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Hennecke seems to be just one of many "udarniks" [1], common in countries east of the iron curtain. There isn't really a lineage between that and contemporary capitalist culture IM…

Isn't it trivially [1]?

I jokingly alluded to antirez as HN crowd pars pro toto. I agree it doesn't pass as an intellectually honest argument.

Sorry boss, I'm just tired of the debate itself. It assumes a certain level of optimism, while I'm skeptical that meaningfully productive applications of LLMs etc. will be found on…

I wouldn't trust a taxi driver's predictions about the future of economics and society, why would I trust some database developer's? Actually, I take that back. I might trust the t…

I'm really confused because I had to scroll half the comment section for the word `semaphore`. This seems to be an interview question about JS esoterica, not concurrent programming…

UNIX philosophy is alive and well.

The "4j" suffix literally means "for Java" and is commonly used to indicate that the project is a Java library, e.g. log4j, slf4j, &c.

What you're really saying is that the database presented in OP is not useful because it only handles DQL. 1. SQL can be thought of as being composed of several smaller lanuages: DD…

Excellent name.

I'm curious why do you think of DAX as a virtue. My poor SQL-shaped peg brain has never really fit the DAX hole of MS software. Also, it always struck me as something too complex f…

This book exposed me to proper math back in high school, I liked it.

Huh, even though I would prefer a universal SQL layer, ibis looks quite nice.

TIL there's an actual 'botched' library with the same name; I actually came up with it independently on a lazy office afternoon :^)

That's what I do at $dayjob whenever I have to do windowing &c. Figuring out this stuff in Pandas is a waste of time. Before I discovered DuckDB, I would re-learn the API every dam…

I like interface-only packages in the Julia ecosystem e.g. Tables.jl enables the development of several packages for querying tabular data that work across many concrete implementa…

DuckDB and Polars are my bets in the Python data-wrangling space. I grew tired of Pandas' weird-ass API.

I have found this setting to break some apps (e.g. Spotify, my bank's app) though.

Neither did I. I tend to avoid RBDMS-specific syntax extensions of questionable benefit. The only thing I really miss in PG is ASOF JOIN. It's possible to implement it via CROSS JO…

Related — Postgres (other RDBMS's too, probably) has JOIN b USING (column, ...) and NATURAL JOIN. IIRC, both fail when there's ambiguity in column names.

Nice one!

Also, you will sleep better at night knowing that your column dtypes are safe from harm, exactly as you stored them. Moving from CSV (or god forbid, .xlsx) has been such a quality …

I use WireGuard with a server in my pantry as a router. Dynamic IP of the server is handled by DuckDNS, and WireGuard gracefully handles client roaming e.g. I can switch from home …

If you like fzf, give skim [1] a go. It's basically faster (anecdotally) fzf, but can also be used as a Rust library. I made a little personal to-do manager using it, together with…

Source Serif Pro is my Google Docs workhorse .