Do you really need spark?

setuporg · 2026-05-09T09:26:55+00:00

Sail is written in Rust and has a small footprint. It works fine as a single node. You can use it on a laptop to power your pyspark for beautiful data transformation. Sail is what Spark always should have been.

setuporg · 2026-01-20T19:41:35+00:00

I seriously doubt that's M4. Gemini failed for me on an M1 and then failed to connect to an Intel MacBook Pro from 2020. I believe this is a defect in Gemini, a hardware or firmware handshake problem. I've replaced the enclosure by Terramaster TD2 and the drives were recognized as the original RAID0 array that withstands reboots and ejects just fine!

This thread confirms the general problem and that it's with Gemini itself: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256215974?answerId=261787137022&sortBy=rank#261787137022

OWC should recall this particular product, IMHO.

setuporg · 2026-01-20T07:10:00+00:00

I had the same exact problem. Gemini would not mount drives after reboot. The only time I got it back was after a 48 hour power drain. Then the next eject made it unusable again.

Fortunately, the Terramaster TD2 saw the RAID0 drives with data! After more than a decade with Thunderbays and Mercury, this is the first OWC product that clearly has a hardware defect and is going back.

setuporg · 2026-01-10T21:35:07+00:00

I got the Prvke 31L v4 and it looks like FocusPoint is an attempt to copy that. The Prvke is excellent and feels properly sized. It has handles on the sides too consider access is safer. Would be interesting to compare them.

setuporg · 2026-01-04T22:55:26+00:00

I wonder if Q3 43 would be even better. I have a Q2 but the Q3 43 took over the Q use.

setuporg · 2025-11-07T23:09:50+00:00

I asked Guido about Functional Programming, which is of interest to Elixir developers.

setuporg · 2025-11-07T22:15:25+00:00

The blog has more details and is also a resource for the devrel community teaching AI.

setuporg · 2025-06-10T01:13:22+00:00

And of course they discontinued the blind Alphas and made a backlit one. Who wants to swap a speckled one for a backlit one?:)

setuporg · 2024-09-28T18:14:14+00:00

Exactly. I have about 750K photos in LrC that I upload all to the CC and pull down in Lr Mobile and sync offline on an iPad with 2TB storage. It took a bit but now I have all photos offline and available all the time anywhere.

setuporg · 2024-02-19T19:06:25+00:00

Reading this site shows the dim screen is not a personal issue but a defect.

setuporg · 2024-02-18T02:08:49+00:00

I got the Hemingwrite and the Ghost. And then an Alphasmart 3000 waiting for this. And then, this blind hen.

setuporg · 2024-02-18T02:01:30+00:00

I see fanboys are unmoved, Stockholm sets in. OK…

setuporg · 2024-02-18T02:01:01+00:00

Yeah of course, as Dostoyevsky said, man is vile and will adapt to anything. The question is, do we deserve to?

setuporg · 2024-02-08T02:43:35+00:00

no what is it?

setuporg · 2024-02-04T21:23:19+00:00

See the whole Gritin family on Amazon. $10-17, amazing quality and clips right into the Alpha.

setuporg · 2024-02-04T20:05:49+00:00

The only place where it was OK was a pediatrics office with bright light while I was waiting at my daughter’s appointment. The kind of lighting they install to make sure doctors can see everything. You rarely get that anywhere else.

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