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Hi, I'm Jacob from Australia - 25 Male.

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Made it to the final 3 candidates for an engineering job I /really/ wanted but just got rejected. fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fu

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after ~14 months of being unemployed, I finally got a job :D

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hey are any of yall really good at programming with python

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I might be able to help. I’ve done a lot of python coding but I never was taught in uni

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I haven’t posted in ages anyone still care about my blog?

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outside in the dark I either just saw a fruit bat (flying fox) or a possum hanging upside down from our apricot tree. Was backlit by a streetlight enough to get an okay look but still couldn’t tell which it was. God damn fruit bats are cute

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I built this family tree. I made it low res to put on here so my (and my family’s) personal information isn’t on display, but I wanted to share what I created. I have spent way too much time on this. I’ve been researching my family tree for a year now, and it got to the point that I needed a better way to visualise the connections. There were too many people for me to realistically manually build a family tree in Powerpoint (as I had been doing so far). So I spent way way way too much time building a database in Python, as well as writing code to navigate the database and be able to find spouses and children and parents, and ultimately to be able to produce a family tree like this. I’m an amateur coder with no academic training in how to code or manage databases. So I am super proud of what I created. I’m sure there were much easier ways to get this same result, but because I don’t know how to do graphical output in python, I built this tree inside nested lists (nested for rows and columns) using a monospaced font, and having the code look at every row and every column and work out what characters/names to print in that cell. Including the lines. The lines are unicode characters close enough together to look like unbroken lines. Then my code saves each row of the nested list using “\n” at the end into one long string and exports it to a PDF. Since it has those line-breaks (”\n” after each row it wraps the text correctly, and because it’s a monospaced font all the unicode lines up as it should. There probably is a very clean way to create text boxes for every person, auto-determine the spacing and spacial locations of the text boxes, then generate lines in some graphical program like Canvas. That would require far less code to generate than what I did, and maybe that’ll be my next project to work on. But this was my first family tree generator and I knew I could do it basically using just ASCII and so I did. And I’m very happy with how it looks.

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Just reached 74.9 kg. I’ve now lost 33 kg over the last 18 months :O

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I’ve been unemployed now for nearly 7 months My old boss keeps giving me updates on his progress towards acquiring a new work contract to employ me for but it’s taking a very long time and I’m going crazy with nothing to do

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I’m still working on my family tree research and I keep expanding my goals.

initially it was just to build a tree of my direct ancestors

this was relatively easy to organise

then in order to help find more info I started researching siblings of my ancestors (sometimes helps find parent through sibling marriages/obituaries).

but then organising alllll the extra info made me have to re-think my entire data organisation system

lots and lots of nested folders

Now I’ve expanded my family research to include the descendants of those ancestors’ siblings (entire extended family tree)

so now I’ve been teaching myself how to build databases in Python and I’ve been coding up my own Generation List Generator which lists every descendant of someone through nested lists. 

and I bought a domain and have been building a website to share the research with my family

I’ve put way way way more time and effort into this than I ever initially thought I would, and had to teach myself lots of little skills to keep track of everything

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#still unemployed

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I haven’t decided yet what weight I want to be but I’m still very slowly losing weight. 18 months ago I was 31kg (68 lbs) heavier. I’m now 77.2kg. maybe I’ll stop when I hit 75.  my BMI right now is 20.7

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Been trying to trace my 4x great grandfather for my family tree. He’s buried in a cemetery not far from my home so I figured I’d just fucking go there and get a photo of his headstone. Headstones often include their birth year and that would help me in my research. The cemetery is fucking huge.  It’s the city’s largest cemetery. All I could narrow it down to was a section called “Catholic Old area” which covered hundreds of graves over a large-ish area. I searched it as best as I could for ~90 minutes in cold, wet, windy conditions and couldn’t find it :\

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I’ve been using the 14 day free trial of Ancestry.com for a few days now and it’s a mixed bag in its usefulness. I already had a LOT of family history data that I’d scrounged and cobbled into an extensive family tree. When I searched Ancestry.com’s databases and stuff I found lots of corroborating info which was good, but I also found lots of conflicting and even contradictory info. Had I not already used multiple sources to build my family tree I would be completely lost when looking at Ancestry.com’s info. Ancestry.com is a paid service so I expected its info to be better but it’s not great. At best it’s a jumping-off point to further research; Ancestry.com alone would be a terrible genealogical source.

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really? my grandpa found four half siblings using ancestry that he had never known. it took him months, but if you’re committed it can hella pay off

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I don’t doubt that. It does have lots of info, but I meant that a lot of info on it from what I’ve seen is just user-submitted info and many people get details wrong. The main things I had been searching for were names, dates, and locations to build a Name, Birth, Marriage, Death date/location tree for direct ancestors. Ancestry.com’s users would submit lots of conflicting information. There’s plenty that’s good about Ancestry.com and it’s a good consolidation of info. I’ve grabbed lots of info from Ancestry.com.  It just frustrated me that so many details are wrong

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I’ve been using the 14 day free trial of Ancestry.com for a few days now and it’s a mixed bag in its usefulness. I already had a LOT of family history data that I’d scrounged and cobbled into an extensive family tree. When I searched Ancestry.com’s databases and stuff I found lots of corroborating info which was good, but I also found lots of conflicting and even contradictory info. Had I not already used multiple sources to build my family tree I would be completely lost when looking at Ancestry.com’s info. Ancestry.com is a paid service so I expected its info to be better but it’s not great. At best it’s a jumping-off point to further research; Ancestry.com alone would be a terrible genealogical source.

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I hope I live to be over 109 years old.

That way I’ll have lived in the 20th, 21st, and 22nd century

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for the first time in my life I’m actually really happy with how my body looks feels good

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Target US store advertised Diablo 3 Switch launch as November 2nd :D