I write on paper first. Then I type on Apple Pages on my iPad using an external keyboard. Then I edit using the Pencil annotating the pdf with double line spacing.
Then edit again on ipad.
I recently discovered obsidian, which I plan to use for my next novel
Not to mention how people blame the board going "woke" whatever that term means and that the board is a diversity hire LOL
Also now that execs are being fired then people (including employees at other companies whom this doesn't affect even a single iota) are mad!!
Idk who formed the board of openai but if MSFT & G can layoff thousands despite esrning billions in revenue every quarter then the openai board also can fire the CEO if they think he is going against the charter.
What's more depressing is that people don't know that the non profit firm controls the for profit entity and they make things up to defend the fires CEO
It's all a weird thing. We can't have an opinion because we just don't know. We can just guess.
I know Europe isn't as anti climate change as US but I really hope rhat the world atarts taking this seriously
When Europe is as hot as Asia during summers and as hot as Asia during respective winters that clearly proves beyond a shadow of doubt that global warming is real
Because Trump had said "it is snowing here" to justify xlimate denying. They have extreme polar vortex over there so they haven't yet faced the severity of climate change, I think.
Sadly this is a global problem and no matter what tiny Switzerland does to be green, it has almost zero effect when the big polluters are still arguing if climate change is real.
This very much varies depending on where you are in Europe and who you are talking to. Much of Western Europe gets a climate that is warmer than the same latitude in the US because of the Gulf Stream. It's possible that climate change might disrupt that resulting in certain regions being _colder_.
In the meantime, the latitudes at which you can economically grow wine grapes are gradually moving northwards.
- Microstates/islands which have very inefficient generation
- and then Estonia is worse than the US, because it still has lots of Soviet-era coal generation.
Most of Europe has per-capita emissions about half those of the US, comparable to those of China. The US has bad emissions because of cheap petrol and over 200GW of coal fired power stations.
it was just an issue with your phrasing of 'anti climate change'. I think you meant 'climate change denying' or something like that, then it makes more sense. Being 'anti climate change' to me means that you try to stop the change, and by your comment I read it as the US being more advanced in that regard.
There seems to be this narrative that Euopeans went to Africa and stole all the people and forced them into slavery. This is not true at all. Europeans traded with African leaders who sold their slaves to the Europeans. Not saying what they traded was a fair price or was justified, but the africans had the slaves first. The Europeans bought and distributed them round the world.
It's not hard to find sources about slavery in Asia.
"Slavery in Korea formally existed from antiquity up to the 20th century. Slavery was very important in medieval Korea; it was a major institution. [...] The Korean "nobi" system of slavery peaked between the 15th and 17th centuries and then declined in the 18th and 19th centuries." [1]
"The Mongol Empire (1206-1368) had a tremendous impact on slavery across Eurasia. While slaves played a minor role in pre-Imperial Mongolia, the Mongols saw people as a resource, to be distributed among the imperial family and used for imperial needs, like material goods. This view created a whole spectrum of dependency running from free men to full slaves." [2]
I'm not sure what you mean, but I don't think many countries still had legal slavery going into the 20th century, outside of the Arab peninsula.
In Korea it was officially abolished in 1894 (although it took a few decades to eradicate). In my own country, France, slavery was abolished in 1794 (in Europe) and in 1848 (in all colonies and oversea territories). I think it's the general timeline for western Europe, first half of the 19th century. So not exactly 20th or 21st century either.
Of course, slavery itself (especially related to prostitution) is still ongoing pretty much everywhere, but it's not legal. And then there's war: forced work (Germany and Japan during WWII), and arguably conscription could count as a form of slavery too...
I'm pretty sure I learned about it at school in France, although of course not each country individually. Not sure about your specific country and history curriculum.
It sounds like the authorities where you live should have a look at not just the history curriculum but the rest as well. Slavery is very much a contemporary issue and it's been around, globally, since times that predate written history.
also Inca and Aztechs were from south america right?
there is also a new form of slavery currently active in the US where immigrants are brought to work and their passports are kept with their "employer" until xyz condition.
so slavery still exists but it is no longer a government policy as it used to be in US
I don't understand how, in the 21st century can we have slaves or bonded labourers. Apalling
People now are the same as people then, just different fashions and widgets.
The 'new form' of slavery you're describing sounds like indentured servitude. Definitely not new to the US (though now illegal)! Benjamin Franklin was indentured for 2 years when he was a teenager to his older brother, and frankly was not a fan of the practice.
Analytics Engineering are folks that transform data in an ELT model. The most popular tool is DBT.
I think the work will continue as companies embrace the idea of not writing custom ETL code anymore. The tools are super immature though. DBT is a huge improvement over the past but far from a final solution to the problem.
About snowflake, I am really curious. What do you mean by learn snowflake. The way I was told about snowflake is that it's a cloud based data warehouse. Are there advanced properties in snowflake which one has to learn? Or do you mean optimized queries?
Snowflake at it's most basic is SQL on cloud vms, anyone comfortable with SQL should feel at home there. That said, there are many Snowflake specific features that may take a bit to become familiar with. Just off the top of my head:
- hybrid RBAC, DAC, ABAC security model
- column, row level, and tag based access policies
- multi-account organizations
- cross-account and region data replication
- data shares
- external tables and specialized formats (iceberg, delta)
- pipes and streams
- snowpark API
- streamlit integration
The nice thing about Snowflake is that for many use cases it requires little management.
Things you can learn regarding Snowflake, other than the obvious (SQL, and Snowflake specific language extensions to SQL): proper table partitioning, Snowpipe (and the associated cloud messaging pipelines), and query performance tuning. (Complex queries can become a bear; identifying when its your query/partitioning or when its something on the Snowflake back end is challenging.)
There are always new additions to the Snowflake tooling ecosystem since the company is in competition with Databricks and others (e.g., Snowpark with Python).
I write on paper first. Then I type on Apple Pages on my iPad using an external keyboard. Then I edit using the Pencil annotating the pdf with double line spacing. Then edit again on ipad.
I recently discovered obsidian, which I plan to use for my next novel
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