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not expecting gravity to have a repulsive quality
Thursday, December 15 2016
A brutal cold kept me from going outside any more than necessary, mostly to get wood from the shed for the woodstove. Meanwhile, a task in the remote workplace proved more difficult than expected. This was a consequence of the odd one-off coding framework I am working in, which doesn't, I discovered, allow for arrays of checkbox inputs with the same name. This forces anyone working in the framework to pass important information in the name of the checkbox. It's doable, but it's ugly. And then I discovered that my local copy of the database I was working on didn't have a primary key or autoincrement on an important identifying column of a table. Little things like this cause confusing problems that are difficult to solve, because they create a reality totally different from the one modeled in one's head. It's hard to know why things in your universe are falling upward if one doesn't expect gravity to have a repulsive quality. So instead one looks for other things forcing objects apart until all the possibilities have been eliminated, at which point it becomes obvious. Oh, gravity is set to be a repulsive force!
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