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BOOM:

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The Mandalorian has some great action. So did The A-Team. So Nebulous Bee thought it would be fun to combine the two. This edit reimagines the credits for the Star Wars series in the style of the 1980s hit series, with Bo-Katan, Paz Vizsla, The Armorer, and Din Djarin standing in for Templeton Peck  B.A. Baracus, Hannibal Smith, and Howling Mad Murdock.

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JK Rowling has been the head transphobe in charge for quite some time now. You know how leftist sh*tc*nts get when you express a different opinion on them on the internet. They go right to the -isms and -phobias they accuse you of. In Rowling’s case, she also gets people threatening her life. All for the think-crime of, four years ago, defending someone who was fired for saying boys are boys and girls are girls.

If death threats don’t phase her, what do you think her putting her mouth on your weiner is going to do? One loser found this out the hard way and if he has any friends, I hope they’re all laughing at him now.,

— (@)

So how did things escalate this quickly? It starts with Maya Forstater, the woman who got fired from her job for "’publishing “offensive” tweets questioning government proposals to allow people to self-identify as the opposite sex.’" Defending this woman is what started Rowling on her road to TERFdom. Forstater had just won a settlement when the organisation "was found to have engaged in unlawful discrimination in its decision not to offer her an employment contract or to renew her visiting fellowship."

Turns out that having a common belief about sex and gender does NOT equal bigotry.

— (@)

Rowling offered Maya her congratulations.

— (@)

Which led to Joshua D’silva telling Rowlings to suck his dick. This WAS the link to the tweet. It was literally deleted while I was working on this post after Rowling informed the world that D’silva allegedly had a penis so small, it was barely detectable. How embarrassing.

The whole Rowling thing still cracks me up. She is in no way, shape, or form on our side politically AT ALL. When leftists were "resisting" Trump in 2015-16, they would identify themselves as sects from Hogwarts. We would dare them to read another book.

All it took was one tweet and one single opinion for the left to turn on JK Rowling as if she was literally Voldermort. It’s hilarious. Especially knowing Rowling is sleeping on a giant pile of money as she responds. to each of her haters.

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composer require ikechukwukalu/dynamicdatabaseconfig

DB_HOST_ONE=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT_ONE=3306
DB_DATABASE_ONE=second_db
DB_USERNAME_ONE=root
DB_PASSWORD_ONE=

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

/**
 * mysql is the type of relational database connection being replicated - $database
 * mysql_1 is the new connection name - $name
 * ONE is the postfix - $postfix
 */

Route::middleware(['env.database.config:mysql,mysql_1,ONE'])->group(function () {
    Route::post('/user', function (Request $request) {
        /**
         * $request->_db_connection === 'mysql_1'
         */
        return \App\Models\User::on('mysql_1')->find(1);
    });
});

Route::post('/user', function (Request $request) {
        /**
         * $request->_db_connection === 'mysql_1'
         */
        return \App\Models\User::on('mysql_1')->find(1);
})->middleware('env.database.config:mysql,mysql_1,ONE');

use Ikechukwukalu\Dynamicdatabaseconfig\Models\DatabaseConfiguration;

protected $hidden = [
        'ref',
        'name',
        'database',

        /**
         * Accepts only arrays
         */
        'configuration'
];

$countries = ['nigeria', 'ghana', 'togo', 'kenya'];
$config = \Config::get('database.connections.mysql');

foreach ($countries as $country) {
    $config['database'] = $country . '_db';
    DatabaseConfiguration::firstOrCreate(
    ['ref' => $country],
    [
        'ref' => $country,
        'name' => 'mysql_' . $country,
        'database' => 'mysql',
        'configuration' => $config
    ]);
}

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

/**
 * nigeria is $ref value
 */

Route::middleware(['dynamic.database.config:nigeria'])->group(function () {
    Route::post('/user', function (Request $request) {
        /**
         * $request->_db_connection === 'mysql_nigeria'
         */
        return \App\Models\User::on('mysql_nigeria')->find(1);
    });
});

