#byte-sized mondays

[project-lumen]

*clears throat*

Welcome to the first edition of the

✨ Byte-Sized Mondays ✨ #89

* name subject to change

‘Ello! Kori here to deliver the first ever LUMEN update in terms of the actual game. because there’s progress with the pre-alpha build, muchachos >:3

There’s not much I can show without getting punted into the sun but-

Here you have an early build of the main menu and a character selection (for debug/testing purposes)

Oh, but, Kori. I definitely hear you asking. Didn’t you say the game would be made with Unity? And. Yeah I did say that. But now it’s godot because pie offered to help with some minigames. So! I’ve been learning how to godot efficiently :D

^real footage of me coding

Yet there is an even earlier screenshot of what the main menu looked like in unity, a fun tidbit for you all even if it was scrapped :3

And that’s all! Byte-sized Mondays will be short, quick fortnightly (might be weekly during break) updates on the game straight from the Source for you guys to get a better feel of how the game is coming along while I put together longer devlogs :3

I am so excited, I swear

- Kori

Also corporate wishes you a happy pride month fellas!

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

Okay I’m talking about OneHalf anyway I like it too much.

Imagine you are an employee at a large company in the mid 1990s. You use MS-DOS; your company hasn’t sprung for Windows 3.0 because it would be expensive to update all of their equipment, and DOS works just fine for spreadsheets. Besides, everyone here is still using Lotus 1-2-3, and you don’t want to bother learning a new spreadsheet program like Excel.

You and your coworkers on your team share files a lot. You have to, really; you have a lot of data that needs processing, and it’s best to get a second set of eyes on something before you give it to your boss. Right now, you’ve just received a floppy disk from your coworker, Dan, to run on your computer and make sure everything looks right. Apparently his computer has been making some weird noises lately, and he’d rather be sure that everything saved alright, since your computer hasn’t been having any issues.

You insert the floppy into the disk drive, boot up DOS, and run the files. He’s got some spreadsheets, and a copy of Adventure; a game you’ve been wanting to play with him for a while. Dan’s great like that. Everything works fine. Looks like everything saved okay, but you keep a copy on your computer, just in case. You pass the floppy disk back to Dan and quickly move on to something else. Soon, the workday is over; you save your work, maybe take your floppy disks home if you have a home computer, and power down your computer. Maybe Dan’s just been having a bad week; computers make weird noises or hang unexpectedly sometimes, it’s just a fact of life. You hope it clears up by Monday, but it’s not really your problem right now.

Next Monday, you go into the office and start work again. Your computer boots up and- did the disk drive always sound that way? You feel like something’s off, but… your computer boots fine. Your files open normally, Lotus 1-2-3 doesn’t have any issues. It feels like there’s a tiny bit of lag between typing commands and programs opening, but that’s nothing new. These computers haven’t been updated in a while; maybe they’re just getting old? Or maybe Dan’s anxiety over his computer got in your head. It’s probably fine.

But on Tuesday, it still sounds weird. And Wednesday. And Thursday. You’ve heard of viruses before; there was that big news scare over Datacrime II and Michaelangelo, although they didn’t turn out to really be an issue. You know that viruses usually increase your file size, so you just check real quick. Graphics seems fine, 19,742 bytes still. You check Lotus 1-2-3; seems fine. It’s fine. VSafe isn’t pinging you, so… you’re probably just overthinking it.

Several weeks pass. You get used to the new way your computer boots up; Dan and you commiserate about the computers getting old and out of date. You joke about it with other coworkers; your boss hears about it and assures you that your computers will be replaced when there’s a budget for it, but for now, please try to take care of these machines.

And then, one day, while you’re working, you hear Dan pause. You look over, and you see that he’s just staring at his screen. His computer, which he had just booted up, says “Dis is one half” on the screen.

You both share a look, and then he hurries off to the IT department.

He comes back with a guy you’ve seen in passing, but don’t really talk to. He’s holding a floppy disk and explaining to Dan that, since this just happened, he probably has some sort of virus on his device. The IT guy finds that Dan’s files are the size they should be, but that the drive’s making some weird sounds, so he’s gonna be safe and install a clean version of the Master Boot Record, just to be safe. It’s probably some silly prank from a coworker with a hobby computer at home; he starts asking Dan if he’d left his computer on unattended lately, or used any floppies from people he didn’t usually work with.

Your computer was making those same weird sounds. Now seems like an important time to mention that, but the IT guy keeps talking and you’ve got to go home soon. In five minutes, you’ll be off the clock, and your boss has a habit of shooing everyone out the door who isn’t doing something past 5. You say your goodbyes and tell Dan you hope his computer gets fixed soon.

The next day, you walk in to an ashen-faced Dan waiting by your desk.

His files are trashed. That clean copy of the master boot record must have been corrupted or something, but the IT guy used the same floppy on a test computer and it worked exactly as it should have. Whatever happened after was enough to get the IT guy panicking, and worse, everything Dan has done on that computer for the past three years is toast. Even programs that come with the computer, like CONFIG, seem to be broken; he tried to run it, only to get back a ton of gibberish text.

The IT guy comes running back in, saying that his test computer is now making that weird sound from Dan’s computer. He’d taken another floppy and downloaded some of Dan’s surviving files, and now that he’s run them on another device, he’s confirmed it; Dan’s computer had a virus, and removing the virus is how the computer broke. Problem being, none of the three of you know what that virus is. All you know is this:

- Dan’s computer made a weird sound on startup

- Dan gave you one of his floppy disks, and you ran it

- Right after that, your computer started making the same noises

- Dan didn’t lose any of his data until he tried to get rid of the virus

You realize you have a very important decision to make. Do you let the IT guy try to disinfect your computer, so this doesn’t spread? Or do you keep working as usual, hoping that your computer doesn’t break like Dan’s?

This is what OneHalf does; it creates an encryption key, and then, every time you boot up, it encrypts the last two sectors of your hard disk. It’s memory resident, so any .com or .exe files you run get infected (like that copy of Adventure), but it uses stealth techniques to hide the increase in file size. It also decrypts files you try to access that are encrypted, effectively hiding from the user that there’s an issue until it’s much too late. Because it has to spin the disk to the encryption key to decrypt your files, and because the virus itself leaves instructions to decrypt your files in the master boot record, the seek test sound on startup is noticeably different.

Once half of your hard disk is encrypted, OneHalf will show the message “Dis is one half” when you boot up. That’s the first explicit sign that you’re infected. By then, much of your data is encrypted, and if you try to remove the virus by installing a clean copy of the master boot record, the instructions to decrypt your encrypted files are lost, and those files become unrecoverable. Specialized programs have to be used to find and save the encryption key and decrypt your files while safely disinfecting your computer.

