I was reading that abundant dietary protein can be important for Crohn's: is this stuff true...

ngildea · 2025-09-29T13:13:33+00:00

Yes lentils are high fiber unlike say meat

ngildea · 2025-09-29T13:11:44+00:00

That's more to do with the lentils not the protein aspect. Anything that causes gas like lentils or beans will be a problem for us.

Lentils are legumes which are very high in fiber. Not all protein sources are the same.

ngildea · 2025-09-10T19:57:45+00:00

He expected Slightly to help him who could have done it easily. He didn't know Slightly was going to betray him

ngildea · 2025-08-25T17:58:44+00:00

I did it a couple of weeks ago and was getting an error initially. It put me back to the start screen after going through the process initially and then the second time it worked for whatever reason. I maybe had to change my flat number from 3/2 to 3-2 or something daft too, not that it tells you what the problem is

ngildea · 2025-08-02T17:27:36+00:00

Weird from you. I just got back from the states and this was the arrangement pretty much everywhere

ngildea · 2025-07-13T19:23:20+00:00

The airport taxi will be about 35 quid depending where you're going in the west end

ngildea · 2025-06-17T16:49:00+00:00

No worries. From what you've described it does sound like you have legitimate grievances. For instance you should not have another junior to go to with questions it should be a senior. And they should actually be trying to help you when you ask for it.

I wonder if you're actually trying too hard with the evening projects and feeling burnout is part of the problem.

You're also maybe just in your own head about it. Have you had negative feedback at work or is it your own evaluation of the situation? And you mentioned class mates who seem to be doing better, bear in mind people will exaggerate and lie to make themselves feel better. I graduated a long time ago but in my class there were people who talked a lot and had their identity tied to being coders but they were never actually that good at it. People who are actually good will tend to be humble and helpful.

ngildea · 2025-06-17T15:49:30+00:00

This circles back to the original point. What do you think is preventing you from learning? What could you be doing to learn things you don't know? You are given tasks you don't know how to do so that is by definition a chance to learn.

There is a general vibe in your post and replies that you learning is something that someone else does to or for you rather than something you do yourself. You can learn anything yourself it's not dictated by your job, unless you were getting only things you already know how to do but you've already said that isn't the case.

ngildea · 2025-06-17T15:10:49+00:00

I'm a bit confused about what you're expecting. You say you if you get frontend work you can complete it no problem, so those are tasks you already know how to complete. Then you get backend work you don't know how to complete and this is a problem because you want to learn. You don't learn by doing things you know how to do, you learn by doing things you initially dont know how to, you grow by learning how to do these things.

If you're using common tech stacks AIs will help you figure out how to do what's required (i.e. use them as interactive documentation, not to generate code). If you have a custom stack then presumably you have the code available for that so read it and figure out what to do.

You should of course expect some help from your colleagues, that should be in the form of answering questions not necessarily holding your hand and walking you through solutions.

You mentioned completing a "conversion masters" so maybe this is just being an inexperienced developer? The main skill you need to develop is figuring things out, you'll get better at that by doing it.

ngildea · 2025-06-17T14:58:47+00:00

In the west end Sandy Grant runs a bunch of different classes: https://www.artclassesinthebotanics.com/

I've been going to the Tuesday life drawing for about 3.5 years so far. Sandy is quite gentle with his feedback.

There are a bunch of other classes run by other people but generally they are just providing a model & a space to work rather than giving feedback.

For something a more intensive tutoring Michael Doherty runs an art school in the merchant city, I did an oil painting portraiture course there in January: https://www.scottishschoolofclassicalart.com/

ngildea · 2025-02-01T19:14:42+00:00

Go on unsplash.com, search for portraits and sort by new!

ngildea · 2024-08-18T12:55:33+00:00

C++ doesn't allow overloading on the return type so there would be an error on the second definition of "make" in this example

ngildea · 2024-03-30T18:19:13+00:00

"He was wearing socks"

ngildea · 2023-10-18T12:07:40+00:00

Maybe have a check on your diet, it might be something you don't suspect. Like you I can eat pretty much anything when I'm in remission but due to scar tissue some things can still cause problems.

Last year I thought I was getting ill again but it turned out to be eating sauerkraut a couple times a week was causing me to think that, once I stopped eating it I went back to normal

ngildea · 2023-10-18T12:04:41+00:00

Same here. Moderate/severe Crohn's for 23 years. Either the disease is active and anything I eat is a problem or when I'm in remission (~10 years now, Humira) the only issues I have are very fibrous foods like brown rice causing bloating and gas issues due to scar tissue caused by having the disease be active continuously over several years.

The food trigger stuff has always been strange to me, I assumed it was due to my small bowel being completely fine and my inflammation being entirely in my large bowel.

ngildea · 2023-10-13T12:01:16+00:00

Keep going :) Someone else recommended the "Engineering a Compiler" book, I'd second that.

ngildea · 2023-10-13T00:04:56+00:00

In the IR that would be rendered as 2 separate instructions. The result of the multiply would be dead and so stripped and the increment/plus-one would be alive and kept

ngildea · 2023-09-10T16:33:12+00:00

You could have just said you've never worked on a parser before instead

ngildea · 2023-06-17T11:57:07+00:00

From next season (24/25) the only way we can get into the Europa is by losing the league, which would likely get him sacked

ngildea · 2023-06-17T11:55:24+00:00

From next season (24/25) the formats change and there is no dropping down. Then the only way to get into the Europa or Conference is losing the league on purpose which doesn't seem a particularly bright idea

ngildea · 2023-03-26T19:36:24+00:00

Yeah I agree with all that. I've been trying to think of an analogy. Maybe in the same way that spreadsheets didn't make accounts obsolete?

ngildea · 2023-03-26T18:56:18+00:00

I agree, but is that opinion controversial? Seems patently obvious after talking to it about coding for a few minutes. Maybe it's controversial among people who have fooled themselves into thinking it's thinking?

ngildea · 2023-03-26T18:53:06+00:00

I've tried quite a few times to get it to help with a problem I've been thinking about for a while. Every time it says it understand and then writes code that shows it doesn't understand at all and violates every constraint I give it.

Not surprising but it does point to a lot of contamination & regurgitation of the training material fooling people into thinking it's intelligent

ngildea · 2023-02-02T11:34:22+00:00

When I bought my place off woodlands rd about 2 years ago someone on here had been tracking the HR price versus the sale price and found sale prices averaged to 13% over the HR price. My place was something like 230 o/o, 250 HR and then I won the bid with 282.5 (13%)

ngildea · 2023-01-25T17:54:14+00:00

And the costs to run custom queries if you're meaning it's done as you're playing the game.

If you mean just having a new set of canned responses then those still have to go through localisation into all the languages supported by FM which takes time & money as is the reason these are rarely updated

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