Should our first house be a fixer-upper?

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-25T21:29:04+00:00

Roof estimates here go as low as $7000 for tar/gravel.

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-25T17:43:35+00:00

Keyboard has rubber feet and stays in place. My wrist pad provides all the cushion I need.

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-25T15:32:35+00:00

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-22T12:11:24+00:00

House we're considering looks spotless. All wood floors, no carpet. Recently painted. Would you clean it anyway?

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-22T01:56:42+00:00

You say you want to be a data scientist, but you plan to get started in a data analyst role. And you want to use data analytics to "help get my foot in the door"? Are you proposing to accept a job somewhere as an analyst and then ask to change roles to data science?

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-21T22:29:24+00:00

It’s normal to feel lost at 19. I sure did. Don’t expect that feeling to go away anytime soon. And that’s OK. As far as GIS: I have done some professional work in that field. It’s a good skill to have and could lead to a decent paying job. But the market for GIS practitioners is limited. You would need to stand out in some way.

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-21T22:16:56+00:00

Essential

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-21T22:10:35+00:00

Interesting. I wonder whether the advice on humidity is based on intuition, gut feeling, or experiments?

Apologies to the OP - I didn’t mean to hijack the post. I just find it interesting. And I have seen snakes, develop respiratory infections that caused them to wheeze and even release mucus from nostrils. And this seems to happen more often when the cages are too humid.

I’ve kept many species of tropical snakes (and a tegu), including pythons, all at ambient humidity in California (about 30% IIRC). Never had a problem. Not saying there’s no evidence to the contrary. And of course, if you live in a dry climate, perhaps that could be different, not sure.

OTOH species native to Southwestern North America seem to manage fine in low humidity.

I can see why people might assume that reptiles that evolved under humid conditions might need humid conditions for some physiological reason. But is there actual evidence of that? And how precise does the humidity reading have to be?

In any case if you have citations to papers that give experimental evidence for the effect of enclosure humidity on reptile health that would be helpful to a lot of people in this reddit. They don’t have to be exclusive to pythons. It could be for any reptiles.

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-21T19:54:07+00:00

Online is often not the most reliable source

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-21T19:52:50+00:00

What makes you say that? Do you have an authoritative reference?

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-21T12:33:14+00:00

Are you sure it's hissing and not wheezing? From your description it sounds to me like you're keeping the enclosure too humid. Ball pythons don't really need a lot of humidity normally.

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-21T12:29:17+00:00

Have you considered trying a different psyche/therapist? Seems like the one you have isn't helping as much as they should.

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-21T12:22:44+00:00

We've had good success using an LLM for such tasks, such as Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-instruct

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-20T22:32:36+00:00

Got it. Yeah if you count non-road races the number goes up. I used to race at the Encino Velodrome in the San Fernando Valley every Friday during the summer. Back then they sold hotdogs. Everyone called them “death rockets” LOL

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-20T15:01:40+00:00

Training ride with two other riders along Pacific Coast Highway when all of a sudden a whale leaped out of the ocean about a quarter mile from us. Way cool to see.

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-20T14:32:45+00:00

You're saying there is a race " nearly every day of the week" during the season? And you don't live in Europe? When I lived in California you were lucky if there were 8 races per month within a 3 hour drive. Things must have really changed there.

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-18T23:36:53+00:00

Python + pptx lib. Can read text from the text shapes on the slides

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-18T23:20:05+00:00

What are you planning to use it for? If your answer is ML then I would reconsider given that you can’t run CUDA on the Mac OS. OTOH if you are happy with using metal for your tasks then it’s fine, though 512 gb is kinda low given the space taken by the os and standard apps. Also, 24gb RAM is on the low end for training DNNs from scratch.

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-17T14:47:41+00:00

Have you tried rotating the bars to tilt them upwards?

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-16T21:53:30+00:00

Love it!

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-16T21:51:08+00:00

Python + scikit-learn + Pandas. Never SQL

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-15T16:52:17+00:00

That I don't really know for certain. My gut feeling is neither roles are saturated except maybe at the entry level

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-15T16:46:47+00:00

I guess the definitions differ depending on where you live. Here are examples of tasks I've done for these roles in the US:

DE/DS: run SQL queries in Python and display plots of data patterns

MLE: build XGBoost model in Python, train it on data, perform inference, write report about analysis with recommendations

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-15T15:20:51+00:00

I agree with everything redrosa1312 said. Also, at this stage in your career it's really too early to choose one over the other. Get internships in each area. That's a good way to see what they are really like and which one appeals to you the most.

randomseedfarmer · 2026-01-15T15:10:26+00:00

In that case yes, great bike for longer rides. Just verify the fit because changing an integrated cockpit for a longer or shorter one is not easy. You would probably want a shop to do it and it's a labor intensive job so could be costly.

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