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> My understanding is that it's dangerous and few want to do it. Yeah this is the part everyone is ignoring in the conversation. Many highly compensated physical labor jobs are hig…

I've heard it from someone who was in China after the pandemic emerged. Apparently some Chinese people believe exactly that. Some of the lab animals were sold to the wet market. An…

> In my time at Amazon, I was actually trained and coached on removing myself from certain situations and not interfering or establishing certain relationships because it would hel…

Yes it seems to me they have taken the same approach as AWS Aurora. Use Postgres frontend and query parsing and replace the storage layer and query execution with their own.

Why would it decrease single thread performance? How is python different than other languages that support native full-fledged multi-threading, eg Java, Go, C#?

I am curious what exactly is the reason GIL hasn't been removed in one of the most popular languages ever?

Hi Simon, thank you for the great work. Do you have any plan to support DuckDB in future?

The issue is there's a huge ecosystem developed on top of Pandas. So if it's different API, now you lose access to all the ecosystem.

There's also bear-type for runtime type checking: https://github.com/beartype/beartype .

The only valid use for NFT I can think of is a pure vehicle for financial speculation. It's better people do wild speculation on NFTs than housing market.

Dan Luu wrote about monorepo. It's worth a read https://danluu.com/monorepo/

This reminds me of Dan Luu post about outages and post-mortems [1]: > For more on this, Ding Yuan et al. have a great paper and talk: Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failu…

> Perforce is basically Git, but shittier and proprietary. I think it's mostly popular in the games industry. I think Google also uses Perforce. It's understandable because Google …

This is what I've written: > while privately discussed that not only it is a possibility, some of them believed it's *highly probable*. This is what you have written: > proof posit…

I don't have the time to go through lawyer-speak arguments. The cables from officials regarding WIV safety have been verified. Just because it's on the opinion page doesn't mean it…

According to this > Sep 9, 2003 (CIDRAP News) – Chinese scientists found that animals sold at street markets in Guangdong, China, carried a coronavirus nearly identical to the SARS…

Several top virologists have publicly tarred lab leak as racist conspiracy theory, while privately discussed that not only it is a possibility, some of them believed it's highly pr…

> Just that this particular lab is known for being extremely safe, and that it's therefore unlikely it would have had a leak. This is nothing but disinformation. > Two years before…

Is there any restrictions on this option? Eg only children of the same parent process are allowed to bind to same port. Otherwise how does the packet distribution work? And how doe…

I see they also have have pandas replacement: https://github.com/nv-legate/legate.pandas . How is it different from cuDF?

Can someone point to an article that explains the connection issue in detail?