Route::post('/user', function (Request $request) {
        /**
         * $request->_db_connection === 'mysql_nigeria'
         */
        return \App\Models\User::on('mysql_nigeria')->find(1);
})->middleware('dynamic.database.config:nigeria');

php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE

php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria

php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --path=database/migrations/folder

php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --path=database/migrations/folder

php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE
php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --path=database/migrations/folder

php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria
php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --path=database/migrations/folder

php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --seed
php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --seeder=DatabaseSeederOne
php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --seeder=DatabaseSeederOne  --path=database/migrations/folder

php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --seed
php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --seeder=DatabaseSeederNigeria
php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --seeder=DatabaseSeederNigeria  --path=database/migrations/folder

php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --fresh
php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --fresh --seed
php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --fresh --seeder=DatabaseSeederOne
php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --path=database/migrations/folder --fresh
php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --path=database/migrations/folder --fresh --seeder=DatabaseSeederOne

php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --fresh
php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --fresh --seed
php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --fresh --seeder=DatabaseSeederNigeria
php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --path=database/migrations/folder --fresh
php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --path=database/migrations/folder --fresh --seeder=DatabaseSeederNigeria

php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --refresh
php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --refresh --seed
php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --refresh --seeder=DatabaseSeederOne
php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --path=database/migrations/folder --refresh
php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --path=database/migrations/folder --refresh --seeder=DatabaseSeederOne

php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --refresh
php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --refresh --seed
php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --refresh --seeder=DatabaseSeederNigeria
php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --path=database/migrations/folder --refresh
php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --path=database/migrations/folder --refresh --seeder=DatabaseSeederNigeria

php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --rollback
php artisan env:migrate mysql mysql_1 ONE --path=database/migrations/folder --rollback

php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --rollback
php artisan dynamic:migrate nigeria --path=database/migrations/folder --rollback

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php artisan make:migration create_products_table --create=products

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

return new class extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     */
    public function up(): void
    {
        Schema::create('products', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->json('attributes');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     */
    public function down(): void
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('products');
    }
};

php artisan migrate

php artisan make:model Product

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Product extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;

    protected $casts = [
        'attributes' => 'json',
    ];
}

use App\Models\Product;

$product = new Product;
$product->attributes = [
    'color' => 'red',
    'size' => 'medium',
    'weight' => 0.5,
];
$product->save();

$product = Product::find(1);
$attributes = $product->attributes;

$color = $product->attributes['color'];

$product = \App\Models\Product::find(1);
$product->attributes = [
    'color' => 'green',
    'size' => 'large',
    'weight' => 2.5,
];
$product->save();

$product = \App\Models\Product::find(1);
$attributes = $product->attributes; // create a copy of the array
$attributes['weight'] = 0.6; // modify the value in the copied array
$product->attributes = $attributes; // assign the copied array back to $product->attributes
$product->save();

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ChatGPT is amazing, but its knowledge is limited to the data on which it was trained.

Wouldn&apost it be great if you could use the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) to interact with your own private documents, without uploading them to the web?

The great news is that you can do this TODAY! Let me show you how…

privateGPT is an open source project that allows you to parse your own documents and interact with them using a LLM. You ask it questions, and the LLM will generate answers from your documents.

All using Python, all 100% private, all 100% free!

Below, I&aposll walk you through how to set it up. (Note that this will require some familiarity with the command line.)

1️⃣ Clone or download the repository

If git is installed on your computer, then navigate to an appropriate folder (perhaps "Documents") and clone the repository (git clone https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT.git). That will create a "privateGPT" folder, so change into that folder (cd privateGPT).

Alternatively, you could download the repository as a zip file (using the green "Code" button), move the zip file to an appropriate folder, and then unzip it. It will create a folder called "privateGPT-main", which you should rename to "privateGPT". You&aposll then need to navigate to that folder using the command line.

2️⃣ Create and activate a new environment

I highly recommend setting up a virtual environment for this project. My tool of choice is conda, which is available through Anaconda (the full distribution) or Miniconda (a minimal installer), though many other tools are available.

If you&aposre using conda, create an environment called "gpt" that includes the latest version of Python using conda create -n gpt python. Then, activate the environment using conda activate gpt. Use conda list to see which packages are installed in this environment.

(Note: privateGPT requires Python 3.10 or later.)

3️⃣ Install the packages listed in requirements.txt

First, make sure that "privateGPT" is your working directory using pwd. Then, make sure that "gpt" is your active environment using conda info.

Once you&aposve done that, use pip3 install -r requirements.txt to install all of the packages listed in that file into the "gpt" environment. This will take at least a few minutes.

Use conda list to see the updated list of which packages are installed.

(Note: The System Requirements section of the README may be helpful if you run into an installation error.)

4️⃣ Download the LLM model

In the Environment Setup section of the README, there&aposs a link to an LLM. Currently, that LLM is ggml-gpt4all-j-v1.3-groovy.bin. Download that file (3.5 GB).

Then, create a subfolder of the "privateGPT" folder called "models", and move the downloaded LLM file to "models".

5️⃣ Copy the environment file

In the "privateGPT" folder, there&aposs a file named "example.env". Make a copy of that file named ".env" using cp example.env .env. Use ls -a to check that it worked.

(Note: This file has nothing to do with your virtual environment.)

