Category: Student
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Write a Few Jokes Based on Yesterday’s Post, Please?
Sure, here are a few jokes related to the blog post: Why did the turtle visit TheRain.dev? To learn how to bust a move in Python! What do you call a dancing turtle that knows Python? A “turtley groovy” programmer! Why did the turtle graphics program throw an error? Because the turtle didn’t have enough…
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Get Your Groove on with Python: Creating a Dancing Turtle with Turtle Graphics!
I prompted ChatGPT to “write a python program that draws a dancer”, write this blog post, and then help me write the README.md and such to put all the code online in its own GitHub repository. Python is a versatile programming language that can be used for a wide range of applications, from data analysis…
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Please Write a Few Jokes About Dance and Distributed Systems
Sure, here are a few jokes about dance and distributed systems: Why did the distributed system refuse to dance? Because it couldn’t get all the nodes to synchronize their moves! What do you call a group of distributed systems dancing together? A load-balancing conga line! Why did the dancer bring a laptop to the dance…
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Holy OpenAI, Batman
A friend introduced me to https://chat.openai.com/chat today and holy hell I’m impressed. I told it to write a blog post based on my speaking bio: write a blog post about me based on this short description, “Rain Leander is a systematic, slightly psychic, interdisciplinary community liaison with a Bachelor’s in dance and a Master’s in…
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How Much Debt Do You Currently Owe?
If that title made you puke a little in the back of your mouth, you’ll understand why I’ve built an entire new project within The Farmer Project dedicated to personal finance. I’m tired of being scared of All Things Money ™. Including debt. Damnit. The goal for the project is that I will have established…
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Is It Monday Yet?
[COVID Day Five Hundred Seventy Three] As terribly excited as I am to start strength training and such on Monday at 0500 I am also absolutely NOT wanting to start strength training on Monday at 0500. Cause 0500. And strength training. Also, what am I going to have time to inhale before running to the…
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Getting Started: Embrace Your Inner Child
[Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Sixty Four] On the road to becoming a unicorn, you need to go backwards to make progress. I know what you’re thinking right now, “do I want to be a unicorn?” Of course you do. And now you’re thinking, “but my inner child is pretty messed up…” Fair. Mine,…
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Baby, Come Back!
[Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Forty Nine] I have NOT been blogging consistently and I have the perfect excuse – that whole moving to the States thing – but it’s time to get back on track, hrm? I was wrong and I just can’t live without you. Expect the next few posts to be…
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Do I Have To?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Thirteen] I write every single day and sometimes, damnit, I just don’t want to. Sometimes it’s the end of the day and you want to sleep and you’re a bit cold and haven’t been sleeping well and it’s the end of an intense week and you just walked your…
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Getting Started With CockroachDB
[Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Nine] I know, I know. I haven’t even officially started with Cockroach Labs and I’m already nerding out? Where’s the work life balance? Where’s the weekend off? #CantStopWontStop But first the news: Strict Protestant churches ignored calls for online services, no singing Two Covid patients die after power outage…
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Now With Music!
[Dutch Lock Down Day Four Hundred Three] Today I’m quite excited to share that I figured out how to add music to my streams. And also I demonstrated how to use the new and improved GitHub Pages to put your CV online. It’s quite the productive day, eh? But first the news: Coronavirus cases start…
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Sometimes You Just Go Blank
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Seventy Eight] Sometimes you do really well and sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you know the answers and sometimes you don’t. And sometimes your brain freaks out after a long day and just goes blank. Like just now. UGH But first the news: Coronavirus cases levelling off, more patients in…