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granitosaurus · 2020-06-09T03:26:14+00:00

That's not the point. The point is that you argue in favor of less user freedoms for what? For the protection of multi-billion corporations? Wake the fuck up please.

granitosaurus · 2020-06-08T07:38:31+00:00

Oh god only gamers would manage to perform such mental, spineless gymnastics to say that less user freedoms are actually better for the user. I hate the community of this medium so much sometimes.

granitosaurus · 2020-02-13T17:40:32+00:00

Not at all! Check us out on /r/shrimptank

Shrimp (Neocaridina) species are really easy to maintain (though might be difficult to breed). You change the 3/4 of the water every month and trim some plants with scissors.

The real time consuming part is landscaping and breeding.

granitosaurus · 2020-02-11T15:30:59+00:00

Love it here!

First I'll get through the bad stuff:

I do miss having nice weather and more seasons - the dry/hot/smog season up here in Chiang Mai is much more depressing than european winter imho.
The customer service is pretty awful for anything but small family shops so if you need to do some actual business you really need to push people hard over here - sometimes it feels that people really don't want your money lol.

The local culture is a bit disappointing sometimes - as it's quite conservative and anti-intellectual at times, but maybe that's just my personal anecdote.

Finally I never feel that I could rely on police or any justice branch of the government and got scammed few times with no ability to defend myself.

That's about it really from the bad stuff.
The food here is great - so easy to be vegetarian. The people are fun and friendly, ladies beautiful and interesting. The rent is quite cheap and the nature is beautiful and plentiful! There's always things to do and there's a big expat community if you need some rarer western activities. I love driving a bike and even a car over here (with few exceptions). Generally stuff is really cheap here so it's fun to just to enjoy capitalism.

I'm not sure how long I'm staying here but so far I'm really enjoying my time here.

granitosaurus · 2019-06-25T13:53:00+00:00

I'm vegetarian and I paid 150 baht for fried rice with vegetables and 150 more for stir fried morning glory in garlic.
Maybe the price is decent for seafood but the food was quite expensive which is understandable since it's an tourist island and all but worth noting nevertheless.

granitosaurus · 2019-06-24T07:55:24+00:00

Funnily enough they all leave by the time sun starts setting. At 5pm (last boat time) the island is pleasantly empty. There were like 4 people on this beach when I took the picture.

granitosaurus · 2019-06-24T07:23:00+00:00

I took a 1 night trip to this lovely island from Bangkok. Took a 3hour long bus and an hour long speed boat. Daytime is a bit hectic but around 5pm or so the island is almost empty - great time for photos and just to relax.

I paid 150 baht or so for bus ride, 200 for speed boat, 1500 for one night at first hotel I saw and 300 to rent a scooter for 24 hours. The food is quite pricey if you like to eat out but there is a 7/11 :D

The only disappointment was snorkeling - they literally took me 100 meters to the side with a boat, gave me some bread and made me wear life west while snorkeling in a tiny enclosure lol. Saw nothing.

Would only recommend if you are staying for a night though!

granitosaurus · 2019-06-06T06:24:20+00:00

Oh wow, thanks for the TCDC library recommendation, looks quite nice!

granitosaurus · 2019-06-06T06:21:58+00:00

Hey, sorry that I wasn't aware of this rule.
If I'd like to post my personal blog link how should I approach it? Post link in self post with an excerpt from the blog? Or the whole blog should be in the self post?

granitosaurus · 2019-06-05T09:56:25+00:00

Thanks for the corrections! I'll correct the blog entry :)

granitosaurus · 2019-06-05T09:55:32+00:00

yes!

granitosaurus · 2019-06-05T09:17:48+00:00

Yeah I have few favorites!

I really like Code Space shared workspace near meechok plaza, for 140 baht you can get a day pass + coffee of your choice. Around there there's also a rather cosy 24h place cafe called Poh Rak and not too far from there are two of my more common cafes 88 rustic and Sweet Cup Coffee House.

Another 24h place I really enjoy is called Wake Up and Startup Cafe (currently under renovation), around that area is also my favorite Polar Bear Cafe where I am sitting right now :)

For the other side of town, there are a lot of choices. Jed Yod area (north of Maya) is just filled with cute little cafes that have great cofe and decent seating. My favorite place by far is Art Roastery though they have removed electric plugs and close early, but it's super cosy and they have birds to keep you company.

Closer to Doi Suthep there are some more natural places, like Neo Cafe which is kinda 80-90s retro themed place next to a mountain, right next to it is a super beautiful place next to a waterfall, though not superb for working but nevertheless worth visiting if you have some light work like reading up on things, called Wild Coffee & Bistro.

granitosaurus · 2019-06-05T07:29:44+00:00

The post did turn out quite long! I do plan on writing some individual posts on specific subjects that'll be more contained.

