i have so desperately wanted to love and use ducklake, but have come across some issues with it in practice (pg catalog). they seem to have to do with maintenance activities and ducklake suddenly throwing http/400 errors on files it created. i’m not sure if it’s due to my write patterns (gather data from sources into a polars dataframe and insert into the ducklake table from the df) into the partitioned tables or something else.
it’s ok in dev/test and for me as the person in the team who’s enamored with duckdb, but it’s made the team experience challenging and so i’ve just kinda reverted to hive partitioned parquet files with a duckdb file that has views created on top of the parquet. attach that file as read only and query away.
i may work up a full example to submit as an issue but up until now too may other things are dominating my time.
disjunctions and stats could be a pretty nasty combination in mssql. i think it got a bit better ca. 2016 with the CE updates, but i’ve had quite a few occurrences where the solutions were the union all approach
i've been incrementally hiking the via francigena (https://www.viefrancigene.org/en/walking/) and am working through integrating my gpx, geotagged photos, and oura ring data to both illustrate my journey and analyze how different terrains and altitudes affected the collected biometrics.
ingesting/parsing gpx layers into duckdb using python to extract tags and load api data. using minio right now but ultimately want to push to cloudflare free tools or vercel.
i’m hard-pressed to think of an industry whose financial principles i’m more skeptical of than the airline industry. post-9/11 the industry cratered and they said they needed to add fees to keep from going bankrupt. united created ted, their own low-cost no-frills carrier which was actually decent. once air travel recovered, they (airlines, in general) kept the fees and have been turning record profits ever since. united dumped ted so that they could return to focus on squeezing customers there.
i love travel but i hate dealing with airlines. their executives rank up there with health insurance as some of my least favorite personalities.
and one last thing, other than (eventually) telecom way back in the 80s, has there ever been an industry whose deregulation has been a net win for consumers? i’m genuinely curious and not asking sarcastically
also, don’t forget (well known fact) that passengers paying for premium economy and business class seats are the most profitable for the airlines - by far. Aside from profits from credit card rewards programs.
so the profit margin on economy tickets is likely even smaller than 5.5%!
I have no doubt that if they could fill the plane with 200 business class travelers they would.
But that group simply isn't big enough outside of routes to New York or Shanghai.
The 747 became the queen of the skies because it carried 400 tourists to Málaga, Okinawa and Ft Lauderdale.
100%. just wanted to highlight how razor-thin those margins really are, especially when looking at economy seats alone. For your average traveler, there’s really not much left to “squeeze” to reduce the price of air travel.
i suppose you could reduce safety standards, but that’s undesirable in its own right.
chaos and uncertainty are the result of what appears to be fundamental ignorance of how complex economic systems work. policies are being drafted and executed based on a cursory understanding of how things work, and undergirded by barely-suppressed racism.
> It may be accomplishing what was intended -- but I don't think that people in the US (even those paying attention) understand what was intended.
this is what i suspect too. most of his common supporters i interact with parrot the “america first will revitalize the economy and job market” and then when that doesnt happen they do the same with “i’m willing to deal with temporary bit of pain in order to ensure american interests are protected.” these comments are almost always framed against the Obama and Biden administrations and never stand on their own merit (e.g. “unlike biden who …”).
to be perfectly fair, I’m not entirely sure what the ultimate goal is, though. My perception of the character of the person of the president has been dim for many decades so when it’s something that he champions I immediately chalk it up to something that would serve his own self interest above that of any group of other people
i wonder if the antisocial trend that has been discussed here have led to an unhealthy skepticism of others. tiktok videos that tell my late teen daughter that a boy who doesn’t check _all_ the boxes is unfit or unworthy of relationship and intimacy. there’s wisdom in looking for flags (red, green, or otherwise) if you’re seeking a committed relationship, but they honestly create so much fear and skepticism in her (and her peer group) and functionally objectify boys as emotional and practical vending machines that are held to a 100% standard. essentially they are a different form of pornography that sets up unrealistic expectations for potential partners.
instead of using it as a tool and saying “hey, let’s try this” (sexually, emotionally, practically), they’re conditioned to just pull the ripcord if you don’t meet expectations
what i wish i could find would be a solution that would bookmark the page, store the full text of the page i bookmarked, with the option to highlight any important sections.
the closest i've found is hypothes.is but i'd love to find an extension that maintains this information locally so that i dont have to periodically auth to a web service.
it’s ok in dev/test and for me as the person in the team who’s enamored with duckdb, but it’s made the team experience challenging and so i’ve just kinda reverted to hive partitioned parquet files with a duckdb file that has views created on top of the parquet. attach that file as read only and query away.
i may work up a full example to submit as an issue but up until now too may other things are dominating my time.