There's still time to apply for a role in my team at EnergySparks
https://energysparks.uk/jobs/1/inline
Looking for a remote, UK based ruby/rails developer to help us build and scale the product.
Small, friendly motivated team working on a rich, data-driven product to help schools save money and teach kids about climate change.
Interesting engineering work in a role that matters.
#fedihired #getfedihired #rubyonrails #energysparks
@be8f70d6 probably, but benefits of doing the upsert is to push the comparison checks to the database. Adding a WHERE clause fixes that as we then do inserts and conditional updates.
So I've sorted our issue, am just surprised the feature isn't supported wondered if I was missing something.
So the Rails upsert_all method doesn't let you specify a WHERE clause which can mean doing lots of unnecessary updates of existing data.
Worked around that with some custom SQL but seems like a limitation in the current code.
Anyone else seen this/worked around it?
#ruby #rubyonrails
Scifi (and tech bros) predicted that exponential increases in technology would eventually let anyone upload themselves and live in any reality they choose to construct.
Turns out we didn't need that.
Reddit and social media was enough.
Trying out a retrofit planner to look at options for going zero carbon for our home.
Looks like a heatpump will cost at least Β£25-30k and end up costing us about Β£1500 extra a year on electricity bills.
I really want to make some improvements but not sure we can afford that!
If you're in the West of England Combined Authority you can get a Β£250 voucher on a home tradition assessment
https://www.retrofitwestadvice.co.uk/
#weca #retrofit #energyefficiency
@03ee4b50 from what I could see the uses were:
- the location, so lots of obvs examples there
- timestamps, in finance, energy, weather reporting, and apparently NTP servers use it too
- creative uses of the signals for other purposes, e.g. for earth observation research. Linked to some of those in the post
I've not come across anything else at the moment.
@03ee4b50 from what I could see the uses were:
- the location, so lots of obvs examples there
- timestamps, in finance, energy, weather reporting, and apparently NTP servers use it too
- creative uses of the signals for other purposes, e.g. for earth observation research. Linked to some of those in the post
I've not come across anything else at the moment.
@7d0b4a22 I can never work out whether this cookie cutter approach is because they can never come up with other options, or they think we're too dumb to see value in anything different.
@3d4b19d1 yes so presumably I have to put both the excerpt AND the tags into that box, which I've already set elsewhere
Which is the bit that I find frustrating as the text is already in existing fields that Wordpress can read. I shouldn't need to copy stuff between fields.
@3d4b19d1 yes so presumably I have to put both the excerpt AND the tags into that box, which I've already set elsewhere
Which is the bit that I find frustrating as the text is already in existing fields that Wordpress can read. I shouldn't need to copy stuff between fields.
@3d4b19d1 hmm, OK I'll have another look.
I had a scheduled post get shared here earlier which had tags and an excerpt. The excerpt was used but not the tags.
Kind of annoying that the share to Mastodon option for blogs hosted on Wordpress.com doesn't include the tags.
Unless l'm missing something?
#wordpress #mastodon
Please skip Hardin, just focus onΒ Ostrom
A few weeks ago Aljazeera published this opinion piece on "AI and the tyranny of the data commons". It's not very good. The core observation can hardly be disputed: "platforms" have hoovered up data for their own benefit. Most recently through AI. Nothing much to disagree with there and nothing you can't find in a million other similar articles.
http://blog.ldodds.com/2023/09/16/please-skip-hardin-just-focus-on-ostrom/
@8498c3c0 the code from that thread was open, so could reuse that to scrape website data. But agree with you that there's interesting additional observations to come from local data.
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