Tom Clark

Engineer and scientist, working in data services and wind energy

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

@sainsburys Noted, thanks. And I can avoid parking fees in future by going to nearby @Tesco, @asda or @Waitrose.
Related question: how much do you think I spend in Sainsbury’s each week and do you think it worth losing that over a £70 fine? Asking for a friend doing a Business 101 course.

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

@sainsburys I parked in your always-empty massive car park in Eddington, visited a friend and did a load of shopping. Now you slap me with a £70 parking fine??? Can you reverse this because I’m pretty resentful of being fined for shopping in your store…

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

My cardiologist bill is going straight to @GitHub this afternoon 😬

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

@psycopg I store spatial data (eg elevation) using h3 indexing. We use bigquery presently, and map straight to a dataframe. But being able to add relations (like a pointer to the next cells in the tree) would be 🎉🎉🪩

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

(and why doesn't it reschedule this automatically? I booked that memory management meeting actually within motion itself... so it must know I'm busy)

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

Hi @useMotion - I've been enjoying the app so far, but have scheduled a meeting and now it thinks I can do two things at once. How do I trigger a re-schedule?

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

@simon_on_energy I think the view is that a lot of the product benefits might be less tangible than looking directly at the curve (quick uninformed comparison). You’d then have wacky races on your power curve shape to compete.
I don’t necessarily agree, but its at least a rationale.

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

Happy International Women’s Day, all. Other than personally wishing well some of the women who inspire and mentor me, like @AdelinaChalmers and @ValeriaCortezVD, here’s a great contribution to the day: a bullshit-o-meter. God I love programmers sometimes: https://t.co/Vtixdhx6nJ

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

@Marie_LSJ @kruy Just saw this old tweet... documentation should be updated with code and continuously built/deployed to match as part of an automated workflow. We use sphinx, eg https://t.co/OLSfSZ61oo

Also: read a bit about "self-documenting code": docs should be at a more conceptual level.

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

It's getting even worse. @toptal have decided that I'm a developer whatever email address I use, and won't let me see anyone for hiring. Being a freelancer apparently is totally orthogonal to hiring people!
Now up to 45 minutes just trying to see some search results...

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

Pretty poor show from @toptal today. Trying to find someone to hire, but there's an infinite loop in their site login process that just shows me this, whatever I do.
Maybe you should get some of your "Top Tal" to think through the basic auth flow for your app...

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

Scientists so often understate their achievements in the press…
This team cured 24/24 people of Long Covid within 4 weeks, but you wouldn’t know it from the article!

Stand up and be counted, folks!! https://t.co/dw3ck2MLv9

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

@JeremyClarkson hydroponics and aeroponics can be done at farm scale and makes growing a crop totally immune to weather difficulties… complete control.
So why aren’t farmers doing it?
Would love to see you try it out!

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

Sigh. Do we know who the 'threat actor' was yet, @codecov ?

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

@zombodb @googlecloud @Elasticsearch Thanks @zombodb - I'm lobbying some managed db providers to add you as an extension, not sure how far I'll get. Have you any interest in providing a GCP marketplace service or similar? If so let's chat, might be an extra revenue stream for you.

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

Does anyone know of a managed #PostgreSQL solution / provider (preferably cloud native for @googlecloud / #Kubernetes ) which will support the @ZomboDB extension so I can tightly couple @Elasticsearch ?

I'm not ready to maintain my own database yet, but NEED that extension!

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

@MadeWhatnow @tobbelobb @MadeWhatnow I have some old camera calibration code from my phd that you could have if you want to calculate that. Maylab based (sigh) but convertible to python if you need

[Tom Clark @tom_at_octue]

Damnit @Adobe I pay a fortune for Illustrator.

MUST YOU force me through 10 minutes of your bloody clunky login absolutely EVERY DAMN TIME I open the app?

Sort it out, the universe doesn’t revolve around your login.