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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
When I say something is “wrong” I mean something that is not like the average individual of that species…
Being different is not the same as being wrong. That view is the foundation of racism and bigotry.
I’ve never said anything negative about gays or trans people.
You called them ‘wrong’ in this thread, so yes you have. That is an extremely negative thing to say.
I guess I should call it a mental differentiator instead of a mental disorder.
Or you could just stop trying to come up with a label that tries to separate them from the general populace. Maybe you should stop talking about them at all and spend time observing how they see themselves and how society treats them negatively by focusing on how they are different as if being different was inherently a bad thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Being gay to the point of not having any interest in the other sex is clearly a mental disorder too…
So there’s this thing called nature where tons of species have members that have same sex partners because it is actually a completely normal thing. Humans happen to be one of them. Not every single member of a species puts reproduction as the highest possible priority as long as enough do to maintain the population.
In fact, the vast majority of things we consider to be mental disorders are only categorized that way because they cause disruption to people’s lives without an outside influence, and being gay is only disruptive due to outside pressures by bigots and small minded people who consider it ‘wrong’.
- Comment on New poster for "The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie" 5 days ago:
I’ll watch it right after Coyote vs Acme.
- Comment on Not the same 6 days ago:
You are statistically equally likely to die either way
That just adds an additional layer to the joke without undermining the intended punchline about people confusing the two.
- Comment on But they are two bangin shirts 1 week ago:
I have more space to hang and it is easier to get to the one I want than if they were stacked in a drawer. This includes tshirts, which make up most of my hanging shirts.
Plus my lack of folding skills means a drawer full of shirts would be a lumpy mess in short order.
- Comment on The Live Action Masters of the Universe film has started shooting. 1 week ago:
The new live action Masternos the Universe.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 week ago:
That all makes sense, except if someone’s SSN changes (which happens under certain circumstances), doesn’t that invalidate their primary key or require a much more complicated operation of issuing a new record and relinking all the existing relationships?
Yes, in the case of duplicate SSN assignments l you would need to change their records to align with the new SSN while not changing the records that go the the person who keeps the SSN. We do it with state identifiers and it is a gigantic pain in the ass.
- Comment on But they are two bangin shirts 1 week ago:
The upside is that when I add something I start on the right to make space!
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 week ago:
The thing is, there are a large number of different reasons to store an SSN as a long int or a string depending on how it is used with the rest of the data. For a phone number, there can be a valid reason to store the area code separately to speed up data queries that narrow down by area code instead of all in one field and peeling it apart. There are also reasons to have additional, seemingly redundant, columns that can be used for optimizing searches or simplifying how queries are written.
A common one is that using 1 and 0 instead of Y an N is often faster for massively large dataset optimization, but isn’t as easily human readable.
There are complex reasons for choosing different approaches in a database, and the most important thing is generally consistency within the database. His point is meaningless without context beyond consistency, and the different government systems will have had different priorities, not to mention trying to update all of the databases to make them consistent is a MASSIVE fucking undertaking. And the systems can stay the way they are as long as they have APIs or other methods of transferring data that ARE normalized and consistent.
I have personally been working with reporting data to federal systems for 15 years as a semi knowledgeable technical person. This is what I do for a job. What he is saying is pointlessly small trivia used to justify tearing things down instead of improving them.
- Comment on [Movie discussion] Captain America: Brave New World 1 week ago:
Audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is high though, so it seems mostly enjoyable for the people who wanted to see it.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 week ago:
Musk canceled the support for the long running Common Educstion Data Standards (CEDS) which is an initiative to promote better database standards and normalization for the states to address this kind of thing.
It does not fucking matter if he is technically correct about one tiny detail because he is only using to to destroy, not to improve efficiency.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 week ago:
This is not what he is actively doing though. He isn’t trying to improve databases.
He is tearing down entire departments and agencies and using shit like this to justify it.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 week ago:
It is common for long lived databases with a rotating cast of devs to use different formats in different tables as well! One might have it as a string, one might have it as a number, and the other might have it with hyphens in the same database.
Hell, I work in a state agency and one of our older databases has a dozen tables with databases.
