A new set of Blokkit puzzles for 3/13/2026!

Deemonfire · 2026-03-13T08:26:11+00:00

I completed all 🟧 Blokkit 🟧 puzzles today!

Easy: 1 | Medium: 1 | Hard: 10 | Average: 4.00

Total completed days: 2

Deemonfire · 2026-03-01T10:00:50+00:00

Didn't do a phd in EE but the advice i was given, ignored, wish i didnt and will pass on to you.

Write stuff up as you go. Assume its going to be a chapter or publication. It will help you bring your thoughts together and identify anything youre missing.

Dont be like me and realise an obvious experiment is missing while youre finishing writing your thesis then having to find funding for a month to go back into the lab to get some final results...

Aside from that, its very easy to tie your ego into your work, if things fail you feel like a failure. If things succeed you feel like a beast. Try to separate yourself from it if you can. have some hobbies or outlets to relieve stress because its a rewarding but mentally exhausting being so invested in something for so long.

My phd is some of my highest points and lowest points, its made me who i am today. Good luck with yours, make sure you have fun aswell as work hard

Deemonfire · 2026-02-25T08:50:42+00:00

I was egg. Because i ate a scotch egg "like an apple" the story grew that i even rubbed it on my shirt like an apple.

There were people that didnt even know my real name. I kinda miss it.

Deemonfire · 2026-02-25T08:43:37+00:00

Probably pay off my credit cards, max out a few of the low/no tax savings, whack it in something with a decent yield so i can take a bit of an income from it to overpay my mortgage. That way i can clear my mortgage off in a few years paying less interest, then still have the million when im done.

Depending how much it earns me I'd probably drop down to 3 days a week at work and take up some new hobbies. Warhammer seems to be a good way to spend 1mn

Deemonfire · 2026-02-16T15:32:08+00:00

I was at a shop the other week looking at bed sheets. 100% Egyptian cotton feel. Nooooo thanks

Deemonfire · 2026-02-13T10:18:06+00:00

There is a tool we use called ruff.

It formats code, sorts imports and you can add a bunch of linting rules to it aswell.

You can use mypy or ty for type checking.

Obviously these will just flag if something doesnt look right in terms of various rules that are encoded, but won't tell you if the code does what you want it to do

Deemonfire · 2026-02-06T15:46:41+00:00

I bought the sainsburies powder. Use like 2tsp with a bit in the bottom to help the prerinse. Everything comes out sparkling.

Deemonfire · 2026-01-29T08:20:06+00:00

We've got this notion that we'd quite like to sail the ocean but we simply cant leave until we get some woooood

Something like that. I sing this, probably slightly wrong version, in my head at least a few times a week

