Archive for April, 2006
Posted on April 29th, 2006
In case you were wondering the offset command in postgres does not operate in constant time.
For example:
select * from table limit 100 offset 1000;
is fast (about 75 ms). While:
select * from table limit 100 offset 11000000;
takes just shy of 3 minutes.
The reason for this is that postgres actually retrieves all 11,000,100 rows and just […]
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Posted on April 29th, 2006
So I’ve cracked the seal on the Nephilim Song manuscript and begun reworking it based on what I learned during the last two campaigns. The changes I’m proposing are somewhat radical. I was hoping to do a quick edit and fire up a new campaign, but I’m looking at changing several fundamental things […]
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Posted on April 29th, 2006
So on April 10th, I got frustrated with the fact that my MythTV box decided to do its disk system cough again and I said screw it time to throw money at the problem. I decided to get a new computer and make this problem go away. And so I went to my […]
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Posted on April 29th, 2006
So on the way home from work today I caught an NPR bit on fact that some latino musicians have translated the national anthem into Spanish. The general subtext of the piece which we are supposed to assume without question is that this is somehow disrespectful. I have never understood that way of […]
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Posted on April 9th, 2006
Since I’ve gone to the effort of posting I should probably do an update dump sort of thing that I seem to do occasionally as if someone is listening. On the other hand more people might listen if I’d do them the courtesy for updating regularly.
Since in general I only post when stressed, upset, […]
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Posted on April 9th, 2006
I was playing some WoW last night and decided I needed a beer. So I head down to the basement where all the good beer is, and as I approach the bottom of the stairs I hear the telltale sounds of running water. Then as my I put my foot down on the […]
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