It really helps you to hear it in his voice, though.

I’ll even accept “joolry”.

It’s very, very costly, both but the hardware and the electricity it takes to run it. There may be a bit of sunk cost fallacy at play for some, especially the execs who are calling for AI Everything, but in the end, in AI doesn’t generate enough increase in revenue to offset its operational costs, even those execs will bow out. I think the economics of AI will cause the bubble to burst because end users aren’t going to pay money for a service that does a mediocre job at most things but costs more.

Tori Amos’s Silent All These Years. That mercurial little piano riff. The painful lyrics. The liberation of the middle eight. It’s a perfect song.

“Filmed on a canoe” is how I put it.

The sequel was worse: a hackneyed “elements” magic system and a plot that would only work on a much longer time scale. Too much stuff crammed into too little movie.

I get it. I love the slow pace, the beautiful cinematography, the careful dialog. But it’s not for everyone.

Vampire Survivors is so much better than it has any right to be. It’s a great way to kill time if I have my Steam Deck around.

Thin crust, heavy sauce, mozz, pepperoni, jalapeno, pineapple.

This was done on The Other Site a while back. /r/proudboys got taken over and turned into a queer meme page.

The wealth was generated by firing employees.

Official statement on the matter reads:

All students are treated equally at MCA…

Except this case proves that to be a lie. I’m sure there were boys in suits there. Unless boys are also required to wear dresses? If that’s not the case, then this is a clear case of one student being treated differently from others.

You mean Eeeeyyiiidiot Wind? Yeah, love that track.

Grand Ole Party, an old moniker, but I’m unsure of its origin.

To build on this (and I also use Postgres, so I’m assuming MySQL/MariaDB are similar), there is almost certainly a metric emitted by the DBs that can tell you how long that lag is between initial write and replica updates. That would be the thing to monitor to detect the specific problem where replication lag creates application lag.

Also worth mentioning that horizontal scaling can solve some problems, but there are a few major configuration items to check that will improve performance across all the replicas. Off the cuff:

• Properly index your tables
• Build on hardware big enough to keep indexed data in memory
• Don’t use the MyISAM engine with MySQL since it has a bunch of performance and locking problems. Upgrade to InnoDB.
• Optimize your queries. Horizontal scaling won’t give you much improvement if you’re doing full table scans or something like that. ORMs can produce some pretty ugly SQL sometimes. Consider writing your own queries that are better optimized to make use of your indices.

Pepperoni, pineapple, and jalapeno.

Imagine not having to argue with a massive corporation about whether you should be able to take the medication your doctor told you to take.

Gay sex is literally twice as manly as straight sex, at a minimum. Just saying.

The article asks what is the politically neutral answer to the question of whether a trans woman is a woman. I wonder why this is a political question at all. Send like a question for scientists - biologists and sociologists and such. Seems they have achieved something like a consensus on the matter. I don’t see anything inherently political about that, except that folks of a certain political bent have made it political. It’s not a matter of “what do we do in public policy about trans people” but “fascists refuse to accept trans people in society and have decided to lambast and punish them”.

In case my position isn’t obvious, trans people are people and trans rights are human rights. If there wasn’t a group of people trying to make them into a second class group of citizens (or a group of “eradicated vermin”) we wouldn’t be having a political conversation about this at all.

Yes, it’s invalidation of feelings followed by the infliction of physical violence to make the abuser feel better.