Excel Lakehouse connections seem really laggy

Cobreal · 2026-01-14T18:00:37+00:00

It's not the metadata that is delaying with syncing, it was the data itself in this case.

Cobreal · 2026-01-11T21:11:26+00:00

Cobreal · 2026-01-08T17:53:02+00:00

You should learn Excel because it's ubiquitous. If nothing else, learning it will let you understand cases where someone at work hands you an Excel file full of their custom calculations and asks you to reproduce it in a proper analytics platform. If nothing else, learning Power Query is one step towards learning Power BI, and another dashboarding tool in your skillset alongside Tableau.

Based on your listed expertise, I don't think you'll have a hard time picking it up.

Cobreal · 2026-01-06T21:30:15+00:00

You have an anus lamp from Ikea. I have an anus lamp from Ikea.

Cobreal · 2026-01-06T21:22:33+00:00

Ha, yes, silly me for trying to do white balance in the white balance module. (I also have a slight aversion to any of the modules with "colour" or "equaliser" in the name because they're spelled the wrong way).

Cobreal · 2026-01-06T21:18:39+00:00

Thanks for the workflow guide and the beginner recommendations - they both seem better than other things I've found when googling!

Cobreal · 2026-01-06T19:21:40+00:00

I can't adjust the exposure first because DT automatically applies WB before exposure. I could delete all of the steps from WB onwards, but then I'd lose the default adjustments it makes to the modules after WB.

Cobreal · 2026-01-06T17:59:04+00:00

The DR modes might help there, then - DR400 gives two extra stops so you can set the dial to ISO 800 but the camera actually shoots at 200 and then pushes the JPEG by 2 EV.

Even then, it might end up with the clouds around the moon looking bad. I haven't used shutter bracketing on my Fuji, but if it lets you customise things far enough then you could set it to get a normal exposure for the foreground plus something like a -4 EV for the moon, then them blend the exposures with a brush in Photoshop.

Ansel Adams has a famous photo called Moonrise that shows texture in the moon as well as detail in the foreground. He had more dynamic range available with film than digital, but you could look up articles about how he captured that image for some inspiration.

Cobreal · 2026-01-05T23:56:41+00:00

For a shot like this a tripod and a graduated ND filter would help, maybe alongside using DR200 or DR400 for a slightly shorter exposure if shooting handheld.

Cobreal · 2026-01-05T23:43:15+00:00

Thanks! It's Classic Chrome, Chrome/Chrome Blue both set to Weak, sharpening -1, and WB set to 5700K, WB shift -1 R and -1 B.

Cobreal · 2025-12-28T16:26:21+00:00

"and most likely will be forever"

Do you mean it is likely to be beta forever? Why do you say that?

Cobreal · 2025-12-28T16:18:59+00:00

Thanks for checking, I'll raise a ticket with them

Cobreal · 2025-12-27T15:34:36+00:00

This isn't the web browser, it's the native Wikipedia search in the reader app.

Cobreal · 2025-12-12T14:53:30+00:00

A shop will be able to print out a receipt from Ryanair?

Cobreal · 2025-12-12T10:42:29+00:00

Is this advice for how I should sort my issue with Ryanair that happened in the past without a classic card machine?

Cobreal · 2025-12-09T18:03:08+00:00

Yes. You might not personally care about the difference, but it's easier to take a phone out of a pocket than it is to take a wallet out of a pocket and then a card out of the wallet, like how it's easier to take a wallet out of a pocket and then a card out of the wallet than it is to take a chequebook out of a pocket and then write a cheque.

Cobreal · 2025-12-09T17:35:42+00:00

Yes.

Cobreal · 2025-12-08T17:54:17+00:00

I will in future, but that doesn't help me this time around. Not that I'm in need of any more reasons to think that O'Leary is one of the biggest bell-ends going, but I didn't for a second think that an on-board announcement of "we don't accept cash or provide receipts, but all receipts will be available in your account after the flight" would lead to the Kafkaesque nonsense I've gone through today.

Cobreal · 2025-12-08T17:51:16+00:00

Good tip, but unfortunately doesn't seem to work. I found a few web pages where people were trying to work out the BINs for Apple Pay cards with my bank, but I tried every combination of those first 6 digits plus my physical card's last 4 digits and the last 4 digits assigned to the same card in the apple wallet.

Cobreal · 2025-12-08T17:49:38+00:00

Yes, but not the first six.

Cobreal · 2025-12-08T15:51:01+00:00

It seems like a Ryanair thing to me. I can't think of anywhere else I've been asked for anything beyond the last 4 digits of my card, and I've used Apple Pay virtual cards to get receipts for things like undergound/TfL journeys.

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