Gareth Western

Google Earth Studio: Holmenkollen Ski Jump YouTube video by Gareth Western

I just learned about Google Earth Studio for making "zoom to location" clips. First attempt, using Holmenkollen ski jump: youtu.be/OIbVlAYGAXs earth.google.com/studio/

Never dry your lettuce in the sun!

Playing with Merlin in the back yard. play.google.com/store/apps/d...

What is Lakehouse Federation? - Azure Databricks Learn about Azure Databricks Lakehouse Federation and how to use it to run federated queries against multiple external data sources.

Testing Databricks Lakehouse Federation against an Oracle database but getting ORA-00604 when testing the connection. Anyone encountered this before? Doesn't seem to be any way to modify the connection parameters (e.g. to set oracle.jdbc.timezoneAsRegion)

Sign the Petition Prevent the BBC from Ceasing Worldwide Broadcast of Radio Stations

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There's something a bit disturbing about the new duolingo art style...

It's in the calendar this time! Hope we can meet then. Cc @rafaelcodes.bsky.social

In 2021, I ran this poll on Twitter.

Today, would you cast the same vote as 4 years ago?

I can't remember what I answered then... Probably 20 years. I think 10-15 years is still accurate, not because ai won't be technically capable, but because of the societal shift that it will entail

4th of February! Coming soon!... 😅😜

Congratulations!

Do you mean a file system format comparision? E.g. NTFS, FAT32, exFat, ext2/3/4, etc.?

Happy new year / godt nyttår / blwyddyn newydd dda!

Sliding home for Christmas 🎶 #Skeikampen

I wonder how this compares to the Spark variant type (www.databricks.com/blog/introdu...). Something to play with after the holidays

Wow, thanks. For some reason I could not find that, but it's right there. 😅

The bluesky settings menu: add another account, account, privacy and security, moderation, content and media, appearance, accessibility, languages, help, about. No "advanced".

How does one generate an "app password" on BlueSky? The documentation points to an "advanced" settings submenu, but I don't see it. blueskyweb.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/art...

Alright! I am now @garethwestern.com

Another great feature of BSky:
bsky.social/about/blog/4...

Time to create BSky accounts for all my domains 🥳

First post. Blue Sky view out of the back door.

If you have any links / info specifically about unstructured/semistructured in UC I'd be interested 🙂 I'm in a similar role here and we're expanding our use of UC to these areas (inc. geospatial), so I'm interested in hearing details about what others have done already.

a man with a beard is holding a drum stick and says `` more cowbell ! '' ALT: a man with a beard is holding a drum stick and says `` more cowbell ! ''

... Minus the "cowb"