[spintaxi]

Aetiology

The Curious Case of Aetiology: Blaming Everything on an “-ology”

In a world where every sneeze, bad hair day, and inexplicable craving for cheese puffs demands an explanation, one discipline has heroically—and hilariously—risen to the challenge: aetiology, the science of causation. While most people assume that “aetiology” is merely the fancy way doctors explain why Aunt Edna sneezes when she sees a dust bunny, a deeper dive into this venerable field reveals it to be the ultimate scapegoat for all of life’s misfortunes. When the Cause Is Worse Than the Symptom Earlier this month, at the Annual Convention of Professional Overthinkers (ACPO), delegates from every continent gathered to debate whether the true root cause of Monday mornings was cosmic injustice or a shortage of coffee beans in the Northern Hemisphere. Dr. Emilia Fuddle, self-appointed president of the National Aetiology Association, declared, “We have conclusively determined that the universal dread of Mondays is due not to calendars but to the misalignment of your chakras with the snooze button on your alarm clock.” Her evidence? A highly dubious poll of five insomniacs and a single barista who once overslept. Experts in aetiology pride themselves on linking every ailment to something far more dramatic than a simple virus. Case in point: last week, pulmonologist-turned-aetiologist Dr. Carl “Cough Doctor” Jenkins published a paper asserting that seasonal allergies are actually caused by microscopic office dust mites plotting to sabotage your weekend plans. Jenkins cites a “confidential office memo” from a dust mite union—complete with a hand-scribbled scrawl warning of “Operation Hayfever Havoc.” Though no independent verification exists, Jenkins insists the memo was notarized in Aruba, which he claims grants it extra credibility. The Evidence—Trust Us, It Exists Aetiologists frequently tout a robust array of evidence: personal anecdotes, shaky eyewitness testimony, and occasionally a chicken bone or two. Take the recent saga of Ms. Tanya Templeton, who attributes her sudden urge to binge-watch reality TV to “an electromagnetic pulse emitted by her fridge.” “I opened it for milk, and suddenly I was four seasons deep into ‘Real Housewives of Toledo,’” she told our correspondent. Ms. Templeton says she witnessed tiny sparks flying from the ice maker—though video evidence consists solely of a shaky smartphone clip shot at 2 a.m. while she was half-asleep. Or consider the widely cited “Adirondack Bounceback Study,” wherein researchers followed 12 hikers who tripped over roots and concluded that tree roots possess a “vindictive intelligence” that seeks out unsuspecting soles. The sample size? One guided hike, two broken ankles, and a retired history teacher who swears he heard the roots whisper, “Ha! Got you!” Though critics call this “anecdotal pseudoscience,” the study remains enshrined in the hallowed halls of Aetiology—and occasionally in middle-school science projects across the country. Analogies Run Amok In a classic display of false analogy, aetiologists often compare human ailments to computer malfunctions. Last Tuesday, Aetiology Today ran a cover story titled “Why Your Gut Is Like Windows 95,” suggesting that digestive issues stem from having too many “programs” (meals) running at once. “Just as Windows 95 would crash when too many applications opened, so too does your stomach rebel when you’re multitasking nachos, soda, and existential dread,” claimed columnist Max Byte. Technology experts ridiculed the comparison, pointing out that Windows 95 didn’t have indigestion, but the piece remains wildly popular on tech forums nonetheless. The Slippery Slope of Causation Aetiologists are also masters of the slippery slope: if you admit that X caused Y, then obviously Z will follow. This summer, a popular Twitter thread claimed that sunburns are the first domino in a chain reaction leading to job loss, existential ennui, and ultimately the downfall of Western civilization. The thread amassed thousands of retweets from people freshly scorched at pool parties, each offering personal stories of career blunders blamed entirely on a lobster-red sunburn. Epidemiologists were baffled; historians shrugged. Aetiologists celebrated another victory. What the Funny People Are Saying “I once blamed my divorce on my toaster’s crumb tray, and thanks to aetiology, I now have a full research paper under review.”—Ron White (impersonator), stand-in comedian “If you think your problems are caused by childhood trauma, wait till you read about the secret government conspiracy of garden gnomes.”—Jerry Seinfeld, in an unverified tweet In Conclusion: A Disclaimer You Can Trust All of the above is—as every seasoned aetiologist would admit—utterly speculative. Attributing causation in life is a delightful art, not an exact science. If you’ve suffered any injuries, inexplicable cravings, or catastrophic meltdowns, don’t blame your socks for tangling, your fridge for conspiring, or your alarm clock for cosmic misalignment. This entirely human collaboration between the world’s oldest tenured professor and a philosophy major-turned-dairy farmer bears no responsibility for your newfound obsession with chicken-bone divination. Any resemblance to real causes—well, that was completely coincidental. Auf Wiedersehen.

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Holidays 10.6

Holidays

American Library Day

Armed Forces Day (Egypt)

Come and Take It Day (Texas)

Commemoration Day (Turkmenistan)

Day of Commemoration and National Mourning (Turkmenistan)

Discovery of America Day (Honduras)

Donkey Day (French Republic)

Dukla Pass Victims Day (Slovakia)

Earthquake Remembrance Day (Turkmenistan)

Ecological Debt Day

Festival of Spiritual Anarchy

German Pioneer Day (Pennsylvania)

Gopher Hill Day

Inbox Zero Day

Instagram Day

International Geodiversity Day

Ivy Day (Ireland)

Jack Day

Jackie Mayer Rehab Day (Sandusky, Ohio)

Mad Hatter Day

Memorial Day for the Martyrs of Arad (Hungary)

Moulin Rouge Day

National Badger Day (UK)

National Coaches Day

National Energy Geek Day

National German-American Day

National Influencer Day

National Isabella Day

National Kink Day

National Physician Assistant Day

National Plus Size Appreciation Day

National Transfer Money to Your Daughter Day

Odd Socks Day (Australia)

Physician's Assistant Day

Semana Morazánica (Honduras)

Talking Motion Picture Day

Teachers’ Day (Sri Lanka)

Tishreen Liberation Day (Syria)

Wizkid Day (Minnesota)

World Cerebral Palsy Day

World HSP Day

World Stationary Day

Worldwide Forgiveness Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Garlic Lovers Day

National Noodle Day

National Orange Wine Day

1st Friday in October

Bandcamp Friday [1st Friday]

Barrel-Aged Beer Day [1st Friday]

Byte Night (UK) [1st Friday]

Cerrado Mineiro Day [1st Friday]

Children’s Day (Singapore) [1st Friday]

College Radio Day [1st Friday]

French Canadian Heritage Day (Michigan) [1st Friday]

Kids Music Day [1st Friday]

Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest begins (Canada) [Friday before 2nd Monday thru 10.19]

Manufacturing Day (a.k.a. MFG Day) [1st Friday]

National Beep Beep Day (Ireland) [1st Friday]

National Body Language Day [1st Friday]

National Denim Day (a.k.a. Lee National Denim Day) [1st Friday]

National Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS) Recognition Day [1st Friday]

National Diversity Day [1st Friday]

National Potato Day (Ireland) [1st Friday]

National Tree Planting Day (Jamaica) [1st Friday]

Plaidurday [1st Friday]

World College Radio Day [1st Friday]

World Multiplication Table Day [1st Friday]

World Smile Day [1st Friday]

Independence Days

Auvenum (a.k.a. Kingdom of Auvenum; Declared; 2018)

Feast Days

Aequinoctium Autumnale III (Pagan)

Alexandr Shilov (Artology)

Bathukamma begins (Telangana, India; Hinduism)

Bellini (Positivist; Saint)

Bruno of Cologne (Christian; Saint)

Dan Christensen (Artology)

Faith (a.k.a. Fides) and companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Ghengis Khan Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Happy Hour All Day Day Day (Pastafarian)

