jimsparkman

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Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run: How it all began(wser.org)
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by jimsparkman 3y ago
I think this is the exception, not the norm. My experience is business users (incl. PMs) are lost outside of Excel.
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by jimsparkman 3y ago
I don’t know anything about the game, but I’m guessing the new account was created to protect his identity, should the ploy fail?
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by jimsparkman 3y ago
That program sounds quite impressive, I wonder if any equivalencies exist in the US?
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by jimsparkman 4y ago
The slides [1] helped me grok what problems this tool solves pretty quickly. Everything big data is moving to blob storage these days, but streaming can lead to small files problem or longer latencies. File fragments stored locally with pro
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by jimsparkman 4y ago
I assume they are using something like DB2, which has very specific meaning when it comes to temporal or bitemporal tables. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/10.5?topic=tables-bitemporal
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by jimsparkman 4y ago
Since duckdb is OLAP, it would directly compare with other columnar database technologies like Redshift, Presto/Athena, etc. Most of these systems strongly encourage or outright enforce JSONL, so that’s the defacto standard, and most t
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by jimsparkman 5y ago
Fantastic article. Searching the stock ticker (CSCW) on Reddit turned up some humorous old posts about how this penny stock is about to take off.
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by jimsparkman 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! Now that you mention it, I’ve seen similar behavior on Dateline. Wonder if there are other terms for essentially “digging the hole deeper.”
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by jimsparkman 5y ago
Wow, quite brazen. What an interesting read. Couple things that stood out to me was that the incident occurs in December and the raid ensues March 24th, so roughly 3 months. Building the case I presume. Then after the raid, the accused doub
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by jimsparkman 5y ago
While certainly focused on larger vehicles, by all appearances Ford is much more exciting and innovative than its traditional domestic counterparts. The new electric F150, electric mustang, the Bronco series, etc. have all seemed to drum up
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by jimsparkman 5y ago
This looks really great, like a local version of redash but way more in the way of charting options. Such simplicity to boot.
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
Fantastic work! This looks like an arguably better/more generalized version of something like Streamlit. Great concept for building rapid applications.
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
That is correct. Typically used to enable or modify a feature in the client on your own time table vs. App Store approval.
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
Keeping in mind DE can mean different things at different companies, I spend a lot of time working on infrastructural components to just get at data reliably. Working in a product company with disparate generators of data, I’m often buildin
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
If not a serverless model, then Docker at the very least. Something like Kubernetes might be overkill but containers make life easier both starting out and managing future growth.
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
Interesting, I’d guess list operations are significantly faster because of the cache, even a hash map like Redis? That can be a real slowdown in s3 with large quantities of files.
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
At least in the AWS ecosystem, Athena makes this very simple to implement. Stream load balancer logs to S3 and query directly.
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
With direct integrations to EMR, Lambda, and Athena, its a great tool for building pipelines and effectively costs nothing on its own and is completely headache free.
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
Admittedly, its not always apparent. I think a general rule of thumb for me is if I can effectively write the script in my mind ahead of time. Anything beyond that and I might regret choosing a shell script for the purpose. Sometimes a shel
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
Shell scripts are obviously imperfect, but I don’t necessarily agree with this absolutism view. In the right circumstances, you can quickly prototype an idea or process information in a shell script with such low friction. Truly the hacker
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
[0] returned a 404, but this appears to be substitute: https://statlearning.com/
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
The URLs include some unique identifier that’s traceable to you. As far as my company is concerned, merely clicking it is grounds for security training. Edit: I guess the argument is any page could contain an RCE.
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
My company ran something similar recently. The cyber security team opted for “an important change to your available PTO.” It was from an internal address but from a made up name. The company is large enough (1,300 people) that you wouldn’t
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
That view is missing human consideration, however, and is a cynical take. People in those non-free economies you speak of simply do not have the choice and can not just choose to emigrate to a free market at will. We must have some constrai
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
Foxconn’s model of business, industry, and logistics just don’t jive with the region, at least not intuitively to me. And of all things Foxconn could conceivably manufacture in the US, LCDs seem like the least economical option for them.
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
The idea of Foxconn manufacturing anything in Wisconsin, let alone something so specific, never made much sense to me. Do touchscreens sound fancy and exciting to voters?
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
As an aside, does Wisconsin even make sense from a logistical standpoint for LCDs?
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
I’ve used Vimium in Chrome for years and years now, I couldn’t imagine going without it. It’s such second nature I don’t even think about it.
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by jimsparkman 6y ago
WITH (CTEs) make queries so much more readable and digestible. As a programmer who now does data and SQL, I latched on to these as soon as I found I could reduce repetition in a query with them.

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