Boris Glumpler

How worried should I be, on a scale of 1 (no worries, mate) - 10 (you’re pretty much fucked, son), that my €100 flight from Cambodia to India in a month is being cancelled due to prohibitive kerosene costs? Atm, I’m still cautiously optimistic at a 4…

Been going to this awesome noodle soup place. 1st day, 12k Riel for just the soup. 2nd day, same amount, but got an iced tea as well. 3rd day, price for everything dropped to 10k. 4th day, got about twice the amount of meat. Today was the first time nothing changed, so might have hit the local price!!

@GrahamJCampbell @DominiqueCAPaul Depends on the type of company, tbh. It took me almost 3 months to set up a personal bank account in England back in 2007 when I moved there to go to uni because I couldn’t provide a utility bill in my name 😂

@DominiqueCAPaul In the UK you just fill out an online form. Pretty easy. German bureaucracy for setting up a company has been crazy for a long time, even if it more reduced now then previously.

Today I incorporated my startup - and where else than in Germany 🇩🇪 All without leaving my house and getting a German notary appointment in under 24 hours, thanks to the electronic ID. Long Europe 🇪🇺

Found a gym in Kampot with a rowing machine!! Loved my water rower back in Germany. Gyms in Nepal and north India seem to prioritize weights above all, tho, so never joined any.

I don’t think that’s true. I live in Nepal about 5 months a year, have met quite a few Sherpas and know plenty of people there. Not a single Nepali has ever mentioned that they don’t want people climbing Everest. What they do have issues with is how the tourist money from these climbs is being spent.

@sumitkbehal The Nepali believes that mount Everest shouldn't be touched, they have suffered alot in recent years, monarchy deaths, earthquakes, civil unrest. They don't want people going up there, they think it has brought them bad luck.

The funniest scam of the year is Sherpas doing food alteration on Mt. Everest expedition to trigger helicopter evacuation for climbers > charge $50,000 for expedition > make rescue insurance mandatory > add drugs in food of climbers > climbers feel altitude sickness > rescue climbers with choppers > insurer pays bills for rescue service > take commission from aviation company This is literally highest level of financial engineering at the highest point on earth

@sumitkbehal Well, hiking guides used to do this to their clients in Nepal like 10 years or so ago already, so it’s not really particularly imaginative 😉

I’ve never found a map component that I liked. They’re either too basic and not performant for large datasets or give you all the functionality, but are so complex that writing it yourself seems easier, especially when it comes to styling geometries. These days I just use a basic Vue composable or Livewire plugin and wire it all up manually in a wrapper component, even if that means repeating some stuff.

@calebporzio how about a flux comment utilizing leaflet or Google for maps integration. Could be cool.😎

@i_am_fabs Alles gut solange man keine Angst vor Bestechungen hat 😉

Ich verstehe absolut nicht, warum man in Länder fährt, wo es eine Diktatur gibt. Hauptsächlich weil es dort keinen funktionierenden Rechtsstaat gibt. Gibt genug solcher Fälle wo auch Touristen nie mehr heimkommen. Wie Leute ihr freies Leben riskieren ist crazy.

@javilopen I keep wondering if AI coding is a mostly first world bubble. It doesn’t make sense for me financially, tbh, and I can’t see many local devs in countries like Nepal, Cambodia or say Pakistan being able to spend hundreds of US$ a month for it. Outside of free to cheap plans or so.

Serious question: Is there any programmer left in the room still coding the traditional way, character by character, without using AI? If so, why? Explain your reasoning.

@awcodes1 It’ll likely be the furthest distance a human being has been away from Earth. And the goal is permanent human presence on the moon and eventually on Mars. Baby steps, basically.

Guess I’m just missing it but why is the Artemis thing historic? Have we already done this?

Been getting coffee from this stall and the auntie there doesn’t give a fuck. I order an iced black coffee, no sugar, but I always get an iced coffee with milk and sugar. And when I complain, she just nods, says yes and leaves. I guess I’m in a competition now to see who breaks first…

@PhillipsPOBrien Well, Germany at least pays a lot of money for the upkeep of US bases on its territory…

Trumpites are celebrating the end of the US alliance structure that kept the US secure for the last 80 years.

10 years ago I paid US$30 a month for my room here plus water & electricity. Managed to find a similar room for US$100 in like half an hour of walking around. Don’t really know if that’s a good price, but I’m pretty happy with it!

After a month of temples and beaches with my friend and her 2yo I’m back in Kampot for 6 weeks before heading back to Ladakh in India. I‘ve lived in Kampot a couple times over the years, last time was almost a decade ago. It’s changed a lot, but has also mostly stayed the same, if that makes sense 😉 It’s kept its essence, something that a lot of places have a hard time with.

@jeffrey_way I’m pretty sure that I’ll just find something else to do at this point. I don’t mind AI, but don’t really feel it.

Can you relate to this awkward tension I feel of being endlessly excited by what AI now unlocks (you can build anything you want), but with this constant underscore of depression that I can't explain?

@_newtonjob I’d probably do something like ban_durations in a tstzmultirange column for this particular case. _until works just fine where a range column isn’t necessary, tho.

Very common practice for timestamp column names to have the "_at" suffix. But is there a convention for things that are valid until a certain timestamp in the future? e.g. banned_until? I'm thinking "banned_until_at", but sounds a lil wierd.

The new v2 API for @paradedb search for @laravelphp is now available on the develop branch. github.com/ShabuShabu/lar…

@philippemnoel @laravelphp @paradedb Sure! I’ll have a look! I might have some questions as to what exactly properly production-ready means, but I’m open to it!

@borisglumpler @laravelphp @paradedb Amazing, let us know how we can help. If you're willing to make properly production-ready (see our other ORMs for examples) we'd love to officially support it and highlight it in our docs

After a bit of a break I have restarted work on the next version of ParadeDB Search for @laravelphp. This version targets v0.22.0 of pg_search by @paradedb and focuses on the new SQL syntax. The older API will still be fully available, tho, under a new namespace. So far I've added support for all tokenizers and the new operators. I've also added a new Blueprint macro to more easily add bm25 indexes in your migrations. And I've just finished a new command to help with index integrity verification. All that's left is to create expressions for all the advanced query functions and write some tests. I'm currently on a beach on a small Cambodian island, but still hope to get this version released sometime beginning of next week.

@philippemnoel @laravelphp @paradedb Nice! Am really enjoying the new syntax! Give me a few days and I’ll get the Laravel support sorted!

@borisglumpler @laravelphp @paradedb This is sweet Boris! The v0.22.0 API interface, which has been the default since 0.20.0, is stable and won't change as we head towards v1.0.0. We've started supporting ORMs. If you check github.com/paradedb you'll see we have Django, Rails and SQLAlchemy. Laravel next?