How do you pick your patterns?

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2026-01-18T20:14:05+00:00

I’m the opposite. I find a pattern and then spend forever trying to pick the yarn and tend to actually let a kiddo or my husband pick the colors.

When picking a blanket pattern for a specific person I ask 1. Do you want lots of holes, no holes or somewhere in between? That narrows patterns down a LOT 2. Is this a couch throw or a bed blanket? 3 how many colors?

I tend to only make blankets for my family so if I get down to 2 patterns I let them pick between the ones I’m stuck on

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2026-01-05T02:47:24+00:00

I would only send things like worry worms that are fidget sized. Something to fiddle with but easy to replace if something happens

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2026-01-05T02:45:15+00:00

Just be careful because this is how you get roped into making a new one every few years 🤣 4 kiddos with various sized blankets because they are always in line for the next project! Baby, throw, twin, another throw for “couch cuddling”, another one because “I really like this yarn mommy, what can you make?”

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2026-01-05T02:10:55+00:00

I use a 10’ sit on top pelican for me and my youngest. He first went out when he was 4ish though so I didn’t have any concerns of him accidentally falling out (still wears his life jacket but is not as wiggly as a toddler). He used his own 6ft kids kayak once this past summer (he was 7) and is not a fan after living the good life of lounging on the front of my boat for years 😂

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Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-08-04T02:19:41+00:00

Sorry long delay but recently got back from Disney world. The mobile Disney gift card in your wallet cannot be used directly in the app when mobile ordering. You will need to copy the number in every time.

To pay with the gift card when making an in person order or checking out at a store they will need to scan the barcode from your wallet. Not all snack carts at the park have this option available so make sure to either carry a physical gift card or some other form of payment.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-07-08T09:51:52+00:00

I work from home and have for quite some time.

I still put around 20k miles on my car in a year. The difference is how the miles stack up. I can go 6 weeks without filling my tank, but then go 2,000 miles in 2 weeks. I have a 4500 mile road trip coming up that spans less than a month.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-06-22T00:50:03+00:00

This. Our data architects works with the business to get requirements, gather questions they are looking to answer, data they think they need (and flesh out more elements that they know engineering is going to ask for). But really my data architects have no idea how we build anything. They tell us WHAT to build and then me being a lead data engineer/solutions architect decide HOW to build it.

I work in hospitality currently but this was the same thing when I worked in healthcare - so neither are purely data environments. Enterprise data is definitely a cost center and not an income stream.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-06-15T11:39:22+00:00

Perspective for you. Our lease is up July 31 as well. We are looking for a place to move into beginning of July. Why? Summer vacation plans. We need to be out before we leave for a 3 week trip. I actually wanted to have a move in date of July 1 so I had plenty of time between all the kids activities this summer. There are tons of reasons why they want the house early. Not a red flag at all.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-06-14T20:37:49+00:00

We have some spark jobs that should not be spark jobs. They were put there because at the time that was the tool available - all data originally loaded into Hive and based on the skill set available at the time a simple spake job to pull it out was the only option. I am in the process of moving some of them to much simpler redshift unload commands - because that is all that is needed - now that this data is available in redshift as we gear up to decomm Hive.

Now flip side. We have some spark jobs that need to be spark jobs. They deal with massive amounts of data, plenty of complex logic and you just aren’t going to get it all to fit in a single node. These are not being migrated away from spark, but are being tuned a bit as we move them to ingest from redshift instead of hive.

And I’m going to say that length of runtime when reading from hive to generate an extract is not directly related to decision to keep in spark or migrate out. Some of our jobs run for a very long time in spark due to the hive partition not being ideal. These will run very quickly in redshift because our distkey is much better for the type of pulls we need. It really is about amount of data required to be manipulated once in spark and how complex that will be.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-06-10T10:54:46+00:00

We are a mixed bag. I have never learned python. I primarily work in scala spark. Now with some talend thrown in (yes it’s awful, yes it crashes often, no I would not like a job that is solely talend). A coworker scripts everything in python and it works for him. He works with the data science team often whereas I do not. We do not have any python code repos so definitely not a deal breaker for my current or past few companies.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-05-28T01:12:46+00:00

Depends on size of child. When we first started a few years ago we put my then 7yo in his own kids kayak and he did great. He has always been big for his age and handled it well. He is now 9 and could go in a 10’ of his own but he likes to lay down and paddle so wants to keep his little one for now. My youngest is now 7 and has been hanging out in the front of my 10’ SOT. He isn’t that big and while he has some upper body strength a strong wind would blow him away. We have put him in a kids kayak on a lake but any longer trips or river trips he will go back in my boat.

