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whoopdeepoo

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    Comment #48937283

    Well isn't that what benchmarks are for? They compare total cost for a unit of work.

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    Comment #47885852

    You can use deepseek with Claude code

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    Comment #47655916

    Both of these valuations are absolutely absurd. I guess Anthropic looks good in comparison, but I don't want to hold that bag. The Chinese models are catching up in quality while b…

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    Comment #37593077

    We use it to sort parquets out of core and then the arrow interface to read into Python and export as geoparquets

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    Comment #35997232

    Yes, it's still very alpha

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    Comment #35984175

    Such an amazing project. Once the geospatial extension lands I'm going to seriously consider switching our geoparquet workflows over.

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    Comment #35463937

    Electric pickup trucks are an insanely priced novelty until they figure out towing performance.

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    Comment #35295799

    Cool, but you really need a grammar check. Pass this through chatgpt or something.

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    Comment #35255093

    Buy a Mazda

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    Comment #34977058

    The answer is foreign students if it's anything like my university town.

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    Comment #34755481

    I don't write any colored function code in python, I'd much rather work with process/thread pools

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    Comment #34755469

    > But who reads all the docs Why is this so common? Do people seriously not read a language/library documentation? That's the absolute first thing I do when evaluating a technology…

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    Comment #34746700

    ESRI is a scourge on the GIS industry. One of the creators of postgis can say it much better than I can. https://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2018/11/esri-dominates.html

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    Comment #34718087

    Already way too many tabs in the example. I could see this getting completely unreadable very quick.

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    Comment #34688486

    Subject matter expert

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    Comment #34666961

    Chump change compared to the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars wasted but enough for me to not care about the consequences of my actions

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    Comment #34666920

    First we were looking for potential uranium deposits with satellite imagery. When that was no longer necessary we switched to identifying targets for aerial strikes. The imagery wa…

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    Comment #34666678

    Exactly. I made a fortune as an intelligence contractor during the Iraq war.

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    Comment #34606889

    It's his personal website, not a philosophy journal. Can we scrutinize all your comments for subject matter expertise? What is your expertise anyway?

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    Comment #34588983

    Every single org I've found that says "we don't use ORMs because they're slow" ends up constructing their own bespoke, wheel-reinventing "orm" or sticks all their application logic…

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    Comment #34542140

    What do you use instead?

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    Comment #34542138

    Incredible work, the best python database tool just got even better!

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    Comment #34446963

    Kinda off topic but why do grade school kids need a MacBook air?

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    Comment #34214593

    Just say independent contractor

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    Comment #34214589

    I followed a similar strategy and was hired as a senior. Granted I had ~8 years programming experience before being hired but none of it was as a salaried SWE.