For your database test data, I usually write a helper that defaults those columns to base values, so I can pass in lists of dictionaries, then the test cases are easier to modify and read.

It’s also nice because you’re only including the fields you use in your unit test, the rest are default valid you don’t need to care about.

I don’t know basic solutions that are super good, but whisper sbd the whisper derivatives I hear are decent for dictation these days.

I have no idea how to run then though.

Agents do that loop pretty well now, and Claude now uses your IDE’s LSP to help it code and catch errors in flow. I think Windsurf or Cursor also do that also.

The tooling has improved a ton in the last 3 months.

As long as it isn’t coconut.

That doesn’t look like salt

Could it be Parmesan? That doesn’t look right either.

It hopefully isn’t coconut.

That’s why I pour it into the jar in the sink.

That and I’m really messy and the sink is the easiest place to clean up spilled grease.

If 0.01% of people are nefarious, and they check 99.9% of the time, that’s still 1/10,000,000 chance a nefarious person gets through.

As long as they don’t do this often, doing that once probably has near zero impact on security.

(Please don’t pick apart the assumptions that nefarious people always get found by screening, or that the TSA works, that’s not the point I’m making — just trying to say a one off unpredictable dropping of guard doesn’t hugely benefit nefarious actors)

I don’t know how many of these disasters happen in Texas, but this guy manages to dodge them with stunning accuracy.

If he weren’t in a leadership role it would be amazing.

I know I shouldn’t try to pet the tummy, but I want to pet the tummy…

North of North is on CBC, for my fellow Canuck’s looking for Canadian content!

Stranger things. Season 1 was perfect, 2 & 3 were mid except for the nostalgia factor. I’ll die on this hill.

Stranger Things would have been a perfect anthology show too, while still getting to explore the in universe lore.

It did make me laugh though

Can’t wait for this guy to be the excuse for forcing remote workers back to office.

I really don’t want to go back. I like my routines, my home office is now better than any I’ve ever had, and I don’t have to poop next to other people.

Wololo

I’ll be honest, when I was learning to program in Java I mostly just wrapped errors in an empty try catch to shut them up, with no regard for actually handling them.

I assume most other learners do that too.

That second image, I think you got an owl inverted off a cat!

The more of these cars I see, the more I can see myself having one

They’re just positively weird looking.

My wife says not while she’s alive, so statistically I won’t ever get one.

If possible convert those files to compressed parquet, and apply sorting and partitioning to them.

I’ve gotten 10-100gb csv files down to 300mb-5gb sizes just by doing that

That makes searching and scanning so much faster, and you can do this all with open source free software like polars and ibis.

This movie looks incredibly meme-able

Definitely agree with you

From my experience most companies enshitify before the IPO to juice the metrics and boost their valuations (I.e. their payout).

The fact that they aren’t doing that yet that is a positive sign.

But founders aren’t immune to suffering from billionaire brain rot and years of exposure to the constant sycophancy and wealth seems to turn nearly everyone into a greed driven money soulless vampire.