Re: [GTALUG] Index Exchange is hiring (a lot), and I can recommend it

2021-11-27 Thread William Park via talk
Hi Dave, Just curious... Why was Go chosen? And, more importantly, what other languages were considered and rejected? On 11/27/21 2:05 PM, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote: We're an advertising exchange that does real time ad auctions in 120 milliseconds, growing hugely even through COVID,

Re: [GTALUG] a solved problem unsolved itself: WordPress, MySQL, UTF-8

2021-11-27 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2021-11-27 18:04, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: Do you have shell access? I think you imply "yes". Yes, I do, but not to the database server. All I have for that is socket access and PHPMyAdmin (blecch). Does "fix it" mean "changed the raw data" or mangle the data somewhere downstream of

[GTALUG] war story: Fedora 35 and Nvidia GTX 650

2021-11-27 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
I've been using a GTX 650 on my desktop for over seven years. This may surprise you since I am an open-source fan. The reason I chose it is that it was all I had that would drive my UltraHD TV at full resolution. Things are better now (not as much as one would like) but I'm still using the same

Re: [GTALUG] a solved problem unsolved itself: WordPress, MySQL, UTF-8

2021-11-27 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | I have been running a WordPress blog hosted on a Linux-based shared host since | WordPress became a thing. It has worked quite well from about 2004 up until a | few weeks ago. Do you have shell access? I think you imply "yes". | Sadly, *something*

[GTALUG] a solved problem unsolved itself: WordPress, MySQL, UTF-8

2021-11-27 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
I have been running a WordPress blog hosted on a Linux-based shared host since WordPress became a thing. It has worked quite well from about 2004 up until a few weeks ago. Sadly, *something* recently decided my database encoding was wrong. And that something decided to "fix" it. It certainly

[GTALUG] Index Exchange is hiring (a lot), and I can recommend it

2021-11-27 Thread Dave Collier-Brown via talk
We're an advertising exchange that does real time ad auctions in 120 milliseconds, growing hugely even through COVID, financially successful and moving steadily toward IPO in a few years. We're interested in Go programmers, sysadmins with a talent for automation, and data / machine-learning

Re: [GTALUG] Upgrading SSD -> NVMe

2021-11-27 Thread Scott Sullivan via talk
It's well in to the area of diminishing returns for daily application use. You really need an I/O intensive workload (Data Crunching, Video Production) to see a benefit. Does a Faster SSD Matter for Gamers?? - $h!t Manufacturers Say - Linus Tech Tips

[GTALUG] Upgrading SSD -> NVMe

2021-11-27 Thread William Park via talk
Has anyone upgraded from SSD SATA to NVMe M.2? Spec says it's 10x the speed. What did you really see? --William --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk