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My website has been slow as shit. My DB, along with many of its definitions are literally 20 years old, so I revisited it. 95% of the issue was poorly defined indexes and a couple bad query patterns that haven't scaled with my data. Duh.

So, remember to revisit your indexes every once in a while.

My neighbor is out here in a dumpy old snowplow, clearing the 1” dusting of snow off his driveway while blaring Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

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How is Trump Still a Viable Contender?

Seriously, how did we get here?

I have such a hard time comprehending how anyone, in good faith, can endorse Donald Trump to be the President of the United States.

Especially after not being endorsed by many of the highest ranking people of his own party, who he hired… his Vice President, his National Security Advisor, his Director of National Intelligence, his Secretary of Defense, his highest ranking military officer, his White House Chief of Staff, and the list goes on, and on.

These Republicans, and so many other people who’ve worked with him know that he’s wildly unethical, a threat to our nation’s security, and to our democracy. How can anyone believe otherwise?

  • He's the most compulsive of liars.
  • He stole and illegally hoarded …

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Another fun thing to find is that my ORM was counting records like:

SELECT count(*) AS count_1 FROM (SELECT * FROM table) AS anon_1

wtf.