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Me too! I think it will truly be the next big thing. I just recently got my first VR headset and it's very cool, but AR by Apple will be way bigger.
Do the VR glasses in any way affect your eyes other than a regular display? I want to get into VR but I already tear up from a long work day of staring at a screen and my eyes get dry.
Snowflake's `Snowpark` product that they recently announced, which is to bring Spark-like APIs to Snowflake. Having a DS background, I love what SQL-orchestration tool dbt (and peers) have enabled: data consumers to rapidly create our own safe data pipelines. There's easily a 10x productivity improvement for most of my transformation pipelines vs. when I write them in Python or PySpark. But batch ML and SQL are not t…
Materialize [1]. I am a big fan of Frank McSherry’s work on Naiad, timely and differential data flow. [1] https://materialize.com/
Do you mind sharing details how do you use materialize especially if you already have Spark/Flink and Hive warehouse setup?
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Citation?
https://grdc.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/207321/mouse...
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I agree with a lot of the points you made, though: > Ethically: there's no arguing meat eating is better. None. However well you treat animals you're still ultimately going to kill them. Ultimately every animal is going to die. If the moral hangup for you is the certainty of death, then wouldn't you consider any form of reproduction immoral? 'However good and rewarding their life may be, children are still going to d…
I think there's a reductionist angle to your point which just doesn't chime with me. It's a bit like people arguing for anti-natalism. It's interesting, but morally redundant, somehow? The hangup for me isn't the certainty of death ("relax, you're going to die" is a credo I try hard to live by - even though I fail much of the time and worry about death as much as the next person...). It's just something about breedin…
Fair enough. I don't necessarily fully agree with that specific argument but I can certainly understand where you're coming from. It's one of those head vs heart things: the cold hard logic that all other things being equal, a life followed by death is equivalent to any other, vs the vague moral sense that life should have purpose, and the discomfort when that purpose is 'to be foodstuff'.
That said, I wasn't really arguing for meat consumption generally, I was more just pointing out -- nitpicking might be another word -- a flaw in OPs justification.
I'm in the process of reducing my meat consumption considerably (to 'a couple of times a week') and restricting it to be local and free range. Maybe in a year I'll be full vego, who knows.
Interesting point you raise about a willing blindness of some carnivores. I'm not sure I've really encountered the level of denial that you mention myself, possibly because of the semi-rural area I grew up in, but I don't doubt that it exists. Humans are highly skilled at avoiding the uncomfortable and maintaining delusions.
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What do you think happens to all the animals no longer used as a food source in a capitalistic society?
Assuming this is an honest question and not a lame attempt at a gotcha: as more people switch to a vegan diet we will gradually stop breeding them in the first place, so there are no animals for something to "happen to."
The gotcha is mainly that one can support the welfare of animals but also be ok with their systematic extinction. I don't know which outcome is worse.
I find it odd that forestadmin boasts security, but requires you to setup your project over HTTP, although there is a HTTPS version available. https://app.forestadmin.com/new-project redirects (via JS, if https is detected) to: http://app.forestadmin.com/new-project
HTTP is used when you create a localhost project. On a local server, API requests transit directly from the browser to the local server without going through an external network.
On a remote server, HTTPs is enforced to avoid security issues.