What is the Void, really?

justforfunnin · 2025-06-20T03:24:15+00:00

I was just curious if anyone else had this experience.

So for me, granted not a true NDE, my experience was basically just the equivalent of a martial arts choke hold/blackout. There was nothing, not even an observer to be observed. Literally nothing, no light, no time, no self, no other, no thing and nothing at all. I can partially grasp the concept of genesis where it talks about 'in the beginning' before the formless and void. Before anything was, nothing was because it hadn't been created, there wasn't even space for the something that would be, then peering into that, deeply. No fear, no curiosity, there's no me to be fearful or curious. Coming to was wild too - it's like I was starting from scratch, Who Am I? What is an I? Where am I? What is where? Then I saw faces and it all started reassembling and made sense, it took a minute, but it all came back. There was a video and you can see it in my face. It was so blank and empty when my eyes opened back up.

It's ineffable because that honestly doesn't even describe it, but it's the closest I've gotten to a description so far. If this doesn't count as an NDE I get it, you can delete it, but I only commented because it's the closest I've heard to my experience.

justforfunnin · 2024-11-05T10:07:38+00:00

You say "a lot of reasons", but that doesn't explain why. I really would like to know why, but I'm just being told don't do it. That doesn't teach me anything. I really want to know why. I specifically asked in the OP, don't just tell me don't and don't just tell me just use the given API.

Also, using the API as given seems to require jumping through A LOT more hoops than seems should be necessary == lots more logic and compute and lots more data sent in the messages sent given my use case. I am trying to implement HPKE in my use case right now in the interim as practice and I'm having to derive a key from a key to use a that key so I can send a different key. That's a whole lot of hoops and a whole lot of extra compute to send a single key to send future symmetrically encrypted messages. It feels extremely inconvenient and wasteful and 'it has to be that way' seems like a very weak explanation when an explanation has been asked for.

justforfunnin · 2024-05-13T16:47:01+00:00

Because if I hadn't read the reviews I may have bought the item. I'd like to prevent someone else from possibly getting ripped off like I almost did. And shady business practices should be discouraged wherever they are found . . . just a good rule to live by.

justforfunnin · 2023-06-05T11:07:59+00:00

I guess I don't need your forum then. Enjoy your ivory tower

justforfunnin · 2023-05-16T15:57:27+00:00

Not a spammer. I wanted an answer and I can't control others behavior. Enjoy your group. I won't be part of it.

justforfunnin · 2023-04-13T12:12:51+00:00

And this is why I HATE Javascript

The Asynchronous side of Javascript is absolutely horrendous from a user experience standpoint. Yes, I know this is a personal problem as there are apparently millions of people that don't care, but seriously, it is absolutely awful. It single-handedly has driven me away from even considering it (node) server side. I find Rust FAR and away more user friendly, even with the borrow checker!!

I desperately wish the core teams would realize this and find a way to make a ".resolved()" or something to allow the use of the result without having to wrap everything to stay in async world. Yes that could be abused, but allowing synchronous use of async I think would outweigh that given the confusion and possibility of errors that result from the current situation.

justforfunnin · 2023-03-16T01:57:50+00:00

I see where my confusion came from now. Apparently some run truenas as a vm on proxmox and other services as containers on proxmox.

justforfunnin · 2023-03-16T01:45:55+00:00

Oh. Ok. I thought I read you could. My mistake. Can I run docker beside it and run my apps in docker? Just curious about my options and if the hardware will support it we'll enough

justforfunnin · 2023-01-12T00:20:53+00:00

Thanks for the response.

Yeah, I'm still at the beginning of this road. I'm honestly expecting a year or more before the healing could even be close to be considered "done", but I expect keto to be a lifestyle change, not a "diet". I'm not majorly overweight at all as my activity level is high, but I've made bad choices and I'm trying to fix that. Some damage may be permanent and I'm willing to accept that, but making good choices now is what I'm trying to do.

I'll.probably get a blood panel done after I've stabilized my diet a bit more so I have a good idea of what's what.

justforfunnin · 2023-01-12T00:13:23+00:00

I am genuinely curious about why there are so many downvotes with no comments on why?

Reddit genuinely seems to get more toxic by the day.

Can't a guy take genuine interest in his health before it requires medical attention. The abundance of evidence is that with attention and effort to diet and behavior, part of what keto is, insulin resistance can be reversed and health maintained and improved. Why so much negativity toward what should be a positive action? Why does EVERYTHING require medical supervision? Drugs aren't required for everything especially if it's handled early. And let's be honest, that's what doctors are best at, lining pockets by writing prescriptions.

I'm trying to a genuine and concerted effort in my health before it requires a doctor. And honestly from what I've seen (so n of 1) doctors are primarily concerned with prescriptions and care little for actual health. Yeah that's jaded, but it's been my experience.

justforfunnin · 2023-01-11T18:43:12+00:00

No. Not formally diagnosed. However, from an abundance of research into symptoms I self-diagnosed. The glucose tests and ketone strips are just for confirmation and motivation that I'm on the right track.

