This happened to me one time.

I got frustrated with a problem and put the project away out of irritation. Six months down the road I was on the way home from work and the solution just came to me while I was stopped at an intersection.

I've also been woken up with the solution to problems that kept me up way too late as if I had been shouted awake.

@zoridan That's a cool wallpaper.

I have 128gb of RAM, so I set the page file to 4gb instead of completely off in case something needs it. I'll find out soon enough if that was a bad idea.

@theKarlisK Actually it's a 256GB partition on a 2TB NVME. Windirstat saved my butt.

@Grumm I learned very early on that SO is readonly.

Ask it here. Couldn't hurt to try.

@Root I count rest as one day off every 18 months. And by day off, I mean I only work two hours solving a problem that was actually user error that could have waited until I got back.

We've tried to hire help, but no one wants to work.

Make sure you bend every single pin by closing the clamp with the CPU in the wrong way.

That's an expensive mistake to make.

He's not exactly wrong. But to get to the point where you grow from stress and not just crumble, you need rest. Unfortunately, rest is hard to come by in a lot of places.

https://random.org/passwords/...

Firefox should also suggest a random password and save it when you submit the form.

In 4 hour chunks because the first 4 hours were me sleeping at my desk by accident.

@IntrusionCM I live in Minecraft.

@iSwimInTheC
work

finding change left in soda machines

tragically miscalculating running an ebay store

very little interest in my savings account

very little gains from my minimal stock market investments

the Nielsen people sending me a dollar at a time

@iiii Some people like playing games on a postage stamp.

@Demolishun As a collector, that's Dark Side stuff. It's tempting and I stand to gain a lot, but nothing irritates me more than seeing a moderately expensive set being sold for a mortgage payment.

I like having an unset state for my variables. It's useful in lots of places. Maybe I'm just not programming hard enough for it to matter.

Now imagine this same situation in 5-10 years after everyone has relied on AI to think for them and let every one of their skills atrophy. There would be absolute bedlam.

I'm going to keep do things the human way with my brain and problem solving skills so I'm not left out in the cold when AI inevitably fails us all.

> Everyone disliked that.

I sold toys on ebay for 3 months and made $20 profit.

It really depends on if the columns are indexed properly so that queries don't take forever. If they're not, even a simple query could take ages. If they are, you could query a large number of records instantly.

If I am unsure of the state of the indices, I'd start with a small number as my limit and work my way up. If the indices aren't sufficient, then you may be able to add them to improve performance.

I am not a DBA, so there may be some magic like views or temporary tables that accomplishes the same thing without modifying the table.

The push for Rust in everything from all directions feels fake and plastic in a way that's hard to explain. Almost like it's a forced meme that people share ironically. The zealotry has really put me off the language.

It's the new "just do it in jquery".

What IDE are you using to open a file that large?

Aimless and unintelligible cursing always helps me.

@bigmonsterlover Yet it's true.

@bigmonsterlover ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I by and large haven't seen any kind of ad in a very long time. When I do, it's usually because I need to refresh my Ublock Origin cache.

I use Google and Youtube and almost nothing gets through.

Ads?

With Ublock Origin, I haven't been exposed to ads in years. No fake download buttons, no impersonation tricking me to go to malware sites. Just the content of the page that is meant to be there.

If you rely on ads to make money, find a less abusive and hostile way to make money.

@bigmonsterlover let asd;

@kiki I take pride in my work. I intentionally maintain a straight-A student complex because anything less only causes more work down the road.

And I refuse to allow apathy and nihilism to cause me to do less than my best. At the end of my life, I want to be known as someone that could be relied on to deliver in everything that was asked of me, and not someone that had his fire extinguished after one too many bad days.

@hardCoding When you cross big tech and they restrict your access to AI and you can't work, you'll understand what I mean.

@netikras Not developing your own solutions and relying on a system you neither understand or control to do the work for you is a very good way to atrophy the skills you do have.

Plus, how much time can you really be saving if you are properly vetting the code you are using?

As for the big tech question.

Say a person wants to develop something worthwhile that goes against the TOS or crosses the owner of the AI in some way. Or the user starts working on a competing product. That person gets banned and can't continue their project because they don't actually know how to do anything. This reality conditions users to only do what big tech says is ok.

Do this for a generation, and you have a generation of people that rely on the final say-so of big tech to do anything at all because they literally are incapable of doing anything for themselves.

How many people can do math in their head? Or remember phone numbers? Or read a clock? Or count change? Computers do that now.