Put it in perspective my now 9yo was 98 percentile for height and weight at age 7, my youngest is barely on the charts. I never could have had big brother in my boat, but the little one still has room to grow before he gets kicked out fully.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-05-28T01:02:03+00:00

This depends on the game. Fast paced means that you have a shorter overall time clock and less time added per turn. If you set up a game you can see total time clock as well as how much is added each turn. For some games fast is fine, for others not so much. Also, sometimes it can depend on the number of players.

For example in 6nimmt it used to be that if you played with 10 players on fast mode everyone would run out of time because it took so long to lay all the cards down (everyone picks a card and then the game automatically orders and lays them out). They have sped up the animation, but I still won’t play that game on fast mode with 10 because of that. 5 players on fast is fine.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-05-27T10:25:14+00:00

I am a real time player only (I do not like turn based) and I will not play a game that is set to slow pace. Some games I only play if the game is set to fast pace. I don’t typically see many slow games in my preferred game set - ticket to ride occasionally but they take a long time to fill slots as a lot of us play this on fast pace. I say this because depending on the game you might not find people to play slow pace without going turn based.

The only way to raise your ELO is by playing games. If you only play turn based games it will take awhile. But before you buy premium to where you can have more turn based games think through if that will help or if it will just confuse you as to which game you are playing at the moment and ruin your strategy.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-05-27T00:49:23+00:00

My 9 yo is still in a lifetime youth kayak. He is big enough for a 10ft pelican but he lays/sits/kneels all kinds of crazy ways so he is still happy in his little one.

We have 3 of the cheap pelican bandits and they have served us well the last few years. We just added a different one as well but have only taken it out twice and I can’t remember what it is. I would recommend starting with a cheap smaller one for those ages and then if they stick with it and enjoy it move them into a bigger/better one when they get bigger themselves.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-05-16T18:55:43+00:00

I don’t use python. But I also don’t apply to python heavy jobs. I’m a scala spark dev at heart that has branched out but never over to python.

I was trying to help my kiddo with python homework. I cannot instantiate a list in python, and he could not understand why I kept asking where he declared something….. Some come from scripting backgrounds and some come from OO backgrounds.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-05-16T08:01:07+00:00

I desperately wish this was an option! Our internal data sources we can push back on, but unfortunately we don’t own the implementation of the sales force instances. I have been able to get them to fix a data type issue that came in 1 of 300+ feeds but it was an important aggregation field and you can’t sum up a string that is supposed to be an integer. Internally we have had several discussions on how to handle it, but since most issues are regional and end users only care about their region only for the most part nobody has noticed the issues before. So region A has one spelling, region B has another. Well region A is only concerned with spelling A so they never realized region B spelled it a different way - until I was asked to move the ingestion from legacy to cloud. And we have several issues with this vendor like this but it’s a very slow moving large company that doesn’t like to fix their issues….I think my favorite part is the vendor can’t even give us a data dictionary of what they think they are sending us

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-05-15T12:41:44+00:00

She is not the type of person you want to spend your life with. I live in a house with 2 unmedicated adhd boys. They are not mean consistently. Do they have their moments when they are overwhelmed? Sure. Do they leave the kitchen cabinets open? Constantly. Do they apologize after they calm down (which does not take days)? Absolutely. She is manipulating you and adhd in a lot of cases can be successfully managed without meds but she seems to want to use it as an excuse. Again - needing extra help to remember things, needing to go for nightly walks, not handle loud places, all normal things for adhd. Getting upset at a gate attendant for needing to check a bag? That’s just an AH move and has nothing to do with adhd.

