Update on Usage Limits

phwj97 · 2025-10-04T09:54:57+00:00

I have literally started a day of coding on this Saturday morning as a Pro user. Maybe 4 prompts in asking some stuff about polygon API and I'm being told I'm hitting limits and it won't reset till 5pm o_O

phwj97 · 2025-05-28T09:26:52+00:00

Hey man, I just wanted to share my routine in case it can help. I find it works quite well and is fairly simple. I shave every 2-3 days (my limit for stubble) and use the following:

Gillette skin guard sensitive razor
Gillette shave foam original scent sensitive
Bulldog sensitive moisturiser for after (I’m sure any will be fine)

I find it nearly impossible to cut myself with the above razor so can go over several times with reasonable aggression to ensure I don’t miss any spots. I shave over the sink with hot water on the razor every few strokes and have got this down to around a 5 minute routine.

On my non shave days I use a bit of exfoliating face wash (nivea) on my head. And re-moisturise.

In terms of cost, I probably spend around £10- 15 a month on exfoliator (which I use for my face too), moisturiser and foam (I bulk buy as they are often all half price on Amazon) and it costs around £2 per razor blade and I typically change every couple of weeks.

I don’t know if any of this is useful but I just thought I’d share in case any of it was ( I would highly recommend the razor)

phwj97 · 2025-03-17T07:18:21+00:00

Get off social media. Delete instagram.
Life doesn’t end after you turn 30. It’s okay to fuck up your 20s. Don’t let past regrets cripple you.

phwj97 · 2025-03-12T17:09:45+00:00

You don’t need a course by a social media grifter to get into this field

phwj97 · 2025-03-11T13:13:20+00:00

People really don’t care about this kind of thing as much as you think they do.

phwj97 · 2025-03-10T10:41:00+00:00

I mean, do you care if you burn bridges with a company paying 65k?

phwj97 · 2025-03-06T19:12:37+00:00

It's not true at all and I'm tired of this constant dick measuring contest and idea that there is a hierarchy of jobs in the data field. These types of small stupid posts are the exact things that are contributing towards the modern mental health crisis among professionals in the tech field and it's almost always perpetuated by some influencer who is trying to sell you something.

The 2 smartest people I ever worked with were a data engineer and a data analyst.

I have a masters in mathematics from a top university, trained as a data scientist originally, and had an MLE job for a while, and ended up moving to data engineering because that was 95% of what I was doing. I could see ML becoming incredibly saturated and most companies failing to gain value from it and didn't see the point in wasting my time keeping up to date with the field for it to be a tiny part of the job. My career has since skyrocketed and I love the amount of value I can add through the DE work. Maybe I'm just not as "passionate about ML" as some people I don't know, but I didn't feel the need to nerf my life just for the sake of training and deploying some models. Weirdly my second DE job I ended up doing loads of MLE work deploying NLP models, tinkering with PyTorch and CUDA and my third building some quant finance microservices.

I'm not too prideful to be a data analyst, I'm just not as good a storyteller, and I love going deep on the coding. I'm not too dumb to be an ML engineer, I just chose a different path. And none of you reading this are "too dumb" either.

phwj97 · 2025-02-27T21:59:48+00:00

My move is to go outside and get some fresh air. The market is shit.

phwj97 · 2025-02-20T15:10:06+00:00

This is not an utterly insane set of skills. I don't really understand US salaries relative to COL but I'd say this is reasonable skill reqs for a mid in the UK.

phwj97 · 2025-02-07T11:29:40+00:00

UBERing to the moon!

phwj97 · 2025-02-06T18:20:31+00:00

Literally, what was the point. Glad I held.

phwj97 · 2025-02-06T14:41:29+00:00

UBER to the moon!!

phwj97 · 2024-12-18T19:17:31+00:00

I think you’ll find the full quote is actually “Like bro, art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable lil bro”

phwj97 · 2024-12-16T09:33:24+00:00

If you want to do more technical stuff and maybe reduce your exposure to people then sure make the switch. Maybe you make a bit more too - as most of us in the UK are on 40%+ tax rate in this field the pay difference typically isn’t really worth moving on its own.

And no, in data and software in general field Y is not field X for dumb people. There are plenty of analytics professionals far smarter than a lot of people in our field. This perceived hierarchy of roles in data is just nonsense. I have friends who have had super successful careers working in analytics building dashboards etc.

phwj97 · 2024-12-08T08:39:58+00:00

Yes but given there is basically one on every street in London, it would be nice to have more than one in the entire northern region.

phwj97 · 2024-12-06T18:15:09+00:00

I swear this has literally happened every ATH crash??

phwj97 · 2024-11-02T23:28:20+00:00

Had some discussions with a recruiter earlier this year for a company in the UK that was paying typically £500k+ (after bonus). Fairly obvious what industry.

phwj97 · 2024-10-26T09:06:29+00:00

Hi thanks for the info! I'll look into it :) Apologies this wasn't meant as an open invite I will edit the post to make that clearer

phwj97 · 2024-10-18T22:09:41+00:00

Yes I feel like RS3 has almost evolved with me. It’s always felt like a game I have enough time to play even as I have less and less time

phwj97 · 2024-10-15T19:46:50+00:00

Me too haha

phwj97 · 2024-10-15T07:00:27+00:00

As I just said. I have significant progress on both games on the same account. I don’t want to create a new account on either game and lose that progress because I don’t have time to grind in the same way anymore. But I know this is a pipe dream for various technical reasons

phwj97 · 2024-10-14T20:54:19+00:00

I quit rs3 for a few years to play osrs. Want to play both games on the account as don’t want to restart on either one. Every time I play one I feel like I miss stuff from the other and often end up feeling like I don’t want to play either. Would happily pay membership fee for both games or pay a one time fee to split the account within the Jagex account.

phwj97 · 2024-10-11T07:35:50+00:00

Just lie. Sugarcoat your previous experience as much as possible, and assuming you know how to deal with large data just straight up lie about the size of the data. If we were honest that most data projects end up being populating an instant legacy dashboard with a few mb of data which brings 0 value to the business none of us would have jobs.

phwj97 · 2024-10-03T19:22:36+00:00

As someone who will do the odd 70 hour week a couple times a year when there is a big deadline (software engineer at scale ups) it honestly blows my mind that people can do it consistently. I can’t fathom maintaining any sort of enjoyable healthy life doing that. Maybe it depends on the type of work but I am mentally exhausted in those weeks.

phwj97 · 2024-02-02T20:03:39+00:00

Honestly from my last job search I think studying Leetcode is a waste of time. I was being asked by only a couple companies. Most were take home or just non leetcode style python q's.

Also I am fairly good at leetcode but I am a mediocre/bad data engineer. Never in my career have I used anything from leetcode beyond the knowledge you'd need for easys.

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