I imagine he had his hammers and wrenches modified to accommodate his refusal to learn how to use them as well.

@iSwimInTheC To do actual work

@BordedDev Enabled nginx caching, opcache, gave more resources to PHP from, cleaned up a slow shortcode used multiple times on the home page, started using webp, and added placeholder elements and size attributes to images to keep the page from jumping before js kicks in.

I also changed the init script for nginx as part of some TLC that seems to have helped for some reason.

It took weeks because it's something that has technically worked without issue since I started working here 10 years ago so I haven't put a lot of time into it. But the performance was actually affecting the clients so I had to get it figured out.

@kiki Ticktock literally makes me feel uncomfortable when I watch it. Like I'm looking into a 4th dimensional shape or something. YouTube shorts doesn't though, which is strange.

I'd consider most code ever written to be neutral in nature.

It's easy to be a chemist. It's just that staying alive as a hobbyist chemist is pretty difficult.

I have long ago stopped looking very far into anyone involved in anything I enjoy or need. It's just seems like creative types always have skeletons in their closet that I'm not interested in being made aware of.

The first year at my job, I woke up with a solution to a problem that had been haunting me for a week and it actually worked. It's happened a handful of times.

@atheist I get 4 to 6 prompts at most before it starts repeating itself. This is with relatively straightforward PHP and nginx stuff. Is it just that Claude is no good?

In Black Mesa's defense, they were doing pretty well until gman got involved.

@rootshell I would never make such a foolish error.

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@donkulator Well, this one is pretty shiny.

I don't really care about the politics of the situation. If the current owner disappeared right now, there would be new maintainers by lunch. It's as good as it gets when it comes to what it is.

The widespread infantilization of everything is violently disgusting.

Woopsie doopsie. You have a bwue scween of unalive :3

https://m.youtube.com/watch/...

Pit bull Chihuahua mix

@retoor LMStudio. It works well with the API server. I use Ruby as the language I use to call the API mostly out of momentum since that's what my personal monolith app is written in.

@retoor I also love the image processing. It makes certain kinds of tasks that would normally require an API as trivial as taking a screenshot.

@retoor I love gemma 27b qat. It's accurate and fast and pretty good at general conversation.

And whether it was a wise financial decision or not, I got a 5090 so I could run things as fast as possible. I'm not regretting it.

This feels like something a q2 1B LLM would generate.

You know what definitely doesn't help?

Finally moving the stuff that bugs you to the back of your mind and being able to function for the first time in months, only to be helpfully reminded about those things for your own good.

Found a task to consume you so your mind quiet? Well, too bad. We're having a pity party ...I mean a seminar... about mental health that you must attend.

Not thinking about it is a valid way to deal with your problems. Not everything needs attention.

Being moved to a position you weren't hired for and aren't being properly paid for sounds like they planned to do this from the start. Find new employers.

Since it takes wordpress itself seconds to load no matter what I do, I decided to set up nginx caching and crawl the entire site and see how that works out.

With limited testing, the times go from 2+ seconds to .2 seconds. I can't image this is scalable, but I really need to prove it's even possible.

I've spent hours working on this phantom performance issue. I test with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge and they all load nearly instantly now. Same with curl.

But when their tool scans the site, I get 3 or 4 second load times in the report. lighthouse is about the same. They tell me that the time to first byte around 2 to 3 seconds, but that's not happening in any way I can observe.

I feel like I'm missing something.

@webketje We don't have any trouble with bandwidth, so converting it all to avif is not really needed.It's more of a wishlist item.

I like it.

My take on undoing 600 years of existence: unless there are outside observers that are unaffected by the unmaking, or the unmade actually still exist in some way, their annihilation really doesn't matter one way or another.

@iiii It's better not to look at the screen during those fights. I'm not even joking. I got really good at parrying and that nonsense still fooled me most of the time.

It's been a while since I was at the Forgotten Battlefield, so I'll have to check it out.

@iiii I recognize there are some late game enemies that seem to be this way, but I'm not certain that's actually the case. There's so much going on in those fights, the cues could actually just be drowned out by other sounds. And considering how tight everything else is, that might actually be a bug.

Explain to him that everything breaks after 4 prompts and that you will be unable to deliver until this meme has passed.

Why pay for a team when you can pay for one guy that does the work of a team for the pay of half a guy?

@Lensflare There's almost always a swish noise or grunt (with Gestrals) before the attack. Parrying right after the sound has finished playing will almost always result in a successful parry. It's so reliable, you can parry brand new enemies once you train yourself to hear it. Dodging until you can reliably get perfect dodges is how they want you to train. Sometimes it even helps not to look directly at the screen, so that the visuals don't distract from the sound.