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The big one has finally been published! Celebratory beer night for sure. nature.com/articles/s4156…

@spectraimsim This is so exciting, looking forward to release! 🎉

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@tristandross There's a good FT read about his philosophy, though I think it looks shit too. Have seen his tag all over the UK ft.com/content/45a184…

@VeryDMonstrous This just sounds like The Left Hand of Darkness

Avatar is interesting to me. Because I looked at the behind the scenes of it, and there's genuinely a lot of fantastic art, creature design, world-building, etc. There's a lot you can do with it. I think the problem is James Cameron decided to go with a very a predictably barebones conflict. Honestly, I think the story would've been far more interesting if say, instead "Earth is dying, corporations need to mine other worlds." If Humanity had become a star-faring civilization, and the Avatar had purely been an exploration and observation program or something. Make it more Star Trekesque in the regard. Like he's agent sent to observe and integrate to better understand the native population not necessarily (atleast not at first) for Conquest, but like a long term study for future reference. And instead of it being a conflict between the Navi and humans, have it be between the different tribes across Pandora (because this is what happened long before the Europeans arrived in the Americas). Have Jake take up the role as an outsider, deciding to go further as a diplomat than maybe he should to prevent a war between people's he come to love. Show that, despite humanities history of warring against each other, they finally get past that (mostly)...and can use it to help others like them. It could also raise the question of: "Did this guy do the right thing? Did he meddle too much?" I dunno, just spitballing.

@ChShersh @barelyreaper I think if you have the power to change the output format the easy answer here is "use parquet". That would enforce the use of a schema for the data (it's easy enough to add columns on the right) so you'd have to split by record type.

Answering, 1. Structured data. Think of binary encoded records. But each record could be different (~30 kinds of records) 2. Should be possible, as long as you can calculate the offset properly. 3. Patterns could be different but usually it’s something like “give me all records that have this field with this value”

Here’s a real task from my job. I have a 100GB binary file. Produced daily. I can’t grep it. But I can decode it. However, I can’t store the decoded version either. It’s too big. How do I efficiently query it? Decoding piped to grep takes 2 minutes. I want 2 seconds.

Another point to this story is that trains are so frequently and reliably late they could rack up £156,743 in compensation.

Nobel Prize for Martini !! Finally !! Well deserved of course. Oh shoot ... Martinis ...

I don't know why people are getting so emotional about "Eldest Daughter", oh boo hoooo being the oldest daughter is so haaaaard, what are you talking about. I was the oldest son and delighted in my role as colonial viceroy deputized by the parents to impose order on my siblings.

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Is sharing this image a crime?

@dundereloise @ChefReactions is not going to be happy about this conclusion

People who predicted that attendees wouldn't be able to tell the difference between fresh garlic and garlic from a jar: you are correct! We also did the test with double garlic, and still couldn't tell which was fresh garlic and which was jarlic.

@osoosoband An absolute banger from start to finish, like every other oso oso album

loved reading this and the replies <3

@andrewmccalip Le Guin's rant about "technology" always comes to mind for me when I see people complaining about this stuff ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-t…

It’s actually insane when you stop and think about the supply chain complexity of a hamburger. You’ve got beef that has to be raised, butchered, transported, refrigerated, ground, and portioned. Lettuce that wilts if you look at it wrong, tomatoes that have a two-day window of acceptability, onions that vary wildly in sharpness, buns that go stale in hours, cheese that has to melt but not burn, condiments that have to be stocked in absurd variety. Every single ingredient has a shelf life, a specific temperature band, a transport requirement. The combinatorial explosion of possible configurations is astronomical, yet somehow a drive-thru teenager can assemble one for you in under 90 seconds, and an Uber drive can deliver it in 10 minutes. Add in consumer fickleness (“extra pickles but no mustard, gluten-free bun, substitute this, hold that”), razor-thin margins, brutal competition, marketing gimmicks, and the fact that most customers think anything above $15 is highway robbery. And you’re telling me this logistical miracle doesn’t cost $5,000 per unit? It should be treated with the same awe we reserve for spaceflight. @laskerer

@mck_zoe This is so fast! Nice work

@samuelcolvin JS is so half baked. You can't even check array or object equality without hand rolled code or a third party library. The fact that exceptions in JS aren't even guaranteed to be errors is crazy to me. I do actually agree that async sucks in Python, threads are much easier.

I get "I hate X popular thing" is great clickbait. But this critique of python is poor. Sorry but it reads like "person who didn't bother to understand thing, complains they don't understand thing". Python's exception system is better than JavaScript, fact. It's virtually impossible to get Python execution to take a meaningful time in a genai context, so performance is more than good enough. If you do have a performance issue, use pyo3 and implement in Rust. I'm biased, but IMHO: uv, pyright (soon ty), PyO3, Pydantic Validation and Pydantic Logfire already gives Python the best DX in the world.

Tomorrow's front page 📰 An exclusive report by The Ferret reveals the details of Angus Robertson's meeting with Israeli ambassador Daniela Grudsky

🚨 Last night JK Rowling attacked The National as an "anti-woman newspaper". I think that is absolutely ridiculous chat. Here's my open letter setting out why this kind of attack does not work on our team. thenational.scot/news/25253214.…

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You can literally just do whatever you want