Kaliboy

I feel like ActiveRecord has none of these problems, but I also feel some strong confirmation bias.

Can anyone that has used ActiveRecord share their opinion?

As a Dutch person who is from the Caribbean, we definitely love the air-conditioner down here. Especially since they all are "inverter" technology, doesn't use as much energy as before.

They also love them on the mainland but nobody loves the hassle of getting one installed.

It's also insurance related. Houses are insured based on also their insulation. Try making a hole in that insulation for an a/c without 'gezeik' as we say.

When I lived there I had a portable mini split unit. I ran that baby constantly during heatwaves. Blew every single-hose portable AC unit away.

Oh never knew the name Bananaquit. We call them "barika hel" (yellow belly) in Papiamentu or Suikerdiefje (lil' sugar thief) in Dutch.

There was more unique content/UI in the Flash era.

I've had one job in my life, still at the same company. (8 years).

I applied cause the listing mentioned Python, and I was programming in Python at the time.

Once I started they were like yeah we put that there to reach a broader public but we use Ruby (on Rails).

So that's what I learned. I've just returned to Python via LLM's. I literally have not felt the need nor desire to use Python once I got used to writing Ruby.

Well the truth is we forget the time tracking system too. The solution is to keep the system in your face.

Maybe a programming/assembly analogy can help you understand the issue.

In my case, ADHD makes my brain want to work in a parallel way.

While I'm busy with task A it's like HEY CONDSIDER TASK B. Did you see C?

On good days, we see that and say NO OP - BUSY WITH TASK A. And refocus our mind.

Say it's a bad day...

Instead of CONSIDER TASK B, it's more like GOTO TASK B. And here it's equally harmful.

What should happen is the registers (context) of the CPU (brain) should be saved when task A stops. Likewise before task B starts it should be fully loaded into the brain.

None of these things happen for us.

So task A is left in an unfinished state, the context to finish it dissolved into thin air. Task B is started without properly being prepared which negatively impacts efficiency and performance.

And the moment the going gets hard, dopamine release decreased, you can feel it coming...

INTTERUPT - GOTO TASK C.

So it's managing that that's hard. Writing things down helps a lot, but good luck remembering to write :D

I currently can't focus on my work that pays the bills. Given your logic I should probably quit my job.

I kid you not, that's literally the thing I've been considering all day, maybe it's a sign. So this is great confirmation.

I just turned off my phone's voice recorder after 4 hours and 28 minutes. I needed the first 15 mins.

I can now say my dream is not unrealistic.

Thanks for this!

I think it's the reason why we ignore regulation. It's not really malice or greed, local government is just a mess. It takes months of waiting.

And when we "break the rules" we consider the rules and break them in a way that minimizes our liability.

Like the reason for the certified install is to protect the line workers. I live on an island, so that's basically my neighbours. Nobody wants them dead. Likewise nobody wants to go through bureaucratic hell.

Solution: grid-backed installs that doesn't interact with the grid. Which any Juan or Pedro can do if you don't want to do it yourself. It runs around $200 to add a new "electric group" to your house.

And to be fair the standard rate is 0.38 cents per kWh and some fixed rate. But the poor they force on the pre-paid package which has no fixed rate, but runs at that higher rate.

And so when you can't afford to buy the electricity you end up in the dark without giving the utility any moral obligations.

I live in the "Caribbean Netherlands", the largest island of the 3.

I'm 100% certain you can do it yourself.

We get Chinese solar panels here. $175 and produces 550 watt.

We then get Chinese MPTT inverters, always 2 if you run your fridge on it lol. $350 ish for one. The 5kW model. It's all one and the same.

You need a minimum of 3 panels.

So for less than $1000 you have 1.5 kWh with no storage.

Connecting the panels requires some care to ensure you stay within the parameters all GPTs know. Two pictures is all it takes. The spec label of your panel and that of your inverter.

I can't stress enough how easy it is.

The output of your inverter is 1 phase power. You can route that anywhere in your house safely since houses have.. circuits. So once the circuited is moved to the inverters grid, its seperated.. at the circuit breaker.

