Visvanath Ratnaweera

Hi Ken

That divide by zero in mysqltuner is a detail. It must be trying to calculate something from the numbers collected but not checking for denominator being zero. Yeah, last time, a couple of months ago, it helped immensely.

You have MYSQLTuner 2.5.2. Ooh, that tells a lot, mine is 1.9.9! Will replace and start from the beginning.

MySQL version 10.11.14-MariaDB-0+deb12u2

Sorry for not catching the sarcasm about things I love. When hunting performance animals, I don't look left and right. A smiley would have helped. Still couple of interesting thoughts in the Lounge.

I'll leave the script-hopping to you, let me see what mysqltuner says. Talking of "valuable tools", just pure coincidence that I met somebody on our local Mastodon, on something unrelated, End Of 10, if you're curious. He is a full professional in MySQL internals, having programmed in Assembler, and criss-crossing Europe solving DB problems of big firms and also give expensive training on the same. Surprised how deep he went based on two e-mails from me, but avoid troubling such an expert with my petty problems. Our forum discussions serve me well, assuming you have the patience.

Ken, you saw this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18392741/apache2-ah01630-client-denied-by-server-configuration, I believe. You already suspected the .htaccess, which is in the same direction. The OP doesn't listen and expect "Moodle" (us) to solve everything.

The commentator meant AI slop, I believe.

Annex: I was still editing when Moodle told me:

 

When I came back time for editing has expired. I was planning to make the final para diplomatic. Now too late.

 

Hi Eric

My "aha" moment reading your post, knowing that you are an educator in the English language, was: "but with a bit of help from AI, I can improve my writing skills quite a bit"! Don't you see that it causes fear among people like me? Will I ever write something useful, valid for a longer period than a tweet?

 

Then on the "improve my writing" part: When I have to write something very important, I send it to a lector, an editor. Often they can not, or think they can not, really feel the deep message and collect some alternative formulations and we sit (video) together to find out. During those exchanges I "learn", basically through the mistakes I made - to make the same mistakes the next time, months or years later. Can I call it _learning_? I don't know. But what I definitely know is that, what a prompt "taught" me vanishes, vapourizes together with the prompt.

 

Now to "prompt engineering": Who coined this phrase. In an [electrical] engineer it sends shivers!

 

So according to you, the new level of teaching is, the "teachers give some training in prompt engineering then they can assist their students to understand subtleties even better and seek deeper and broader subject expertise through that"? I'm flabbergasted!

 

Edit: Re-reading I see that you and many others won't understand my reaction. I think the reason is cultural. In our (Indian Sub-continent) way of thinking the subtleties of the human leaves the mind and dive in to parasympathic world which is inherently spiritual. The idea an AI prompt will guide me there is just revolting, I'm sorry!