Last October, a "minor" dependency bump in a PySpark job cost us four hours of downtime and roughly $12,000 in cloud compute credits. A developer had tested a new UDF locally using an older version of delta-spark than what we ran on our EMR cluster. Locally, the serialization worked fine.
Emotional mechanisms are frequently used to inspire good environmental behavior. But how effective are they at inspiring actual sustainable change? Perhaps not as much as previously believed, according to a new study that challenged participants to put their money where their mouths are.
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The move would overturn a 2024 Biden administration rule requiring power plants to control planet-warming pollution.
The UK could supply half of its oil and gas needs without imports if the government showed more support for the sector, an OEUK report claims.
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