International Rastafarian Headgear Day (Pastafarian)

Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (Christian; Blessed)

Marie Rose Durocher (Christian; Blessed)

Mary Frances of the Five Wounds (Christian; Saint)

Pardulphus (Christian; Saint)

Sagar of Laodicea (Christian; Saint)

Thuistle (Muppetism)

William Tyndale (commemoration, Anglicanism), with Myles Coverdale (Episcopal Church (USA))

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Day of Bad Omens (Ancient Rome) [2 of 2]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [27 of 32]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [32 of 37]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [25 of 30]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [47 of 60]

Premieres

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Film; 2014)

Another Froggy Evening (WB LT Cartoon; 1995)

Ballot Box Bunny (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)

Batwoman (TV Series; 2019)

Blade Runner 2049 (Film; 2017)

A Bug’s Land (Disneyland Attraction; 2002)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series; 2000)

The Departed (Film; 2006)

Drugstore Cowboy (Film; 1989)

Eight Days A Week, recorded by The Beatles (Song; 1964)

Faith, by George Michael (Song; 1987)

The Florida Project (Film; 2017)

Girlfight (Film; 2000)

Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (WB Animated Film; 2020)

Here Comes Santa Claus, by Gene Autry (Song; 1947)

How to Make an American Quilt (Film; 1995)

Instagram (Social Media App; 2010)

The Jazz Singer (Film; 1927)

Love Me Tender, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1956)

Marathon Man (Film; 1976)

The Maze Runner, by James Dashner (Novel; 2009) [Maze Runner #1]

Meet the Parents (Film; 2000)

Merry Christmas, by Johnny Mathis (Album; 1958)

The Miller’s Daughter (WB MM Cartoon; 1934)

The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie (West End Play; 1952)

My Life and Hard Times, by James Thurber (Memoir; 1933)

My Little Pony: The Movie (Animated Film; 2017)

Othello, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1621)

Pillow Talk (Film; 1959)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark (Novel; 1961)

Sitting Bull (Film; 1954)

Something, by The Beatles (Song’ 1969)

Spartacus (Film; 1960)

Summer and Smoke, by Tennessee Williams (Broadway Play; 1948)

Taxi (Film; 2004)

Yuri on Ice (Anime Series; 2016)

Today’s Name Days

Adalbero, Bruno, Melanie (Austria)

Bruno, Fides, Verica, Vjera (Croatia)

Hanuš (Czech Republic)

Broderus (Denmark)

Bruno, Edmund (Estonia)

Minttu, Pinja (Finland)

Bruno (France)

Adalbero, Nrunhild, Bruno, Gerald, Melanie (Germany)

Erotiis (Greece)

Brúnó, Renáta (Hungary)

Bruno (Italy)

Monika, Zilgma (Latvia)

Brunonas, Budvydas, Eismantas, Vytenė (Lithuania)

Målfrid, Møyfrid (Norway)

Artur, Artus, Bronisław, Bronisz, Brunon, Emil, Fryderyka, Roman (Poland)

Toma (Romania)

Natália (Slovakia)

Bruno (Spain)

Jennifer, Jenny (Sweden)

Thomas, Toma (Ukraine)

Bron, Bronson, Brown, Bruno, Burnet, Burnett (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 279 of 2024; 86 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 40 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 4 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 22 (Ding-You)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 21 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 21 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 9 Shù; Twosday [9 of 30]

Julian: 23 September 2023

Moon: 50%: 3rd Quarter

Positivist: 27 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Bellini]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 13 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 13 of 30)

[brookston]

Holidays 10.6

Holidays

American Library Day

Armed Forces Day (Egypt)

Come and Take It Day (Texas)

Commemoration Day (Turkmenistan)

Day of Commemoration and National Mourning (Turkmenistan)

Discovery of America Day (Honduras)

Donkey Day (French Republic)

Dukla Pass Victims Day (Slovakia)

Earthquake Remembrance Day (Turkmenistan)

Ecological Debt Day

Festival of Spiritual Anarchy

German Pioneer Day (Pennsylvania)

Gopher Hill Day

Inbox Zero Day

Instagram Day

International Geodiversity Day

Ivy Day (Ireland)

Jack Day

Jackie Mayer Rehab Day (Sandusky, Ohio)

Mad Hatter Day

Memorial Day for the Martyrs of Arad (Hungary)

Moulin Rouge Day

National Badger Day (UK)

National Coaches Day

National Energy Geek Day

National German-American Day

National Influencer Day

National Isabella Day

National Kink Day

National Physician Assistant Day

National Plus Size Appreciation Day

National Transfer Money to Your Daughter Day

Odd Socks Day (Australia)

Physician's Assistant Day

Semana Morazánica (Honduras)

Talking Motion Picture Day

Teachers’ Day (Sri Lanka)

Tishreen Liberation Day (Syria)

Wizkid Day (Minnesota)

World Cerebral Palsy Day

World HSP Day

World Stationary Day

Worldwide Forgiveness Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Garlic Lovers Day

National Noodle Day

National Orange Wine Day

1st Friday in October

Bandcamp Friday [1st Friday]

Barrel-Aged Beer Day [1st Friday]

Byte Night (UK) [1st Friday]

Cerrado Mineiro Day [1st Friday]

Children’s Day (Singapore) [1st Friday]

College Radio Day [1st Friday]

French Canadian Heritage Day (Michigan) [1st Friday]

Kids Music Day [1st Friday]

Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest begins (Canada) [Friday before 2nd Monday thru 10.19]

Manufacturing Day (a.k.a. MFG Day) [1st Friday]

National Beep Beep Day (Ireland) [1st Friday]

National Body Language Day [1st Friday]

National Denim Day (a.k.a. Lee National Denim Day) [1st Friday]

National Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS) Recognition Day [1st Friday]

National Diversity Day [1st Friday]

National Potato Day (Ireland) [1st Friday]

National Tree Planting Day (Jamaica) [1st Friday]

Plaidurday [1st Friday]

World College Radio Day [1st Friday]

World Multiplication Table Day [1st Friday]

World Smile Day [1st Friday]

Independence Days

Auvenum (a.k.a. Kingdom of Auvenum; Declared; 2018)

Feast Days

Aequinoctium Autumnale III (Pagan)

Alexandr Shilov (Artology)

Bathukamma begins (Telangana, India; Hinduism)

Bellini (Positivist; Saint)

Bruno of Cologne (Christian; Saint)

Dan Christensen (Artology)

Faith (a.k.a. Fides) and companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Ghengis Khan Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Happy Hour All Day Day Day (Pastafarian)

International Rastafarian Headgear Day (Pastafarian)

Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (Christian; Blessed)

Marie Rose Durocher (Christian; Blessed)

Mary Frances of the Five Wounds (Christian; Saint)

Pardulphus (Christian; Saint)

Sagar of Laodicea (Christian; Saint)

Thuistle (Muppetism)

William Tyndale (commemoration, Anglicanism), with Myles Coverdale (Episcopal Church (USA))

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Day of Bad Omens (Ancient Rome) [2 of 2]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [27 of 32]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [32 of 37]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [25 of 30]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [47 of 60]

Premieres

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Film; 2014)

Another Froggy Evening (WB LT Cartoon; 1995)

