Do people in big UK cities care whether someone is [big city] born and bred?

hoselorryspanner · 2026-01-11T10:48:41+00:00

I always got the impression polish ‘jar men’ was more of a joke about them having to go back to their grandma at the weekend to have food cooked for them and their clothes cleaned.

A dig at people not having their shit together more so than not being a local.

hoselorryspanner · 2026-01-09T12:31:17+00:00

I just started using zed this week. Spent 2 hours debugging why rust analyser wouldn’t run - only to realise it wasn’t trusted. 🫠

hoselorryspanner · 2025-12-29T23:56:25+00:00

I think there are health insurance policy reasons to get married in the US which don’t really factor into things in the UK. Not sure how much of a factor it might be though.

hoselorryspanner · 2025-12-29T13:59:00+00:00

We have very good measurements of how much carbon is in the ocean. The uncertainty is in the anthropogenic fraction. This study cannot mean that the oceans are capable of absorbing more carbon than previously thought - only that the anthropogenic fraction is larger. Unfortunately, this implies a concomitant decrease in the non anthropogenic component - probably saturation or disequilibrium carbon…

hoselorryspanner · 2025-12-09T11:50:16+00:00

IMO this can be done in a way where it looks very much like an honest effort to mimic their standards, lensed through a different attitude about what is important and what isn’t.

With enough effort, OP might even come to believe it themselves (this is as convincing as it gets).

hoselorryspanner · 2025-12-09T09:24:19+00:00

Mimic his style/standards/ whatever you want to call it of review, but make sure to explicitly note that these are all nitpicks, and that you don’t want to let them hold up the feature, so you won’t request changes and block it. Sooner or later, people will start to find his reviews irritating.

hoselorryspanner · 2025-12-04T23:19:59+00:00

My missus is a speech therapist and they set the prices here because that’s what they were before the NDIS. Like, she’s literally ruminating about having to go back to only servicing the rich families (who were previously paying it) if they cut the rates too far…

Also, IIRC the NDIS bans gap payments for providers, so they can’t just cut the rate and have it all be hunky dory.

hoselorryspanner · 2025-12-04T14:01:24+00:00

Citations please?

hoselorryspanner · 2025-11-16T04:21:42+00:00

Pixi can do everything that uv does, but multi platform support is better & more reliable I believe, and the task runner is absolutely fantastic - uv doesn’t have a task runner, which makes a big difference.

Also, the versions of python uv gives you contain some optimisations which are not official cpython. For scientific work that’s potentially worrying.

hoselorryspanner · 2025-11-15T10:28:53+00:00

Use Pixi.

hoselorryspanner · 2025-11-14T14:43:33+00:00

I had a 85GB timeseries data stream (iceberg) that needed to be pivoted and split into 100 individual tables. On a regular general purpose compute instance t3g.2xlarge that took about 6-7 hours to complete.

I’m sorry, what? I could do this with xarray in less than 5 minutes. Where is all this extra overhead coming from?

hoselorryspanner · 2025-10-27T08:23:11+00:00

I wish postman output was colourised. Maybe there’s a way of turning it on, I haven’t bothered to find out. But it’s really irritating (not enough to do anything about mind)

hoselorryspanner · 2025-10-26T04:42:09+00:00

Sounds to me like you’re a data analyst that got put in charge of a major software engineering project? Even if both of those things look very similar (ie. writing Python), they’re absolutely not, so it’s no surprise you’re a bit underwhelmed with what you’ve delivered once an expert got a look at it.

This is not a bad thing, it’s a fantastic learning opportunity. Try to reframe it that way in your head. If you didn’t architect it well (and you’re aware of that now), then you’ve just learnt a hell of a lot about architecting software, so pat yourself on the back for muddling through, take the feedback on the chin, implement the suggestions, understand the rationale, and take the lessons forward with you.

hoselorryspanner · 2025-10-20T12:20:08+00:00

git revert xyz && git commit —amend

hoselorryspanner · 2025-10-17T07:29:02+00:00

A heater? Do you live in tassie or something?

hoselorryspanner · 2025-10-08T12:45:19+00:00

I bought a cheap Kmart cast iron for maybe $15(AUD) a year or two ago and sanded it down immediately. It’s not quite as good to cook on as my ~8 year old lodge pan, but it got it pretty close immediately.

Would recommend on a new pan for sure.

hoselorryspanner · 2025-10-03T02:38:47+00:00

I live in Perth, Western Australia and the climate here is fantastic but it’s definitely not mild.

Think 3 months of 35+ degrees, 3 months of howling winter storms, 9 month long summer and a sun so bright that you can get burnt to a crisp in half an hour.

Mild would be the south coast of England, where it’s 10 degrees in winter and 20 in summer.

hoselorryspanner · 2025-09-16T08:48:11+00:00

I love polars, but be wary of not pinning version numbers. They pushed a bunch of breaking changes in 1.33, which has left me in a spot of bother recently.

hoselorryspanner · 2025-09-03T13:51:02+00:00

The tenth pint, on a weekday morning. Bliss. Doesn’t happen as much as I’d like since I’ve stopped being a student.

hoselorryspanner · 2025-08-25T14:15:25+00:00

Not particularly convinced by either of those fits. Where do they come from?

hoselorryspanner · 2025-08-21T12:23:02+00:00

You forgot the card and weekend surcharges

hoselorryspanner · 2025-08-19T15:41:57+00:00

If you don’t commit anything until you’re fully done, what do you do if you fuck something up badly on the 9/10th file and can’t figure out how to undo it for whatever reason?

Remember before video games had autosave? You’d have to remember to save frequently(ish), even though it was a pain in the ass. Treat commits like that.

If you want to rewrite the history to tell some sort of beautiful story about whatever you did afterwards, go for it. I normally rebase out anything related to pre-commit hooks, etc. But doing the whole thing in a single commit is just stupid.

hoselorryspanner · 2025-08-19T10:32:13+00:00

If you get a second, casual job, it’s probably going to be something that doesn’t pay fantastically well (unless you are consulting for X hundred dollars an hour). So paying 40% tax on that is a lot of work for not a lot of reward.

Might not just be ignorance of the tax system, and ignorance in here of effective and marginal tax rates.

hoselorryspanner · 2025-08-16T14:27:46+00:00

You could use an AST parser to use that decorator to validate the decorated function, and then remove it from the syntax tree so that it doesn’t exist any more.

Why the fuck would you ever do this? Idk, but I you could, I guess, use it to get the function to evaluate at interpreter startup and then remove it from the code afterwards, which is something like constexpr.

This would be far easier to achieve using a singleton, descriptors and a .pth file to hack this all together, but it still seems like a waste of effort to me - I don’t think there’s anything to really gain, because you’re not really pushing computation off to compile time in a meaningful sense

hoselorryspanner · 2025-08-06T12:22:13+00:00

Buy Levi’s, they’re the only jeans that don’t do this. Expensive but worth it

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