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New comment by dkga in "Pre-Release of Polars 2.0"

dkga — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:21:28 +0000

Still, it’s a very good approximation but still an approximation to the more ergonomic and expressive tidyverse syntax

New comment by dkga in "AWS Acquires DuckDB"

dkga — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:22:44 +0000

I am a big fan of the Duck team since before their v1.0 and I am happy for them personally for the big payoff, both in monetary terms but also in terms of scale and longer-term viability of their baby. I am also happy to see the arrangement will keep the core OSS. Let's see what the future holds now!

New comment by dkga in "I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases"

dkga — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:15:57 +0000

Now a question daunted on me. Assuming away strategies like store-and-decrypt-later-in-a-quantum-future, could a MITM really eavesdrop, as in, aren’t such ARPA-routed phone calls encrypted?

New comment by dkga in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

dkga — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:13:30 +0000

Interesting. So is this GrapheneOS indeed operationally good for keeping one‘s data private?

New comment by dkga in "I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases"

dkga — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:11:15 +0000

I enjoyed reading this much more than anything I read here recently. In particular I like how it absolutely shows that somethings just… fall through the cracks!

New comment by dkga in "Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area"

dkga — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:44:12 +0000

Not all - it is very likely this large Amazonian civilization perished before the Iberian colonists arrived in the region. For example, these geoglyphs mapped in the (super interesting!) paper are dated 2k years before the Europeans first arrived in Brazil.

New comment by dkga in "If You Build It, They Will Come"

dkga — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:34:30 +0000

Those interested in this discussion might enjoy familiarising themselves with the concept of social capital, and in particular, with Robert Putnam’s work to understand and to promote it.

New comment by dkga in "The lost joy of music piracy"

dkga — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:37:09 +0000

I miss that network discovery as well, as well as the quasi-random element to it. Nowadays I get my kicks by searching for, say, Albanian rock (I don‘t speak Albanian), whatever was trending in Indonesia (I am not from there), who is the national poet/singer of France (I am not French), what was playing on Peruvian radios in 1985 when I born, etc.

Edit: it‘s also a great way to meet other countries/cultures, not only other great music. For example, this is how I got acquainted with the beautiful Wolof language from Senegal and even with traditional regional music in Brazil (where I am actually from) I would have never been exposed to otherwise.

New comment by dkga in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

dkga — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:36:32 +0000

Could be related to the light spectrum. Kindles aren't really "screen" like the others; they do have background light but you can turn it off and use it with its paper-like screen (which is what I do and really like it). But traditional screens have blue light as part of the normal light they emit, which is known to disrupt sleeping patterns. When I am using my cell phone or computer right before sleeping, I usually turn on colour filtering to make my whole cell phone be tinted red. This helps wonders. I found this page that explains how this can be done: [0].

[0]: https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/keep-your-night-vision-sh...

New comment by dkga in "Mel Brooks is 100 today"

dkga — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:29:08 +0000

That movie is so fun and intelligent and heartfelt, pure Mel Brooks genius

New comment by dkga in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

dkga — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:47:12 +0000

I’m surprised it’s just sixty. I don’t think anyone, not the least consumers, wants AI used upstream of themselves.

New comment by dkga in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

dkga — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:57:46 +0000

Beautiful text. By the way, I can't thank enough the maintainers at ctext.org. What a beautiful work they do.

Reading Buffett and Munger, the stuff that stuck had nothing to do with stocks

dkga — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:25:09 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/ValueInvesting/comments/1u0hbzt/spent_my_first_year_actually_reading_buffett_and/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454444

Points: 2

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New comment by dkga in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

dkga — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:22:39 +0000

I signed up for Apple’s subscription which includes Apple Music. We are a Spotify family, but I then cancelled our premium subscription to avoid duplicate spending. I embraced Apple Music with an open heart in spite of the reservation from my family members. I liked that DJ feature that joined songs. But everything else felt subpar to Spotify. In particular, with AM I feel that they were always pushing US pop/rap music to me, even as I was listening everything from old Tunisian singers to Denmark’s Magtens Korridorer. But overall it just felt that Spotify folks really liked music as an Art form, whereas AM really wanted you to listen to whatever they were featuring/pedalling. Like that song lyrics translation feature introduced by Spotify - only if you enjoy songs in languages you might not yet understand you would think of such a nice feature!

New comment by dkga in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

dkga — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:52:40 +0000

What MJ episode?!

New comment by dkga in "WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency"

dkga — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:04:31 +0000

I suspect this is to mitigate perverse incentives for countries to avoid reporting outbreaks and collaborating with the WHO for fear of tanking their economy

New comment by dkga in "DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal"

dkga — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:30:52 +0000

That a serious number? By the way, how does a hardware normie like me even measure this?

New comment by dkga in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

dkga — Tue, 05 May 2026 03:42:04 +0000

I think it is also more than that. In car-centric places like Brazil or the US, older people essentially need to drive or be driven around to have a social life. In pedestrian friendly cities like many in Europe, it is very common to see older people walking to meet their friends/relatives. I saw it all the time in Switzerland. Even those with severely limited mobility would prefer to actively walk or take the tram/bus somewhere (no matter how much time it took) than stay at home.

New comment by dkga in "UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations"

dkga — Tue, 05 May 2026 03:31:43 +0000

Hi, economist focused on monetary policy/inflation here! That data would make for a cool empirical paper that could help central banks and other economists better understand price dynamics around a significant shock. Are you interested in discussing it?

New comment by dkga in "A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life"

dkga — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:07:39 +0000

What a treasure indeed! I just didn‘t understand why this particular site had so well-preserved soft tissue fossils? I assume it is probably related to the geology of the site during formation of the fossils, and probably the researchers themselves are not quite sure. But I would love to know more, if anyone here understands about this sort of thing.