romilly-cocking.bsky.social
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<joke>Surely you're not suggesting that names in code matter?</joke>
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I hadn't read my Hanna Arendt. I am now. Thank you.
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You can't have too many of those things.
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Isn't that a cache? It's there to avoid duplicates (>1 instance of the representation of the same biz entity), and it needs weak refs to stop it filling up for ever. And yes,it's an adapter; that's the thing you usually mock if you want to mock the DB.
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Please give an extra push for me.
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I still find it useful, though I refuse to spend any money on it. But life here is incomparably gentler and more interesting.
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Thanks! It's back up. It was out for ~ 15 minutes.
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"Which came first? The chicken or the Pi?"
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I don't quite get their version of 'free speech'.
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And politicians.
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It's a very good recommendation! I bought two copies.
One on Kindle,so I can make notes and import them into my PKMS.
One is for a friend who thinks it sounds just what she needs.
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Discovery of the day: for me, retirement is a liminal space.
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Thank goodness! Looking forward to normal service once you're ready to resume.
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Get well soon. We miss you!
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"How did I know that my youth was spent? My get up and go just got up and went"
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Once I visited the factory where HP sauce was made. The manufacturers were customers. The sauce was still made in the original wooden barrels. They said production could not be shifted, but they must have solved that as it's now made in the Netherlands.
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And thanks to your mentions, we reached this today: blog.adafruit.com/2025/03/03/t...
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It's not quite the same. Regulation means it will be much harder to jump off a skyscraper.
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And the need to win WW II - Bletchley.
Also interesting: most of your examples were funded by taxpayers' money.
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I so want one! Amazing work
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Every issue is a winner!
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Can I join that queue?
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I got it yesterday. It looks excellent. Let us know how you get on, please.
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Luckily, you're here in the sunny park, among friends.
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Concurrent code scares me witless.
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A while ago I got Claude to read some of my writing and create a personal style guide. It did amazingly well, and I regularly feed the guide back to help AI write in my style. It also came up with some great implementation tips for tech articles - see image below.
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I got a similar chair in the UK a year ago, It's helped a lot, but the thing that helpsthe most is my pomodoro timer. It uses LIDAR to see when I am at my desk and warns me when it's time to take a break. When it goes green I can sit down again.
hackaday.io/project/1696...
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woot! fantastic work.
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They have GPIOs like some people have mice :)
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I probably shouldn't spoil the fun 😉
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I suspect that's an estimate of the number who code in python as part of their job. My guess is that there are a lot more who've programmed a pi or a jetson in python, or coded in micropython or circuitpython. But who knows!
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Does anyone have a 'fermi' estimate for the number of people worldwide who have done some python coding?
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Thanks so much! I found out about it when we moved and then forgot about it. Looks really promising.
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That would be wonderful, but I now live in Hadleigh in Suffolk it's a 3 hour journey each way to/from Cambridge using public transport and I no longer drive. (Age and poor eyesight).