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[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

How long has this been going? A few hours? Days? Weeks?

Addiction is a disease in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] vrek@programming.dev 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One time a coworker asked me and another friend to go to the casino with her, her mom and her boyfriend after work and me and my friend said yes. We arrive and when we walk in we are told "if you sign up for our players card you get 20 dollars preloaded for free"... What the hell why not, free 20 dollars. Everyone besides me and my friend had one already so we said we'll meet you inside once we get the card.

So we go to the counter and fill out their one page form, take maybe 10 minutes being generous. We get the card and go to walk onto the floor, keep in mind this place only had machine games, no tables or anything and my coworker is walking out with her family. "what's up? I thought you were playing." she responds "nah, we are leaving, we already lost $1500"

Somehow they lost $500 each in under 10 minutes... I still don't know how.

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[–] vrek@programming.dev 38 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Fun fact python was named after Monty python, not the snake.

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[–] vrek@programming.dev 20 points 1 week ago

I know it's hard to get a hotel room in dragon con but just once I want some one to happen to have a business meeting. They book a hotel room and are just utterly confused about all the other guests....

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[–] vrek@programming.dev 49 points 2 weeks ago

You have to be careful if there are any 3s though... Sometimes you can't see the threes because of the fouriest....

Live Updates on the Global Market: China raises its retaliatory tariff on the US to 84% effective April 10 in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

An irrational percentage for an irrational tarrif... Its fitting

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[–] vrek@programming.dev 65 points 2 months ago (26 children)

I agree and haven't returned but lemmy hasn't hit critical mass yet.... Like I don't recall a post with over a hundred replies. Reddit used to have over a thousand on every reply on the first page.

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How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible? (programming.dev)
 

So background, my kid has seizures often. He is currently on 5 different medications to try to control it(plus 1 for sleeping and 1 for his liver enzymes) plus severe non verbal autism so he can't tell us if he already had his meds. Currently when it's medication time, it's always "did you give him his meds yet?" and we have no way of tracking how many seizures he actually has besides "alot more recently" or "it's gone down recently". Yes he had multiple doctors and this is NOT a post looking for health advice.

I am creating an app for phones(c# Maui) which will send json objects to a api to store/retrieve data in a database(when he last had medication x, when he has a seizure etc). It will probably only be used with in my family, maybe 20 entries a day on a really bad day(7 medications twice daily + 6 seizures to give a round number) but should be less then 10 transactions(most medications given at same time).

What's the cheapest/easiest was I can host something like this? I do not have a static ip. Yes it's health information but I'm only storing first names and tracking time of events, not too worried about hippa like security.

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People complain that it's poor design that humans eat and breath through the same pipe(throat). Are there any animals which don't though? (programming.dev)
 

The only possible exceptions I can think of are fish(I imagine gills and mouth are not connected but don't really know). I am excluding bacteria and viruses and I believe they don't really breath(correct me if I'm wrong).