abirch

12 ms·

1. 271.▲
   by abirch 1y ago

   Not sure why I thought of Bill Belichick
2. 272.▲
   by abirch 1y ago

   Millions of rows large. I tried doing the openrowsets but encountered permission issues with the shared directory. Using fast_executemany with sqlalchemy has helped, but sometimes it's a few minutes. I tried bcp as well locally but IT
3. 273.▲
   by abirch 1y ago

   Thank you, I'll look into this. Yes performance is the main driver when some data frames have millions of rows.
4. 274.▲
   by abirch 1y ago

   What my workself would love is to easily dump Pandas or Polar data frames to SQL Tables in SQL Server as fast as possible. I see this bcp, but I don't see an example of uploading a large panda dataframe to SQL Server.
5. 275.▲
   by abirch 1y ago

   There are multiple strains of HPV and most people haven't been infected with all of the strains. from https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/by_th...
6. 276.▲
   by abirch 1y ago

   Potentially it was a different time. Google did hire Eric Schmidt whose previous company Novell was destroyed by Microsoft. Some say that NT stood for Novell or NetWare terminator.
7. 277.▲
   by abirch 1y ago

   This was done to make Google the default search engine of your browser most likely Internet Explorer. They then pushed Firefox and then created Chrome. Now they have to be sure that your default search engine is Google.
8. 278.▲
   by abirch 1y ago

   Investors want infinite growth which leads to enshitification.
9. 279.▲
   by abirch 1y ago

   I frequently wonder if alien didn't send RNA to Earth to start life here. It seems like that could be the payload for anyone shooting satellites out to the universe.
10. 280.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    The question is how to deal with all of the space debris. It seems like they should factor in the total cost (retrieving anything that goes up) and not only the cost to launch it.
11. 281.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    You don’t have to be married to be the beneficiary of life insurance policy. I believe you only need a financial interest.
12. 282.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    My wife has a 13 mini and is sad she'll have to go to a larger phone.
13. 283.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    I agree with you about cell phone data being sucked up when exercising your rights. I love the EFF: https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest This particular article was about using Stringray with a warrant. I'
14. 284.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    Are you quoting from the Forbes article listed above? "In a recently-unsealed search warrant reviewed by Forbes, ICE used such a cell-site simulator in an attempt to track down an individual in Orem, Utah. The suspect had been ordered
15. 285.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    A warrant against a criminal. This is the case that most people support.
16. 286.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    I'm wondering if my Alterego usage will justify my ADHD meds.
17. 287.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    How do you quantify quality? "When Betamax was introduced in Japan and the United States in 1975, its Beta I speed of 1.57 inches per second (ips) offered a higher horizontal resolution (approximately 250 lines vs 240 lines horizontal
18. 288.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    College was transformed from an apprentice style institution of the 1500s to mass produced thing of the early 2000s (where a professor can "teach" 500 students in a class). I think a return to the apprentice style of institution w
19. 289.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    I think this is based on this paper: https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt...
20. 290.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    I only saw 3 jobs mentioning new grad (or recent grad) on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45093192 1 "Zigment (https://zigment.ai) | Bangalore / Bengaluru, India | Full-time | ONSITE" 2
21. 291.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    Frequently people want experience. The new grads are facing a bleak reality with AI and offshoring.
22. 292.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    1) Thank you for writing this. 2) What are your thoughts on links to the wiki articles under things such as "SIMD" or "ALUs" for the precise meaning while using the metaphors in your prose? Most novices tend to Google an
23. 293.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    One of the biggest dangers you have with Microsoft if you're not in the USA, the US government can turn off your access for shiggles.
24. 294.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    It last appeared in a Kodak filing in 2019 https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/#/q=%2522these%2520conditio... Oddly it didn't appear prior to the 2012 Chapter 11.
25. 295.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    What is the most stable company that has used this language? https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/#/q=%2522these%2520conditio...
26. 296.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    Exhibit C: Zoo employees
27. 297.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    If they're not very specific there's frequently prior art.
28. 298.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    This is from Kodak's Q2 Financial report: As a result, these conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern as of the issuance date of the Company’s second quarter financials. https:&#x2F
29. 299.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    Anyone is free to use discover and it works for most merchants in the USA. American Express leverages the fact that most consumers don’t care what the merchant is charged
30. 300.▲
    by abirch 1y ago

    I think this is the at same model that the NYTimes book reviews back had in the 1990s. Pay us money and we'll say nice things. It'll be interesting to see how AI Agents approach things. My prediction is that more of our media is g