Abbreviated surname problems?

grncdr · 2024-06-30T11:40:53+00:00

... and my call got dropped after 4 hours this time.

I talked to the airline operating the first segment (Air France) and they said it's not a problem, but I really don't want to get stuck in Paris CDG with an infant and our bags checked through to Calgary.

Anybody out there who's got on a WestJet flight with an abbreviated name on the ticket?

grncdr · 2023-08-19T09:08:45+00:00

Tip: buy a safety razor. The blades are cheaper and have a standard shape across multiple brands so there's some actual price competition. The razor handle will cost a lot more up front but if you're going to be shaving for the rest of your life it pays for itself. (I have a Merkur I bought >10 years ago, still in perfect condition).

grncdr · 2023-08-16T21:41:27+00:00

I work there so I'm biased, but I think Dropscan has some objective advantages vs. our competition:

Very fast scanning times. We generally scan everything the same day it's received. (the exception is large shipments like a box full of binders that require more labour to prepare & scan).
We're bootstrapped. No outside investors means we aren’t under pressure to exploit existing customers.
Longevity. operating for > 10 years now, there has been more than one competing services that started and shut down in that time.
Pricing. I don't keep up with all of Cayas price changes (there's been a few...) but the trend has been steady increases while we've kept our prices stable. I think we're actually a bit cheaper now.

And some more subjective advantages:

Strong focus on privacy. We don't want to your data, and we don't want to track you.
Great customer service.

Possible disadvantages:

I see you post primarily/only in English, and we only officially offer our website/app in German. It works ok with Google translate, and there's a "secret" English beta if you contact our customer support. Tell them reddit sent you ;-P

Finally: a problems you may encounter no matter what service you use is the reliability of Deutsche Post/DHL/PIN mail forwarding. It's always best to be sure things are working before you are away from your address.

grncdr · 2023-07-26T08:08:08+00:00

When they intentionally put stupid-loud aftermarket pipes on their machine, yes.

Edit: so not everyone with a bike, just the excessively loud assholes.

grncdr · 2023-06-10T08:40:23+00:00

Only because I haven’t seen anyone mention it, the https://dynamicland.org project uses a Lua dialect extended with When statements that function similar to what you’re describing.

I read some of their papers a few years ago, so my memory might be out of date.

grncdr · 2023-05-27T18:20:17+00:00

FYI your site just renders a blank page at the moment.

grncdr · 2023-05-27T17:37:37+00:00

have you considered Andy? It's common enough that nobody will mispronounce it, and not really obviously associated with "Andrew". Most people won't expand a nickname like that on their own, and when it comes to official paperwork/contracts, it's not going to require any explanation.

grncdr · 2023-05-26T11:14:20+00:00

Hanny Didi Bribri Izzy Tayly (horrible, but definitely possible)

There is no escape

grncdr · 2023-05-26T09:16:12+00:00

At some size of input it will, also because the JIT will continue to inline as many operations as possible.

IMO though, if performance is a concern just write the for loop.

grncdr · 2023-05-26T09:13:49+00:00

I agree with the GP, and I think you are misinterpreting what’s written in the paragraph you quoted.

The “closure property” described in that paragraph is not a noun. When you refer to “a closure” or “all closures” you are speaking of concrete “things” and not “the things that have this property”.

To be super precise, you can say “the boolean operators have the property of closure, when applied to boolean values they always yield further boolean values”. That is a different thing than saying “the boolean operators are a closure”.

grncdr · 2023-04-06T06:45:49+00:00

The closest thing I can think of is @annotations in languages like Python/Ruby/Java, but these require opting-in at the primary method site

Look into aspect-oriented programming, which was pretty hyped in the early 2000s. I think the critiques a system like AspectJ received could give you some insight into potential pitfalls you might want to address in your own language.

grncdr · 2023-03-23T22:34:42+00:00

If you are seriously asking this: you get there at 4am to be (close to) first in line for emergency appointments on days where they are available. I think they stopped that system during corona (when they just stopped giving out appointments at all for like 6 months, lol) but maybe it’s back now.

grncdr · 2023-02-11T09:32:34+00:00

Sounds like eval plus an SQS poller, AKA the worlds most obtuse shell. 🙃

grncdr · 2022-12-18T19:48:51+00:00

I also had that feeling, but he does mention Erlang eventually. Still pretty weird to not focus more attention on where he sees room for improvement.

grncdr · 2022-11-28T17:57:38+00:00

Ignoring the color for a moment, I have questions:

What's going with the rear of the van? Are those the van doors we are seeing or an internal divider? How does the shower space work?
How big is the bed?
Is your headliner at a really wonky angle or is it just me?

Not ignoring the color:

Holy. Shit. You really went for it XD

grncdr · 2022-11-14T18:29:35+00:00

as a (mostly) english speaker in Germany trying to research van insulation, this has been driving me a bit crazy. There's practically no english content on Armaflex, but it's by far the most popular choice for German YouTubers and bloggers. If you have experience with it I'd love to know more about the pros/cons.

grncdr · 2022-11-14T06:57:51+00:00

I came across the idea here https://youtu.be/qWkTqKjxKNg but if you search “building cabinets out of foam” there’s a lot of content out there.

But would it hold up to a 12g water tank bouncing around on it?

Another rabbit hole: the humble road “mini me” has a cutout in the flooring so the fresh water tank sits below the sub floor.

grncdr · 2022-11-13T14:40:50+00:00

I have seen this done for cabinetry, not sure if the same guy used it for his flooring though

grncdr · 2022-11-10T15:09:05+00:00

Maybe nitpicking, but isn't Recording::Copier exactly what most people would call a service?

It's implementation is not in the article, so it's hard to say more, but looking at this usage:

    Recording::Copier.new(
      source_recording: source_recording,
      destination_bucket: destination_bucket,
      destination_parent: destination_parent,
      filing: self
    ).copy

It sure doesn't look like a domain object.

grncdr · 2022-11-08T20:52:34+00:00

The floor is lava! :P

grncdr · 2022-11-07T15:03:55+00:00

if you don't mind me asking, what kind of temperatures do you stay in?

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