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.
Noah Kahan is prepping for a new season. The “Stick Season” singer teased his latest musical opportunity, although he was careful not to reveal too many details while on the red carpet at the 2026...
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.
I’ve tried out a lot of Claude Code skills, and a few of them are especially useful when you combine them into a workflow. Not because they magically make the model better at coding, but because they help with the annoying parts around coding: figuring out what you actually want, avoiding unnece...
Reports that the Jets are receiving "terrible" trade offers for their superstar goalie.
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