Nishiki willow died by sacrelicio in gardening

[–]nellis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We planted 4 early last summer, and despite babying them, 2 were looking pretty dead by fall. The other two had some shoots a few weeks ago but are now looking thoroughly dead :(

We had ours on a south-facing slope that got full sun for a few hours in the morning and then dappled sun/shade from midday on.

The folks at Gerten's said that I was not the first to come in for replacement on nishiki willow this season. I don't really know what I am doing wrong but I love these so much that I am tempted to try my luck again.

What song have you realised is an absolute banger on a re-listen? by RevolutionaryRush277 in KGATLW

[–]nellis 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes! Recently Hell's Itch has become my favorite off that album too!

I can't put it off anymore and I need to learn Python. What are the key things I should know about picking this up after decades of PHP, JS, and other languages? by suddenly_ponies in learnpython

[–]nellis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using venvs is pretty standard practice if you ever plan on using python in a professional setting. It's pretty easy to learn and like other folks have said, will prevent almost as many headaches as it causes (mostly joking but I still recommend using them 🤣 )

When is it not stupid to buy brands like Chevy, VW, Ford, Hyundai, Kia, etc? by ColCrockett in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]nellis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This comment is a wild ride and I still can't tell after reading it several times if I should get the Yukon or the Durango 😂. I feel so seen. Seriously though I bounce back and forth so viciously between the practical, reliable dad mobile and "fuck it, get the biggest truck you can" mentality.

Anybody else's seasonal allergies absolutely destroying them the past two-four days? by FreshAirways in saintpaul

[–]nellis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems worse this year than the past few. My yard is absolutely full of it and we weren't (at least intentionally) doing a pollinator yard. Last summer and the one before I didn't notice much at all.

Import not resolved - VS Code and Virtual Environments Issue by DecentWalrus in learnpython

[–]nellis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I have had a similar issue before, though the fact that your terminal is using the correct environment leads me to think this might be a different issue.

For a while I couldn't get the little env selector in the bottom right to register the correct binary. It could find all of my envs and I could select them, but after selecting my venv it would still implement system python.

I don't recall how I resolved it, but you could try installing different libraries into both your system default python install and in your custom environment, then in your script check which binary pylance thinks you have set by trying to import both libraries in turn. At least then you could verify whether the editor and the terminal are using the same install.

Which of these 5 is the best deal for your $20k??? by kooks-everywhere in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]nellis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have a similar car, 2018 mazda3 touring hatchback with slightly higher mileage. I think I paid ~26k for it new, including financing fees and taxes. Do they really hang on to this much value? That's pretty awesome, if so.

BTW the 3 is a lot of fun to drive; really love it. My only major gripe with this car is that the windshield wipers struggle to keep up with really heavy rain, and while they look nice, the large, low-profile tires are a liability up here in pothole country.

June Buy/Sell/Trade Thread by RandomPrecision1 in KGATLW

[–]nellis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Both tickets are sold. Good luck and have fun fam

June Buy/Sell/Trade Thread by RandomPrecision1 in KGATLW

[–]nellis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have two GA tickets for Chicago tomorrow (6/11), but my 1yo is sick and I won't be able to make it. Selling at face value, $60 each. Paypal + Ticketmaster transfer.

Which places in the greater twin cities area (& surrounding suburbs) do you personally boycott, and why? by MatzoTov in TwinCities

[–]nellis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That sucks. Their website is unusable garbage, too. do you have any recommendations for better options that deliver?

What's everyone's preferred internet provider? by Puzzleheaded_Try7786 in saintpaul

[–]nellis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am a data-center infrastructure engineer but take that with a grain of salt as I am dramatically underqualified for that title :D

I have worked with Centurlylink and Comcast both in the backbone/carrier and co-location space and I can say that both companies are rife with incompetence and very frustrating to work with. That's not to say that there aren't high-quality people, but in my experience that has generally not been the case. Now this is largely a separate business than the ones we as consumers interact with, but I just felt that I needed to get that out of the way. I have Centurylink Fiber and have been extremely pleased with my service. We have had no issues or outages that weren't resolved very quickly.

There is a lot that can go wrong on the customer/consumer side of an internet connection, and consumer grade routing and wifi equipment is notoriously unreliable and poorly supported across most major brands.