The scariest part was driving a screw through my roof.

The post you replied to isn't fully correct. I'll tell you how you could do this in many ways that prevents the fuse problem.

There's 3 ways to run solar.

Grid tied, grid backed and off grid.

I live on a farm and am off grid. The solar inverter is my "utility". After the inverter I have my main breaker. The inverter makes 5 kW max at 230 volts, so my fuse is 5000/230 = 20 amps.

I'm outside the US, regulation is a suggestion here everyone ignores. So many many houses have solar panels here to offset grid costs ($0.60 per kWh).

The main way we do it is make it grid backed. This means the inverter creates power that is in no way mixed with grid power. It forms a microgrid within the home. All ac's are connected to this. This can be done in the electrical panel as its just rerouting wires to fuses.

So then you have your 20A fuse behind the inverter, and smaller fuses (which you should already have) to your house loads. Btw you guys run 110v so your fuses are probably double the rating of ours.

When you do grid backed a battery is nice, since it helps prevent using the grid when a cloud passes by, it forms a bit of buffer. A 5kWh battery already helps. At night the grid powers the loads.

Grid-tied is the one nobody here uses, so you can feed back to the grid. This involves complicated electrical stuff so you don't electrocute the line workers. Plus it gets complicated with split phases and such.

Not to mention utilities pay less than what they ask you for the same kWh.

In the case of balcony solar you can feed the inverter utility power and connect your AC to the inverter. It uses solar power first and takes the needed diff from utility.

In our case it's a MySQL database.

How did you decide on 6 joins? And do the sizes of the to be joined tables matter?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fearful-memories-...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742...

I have 13 acres. My dream is to have a homebuilt rail system around the land. Probably can't afford professional stuff so I'll have to get creative.

It is with much hesitation that I write this, because I just implemented such a flow.

My reasoning was this: my customers keep forgetting their password and somehow that becomes a trigger to contact me. No passwords, no problem.

I tried convincing them to use password managers but that was pointless.

But I see the pain and frustration so I will add passwords. And I quite liked the passkey idea, have to see how that works. Not that my customers would ever use it, but I would. It literally never occured to me.

But neurons are electrical no? I suppose maybe that's why they're not in the comparison.

Or does that work with diffusion too?

I asked because you brought it up... Good thing I didn't assume you were.

And yes I did see password4321's response. Been going through them since yesterday.

I'm more than happy to respond to moral issues you may have with the Bible, if you're interested in trying to understand it from a neutral viewpoint.

However I wasn't expecting this. I expected examples of contradictions.

God knows Christians these days are walking contradictions, so I understand your frustration and reaction, but I meant in the text.

I never heard of this quote, but "heard" something similar a while ago, must have been 2020.

I was watching a live worship session on Youtube and it was beautiful, kept my mind at peace.

Now mind you at the same time I was also a perfectionist, which means you tend to see imperfections in others.

Now at a certain point the singer's voice broke as she was hitting a high note. But before I could mentally register the imperfection I heard or felt such a clear gentle voice that said: "that was the most beautiful part".

In an instant it reframed the imperfect into perfect for that moment and thus forever.

And that's what your quote encompasses. Good read, thanks for sharing.

That's weird. I don't have this with the Bible. But maybe I haven't read those passages. Do you have some examples?

This is literally true now that we understand epigenetics a bit more.

Yeah but the increased I/O is cheaper. It's easier to add another webserver as opposed to upgrading your db server.

And I don't think it's as simple as you make it. So where I work we use amongst other things Rails. There are places in our codebase where using joins just isn't feasable cause the database would use too much memory and let's just say N is large.

But since we use Rails we can have it query the tables apart and join the tables through the defined model. We literally save like 20 seconds in some cases because 1 HUGE query becomes 8 straightforward ones with maximum index usage.

And because we have this capability in Rails we would never use something like this, cause that would neccesate us holding two mental models and have a clear "what do we run where" directive which honestly is a PTA.

The main reason I could think of is when you consider the reality of our electric grid and how it remains stable.

