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  • Heya, long time dev here.

    If you’re not expecting millions of rows, you could just use the country code directly in the user table and not use a foreign key/table at all. Just an idea.

    However, if you want the country table, i would find this list in a csv format (or copy paste into goog sheets or such and massage it) and then use a tool or write a quick script to ingest it into the db. If you’re doing that you should design the country table to have id, code, name. It can be used for populating dropdowns or autocomplete or such too.

    Over-engineering is a thing; keep it simple. If you’re doing this mainly as an exercise to learn, over-engineering can be ok - just understand that it doesn’t HAVE to be done any particular way, and there is no “right” way. Design is subjective and varies based on the needs of your software.







  • ChatGPT went through a phase of overly bubbly upbeat responses, they chilled it out tho. Not sure if that’s what you saw.

    One thing is for sure with all of them, they never say “I don’t know” because such responses aren’t likely to be found in any training data!

    It’s probably part of some system level prompt guidance too, like you say, to be confident.






  • Oh I hear ya on the whole dad medical stuff and the sketchy screwed up stuff going on there.

    But you lost me when you jump from rehab (on farms) for addicts and adhd to farms for neurodivergents.

    or happen to be a bit different from most just need to work on a farm for a while

    This is where a leap happens that I’m not following and I believe is baseless, but I’m trying to uncover that.

    If it’s simply based on his desire to try that treatment for some conditions and assuming he will suggest it for this one, I personally don’t think that’s a fair leap, but respect your desire to think it is. If there is more to back up this theory, I’d like to hear it.