Ballot Box Bunny (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)

Batwoman (TV Series; 2019)

Blade Runner 2049 (Film; 2017)

A Bug’s Land (Disneyland Attraction; 2002)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series; 2000)

The Departed (Film; 2006)

Drugstore Cowboy (Film; 1989)

Eight Days A Week, recorded by The Beatles (Song; 1964)

Faith, by George Michael (Song; 1987)

The Florida Project (Film; 2017)

Girlfight (Film; 2000)

Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (WB Animated Film; 2020)

Here Comes Santa Claus, by Gene Autry (Song; 1947)

How to Make an American Quilt (Film; 1995)

Instagram (Social Media App; 2010)

The Jazz Singer (Film; 1927)

Love Me Tender, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1956)

Marathon Man (Film; 1976)

The Maze Runner, by James Dashner (Novel; 2009) [Maze Runner #1]

Meet the Parents (Film; 2000)

Merry Christmas, by Johnny Mathis (Album; 1958)

The Miller’s Daughter (WB MM Cartoon; 1934)

The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie (West End Play; 1952)

My Life and Hard Times, by James Thurber (Memoir; 1933)

My Little Pony: The Movie (Animated Film; 2017)

Othello, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1621)

Pillow Talk (Film; 1959)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark (Novel; 1961)

Sitting Bull (Film; 1954)

Something, by The Beatles (Song’ 1969)

Spartacus (Film; 1960)

Summer and Smoke, by Tennessee Williams (Broadway Play; 1948)

Taxi (Film; 2004)

Yuri on Ice (Anime Series; 2016)

Today’s Name Days

Adalbero, Bruno, Melanie (Austria)

Bruno, Fides, Verica, Vjera (Croatia)

Hanuš (Czech Republic)

Broderus (Denmark)

Bruno, Edmund (Estonia)

Minttu, Pinja (Finland)

Bruno (France)

Adalbero, Nrunhild, Bruno, Gerald, Melanie (Germany)

Erotiis (Greece)

Brúnó, Renáta (Hungary)

Bruno (Italy)

Monika, Zilgma (Latvia)

Brunonas, Budvydas, Eismantas, Vytenė (Lithuania)

Målfrid, Møyfrid (Norway)

Artur, Artus, Bronisław, Bronisz, Brunon, Emil, Fryderyka, Roman (Poland)

Toma (Romania)

Natália (Slovakia)

Bruno (Spain)

Jennifer, Jenny (Sweden)

Thomas, Toma (Ukraine)

Bron, Bronson, Brown, Bruno, Burnet, Burnett (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 279 of 2024; 86 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 40 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 4 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 22 (Ding-You)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 21 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 21 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 9 Shù; Twosday [9 of 30]

Julian: 23 September 2023

Moon: 50%: 3rd Quarter

Positivist: 27 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Bellini]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 13 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 13 of 30)

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November 30, 2009

I joined the KKK for the homophobia but stayed for the anonymous gay sex.   @fireland (Joshua Allen) – 132

Judging by your face, you are not an attractive person.   @baileygenine (Bailey Siewert) – 107

What is productivity, really? I will ponder this question while sitting in my new manila folder igloo.   @badbanana (Tim Siedell) – 90

Lost the baby Jesus for the miniature nativity scene, so I used a frozen Jimmy Dean sausage instead. Merry Sausagemas.   @thedayhascome (Josh Hopkins) – 89

My employees forgot about Cyber Monday. I won't rub it in. They look embarrassed enough when I walk by in my RoboCop suit.   @badbanana (Tim Siedell) – 88

A friend asked me how old I thought she was. I answered vaguely to be safe, saying "Young enough for acne but old enough for sagging boobs."   @MrBigFists (Jonathan Sloan) – 81

Dropping the kid off at kindergarten on the way to meanergarten.   @adamisacson (Adam Isacson) – 81

Best part about carrying a ukulele through an airport:   THEM: "So... you a musician?"  ME: "Yeah, I play a little guitar."   @jasonpermenter (Jason Permenter) – 74

The Boy came into my room with tears welling in his eyes, to ask if I had sold his pajamas. Which just goes to show: kids are fucking weird.   @tj (Fun Size Bytes) – 69

Well, that's the last time I offer myself up to be deep crawled.  With no computer.  At a bar.   @debihope (Notorious d.e.b.) – 66

I'm not sure there would be such a stigma if instead of crabs, people could be infested with popcorn shrimp.   @gordonshumway (Jelisa Castrodale) – 63

Missing tweet #6190424272   @cravenheart (Unavailable) – 61

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Safari technology preview 120

#Safari technology preview 120 update#

Fixed video appearing blank with only audio playing if video element isn’t appended to the DOM tree ( r284741).Added support for requestVideoFrameCallback API for MediaStreamTrack-based backends ( r284528).Changed to obtain consent to create a new credential when the platform authenticator is in excludedCredentials. This improves compliance with the WebAuthn spec (Step 3.1 of makeCredential).Ensured CanvasRenderingContext2D.drawImage(video) uses the right color space ( r284439).Fixed misplaced position: fixed content with async-scrollable iframes when switching tabs ( r284738).Updated smooth scroll animations to run at 120Hz on 120Hz displays ( r285094).Updated appearance of  indicator ( r284626).Fixed the intrinsic size of a picture image inside a template ( r284667).Fixed selection extend() with no ranges to trigger an exception ( r285084).Fixed Origin of opaque blob: URLs to be null instead of an empty string ( r284478).Fixed JavaScript URL result to be treated as UTF-8 bytes ( r284934).Fixed form submission to be cancelled if the form gets detached from inside the formdata event handler ( r284660).Fixed form navigations with target=”_blank” to not have an opener ( r284821).Fixed document.open() and friends to use the correct document as a source for reset document’s URL ( r284758).Fixed changing the src attribute of the  element inside an ImageDocument to trigger a load ( r284901).Exposed MediaCapabilities to Workers ( r284443).Added support for rel=”noopener/noreferrer” on  elements ( r284749).Enabled lazy image loading by default ( r284995).Fixed opacity to flatten when combined with transform-style: preserve-3d ( r285021).style to be readable when it includes a var() ( r285015) Fixed percentages on orthogonal replaced children ( r284548).Fixed CSS serialization affecting grid-auto-flow ( r284876).Fixed box-shadow and text-shadow to yield float values while interpolating ( r284437).Fixed -webkit-background-clip: text to paint correctly for inline box spanning multiple lines ( r284380).Fixed sizing of orthogonal elements with percentage margins ( r284773).Prevented clamping flex base size with min-height, max-height, min-width, and max-width ( r284397).Fixed :host invalidation when combined with pseudo classes in descendant position ( r285100).Serialized :part() argument as identifier ( r284863).Allowed :is and :where after all pseudo elements ( r285054).Added support for more CSS properties for ::marker ( r284519).Added support for ::before and ::after pseudo elements after ::slotted ( r284973).Added support for contain: style for counters ( r284642, r284755).Added flex-basis: content support ( r284440).Added support for small svw/ svh/ svmin/ svmax, large lvw/ lvh/ lvmin/ lvmax, and dynamic dvw/ dvh/ dvmin/ dvmax viewport units ( r284628).Enabled accent-color by default ( r284634).Media queries affect Cascade Layer order ( r284859).Added support for the acceptInsecureCerts capability ( r285164).Fixed “testForLinkLabels” Accessibility audit to ignore anchors if aria-hidden ( r284986).Note: Tab Groups do not sync in this release. The preview is available for both macOS Monterey and macOS Big Sur.