Grid inertia is literally maintained by hundreds of thousands of pounds of metal spinning at 50 or 60 hz.

So as the grid moves towards solar and wind, it loses inertia. Solar has no inertia and wind is lightweight compared to baseload plants.

This makes the grid more sensitive to another that can cause the frequency to fall or rise, which will trigger automatic protections.

It takes longer to become an issue in large interconnected grids, but on islands it's like the leading cause of blackouts.

One badly timed cloud means problem, unless you can instantly replace the energy lost through other means.

With thermal power plants the inertia of the generator spinning gave utilities enough time to start up other generators. With solar and wind that's gone, hence the rise of grid batteries.

So then solar/wind costs should include ALL related costs, including grid batteries and such, and often it doesn't. And thus you get people who are against it for honestly a very good reason.

That said I love solar and run fully off grid, but I ain't deluded to think my island can go 100% green. Diesel will stay for now.

I do wonder if using solar to run huge heavy flywheels connected to generators can help with the interia issue.

I often daydream about electrolysing water to generate oxygen and hydrogen and store them to use for heating and like welding torches and stuff.

To make electric energy I would have to make a small steam plant to run a turbine.

I finally found uses for Prolog haha. For years I would have been able to write exactly your comment.

One use is a spellcheck. Though some bits are in Rust cause backtracking would be too slow.

Another is a game I'm making, the server is in Elixir, and I use erlog to basically program the NPCs in prolog. The game generates events and they are processed into facts if they are perceived by the character.

And with that I can have the system generate goals based on stuff like "I havent seen X at the market for 3 days whilst beforehand I saw X every day. Let me go check on X."

I didn't know Erlang started as a Prolog program basically, but it shows cause they fit together like a match made in heaven.

Phoenix does have that. ViewModels. I don't think its required to use though, but we always do.

I sometimes let Claude Opus create plans, DeepSeek v4 pro implements and writes tests. Claude reviews and corrects.

Saves like $2-3 per session. Same quality code.

Honestly just build it using the tutorials and sound mind and you're like 80% there.

This may sound crazy but when any interpreter boots up, but I feel it especially with BEAM, that needs to be your "let there be Light" moment. That's your world, that state is yours and only your will decides what changes.

So yes you can call all functions in your module, that's indeed how it works. But that's your module and that function mutates your world.

Just like you filter what people tell you based on your knowledge, you do the same here.

Most of my methods start with guard clauses.

`return if condition_not_met`

Don't touch my state if I don't agree with what you want me to do.

In Ruby it's essential cause that's how we get RuntimeErrors all over the place. In Elixir it's way easier to do, with pattern matching. And easier since state is what enters the function and will be what leaves.

If you keep this in mind you should inherently write safe code, because in protecting your domain through guards you basically close the door for exploitation by unknown means.

I'll give you one example I just thought of. Where I work we run Rails since the time before time, and as such had a lot of technical debt.

Around Rails 5 or 6 what we call `ActionController::Parameters` had a breaking change. Basically this module processes parameters received from HTTP requests.

Beforehand it just wrapped all it got and handed it over to us. But now it expected us to tell it what to expect. And if didn't find what it expected it blew up with a bang!

Horrible for our hundreds of controllers with `controllers * 4` html templates where all the form keys were hidden.

We either had to add the conventiely available `permit!` call, or find the form keys for all the forms, and add `permit(:name, :address,...)`. A shitload of work before AI.

I ended up monkey patching Rails to generate the lists for us instead of crashing. And for the point of this entire story...

The defaults of most frameworks are very safe, but they require the most verbosity so the framework knows what to expect and to guard it. But there always exists easier and faster ways to the same goal, but it's generally a trade. You get ease, you sacrifice some security.

Don't get in that habit and you'll be fine. And spend a lot of time thinking what could go wrong and guard against them.

I upgraded to the latest PopOS with Cosmic running on Wayland.

Honestly everything just worked, but using it made me so nauseous. There was some latency somewhere, never figured it out. Running Cinnamon on X11 now. I did read some suggestions to improve latency but I have PTSD so it's going to take a while before I try Wayland again.