Recently I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 via WSL2 (which i don't love yet but its growing on me), and I had to do the following steps to set git up: 1.Install git (duh!)Im just putting it here for completion sake sudo apt-get update sudo

TL;DR I made a map displaying weather and traffic road conditions for Spain that is easier to use, nicer and faster than the official Spanish Government map. As usual (1, 2), I keep being disappointed with the Spanish Government Open Data policies. You can check out the map here.

Airflow is one of the most widely used Schedulers currently in the tech industry. Initially developed at Airbnb, a few years ago it became an Apache foundation project, quickly becoming one of the foundation top projects. It is a direct competitor of other schedulers such as Spotify's Luigi or newer

Airflow is one of the most widely used Schedulers currently in the tech industry. Initially developed at Airbnb, a few years ago it became an Apache foundation project, quickly becoming one of the foundation top projects. It is a direct competitor of other schedulers such as Spotify's Luigi or newer

These are the steps I took to install Microsoft's cool Gradient Boosted Models library, LightGBM Step 1. Install CUDA I am not going to explain this step because it is easy to find. Step 2. Install Boost sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev Step 3. Clone LightGBM and build with CUDA enabled

If you run pyspark and see this error (it happens in scala-shell as well): Error while instantiating ‘org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveSessionState’ The solution is easy, yet ridiculous. 1. Create the folder /tmp/hive 2. Give it chmod permissions sudo chmod -R 777 /tmp/hive Found here

Yesterday I spent a few hours dealing with what I like to call "the edges of StackOverflow". By that I mean those situations in which you are trying to solve a programming problem (mostly a bug) and you have no idea why its happening, and even worse, no amount of

Let's assume we have a service set up as follows: [Unit] Description=systemd_microservice [Service] User=USER Group=GROUP WorkingDirectory=systemd_working_directory ExecStart=/usr/bin/python python_scripts.py SuccessExitStatus=143 TimeoutStopSec=10 Restart=on-failure RestartSec=10 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target And inside python_script.py you have a

Sources: here and here This post shows how to disable the caps lock key and enables it only by pressing both shift keys together. 1. Install DCONF $ sudo apt-get install dconf-tools 2. Disable caps lock and reenable it as pressing both shift keys at once: $ setxkbmap -option "caps:none" $ setxkbmap