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Caching Parquet headers/footers sounds super interesting. Can you say more about how you implemented it?

National Labs are closed over the holidays in the USA too.

There is a word in German: "vogelfrei". It means "free as a bird". Sounds romantic, but what it actually means is that the person who is free as a bird does not enjoy the protectio…

He does show signs of remorse: “To Melanie, I never meant to hurt you.” With regards to the guilt question: I did make the honest mistake of misquoting the history of another inmat…

Whoops my mistake. I’ll try to make my point with Mathis Milton as well: “Milton dropped out of school after the 8th grade and worked as a cook, mechanic’s helper, and laborer befo…

He lived in extreme poverty, was neglected by his parents, got sexually assaulted by his siblings and was forced to have sex with his stepsister when he was seven. He shot himself …

The dichotomy of a sterile looking list mixed with the very human last words is somehow very touching. What sticks out to me the most: the column with the title “race” I find incre…

All the strife and bad blood and still his happiness needs to come out of a needle. Maybe what the previous posters wanted to point out is that if he’d have cared more about his fe…

The DOE Office of Science funding is generating papers as results. If my interpretation is correct, the technology discussed is _potentially_ useful. To me the downside of marketin…

This hit the nail on the head for me. I entered the workforce a bit earlier than 2015 and I would have expected HR to be a neutral arbiter as well. My experience at different emplo…

Because a tech worker is highly skilled labor that would leave the country and therefore henceforth would not be available to the labor pool of said country, which arguably will ha…

To my knowledge and much to my chagrin, TSA Pre is not available for H1B holders (only lawful permanent residents - green card holders). If that’s discriminatory or not is in the e…

I couldn’t find any information about the interconnect of the new machine in the article, there is a comparison to LUMI, which uses Cray/HPE Slingshot and JEWEL, which is Mellanox/…

When I read articles celebrating “European HPC”, I always wonder about if systems like this are being an effective use of European taxpayer money, since nearly all of the cost goes…

Brian Johnson, the “Liver King” is presenting a physique almost certainly unattainable without supplying anabolic steroids, testosterone and/or human growth hormone to the body. Gi…

Thank you, those things have been weighing on me, mostly because I feel powerless to a degree. When I can keep my spirits up, I try approach the things by asking questions in small…

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Here is an article about a scientist being stripped of his position for "lying to government officials about his contact with a…

I would like to share how I've seen those policies impact people working in the DOE complex. Those policies are referred to as DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) usually, becaus…

You won't be able to make that argument. It is pretty clear from the article which way the wind is blowing: Still, Mason says, she’s encouraged by the initiative. “I’m an optimist,…

I was exploring California's wonderful nature on vacation and passed an interesting looking site that looked like a military/scientific installation. Because I am naive, I drove up…

I'm sorry that happened to you, I was stuck in a place with a similarly unstructured on-call schedule and it equally made my life hell. It felt like the sword of Damocles hanging o…

I think I was referring to that as "temporary uses in specific situations". Like getting clients into a state of therapy addressing underlying issues being viable. I might be misun…

The golden standard is talk therapy and working through internalized trauma and beliefs instilled by external forces that lead to bad outcomes for the individual. But that needs a …

What if both are?

First we killed god, now we try to kill the thing-in-itself. Probably a lot harder to do the latter. I appreciate your perspective on this, I hadn't made that connection before. Wh…