peterdstallion

I am a paying subscriber to Gemini, Claude and OpenAI.

I don't know if it's me, but over the last few weeks I've got to the conclusion ChatGPT is very strongly leading the race. Every answer it gives me is better - it's more concise and more informative.

I look forward to testing this further, but out of the few runs I just did after reading about this - it isn't looking much better

This test was done on a small dev laptop with 16GB of RAM, scanning a 500M row (record) 23GB Parquet file. DuckDB proved to be 5x faster.

A bit of an obvious one - small data tech is faster at small data. It serves more of a lower bound reminder of what "small data" is nowadays.

The article rightly starts with:

> Processing power on laptops has increased dramatically over the last twenty years. This allows single laptops to accomplish what we needed multi-node Spark clusters to do ten years ago.

The technological progress is astonishing. But so is the societal degradation that came with it.

It's my go-to keyboard. I can't recommend it enough. My only regret is I didn't buy it earlier.

It's definitely way more ergonomic - I believe that's incredibly important if you're going to be spending decades in front of a screen. At the very least don't make it easy to be hunched over.

Last but not least - coming from a non-mechanical keyboard before - the switch is super satisfying.