#Safari technology preview 120 update#

The update addresses a Safari issue where the current version of Safari appears to be limited to a 60Hz refresh rate despite the fact that the new machines support refresh rates up to 120Hz. Safari Technology Preview‌ release 135 includes 120Hz Safari scrolling on displays that support 120Hz refresh rates. The preview version of Apple’s popular browser offers developers and other interested users the ability to try out features that may or may not, debut in future public release versions of Safari. Apple on Monday released Safari Technology Preview 135, the latest version of their developer preview web browser.

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Export and import data from Amazon S3 to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

You can build highly distributed applications using a multitude of purpose-built databases by decoupling complex applications into smaller pieces, which allows you to choose the right database for the right job. Amazon Aurora is the preferred choice for OLTP workloads. Aurora makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. This post demonstrates how you can export and import data from Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and shares associated best practices. The feature to export and import data to Amazon S3 is also available for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition. Overview of Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible and Amazon S3 Aurora is a MySQL-compatible and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud. It combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. Amazon S3 is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data. The following diagram illustrates the solution architecture. Prerequisites Before you get started, complete the following prerequisite steps: Launch an Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster. You can also use an existing cluster. Note: To export data to Amazon S3 from Aurora PostgreSQL, your database must be running one of the following PostgreSQL engine versions 10.14 or higher, 11.9 or higher ,12.4 or higher Launch an Amazon EC2 instance that you installed the PostgreSQL client on. You can also use the pgAdmin tool or tool of your choice for this purpose. Create the required Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies and roles: Create an IAM policy with the least-restricted privilege to the resources in the following code and name it aurora-s3-access-pol. The policy must have access to the S3 bucket where the files are stored (for this post, aurora-pg-sample-loaddata01). { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "s3:GetObject", "s3:AbortMultipartUpload", "s3:DeleteObject", "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts", "s3:PutObject", "s3:ListBucket" ], "Resource": [ "arn:aws:s3:::aurora-pg-sample-loaddata01/*", "arn:aws:s3:::aurora-pg-sample-loaddata01" ] } ] } Create two IAM roles named aurora-s3-export-role and aurora-s3-import-role and modify the trust relationships according to the following code. AssumeRole allows Aurora to access other AWS services on your behalf. {"Version": "2012-10-17","Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow","Principal": { "Service": "rds.amazonaws.com" },"Action": "sts:AssumeRole" } ] } Attach the policy aurora-s3-access-pol from the previous step. For this post, we create the roles aurora-s3-export-role and aurora-s3-import-role. Their associated ARNs are arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/aurora-s3-export-role and arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/aurora-s3-import-role, respectively. Associate the IAM roles to the cluster. This enables the Aurora DB cluster to access the S3 bucket. See the following code: aws rds add-role-to-db-cluster --db-cluster-identifier aurora-postgres-cl --feature-name s3Export --role-arn arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/aurora-s3-export-role aws rds add-role-to-db-cluster --db-cluster-identifier aurora-postgres-cl --feature-name s3Import --role-arn arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/aurora-s3-import-role You’re now ready to explore the following use cases of exporting and importing data. Export data from Aurora PostgreSQL to Amazon S3 To export your data, complete the following steps: Connect to the cluster as the primary user, postgres in our case.By default, the primary user has permission to export and import data from Amazon S3. For this post, you create a test user with the least-required permission to export data to the S3 bucket. See the following code: psql -h aurora-postgres-cl.cluster-XXXXXXXXXXXX.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -p 5432 -d pg1 -U postgres Install the required PostgreSQL extensions, aws_s3 and aws_commons. When you install the aws_s3 extension, the aws_commons extension is also installed: CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS aws_s3 CASCADE; Create the user testuser (or you can use an existing user): create user testuser; password testuser; You can verify the user has been created with the du command: du testuser List of roles Role name | Attributes | Member of -----------+------------+----------- testuser | | {} Grant privileges on the aws_s3 schema to testuser (or another user you chose): grant execute on all functions in schema aws_s3 to testuser; Log in to the cluster as testuser: psql -h aurora-postgres-cl.cluster-XXXXXXXXXXXX.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -p 5432 -d pg1 -U testuser Create and populate a test table called apg2s3_table, which you use for exporting data to the S3 bucket. You can use any existing table in your database (preferably small size) to test this feature. See the following code: CREATE TABLE apg2s3_table ( bid bigint PRIMARY KEY, name varchar(80) ); Insert a few records using the following statement: INSERT INTO apg2s3_table (bid,name) VALUES (1, 'Monday'), (2,'Tuesday'), (3, 'Wednesday'); To export data from the Aurora table to the S3 bucket, use the aws_s3.query_export_to_s3 and aws_commons.create_s3_uri functions: We use the aws_commons.create_s3_uri function to load a variable with the appropriate URI information required by the aws_s3.query_export_to_s3 function. The parameters required by the aws_commons.create_s3_uri function are the S3 bucket name, the full path (folder and filename) for the file to be created by the export command, and the Region. See the following example code: SELECT aws_commons.create_s3_uri( 'aurora-pg-sample-loaddata01', 'apg2s3_table', 'us-east-1' ) AS s3_uri_1 gset Export the entire table to the S3 bucket with the following code: SELECT * FROM aws_s3.query_export_to_s3( 'SELECT * FROM apg2s3_table',:'s3_uri_1'); rows_uploaded | files_uploaded | bytes_uploaded ---------------+----------------+---------------- 3 | 1 | 31 (1 row) If you’re trying this feature out for the first time, consider using the LIMIT clause for a larger table. If you’re using a PostgreSQL client that doesn’t have the gset command available, the workaround is to call the aws_commons.create_s3_uri function inside of the aws_s3.query_export_to_s3 function as follows: SELECT * FROM aws_s3.query_export_to_s3( 'SELECT * FROM apg2s3_table', aws_commons.create_s3_uri( 'aurora-pg-sample-loaddata01', 'apg2s3_table','us-east-1')); rows_uploaded | files_uploaded | bytes_uploaded ---------------+----------------+---------------- 3 | 1 | 31 (1 row) The final step is to verify the export file was created in the S3 bucket. The default file size threshold is 6 GB. Because the data selected by the statement is less than the file size threshold, a single file is created: aws s3 ls s3://aurora-pg-sample-loaddata01/apg2s3_table --human-readable --summarize 2020-12-12 12:06:59 31 Bytes apg2s3_table Total Objects: 1 Total Size: 31 Bytes If you need the file size to be smaller than 6 GB, you can identify a column to split the table data into small portions and run multiple SELECT INTO OUTFILE statements (using the WHERE condition). It’s best to do this when the amount of data selected is more than 25 GB. Import data from Amazon S3 to Aurora PostgreSQL In this section, you load the data back to the Aurora table from the S3 file. Complete the following steps: Create a new table called apg2s3_table_imp: CREATE TABLE apg2s3_table_imp( bid bigint PRIMARY KEY, name varchar(80) ); Use the create_s3_uri function to load a variable named s3_uri_1 with the appropriate URI information required by the aws_s3.table_import_from_s3 function: SELECT aws_commons.create_s3_uri( 'aurora-pg-sample-loaddata01', 'apg2s3_table','us-east-1') AS s3_uri_1 gset Use the aws_s3.table_import_from_s3 function to import the data file from an Amazon S3 prefix: SELECT aws_s3.table_import_from_s3( 'apg2s3_table_imp', '', '(format text)', :'s3_uri_1' ); Verify the information was loaded into the apg2s3_table_imp table: SELECT * FROM apg2s3_table_imp; Best practices This section discusses a few best practices for bulk loading large datasets from Amazon S3 to your Aurora PostgreSQL database. The observations we present are based on a series of tests loading 100 million records to the apg2s3_table_imp table on a db.r5.2xlarge instance (see the preceding sections for table structure and example records). We carried out load testing when no other active transactions were running on the cluster. Results might vary depending on your cluster loads and instance type. The baseline load included 100 million records using the single file apg2s3_table.csv, without any structural changes to the target table apg2s3_table_imp or configuration changes to the Aurora PostgreSQL database. The data load took approximately 360 seconds. See the following code: time psql -h aurora-postgres-cl.cluster-XXXXXXXXXXXX.