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It's called the nondelegation doctrine, which forbids one branch of government from authorizing another branch of government to exercise its functions.

Because Article One vests "all legislative powers" to Congress, they cannot delegate legislative powers to the Executive and Judicial branches (because then not all legislative powers would be vested with Congress).

About 10 years ago I remember seeing a number of posts saying "don't use int for ids!". Typically the reasons were things like "the id exposes the number of things in the database" and "if you have bad security then users can increment/decrement the id to get more data!". What I then observed was a bunch of developers rushing to use UUIDs for everything.

UUIDv7 looks really promising but I'm not likely to redo all of our tables to use it.

I wish devs would normalize their data rather than shove everything into a JSON(B) column, especially when there is a consistent schema across records.

It's much harder to setup proper indexes, enforce constraints, and adds overhead every time you actually want to use the data.

These types of books are always interesting to me because they tackle so many different things. They cover a range of topics at a high level (data manipulation, visualization, machine learning) and each could have its own book. They balance teaching programming while introducing concepts (and sometimes theory).

In short I think it's hard to strike an appropriate balance between these but this seems to be a good intro level book.

Advent of Code 2025 8 months ago

I never liked the global leaderboard since I was usually asleep when the puzzles were released. I likely never would have had a competitive time anyway.

We can't pull/push to our repos

    git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
    fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
    
    Please make sure you have the correct access rights
    and the repository exists.

For tasks like planning travel I often am trying to optimize multiple goals at once. I might find cheaper flights on certain days but more expensive hotels. This is much easier on larger screens because you can view more information side by side.

The most impressive part to me is finding the right channel to communicate with the hospital. We had to dispute a billing issue with our hospital and it simply wasn't possible to talk to any person that wasn't part of the "patient relations" team. Billing problems went through patient relations who talked to the billers.

Also, the rainfall. Some farmers go from morning to night never saying a word that isn't a complaint about the rainfall being wrong.

Yes. Some of them use proper rain gauges but some just complain about it. Basically none of them understand the difference between a point measurement and an areal average estimate.

I wish they'd discount their 35W dual port chargers or that I could find a similar 3rd party charger.

My main criteria are (1) dual USB-C ports to charge multiple devices in one location, (2) compact enough to not block the other receptacle, and (3) ports face down/to the side so can fit between the wall and furniture. Unfortunately most chargers fail at least one of these.

Admittedly I haven't read the whole study. But how do they account for the confirmation bias in their review – the fact that null results typically aren't published. Studies that look at an intervention (Tylenol) and fail to find an association are less likely to include it as a variable in their model or less likely to publish a null finding.

An estimated 38% of homes in my county have elevated radon levels.

We tested for radon when we bought our house and found the levels to be very high.

Fortunately the builders had installed a passive mitigation system so all we had to do was install a fan.