Josiah
@josiahparry.com
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Miss y'all! <3 This youtube comment simultaneously broke my heart 💔 and filled it.

Being off socials has been good for the mental and productivity, though.

Hope to share more about it in the coming months :)
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Screenshot of a youtube comment which says "I miss your takes on Twitter and your content on Youtube (understand a lot of work goes into the latter). 

Are you active on BlueSky or elsewhere?"
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heard, thanks! :)
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Going through hiring process right now and I think applicant tracking systems are fundamentally broken.
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posit.co
Posit @posit.co · Dec 10
We are excited to announce pal: a package of ergonomic #LLM assistants designed to help you complete repetitive tasks quickly in RStudio or Positron!

Created by @simonpcouch.com, the documentation walks through built-in pals and how to make your own: simonpcouch.github.io/pal/

#RStats
LLM assistants for R
Provides a library of ergonomic LLM assistants designed to help you complete repetitive, hard-to-automate tasks quickly. After selecting some code, press the keyboard shortcut you've chosen to trigger...
simonpcouch.github.io
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you can use the @posit.co Ark kernel with Zed but it's not the console type vibe i want :/
zed.dev/docs/repl#in...
REPL - Zed
zed.dev
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At my last use, duckplyr uses the in-memory duckdb database which doesn’t support out-of-core processing. does it now set up a temporary duckdb database?
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say it with me!!!

duck👏🏼 plyr 👏🏼 doesn't 👏🏼 support 👏🏼 larger 👏🏼 than 👏🏼 memory 👏🏼 workloads 👏🏼 but 👏🏼 DuckDB 👏🏼 with 👏🏼 {dbplyr} 👏🏼 does
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mattcowgill.bsky.social
Opinions about #Databricks as an #Rstats user seem to range from “a bit clunky” to “terrible.”

Anyone disagree?
mattcowgill.bsky.social
Are there any #Rstats users with Databricks experience who have opinions about it as a product?
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We did this with Azure Blobfuse. This requires that you also have an .Rprofile to update your `.libPaths()` as well.

Just pure pain.
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databricks clusters are also ephemeral so if you want any libraries you have to install em with a startup script. One way to get around it is to use Docker container based images which have the packages you use installed. OR you use a startup script to mount the persistent dir to your runtime.
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What we did in my previous role was that we had 2 docker images: one for interactive development that had RStudio Workbench (now Posit Workbench) and another that did not have it. The latter was used for integration into the Databricks jobs—b/c you cannot use Job scheduler when using brickster
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(sorry, jeremy gonna give an outside view on this one :P )
the R + Databricks "story" tends to be "use your own infrastructure with an Databricks connect and use {dbplyr}". Like 90% of the use case of Databricks is their compute so having to standup additional infra is a tough call.
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its absolute crap.
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I cannot for the life of me figure out how to use this feature. It _seems_ so cool but I just dont get it
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The subtle omission of Kaliningrad from continental Europe 😉
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yah, no, that absolutely checks out