6️⃣ Add your documents

Add your private documents to the "source_documents" folder, which is a subfolder of the "privateGPT" folder. Here&aposs a list of the supported file types.

I recommend starting with a small number of documents so that you can quickly verify that the entire process works. (The "source_documents" folder already contains a sample document, "state_of_the_union.txt", so you can actually just start with this document if you like.)

7️⃣ Ingest your documents

Once again, make sure that "privateGPT" is your working directory using pwd.

Then, run python ingest.py to parse the documents. This may run quickly (< 1 minute) if you only added a few small documents, but it can take a very long time with larger documents.

Once this process is done, you&aposll notice that there&aposs a new subfolder of "privateGPT" called "db".

8️⃣ Interact with your documents

Run python privateGPT.py to start querying your documents! Once it has loaded, you will see the text Enter a query:

Type in your question and hit enter. After a minute, it will answer your question, followed by a list of source documents that it used for context.

(Keep in mind that the LLM has "knowledge" far outside your documents, so it can answer questions that have nothing to do with the documents you provided to it.)

When you&aposre done asking questions, just type exit.

???? Troubleshooting

This project is less than two months old, and it depends on other libraries which are also quite new! Thus it&aposs highly likely that you will run into bugs, unexplained errors, and crashes.

For example, if you get an "unknown token" error after asking a question, my experience has been that you can ignore the error and you will still get an answer to your question.

On the other hand, if you get a memory-related error, you will need to end the process by hitting "Ctrl + C" on your keyboard. (Then, just restart it by running python privateGPT.py.)

You might be able to find a workaround to a particular problem by searching the Issues in the privateGPT repository.

If you post your own GitHub issue, please be kind! This is an open source project being run by one person in his spare time (for free)!

???? Usage tips

Want to query more documents? Add them to the "source_documents" folder and re-run python ingest.py.

Want to start over? Delete the "db" folder, and a new "db" folder will be created the next time you ingest documents.

Want to hide the source documents for each answer? Run python privateGPT.py -S instead of python privateGPT.py.

Want to try a different LLM? Download a different LLM to the "models" folder and reference it in the ".env" file.

Want to use the latest version of the code? Given its popularity, it&aposs likely that this project will evolve rapidly. If you want to use the latest version of the code, run git pull origin main.

???? Disclaimer

I think it&aposs worth repeating the disclaimer listed at the bottom of the repository:

This is a test project to validate the feasibility of a fully private solution for question answering using LLMs and Vector embeddings. It is not production-ready, and it is not meant to be used in production. The models selection is not optimized for performance, but for privacy; but it is possible to use different models and vector stores to improve performance.

Planet Python

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Interior/exterior decoration, 2020s-style: Govee Curtain Lights are essentially a curtain of hanging LED-embedded strips. Measuring 1.5m (5′) wide and 2m (6.6′) tall, this provides a grid of 520 evenly-spaced LEDs that you can program via an app, allowing you to turn walls or windows into gigantic animated Lite-Brites.

You can either choose from stock animations provided by the company, or create your own. The company also boasts of a "Music Mode" that makes the lights move in accordance with music.

If this is your jam, startup Govee paid the YouTuber below to produce this video on setting up and using the product.

All I can think is how dated this is going to look in a few years; I imagine if this style of decoration catches on, the consumer will demand a much higher level of resolution.

Core77

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I was astonished to read of the wide-ranging implications of a new laser weeding technology now available to farmers.

Carbon Robotics is now shipping its LaserWeeder to farms around the United States; the machine uses the power of lasers and robotics to rid fields of weeds … The LaserWeeder can eliminate over 200,000 weeds per hour and offer up to 80% cost savings in weed control. 

. . .

The LaserWeeder is a 20-foot-wide unit comprised of three rows of 10 lasers that are pulled behind a tractor.

Thirty lasers are at work as the unit travels across a field destroying weeds "with millimeter accuracy, skipping the plant and killing the weed," said Mikesell. 

The LaserWeeder "does the equivalent work of about 70 people," he continued.

. . .

The technology "makes for a much more consistent growing process and adds a bunch of health to your yield. You get big yield improvements because you’re not damaging the crops with herbicides."

There’s more at the link.

Here’s a publicity video from Carbon Robotics showing the LaserWeeder in action.

The economic implications for farmers and farm workers are mind-boggling.

