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How to Write SQL Queries
SQL is a declarative, English-like domain language for querying, analyzing and manipulating data. SQL originated from relational databases but has since been widely adopted elsewhere. SQL is considered a declarative language, meaning users declare what results they want and not how to get to these results (the latter is the approach of imperative programming languages, …
How to write the perfect sentence | Books
Every writer, of school age and older, is in the sentences game. The sentence is our writing commons, the shared ground where all writers walk. A poet writes in sentences, and so does the unsung author who came up with “Items trapped in doors cause delays”. The sentence is the Ur-unit, the core material, the …
Show HN: A tool to help you write more reliable prompts
Hey HN! While writing prompts for a few projects recently, a couple of friends and I realised that writing prompts today is like writing code in a txt file – it sucks and there is no tooling to help you. So we decided to hack on a tool to help you fix this – https://optimist.varied.ai/ …
Using ChatGPT to write AppleScript
I found a killer application for ChatGPT today: writing AppleScript! I’ve been stubbornly refusing to learn AppleScript for nearly twenty years at this point. Thanks to ChatGPT I can continue not to learn it, but I can now use it to solve problems. I wanted to figure out how to export the content of my …
It’s harder to read code than to write it
T-shirt design We believe there is some fundamental truth in this quote. Because of that we wanted to do something special with illustration. Enhance the quote with more fundamental truths. It is the perfect opportunity to subtly embed ying yang into the design. Make junior developer write code while senior reads it. If you look …
'Youth have stories to tell': Iowa City fifth-graders write about the environment in new program
At the edge of the pond at Cangleska Wakan in Solon, a group of fifth-graders huddled around a bucket, peering at the different critters and shells they’d scooped from the water. Moments earlier, another student found success when he dipped his net into the pond. “I got a tadpole,” he shouted, carrying his find back to …
Readers Write: Minneapolis and the environment, religious freedom
Opinion editor’s note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes letters from readers online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• The recent article on groundwater issues around Lake Nokomis is misleading (“The hole story in Nokomis,” April 20). The article implies that homes were built on peat dredged from Lake Nokomis. Not true. Park …
Trump says it was ‘inappropriate’ of ex-USS Theodore Roosevelt commander to write memo
Capt. Brett Crozier was relieved of his command this week by acting US Navy Secretary Thomas Modly, for what Modly called “poor judgment,” going outside the chain of command, and too widely disseminating the memo over an unsecured system. “I thought it was terrible what he did, to write a letter. I mean, this isn’t …
E.P.A. to Tighten Limits on Science Used to Write Public Health Rules
Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations, overriding protests from scientists and physicians who say the new rule would undermine the scientific …
Why It’s So Hard To Write Federal Technology Policy
Bill Hunt spent two years as the cloud policy lead at the Office of Management and Budget, working on the government’s most important IT management policies. Most notably, Hunt served as the lead on OMB’s update to the data center policy—now called the Data Center Optimization Initiative—and the administration’s Cloud Smart policy, which replaced previous …
