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eskaytwo··on SQL should be the default choice for data transformation logic
Polars would be worth looking into too. $50 and hours seems orders of magnitude too high vig 10tb
eskaytwo··on Pandas Illustrated: Visual Guide to Pandas
Those are small datasets. Also numpy != just operations on a matrix, but as mentioned above, proper vectorization can have profound speed differences for larger datasets.
eskaytwo··on The Computer Science Book (2020)
Went to buy it and noticed your Amazon link for Australia should be amazon.com.au not just amazon.au :)
eskaytwo··on The science of having ideas in the shower
Don’t pay too much attention to them. Your posts were a big contribution to the discussion and thoughts on here. There’s a stack of evidence even a small amount of alcohol a week has repercussions - I doubt you’d see the same evangelism if you posted how sometimes a few glasses of red wine helps you tackle thorny problems - but it’s not wholly dissimilar if someone wanted to take the same stance.

Thanks for sharing your story!

eskaytwo··on I wrote a SQL engine in Python
Pure-python commonly is used to refer to code that has no external dependencies.
eskaytwo··on Neuromancer: Miles Teller Eyed for New Apple+ Sci-Fi Series
Sounds like a mashup with Shantaram :/
eskaytwo··on Neuromancer: Miles Teller Eyed for New Apple+ Sci-Fi Series
One of my favourite lines from a book was Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, where they come out of the subway and the sky is blue, the colour of television tuned to a dead channel. Very well played.
eskaytwo··on Where has the passive radar code gone?
It would have been the IEEE article that got the attention
eskaytwo··on Where has the passive radar code gone?
The range on those would be minimal and trivial for any air-based weapons concerns. Definitely home privacy implications but they’re probably less of a concern for ITAR.
eskaytwo··on Where has the passive radar code gone?
People have done PR off the French space radar transmitter
eskaytwo··on Where has the passive radar code gone?
That’s DoA not PR though I believe, since the balloon is a transmitter
eskaytwo··on Where has the passive radar code gone?
That was their original intent - to use the other receivers as well
eskaytwo··on Where has the passive radar code gone?
A lot of those are based on wifi as the illuminator
eskaytwo··on Where has the passive radar code gone?
Nah there were some October updates before it was pulled
eskaytwo··on The Age of PageRank Is Over
That’s still a small number of players dominating the market. That’s the definition of an Oligopoly, and the Disney/HBO offerings very much fall into that.

They certainly have the ability to uniformly raise prices (tacit collusion) with no viable competition to enter the market and fill the gap (as even the vast sums others have thrown into it have shown how hard it is to produce good original content).

This is probably due to the characteristic that producing goods (decent original content) in this market is a big barrier to entry - which naturally leads to a small number of players. Natural monopolies and oligopolies are common - but do require closer regulatory attention to ensure desirable consumer outcomes than just letting the free market decide.

It may not entirely fit all definitions, but the general economic theory and applications/implications are relevant to consider this market.

The original post that you questioned was related to vertical integration - you could effectively find and replace it to “so you’re saying producers of operating systems shouldn’t be able to make their own web browser?”

eskaytwo··on IOx: InfluxData’s New Storage Engine
Thanks. It’s odd they do such in-depth analysis but don’t mention the versions used. I think that is on the old engine. It would be very interesting to see how the new engine performs - I imagine the performance gets closer to something like Vaex which was using similar Apache tooling
eskaytwo··on IOx: InfluxData’s New Storage Engine
Will be very interesting to see this compared to Clickhouse
eskaytwo··on Australia's weird little time zone (2008)
SA being on a 30 minute offset comes up at the start of many conference calls
eskaytwo··on Build a passive radar with software-defined radio
Looks great, ordered one. Couldn’t find any guide as to which frequency band to select from https://www.arrowantennas.com/arrowii/krsdr.html can anyone help? Is it best to choose based on local Digital TV bands? And is there any resonance changes in the array setup to factor in?
eskaytwo··on Just Stop Oil protesters charged for tomato soup on 'Sunflowers' painting
It’s like a preachy vegan: makes it far too easy for lazy dismissals of the entire argument. Likely sets back the entire cause by making it too polarising, which really sucks.
eskaytwo··on Low Earth Orbit Visualization
That’s awesome. We have a few upcoming for the southern hemisphere. Excited to see them!
eskaytwo··on JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Preview Program
Their IDEs support this workflow today
eskaytwo··on Bongbong Marcos Signs SIM Card Registration Act
This worked not so well for Optus in Australia
eskaytwo··on The Hummingbird Clock: date videos by background mains hum
Has anyone tied this technique into deepfake analysis/synthesis?
eskaytwo··on The Hummingbird Clock: date videos by background mains hum
Not just exif but camera sensor noise artefacts eg https://ia.binghamton.edu/publication/FridrichPDF/full_paper...
eskaytwo··on The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
This got downvoted for the emotional language, but the facts of the matter are sadly correct.
eskaytwo··on Teeing, a hidden gem in the Java API
That seems a very broad statement. Are there any such articles on this topic? I don’t see how Pythonic as a concept has to be mutually exclusive with new language features.

To me, the features you cite seem to fit the Pythonic approach intuitively.

eskaytwo··on Mouse plague grows to biblical proportions across eastern Australia
Token Australian reference for those unaware: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
eskaytwo··on McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu
Parmesan is easy to substitute for nutritional yeast. It’s the mozzarella substitutes that are trickier to make realistic/tasty.
eskaytwo··on When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
The context: he was on a PR tour of a farm (or factory or something), and grabbed it from a pile and just started eating it like it was an apple, whilst continuing the tour. It caught the public attention at how normal he made eating a raw onion look.
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