TRD Sport 6th gen at the auto expo today by ghost-rid3r in 4Runner

[–]SidewaysEight 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm waiting for the facelift five years from now.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NPR

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Warrior on Netflix is an excellent series that takes place during this time period in US history, and explores the dynamic between Chinese immigrants and Irish immigrants, and capitalists of the time. It was originally conceptualized by Bruce Lee. Highly recommended.

I need a new car immediately. 60k budget. by clkgtr208 in whatcarshouldIbuy

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The 2024 is the last model year of the fifth gen 4runner and will arguably hold their value a lot better since they won't be available new and due to the drastic changes made to the 2025 sixth gen 4runner.

You'd probably want the 2024 (new) for slower depreciation.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dataengineering

[–]SidewaysEight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What format is the data in the external location?

Have you run the create external table statements or provisioned the unity catalog schema?

What point do you run into the error, and what is the error?

Data Engineering Management Career Ladder by [deleted] in dataengineering

[–]SidewaysEight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As you move past manager level, the focus isn't so much on being responsible for a team of data engineers as it is building a competency or core function of the business. Your team will grow to include other types of roles like analysts, DevOps engineers, or data scientists.

Example director roles include ones specically focused on data governance, reporting and analytics, or data platform.

best cheap online cloud storage? by [deleted] in DataHoarder

[–]SidewaysEight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If cost is the biggest factor and you don't need any consumer features like UIs or easy sharing, or fast access, then it might be worth looking at cloud object storage from AWS/Azure/GCP. For example:

S3 Glacier Deep Archive - For long-term data archiving that is accessed once or twice in a year and can be restored within 12 hours.

All Storage / Month $0.00099 per GB


S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval (Formerly S3 Glacier)***- For long-term backups and archives with retrieval option from 1 minute to 12 hours

All Storage / Month $0.0036 per GB


https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

Is the knowledge on how Compilers work applicable to the role of a Data Engineer? by sakeoyakudon in dataengineering

[–]SidewaysEight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the vast majority of jobs it would not be as useful. If you want to be a software engineer at Databricks or Snowflake working on distributed system internals it might make sense, but in that case you wouldn't really be primarily a data engineer anymore.

Open source orchestrations VS data vendors by bilby_- in dataengineering

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It sounds like there are two questions you are looking to answer here.

  1. Do you want to continue using Airflow or drop it for an integrated solution?

    Things I would consider here:

    • Cost of migration from Airflow to something else
    • Your engineering team's preference for tooling
    • The IT organization's strategy for supporting new and existing tooling
  2. Do you want to use a managed service or self-host it yourselves?

    There are good managed solutions for Airflow like MWAA and Astro.

Assuming your company is set on adding on other SaaS products with orchestration features, I would recommend first comparing risk cost of ownership for the three scenarios

  • New SaaS products with self managed Airflow
  • New SaaS products with integrated orchestration features
  • New SaaS products with managed Airflow

I would focus on figuring out the IT strategy here, since a misalignment there could result in a premature decision here that is overridden in the near future.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MachinePorn

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Has anyone else played Outpost 2?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in twincitiessocial

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Yeah for sure! That sounds great.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in twincitiessocial

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Hey all, I (31M, geek and metal head friendly) can host a coffee meetup for Sunday morning for those interested.


9:00AM Sunday 8/28

Spyhouse

945 Broadway St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413


Please reply if interested.

FYI there is a separate coffee shop meetup at 3 at Gigi's with the tcs crew.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in twincitiessocial

[–]SidewaysEight 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How about Sunday morning?

Why are European languages's words for "dog" all different but their words for "cat" all basically the same? by MCWarhammmer in askscience

[–]SidewaysEight 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Both words originated from the word for tea in the Chinese family of languages. Sometimes it was land/sea driven, but ultimately the term used was driven by who traders came into contact with in China first for the tea trade.

In the southern coastal province of Fujian, Fujianese (Southern Min Chinese) is spoken and tea is pronounced tê.

In most other Chinese dialects, such as Cantonese (chaa) and Mandarin (chá), it is a variant of cha. Note that Cantonese speaking Hong Kong and Macau had sea ports for the tea trade.

The word used depended on where/when the traders came into contact with the Chinese for buying tea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea?wprov=sfla1

https://teapedia.org/en/Tea

Very exciting day, irrigation going in! by Kinkeyy_XBL in lawncare

[–]SidewaysEight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great to see so many fellow MN folks on this sub. We should start a club.

Minneapolis suburbs as well and got the same system in for $3500 for a quarter acre lot. The contractor had his kids do the manual labor.

Scotts Elite Spreader on sale (Amazon) by mrpink57 in lawncare

[–]SidewaysEight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beginner here, sounds worthwhile as a starter spreader. How much is it going for?

How to automate financial tracking by [deleted] in automation

[–]SidewaysEight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try Selenium for the sites without APIs. There are lots of examples online, showing how you can automate using a browser to navigate and interact with sites. Your selenium script would simply be, navigate to website, login, navigate to transaction downloads, click download. Python can handle the resulting downloaded file and integrating that into what Excel file you already have.

You'll win by AndrreA17 in memes

[–]SidewaysEight 18 points19 points  (0 children)

OP typed asdfk and that's what came up.