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -p 5432 -U testuser -d pg1 -c "SELECT aws_s3.table_import_from_s3('apg2s3_table_imp','','(format CSV)','aurora-pg-sample-loaddata01','apg2s3_table.csv','us-east-1')" table_import_from_s3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 100000000 rows imported into relation "apg2s3_table_imp" from file apg2s3_table.csv of 3177777796 bytes (1 row) real 6m0.368s user 0m0.005s sys 0m0.005s We used the same dataset to implement some best practices iteratively to measure their performance benefits on the load times. The following best practices are listed in order of the observed performance benefits from lower to higher improvements. Drop indexes and constraints Although indexes can significantly increase the performance of some DML operations such as UPDATE and DELETE, these data structures can also decrease the performance of inserts, especially when dealing with bulk data inserts. The reason is that after each new record is inserted in the table, the associated indexes also need to be updated to reflect the new rows being loaded. Therefore, a best practice for bulk data loads is dropping indexes and constraints on the target tables before a load and recreating them when the load is complete. In our test case, by dropping the primary key and index associated with the apg2s3_table_imp table, we reduced the data load down to approximately 131 seconds (data load + recreation on primary key). This is roughly 2.7 times faster than the baseline. See the following code: psql -h aurora-postgres-cl.cluster-XXXXXXXXXXXX.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -p 5432 -U testuser -d pg1 -c "d apg2s3_table_imp" Table "public.apg2s3_table_imp" Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default | Storage | Stats target | Description --------+-----------------------+-----------+----------+---------+----------+--------------+------------- bid | bigint | | not null | | plain | | name | character varying(80) | | | | extended | | Indexes: "apg2s3_table_imp_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (bid) psql -h aurora-postgres-cl.cluster-XXXXXXXXXXXX.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -p 5432 -U testuser -d pg1 -c "ALTER TABLE apg2s3_table_imp DROP CONSTRAINT apg2s3_table_imp_pkey" ALTER TABLE psql -h aurora-postgres-cl.cluster-XXXXXXXXXXXX.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -p 5432 -U testuser -d pg1 -c "d apg2s3_table_imp" Table "public.apg2s3_table_imp" Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default --------+-----------------------+-----------+----------+--------- bid | bigint | | not null | name | character varying(80) | | | time psql -h aurora-postgres-cl.cluster-XXXXXXXXXXXX.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -p 5432 -U testuser -d pg1 -c "SELECT aws_s3.table_import_from_s3('apg2s3_table_imp','','(format CSV)','aurora-pg-sample-loaddata01','apg2s3_table.csv','us-east-1')" table_import_from_s3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 100000000 rows imported into relation "apg2s3_table_imp" from file apg2s3_table.csv of 3177777796 bytes (1 row) real 1m24.950s user 0m0.005s sys 0m0.005s time psql -h demopg-instance-1.cmcmpwi7rtng.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -p 5432 -U testuser -d pg1 -c "ALTER TABLE apg2s3_table_imp ADD PRIMARY KEY (bid);" ALTER TABLE real 0m46.731s user 0m0.009s sys 0m0.000s Concurrent loads To improve load performance, you can split large datasets into multiple files that can be loaded concurrently. However, the degree of concurrency can impact other transactions running on the cluster. The number of vCPUs allocated to instance types plays a key role because load operation requires CPU cycles to read data, insert into tables, commit changes, and more. For more information, see Amazon RDS Instance Types. Loading several tables concurrently with few vCPUs can cause CPU utilization to spike and may impact the existing workload. For more information, see Overview of monitoring Amazon RDS. For our test case, we split the original file into five pieces of 20 million records each. Then we created simple shell script to run a psql command for each file to be loaded, like the following: #To make the test simpler, we named the datafiles as apg2s3_table_imp_XX. #Where XX is a numeric value between 01 and 05 for i in 1 2 3 4 5 do myFile=apg2s3_table_imp_0$i psql -h aurora-postgres-cl.cluster-cmcmpwi7rtng.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -p 5432 -U testuser -d pg1 -c "SELECT aws_s3.table_import_from_s3( 'apg2s3_table_imp', '', '(format CSV)','aurora-pg-sample-loaddata01','$myFile','us-east-1')" & done wait You can export the PGPASSWORD environment variable in the session where you’re running the script to prevent psql from prompting for a database password. Next, we ran the script: time ./s3Load5 table_import_from_s3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20000000 rows imported into relation "apg2s3_table_imp" from file apg2s3_table_imp_01 of 617777794 bytes (1 row) table_import_from_s3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20000000 rows imported into relation "apg2s3_table_imp" from file apg2s3_table_imp_02 of 640000000 bytes (1 row) table_import_from_s3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20000000 rows imported into relation "apg2s3_table_imp" from file apg2s3_table_imp_03 of 640000002 bytes (1 row) table_import_from_s3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20000000 rows imported into relation "apg2s3_table_imp" from file apg2s3_table_imp_04 of 640000000 bytes (1 row) table_import_from_s3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20000000 rows imported into relation "apg2s3_table_imp" from file apg2s3_table_imp_05 of 640000000 bytes (1 row) real 0m40.126s user 0m0.025s sys 0m0.020s time psql -h demopg-instance-1.cmcmpwi7rtng.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -p 5432 -U testuser -d pg1 -c "ALTER TABLE apg2s3_table_imp ADD PRIMARY KEY (bid);" ALTER TABLE real 0m48.087s user 0m0.006s sys 0m0.003s The full load duration, including primary key rebuild, was reduced to approximately 88 seconds, which demonstrates the performance benefits of parallel loads. Implement partitioning If you’re using partitioned tables, consider loading partitions in parallel to further improve load performance. To test this best practice, we partition the apg2s3_table_imp table on the bid column as follows: CREATE TABLE apg2s3_table_imp ( bid BIGINT, name VARCHAR(80) ) PARTITION BY RANGE(bid); CREATE TABLE apg2s3_table_imp_01 PARTITION OF apg2s3_table_imp FOR VALUES FROM (1) TO (20000001); CREATE TABLE apg2s3_table_imp_02 PARTITION OF apg2s3_table_imp FOR VALUES FROM (20000001) TO (40000001); CREATE TABLE apg2s3_table_imp_03 PARTITION OF apg2s3_table_imp FOR VALUES FROM (40000001) TO (60000001); CREATE TABLE apg2s3_table_imp_04 PARTITION OF apg2s3_table_imp FOR VALUES FROM (60000001) TO (80000001); CREATE TABLE apg2s3_table_imp_05 PARTITION OF apg2s3_table_imp FOR VALUES FROM (80000001) TO (MAXVALUE); To load all the partitions in parallel, we modified the shell script used in the previous example: #To make the test simpler, we named the datafiles as apg2s3_table_imp_XX. #Where XX is a numeric value between 01 and 05 for i in 1 2 3 4 5 do myFile=apg2s3_table_imp_0$i psql -h aurora-postgres-cl.cluster-cmcmpwi7rtng.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -p 5432 -U testuser -d pg1 -c "SELECT aws_s3.table_import_from_s3( '$myFile', '', '(format CSV)','aurora-pg-sample-loaddata01','$myFile','us-east-1')" & done wait Then we ran the script to load all five partitions in parallel: time ./s3LoadPart table_import_from_s3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20000000 rows imported into relation "apg2s3_table_imp_04" from file apg2s3_table_imp_04 of 640000000 bytes (1 row) table_import_from_s3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20000000 rows imported into relation "apg2s3_table_imp_02" from file apg2s3_table_imp_02 of 640000000 bytes (1 row) table_import_from_s3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20000000 rows imported into relation "apg2s3_table_imp_05" from file apg2s3_table_imp_05 of 640000002 bytes (1 row) table_import_from_s3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20000000 rows imported into relation "apg2s3_table_imp_01" from file apg2s3_table_imp_01 of 617777794 bytes (1 row) table_import_from_s3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20000000 rows imported into relation "apg2s3_table_imp_03" from file apg2s3_table_imp_03 of 640000000 bytes (1 row) real 0m28.665s user 0m0.022s sys 0m0.024s $ time psql -h demopg-instance-1.cmcmpwi7rtng.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -p 5432 -U testuser -d pg1 -c "ALTER TABLE apg2s3_table_imp ADD PRIMARY KEY (bid);" ALTER TABLE real 0m48.516s user 0m0.005s sys 0m0.004s Loading all partitions concurrently reduced the load times even further, to approximately 77 seconds. Disable triggers Triggers are frequently used in applications to perform additional processing after certain conditions (such as INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE DML operations) run against tables. Because of this additional processing, performing large data loads on a table where triggers are enabled can decrease the load performance substantially. It’s recommended to disable triggers prior to bulk load operations and re-enable them when the load is complete. Summary This post demonstrated how to import and export data between Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon S3. Aurora is powered with operational analytics capabilities, and integration with Amazon S3 makes it easier to establish an agile analytical environment. For more information about importing and exporting data, see Migrating data to Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility. For more information about Aurora best practices, see Best Practices with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. About the authors Suresh Patnam is a Solutions Architect at AWS. He helps customers innovate on the AWS platform by building highly available, scalable, and secure architectures on Big Data and AI/ML. In his spare time, Suresh enjoys playing tennis and spending time with his family.       Israel Oros is a Database Migration Consultant at AWS. He works with customers in their journey to the cloud with a focus on complex database migration programs. In his spare time, Israel enjoys traveling to new places with his wife and riding his bicycle whenever weather permits. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/export-and-import-data-from-amazon-s3-to-amazon-aurora-postgresql/

