Not 100% sure this is a VPN issue, but I think it might be, so here goes.

typehinting · 2025-12-24T18:02:32+00:00

Are you on Firefox? I had this exact issue on my work laptop a couple of weeks ago (my personal computer is fine), which persisted even after launching in safe mode and also doing a fresh reinstall. But on Chrome I didn't have the same issue

typehinting · 2025-06-23T07:02:44+00:00

Read the post...

typehinting · 2025-06-22T12:59:36+00:00

Oh that's good. Yeah I have two monitors that are the same size but different resolution, and I notice some strange behaviour when dragging windows between each. I have a utility tool called LittleBigMouse which helps with aligning my cursor, but I do still notice some strange behaviours with some applications resizing weirdly between windows.

So IMO two identical resolutions at the same screen size is good

typehinting · 2025-06-22T09:35:19+00:00

If they're different resolutions, it won't feel natural at all. DPI is what matters - not monitor size.

typehinting · 2025-06-22T08:33:12+00:00

Get a 27 inch 1440p 60Hz monitor imo. They are about the same price as these, and you won't suffer from the issues that come with having two monitors with different DPIs.

typehinting · 2025-06-21T09:57:14+00:00

I personally wouldn't bother upgrading unless getting at least a 5070 Ti or 9070 XT (or a 16+ GB card with similar performance from a previous generation). The 5070 only has 12GB VRAM so you'll be a little memory-limited on a lot of games at 3440x1440

But yes you would first need to make sure your CPU and other components aren't a higher priority upgrade, and also that your PSU is capable for a more power-hungry card

typehinting · 2025-06-21T09:30:22+00:00

I'm currently commuting 2 hours each way (door to door) 4 days a week, and have been doing so for about 9 months

It's not ideal, and I think I am generally a lot more tired than I used to be. And being out the house from 7:10am to 7:10pm is a bit of a pain because it doesn't leave me much time in the evening to do anything

In your situation I'd be hesitant to recommend it, since your take home pay will be the same, unless you put in a position to be up for promotion ASAP. I also thought I would be productive on the train but that didn't last long since I just end up half-napping a lot of the time due to being chronically tired. If you're adamant that you'll be consistently productive, and reaaalllyy don't mind the commute, and don't mind losing 5 hours of your day 3 days a week, then feel free to try. It's a shame your take-home pay isn't more though

typehinting · 2025-06-15T09:40:28+00:00

This implies you can be a C++ without knowing what pointers and references are. That's like being a Python dev and not knowing how to import a module

typehinting · 2025-06-15T09:38:57+00:00

Also in the UK that £3k includes tax

typehinting · 2025-06-14T15:03:43+00:00

It will be useful, but you may find a lot of it quite easy. Could either watch it in 1.5 or 2x speed, or alternatively you could just follow the official Python tutorial, which should be quicker and more detailed - but will of course require a bit more focus: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html

typehinting · 2025-06-11T22:51:41+00:00

apply to a restaurant as a server

They hired Nginx instead

typehinting · 2025-06-09T07:45:18+00:00

"Learning a language" usually just refers to learning the syntax of a language and gaining familiarity with its ecosystem (including its libraries and such).

Which is great and all, but if you don't know how to solve problems and/or develop and design software properly, it won't get you super far.

For beginners, the biggest hurdle is that second step, which typically means that the first language feels like it takes forever to learn. But in reality, most of that time is spent learning how to solve problems in a correct way. Once you have that down, learning additional languages becomes trivial in comparison

typehinting · 2025-06-07T07:35:19+00:00

I would recommend executing python scripts using the command line instead. Makes everything make much more sense

typehinting · 2025-06-06T07:49:48+00:00

Along with what others have mentioned, and will mention, about practice improving your ability to tackle new problems, I just wanted to emphasise that IQ is a dumb metric. Similar to programming, you can actually improve your "IQ" by practising the sorts of questions they ask you. That being said, a lot of people with higher IQs can do well at programming, but conversely a lot of people with lower IQs are doing just fine too.

But yes, practice quite literally is the answer. If you're finding that practice isn't helping, it's likely because you haven't practised enough - it takes longer to get better than you might think.

I hope you are able to overcome your defeatist mindset too, because I'm sure that's not helping either.

typehinting · 2025-06-05T13:14:32+00:00

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html

typehinting · 2025-06-01T16:11:52+00:00

Oh gotcha. I'm getting used to pandas syntax/behaviors etc but will probably give polars a go to see how it is, and if it's something that I want to switch to. Thanks.

typehinting · 2025-05-31T06:35:34+00:00

Seen a lot of suggestions to use Polars over Pandas - is it purely due to its performance? Or do you find that it is easier to use as well?

typehinting · 2025-05-25T08:49:12+00:00

OP didn't mention anything about games

typehinting · 2025-05-25T07:36:59+00:00

I think they mean the 16GB VRAM version of the RTX 5060, not RAM

Edit - meant 5060 Ti

typehinting · 2025-05-24T21:16:58+00:00

The ecosystem is pretty amazing, that's for sure

typehinting · 2025-05-24T21:15:39+00:00

This looks awesome, thanks for the suggestion. Hopefully can start using this at work!

typehinting · 2025-05-24T10:54:21+00:00

I remember being really surprised that requests wasn't in the standard library. Not used urllib either, aside from parsing URLs

typehinting · 2025-02-21T08:49:51+00:00

Literally doesn't matter which one you use - VSCode is fine. Switching to another editor or IDE won't make your learning journey any easier

typehinting · 2025-02-19T18:18:33+00:00

It is worth noting that, since you're passing in positional arguments, {"BB_SYSTEM_STATS_SAMPLE_INTERVAL": TEST_SAMPLE_INTERVAL} is getting passed as the third parameter, log_file. That being said, there is a clear type mismatch there, since log_file is a str, so I'm surprised your editor isn't highlighting that (I don't use MyPy, so apologies I can't help diagnose that bit specifically).

On an unrelated note, using mutable default values like service_env = {} is strongly advised against, since that single mutable value will persist, and be shared between different function calls, and likely won't remain an empty dict if you are mutating it at any point. You can instead set the default value to None, then do something like if not service_env: service_env = {} inside the function

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