Oh I see. Yeah DVD drives generally use the same SATA interface as hard drives.

If you mean a 2.5" drive (laptop sized) then yes you can generally do that. 3.5" drives are usually 1" thick and won’t fit in a slim DVD drive slot.

So, I’m sticking with Lemmy. It’s not perfect, but at least it’s real. Maybe we’ll get the true decentralization we’ve been promised one day

I thought we had Usenet since the 1970s.

For what it’s worth, there’s an FSF article that addresses this:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html

Whether it’s persuasive is of course up to you to decide ;).

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.

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!

If Mozilla died would I quickly be finding a larger chunk of websites that aren’t supported?

Likely yes, as Google will keep enshittifying the web unless stopped by antitrust or whatever. Which isn’t looking so likely.

clubhouse.com? I don’t know anything else about it really.

I believe I was thinking of Clubhouse but I haven’t checked into it much.

No, Jitsi is a chat program. I must have been confusing Rumble with some other thing. But as with youtube, the video collection is much more important than the software. Releasing all the youtube software wouldn’t change youtube’s dominance even slightly.

Rumble is real time voice chat right? Closest I know to that is Jitsi Meet. For text chat there are many irc networks.

Lem-bin pie?

What? Problems like this usually come down to some missing indexes. Can you view the query plan for your slow queries? See how long they are taking? IDK about SQL Server but usually there is a command called something like ANALYZE, that breaks down a query into the different parts of its execution plan, executes it, and measures how long each part takes. If you see something like “FULL TABLE SCAN” taking a long time, that can usually be fixed with an index.

If this doesn’t make any sense to you, ask if there are any database gurus at your company, or book a few hours with a consultant. If you go the paid consultant route, say you want someone good at SQL Server query optimization.

By the way I think some people in this thread are overestimating the complexity of this type of problem or are maybe unintentionally spreading FUD. I’m not a DB guru but I would say that by now I’m somewhat clueful, and I got that way mostly by reading the SQLlite docs including the implementation manuals over a few evenings. That’s probably a few hundred pages but not 2000 or anything like that.

First question: how many separate tables does your DB have? If less than say 20, you are probably in simple territory.

Also, look at your slowest queries. They likely say SELECT something FROM this JOIN that JOIN otherthing bla bla bla. How many different JOINs are in that query? If just one, you probably need an index; if two or three, it might take a bit of head scratching; and if 4 or more, something is possibly wrong with your schema or how the queries are written and you have to straighten that out.

Basically from having seen this type of thing many times before, there is about a 50% chance that it can be solved with very little effort, by adding indexes based on studying the slow query executions.

I just download the mp3 and play it with mplayer. Don’t need no apps.

This looks kind of cool. It’s written in Go. License is LGPL3, kind of a weird choice, but whatever. I’m not crazy about the name “Sriracha” but I guess you’ve got call it something. I might give it a try. I haven’t understood why so many forums are written in PHP.

I’m happy with say 3 hz, fast enough to not be too annoying when flipping pages while reading. It’s fine to not be good for video. What I really want is a 16 inch or so e-reader though.

That is a video of a much smaller monitor. It does show reasonably responsive refresh. Do you have one of the 25.3 inch monitor described in the article?

What is the refresh time? They carefully avoid mentioning that. There’s a comparable Pimoroni monitor whose refresh takes 14 seconds so I’d call it a static display rather than a computer monitor.

governments

Be careful what you ask for :(.