RobinL

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by RobinL 10mo ago
I would argue that's about how the data is stored. What I'm trying to express is the idea of the programming language itself supporting high level tabular abstractions/transformations such as grouping, aggregation, joins and
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by RobinL 10mo ago
I think a lot of this comes down to the question: Why aren't tables first class citizens in programming languages? If you step back, it's kind of weird that there's no mainstream programming language that has tables as first
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by RobinL 11mo ago
Thanks - this worked for me (some errors, some success). Last week I was making a birthday card for my son with the old model. The new model is dramatically better - I'm asking for an image in comic book style, prompted with some imag
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by RobinL 11mo ago
- Anyone have any idea why it says 'confidential'? - Anyone actually able to use it? I get 'You've reached your rate limit. Please try again later'. (That said, I don't have a paid plan, but I've always
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by RobinL 11mo ago
Here is an alternative idea: https://aeturrell.com/blog/posts/one-trick-to-stop-ticket-to... The key idea is that only the original ticket buyer is eligible for a large rebate when attending the event. It prevent
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by RobinL 11mo ago
> many of EA's most notorious supporters. The fact they're notorious makes them a biased sample. My guess is for the majority of people interested in EA - the typical supporter who is not super wealthy or well known - the two c
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by RobinL 11mo ago
Salaries don't tend to be strongly correlated with bad working conditions or stress. In most industries (like software development) it's just supply and demand, and I imagine there are more people willing and able to work for £65
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by RobinL 11mo ago
Is that true? My understanding is they command very high wages because their unions are strong and they have a lot of leverage: by striking they can impose extremely high costs on the wider economy (not to mention bad press for politicians
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by RobinL 11mo ago
Same: Yes — the Romanian player is Costel Pantilimon. He won the Premier League with Manchester City in the 2011-12 and 2013-14 seasons. If you meant another Romanian player (perhaps one who featured more prominently rather than as a backup
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by RobinL 11mo ago
FWIW, here's a chart showing current prices across developed countries, showing UK is worst! https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-world-electricity-prices/
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by RobinL 11mo ago
I think it's best to view this from an economics point of view - in a nutshell price signals are usually the most powerful way to create behavioural change; in this case, we want people to shift demand away from peak times. Nobody is
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by RobinL 11mo ago
Yeah - unfortunately the UK has some of the highest electricity prices in Europe. Almost all households are on fixed tariffs, typically about 26p/kwh at the moment.
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by RobinL 11mo ago
In the UK, you can go on an agile tariff that does exactly this. I'm on one. It's quite fun (and educational) with the kids to work out when to put the car on to charge, when to run the dryer etc, looking at the few days ahead fo
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Reeves poised to unveil Budget plan for EV drivers to pay per mile charges(ft.com)
1 points by RobinL 11mo ago|0 comments
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by RobinL 11mo ago
https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/init/#creating-a... I use the 'bare' option for this
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by RobinL 1y ago
It's main purpose is to solve the problem of upserts to a data lake, because upsert operations to file based data storage are a real pain.
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by RobinL 1y ago
Yes - OLAP database are built with a completely different performance tradeoff. The way data is stored and the query planner are optimised for exactly these types of queries. If you're working in an oltp system, you're not nece
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by RobinL 1y ago
I'm generally pro nuclear and think it should be a significant part of the energy mix. But an interesting point is that the floor price of nuclear is the cost of the turbines, which are surprisingly expensive, and aren't really g
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Address matching using a fault tolerant trie(robinlinacre.com)
3 points by RobinL 1y ago|0 comments
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by RobinL 1y ago
I largely agree. As a counterpoint, today I delivered a significant PR that was accepted easily by the lead dev with the following approach: 1. Create a branch and vibe code a solution until it works (I'm using codex cli) 2. Open new
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by RobinL 1y ago
If that were the case they'd be no need for seatbelt laws
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by RobinL 1y ago
This provides a lot of interesting info on geothermal: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/watt-lies-beneath/ And more: https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/fracking-aust... One intere
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by RobinL 1y ago
100% agree. I've also worked as a data engineer and came to the same conclusion. I wrote up a blog which went into a bit more depth on the topic here: https://www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_sql/
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by RobinL 1y ago
May be of interest: https://www.braggoscope.com/directory (a categorised catalogue of episodes)
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by RobinL 1y ago
That stat is bonkers. China's GDP is only 5x that of UK. Total UK solar is about 19GW. So even if you divide China's solar by 5, they added in a month what we have built in >10 years
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by RobinL 1y ago
We use aws glue for spark (but are increasingly moving towards duckdb because it's faster for our workloads and easier to test and deploy). For Spark, glue works quite well. We use it as 'spark as a service', keeping our cod
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by RobinL 1y ago
I think this may be a databricks thing? From what I've seen there's a gap between data engineers forced to use databricks and everyone else. From what I've seen, at least how it's used in practice, databricks seems to r
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by RobinL 1y ago
There's a good interview with DHH, who is the creator of Ruby in Rails here: https://lexfridman.com/dhh-david-heinemeier-hansson-transcri... I have no skin in the game having never used Ruby, but I found his arguments
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by RobinL 1y ago
130,000 car thefts a year. That's over £1bn loss, probably closer to £4bn. In this context the total police budget of around £20bn seems remarkably low! You'd have thought it'd be worth insurance companies paying people to tr
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by RobinL 1y ago
When I read the title my brain immediately jumped to a slightly different idea. With olap, I often find it annoying to figure out the joins from the fk/pk relationships, so I was imagining a tool that kind of automatically followed th

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