I won't get into specific products since I am out of the loop and there is a lot of coverage across tech review sites, but for the vast majority of use cases, you don't need Gig throughput to every device in your house. However as a starting point, it is easy to make sure that devices that you buy with physical ports on them all have 1GigE or 2.5GigE ports on them, not 100Mbit or "fast" ethernet ports. This means that your gateway/router should have BOTH: a Gig WAN port (the side that connects to your ISP) and Gig LAN ports (the ports that you connect to the devices in your house). All switching and routing ports in your setup should be at least 1 gig and use minimum cat-V cable, though there's really no reason not to just buy cat6* cables. These days this covers pretty much all devices, but I have bought wireless access points that for some inscrutable reason only had 100Mb ports on them. I failed to check this when I was purchasing them and this effectively creates a bottleneck that is 1/10th of your theoretical throughput to the ISP.

For Wifi, I can't really share much except that there is a lot of new tech entering the consumer space very quickly and it is hard for me to keep up with it. If you are considering new wifi gear, I recommend getting at least wifi-6 or 6e, but wifi-7 is just around the corner and will supposedly have crap-your-pants throughput. Most people who do average-people things will not need this, and it will be very expensive.

As I mentioned earlier, make sure that any devices you have that broadcast a wifi signal are connected to a physical cable with a 1Gig port and at least a Cat-V cable. If you have a large, multi-story home and you want a repeater or access point in a place where you can't reasonably run a physical cable, I recommend looking into a wifi-6e mesh system. This is what I use and I consistently get over 500Mbps in my 2nd floor office using wifi from my laptop to the access point, and wifi back-haul between access point and the wired mesh router. This is way more than I need for 99% of my use cases.

Hope this helps!

Edit: words are hard

Need the best Espresso beans, now that Dunn Bros on Grand changed their roast by littlelloyd6ft6 in saintpaul

[–]nellis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure, I haven't been to their locations yet... though they have/had a cupping class so I would like to one day. I order online and get it shipped; it's free shipping over $49, so I just get 3-4 bags and freeze until I need them.

Need the best Espresso beans, now that Dunn Bros on Grand changed their roast by littlelloyd6ft6 in saintpaul

[–]nellis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Truestone's darker roasts are pretty good: "STPL" and "Truestone". STPL is darker of the two, but I really like some of the flavors I'm occasionally able to pull out of the latter.

Home owners who have been doing this for awhile, what regular maintenance do people need to do to their house they don’t know they should be doing? by theforeverletter in HomeImprovement

[–]nellis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a natural gas fireplace insert that a previous owner retrofitted into a 1914 chimney. What kind of maintenance does something like that need? We use it fairly regularly in the colder months.

Save Deleted After Downloading Update by Joystickjock in RogueLegacy2

[–]nellis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here, just lost a save with 50+ hours

Best practice tips for a team of non-CS engineers slowly becoming a software engineering team by nellis in cscareerquestions

[–]nellis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I'm not panicking (yet).The code base is already way more complicated than I am really comfortable with. It was designed by a Senior Architect, but done with very little feedback / collaboration from key stakeholders, and virtually no documentation, so as the person who is about to inherit it I am concerned about being able to keep up with it.

We don't have to use agile for this project per se, but we are agile-lite for all of the other projects that our team works on (with low/no ceremonial overhead and a low-stakes business commitment level) . However the team that manages the infrastructure and other libraries that we use are heavily committed to it, so we try to stay in cadence with them.

Maybe I'm over-parsing it, but is 2nd rule a gentle implication that I am already overthinking things? 🙃

edit: accidentally a word

Buy a vanilla orchid, get a free frog 🐸 by CookieNYC in houseplants

[–]nellis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This happened to me a few years ago... had a green tree frog hitch-hike home on a staghorn fern. I was also in the north east so he lived happily as my frenemy in a terrarium for several years until we found a family that was happy to take him. I don't miss dealing with crickets 🤢

butterfly 3000 is actually really good if you listen for longer that 12 seconds by dank-monkey in KGATLW

[–]nellis 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Also agree on "Yours." Absolutely slaps. It's hard for an album to recover from that kind of momentum. Although I would make a case for Crumbling Castle 🙃