, or any further concept of the broader world.
So the reason the highlanders world nearly collided with the coastal dwellers at Markham Valley is because the Europeans didn’t meet the highlanders when they occupied the island?
The other reason is to do with genetics, which I find equally detached from the core subject of those paragraphs.
Where is the article explaining that?
Anyway, great article, thanks for sharing.
I love his books, but they are the literary version of a stand-up show.
To paraphrase: If an audience of live arts is willing to go see a ballet, they must have an appetite for challenge, difficulty, or complexity. There are signs of life and appetite for being challenged in 2026 - Jimmy Carr sold out his tour.
Like, it has always been advertised as record shows and skip commercials. When they said skip commercials in the early 2000s, did they just mean fast forward?
But ambulances in with full sirens begging over their speaker-system to have pedestrians at Shibuya crossing let the vehicle through, is probably the worst thing about Japan.
As for your second question, I’m reminded of Bob Mortimer in Would I lie To You: “… then the fire brigade came and ruined the whole house” - “Bob, surely the fire was ruining the house” - “No, water damage”. Maybe if those darn firefighters had taken their boots off, there had been a bit more left of Bobs childhood home.
>pl.Series([None, 1, 0, 2], dtype=pl.UInt32).cast(pl.Enum(["a", "b", "c"])) ># ComputeError: casting from u32 to enum is not supported.
>Use instead: .cat.to(dtype) for int → categorical, .cat.physical() for >categorical → int.
Always show the correct way of doing things. I have no idea what the correct is here, and I don't really see what benefit this change in API brings.
1. Use bash to stream code into a new file
2. Run file
3. Check the change step 2 did.
4. Delete file from step 1
On mobile, but I believe for one of them on WSL is something like 'paste.exe'
I am actually starting to think the point of this is to feed LLMs things to cite.
>I find this last category a bit mysterious, as when I look up discussions on how the thing got into this state ...
I'm currently on the dev side of such a product and can tell you one way it can end up like this.
Leadership decides a new feature is required, but refuses to commit to writing what they want. Through a bunch of meetings and calls developers have learned a number of vague requirements to the product, many which are conflicting, just as many are unclear if they are long term features or needed immediately.
The result is something that implements - to the letter, but not the spirit - of what the developers can agree on from this vague mountain of requirements.
The feature is returned to leadership in the hopes that having something tangible will make it clear what leadership actually wants.
However, leadership returns with a "Looks great, can you add?" and they sign off and we begin the next sprint.
I thought min and max where constants stored in the object. Basically you are just asking for one of the parameters it was created with.
Anyone else surprised that the maximum notice period allowed is about 3 months?
I would have thought 3 months is minimum notice period, with provisions to stop faster if any provable violation occurs.
if __main__:
It really was “I hate success. Down with consumerism, buy my t-shirt”
What data do they use? Company slack channels?
> The IG and Whatsapp Acquisitions? I mean when you have all that insider knowledge (years of deep knowledge of the product space), it was an inevitable ploy to acquire a monopoly at whatever price - serving billions of people at scale was always going to lead to tremendous cash flows.
That is such a reckon.
He did buy a tiny startup for an almost unheard of amount of money, and totally made bank on it. Everybody thought, at the time, that he overpaid for Instagram and he proved to the world that Instagram sold themselves short.
> Then during the high-growth phase of FB, he relied on a team of individuals who cared nothing but running scientific experiments with large amounts of data - again nothing he did there.
That is exactly what a good CEO does. There is a thousand ways he could have stewarded Facebook and he decided to invest heavily in data science experiments and it paid off.
I also think it is worth to point to how MySpace threw away their lead: They tried monetizing early and hard after the Murdoch takeover. They limited photo uploads to curb costs. Meanwhile Zuckerberg managed to convince investors to keep running Facebook without _any_ revenue streams, and give people unlimited photo uploads.
> He brought in Sheryl to run the show w.r.t forming the business model and operations.
Again, that is what a good CEO does.
I really don't believe that the success of Facebook, now Meta, just happened to him.
>Warning
>OpenLogi is under active development and not yet stable — features and config may still change.
Which seems in stark contrast to how it is presented on the website.