Lightfire228

I did it once to pull out data from a spreadsheet into a database. Specifically, I needed "${DataType}${Month}" for each month for 3 different datatypes

Iirc, i used an sql pivot (or unpivot) in that query too

Usually, it's situations like this where you're parsing data from strings, and you need some glue code to interface between the input data, and the date library you're using to actually resolve the datetime

But.... Python

Python has....

Python has whitespace semantics

You can't just-

*sigh* we're doomed

My favorites are "Orange Cheeto" and "Lord Ruler"

Just about every change in communication technologies has caused social and political turmoil

• the printing press
• radio
• TV
• the internet
• social media

One possible explanation is that, new forms of communication often don't have as much social regulations (intrinsic or extrinsic), which cause the proliferation of socially unacceptable ideas and conspiracy theory

There are a couple of YouTube videos by Hank Green that go into this topic

• Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment
• and iirc I've not been doing well

That's not to say that i don't feel the "doomscroll depression", or that things will 100% get better. Just that there's a historical trend, and we happen to be in the dip of the largest communications tech change in history

It's different because it's 24/7, and global. But it's the same pattern

Avoid at all costs, literally

I wear sandals year round

It wasn't until reading this comment that i even clocked it was a pun

Use SystemD timers, you animal

What about in a dead-end neighborhood?

How do we know Lord Ruler isn't forging the documents as blackmail against Musk?

(Not that i believe they are, but it seems plausible)

(I should probably point out that I'm not really paying attention to the details here)

Well, considering it's still summer weather outside...

"I wish I had stayed home and played the new Call of Duty; this is so not cash money!"

I'm a software developer by hobby and professionally. It can be a bit difficult to thread that needle. While it can be quite fun to get into "the zone" and write code for 6 hours straight until 4am multiple times a week, that's also the quickest way to burnout (and literally sent me to therapy)

One thing I'm trying to do is write a custom todo / daily planner app for my phone. I'm hoping that i can use this to better manage my free time

It's slow going, as i can only dedicate a handful of hours during the week to personal projects (before i want to yeet myself out the window at the sight of my computer). And weekends are spent playing catchup to sleep, house chores, and other hobbies

It is still fun though. I just have to remind myself to not get into analysis paralysis, and focus on manageable chunks (some days, those chunks are embarrassingly small). I literally just spent an hour or so fighting with C# csproj files to compile Android libraries (my goal was to get notifications working, but it's almost midnight)

Most important thing is to get good quality sleep, regularly, at the same time of day. Without that, you will slowly lose your sanity, and will not notice until it becomes a problem