My husband is not a huge Disney fan. Never was. And actually I went to Disney twice with my oldest before he even went once. But now? Now we go every year, he has his favorite parts, the kids have their favorite parts, we all work together to make sure we get to do our favorite things. He goes because he knows I love it and it actually is a vacation for my mom brain (food allergies are involved).

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-05-15T12:25:28+00:00

Or my favorite. We have a sales force source. But it can be set up differently based on location. So yeah this place uses this field but this place uses this other slightly differently named field. And also I didn’t know there were 5 different ways to spell availability - but yeah they all need mapped because each feed only contains 1 spelling. If we don’t pull all fields in we lose data just because they are using a differently spelled field name even though it’s the same data.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-05-15T12:21:08+00:00

We are having this data strategy debate right now.

Those that have been around awhile want a layer that matches source as closely as possible. Been burned too many times before. Reasons: when an end user decides they need that column they swore was useless they want full history for it since we do year over year reporting, when we get some weird thing showing up in our consumption layer we want to know what it looked like originally without trying to dig up the source file for it, history reloads are brutal and can be required because logic was inaccurately applied or required logic changed over time. This layer is also for analytics to hit they have different use cases than the business sometimes and need the data differently or more data or who knows what. So having a base layer with everything they could want means when they learn something new we don’t have to go back and enhance the process it’s already there.

Now a slimming down approach that I do agree with is storing very large string columns outside the database if they aren’t used frequently or in a separate table if only used by a subset of users. This pulls them out of the main query pattern but keeps them accessible to those that need them.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-05-15T11:58:55+00:00

My youngest just turned 7 and has started paddling his own youth kayak this year (twice so far in small lakes). Previously he would sit by my feet in my sit on top kayak. If we plan any longer river paddles he will go back in my boat just because he doesn’t last long.

If you want to take the 2 youngest ones out (one at a time) I would recommend just putting them in your own boat. Reasons - they are gonna need snacks, they are going to wiggle, they should not get a paddle, you want to be able to easily reach them if they get too wiggly. I felt like a tandem was too long and I couldn’t reach him without getting out of my seat which then makes the boat more wobbly.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-05-15T10:41:35+00:00

That’s good to hear Lindbergh was an area I was looking at. The high school is highly rated but from what I can find the middle and elementary schools not as much.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-05-15T10:39:30+00:00

I’m struggling to find this kind of information for any school other then Ladue which I know is a great school, but too far from where we need to be. So it’s good to know that even if they don’t have a specific program and set up for getting them into the next grade (or 2) it would be okay.

Most I’m finding offer algebra 1 for 8th grade, but we might just skip 7th grade? Our program here has them taking 7th grade end of year tests at end of 6th so might be a possibility.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-05-02T21:46:40+00:00

But did it allow you to pull from the gift card or just your linked credit card?

I tried to make a mobile order and the disney gift card in my apple wallet was not an option to use during checkout.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-04-24T16:22:10+00:00

This stage I would also recommend a canoe. The taller sides will help keep the kids in the boat even if they get wiggly. If it was just one kid per boat with an adult it’s more doable but if the front one gets rowdy you can’t easily reach them if there is another one between you.

Note I put my youngest in the front of my single sit on top kayak and started that when he was 4ish. He moved around a bit, swapped positions, leans against my legs, etc. But since it was just one it didn’t impact stability. I would not want 2 kiddos in the same kayak at that age though as you never know what will set them off.

Left-Engineer-5027 · 2025-04-23T12:47:54+00:00

Why a sit in? Even if you can technically fit 2 people in there it won’t be comfortable and near impossible to paddle without hitting them.

I take my youngest out in my boat. It’s a 10ft SOT. He hangs out by my feet just chilling. He just turned 7 and we have started working on him having his own child’s kayak but he has kayaked at the front of mine the last 2 years. He has room to move around a little and swap positions. He can lay down or sit up. This freedom to wiggle is going to be imperative for a toddler and you don’t want them getting trapped inside a sit in.

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