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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:22:40 JST Alex Gleason
   After 17 years of coding, I am finally starting to actually understand databases. Thanks ChatGPT; using AI to advance my career.
   
   Anyway, I thought it was some 3-dimensional nebula inside a database, but now I realize it is in fact all 2D, and there's just a lot of automatic duplication to allow accessing it in 3D ways. Now that I've built an index by hand it makes sense.
   
   I really thought I was going become an artist, but after failing art class in high school I decided to become a coder. Follow your dreams.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:24:30 JST Alex Gleason

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     @LukeAlmighty Indexes.
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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:24:49 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @alex
     Automatic duplication?

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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:26:15 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     What does accessing it in 3D ways mean?
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     Edward Sneeden (sneeden@iddqd.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:26:22 JST Edward Sneeden

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     @alex wait so you're vegan AND a failed artist?
     
     No wonder people you nazi
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     :blank: (i@declin.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:29:20 JST :blank:

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     @alex 1d actually, but then you build a linked list of blocks of pages of 4k blocks so you know where to seek to
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     binkle (binkle@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:31:49 JST binkle

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     @alex i don't know a ding dang thing about databases or querying outside of having made some queries in WAQL once and tbh i am just fine with that. My CS degree didn't even have classes devoted to those topics, believe it or not
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:31:49 JST Alex Gleason

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     @binkle I do believe it. I found college to be worthless. You pay THEM to work.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:32:43 JST Alex Gleason

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     @tassoman Those guys have their head so far up their ass they forgot how to ELI5
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     Tassoman (tassoman@orwell.fun)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:32:44 JST Tassoman

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     O'really? 🤔
     You should have read a boomer book about SQL before stack overflow days
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:35:42 JST Alex Gleason

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     @meso @adachi I actually did great in art class up until senior year. But by AP Art II my classmates were taking it a lot more seriously and I got a C I think because I couldn't focus on one particular subject or theme to make all my pieces around. I was less skilled due to not practicing as much. Then I created Spinster.
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     meso (meso@the.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:35:43 JST meso

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     @alex >Alex Gleason failed art school
     Lore @adachi
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     Caffosaurus☕?:mayo: (fullycaffeinated@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:39:50 JST Caffosaurus☕?:mayo:

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     @alex You know you can join Feart and I in splodging. We'll make an artist out of you in no time! 🤣 🎨
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:40:42 JST Alex Gleason

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     • cream queen
     @creamqueen Sometimes you're so mean. And sometimes you're funny. How do we cultivate that?
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     cream queen (creamqueen@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:40:43 JST cream queen

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     @alex coding isn't a real hobby. Go turn a wrench, collect some stamps, cast a fishing pole, buy a rifle, chop some firewood, plant something. Stop being a loser.
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     binkle (binkle@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:41:16 JST binkle

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     @alex TRUE. I am very conflicted about my college experience. About half the classes were useless, and it seems like the workload actually broke some of the students (it was not uncommon to see people crying silently on the couches in the hall during project submissions), and I am also loaded up with a bunch of debt now, but unlike a lot of schools it had a sort of boot-camp "we're in this together" mentality that forged the intensity for work I have now. I go back and forth a lot on whether I'd be successful without that last part happening.
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     Seahorses are horses (piss_ant@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:42:38 JST Seahorses are horses

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     @alex Inspo post for those of us who are more autistic than artistic
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:43:19 JST Alex Gleason

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     • binkle
     @binkle If you don't make your own Main Quest, one will be thrust upon you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaICKlp9kQc
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:47:00 JST Alex Gleason

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     @binkle @i I've never had to deal with pointers, but I've suffered from memory references enough. Getting that wrong will re-render your React components a million times.
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     binkle (binkle@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:47:01 JST binkle

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     @i @alex i have absolutely no idea how a person can't into structs or pointers, but i also started with C/assembly and went up in abstraction, rather than starting with python/javascript and going down in abstraction
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     :blank: (i@declin.eu)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:47:02 JST :blank:

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     @binkle @alex people who can't into structs and pointers struggle with tables and keys too, it's not very complicated, just very tedious
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 01:25:59 JST feld

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     • cream queen
     more cream
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     marlin (marlin@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 03:25:35 JST marlin

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     @alex > failed artist
     > vegan
     > creator of Re[ich]based
     I can't wait to see your next facial hair style.
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     binkle (binkle@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 03:25:49 JST binkle

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     @alex I had never seen this video before so I took the time and watched it the whole thing. I don't necessarily like how he's viewing all games through the lens of WoW, but if I take it as relating to those more neurochemically abusive examples (WoW, LoL, mobile games, etc) I agree with him 100%. I've known plenty of people who get involved in gaming and it zaps their motivation to do anything.
     
     I also don't really blame him for lumping all games together like that if he really did have a problem with WoW since that can be a really hard habit to kick. I've literally seen it destroy marriages
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