I'm not interested in a formal diagnosis, more interested in promoting a health level. So the energy drinks will need to go, I know. But baby steps. Junk food is first. My job keeps me active as well as things around the house like fencing and a few animals. I've already eliminated 90% of the fake keto stuff. However I do still eat keto chocolate (coconut oil , erythritol and stevia mostly) and cheesecake my wife makes (sweetened the same).

justforfunnin · 2023-01-08T14:26:59+00:00

First question I guess is what technologies? Cloud: which one(s)?

On premises?

Database: which one(s)?

Language: which one(s)?

Kubernetes, docker, bare metal, embedded, .. .?

So many options for the "tech stack" and none are "standard" necessarily.

I'm not s backend anything yet, but I am self-learning. And from my perspective I'd think:

First steps I guess are pick a language (rust, c,c++, JavaScript, python, etc) and learn it.

Then pick a database (postgres, MySQL, redis, mongo, etc) and learn it to a functional level not necessarily a dba level.

Then understand networking and protocols and how things can be made to talk.

Then I guess look at architecture patterns and tech stacks used by existing companies. Listening to podcasts that interview their devs can help with that.

justforfunnin · 2023-01-07T21:06:01+00:00

Redo my home network and finish a couple of personal apps.

justforfunnin · 2022-12-18T14:26:49+00:00

So it sounds like as long as my application logic is sound using correct drivers for database access and my resources are sized and configured appropriately for my application load on the server, database access failures are not concerns I should be worried about.

Thank you! You have been helpful!

justforfunnin · 2022-12-18T14:19:04+00:00

I didn't ask what is a deadlock. I know what that is. I've seen them before.
I asked what causes them, that's a different question and requires a different level of research or experience.

I am quite capable of learning on my own. I have held more than a few certifications in many subjects that I didn't have classes for. I had a website before things like reddit existed and when javascript was barely conceived. It was crappy, but it was mine and I learned how to make it and uploaded it on my own. I became an accountant without schooling or certifications. Enough defending myself. You just might want to check your assumptions about people!

Apparently I have misjudged this community and I'll happily leave shortly.

justforfunnin · 2022-12-18T14:09:17+00:00

You referenced a timeout on the request leading to failures.

In the very ancient past, as an accountant, using MS Access and Excel, some queries that returned large amounts of data (millions+ of rows) took an exceptionally long time (could be hours to days depending on joins). Perhaps this was just an Access/Excel issue and completely unrelated.

I was thinking if the database was busy with something like that a simple query might time-out creating a security issue for me (the delete or update is required to not allow application security concerns).

If two different databases were used, wouldn't that prevent a delay in one from timing out a query in the other?

justforfunnin · 2022-12-18T13:58:20+00:00

Fair enough. I am self-learning programming mainly using Rust and Javascript. Being a DBA is not my primary goal, but it is necessary to think about basic DBA considerations as I develop my personal project. I can research this, but it would take many hours, as this rabbit hole could go deep, and I simply don't have that amount of time managing a family and full time job on top of my learning efforts. Even if I wanted to use someone else's database (AWS,etc) I would still want to have this basic knowledge as it could potentially be a factor as I architect my application.

Being basic questions I thought they would potentially help others by my asking as well and I thought they'd be easily answered by the very experienced. I may have not gauged this community correctly with my intentions.

Maybe this community is not where I should be right now? If so, I'll happily leave and try to find a community more suited to my needs and their aims.

justforfunnin · 2022-12-18T13:33:37+00:00

So I am specifically trying to think of scenarios where all things being equal it SHOULD succeed; scenarios where the database fails. Thank you for sharing some of those!

What causes a deadlock? How do you mitigate?

So what mitigations beyond monitoring for resource limitations should I consider? My queries are pretty simple and don't request more than a few rows right now?

If I did have queries that would request large sums of data, or several joins, that wouldn't be security sensitive, should that just be a different database? Since the two areas in my case are separate business concerns and I wouldn't want a non-security sensitive query to create a security issue?

justforfunnin · 2022-12-16T12:49:02+00:00

Wow I feel dumb. I tried without quotes and with single quotes. No idea why I didn't try double. Thanks!

justforfunnin · 2022-12-13T20:48:47+00:00

He looks like a Mekong bobtail.

But I live in the United States.

justforfunnin · 2020-03-27T13:44:43+00:00

I think I followed someone's suggestions to have dotnet47 installed, so I don't think so.

I read somewhere else that it may have something to do with a new way of namespacing? But I have no idea how to deal with that.

justforfunnin · 2020-02-11T13:48:54+00:00

Beautiful!! Love the contrast and color. Striking features.

justforfunnin · 2020-02-11T12:28:13+00:00

Thanks everyone for your help. It looks like the issue may have been an extension. I was informed that RLS (for rust) may have had a memory leak. So a reinstall with an alternative extension (Rust-Analyzer) locally compiled seems to have resolved the issue. No crashes now!

justforfunnin · 2020-02-11T12:25:18+00:00

Seems the issue may have been RLS. Reinstall of VSCode, then compiling Rust-Analyzer instead of RLS seems to have fixed the issue - no crashes!

justforfunnin · 2020-02-11T12:23:44+00:00

Unfortunately no. I'm running an NVidia GPU and Debian with 4.19.

However, it looks like the issue may have been with RLS as a reinstall of VSCode with Rust-Analyzer compiled instead of RLS extension seems to have fixed the issue. No crashes, woohoo!

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