Viewing profile — rpep

I think there’s some risk with this though too - more and more is behind the enterprise tier. People try to work around this in various ways but its an unsatisfying experience. For…

In practice the library ecosystem is just way behind Python. Maybe after you’re trying to optimise once you’ve worked out how to do stuff, but even the Langchain Go port is wayyyyy…

I live in a city with trams in the UK and that’s not how it works. There are sections that run on dedicated train lines, and sections where it runs on the street. Where it runs on …

Much of that depends on country for usage. In the U.K. when handwriting I think dd/mm/yyyy is much more common than dd.mm.yyyy

Other thing is that when you’re VAT registered, as a buyer of parts you reclaim VAT on things you purchase as inputs. So the tax on the final product is what matters. With US sales…

It’s interesting because BBC Sounds replacing iPlayer Radio was one of the worst redesigns I’ve ever seen for discoverability. Even now, several years on, it’s considerably worse. …

lol, yep, mine is 1st October?!

You cant use the embeddings/vector search stuff this refers to in self hosted anyway, it’s only implemented in their Atlas Cloud product. It makes it a real PITA to test locally. T…

Australia’s economy is propped up by the export driven mining industry. It’s not really a fair comparison.

> working for Rolls Royce in the middle of nowhere Most people I know who ended up at RR live in Nottingham or the Peak District and commute in to Derby. Appreciate that’s perhaps …

I’m 33, in the U.K. and my marginal tax rate is currently 66.7%, because the support you get for having children gets withdrawn between £60000 and £80000. If a promotion came up I …

I used it for this during my PhD: https://github.com/rpep/fmmgen and found it very powerful. I have in the past used Mathematica, which I did think was more powerful for symbolic m…

There are linear scaling DFT codes but they’re not available under open source licensing, only a strange license: https://onetep.org/

https://rpep.dev/posts/alpine-python-antipattern/ https://rpep.dev/posts/improving-python-performance-numerica... https://rpep.dev/posts/best-practices-django-views/ Have just been…

It depends on how much you want to rely on Mixins and using Serializer classes to do more than just serialise JSON. Neither of those are compulsory to use, and the more you lean in…

Bonds are much less risky too. So when interest rates were low, it made sense for investors to put money into companies because with bonds you got a tiny return guaranteed vs a hig…

ModelManagers are directly coupled to one model though. You mix concerns if you need to reference other models in them. For e.g. say you have a User model and a corresponding “Prof…

CBV doesn't require you to do anything in particular other than implement retrieve/list/etc. methods on the GenericViewSet as needed, and get/post/etc. on GenericAPIView. You can u…

I disagree with the idea of not having a service layer at all, because in practice, changing your data model in some way is actually pretty common, even if the API remains the same…

I had exactly the same thing last year with a previous long departed staff member having forked django-flex-fields into their personal GitHub and having made substantial changes. P…

In the U.K. it is not normal to go for an annual examination at all. Here, once you hit 40, you get an examination every 5 years unless you have some specific health condition whic…