I got 4 out of six people in my group house, plus two others, to apply for a lease in a new and probably-better house! In order to do this I spent probably forty hours in the last month, searching rental listings, reaching out to people, and trying to accommodate people’s often-contradictory preferences.
At one point I wrote a program to determine, given a collection of people larger than the number of rooms, and their maximum prices for each room in a house (which are allowed to be conditional on who else is in the house), whether any subset of that group would be able to afford the house. This script was about a hundred lines of python, and after fixing one typo it ran perfectly on the first try. This happens to me pretty often these days when I write python code, and I’m fucking pleased about it. Like, maybe ten years ago I set out to be a master wizard in one particular specialization (“writing programs to solve practical problems”) and yeah, I can just really do that kind of magic now. It just feels like “part of me” in a really exhilarating way.
I got 4 out of six people in my group house, plus two others, to apply for a lease in a new and probably-better house! In order to do this I spent probably forty hours in the last month, searching rental listings, reaching out to people, and trying to accommodate people’s often-contradictory preferences.
At one point I wrote a program to determine, given a collection of people larger than the number of rooms, and their maximum prices for each room in a house (which are allowed to be conditional on who else is in the house), whether any subset of that group would be able to afford the house. This script was about a hundred lines of python, and after fixing one typo it ran perfectly on the first try. This happens to me pretty often these days when I write python code, and I’m fucking pleased about it. Like, maybe ten years ago I set out to be a master wizard in one particular specialization (“writing programs to solve practical problems”) and yeah, I can just really do that kind of magic now. It just feels like “part of me” in a really exhilarating way.
woo! Getting into the optimal housing and roommate situation seems actually pretty important for quality of life. Congrats!
Update: our application was approved! The Lodge is almost certainly moving!
Successfully dislodged!
Nice! Congratulations!