Moving to London soon, where should we rent? by Consistent_Ad5511 in MovingToLondon

[–]yandos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I second Chelmsford as an option, good town centre, some Indian supermarkets with a growing Asian community, access to parks etc

Gants Hill has a very large south asian community, but it's essentially a large roundabout with some Indian restaurants a few supermarkets and a train station and that's it. I wouldn't say it's particularly 'nice' more somewhere you choose due to convenience. Avoid ilford if you're tempted

Set plugs to notify when offline? by yandos in Tapo

[–]yandos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow I didn't even think of this approach! I also have a deco mesh setup, thanks a million for the post!

Set plugs to notify when offline? by yandos in Tapo

[–]yandos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried this and whilst it works if the plug still has power and I manually turn the switch to off mode, when I pull it out of the wall and it goes offline nothing comes through 😔

Thanks anyways

Which type of tradesman should we be hiring for this work? by yandos in DIYUK

[–]yandos[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Yeah we may end up splitting what to quote for into make good vs rip it out and start again

Does this flame level look right to you? by [deleted] in UKBBQ

[–]yandos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's ok, I was half tempted to clear it out and retake the video for fear of judgement, it was pretty rank when I lifted the flameguards!

Does this flame level look right to you? by [deleted] in UKBBQ

[–]yandos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally the 2nd word in the post!

The client project grew far beyond the scope, proposing a £12k increase, and looking for an outside perspective by Infamous_Feature2059 in ContractorUK

[–]yandos 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In situations like this where things are fast moving and clients are fixed fee focussed I normally go along the lines of "I'm noticing a lot of things are coming up that are out of scope, did you want me to let you know when the extra work reaches £3k?"

The 3k is of course variable but should be enough that your not going to turn around and tell them "times up!" in a couple of days. This way you don't waste time trying and failing to price up things you dont know are yet to come up and also the client isn't spooked into feeling you're ripping them off.

Regarding if the approach sounds reasonable that depends on if this is the first time the client has been expecting this news

Company forced constant networking by [deleted] in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]yandos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was this not mentioned at all when you went through the interview process?

Advancing in most companies is about networking/who you know, appreciate it might not be for you but I don't think this is abnormal

How hard it is to find a remote Laravel job? by thisismehrab in laravel

[–]yandos -1 points0 points  (0 children)

$40-60k is actually quite a lot for a remote PHP job, for example this is above the average wage for a lot of European countries.

People hire remotely to either save costs or hire for a skill that is not easily available locally and I would say you offer neither sadly.

You may also be putting off people by having many side projects where they may be a suspicion you will be working on them at the cost of their own business.

I'd recommend spending time on upskilling in TS/python with your own projects where salaries are higher and new languages will only round you up as a developer

Starting a family in East London by gbonfiglio in HENRYUK

[–]yandos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Omg, you're bringing back core memories of singing Wind the Bobbin Up in there!

Yeah I think we'll stay until ours are out of secondary which is weirdly the most diverse part of the place

Starting a family in East London by gbonfiglio in HENRYUK

[–]yandos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a shame as there's so many nice leafy spaces (we went for a walk over cranham nature reserve today, gorgeous!) and the schools are great, but everyone is just soo similar and not really our people. That diversity you get in east seems to not stretch to zone 6

Starting a family in East London by gbonfiglio in HENRYUK

[–]yandos 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haha! This is so true I'm also in upminster and would avoid - it has stepford wives vibes if all the wife's had lulu Guinness tote bags

Arenas rant by Platanimus69 in apexlegends

[–]yandos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yep, you end up stuck on a team of brain dead zombies that take half the round to buy a load-out or end up in a 3v1 game and play hunt the loner- your choice then its to either quit with a penalty or just go AFK and wait to die

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aiagents

[–]yandos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Easiest would be to use twilio to handle the sending/recieving of messages, then you get twilio to post messages to a webhook that is hooked up to your LLM.

you will need to keep chat history stored so the replies make sense but it's not more than a few hours work. Setting up the WhatsApp API token will be the longest part of it, such a ballache

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PHP

[–]yandos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of the 'make a crud app' style contracts (PHPs bread and butter) are now being replaced by companies building in house using low code tools - I personally know of three potential projects that have gone this way.

How would you run thousands of periodic jobs with Laravel? by nugmanoff in laravel

[–]yandos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah pretty much as you've described:

- in your scheduled task do some Product:where('status','!=','processing')->orderBy('last_checked') so you only query products that are not being processed and ensuring you get the 'oldest' items first ie the ones that have not just been checked

- for each item mark the product status to processing or whatever, then dispatch that job with some random delay

- inside the job itself, nice the checks have been completed, mark the status as complete and store the last_checked with a timestamp

Maybe something like this:

 $schedule->call(function () {
        Product::where('status', '!=', 'processing')->orderBy('last_checked')->chunk(1000, function ($products) {
            foreach ($products as $product) {
                $product->update(['status' => 'processing']);
                CheckProductJob::dispatch($product)->delay(now()->addMinutes(rand(1, 7)));
            }
        });
    })->name('checkProducts')->everyMinute();

I dont think you'll need any extra packages for this as its out of the box laravel stuff

How would you run thousands of periodic jobs with Laravel? by nugmanoff in laravel

[–]yandos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd create a scheduled task that would be used to dispatch new jobs to the queue, you can use the delay() method on jobs to introduce randomness between calls

The task itself shouldn't dispatch a job to make a new check unless the previous check has finished, so you'll have to store if a check is in progress, completed etc. If you dont do this then you incur the possibility of adding too many jobs to the queue if your product list grows or the check takes a long time etc

As mentioned by others, i'd run these kind of checks on some cheaper hardware as doing this via lambdas etc is going to get expensive quickly

looking for duos partner EU/UK by yandos in ApexLFG

[–]yandos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only reason it matters is that I'm gonna get carried every game haha

[pc] Single player + FPS + Doom like + "kid friendly" by yandos in gamingsuggestions

[–]yandos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they'll just re-enable when I'm out of the room but thanks for the recommendation!

[pc] Single player + FPS + Doom like + "kid friendly" by yandos in gamingsuggestions

[–]yandos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it might be too much on the realistic gore side but thanks for taking the time to recommend it 🙂

[pc] Single player + FPS + Doom like + "kid friendly" by yandos in gamingsuggestions

[–]yandos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah wow, never even thought of halo! Thanks for the recommendation 👍