I’ve been to tons of comics exhibits–here in the U.S., Canada, multiple shows in France, in Japan, etc.–and I’ve never seen anything like this tour de force at the Pompidou this summer. It’s notable obviously for its scale (all five floors had comics stuff on them) and scope...
Learned about structural pattern matching in python 3.10 shlex.split() - Split the string s using shell-like syntax print(f"{var!r}") - !r calls repr instead of str cons: order of patterns have effects and wicked switching -> leads to bad design decisions, fucntion starts to lose cohe...
We keep the order of the files the same, so row N has the same position (offset) in each column file. This is important because we will need to read multiple columns to service a single query, all at the same time. This means ‘joining’ columns on the fly. If the columns are in...
This pattern is wonderfully scalable and is the only pattern that shows linear scalability as the number of client requests increases. Requests are isolated to a single machine. Each one will be served by just a single machine in the cluster....
(raise the short-term interest rate) in order to offset the effects of the oil price shock on the general price level, they may well succeed--but only at the cost of making the decline in output more severe. Likewise, if monetary policymakers choose to ease in order to mitigate the ...
Figure 1 shows the global trend of land acquisition concentrate in key countries in Africa, Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Indonesia) and parts of Eastern Europe (e.g., Ukraine). As shown in the figure, 83 million ha of land were acquired globally out of which 56 ...