Just days after Palantir proudly claims its founder’s undemocratic corporatist ideals as the official company line, Speed Racer is back in theaters with its anti-corporate messaging.
Like the Emperor, somehow, it returned, but unlike that movie, Speed Racer is good.
Speed Racer is quite the theatrical experience
A chillier day than they expected
Spurs arena kinda lit
I had to look that one up, wtf haha
Big Game. Big Moment. Who Else? 🐐
amazon is really on top of it with these NBA broadcasts
somehow they made the moment-to-moment gameplay even better
Great bit of mining history here combining legal, engineering and social history to explain the 2022 Jagersfontein tailings dam.
Decisions taken by De Beers, the courts, local and national government resulted in a disaster that was entirely avoidable:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
scrubbed backwards to make a gif that encapsulates the end of that Warriors game 🏀
I lived in Knoxville, I own One Knox gear, I now live in the DMV, I had no idea this game was happening 🤦♂️
“Oh god I haven’t played soccer when it’s hot out since before Covid“
gotta get to 270 EV, believe it is at 222 after Virginia
now for the game where my Avdija bobblehead from a Wiz game a few years back is somehow relevant
I was just thinking how much LaMelo looks like an AI-generated SoundCloud rapper
what a fun-dumb end to that game
lmao Hornets
2026 yall
as they pass up a lob dunk to toss out to a bad 3 🤦♂️
It’s definitely more fun if the Hornets win 🏀
Did have one fun night with their very young staff who were drinking in the (non-air conditioned, but cooler than below) office after work while I tried to patch SAS over my phone
I think I literally drank all of their remaining beer (it was very light and I’m not particularly small)
Less amazing working 18-20 hour days in a random skyscraper in Manila from Monday-Friday flying in and out immediately on either side after dreaming of an island vacation during the previous 18 months of midnight training calls with their staff 😆
That’s funny. I don’t think SQL has gone away at all, although Claude and such are really good at most queries since they've been trained on so much of it. Cloud data platforms also all have their own SQL flavors. I run at least a few queries almost every week, @gridstatus.io is built on PostgreSQL
to “install” a laptop of SAS scripts and setup a database when we built market monitoring tools for them and were working to transition the local market from hourly to 5-minute
Had a moment on that trip where the local SAS license did not work, and had to tether my phone to get >20kb speeds to fix
ha, oh no, I think it was maybe 2019? when we got permission to do anything “cloud“. Until that point it had mostly been on-prem, until around when I started we set up (like physically, in person) a server at one of the many local data centers of northern Virginia
I literally traveled to Manila
We’d get clones of trailing changes to the ISO’s databases every night and then the processing, loading, and analysis that happened before I got into the office the next day was almost entirely SAS
All kinds of horrible timestamp and special character issues
use Python for any new analysis, but we also had requirements in certain cases where things *had* to be SAS, lots of PROC SQL to break out into something that made more sense. the database side of it all was a total nightmare, although much better than my brush with the EPA’s Oracle systems
ha, wasn’t trying to obscure, this was market monitoring
bit ship of theseus, but you could say the software+databases for US deregulated electricity markets dated back to the turn of the century, and that volume of data at that time could not be handled in RAM
I maintained SAS and tried to
I mean, not so much at this point, but legacy systems from the time where you needed to perform on-disk operations due to space limitations take quite a while to phase out
I was handed a SAS book at an energy job in 2016, years *after* I has already learned Stata, then Matlab, then Python
I'm just astonished, it feels like we've hit some kind of apex of the moment, I thought it was going to be space-based datacenters, but instead it's house-based datacenters
