A much more comprehensive web framework in the form of Laravel (https://laravel.com/docs/8.x). Ruby (Rails) and Python (Django) also offer this. But Laravel is one of the best designed frameworks I've ever used and is a joy to use. And modern PHP is a pretty nice language too.
Cool! I've always found the weak point of Node is the libraries, they are often poorly supported and don't work well together. What's the ORM that comes with Laravel like, any good?
> What's the ORM that comes with Laravel like, any good?
Yes, it's pretty decent. Very flexible and always allows you to drop down to lower levels when you need to. knex.js is a port of Laravel's query builder from PHP to JS. But Laravel also has an active record style ORM system on top of the query builder.
Nice, I currently use knex.js with Objection which provides the active record like API on top. You still have to write the migrations in knex but to be honest I prefer it that way because it gives you more control so if you ever do need to drop down to lower levels you know the exact structure.
For me, it was the learning material and the community. I'm a CS student and i wanted to learn a tool to simply create web apps and bring some ideas to life. I quickly realized that JavaScript is the future of web development so i jumped into it. I don't believe i'm dumb but learning node.js and express almost made me hate web dev. My degree hadn't prepared me for things like ORMs, authentication etc and every tutorial i stumbled upon didn't help me made sense of how all these things work together. At that time, i thought PHP was a joke until i saw laravel and how popular it got. Then i purchased a laracasts subscription and i was shocked how good it was. It just made me a better developer. I don't know if learning PHP in 2020 was eventually a good decision but i'm learning about things like SOLID and TDD while in Node.js i would be stuck trying to install body-parser just to make the simplest thing in web dev, accept an http request.
Anyone looking for a cheap morning light box should consider a grow lamp. They are designed for plants but they work pretty well for humans too. You get a lot more power per dollar than the human ones which are usually at the bottom end of the required light output. If you pair it with a smart home relay (or microcontroller with relay module if you are so inclined) you can have it turn on automatically with your alarm.
I use a 100W 16x16 LED array grow lamp and if you're within 3ft it feels like a sunny day.
I also recommend if you think you might have DSPD that you get bloodwork for cortisol and prolactin. Some people who don't have the mutation still have the symptoms because their cortisol is permanently elevated (chronic stress) and only falls when they are exhausted. Both can be treated with a light box and relaxing activities in low light in the evening but if you have elevated cortisol you may also need to consider additional treatment option for chronic stress. It's also possible to have both because constantly being on a different sleep schedule to the rest of the world can cause chronic stress.
Can you tell us which LED grow lamp you use and which stand? I tried searching on Amazon but all of the product descriptions lie about their power usage.
I just investigated and it seems my 100W lamp is actually only 35W but they lie about power usage because it's supposed to be equivalent brightness to a 100W incandescent bulb. Should have coped it when I noticed there was no cooling system (though it does get very hot). Either way the lamp I use is a Black Shark B07QVGNGM8 and even at 35W I can confirm it's still blindingly bright.
I know it was a joke, but just in case: one grow-lamp turned on for an hour in the morning is unlikely to trigger alerts. Growers usually run several lamps, and they keep them on most of the day - long enough to be comfortably captured on thermal cameras, which police tend to use at night anyway.
I usually make the zoom window small and place it right under the camera so looking at the person is indistinguishable from looking at the camera. This doesn't solve the problem of making eye contact with individuals though, you can only make eye contact with the current speaker.
Oxidative stress can be reduced by eating foods that produce less metabolic waste, e.g less unstable polyunsaturated fats and getting all the necessary nutrients that are protective against the damaging effects, e.g vitamin E.
If you just eat less, make less energy, do less, you get net neutral state of a longer life lived more slowly. Not worth it in my estimation.
"If you just eat less, make less energy, do less"
I would wager the modern reality is that people do less as they eat more, not the opposite. The people on extended caloric restricted diets I would wager to be far more active.
Yes and that's the problem, you have people who eat too little and do too much that end up with stress related illnesses and people who eat too much and do too little who end up with obesity related diseases.
Ideally you want to maximize your metabolic throughput while keeping it as clean as possible and have an active life to use the calories.
Eating enough clean food is definetely the best, yeah. Even for losing weight I don't think eating a extremelly calorically restrictive diet is the way to go unless you are in immediate medical danger. Just didnt agree with the idea that people who really eat whatever they want in whatever quantity they want generally lead a very active lifestyle.
I’ve never understood how extended caloric restricted diets are supposed to work without continuously losing weight. I understand that if you eat under maintenance you may lose weight and have a lower maintenance level and stop losing weight but then doesn’t it stop counting as calorie restriction?
I've never done it, but I believe your body will adjust its metabolism to match your calories, eventually. Otherwise, you would continuously lose fat and muscle until you die, so yeah you can't eat under what you're body is using forever.
I haven't been able to find anything specifically around popup animations, but the BBC's Cape initiative discusses some of the stimulations etc. that can be intrusive for those with neurodivergent conditions such as autism spectrum condition, ADHD, etc.
I've found that most of these chatbots will use sound alerts to draw attention, and Cape's environmental toolkit definitely references these. While a lot of the content in this toolkit is for physical environments, a lot of it will transfer to digital product UX in terms of stimuli etc.
I have an ASD diagnosis. This is the first I've heard of "condition". Neat! Is this to move away from "disorder" because of stigma/negative connotation?
I believe it is to try and avoid negative connotations. Not quite sure how widespread it is, but the BBC do try to be very conscious of their language in such contexts, and I think do a very good job of it.
The best way is to get monthly blood tests and measure your serum levels of vitamin D. You can then adjust your dose accordingly. For me, light skinned in the northern hemisphere I need 4000IU keep my labs above 50.
Agreed. My opinion is that we need to eat less, higher quality meat. Don't get fried chicken for a snack, cook a pasture raised chicken roast and use the leftovers. Better for us and improves animal welfare.
This still might not provide adequate vitamin D. But I think the demonization of fat is part of the Vitamin D problem.
Endocrine disruptors are a real thing[0]. They come from many kinds of pollution. Probably not intentional but they are there.
Endocrine disruptors can cause changes in sexual behaviours and expression of primary and secondary sexual characteristics in animals (including humans).
Not exactly the same thing but this is the grain of truth in what seems like an entirely absurd idea.
Indeed. People in the US are a little complacent because democracy has been in place for enough generations to forget that Dictatorship is the default state.