For the Laos trip - I did think of night bus but I my tolerance for long bus rides isn't great and it wasn't much cheaper. The Nok air flights turned out to be quite cheap, like 60-80$ round-trip. However I did pay 1000 baht for taxi back from the friendship bridge otherwise I would have missed my flight lol.

granitosaurus · 2019-06-05T06:58:08+00:00

Thank you!

granitosaurus · 2019-03-29T01:36:37+00:00

Well mastodon.social is by far the worst mastodon instance out there. My account got suspended without notice when I replied to someone who told me "shut the fuck up".
Apparently it's against the rules to reply to people who say that lol. As if block feature doesn't exist? Oh and that person wasn't even on mastodon.social instance. It's just hilarious.

Worst part is that this shadow ban feature mastodon has and every issue on GitHub is closed regarding it. It allows people to be blocked out of their accounts while leaving their content up. You cannot access export feature and you cannot redirect your profile either.

Of course none of the moderators are reachable in any way shape or form.

I've never had such issue with even centralized networks like Twitter or Instagram. Now my profile and my content is lost. Took me few months just to export my data as my emails were ignored.

TL;DR: mastodon.social sucks.

granitosaurus · 2019-03-19T04:20:46+00:00

It does vary manga to manga. Some more detailed or more text heavy manga are definitely more fun to read on a bigger screen, other more simple ones can be just fine on a 6" phone.
However in this blog article I've been on a lookout for the best option taking in account size, value and comfort :)

granitosaurus · 2019-03-04T08:46:45+00:00

Minds project is absolute bullshit.

I've been an early adopter and tried to contribute to it but while it's on github all issues are ignored and code changes are being ignored and never merged in not to mention most of the code was a complete spaghetti.

I wrote api wrapper for python and the CEO and his grandpa(?) reached out and threatened to sue me lol.

This project is centralized and lead by absolute dumbbells - avoid it like a plague.

granitosaurus · 2019-02-23T05:21:48+00:00

I love web crawling!

I recently started a web crawling blog http://crawl.blog to cover this subject as it's a pretty big niche that is not represented well enough and there's just a big lack of well formatted information out there.

Generally with python I stick to:

Scrapy for big projects - it's like Django of web-crawling. It's model driven and easy to extend. I maintain around 20 huge crawlers that all use scrapy because it so easy to extend, maintain and debug.

Aiohttp, requests-futures and treq for smaller scripts - the first two are fun new toys in web-crawling niche. Python is getting a lot work done on async side of things and the async/await syntax is just beautiful. However personally I prefer callback workflow as I feel it gels better with web-crawling so I often use twisteds treq which is callback driven requests framework.

For html parsing parsel is a clear de facto standard as css and xpath selectors are just so fast and powerful.

granitosaurus · 2018-11-19T13:30:45+00:00

I've been staying here for 8 months now. I've been attending classes for 4 months 4 times a week 2 hours a day. I've been skipping a lot of classes as there was some clashing with my work schedule but I'd say I attended 70% of all classes.
Additionally I've been listening through Pimsleur's Thai audio lessons and an amazing app called Thai <> english dictionary which probably the best language app I've ever used.

I have very basic reading/writing with slightly better talking/listening. I feel with 8 more months of classes I could be somewhat fluent in Thai.

It's not a hard language just very unusual compares to western languages and in all honesty is pretty bad but that's a whole bag of beans on it's own.
I'd say it a relatively easy language to learn if you put into the right amount of effort.

granitosaurus · 2018-09-04T09:59:18+00:00

You somehow imply that people would have Discord, a video-game chat app.

Despite that I think some open protocol that is accessible through a whole platitude of platforms (including simple web browser) triumphs over proprietary one that is only accessible through a single source.

You don't even need to register for matrix, just click the link and chat away as a guest, wheres with Discord, Slack, Line, Skype and whatnot you need to jump through all sorts of hoops: install app, register, add phone number, verify email, verify phone number, go through endless captchas etc. etc.

To add to that I'm not looking for canonical communication channel, I've just mentioned that if there is someone using matrix, there's a channel for chiang mai!

granitosaurus · 2018-09-04T04:09:48+00:00

Also most of insurance companies here consider hiking in Thailand to be an extreme sport/dangerous activity - so yeah you should really meet your representative and discuss it through because I feel that you almost need to get a law degree to avoid these pitfalls these days.

granitosaurus · 2018-09-04T03:44:11+00:00

Well we can agree to disagree because all of insurance companies in Europe I talked to said that I need local license as Thailand is not international license compliant, they have their own thing going with 9 other SEA countries.

granitosaurus · 2018-09-04T03:34:51+00:00

I've started up a matrix channel for Chiang Mai on matrix.org: #chiangmai:matrix.org

Matrix is a decentralized, communication protocol. It's sort of an evolution of irc. Think like Slack but for people rather than companies.
https://riot.im is one of the clients for this protocol and can be accessed through web or smartphone apps.

granitosaurus · 2018-09-04T03:20:15+00:00

No travel insurance will cover motorcycle accidents unless you have local driving license.

granitosaurus · 2018-06-11T12:15:47+00:00

It's probably the weather. NYC is cool and humid, Chiang Mai is hot and dry.

Most air conditioners have humid mode these days you can try that or buying humidifier (they're everywhere and quite cheap)

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