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Advent of Code - 2022

Can I complete Advent of Code 2022 in python this year? Last years entry and how far I got * 2022 - Python solutions I finished!! A little later than 25th, but I did catch Covid for the week of 18th - 25th.

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Life and loss

Thinking about life while on a run and thinking why can't I hit my previous running goals with the same effort. This is due to various factors, but the one that continuously hits me is injuries that show up that never did before and take extraordinarily (in my opinion) long

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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

I am running manticore search and redis within my Ubuntu 22 on top of Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) this allows me to connect my Windows development environment (Internet Information Services - IIS) to use linuxy development tools that don't change and match the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud

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Insert With Common Table Expression - MySql

In the case you have a MySql table filled with default Lookup ids for each user in your system to a messsage id. In this case you are looking to fill in the many to many relationships of bridging table from a User table to the Message table. For simplicity

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Consult the Scrolls

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Center a div vertically

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And this is what the Devil does - JavaScript

JavaScript our Lord and master and it's broken as fuck math because of the desire to treat all numbers as floating point. I know exactly why Brendan Eich did this. It's easier to build a single number type at the instruction level because I took a compiler/architecture class so

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Decoding political speech

Driving by the highway and I saw a sign for the state board of education candidate which said Education not Indoctrination and that is obviously an inverted lie because the candidate Kathryn Monette is wanting to indoctrinate students with their insane religious views and eliminate any factual information or teaching.

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Improving Software: Automated Testing

Building testing after the code is written and deployed is hard and expensive, so why? Feedback This is the goal of all testing to get direct results from inputs and does it match the expected outputs Reduce Change risk and remove problems Improve Understanding of internal code structure Team Effort

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Mobile Application Justification

Native App - Flutter * Exposes current and new API for users * Validation of capabilities * Sample implementation (if open sourced) * Consistent experience for implementators * Enforces separation of responsibilities Benefits * Users get native application performance * Notifications are now prioritized * Background * Immediate Application * Grants API capabilities dictating form and consistency is kept * Native

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The history of Web Financial Fraud

Web 1.0: Identity When the web first started early 1990s - 2001 or so the anonymity offered by the newness of the platform and protocol allowed people to deceive others about their identity to conduct fraud i.e. email fraud, website fraud, payment fraud. This level was mostly at

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MySql - Delete all with foreign keys

You want to delete a record in a MySql database but it has foreign keys and gives you the error code 1217 Generate all the applicable delete statements with the following query. Example I would like to delete the last record from the TheTable Statement SELECT Id From TheTable Order

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Stages of Rust

Learning Rust stages * This is cool 🆒 * I am protected from mistakes 👑 * Why can't I do this borrow checker? 🤔 * Now there is a chain of fixes I must make 🧾 * Help please 😭 * Go back to Python and JavaScript 😸

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Tacoma Screw

When I lived in Seattle I would get pizza in the Georgetown neighborhood (Via Tribunali) and every time I drove back to my apartment in Capitol Hill I would pass a sign that said Tacoma Screw It made me laugh every time and the joke was this should be the

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Jury Selection

I was "summoned" to jury duty in my current county of residence Tarrant and this is an evaluation of the process, what the potential trial was, and my critical observations and statements. Setting the stage of the Summons Why am I being summoned to a in person jury trial during

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Disagree and commit

Cult terms Have people used this term in your work lately? Disagree and commit It's a cult phrase and it is actively making me mad because this is what it means to me. * Disagree and submit (to what others say) * Disagree and ignore (the fuckup that is coming because ignoring

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Fetch using Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Need to post a request to service side method using fetch and CSRF. First tried the option of using credentials as this is secured and token authenticated. That didn't work so I need to use the MVC expected token authenticator header in this case of the Cross Site Request AntiForgery

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Mobile hacks: CSS, JavaScript

Request is to center a div content within a widget (embedded html+javascript+css) into a large website. From this to this on mobile devices JavaScript The JavaScript injected code would need to be placed in a block. Suggested the JavaScript injection as CSS can be tricky when multiple styles

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Terminal Setup

Windows Install * oh-my-posh * posh-git * Windows Terminal Powershell Set the profile.ps1 notepad $PROFILE Import-Module PSReadLine Import-Module -Name Terminal-Icons Set-PoshPrompt -Theme paradox Set-PSReadLineOption -PredictionSource History Set-PSReadLineOption -PredictionViewStyle ListView Set-PSReadLineOption -EditMode Windows Setting themes, fonts and icons in Windows TerminalI’ve been using Windows Terminal more and more over the past couple

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Google maps replace markers

Sometimes you don't have the control or the ability to make direct changes to the served content of a webpage and especially a google maps. Google maps expects you to keep track of your markers as you place them on your map div, but if you are modifying a map

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Exhibit A On money is the delusion we tell ourselves everyday.

Last August, Citigroup Inc. wired $900 million to some hedge funds by accident. Then it sent a note to the hedge funds saying, oops, sorry about that, please send us the money back. Some did. Others preferred to keep the money. Citi sued them. Yesterday Citi lost, and they got

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Nginx Upgrade Gotchas

Looking at my server configuration and saw that my Nginx version was 1.18.x which was release approximately April 2020 and that corresponds to probably when I was last editing my nginx reverse proxy start of Covid 19 restrictions etc. Time to upgrade to latest and greatest, what could

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Even numbers: SQL

Problem: Print out the even numbers between 1 and 10 inclusive Normally you would a simple for/while loop and check for modulus, division but let's do it with SQL and recursive Common Table Expressions [https://www.essentialsql.com/introduction-common-table-expressions-ctes/] CTE MySql [https://www.mysql.com/] WITH RECURSIVE seq AS

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Autonomy: gitignore

Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore | Hacker NewsHacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31420268]First: No But it's not because you can do things like this or .gitignore with "*" Second: It's about autonomy These people should use forks of repos. Bam problem and disagreements gone. Stop sharing

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MySql JSON Search Array

Search with JSON in a case insensitive manner across array values Create a table like so create table test.users ( id int auto_increment primary key, identifiers json null ); Fill the table with some sample data insert into users (identifiers) values ('{"names": ["Johnny", "John", "Jay"], "id": "12345z" }'), ('{