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curious2garden

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solakani said:
T&T is a nice hangout and I am thankful to RIU for making it possible. It takes a lot of resources to keep the site running smooth.

But RIU is a content server made up of static web pages and we are the content providers. Kind of makes me question who is serving who.
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Just a semantic correction, 'static' when in fact they are dynamic built on a database.
 
Dr.Amber Trichome

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BudmanTX said:
That's cool...
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Was…. It appears the competition next door gets all the action. After that one night they no longer go to the ring. The neighbor has them all whipped to his balcony. He has 2 dishes placed on the balcony with some sort of chopped stuff in them that the hummers go Wild for! They don’t bother with the ring anymore. I guess if the neighbor takes a break from
The dishes or goes on vacation they will go to the ring again but until then all we can do is watch them zip by and into the neighbors balcony.
 
RetiredToker76

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I just spent two hours listening to lounge jazz and shopping for seeds I'm not going to buy any time soon. Kinda miss shopping at attitude seed bank, haven't looked at them since they got dumped by Visa and Brexit screwed with their strain availability. May have to check out and see what they've been up to. There's also popping any number of the seeds I've either not popped or gotten as freebies. Honestly some of my favorite strains came from the freebies packs.

Just high and bored and looking at plants.
 
Jeffislovinlife

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RetiredToker76 said:
I just spent two hours listening to lounge jazz and shopping for seeds I'm not going to buy any time soon. Kinda miss shopping at attitude seed bank, haven't looked at them since they got dumped by Visa and Brexit screwed with their strain availability. May have to check out and see what they've been up to. There's also popping any number of the seeds I've either not popped or gotten as freebies. Honestly some of my favorite strains came from the freebies packs.

Just high and bored and looking at plants.
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What kinda of stranes are you looking into
 
RetiredToker76

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solakani said:
Interesting. Tell me more.
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Fine, I'll bite. All of our posts, usernames, images, little silly stories, and SNSFW images are stored in a database. Usually of the 'brands' SQL, Oracle, or other database system, then a script generates the webpages we view; and are dynamically created when we click on the link, more or less. The forum I used to manage was a phpBB, an open source forum software package mostly composed of the scripting language php. I could sit on the root drive of our server and watch the pages get created in the temporary directories and then remove themselves when no one was reading it. Keeping a copy of every single page would be a MASSIVE waste of both navigating efficiency as well as drive space.

RIU is a little more high class, they use XenForo Solutions forums. Which means they're paying for cloud storage, support, and a lot of the back-end programming I used to do. I'm not an RIU anything (and frankly wouldn't want to be) but a quick look at XenForo and you can figure out some of what they pay to keep this clown parade on the road. Just for the forum software package and cloud storage.

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So this place isn't necessarily cheap once you consider that's only their *the current advertised price* for cloud storage and possibly forum program/support is included in that. Then there's the ISP and traffic fees which can add up pretty quickly. The reality is they probably do well to keep this on the web at all and pay a few employees and turn a small profit.

So there ya go, that's my experience as a forum programmer for about 6 years. Once the site was built, the databases populated, and the forum system configured, it pretty much ran itself. Other than occasional file corruption, and the cat herding several thousand child-like petulant internet denizens.



Jeffislovinlife said:
What kinda of stranes are you looking into
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Shrug, dunno. That's why I was shopping. My ususal list of requirements, 10week max flowering time, high yield, high THC, feminized and photoperiod. I usually shop for 6-8 months before I even decide I'm actually going to pull the trigger on seeds. I've got at least the next 4 months of growing currently in progress. I don't even know if I'll like the strains I'm currently running. Just passing the time really.
 
Dr.Amber Trichome

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RetiredToker76 said:
Fine, I'll bite. All of our posts, usernames, images, little silly stories, and SNSFW images are stored in a database. Usually of the 'brands' SQL, Oracle, or other database system, then a script generates the webpages we view; and are dynamically created when we click on the link, more or less. The forum I used to manage was a phpBB, an open source forum software package mostly composed of the scripting language php. I could sit on the root drive of our server and watch the pages get created in the temporary directories and then remove themselves when no one was reading it. Keeping a copy of every single page would be a MASSIVE waste of both navigating efficiency as well as drive space.

