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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I know that him and my rental provider do not get along so although he’d possibly do it for me, him doing it for this place might not go so well as a conversation topic. Probably worth trying but am a pom and so that kinda conversation never happens.

    Green bin isn’t viable as in my council that’s the food bin, and lots of the bark is as big as or even longer than my arm. So that would be no food waste bin space for 4 weeks with then having a 2 week wait after that collection to get rid of things like uneaten bread. And I don’t have the ability to compost myself (also again, rental).

    This is like 2 days work that’s only getting worse and I so can’t be arsed. So the chat is probably necessary, but please send help!




  • Definitely couldn’t get it cut back behind the fence line and it’s rough 15-20 meters tall so it wouldn’t help as the bark and leaves are primarily coming from their side as it’s shedding + wind. It’s a lovely tree too filled with birds so it’s not something I’d even want cutting back. I probably should discuss it with him and maybe I could fit some tall netting. I know my rental providers would be fine with it and he would be, but there’s gotta be a better way of dealing with this. Spitballing: even a leaf blower would just push the problem on to someone else which isn’t fair. Gahhh, my poor chillis covered in bark.


  • This is such a first world minor problem, but any advice on dealing with next door’s tree? Its shed so many leaves and bark in the past 6 weeks that it would easily take 2 full green bins to get rid of and not only can I not be arsed doing the clean up it just feels a tad unfair. The owner of the tree is a nice old guy so I don’t want to put him out with this issue, but we’re at the point of needing to either pay someone or sweep it all ourselves on to a public road which feels wrong. Ideas other than what I already have?












  • I’ve offered to do this multiple times and no-one seemed keen. I think it’s because people like the human nature of of the post being made by someone real? I dunno. Weird.

    Please do not run it on a local PC though as you’ll chew through expensive power for an operation that takes milliseconds.

    If you want to run it local you could get it running on an rpi or even your mobile.

    But don’t do that, even the free tiers of all the cloud providers are overkill for the bot requirements. A cron lambda solves this, same on Azure as a Function and will all be free and not reliant of the power to your house.

    The emojis you can do to via a List of special days, and then combine them with an AI to get the sentiment of the previous day and theme for the current day.

    Please add a CI/CD pipeline that’s included in code and open source it so someone else can pick it up when you drop off. Pretty please add many tests.

    This isn’t something I want to pair on as it’s a great first project and something that if I was going to do myself I’d rather just smash out and have fun doing whilst listening to music, not chatting.

    If you get stuck though lemme know and I might help.



  • Ok, I’ve not done fine art in a long time so I’ll try and adapt what helps me when I feel like you do in case it helps you:

    Try something slightly different that you don’t care about but is in the same technique space, e.g. go paint a Warhammer 40k miniature and just play with how good you can get it. It’ll use the same skill but you won’t care or feel pressure for it to be perfect, it’s disposable after all, and then you’ll feel better and do better on your next piece/canvas that you actually care about.



  • Always keep learning. Learning by doing and making your own mistakes in this space is more valuable than stating a degree on a CV in my opinion.

    In 9 years I know that I wont get that message, and instead it will be “hey @indisin, I saw what you were thinking 9 years ago and here’s how I made it better and now I’m gonna show off and school you”.

    On LLMs: I have absolutely no challenge on using them for your use case, you just need to remember they can’t have an original thought, which is something you don’t need today. If you end up pursuing this as a career though know that the money is stupid, the days are easy, and you must (absolutely must) learn UML basics to communicate effectively. Also knowing your gang of 4 will simplify your cognitive load and implementations and then domain driven design will help how you think about problems. Also, raspberry pis are perfect toys for playgrounds. All very easy money, where you can work anywhere in the world.

    I’m leaving that there as we’re at the point of a call otherwise I’ll start replying as thesis levels of word count text haha.

    Good luck though and most importantly have fun!

    Edit:

    A real person would’ve blocked me a long, long time ago

    No, a good dev would’ve got excited about teaching you and you’d have had to block them haha