• The workers normally hired to manage weeds in crops won’t be needed any more – or, at any rate, far fewer of them.  That’s a huge money-saver for farmers, but how many workers will end up unemployed, with no jobs available to replace those they’ve lost?  What will that do to the unemployment rate overall?
• I’ve no idea how much per acre farmers normally spend on herbicides, but it’s got to add up.  It probably varies from region to region.  If those expenses are no longer needed, the robotic/laser technology of the LaserWeeder becomes that much more affordable.
• What will this mean for fertilizers and other input costs?  If crops are no longer threatened by weed incursion, will farmers still need as much fertilizer to obtain high yields, or will the absence of weeds – and the saving of time and money through not having to fight them – mean that less fertilizer can be used, because overall crop productivity will be higher even without it?
• Can this technology be scaled according to the size of farm and type of crop?  The video above shows a big machine in a big field.  Can a smaller machine be made at a lower cost?  Can smaller farms use it cost-effectively?  Can the technology be adapted to (say) market gardening in greenhouses, rather than fields?  These things may not be possible now, but if they become feasible, they may make even the small-scale, backyard growing of fruit and vegetables much easier and cheaper.  Might we be able to grow a certain proportion of our own food, more practically and affordably than before, thereby reducing our dependence on "Big Ag"?
• Do these input cost savings mean that farmers (and Big Ag in particular) can/will accept lower prices for their produce, because they’ll have lower input costs to grow them?
• Can this technology be adapted to (say) gardening in greenhouses and back yards, rather than larger fields?  It may not be possible now, but if it becomes feasible, it may make the small-scale, private cultivation of fruit and vegetables much easier and cheaper.  You might see groups of neighbors hiring or buying such technology to share among themselves, at home or in allotments.
• Over time, this technology may revolutionize the production of food, thereby addressing some of the "woke" or "green" concerns about modern farming practices.  There’s a lot of concern about the over-use of farm chemicals and resultant pollution problems (see, for example, the so-called "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, caused by such chemicals draining down the Mississippi River and out to sea).  Could such technology help reduce that problem, by needing less fertilizer and/or herbicides?

Just the thought of no longer having to spend hours weeding in the back yard is enormously tempting.  This will bear watching.

Peter

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composer require laracraft-tech/laravel-schema-rules --dev

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="schema-rules-config"

Schema::create('persons', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->id();
    $table->string('first_name', 100);
    $table->string('last_name', 100);
    $table->string('email');
    $table->foreignId('address_id')->constrained();
    $table->text('bio')->nullable();
    $table->enum('gender', ['m', 'f', 'd']);
    $table->date('birth');
    $table->year('graduated');
    $table->float('body_size');
    $table->unsignedTinyInteger('children_count')->nullable();
    $table->integer('account_balance');
    $table->unsignedInteger('net_income');
    $table->boolean('send_newsletter')->nullable();
});

Schema-based validation rules for table "persons" have been generated!
Copy & paste these to your controller validation or form request or where ever your validation takes place:
[
    'first_name' => ['required', 'string', 'min:1', 'max:100'],
    'last_name' => ['required', 'string', 'min:1', 'max:100'],
    'email' => ['required', 'string', 'min:1', 'max:255'],
    'address_id' => ['required', 'exists:addresses,id'],
    'bio' => ['nullable', 'string', 'min:1'],
    'gender' => ['required', 'string', 'in:m,f,d'],
    'birth' => ['required', 'date'],
    'graduated' => ['required', 'integer', 'min:1901', 'max:2155'],
    'body_size' => ['required', 'numeric'],
    'children_count' => ['nullable', 'integer', 'min:0', 'max:255'],
    'account_balance' => ['required', 'integer', 'min:-2147483648', 'max:2147483647'],
    'net_income' => ['required', 'integer', 'min:0', 'max:4294967295'],
    'send_newsletter' => ['nullable', 'boolean']
]

Schema-based validation rules for table "persons" have been generated!
Copy & paste these to your controller validation or form request or where ever your validation takes place:
[
    'first_name' => ['required', 'string', 'min:1', 'max:100'],
    'last_name' => ['required', 'string', 'min:1', 'max:100'],
    'email' => ['required', 'string', 'min:1', 'max:255']
]

# creates app/Http/Requests/StorePersonRequest.php (store request is the default)
php artisan schema:generate-rules persons --create-request 

# creates/overwrites app/Http/Requests/StorePersonRequest.php
php artisan schema:generate-rules persons --create-request --force
 
# creates app/Http/Requests/UpdatePersonRequest.php
php artisan schema:generate-rules persons --create-request --file UpdatePersonRequest

# creates app/Http/Requests/Api/V1/StorePersonRequest.php
php artisan schema:generate-rules persons --create-request --file Api\\V1\\StorePersonRequest

# creates/overwrites app/Http/Requests/Api/V1/StorePersonRequest.php (using shortcuts)
php artisan schema:generate-rules persons -cf --file Api\\V1\\StorePersonRequest

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