Mortiffer (u/Mortiffer)

Mortiffer commented on A lost decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics? duckdb.org/2025/05/19/the... · Posted by u/andreasha

Mortiffer · 4 months ago

The R community has been hard at work on small data. I still highly prefer working on on memory data in R dplyr DataTable are elegant and fast.

The CRan packages are all high quality if the maintainer stops responding to emails for 2 months your package is automatically removed. Most packages come from university Prof's that have been doing this their whole career.

Mortiffer commented on Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android holdtherobot.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mikenew

999900000999 · 4 months ago

Technically wouldn't it be much easier to just do the actual programming in a GitHub code space ?

I guess you'd need a stable connection though. I might try this as soon as Android actually impliments desktop mode correctly. Surprised OP didn't use Samsung Dex.

Mortiffer · 4 months ago

Thinking the same. Also considering the amount of speed up you get from the copilot .

Mortiffer commented on Show HN: Hyprsqrl – open-source revolut you can self-host (live iban/sepa/ACH) github.com/different-ai/h... · Posted by u/ben_talent

Mortiffer · 4 months ago

You can't have a bank account without a gov approved money manager account so you can't really self host it.

Also you can't on offramp crypto without a counter party will to make the trade ( liquidity )

Catchy title but I doubt it works was also vibecoded so I'd be extremely surprised if it works as advertised

Mortiffer commented on Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8x... · Posted by u/lleims

Mortiffer · 4 months ago

Power is back on some parts of Lisbon

Mortiffer commented on Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation finance.yahoo.com/news/ex... · Posted by u/baristaGeek

Mortiffer · 5 months ago

Why do they bring up vibe coding here. They are just a firebase alternative and Google has way superior ai code gen tools

Mortiffer commented on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses tomsguide.com/computing/i... · Posted by u/T-A

Mortiffer · 5 months ago

Sounds like sponsored content. Every other review I have read people say they go back to laptop because the text fidelity, eye strain and keyboard on lap is just the best productivity setup

Mortiffer commented on Preview: Amazon S3 Tables and Lakehouse in DuckDB duckdb.org/2025/03/14/pre... · Posted by u/hn1986

dm03514 · 6 months ago

I've mentioend this whenever iceberg comes up. It's wild how immature the ecosystem is still. Duckdb itself lacks the ability to write iceberg....

https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/extensions/iceberg/overview.h...

Apache iceberg go ? Nope

https://github.com/apache/iceberg-go?tab=readme-ov-file#read...

Basically java iceberg is the only mature way to do this, it's not a very accessible ecosystem.

For a side project I'm using pyiceberg to sink streaming data to iceberg (using DuckDB as the stream processor):

https://sql-flow.com/docs/tutorials/iceberg-sink

It's basically a workaround for DuckDB's lack of native support. I am very happy with the Pyicerbg library as a user, It was very easy and the native Arrow support is a glimpse into the future. Arrow as an interchange format is quite amazing. Just open up the iceberg table and append Arrow dataframes to it!

https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow

Arrow is quite spectacular and it's cool to see the industry moving to standardize on it as a dataframe. For example, Clickhouse python also support arrow-based insertion:

https://sql-flow.com/docs/tutorials/clickhouse-sink

This makes the glue code trivial to sink into these different systems as long as arrow is used.

Mortiffer · 6 months ago

I came to the same conclusion and moved on. We had some c# applications reading some python

Mortiffer commented on NIH slashes overhead payments for research science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/rockitect

transcriptase · 7 months ago

One of the main issues with overhead on grants is that it has nothing to do with overhead on the research itself. It’s instead a tax that a university applies to money that researchers bring in, that they use as general revenue to fund, for lack of a better term, bullshit including hiring more admin instead of professors.

A $8M grant doesn’t cost a university any more than a $1M grant for university admin in terms of “indirect costs”. The fact that they think they’re entitled to several million of it to waste on things that shouldn’t be coming from taxpayer funded NIH grant money is obscene.

Mortiffer · 7 months ago

I have not found a single prof that thinks the trend have having higher and higher % of university staff be administrators is a good thing.

I wonder if it is possible for them to connect funding to a maximum allowed ratio of admin to prof / lectures

Mortiffer commented on Evo: Version control that works the way you think github.com/crazywolf132/e... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

Mortiffer · 8 months ago

Love how a competitor to git was published on GitHub

Mortiffer commented on Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation thenewstack.io/why-compan... · Posted by u/panrobo

Mortiffer · 10 months ago

How can we get ride of vendor lock-in and have fait market competition get prices down for cloud?

It must be possible to make cloud more cost effective via specialization versus every company building the same infrastructure again and again.