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nikolatt commented on Apache Iceberg   iceberg.apache.org/... · Posted by u/jacobmarble
nikolatt · a year ago
I've been looking at Iceberg for a while, but in the end went with Delta Lake because it doesn't have a dependency on a catalog. It also has good support for reading and writing from it without needing Spark.

Does anyone know if Iceberg has plans to support similar use cases?

nikolatt commented on Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features   theverge.com/24275178/app... · Posted by u/elsewhen
distantaidenn · a year ago
Always been sensitive to sounds and have taken effort over my life to protect my hearing. It may look silly, but I still plug my ears when a large truck/train passes by.

Result is, even at my age, I can still hear those annoying high frequency teenage repellents (ubiquitous in Tokyo). Can also hear some of my electric devices charging.

I'm glad to see such steps being taken by Apple. I always bring my noise canceling buds (Sony, Apple) with me when I go see movies. It's literally painful to watch movies in modern theaters without them. Just too damned loud!

Apple's on the right track. Personalized health and more daily monitoring of said health is gonna be a sea change event.

nikolatt · a year ago
Wait, those high frequency sounds in Tokyo are teenage repellents? I thought they are bird/insect repellants. I could hear the sounds and was literally getting mini headaches walking around.
nikolatt commented on Ballerina: Functional programming framework for front end web development   github.com/giuseppemag/ba... · Posted by u/thunderbong
laurensr · 2 years ago
Not to be confused with the programming language by WSO2 [1].

[1]: https://ballerina.io/

nikolatt · 2 years ago
Hadn't heard of this before, nice! Do you happen to know how they create/generate the diagrams on their homepage?
nikolatt commented on Carapace: A multi-shell completion library and binary   carapace.sh/... · Posted by u/cab404
bongobingo1 · 2 years ago
I have had this snippet in my .zshrc for years,

    autoload -U compinit && compinit
    {
      # Compile the completion dump to increase startup speed. Run in background.
      zcompdump="${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zcompdump"
      if [[ -s "$zcompdump" && (! -s "${zcompdump}.zwc" || "$zcompdump" -nt "${zcompdump}.zwc") ]]; then
        # if zcompdump file exists, and we don't have a compiled version or the
        # dump file is newer than the compiled file
        zcompile "$zcompdump"
      fi
    } &!
Using `zmodload zsh/zprof`, I can see about 50% (16ms) of my start up is compinit (its about 28ms without the `zcompile`).

Do you have any pointers for the "load on tab" idea? I didn't turn up any good results in DDG and LLMs were just hallucinating.

BTW I believe `-C` will disable some cache checking, caching is enabled by default

> To speed up the running of compinit, it can be made to produce a dumped configuration that will be read in on future invocations; this is the default, but can be turned off by calling compinit with the option -D.

> ...

> ... The check performed to see if there are new functions can be omitted by giving the option -C. In this case the dump file will only be created if there isn't one already.

nikolatt · 2 years ago
I just want to say - thank you! I've been using ZSH since it became the default on macOS and one thing that started annoying me recently is the slow startup time. Your snippet tangibly improved that.

Do you by chance have any good resources on optimising my config further?

nikolatt commented on Show HN: Dlt – Python library to automate the creation of datasets   colab.research.google.com... · Posted by u/MatthausK
toppy · 2 years ago
Potential conflict with other quite popular Python library: https://dlthub.com/docs/intro
nikolatt · 2 years ago
It's literally the same library though
nikolatt commented on Europe gas storage reserves – by country, updated daily   viborc.com/europe-gas-sto... · Posted by u/taubek
lqet · 3 years ago
To put this in relation, here is a comparison of gas storage capacities in Europe:

https://erdgasspeicher.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ines_ga...

Here is table from Sunday which also shows the total gas stored in each country, along with the capacity ("Working volume"), annual consumption, and injection / withdrawal capacities:

https://agsi.gie.eu/

Missing from the list is Switzerland, which does not have any gas storage capacities at all.

nikolatt · 3 years ago
On the topic of AGSI, the company I work for published a Python client to work with their API in case you're interested: https://github.com/ROITI-Ltd/alsi-py

Edit: Correction, it's for ALSI, not AGSI, sorry about that. We should add AGSI now that the API is available.

nikolatt commented on The opioid effects of gluten exorphins: asymptomatic celiac disease (2015)   ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/kennethh
iamdeedubs · 5 years ago
Authors putted themselves as time travelers

> A human study in 2089 elderly individuals looking for possible persistence of anti-gliadin antibody

⊙.

nikolatt · 5 years ago
It's not the year 2089, but the number of subjects (elderly individuals) which have been tested.

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nikolatt commented on Show HN: MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar   apps.apple.com/de/app/mon... · Posted by u/startingpoint
programmarchy · 6 years ago
Please, don't forget about the Dock!

I personally hate when apps crowd my Menu Bar when they don't need to e.g. Dropbox, NordVPN, Keybase etc. I always try to disable the Menu Bar icon for an app if possible, and if I can't I will delete the app if I can find a suitable alternative.

There are so many advantages to a dock icon:

- Richer, colorful icon

- Support for badges, configurable by user

- Won't be hidden by the system (macOS will hide icons in a crowded Menu Bar)

- Can be hidden by the user (Dock Autohide)

- Icon can be repositioned by the user

The Apple HIG makes it pretty clear that most apps don't need the Menu Bar, and should use the Dock instead. But we're in a vicious circle where users have been trained to use the Menu Bar (even though it's inferior), so that's what developers do.

nikolatt · 6 years ago
Hadn't thought about that! Thank you for the remark, will definitely keep it in mind.

u/nikolatt

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