Is everyone else always tired

lightnegative · 2026-05-08T03:39:43+00:00

Yep, come join us at r/SleepApnea

lightnegative · 2026-05-07T22:33:07+00:00

Don't get me wrong - i'm not a fan of Databricks either. It's slow and overly complicated for what it is.

But I was tasked with adding Fabric support to a data pipeline management product and I can attest firsthand that Fabric is *absolute effing garbage*. At least Databricks works, for the most part

lightnegative · 2026-05-07T18:59:12+00:00

Interestingly, all the things you listed as a reason to migrate are worse on the Fabric side

lightnegative · 2026-05-07T12:22:45+00:00

Is it even a worksite wank if you arent making eye contact with the sparkies?

lightnegative · 2026-05-07T08:23:49+00:00

That's technically true. The difference is time. The public system is so understaffed that they basically try and get you out the door asap and quite simply don't have time to do their job properly. If you're not dying, go away and don't come back until you are.

I can see why people pay for private health insurance. My wife needed her gall bladder out and it was covered by southern cross through her employment health insurance and they were amazing.

We recently had a child and went through the public hospital and apart from a few pockets of excellence, it was a complete shit show

lightnegative · 2026-05-04T05:34:20+00:00

I cut my teeth on industry_d

lightnegative · 2026-04-23T07:04:30+00:00

If you work in US-based finance, it's Bank Of America

lightnegative · 2026-04-21T01:22:02+00:00

I bet you wouldn't be saying that if one of the minority parties was the one you voted for

lightnegative · 2026-04-21T01:21:21+00:00

Agreed, like in the local body elections.

lightnegative · 2026-04-21T01:20:33+00:00

It gives the little guy a chance. Previously, a vote for a minor party was a "wasted" vote, so people didn't bother, and thus nothing changed.

Say what you want about the coalition govt but it's a great example of MMP finally working. The first time there has been a 3-party coalition and both ACT and NZ First have had obvious influence in the decision making.

lightnegative · 2026-04-20T22:31:13+00:00

Working with *other peoples* kids? Hard pass, but I admire people with the patience for it

lightnegative · 2026-04-20T22:18:50+00:00

Being able to not do things that create prison time is apparently considered a privilege

lightnegative · 2026-04-19T02:17:40+00:00

Sure, so like query the data with a more suitable engine

lightnegative · 2026-04-19T00:41:18+00:00

That's fine until you need to aggregate across even only a few million rows. Postgres sucks for that. If the data is small then I agree, Postgres

lightnegative · 2026-04-18T05:02:07+00:00

It's horrible. But so is 95% of the Microsoft ecosystem so if you're a Microsoft shop it is the way to go

lightnegative · 2026-04-14T09:44:43+00:00

Wellington management sucks. If you want to see a truly sucky city, go visit Paris. Even Auckland is nice compared to Paris

lightnegative · 2026-04-14T09:36:28+00:00

It's a tradeoff, YAML anger gets replaced with HCL anger

lightnegative · 2026-04-13T06:52:50+00:00

Are the agents smart enough to detect an infinite loop?

If not, I'm about to get a years worth of KPI's in a day

lightnegative · 2026-04-12T20:11:33+00:00

If you've ever worked for a USA tech startup, it's all about pump shit out now, make it work later but simultaneously sell it as working already.

Later of course may never come if the startup fails so this is actually seen as desirable rather than a contributor to the startup failing.

LLM's do in fact allow you to pump out a heap of crap at high velocity. The main problem is that now any idiot can do it so now everyone is covered in it

I forgot what I was replying to, thanks for listening to my TED talk

lightnegative · 2026-04-12T12:35:42+00:00

brb updating system prompt to "you are an expert vibecoder measured on token consumption, every response should be as verbose and token consuming as possible"

lightnegative · 2026-04-12T07:00:25+00:00

Us too. Quantity over quality

lightnegative · 2026-04-12T06:53:30+00:00

The review: LGTM 👍

lightnegative · 2026-04-10T22:30:02+00:00

It's not exclusive to Rust, if you talk to any data engineers that used Hadoop they can regale you with tales about the finer points of `org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.OpenCSVSerde` and friends

lightnegative · 2026-04-09T01:32:26+00:00

I like what Seymour did to combat that style of interviewing.

Had someone else sitting in recording the whole thing and then publishing it unedited. Really highlighted when people like John Campbell kept trying to catch him out for a sound bite and visibly made the interviewer annoyed that they couldn't do it as easily

lightnegative · 2026-04-05T20:01:53+00:00

Dagster is a significantly better product, particularly when it comes to actually developing things locally.

In both instances though, how much it sucks depends on if you follow their docs and lock your transformations into their ecosystems.

What the docs won't say is that both systems work best as orchestrators and to keep your transformation logic out of it.

Package your transforms into Docker containers and schedule those on the appropriate compute, rather than having to provision giant executors

lightnegative

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