In Becky Chambers’ Wayfarer series, there is a species who actually breathes methane. The focus though is less on how that actually happens and more on how they navigate as the only species for whom oxygen is toxic. It’s a great series, btw. It’s a not-quite-as-optimistic as star trek future, but still optimistic and with a vast range of species who are all intermingling as learning how to get along.

huh, there’s a whole instance just for the Ascendance of a Bookworm anime/manga

Renewable biomass: burning forests before you turn them to coal

One thing to know about transactions is that they track data and then write it. It’s not the opening that slows it down. I have a question though, what is your source data? Do you have a big CSV for something? Can you do a db to db transfer instead? There’s another tool called the BCP utility.

Edit: SQL server/ssms have tools for doing migrations and batch imports

I’ve done a lot of work and no, that is not normal.

A few things: First - SQL server has tools for migrating data that’s pretty fast. SQL bulk copy can use some of these. Check to see if the built in db tools are better for this.

SQL bulk copy can handle way more than 15,000 records

Why are you wrapping a data dump in a transaction? That will slow things down for sure.

You generally shouldn’t be doing huge queries like that to where you’re nearing the parameter limit.

Can you share the code?

y’all are going to the doctor?

Think woodlice 6 feet long, spiders the size of dogs, millipedes as big as cars, and dragonflies as big as eagles.

No, I don’t think I will

If you asked me to pick a state for that, Oregon would not have been it

While they likely do have the capability of doing that eventually, there are only two places in the world that have the capability of doing the super small nm scale chips: Netherlands and Taiwan. These machines are insanely complicated and precise. I wouldn’t be surprised if China was a decade or more away from doing it themselves. I could be wrong, but this scale of chips is an entirely different monster.

Now, they could be closer, but this particular job isn’t that simple.

a lot of you here missed the point that this was how to get KIDS to swallow the pills. not you.

I’ve been using it for forever and also used it for DnD, based off of…what’s his name, one of the bigger DM guys on YT. It works great.

I’m using Obsidian for work since cloud note apps are blocked and I don’t like it as much. It works, but I’m not as wild about it.

One issue I recently had with one note is that I wanted to export a section to share on the web and wasn’t able to do it and the web interface doesn’t really let me do the management that I need. My work machine is my main one right now, so I’m stuck with what I’ve got. That all being said, aside from privacy, there isn’t really a direct reason to change.

But I’m not super wild that MS is reading my notes since I’ve also used it as a diary at points. I’ll have to figure that bit out later.

I think a movie should open with a quote from ChatGPT

“Prepare for a laugh-out-loud adventure! This film delivers more twists than a pretzel factory on a rollercoaster!” - ChatGPT

“Get ready to laugh until your sides hurt! It’s like a comedy buffet—everyone leaves full and slightly confused!” - Also ChatGPT

“It was fine” - Bob

F# also does that

In a sense, but I doubt there is the same level of tracking. Lemmy doesn’t (as far as I assume) track how long you spend on a page, what you click on, how long you stay, etc. That’s a pretty big difference compared to just what you posted or commented.

Capital demands growth. It doesn’t care how you do it. It doesn’t track or reward whether you did it by making the world better or by creating death squads and working with the CIA to kill thousands of people and overthrow a government that wanted to charge you taxes and limit the amount of land you could have.

It’s been this way, and worse, for a long time. But bear in mind that Twitter gave us the ability to see how billionaires think. Modern media made them more accessible. They didn’t change, our knowledge of them did.

Article really uses language to make it sound like this is a bad thing

I don’t think anything in cyanideandhappiness can be described as reasonable. The fact that there’s no butt stuff here makes it pretty tame already.

a lot of AI is really just fancy statistics stuff. Years and years ago, I was doing an introductory lesson on some AI tools and the example given was predicting the price of rent or the price of a house. There’s likely a mixture of the statistics part to predict and the algorithmic part to increase the amount and see if people bite.

It turns out, most will when everyone is using it bc being homeless kinda sucks.

awesome! that’s literally the trip that I did. Feel free to DM me and I can give you some tips!

Btw, if you go to Mexico city, check out https://www.theworlds50best.com as they have a lot of the globally best rated bars, restaurants, and speakeasies. There’s also a whatsapp group for dancing salsa and bachata that’s really good there.

I’d love to share some of the things and places I’ve found along the way! :)

Oh yeah, regular people are screwed. You never know what your purchasing power will be next week, so just buy whatever you can. A year ago the exchange rate was like 500:1, now it’s officially almost 1000 and the blue rate is ~1,300. You can’t rely on menu prices on Google maps.

If you can earn not-pesos, it’s still not too expensive to live here. It’s not as cheap as it used to be, but cheaper than the US, for instance.

But overall, public transport is good, access to goods is better than many Latin American countries. I’ve only been to Buenos Aires so far, but it’s a gorgeous city. People have been super friendly to me. I highly recommend it. I have friends that have been to Iguazú falls, Córdoba, Mendoza wine country, Patagonia and their photos are amazing. And Brazil is right around the corner. I highly recommend visiting!