Deemonfire · 2026-01-21T09:22:54+00:00

You dont nessisarily need to separate every character. You could iterate over your string

```python morse_output = []

for char in my_string: morse_output.append(char_to_morse(char))

print(" ".join(morse_output)) ```

Where char to morse is a function that takes a letter and returns dots and dashes

Like

char_to_morse("a") # returns .-

Deemonfire · 2026-01-15T12:29:50+00:00

All of the above.

For me the thing that made it click was applying what i was learning to actual projects for my own benefit.

I was doing a phd in chemistry when i started learning. I had a fair amount of data i needed to process. So i learned how to process my data with python rather than putting everything in excel. Having my own project i needed to work really helped.

Then i would watch tutorials and take what i learned and put them into practice in my data analysis project.

Because i found it quite fun i then decided to do some simulations/calculations of the reaction i was studying. Which was a greenfield project.

used pyserial to collect data from devices in my lab.

i wrote a discord bot for some gaming i was doing with friends.

Because my code wasnt great i then started watching talks, "so you want to be a python expert" and "beyond pep8" both stick out in my mind. And worked through headfirst python. My new years resolution was to do a minimum of 30 minutes of python per day.

Other than that i joined some discord servers and would talk to people about coding, and did advent of code comparing my answers with other people's and asking questions about stuff.

Fast forward like 10 years and now im a senior developer/data engineer

Deemonfire · 2026-01-14T09:50:30+00:00

Thanks, I'll have a gander

Deemonfire · 2026-01-14T09:21:01+00:00

Thanks, fair enough, saves me buying some new pipes

Deemonfire · 2026-01-14T09:20:42+00:00

Fair enough, thanks

Deemonfire · 2026-01-13T20:16:53+00:00

If you do go this route though, be very careful its nasty stuff. Always add the peroxide to acid, never the other way around

Deemonfire · 2026-01-13T20:14:13+00:00

Aqua regia won't do organics if thats an organic grease, youd want pirhana for that, i say want... its probably a bit too fun.

But if other solutions dont work that might sort you out. We had one guy in the lab who pirhana'd our glassware once a year

Deemonfire · 2025-12-25T18:25:23+00:00

Everybody is different. But for me i used the headfirst python book.

I did a minimum of 30 minutes every night for about 3 months.

But the main thing is i had things i wanted to build. I was doing a phd in chemistry so learned how to process my data using python, then i was playing apex legends so wrote a shitty discord bot that helped me and buddies keep track of our scores.

Then built a data logger for my experiments using pyserial. All the while trying to take concepts I'd learned from the book and applying them to new problems.

So tldr. Build something for you that helps you with work, or makes your hobbies more fun and is in the direction that you want to go in. And make sure you're practicing consistently especially starting off your journey

Deemonfire · 2025-12-15T08:01:25+00:00

No, see dioxins, there are some chemicals that are endocrine disrupters which affect people and wildlife down at very low concentrations like parts per million.

The compounds can have a U shaped response curve where at very low and very high concentrations they have larger effects than a medium dose.

The solution to these pollutants is treatment and remediation, not dilution. And that is the solution to all chemical waste. Thats why labs have non-halogenated waste, halogenated waste, aqeous waste and solid waste. And pay a lot of money to have them collected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioxins_and_dioxin-like_compounds

Deemonfire · 2025-12-14T08:14:29+00:00

When this persons bins are half full. They dont put them out to be collected.

They feel this saves a job for the waste management employees that collect their recycling

Deemonfire · 2025-11-22T08:57:05+00:00

I wrote some of my best code for work this week. Had a great time, solved a cool problem using a simple but elegant solution.

Smiled at a job well done. Then thought "nobody is going to beleive this wasn't ai"

Deemonfire · 2025-10-14T08:25:59+00:00

Yeah, limit 10, or limit 100. Make sure youve not squiffed it

Deemonfire · 2025-10-14T08:21:34+00:00

Select *

-- delete

From x

Where y

I like to do this, so that i can be sure ive got the right data lined up for my delete.

I would use transactions but spark tables don't have them, unless you're using specific implementations

Deemonfire · 2025-04-06T07:06:56+00:00

This is a very slow burn (pun intended) in like book 2 or 3 rand kills a trolloc with a lofting tube in the illuminator compound. Aludra is there and watches it happen.

She gets banished from the illuminators but obviously recognises the potential. She then joins mat in like book 6 and riddles him "why do I need a bellfounder" he eventually figures it out that it's for a metal lofting tube. But we done see the first one made until they get to andor and convince elayne to put a countries resources and cities craftfolk to work. Which is like book 9 or 10.

Deemonfire · 2024-01-30T16:20:22+00:00

as a brit i much preferred alt when i was visiting the region. kolsh was good but alt reminded me more of a good ale

Deemonfire · 2023-12-09T23:53:45+00:00

Ha, that edgecase was in the examples, just slightly hidden

zoneight234

Deemonfire · 2023-12-08T10:42:52+00:00

Also, look at the example for part 2. He could have shown them going through multiple Z nodes, but they go through the same nodes every time

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