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- andness parentSame. I gave up on Jetbrains and switched to VSCode a few months back after using Jetbrains for over 20 years. Over the years I've done Java, C# and lately mostly Python, and it was PyCharm that made me finally throw in the towel. I felt bad about it. I'm worried that VSCode seems to be taking over everything, but I just couldn't let the tool get in my way anymore. I don't know what's going on at Jetbrains but I hope they can turn it around.
- I recently switched from PyCharm to VSCode and the feature I miss the most is the bold yellow highlight of the symbol under the caret that was the only custom config I had in PyCharm. VSCode only allows a weak «box» around it which I struggle to see when scanning code quickly and I haven’t managed to find a good solution.
- Started migrating away from TimescaleDB some time ago too. Initially we self-hosted to test it out. It was very quickly clear that it was a lot better for our use case and we decided to go with Clickhouse Cloud to not have to worry about the ops. The pricing for the cloud offering is very good IMO. We use it for telemetry data from a fleet of IoT devices.
- Before I started running myself I remember looking at Marathon runners and thinking "Oh they are going so slow, it's just a matter of enduring it". And then I started running myself and realized that the professional Marathon runners are basically running at a pace that feels like sprinting to me.
And that's why I don't try 1500 or 3000m distances. They are just really, really fast and unbelievably painful. A few times a year I might do a 3K as fast as I can, and I dread it. Maintaining a near sprint pace for 10-12 minutes is just crazy hard.
Also, almost every time I get some kind of injury it's because I'm doing a high intensity (fast) run.
- I try to run every day. And I try to run hard every other day, but if I don't feel like running hard one day that's ok. On the hard runs all I do is run. I can't think, I just need to focus on maintaining my pace (when I notice that I'm putting together a coherent string of thoughts it's my cue to go faster).
But on my slow days I think. And it's wonderful. I don't know how many problems I've solved during my runs, but it's a lot. Something about getting outside and moving somehow unties knots in my thinking. And if I don't have a problem to solve I might review some recent stuff I've been studying. I might for example pretend I'm doing a presentation on the topic. Since I'm out there and can't write anything down I have to repeat everything in my head, and that repetition makes it stick. (Works if I'm preparing an actual presentation too!)
Because of this I usually try to go running after 1-2 hours of work. This way when I go running I usually have some material fresh in my mind. Working from home is obviously a big advantage.
I stopped running when I got my current job because there was so much work I wanted to do and didn't think I had the time. Huge mistake. I started running again in August and have been keeping it up since then, and my work has improved a lot.
This probably doesn't work for everyone, but it's an experience worth searching out!
- For the last two years I've been using dbt for some ETL work. It is quite useful, but at the same time quite ugly and clunky. It's basically just a bunch of macros, and it gets unwieldy pretty quickly. It's weird to have to declare the dependencies between the nodes in the DAG when they should be easy to figure out from the code. And dbt is also very restrictive in that it's designed around transformations that are functional so making more procedural transformations is really hard. So I think the world would buy a much better dbt. In other words, I think your focus on analytical queries is probably a good idea.
What makes using something like dbt palatable is that there really aren't any good alternatives in this space. dbt does have some strengths that are worth looking to, such as the extra tooling you get by using their IDE, the generated docs, their ideas about a metrics layer.
I think that for PRQL to be really useful it needs to extend beyond just the syntax and really make writing these data pipelines much easier. The syntax of the SQL isn't the worst part of it. But I think there's a big potential market here.
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- I agree with you that I don't think we can make nuclear safe. But if the choice seems to be between millions of deaths from global warming or thousands of deaths from nuclear, isn't the latter vastly preferable? Shouldn't we set out and build out nuclear to steer us away from the edge, and then worry about better solutions once we're safe?
I suspect the reason people don't buy this argument is that they don't truly believe global warming is as bad as they say. We have a history of solving problems in the past, so we'll solve this one too. There's no need to panic.
- I created my own starter about 4 years ago and have been feeding my little family of four using it ever since. I'm very happy to not have to buy that terrible bread that they offer in the stores anymore.
My understanding is that it really doesn't matter where you get the culture from. It takes a couple of weeks to get a starter started so if you want to get into sourdough baking I'd recommend just buying one if you can get one from anywhere else.
(I created my own mostly out of curiosity, it's fun, but it takes a couple of weeks)
I often hear about how for example the sourdough bread in San Francisco is special and that this has something to do with the culture. I don't think this is the case. My understanding is that you tweak the taste using temperature and proofing time (and flour mix, obviously). Personally I don't want my bread to be sour, so I generally feed the culture frequently and proof the dough at around 27C. If you lower the temperature and proof for longer you get a more sour tasting bread.
If you just want to make a tastier bread then simply using very small amounts of baker's yeast and a long proofing time (at low temperature) will get you very far. It takes time to develop the flavours and the main reason the store bought bread is so bad is simply that it's produced so quickly.
Oh and I can also recommend the dutch oven trick, with sourdough or not, it really is a very simple way to make great bread at home.
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