Viewing profile — zeitlupe

From time to time I am peeking over from VS Code to PyCharm and recently I have been surprised how much it seems to fall behind. No (official) ruff integration, you have to use 'Ex…

q3dm6

hunter2 still gives me a smile

It reminds me of long-gone times where the web was about sharing easy fun like this instead of viral marketing and influencers.

To me, the most difficult part about quitting youtube, twitter or reddit is that these websites are incredibly rewarding and an incredible waste of time at the same time. Reddit ha…

The problem with multiple monitors for me is that you have to turn your head very wide to look onto the adjacent screens' center, which is definitely not ergonomic and healthy. Tha…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect

I thought Jupyter Notebook has been superseded by Jupyter Lab. What reason is there to prefer Jupyter Notebook over Jupyter Lab?

Mind sharing what the diagnosis entailed for you to have such an impact? Medication, strategies, cognitive therapy? Relieve in the sense of "everything makes (more) sense now"?

Imho the problem with LaTeX CVs is that they all look bleak and the same because it is (on purpose) tedious to create anything except the standard format.

Spark is my favorite tool to deal with jsons. It can read as many jsons – in any format located in any even nested folder structure – as you want, offers parallelization, and is gr…

> I have noticed some differences in engineers who have gone through bootcamps How do they differ?

Some more thought in the same direction: https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/whats-all-the-...

I do not fully get the speed argument. If the dataset is small'ish, it does not significantly matter (given you only use the vectorized functions, of course). And if it's big data,…

Why not Signal?

To me this also misses the point. An eierlegende Wollmilchsau in my book represents a non-existent solution to every single problem in a context (or at least too many problems) at …

What is its advantage over parquet?

> An hour is not even close to being enough. A whole weekend may get you to 50%. This is one problem I have with GTD: It talks and talks about collecting and sorting tasks but does…

"Any book called How the Mind Works had better begin on a note of humility, and I will begin with two."

I had a hard time finding anything with the search. I could not find The Antidote by Burkeman at all. I tried it with the ISBN as a last resort, but multiple books showed up (not t…