Well, it’s obvious from your condescending and insulting tone that you’re completely right and I’m completely wrong, so there’s no use pretending that it would be in any way valuable for me to present an ‘explanation’.

‘Funes’ was apparently inspired by Solomon Shereshevsky, who was ‘active in 1920s’, whatever exactly that means. The article on mnemonists lists a couple more living around that time, but nobody earlier.

List of people claimed to possess an eidetic memory has two or three people born around 1860-'70, and among earlier murky claims a notable outlier Leonhard Euler:

He was able to, for example, repeat the Aeneid of Virgil from beginning to end without hesitation, and for every page in the edition he could indicate which line was the first and which was the last even decades after having read it.

The article on ‘memory sport’ says: “Techniques for training memory are discussed as far back as ancient Greece, and formal memory training was long considered an important part of basic education known as the art of memory” and cites ‘Secrets of a Mind-Gamer’ from NYT — but this is of course different from natural eidetic memory. ‘Art of memory’ also discusses techniques from the ancient times.

Right? The article even says that the cone thing has been going on since the eighties, but apparently the council still hasn’t learned.

May I inquire as to which oil you mean — canola? As the staple oil varies by region, so I can’t be sure which one it is for you.

One would think that the former GDR would be doing this instead.

Dunno about the artstyle: a lot of 90s to early-2000s 3d shooters had that grimy look, perhaps to show off the textures. But the jacket and the casually lowered gun definitely factored into the recognition.

I’m happy to report that Wikipedia seems to have dropped the ‘m.’ prefix, and finally detects the device capabilities instead.

This might be true perhaps; but the crux of the matter is that I shouldn’t do more than the traditional human-oriented escaping of the addresses, which relies extensively on plain and friendly backslashes, instead of devilish and time-consuming machine-produced percent-codes.

Remarkably, apparently either the server or the client replace backslashes in Markdown links with forward slashes, which is completely bogus and nonsensical.

The correct link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_(game)

Also interesting that you’re the first person to raise this issue after two hours and ten upvotes.

There’s a pen-and-paper game called Racetrack, in which people can move the ‘cars’ a certain amount according to acceleration/braking, turning and inertia. It simulates the physics of actual racing remarkably well, better than many video games. There are both web and mobile implementations of the game.

It’s likely much faster to fetch the common feed from the database cache or prepared cache like Redis, and apply all this additional data in the app, than do uncached joins. So I’d hope that the apps do this. Especially since you say they use Redis, which of course doesn’t do joins and such, unless something changed in the past years.

TBF ½ slowdown is an extreme case. I’m mostly using the speed of around 0.7-0.8.

DJ turntables allow variable speed, afaik — which was employed back in the eighties to turn techno into slower and sexier Belgian new-beat. But they aren’t quite consumer-grade devices, of course.

Obligatory: ‘Rules for Rulers’ is a very condensed summary of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s ‘The Dictator’s Handbook’.

Fun fact: the original Vol. 1 and 2 were made by a dude who had an actual turntable with a ‘16 rpm’ setting. It wasn’t slowed down digitally.

Though using about the same trick works well with some other records, as I mentioned in the post from yesterday: particularly fast idm or edm. VLC’s realtime speed adjustment is alright (with the pitch correction disabled), and from command-line tools sox produced best sound for me, while ffmpeg’s output was rather poor. Idk about Audacity.

The band have arguably made some of their best material during the time when most of them were on heroin, even if just on and off, the band’s future was very precarious, and they turned to songs of their childhood years to both fulfill contractual obligation and get some spiritual jolt from the stupor. It’s no coincidence that most of the songs chosen are originally either bright and optimistic, or have wistful melancholy to them — in the time when many of Chipmunks’ peers preferred grungy sound to counter the eighties’ excess. This diversion and infusion of nostalgia for youthful cheer might’ve been what saved the band and let them continue their legacy, perhaps even giving the members some renewed appreciation of life.

Haven’t played ‘Max Payne’ in twenty years, completely forgot what it looks like in-game, and still the first thought from the screenshot was “Max Payne”.

To add to other answers, the result for the ‘all’ feed is likely to be cached, either explicitly by the server app or implicitly by the database. Personal feeds are less likely to be cached, since they’re only used by individual users.

Strictly speaking, the db might be looking in an index to choose rows by the communities — but using such a condition is pretty much guaranteed to be slower than not using it, anyway.

The actual answer depends on the actual database organization, of course. Ideally the whole database should be organized around frequent queries.

One of the best things you can do to fix a tight budget is to stop buying fast food.