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15 years here too. I turn 40 today. Grateful for this community. I quit social media years ago but still enjoy the discourse here.
Pettyjohns Cave is another one on Pigeon Mountain:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pettyjohn_CaveUsed to take creative writing classes there in college. It’s beautiful, just make sure to wear clothes you don’t mind getting covered in mud and try not to go after a big rain because it will flood. Temperature is around 70 year round and it’s mostly hiking. Take a headlamp and a friend, tell someone where you are going, and have fun. Really incredible experience.
I’m 37, married with two kids. Flying to Scotland for a week next Monday.
Life is what you make it. I’m happier than I was at 22, no question.
I think it’s a matter of expectations. I use stock Ubuntu and GNOME and have almost zero customizations. I haven’t touched it except to upgrade since 2018 and have had zero issues. I get it though. I also use an M1 and love it.
I keep count! If I know I had 4 ideas on a run, I can usually bring them back to mind if I focus. Even holding my fingers in the four position with one down helps. Sounds a little odd but I’ve found I do my best work while walking the dog/going for a run and can’t usually make notes until I get home.
Yeah. I think it's silly to make the claim, by and large. For me, using vim is like a hobby. It helps me get into flow state because I have fun writing and editing code using an editor I know well, have configured, and can zip around in fast without touching the mouse. I never try to convince anyone else to use it, though if a coworker shows interest I'm more than happy to oblige. It's the right tool for me. VS Code and IntelliJ products are the right tools for others, and that's cool too.
My usual approach is to comment stuff out while debugging/developing. Works well.
Yeah, but man does he get some great guests from time to time. Really enjoyed Travis Oliphant and Todd Howard in addition to the ones the parent listed.
Y’all are one of my favorite podcasts. Loved the vim and neovim episodes. Heroku and Tauri ones too. Keep up the good work.
I got an SSL error, fyi. ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
Appreciate the insight. All fair points. I guess part of the problem is inertia and comfort level. You figure out how to do something well in one language and it gets harder to start from scratch in another one. Point is well made about the tooling and type system--I miss it when I work with anything else. But I end up accomplishing tasks much faster in Go than in Rust even if I'm not fighting the ownership system. I suppose these are the sorts of growing pains that go away in time.
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s_c_r on Thursday February 25, 2021 @10:10AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I like to find ways to use a variety of languages at work when it makes sense. For example, Python/Pandas is great for dealing with spreadsheets and other large data sets, Go gives a speed boost over interpreted languages for REST endpoints. JavaScript for front end stuff of course.Try as I might, I can't think of any specific use case that makes Rust more compelling than another language for...
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s_c_r on Monday December 28, 2020 @02:19PM
from the self-post dept.
I work for a small regional logistics company, and our CEO remarked the other day that he would be willing to spend thousands per month for a reliable route optimization service.I felt this pain myself the other day. Our network was overloaded due to normal Christmas peak coupled with quarantine purchases and UPS/FedEx turning away excess volume. I’m not an ops guy but I volunteered to go out...
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s_c_r on Saturday December 12, 2020 @03:46PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I know this has been discussed ad nauseam since the release but I’m still on the fence and looking for some perspectives from those who have taken the leap.I have an old Dell gaming laptop that I dual boot Pop!_OS. It works well but has an Nvidia GPU that makes it heavy and I’m getting tired of lugging it back and forth to work (yeah, back in the office now).Before the M1, I was planning to get...
We self host Mattermost and it works well. Logs are in Postgres which is nice. Building the React Native app was not super fun but we have some experience in that already which helped.
It's a good alternative for teams unwilling to shell out every month for a Slack subscription, if you're willing to put in the work to get it setup.
This is a good approach. More people should do this. I should do this.
I’m horrible about this. I ask a question and then answer it, hold a whole conversation with myself and the poor recipient. Someone take away my Mattermost login!
Interesting! Appreciate the info
Thanks for the links! I like the idea of a changed mindset. That sort of thing can be useful in and of itself as an educational exercise.
Honestly? I’m interested in it and wanted an excuse to give it a try. No more compelling reason than that.
Thanks for the insight! I am the team--everything before was done quite manually with spreadsheets. I already work in the organization but have been promoted out of development into this new role so I'm blessed to have a large amount of flexibility. It does seem like Python is the right tool for the job. Your perspective confirms my hunch.
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s_c_r on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:56AM
from the self-post dept.
I’m starting a new role that will be heavy on data analysis. In the past I’ve focused on web dev/CRUD apps using Go, JS, PHP, other web stuff. All that to say, this will be new territory for me. Conventional wisdom seems to be that Python is the tool of choice for data science type roles, along with pandas/numpy and Jupyter notebooks. That or maybe R or Julia. On the other hand I hear about how...
This happened to me the other day with sqlx. Tried to duplicate the quick start example and got a slew of errors. I should make a ticket, maybe I did something wrong.
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s_c_r on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @10:27AM
from the doc.rust-lang.org dept.
That's good to know! I got burned pretty bad trying to switch away from actix-web to one of the other frameworks (rocket, gotham, warp) after the whole kerfuffle and lost my taste for Rust as a backend web language as a result. Seeing your experience makes me want to try again with only hyper! I've always heard it was too "low level" and never gave it a proper look as a result.
I love this and have also used a txt file for years. I’ve moved from Google Docs to Vimwiki to org mode for notes, todos, and journaling. Most recently I’ve started incorporating a moleskine notebook to take to meetings for note taking and it’s been a nice addition. Sometimes I’ll copy notes over from it to org so that it’s all in one place, but I’ve found it isn’t too hard to page back through it to find something I wrote weeks or months ago if I have a general sense of when I wrote it. Plus the experience of taking notes with a Pilot G2 is just more fun than using a ballpoint on a legal pad. Maybe that’s just me.
100% agree about seeing a therapist. I also resisted for years because I thought it was a waste of time and money. Now that I see one once a week I've come to realize how useful it can be to have a person you can go to who is paid to be laser focused on your mental well being for an hour at a time. One thing mine has encouraged me to do is journal. It helps air out the negative thought patterns that infect my behavior and also serves as a good way to synthesize ideas. I set aside 10-15 minutes at lunch to write in a moleskine notebook.
My problems are more related to anxiety and depression, but the same concepts apply. I also think that you get out of therapy what you put in. It sounds like you are in a good frame of mind because you want to improve yourself. That's probably the best attitude you could take going into therapy.
Thanks for the link! The async/await code is definitely easier to parse mentally. Look forward to the release.