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Python, engineering best practices, D&D chat, all things Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Hash tag farm lyfe.

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bitprophet, (edited ) to random
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In the proud tradition of dropping bad news on Friday, it's time to stop pussyfooting around:

Yes, I'm unemployed now. 😵

To my former employer's credit, I got a very generous severance deal & don't need to immediately seek re-employment; so I'll be taking time off to decompress & reorient myself 🤞🏻 (and will "keep the lights on" re: OSS projects.)

I'll likely look for work sometime in 2024; please drop me a DM or email (in profile) if I should look up your employer/team at that time! 🙏🏻

ghickman,
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@bitprophet aww that sucks dude. Glad to hear you have some decompression time though 😊

ghickman,
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@bitprophet “everything fucking sucks: some months”

I gotcha bud!

hynek, to random
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Best. Quiet room. Ever. #PyConUK

Quiet room at Cardiff city hall which looks like a Medieval court room viewed from the chairman chair.

ghickman,
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@hynek we played a Star Trek RPG in there a few years ago (post quiet room duties of course), it was AMAZING

ghickman, to random
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Anyone else getting spammed by Combinatronics?

mpirnat, to random
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One of my daughter’s friends was over tonight and wanted to see what 2001 was all about. It’s so much fun to share that movie with someone for the first time.

ghickman,
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@mpirnat I really must get round to that film!

mpirnat, to random
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This morning I weighed in just one tenth of a pound above the goal weight I set for myself ages ago (seriously -- in the Obama administration). I struggled for a long time to do anything about it, but finally managed to disrupt and replace some habits last year.

So… I guess let's hear it for the compounding dividends of small, persistent effort over a long time period?

ghickman,
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@mpirnat that's great news 😁 may the compounding continue!

bitprophet, to wheeloftime
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Latest #WheelOfTime episode: basically an hour of book reader sickos.jpeg. Haha. Yes. Yes!!

ghickman,
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@bitprophet feels like it's really picking up this season too… 🤞

ghickman, to random
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What do y'all like for a retrying library in python these days?

ghickman,
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@hynek look, if you’re going to have this many popular libraries, how am I supposed to find them all?! (Stamina looks great!)

bitprophet, to random
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ME: phew, AssCreed Odyssey and TOTK nearly back to back is a lot of open world time sink. I should play some smaller, more focused titles next. I have limited gaming time, yanno!

LIFE: well, actually,

ME: so…early medieval British/Viking stabbing it is, then? 🤔

ghickman,
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@bitprophet this is a delightfully you problem 😂

4foot30, to random

Petition for Play/Pause/Wind/Rewind/Menus to all work the same way on all streaming services.

ghickman,
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@4foot30 it’s genuinely amazing that they don’t, isn’t it?

ghickman,
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@4foot30 thats a choice isn’t it… I’m sure some dev had a Good Idea™️

markwalker, to random
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Who's good with networks & ethernet?

I've got CAT6 from a gigabit switch, terminated at CAT6 ethernet jacks twice before hitting an access point. So 3 fairly short lengths of CAT6.

Sometimes the link speed on the AP is gigabit, but it always seems to drop to 100Mbps. Is this because of the number of time's it's terminated 🤔

#networking

ghickman,
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@markwalker Any time you terminate there’s a possibility of an error. Do you have a cable tester to check each of your links?

ghickman,
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@markwalker Perfect! (same 😁) You might need to test each link for a few minutes if it's not immediately obviously 🤞

hynek, to random
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I didn’t know what https://github.com/mikeckennedy/jinja_partials is good for until I needed it. It closes such an obvious gap in Jinja that’s kinda difficult to put into few words – but when you need it, you know. Thanks @mkennedy!

ghickman,
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@hynek there's been a bunch of chatter in django-land about partials[-adjacent] functionality too. It's great to see everyone leaning into this 👌

markwalker, to random
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Feeling the need to add dockerignore files to projects for some quick efficiency gains.

It's been a few years since I've had to write one though, and now it's python & react projects. Time to find latest best practice.

ghickman,
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@markwalker have you come across Itamar's Docker Packaging articles? https://pythonspeed.com/docker/

Edent, to random
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I think I kind of hate lazy loading…

Yesterday I was on a train. I clicked on a link and the article loaded. Halfway through reading it, the train went into a tunnel and I lost signal.

So I couldn't see the images on the page for the rest of the journey.

I get the need to reduce bandwidth, and the associated battery savings. But I'm not sure it is worth it.

Anyone else feel that way?

ghickman,
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@Edent as someone on rural, wireless internet, I very much feel this way!

offby1, to Starfield
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I just looked at the first two pages of the Steam forum comments on #Starfield and… apparently #Gamers are really worried that the game might be #Woke in some fashion?

What a fucking world we live in.

ghickman,
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@offby1 no-one can hear you… woke… in space?

I’ll see myself out.

ghickman, to random
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Yet again django-slippers has a useful tool, this time it's the fragment tag: https://mitchel.me/slippers/docs/template-tags-filters/#fragment

cc @carlton might be of interest to you too?

webology, to random
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🏕️ "Leave it better than when you found it."

🤔 I am sure it will take me a while to update my various email and social media footers, but my ~5-year term as @ThePSF director and vice chair ended today.

🙏 It was an honor to serve, work with everyone, and leave a small mark on the community and our direction.

👟 If you are a runner and have ever finished a race a little faster than you thought you could or met a new distance goal and surprised yourself, that's how I feel today. ❤️

ghickman,
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@webology Thank you for all the time and effort you put in Jeff!

adamchainz, to python
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I have just been informed that one of my #Python typing posts is top of Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37282385

ghickman,
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@adamchainz 🫡

judy2k, to random
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So ... everyone talks about how awesome Ted Lasso is. (And it is.) Why is nobody talking about how incredible For All Mankind is?

ghickman,
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@judy2k you’re just late to the party? 😜

ghickman,
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@judy2k fashionably late or “I couldn’t find my reading glasses” late?

bitprophet, to random
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Oh huh. That Silo TV show I see mentioned occasionally is actually based on the Hugh Howey books? 🤔🤔🤔

ghickman,
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@bitprophet yep! It feels very similar to my memory of the books… which is possibly more of a commentary on my memory 😂 but I’ve been enjoying it.

bitprophet, to random
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Getting a hot breakfast because why not.

ghickman,
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@bitprophet thanks so much for your talk Jeff, this is more of a comment than a question…

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