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Comment · 9 months ago
Interesting, I wasn't aware; thanks for that. I will say, Polars' implementation is much more centered on out-of-core processing, and bypasses some of DuckDB's limitations ("DuckDB cannot yet offload some complex intermediate aggregate states to disk"). Both incredible pieces of software.

To expand on this, Polars' `LazyFrame` implementation allows for simple addition of new backends like GPU, streaming, and now distributed computing (though it's currently locked to a vendor). The DuckDB codebase just doesn't have this flexibility, though there are ways to get it to run on GPU using external software.

Comment · 9 months ago
Polars also has all of these benefits (to some degree), but also allows for larger-than-memory datasets. Also has GPU backend, distributed backend, etc. Polars is heavily underrated, even with the recent hype.
Comment · 9 months ago
Polars has all of the benefits of DuckDB (to some degree), but also allows for larger-than-memory datasets.
Comment · 9 months ago
Polars has all of these benefits (to some degree), but also allows for larger-than-memory datasets.
Comment · 9 months ago
Polars has all of these benefits (to some degree), but also allows for larger-than-memory datasets.
Comment · 1 year ago
Does the food carry bacteria in reality? Why are we talking about bizarre hypotheticals?
Comment · 1 year ago
Being against genocide isn’t a western standard.
Comment · 1 year ago
Withholding food from children results in children starving. It’s not semantics.
Comment · 1 year ago
They will get away with it if we believe we are powerless to change it. Russia has been proven to be pushing defeatist propaganda similar to your sentiment, and I'm sure Israel has been as well.
Comment · 1 year ago
Are Gazans receiving adequate nutrition? If not, why are we discussing semantics?
Comment · 1 year ago
Starving infants is justifiable sometimes? When?
Comment · 1 year ago
Starving infants is morally justifiable if it's possible to make a rocket from their food?
Comment · 1 year ago
A Pew poll in 2022 found that about half (48%) of Israeli Jews agree that Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel. Horrifying statistic.

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