NoRamyunForYou

@NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz

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NoRamyunForYou,

Day 2 here for me. Sent out a few emails yesterday, not getting mush in the way of replies. Hard to tell if people are still on leave (there seems to be a chronic issue of not updating calendars etc), or if people are catching up/using the first couple of days as a ramp up.

NoRamyunForYou,

Yeah same. Not very productive, but I sort of sensed that I wouldnt be in the first ~30 minutes, so I set myself some really (really really) modest goals for the day, and atleast I hit those lol

NoRamyunForYou,

Actually wasn’t too bad for me on the email front this time around. Most of my recent work has been either by myself, or with one or two others, and I’m not involved in anything operational so there hasn’t been a ton of emails

NoRamyunForYou,

Interesting… We’ve been struggling with our new cat not drinking water for the last couple of days (though a lot of reading seems to suggest they will get a lot of the water they need from wet food) putting water bowls everywhere, buying her a water fountain… Just noticed now that shes drinking the water on the shower floor lol.

So we put a water bowl in the bathroom, and no she won’t drink from that. Put that bowl inside the shower booth, and she will!

NoRamyunForYou,

Hahaha. I’d heard about it on the interweb, but never seen it in person. Annoyed that I didn’t think about it before lol

NoRamyunForYou,

One thing I’ve neglected/forgotten about is getting Smoke Detectors for our house.

Anyone got any recommendations on brand / Sealed 10 Year vs the regular 9V Battery ones?

I’ve read some good things about the Cavius 10 Year Smoke Alarms, but they are quite expensive. Was wondering if people have found them (or other 10 Year ones) worth it compared to the regular 9V ones?

NoRamyunForYou,

Had a long roadtrip with extended family over the summer break - pretty knackered after that.

Then rolled straight into adopting an older cat - the latest purchase today was a Water Fountain, as she dosent seem to want to drink.

NoRamyunForYou,

Same - Took a break from Lemmy over the holidays, back into it now that I’ve got to work haha.

NoRamyunForYou,

Haha same, I’ve always preferred slightly older cats to kittens. Too much energy for my liking 😂

NoRamyunForYou,

Had a bit of a busy end to the year at work, but we’re finally there!

NoRamyunForYou,

We’re going on a trip with the family soon (roadtrip around NZ), and will be driving a rental from Budget.

However, I am flying down a couple of days after my partner and her family, but I will be driving once I am down there. I have just read the Budget website, and it mentions that all additional drivers must be present at the time of picking up the vehicle.

I was wondering if anyones had experience of either:

  • Being added as an additional driver when not present (showing them a copy of your drivers license at time of pickup) or,
  • Being added at the Customer service kiosk later.
NoRamyunForYou,

Wow didn’t even realise this was a thing in the works! Hopefully it can succeed :)

On another note, man the Stuff comments can be pretty negative lol.

NoRamyunForYou,

I do a lot of analytical work in my wider Team, and wanted to start adding Python to the arsenal, and have now just got access to Pycharm.

Wondering if there was anyone in a similar space (Data/Analytics), and was keen to hear some of the reasons you use Python, and how its incorporated into your workflow?

NoRamyunForYou,

There’s a few different reasons that I’ve though about for now:

  • A lot of the data that we are working with is quite large, and it’s sometimes a struggle to work with it in Google Sheets / Excel (Unfortunately our workplace uses both for some reason)
  • I have some weekly reports that I’ve somehow ended up generating (Getting data via SQL, massaging the data, and presenting via a dashboard or sharing a spreadsheet.
  • For creating a repeatable set of calculations when someone asks for something (which I’m sort of doing via Powerquery or Google Apps Script)
  • I’m quite big on visualizations, so I want to give Matplotlib a go.
  • And I do of coding (Javascript & C++(Arduino)), and have always wanted to add Python to my list of skills, especially in recent times, as I begin to delve more into Data.
NoRamyunForYou,

Sounds pretty cool!

Did you have some programming experience before Python? - How long do you think it took for you to start being getting some “useful” outputs using Python?

NoRamyunForYou,

I’ve had a brief look into duckdb, and not too sure if I’m interpreting it’s use case correctly, but does it basically allow you to use SQL within your Python to query your large datasets that you have locally?

NoRamyunForYou,

Oooh that sounds pretty promising - I’ve been struggling with how to handle quite large datasets when they don’t live within a Database.

Thank you for enlightening me! :) - I might have to send you some messages or the like later if I have any questions if that’s okay with you?

NoRamyunForYou,

I’ve really been enjoying working with microcontrollers. Started with Arduino, and quickly moved onto ESP8266’s. I’ve got a couple of ESP32’s and have been meaning to start giving them a go, but have been procrastinating as usual lol.

We’ve actually got quite a big need for that as well - Moving Data from one system to another, and ensuring it’s in the right format etc. Might be able to get some real benefit out of that :)

NoRamyunForYou,

Thank you :)

NoRamyunForYou,

Same! Got some family coming over to stay with us, and because we’ve only recently moved in, theres a whole bunch of stuff to get sorted before then!

NoRamyunForYou,

More around “cooked on a bbq”

NoRamyunForYou,

Brining seems interesting! Will do some research into it. Thank you for brining it to my attention :)

NoRamyunForYou,

Does the brining make it “saltier”?

i.e., if you have a recipe for the seasoning, would you need to adjust due to brining?

NoRamyunForYou,

Cool thank you for that, learned a useful tip today :)

NoRamyunForYou,

Haha, just a few large plastic boxes, which we’ve been stashing away downstairs, but they’ll be staying downstairs so gotta get rid of em somehow lol.

The thing is, those were those “too hard to do, so we’ll leave them for now” boxes… Gotta think about it.

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