You really have to see what the db is doing to understand where the bottlenecks are, i.e. find the query plans. It’s ok if it’s just single selects. Look for stuff like table scans that shouldn’t happen. How many queries per second are there? Remember that SSD’s have been a common thing for maybe 10 years. Before that it was HDD’s everywhere, and people still ran systems with very high throughput. They had much less ram then than now too.

If you have a hard drive, replace it with an SSD? And, can you add more memory?

Here ya go: https://www.ebay.com/itm/176632637521

Who needs Russia for that? Is it because of the 4chan outage?

Background story from 2023. Multiple violent incidents and steroids and $30K cash were found in the guy’s car:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-01/tesla-road-rage-suspect-los-angeles-history-of-violence-threats

He was sentenced to 5 years in prison in CA but served less than 1, due to prison overcrowding. Apparently he was considered a nonviolent offender, wtf.

Thanks, that was informative. Appears to be 'roid rage behind the road rage.

Deer in headlights.

I thought it wasn’t a secret that votes were somewhat public. If they aren’t, ok, but that’s news to me.

I didn’t know REI was taking such a bath. It’s full in yuppie fashion now. It once was cooler but much smaller.

Um the idea of a pendulum in an old fashioned clock is that it is actually the clock’s frequency reference. It’s purely mechanical, no electricity or radios. The length of the pendulum determines the frequency (usually 1 hz). You can slide the weight up and down a little bit to adjust the speed. The spring unwinding gives the pendulum a little kick on every swing so the clock doesn’t stop. You wind up the spring every so often so it doesn’t unwind completely, and the swinging pendulum advances a little ratchet that moves the hands a little on every swing. If you lived in a town in the pre-electricity era, the local church would ring its church bells at noon, 3pm, etc. and you would use that to set or adjust your clock as needed. The church clock itself was directly or indirectly set using solar noon (as observed with a transit telescope or dipleidoscope) as a reference. Fancier pendulum clocks had various sorts of thermal compensation and could be very accurate. It was a highly developed technology that is now mostly forgotten.

Connecting wifi to this would be at best purely decorative. I guess it would be a cute hack but meh. You could look on hackaday.com which is full of projects like that. I’ve mostly found them kind of pointless, but that’s just me being a grouch.

What is it that you want to talk about? There’s plenty about programming, math, and stuff like that. Maybe other stuff too, but that’s the stuff I’m into. Hacker News is definitely overrated and always has been though.

Java isn’t exactly hard, and it’s not particularly fundamental. It’s just bureaucratic, and Python will be both more enjoyable and more useful. Java was trendy in the 1990s and lingers on because so much Java code is still around. If your goal is to use a serious type system (Lisp and Python don’t have that), Haskell will be far more enlightening than Java. If you want to use the JVM for some reason, Clojure (a Lisp dialect that run in it) might interest you.

For low level fundamentals, you want assembly language! That gives you almost no assistance and you have to do EVERYTHING yourself, organizing the program in your own head. For old fashioned imperative programming with lots of organizational assistance, try Ada.

You will probably have to learn C at some point, but save it for later when it will be easier for you to spot the weaknesses.

I don’t remember being that impressed with HTDP but it’s been a while and I didn’t look much. I’d say read SICP first in either case.

The Java thing sounds totally uninteresting and if your next language after Lisp isn’t a a mainstream one, I’d say try Haskell.

Regarding math: it can help but it’s not that important for pure programming. If you’re good at languages and writing, that’s helpful in the same way. If you’re good at music, that is at least a helpful mindset.

Waiting for claims that the election was stolen and that Trump was the real winner.

/me laughs in Unihertz Tank 3.

https://www.unihertz.com/products/tank-3-pro

Added: non-google link to OP article:

https://wccftech.com/oneplus-working-on-snapdragon-8-elite-flagship-with-7800mah-battery/

People deleting their own posts, it looks like. There are not that many deletions by mods.

https://lemmy.world/modlog/4230?page=1&actionType=ModRemovePost

This is awesome. Next we can have AI Jesus endorsing Trump, AI Nicole Simpson telling us who the real killer was, and AI Abraham Lincoln saying that whole Civil War thing was a big misunderstanding and the Confederacy was actually just fine. The possibilities are endless. I can hardly wait!

Somewhere in the middle I guess. Same answer as for almost everyone, I imagine?

no end in sight

Can it actually go below zero? I’m new at this.

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