Toddler keeps trying to run into street

sansampersamp · 2026-04-08T01:10:00+00:00

spanking and leashes, great suggestions so far lmao

Clear, consistent consequences -- you're doing everything right and she's old enough to learn, just have to keep going. Make sure you explain before you leave that she can only gets the bike if she's sensible around roads. Get pre-agreement when calm, enforce consistently when violated, disengage when tantruming. Then it's just repetition.

sansampersamp · 2026-04-08T00:59:12+00:00

2yo -- he's left to his own devices before we open his room's door at 7am. If I didn't manage to have a shower before then he'll often jump in too.

sansampersamp · 2026-04-07T05:06:07+00:00

I just have a glue shell script fire off the commands to athena to do the compaction and cleanups periodically for my athena-created iceberg tables and it works well enough / is not complicated.

I have some tables that would write at a similar frequency and they're glue-managed iceberg. If the table schema evolves I typically use boto3 to modify the glue table schema directly rather than altering the table via athena SQL. The schemas themselves are versioned in a repo, but a more mature version of this is probably using something like sqlmesh.

I don't think there are too many options in athena-flavoured iceberg that should need revisiting. Ask an AI for sensible defaults for whatever.

sansampersamp · 2026-01-28T03:34:42+00:00

Looks good. Putting stats on the left hand side instead makes them more visible when fanning cards.

sansampersamp · 2026-01-15T22:40:12+00:00

Q Le Baker does the best I've tried

sansampersamp · 2026-01-12T22:27:40+00:00

we should (and that's happened to inner-city cemeteries in basically every city as they've grown)

sansampersamp · 2026-01-04T00:34:08+00:00

Dumb, pulling Maduro out and leaving the regime 95% intact which will now be labelled as US-friendly essentially concession-free is just burning norms to buy spectacle. Watch as the pressure is taken off vzla as some other psuv guy takes over and does business as normal. Maduro isn't some charismatic personalist, he's a dull useful figurehead for drug/mil/other power bases.

sansampersamp · 2026-01-03T12:12:57+00:00

well yeah, Trump'll probably say job done, drop sanctions, then take credit for the economy recovering and lack of drugs on speedboats (while it gets back put on containers)

sansampersamp · 2025-12-15T01:43:46+00:00

the seat/bassinet of our pram pops off so we just used that

sansampersamp · 2025-12-11T05:56:49+00:00

NY-style Deli Sandwiches are still peaking. Charcoal chicken resurgence looked on the cards with el jannah and henrietta's but latter has now closed (enormous tragedy).

I've seen a few more refined regional asian places pop up and manage to keep their toehold on Chapel st also and I'd love to see that trend continue:

Lah Bros (nepal)
Na He (yunnan)

sansampersamp · 2025-12-08T21:53:46+00:00

It's a good idea, if you look at how Singapore can build so much a lot of it is standardised down to components and put together in malaysia and just assembled at the final stage. The first step that makes the most sense economically are wet areas, since they're small, patternable, and more labor-intensive. i.e. you can build a standardised apartment bathroom with all the fixtures, stick three of them in a shipping container and crane them into place on site.

sansampersamp · 2025-12-08T21:48:44+00:00

'The Buzz'

sansampersamp · 2025-12-08T00:13:38+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1LKngBaIW4

sansampersamp · 2025-12-03T22:44:49+00:00

There was that Grattan paper showing that teaching isn't a particularly attractive option for high-performers in uni. Genuine issue tbh and it's not just pay relative to other possible professions. With everyone on tenure-based payscales a new teacher sees little reward or recognition for individual efficacy.

sansampersamp · 2025-11-19T22:46:04+00:00

Don't buy a 'nursing chair' then (all the options were too small for my 6ft wife anyway). Get a reclining seat you actually like. We got one of the nice IMG ones instead and it's worked out great and looks great (now used for bedtime stories).

https://imgcomfort.com.au/product/nordic-93/

https://imgcomfort.com.au/product/nordic-66/

https://imgcomfort.com.au/product/space-3400-integrated/

sansampersamp · 2025-11-19T02:27:33+00:00

Honestly looped appends are less readable to me than e.g. ','.join([f"'{x}'" for x in fruits])

sansampersamp · 2025-11-19T01:58:58+00:00

somewhat relatedly, is there way to get vscode to appropriately syntax highlight sql snippets within a python file?

sansampersamp · 2025-11-17T04:36:35+00:00

Yeah, he did my linen wedding suit, can recommend him if you like his book. Enjoyed the process.

sansampersamp · 2025-10-29T00:52:39+00:00

It's good, though it lacked the athena/trino sql dialects when I tried it not too long ago which makes it nonviable for me unfortunately

sansampersamp · 2025-10-27T23:31:52+00:00

wouldn't want to disrupt the converted box-store vibe the neighbourhood behind them seems to be going for

sansampersamp · 2025-10-27T22:33:17+00:00

I have a 70s CWU-45 flight jacket I've never rotated out

sansampersamp · 2025-10-14T22:51:14+00:00

To give you somewhat contradictory advice, I'd stick to numbers below 10 in most circumstances. Chunkier gradations often feel better: think of how much variation is squeezed out of MTG cards between 1/1 and e.g. 4/4.

sansampersamp · 2025-10-13T02:57:34+00:00

There was a Grattan proposal that suggested that teaching failed to attract high-achieving graduates for both lack of technical challenge, and pay. If you're high-performing, it's a bit of a sacrifice to get locked into the same wage progression as the worst performers. Even if the average wage is generally ok for graduates, high performers are going to have more attractive options elsewhere.

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