I was abused by an older boy when I was 11, and it messed me up good (eventually it cascaded into incest as well). To this day, I think it's screwed up how I perceive sexual relationships, since I feel like anyone who wants to do sexual things to me is going to hurt me, or that I'll be made a pariah for doing it (like I was in the small Boy Scout troop where it happened), or whatever.
It may also explain why I've sought out women that either aren't available at all, or are good friends but not interested in dating; since I find sex both fascinating and repulsive at the same time, I end up crushing on people who seem safe, regardless of whether they're interested in me. At least a couple of times, I crushed on women because they looked like my mom, and one crush from high school (who, yes, did resemble my mom :P) ran well past its sell-by date (into the 2000s) because, well, she seemed not only safe, but the only good alternative.
Morven: Indeed. I've never really thought about calling it anything other than "I don;t like dating but I still want someone to love", since Tumblr didn't exist in the early 1990s.
Is it just me or has tumblr not displayed any new posts in the last half an hour and change? As in, they seem to be showing up on people's blogs but not on my dash.
Yeah. I get annoyed at people saying things like "they changed the colors instead of fixing the video player" because even I know those aren't exactly equivalent problems, but I can understand the sentiment.
Literally all I know about Fast Eddie's beginnings are that he used to go to a Buffy fansite in the early internet days and that he was a programmer on Prey.
This latter thing might just be a fake rumor goons repeat.
^^ That last one has a lot of circumstantial evidence to back it up, given where he claimed to work, his odd and very staunch ideas about coding, and his rabid hatred of James Rolfe...
^^ That last one has a lot of circumstantial evidence to back it up, given where he claimed to work, his odd and very staunch ideas about coding, and his rabid hatred of James Rolfe...
I never really saw Fast Eddie's opinions on coding anywhere. Did he voice them at some point? I know he disliked <blockquote> for what was essentially aesthetic reasons...
I never really saw Fast Eddie's opinions on coding anywhere. Did he voice them at some point? I know he disliked <blockquote> for what was essentially aesthetic reasons...
Let's not forget that nested quotes were the SURE SIGN of a TROLL
I never really saw Fast Eddie's opinions on coding anywhere. Did he voice them at some point? I know he disliked <blockquote> for what was essentially aesthetic reasons...
Let's not forget that nested quotes were the SURE SIGN of a TROLL
I never really saw Fast Eddie's opinions on coding anywhere. Did he voice them at some point? I know he disliked <blockquote> for what was essentially aesthetic reasons...
he thinks that putting plaintext password in cookies and HTML forms is a-ok
Tachyon once explained the reasoning behind why the thread domains were on different tables from the fora and it was actually kind of clever, but the way that everything is executed is very strange.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
2008? Pff, it was brought to his attention as recently as last year and he still defended it...
Whatever TVT does internally, I'm sure Vanilla does it a whole lot better...gimme a sec.
Basically, the idea as Tach explained it was along the lines of this: Each thread created is literally a separate branch of the site rather than a subdivision of the forum - which only indexes and collates the threads - so as to reduce the strain on the server and do some other stuff. Maybe I'm forgetting the details or mixing them up, but that sounded like an interesting arrangement, hypothetically speaking.
Vanilla keeps all comments in one table, GDN_Comment, and then references it using a JOIN of some sort, it looks like. It's actually pretty efficient if you write the JOIN statement properly and have indexes set up.
What Eddie did is what someone just starting out with SQL would do. I have to wonder if the site used a flat-file database or something like Microsoft Jet at first.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Eddie's "one table for one thread" thing struck me as something that would seem like a good idea until you actually tried it and realized it was a pain in the ass...
Flat-file is pretty much a file on a disc, with no support for queries or indexes or anything like that. There's plenty of stuff that uses flat-file databases (Debian's package directories are flat-file), but for a dynamic site with tons of users, it'd chew up CPU really fast.
Microsoft Jet is the database engine older versions of Access used. It's popular because it shipped as part of Windows XP. It's actually somewhere between flat-file and SQLite (though it does actually support SQL through ODBC).
Wait, you're talking about the basic site architecture, right? Honestly, all I'm hearing is, "Method X has more lines of code and is slower." Is there a theoretical advantage to it?
Thouhg I have to wonder if that's some odd quirk of PmWiki itself (which defaults to using flat files for everything), and Eddie just doesn't know how to do it a different way.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Wait, you're talking about the basic site architecture, right? Honestly, all I'm hearing is, "Method X has more lines of code and is slower." Is there a theoretical advantage to it?
That's kind of the point, actually. From a purely theoretical standpoint, Eddie's way makes sense, but in practice, it doesn't scale well, and with a forum as large as TVT's it means a noticeable performance hit versus the more typical "all posts in one table" method.
Sredni: Faster code means less CPU load and less "Site is busy now..." errors. Remember how the CSS kept breaking on TVT? That sort of thing. Oh, and doing it properly means not having to "archive" threads when they get too big; even in MySQL, the only limit to an InnoDB table's size is effectively available disc space.
^^^^ Could be both. Plus, Eddie seems a bit... devil-may-care about how the fora are set up to begin with. Maybe he could do better, but he thinks of it as a hobby and doesn't bother; or he doesn't know, but he doesn't care that he doesn't know.
^^^ & ^ This makes sense. On a small forum, it would be fine, but on a large, busy one...
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I've made it a point not to purge threads here. I've never cared for Eddie deleting large swaths of content with no warning, and fortunately there is no need for it here.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Posting (and reblogging) are momentarily unavailable while we upgrade some stuff. Back in just a bit.
Well, there we have it.
I assume "upgrade some stuff" here is a euphemism for "fixing stuff that broke", since if this was planned maintenance they would have announced the downtime in advance...
I do want to move the site to 64-bit (so we can take advantage of some of the upgrades Linode has performed since 2012), but that'd require taking the site down for an hour or two.
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This latter thing might just be a fake rumor goons repeat.
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