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Just started watching The Handmaid’s Tale yesterday evening. Looks good so far.
What are transducers? The basic idea is to extract the essence of map, filter and other functions that transform sequences and collections, and reuse this essence so that it can be applied elsewhere; to recast them as process transformations.
I don’t believe that any technology company in the music industry will survive in the long term. That means Spotify, but even more it means Spotify competitors. Streaming services like Apple’s, Google’s, and Amazon’s are enormous corporate experiments, intended to succeed or fail within a decade. When they fail, the folks paying for them will get an email and lose access to their music in some specified ‘sunset’ timeline. — Prepper-style music hoarding
Ligatures in programming fonts are a terrible idea.
And not because I’m a purist or a grump. (Some days, but not today.) Programming code has special semantic considerations. Ligatures in programming fonts are likely to either misrepresent the meaning of the code, or cause miscues among readers. So in the end, even if they’re cute, the risk of error isn’t worth it. — Ligatures in programming fonts: Hell no
Most regular and frequent commits remain the smaller ones; most of the work happens in the background and resumes to sporadic but consistent local (and often unpushed) commits.
Accelerating Analytics with Apache Arrow.
See also: Apache Arrow and the “10 Things I Hate About pandas”.
Pandas rule of thumb: have 5 to 10 times as much RAM as the size of your dataset.
To learn a new language or system you must choose a suitable problem and use the environment to implement, test, and debug the problem. — The Joy of Coding: Observable
On average, with a standard deck of cards, how many cards do we have to draw to get four of a kind? I believe this is basically the pigeonhole principle, right?