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[thisdayinfavrd]

June 1, 2009

I have spent a lifetime refusing to own crappy GM vehicles and my reward is to own the entire crappy company?   @badbanana (Tim Siedell) – 125

It's my lap dance and I'll cry if I want to.   @fireland (Joshua Allen) – 95

Dropping the kids off in the toilet.   @lonelysandwich (Adam Lisagor) – 82

It's so nice when my child falls asleep on my shoulder. It reminds me how blessed I am to have the full use of both arms most other times.   @adamisacson (Adam Isacson) – 69

Burritos are such a superior food. I still can't figure how the Aztecs could've lost to a bunch of tapas-eaters.   @adamisacson (Adam Isacson) – 68

You know, Monday, there may be a reason you never get invited to parties.   @sween (Jason Sweeney) – 64

My kids will be amazed that we used radio waves to listen to a playlist we had no control over.  Because I'm raising them Amish.   @aedison (Avery Edison) – 63

So few of us plan for both the short and long term. We could learn much from smoking-while-crossing-in-front-of-traffic guy on 14th Street.   @adamisacson (Adam Isacson) – 62

My Bat Signal is "FREE FOOD".   @sween (Jason Sweeney) – 58

Sotomayor nomination already making a difference. Coworkers smile at cleaning staff as if to say "Thanks, Maria. Or whatever your name is."   @CcSteff (Stephanie) – 58

"Meow." "Really?" "Meow." "Oh yeah? What else?" "Meow." "Well, ain't that a corker." "Meow."  Hungry cats are great conversationalists.   @adamisacson (Adam Isacson) – 58

"Bloggers love to re-shit douchey motivational quotes without any sort of citation, and most are clearly made up."  ~ Khalil Gibran   @hotdogsladies (Merlin Mann) – 57

If you claim to be a Christian and celebrate the assassination of Tiller, you are neither a Christian nor a decent human being. Pls unfollow   @tj (Fun Size Bytes) – 54

I am currently operating at a deficit of nearly 1.5 trillion hours of sleep.   @badbanana (Tim Siedell) – 51

6yr old always closes the lid of the toilet after he flushes. "It's not polite to chew with your mouth open."  He needs a twitter account.   @lukeinvan (Vancouver's Luke) – 51

This cute li'l ladybug was in my house. I asked what she was doing and she said, "Jus' chillaxin'", so I had to smash her with a hammer. :(   @Zaius13 (Damn Dirty Ape) – 49

I am SO sick of having to explain sarcasm to my cat.   @Zaius13 (Damn Dirty Ape) – 49

Headlines:  "It's No Use Crying Over Spilled Milk"  "Spilled Milk is Too Big to Fail"  "Spilled Milk Files for Bankruptcy Protection"   @sween (Jason Sweeney) – 49

Jim gets passive-aggressively resentful when I leave him home alone for the weekend. I hope he didn't poop in my shoes like last time.   @CcSteff (Stephanie) – 48

Some days you're the windshield, some days you're the old lady with the walker.   @biorhythmist (matt) – 48

[ask-devil-iggyko-blog]

Something’s Gotta Give - Finley x Hallie

Surprise! @ask-sweetest-devil

———

Under normal circumstances, seeing no trace of her loyal advisor was, while a tad unnerving, not too much of a problem to the queen.

However, after the fall equinox, Hell became exceptionally busy for the upcoming month of October. Workloads doubled for possessions and soul harvesting, tripled for haunts and calamity, and QUADRUPLED anything regarding paperwork. New time sheets for imp shifts, thousands of new contracts, treaty work, reports on new cults, everything was on the rise.

