So basically just like… the internet is banned?

These aren’t "double-tap’ strikes. These are war crimes.

They aren’t just bombing civilian infrastructure. Obviously they’ll hand-wave the incident away via some vague reference to some sketchy intelligence.

The followup strikes are a war crime because they’re waiting for first responders to arrive and then they kill them, too. That’s stupidly illegal, immoral, and inhumane. It’s akin to shooting a medic tending to a soldier on the battlefield.

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TBF, Kuwait was allegedly drilling horizontally across national boundaries and therefore stealing Iraqi oil. They were also overproducing oil at a much higher rate than they agreed to in OPEC, undermining Iraq’s ability to sell its own oil at rates that would allow Iraq to pay off massive loans it had taken from Kuwait.

Basically Sadam was pissed Kuwait was stealing their oil and using it to keep them in a debt trap.

Well it’s a good thing we make our kids get up at the crack of dawn to get to school. /s

This is cool and all, but why the fuck are you processing millions of records in pandas (or even polars)? And if shaving two minutes is such a game changer for batch data processing, why isn’t the entire pipeline designed for real-time/streaming/nrt analytics rather than repeated batches? How frequently are the batches rerun? Hourly? Is it actually batch or is this aiming for microbatch?

And no shit installing conda-based packages are going to be slower. They’re prepackaged bundles of libraries that naturally run the risk of installing bloat via unnecessary dependencies/dated packages.

Why isn’t any of this happening in a database? Is the math that difficult to implement (if even as UDFs) in something with scalable compute and or streams support?

Just everything about shaving down batch processing screams red flag to me.

Have you tried playing original commercial Steam video games for free and playing the Nexus mods for them 100% of the time without ever losing the ability to do so? Remember that cracked games are not original.

u wot, comrade?

Yeah, my boss routinely shares logins for things over slack group channels. 😟

The weakest link in any system is the user, not the security policy (or lack thereof).

I’ve seen this particular policy aggravate users to the point where they would rather export sensitive company data onto their own personal machines rather than deal with having to reauth once per hour into some Entra ID SSO-backed web app.

Or even users who generate service account credentials that they share around with their team such that nobody uses their own account to login anymore

When your policy teeters towards aggravating users, many of them will just find clever ways to circumvent it, which is a losing situation for everyone.