RIU is a little more high class, they use XenForo Solutions forums. Which means they're paying for cloud storage, support, and a lot of the back-end programming I used to do. I'm not an RIU anything (and frankly wouldn't want to be) but a quick look at XenForo and you can figure out some of what they pay to keep this clown parade on the road. Just for the forum software package and cloud storage.

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So this place isn't necessarily cheap once you consider that's only their *the current advertised price* for cloud storage and possibly forum program/support is included in that. Then there's the ISP and traffic fees which can add up pretty quickly. The reality is they probably do well to keep this on the web at all and pay a few employees and turn a small profit.

So there ya go, that's my experience as a forum programmer for about 6 years. Once the site was built, the databases populated, and the forum system configured, it pretty much ran itself. Other than occasional file corruption, and the cat herding several thousand child-like petulant internet denizens.





Shrug, dunno. That's why I was shopping. My ususal list of requirements, 10week max flowering time, high yield, high THC, feminized and photoperiod. I usually shop for 6-8 months before I even decide I'm actually going to pull the trigger on seeds. I've got at least the next 4 months of growing currently in progress. I don't even know if I'll like the strains I'm currently running. Just passing the time really.
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Wow. A forum programmer! That is so cool! I am interested in becoming an AI engineer . Do you think it’s a good field to get into?
 
RetiredToker76

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Dr.Amber Trichome said:
Wow. A forum programmer! That is so cool! I am interested in becoming an AI engineer . Do you think it’s a good field to get into?
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I honestly have no idea at this point. I walked away from IT completely in 2010. Machine Learning algorithms do seem to be where the future is headed. As far as pay, job positions, and entry barriers I really don't know. I've kind of been a 'gig economy' vagrant for the last 12 years, I've done everything from busking with my cello on the beach, to music festival management, to audio/video editing for net people, to fighting bugs on medical marijuana. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. I have also heard a lot of good things (pay and opportunity wise) in the data collection (mining) and analysis fields.

Unfortunately I kind of stepped away from anything where I had to deal with users (who knew nothing), bosses (who kind of knew a little), to project manager (who knew how to yell at the client, take lunch, and go home early,) to CEO (who knew embezzlement) because I didn't want to play their games. Hope your math background is solid, once you get into machine learning and Ai, that's the name of the game.
 
curious2garden

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RetiredToker76 said:
Fine, I'll bite. All of our posts, usernames, images, little silly stories, and SNSFW images are stored in a database. Usually of the 'brands' SQL, Oracle, or other database system, then a script generates the webpages we view; and are dynamically created when we click on the link, more or less. The forum I used to manage was a phpBB, an open source forum software package mostly composed of the scripting language php. I could sit on the root drive of our server and watch the pages get created in the temporary directories and then remove themselves when no one was reading it. Keeping a copy of every single page would be a MASSIVE waste of both navigating efficiency as well as drive space.

RIU is a little more high class, they use XenForo Solutions forums. Which means they're paying for cloud storage, support, and a lot of the back-end programming I used to do. I'm not an RIU anything (and frankly wouldn't want to be) but a quick look at XenForo and you can figure out some of what they pay to keep this clown parade on the road. Just for the forum software package and cloud storage.

View attachment 5170208 View attachment 5170210

So this place isn't necessarily cheap once you consider that's only their *the current advertised price* for cloud storage and possibly forum program/support is included in that. Then there's the ISP and traffic fees which can add up pretty quickly. The reality is they probably do well to keep this on the web at all and pay a few employees and turn a small profit.

So there ya go, that's my experience as a forum programmer for about 6 years. Once the site was built, the databases populated, and the forum system configured, it pretty much ran itself. Other than occasional file corruption, and the cat herding several thousand child-like petulant internet denizens.





Shrug, dunno. That's why I was shopping. My ususal list of requirements, 10week max flowering time, high yield, high THC, feminized and photoperiod. I usually shop for 6-8 months before I even decide I'm actually going to pull the trigger on seeds. I've got at least the next 4 months of growing currently in progress. I don't even know if I'll like the strains I'm currently running. Just passing the time really.
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I've just begun to smoke the Northern Lights #2 that I got from here. Nice body effects.

I've got Northern Lights #5 about 1/2 way through, Skunk could be flipped now but has to wait for NL to get finished. I also got the GDP and Colombian Haze waiting in the wings.
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Great answer, too.
 
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