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Library of Babel(libraryofbabel.info)
16 points by FigurativeVoid 1y ago|0 comments
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by FigurativeVoid 1y ago
I have thought that we should make entering the medical professions much easier. In order to become a nurse, you usually need a 4 year degree. This has two issues: 1. This is way to much time in the classroom. Much of that coursework simply
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by FigurativeVoid 1y ago
Oh it never worked. It was bad design by someone who was well meaning, but inexperienced. All these issues were resolved, usually, by parsing the date into a proper Date class.
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by FigurativeVoid 1y ago
I used to work at a company that stored all dates as ints in a YYYYMMDD format. When I asked why, I was told it was so we could subtract 2 dates to get the difference. I asked them why they couldn’t use DATEDIFF since this was in a sql db.
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by FigurativeVoid 1y ago
I had no idea how many ads load the average page. I just forgot because I have been using uBlock for so long. I have been hesitant to use Firefox, just because I am used to chrome. But after Google forcibly disabled software that I chose to
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Is AI the end of coding as we know it, or just another tool?(aha.io)
8 points by FigurativeVoid 1y ago|8 comments
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by FigurativeVoid 1y ago
Incredible. I sometimes forget that manga writers use very real locations as references. I believe this is the backdrop for several Tokyo Ghoul scenes.
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Daily Notes Considered Harmful(literallythevoid.com)
39 points by FigurativeVoid 1y ago|21 comments
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I Outline Everything(literallythevoid.com)
3 points by FigurativeVoid 1y ago|0 comments
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NoSurf – Stop wasting life on the net(nosurf.net)
1 points by FigurativeVoid 1y ago|0 comments
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The Bear Manifesto – Herman's Blog(herman.bearblog.dev)
1 points by FigurativeVoid 1y ago|0 comments
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Anthropic Principle(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by FigurativeVoid 1y ago|0 comments
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by FigurativeVoid 1y ago
Digital whiteboarding tools are close, but I think they miss some of the magic of working in a shared space with an analog too. I can make more complex drawings in excalidraw than I could on a really drawing surface. I suspect that leads to
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by FigurativeVoid 1y ago
One of the few things that I miss about working in an office is a large whiteboard and standing in front of it with a colleague. Working on an architecture with a peer and marker really led to some elegant class designs.
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Partitioning a large table in PostgreSQL with Rails(aha.io)
9 points by FigurativeVoid 1y ago|0 comments
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Home – Gov.uk Design System(design-system.service.gov.uk)
1 points by FigurativeVoid 1y ago|0 comments
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Full Text Search of US Court records(judyrecords.com)
449 points by FigurativeVoid 1y ago|100 comments
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by FigurativeVoid 2y ago
This is the thing that irritates me most. If I get in one line, I don't have to do anything. If I get in the other I have to unpack my laptop, take of my shoes, accessories, whatever. Once there was a woman in front of me who asked why
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by FigurativeVoid 2y ago
It's absolutely security theater.
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by FigurativeVoid 2y ago
The thing that's irritating about Read ID (at least in Ohio) is that the BMV would let you get an Ohio ID cheaper than a Real ID. Seems like a money grab when you know that people are eventually going to need a Real ID to fly.
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by FigurativeVoid 2y ago
You're correct. But I think that it is still difficult to make an argument that is original enough to make a professor happy.
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by FigurativeVoid 2y ago
I have been working on a bash only static site generator. I don’t think that I’ll share it, but its nice to know I own the tool chain and that I should be able to replicate it forever.
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by FigurativeVoid 2y ago
I have a few thoughts, so I’m just going to write them out and see where they all go. I went to school in the US, so everything here applies for the US. - Credentialism isn’t a secret. Students attend university not to learn, but to get a c
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by FigurativeVoid 2y ago
I did. The article makes no claims about dreams or the relationship between dreams and sleep quality.
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by FigurativeVoid 2y ago
Anecdotally, I’ve found that theanine radically increases the vividness and memorability of my dreams. Of course that might be be a great effect depending on the content of my dreams. That could mean deeper sleep, but I’ve not really measur
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There Is a Significant Need for Retirement Savings in the US(apolloacademy.com)
27 points by FigurativeVoid 2y ago|99 comments
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Rails views, web components, React. Why make a choice?(aha.io)
9 points by FigurativeVoid 2y ago|0 comments
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by FigurativeVoid 2y ago
The more that we have AI trawling our writing, the more important I think it is to realize that AI is part of the audience. I have been thinking about writing more "cookbook" style posts so that users and AI have good modern examp
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by FigurativeVoid 2y ago
A second thought. It leads to lazy application development. Whenever you have production intervention that happens more than a few times, you should just make a feature that does it safely via application code.
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by FigurativeVoid 2y ago
I have so many horror stories from there. When they did decide to lock down the database, the DB admin only locked in down in the sql server client most people used. If you used some other client, you still had access. _sigh_

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