And Finley was, well. Very, very busy. His hardheaded nature meant no one (at least to his knowledge) was allowed to help him, that his failures were his own doing no matter if the workload were something possible or not. And Hallie KNEW his paper stack had grown past what he was used to, probably even more than he’d ever had before.

His caffine intake had skyrocketed, from what Astaroth had mentioned to her. He had commandeered the 6th ring’s coffee machine for brewing his Heart Stopper again, a disgusting concoction of his own making with a caffine content that would kill a human. Or an elephant. Or anything BUT a demon, really.

She hadn’t seen hide nor hair of the blue haired demon in several days, and not like the normal “oh i just missed you before you went home” way, oh no. The queen was certain he’d not left his office since Thusday. It was now MONDAY.

Just as the worry was beginning to seep in REAL good, a loud “CLAK” sounded by her ear and the queen shot up.

“A-ah…Tulpa you startled me….”

A vulture skull stared back, the black fog ‘body’ supporing it swirling a bit as two red pinpricks eyed her. A bag of that Death Wish coffee resided in its bone beak.

“…I see he’s changed his recipe to be more vile and nauseating. How is your master, Tulpa? I like the new skull.”

The bag was dropped unceremoniously on her desk and the bird cranium gave an eerie chatter before turning to look towards the room the stubborn demon would be in. The smokey cloud flickering and weaving around itself nervously before looking back to the queen.

“Ah…he threw you out, did he? Perhaps its best if you head home. You know how he gets when he’s pumped full of that sludge. I’ll put a sign up not to bother him and see if I can’t help him.”

Tulpa’s skull nuzzled the blonde gratefully, even nibbling on her hair a tad and preening her before flowing out the door, the wispy creature going back to its master’s home to nap or do whatever it so wished.

Hallie slowly stood from her black leather chair, moving away from her desk. Black flames and smoke engulfed her figure as she was teleported to her faithful companion’s office.

Hallie’s eyes widened when she appeared there, however.

The whole room was dim, save for a desk lamp illuminating the bearer of her affections, though he’s seen..much better days. Clawed fingers digging into his scalp, his shoulders shook with what looked to be sobs. Hallie could see the remnants of a mug in the far corner, most likely thrown and shattered in a fit of frustration. The 'out’ basket on his desk held a stack of papers quite impressive, she’d guess easily in the 600’s. The other stack, however…held a tower that made even the queen herself uneasy. That had to be several thousand.

Hallie peered over her dear worker bee’s shoulder to get a hint as to what could have set him off, the answer being a mess of black….drink, she wouldn’t dare call that brew of his coffee by any means, and three or four soaked and ruined reports.

A hiccuping sob rattled through Finley, his nails yanking on his hair as he began to break down.

“My handsome stag beetle….what have you done to yourself…?”

The blue haired man jolted in his seat, smashing the top of his head into Hallie’s chin by accident.

The two clutched their respective sore spots for a bit before it sunk in to Finley who had visited.

“Y-Your highness! I am s-so sorry! I hadn’t heard you come in and you didn’t do what you normally do s-so I-”

Hallie held up her hand, silencing him. “Its quite okay, my sweet scarab. I shouldn’t have scared you.”

Hallie took a good look at Finley, and she really didn’t like what she saw. At first she thought that he’d let his eyes byte black, but the then noticed, no, that his pupils had just grown a lot due to the caffine. And under those wide eyes were dark circles from exhaustion and his lack of sleep–she wondered when he’d actually slept last. His hair was a greasy mess, if she had to guess, his last sleep was when he last showered.

“Y-Your highness I…I hadn’t known you were v-visting or I would have cleaned up-”

“Do not give me that, Finley. When was your last break? Answer me.”

The queen’s shoulders stiffened when she heard him mutter that he hadn’t taken one.

“You need a day off, Finley. You made yourself ill with that scum. You need REST, not caffine. RELY on your fellow workers, my sweet-”

“I CAN’T!! GOD DAMMIT I CAN’T! If I can’t do my own job, why should I even HAVE it, Hallie?! I have to get this all done or else, shit, if I lose this job, I’ll be WORTHLESS, Hallie!! I’ll be better off a-”

“FINLEY BEELZEBUL YOU STOP THAT THIS INSTANT. What in HELL makes you think for an INSTANT that you’d be FIRED?! You are one of the hardest working demons in hell, rivalling my nephew. You can’t honestly think-”

“YOU CAN’T KEEP PROTECTING ME HALLIE. IF I FAIL I NEED TO FAIL WITHOUT YOU USING YOUR STATUS TO CHANGE THAT. I KNOW. I KNOW I SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN GIVEN THIS MANY GOOD CHANCES. I SHOULDN’T EVEN BE AT THIS RANK, I’M-”

“S I L E N C E …” Hallie hissed, causing the man, ever so faithful, to immediately cover his mouth to muffle his panicking. Tears poured from the man’s eyes as he stared up at her, so much fear and concern in those pink irises of his. His chest and shoulders shook from the sobs he withheld.

Hallie began sushing him softer, cooing gently rubbing his shoulders. “Hush….Finley, you have only made you a target for your own self loathing. You have to relax. Sit and don’t touch a thing.”

And he sat. Finley sat, head down, as Hallie sorted through the pile, pulling stacks, flipping through forms and reports and filing this and that, before she let him look again.

In front of the man were three stacks of various sizes, if you didn’t count the one full of things he’d previously finished. Hallie waved her hand, and the largest one in the center vanished in a puff of smoke, making Finley bolt up in a feeble attempt to snatch them back.

“THOSE,” Hallie started, “were not for you. They have nothing to do with your work. Some aren’t even for your DEPARTMENT. I do believe a few demons slipped their papers in with yours while you were busy, not caring that your work was so much already. I’ve sent them all where they belong, along with a note stating that if I find their work mixed with yours again, I’ll let Beel eat them and reward her for it, seeing how surprisingly NONE of that was from her.”

Fin swallowed as she moved to the 3rd pile, something of perhaps a couple hundred pages. She picked it up and dropped it in the to do basket.

“That is yours. That’s all.”

A perfectly manicured nail tapped on the final stack. It was the smallest, perhaps a few dozen less than his own.

“These are all for ME, Finley. What are you doing with them?”

The man swallowed nervously before heaving a sigh.

“Well, your highness I…I know due to Halloween coming up you haven’t been able to see your girls so…I was hoping if….”

Hallie’s heart swelled but she refused to show it. Not right now. “You wanted to take all my work so I could spend time with the girls….”

Finley nodded, picking at his sweater with claws painted a deep blue. Hallie rather liked the slight shimmer they had.

The queen sighed and moved around to him, rubbing his hair and pressing a kiss to his cheek. “My darling dynastid, as much as I appreciate your thoughtful gesture, you can’t do this. You can’t kill yourself to make others happy. Believe me, I would love nothing more than to spend the holliday with them but…if my doing so ends up putting so much stress on that you get…like this…”

Finley sighed, lowering his head and murmuring an apology.

The blonde chuckled a bit and hummed, running her fingers through his sky blue hair before wincing and pulling them out coated in a fair bit of oil and grime.

“Alright stinkbug go take a shower and a day off. That’s an order.”