@variablepulserate One of the (professional) readers for a long series of fantasy books speaks with uptalk. It confused the heck out of me for the first book, then I got used to it, and it no longer stands out for me at all. The pitch contour cues for end of sentence and question change, but are still distinguishable.
/@matigo
Dang. That is nice. Instead of laboriously lobbing thousands of rows over, I can generate them with some clever queries in the DB. Now I could run the whole shebang 4 times over in the time it used to take to just do the first step.
Apparently the slow part of batch insert is deser, since a big old insert into select from cross join that multiplies the data tenfold finishes in under a second, while the initial batch insert takes like 12 seconds across lotsa batches of a few records (due to max param count and lots of fields to fill in…).
@streakmachine i used to use the free utility MouseLocator [2point5fish.com]
/@peemee
@peemee this reminded me that i haven’t had a problem with losing my cursor since i used the older accessibility feature of boosting its size substantially. it felt clumsy at first (comically large!), but soon became normal, and i haven’t lost it since. i might have tried just changing the color had that option existed a few years ago, though.
Ironically, the scripts I’m writing to plump up the database with a decent working set in order to do some load testing are themselves running slower than I want to wait for. And I’ve only written the first chunk. 😬
I took a naïve approach in hopes it’d fly, but by the time I got to the fifth level of a hierarchy with a 10x multiplier, that was kinda the end. :\