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I was given promethazine to help with sleep, an antihistamine with sedating properties.

Was told by the doctor it was a much safer alternative to most other treatments. Could be worth asking about.

It sounds a fantastic claim, but I'll read up a bit on it so thanks.

Must admit though I've not had any drug - prescribed or illicit - that had a more immediate and powerful effect on my anxiety than a benzodiazepine (granted I've not tried heroin before!).

Thankfully they are incredibly hard to get prescribed where I live due too all the above associated dangers.

Very odd! Appreciate you've been up front with lots of privacy on the site.

It feels like a really odd coincidence given the size of the town in question. I suspect the db-ip service has cached the IP somehow against other data for me, perhaps the ipv6 if you use that?

Nice, but can I ask how you determine location?

It added mine as my old home town but I haven't been to that location for a while and it's 20 miles away from where I was when I posted.

Update: I am on mobile, used chrome and Firefox, normal and incognito mode. All show my old town location, Max mind says my IP is in a different town 70 miles away. Either some super odd coincidence and stale geoip lookup or some very advanced device fingerprinting tracking! Feels too odd to be a coincidence

I did an odd interactive media course in college - not CS but lots of programming in various languages.

I loved Director and used it for many assignments. Made so many CD-ROMs, even 3d games using Shockwave and models we'd make in 3DS Max.

It was fun graduating and trying to get a job in 2003! Realising CD ROMs were becoming a thing of the past and having to immediately teach myself HTML and Flash.

On reflection it set the tone for the 20+ years of continuous learning and language swapping!

I don't see why this couldn't be possible. We use LLMs whose weights are frozen and are not updated at inference, most likely this is due to reasons of cost, stability and control.

Theoretically you could update the weights at inference time too though so the model evolved as it's used. Surely some people are trying this already.

I often have to teach basic OOP concepts to junior - mid level developers.

Many who've entered the career in the last decade or so seem to have missed what I 'd consider to be quite a fundamental grounding.

Not even advanced concepts from the gang of four book - though I have taught these too - but often just an un-awareness of OOP in general, even simple things like understanding encapsulation.

Frameworks and languages do evolve, but never being taught basic things like encapsulating state or exposing dependencies seems an issue. Very differnt from my own time as a junior when this stuff was constantly hammered home.

An unfortunate name for certain audiences in the UK!

If only the Roman's had digitized their self help literature!

It is interesting to know! My assumption would be it's technical or scientific publications, maybe things like the Springer back catalog (assuming they've not already licensed these). Some of these are "rare" as in they are essentially published PHD theses with very little in the way of sales / print runs.

Of course I could be wrong and they are destroying 14th century monastic scrolls or out of print Mills & Boon editions.

Should take a look at some of the ISO specs for various MPEG standards for example.

The container formats are defined in a way that could potentially make this possible.

Indeed, I've never developed my own film but I do respect it entails a fair bit of effort, and the funky old camera is cool.

But scanning, cropping using one of the latest image editors, then running it through imagemagick does not feel like the hardest way to make a gif.

I like the core of the game and similar ones like Boggle. But agree for this the timer and having only one game per day makes this not enjoyable.

Not enough reward in the mechanics, I played about 50% of the archive games and each was the same. A feeling a frantic pressure and an inability to hit the 18 words every time (i.e. I lost)

Maybe I'm just too slow, but I feel like a good game should cater for players of mixed ability. This one seems stuck in pro / turbo mode and left me feeling frustrated - which is the only thing really thats stopped me bookmarking it or sharing with my family.

Edit to add - Boggle also has a timer and puts you pressure. But there's multiple paths through the grid which means your less likely to hit a brick wall and also allows for small side wins that help you along (e.g oh there's another three letter word when I am really looking for a 5 or 6).