- One has the whole thing as a long int: 222333444
- One has the whole thing as a string: 2223334444 (which of course can’t be directly compared to the one that is a long int…)
- One has separate fields for area code and the rest with a hyphen: 222 and 333-4444
- One has the whole thing with parenthesis, a space, and a hyphen as a string: (222) 333-4444
The main reason for the discrepancy is not looking at what was used before or not understanding that they can always change the formatting when displayed so they don’t need to include the parenthesis or hyphens in the database itself.
- Comment on But they are two bangin shirts 1 week ago:
That is a good system!
I do the opposite and put the ones I wear the most on the left to get to them easier instead of stressing myself about whether an entire outfit matches. So the ones that only match one or two pants/shorts end up on the right, ignored.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 week ago:
The initial statement I believe is down to a combination of the above and also the lack of domain knowledge around social security. The primary key on the social security table would be a composite key of both the SSN and a date of birth—duplicates are expected of just parts of the key.
Since SSNs are never reused, what would be the purpose of using the SSN and birth date together as part of the primary key? I guess it is the one thing that isn’t supposed to ever change (barring a clerical error) so I could see that as a good second piece of information, just not sure what it would be adding.
Note: if duplicate SSNs are accidentally issued my understanding is that they issue a new one to one of the people.
Q20: Are Social Security numbers reused after a person dies?
A: No. We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder’s death. Even though we have issued over 453 million SSNs so far, and we assign about 5 and one-half million new numbers a year, the current numbering system will provide us with enough new numbers for several generations into the future with no changes in the numbering system.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 week ago:
If he doesn’t think the government uses sql after having his goons break into multiple government servers he is an idiot.
If he is lying to cover his ass for fucking up so many things (the more likely explanation) then saying “he never used sql” is basically a dig at how technically inept he really is despite bragging about being a tech bro.
- Comment on But they are two bangin shirts 1 week ago:
I have a lot of nice shirts.
I also have trouble picking one and end up going with a few favorites.
- Comment on The price breakdown of my flight is kinda funny, 80% taxes and fees 1 week ago:
The fees are the cost of the flight. This would be like a restaurant listing the power, staffing, storage space, accounting, inspection, and all the other costs to make food separately on your receipt.
- Comment on I mean I would totally give it a try 1 week ago:
There really are prison pen pals and dating sites.
This one is not real.
- Comment on *56k modem noises* 1 week ago:
Trying to explain to your coworkers on a conference call that your brain isn’t functioning correctly isn’t the most comfortable experience.
Just tell them that they are dramatic pauses!
It worked once for me, but I think the person who laughed also has ADHD.
- Comment on LIVE: Jeffries, Democrats hold 'Rally to Save the Civil Service' on Capitol Hill 1 week ago:
Decades of not holding Republicans accountable for their malicious actions will totally let them know that this isn’t just a lame performative gesture like everything else the Dems have put forth.
The system is broken, stop acting like it isn’t.
- Comment on Crisps. 1 week ago:
I like to lick the flavor side and then flip it so it fits in the mouth. While less convenient than just having the flavor on the right side, the extra step makes it more involved which has its own kind of enjoyment.
- Comment on Fun Fact 1 week ago:
Didn’t see a disc or a pocket for one. Don’t remember the for dummies books having the things they were written for included.
- Comment on Fun Fact 1 week ago:
At a thrift store this past weekend I saw a pristine copy of Windows 98 for dummies. We are closer to 2015 than 2015 is to when that book was printed.
- Comment on A troll (https://lemm.ee/u/shinigamiookamiryuu) is a new moderator of AskLemmy on Lemmy.world. What can be done about this? 1 week ago:
Like you are doing right now?
- Comment on A troll (https://lemm.ee/u/shinigamiookamiryuu) is a new moderator of AskLemmy on Lemmy.world. What can be done about this? 1 week ago:
You don’t have the authority to assign homework.
- Comment on A troll (https://lemm.ee/u/shinigamiookamiryuu) is a new moderator of AskLemmy on Lemmy.world. What can be done about this? 1 week ago:
The more you post the worse you make yourself look. Each attempt to prove yourself right digs a deeper and deeper hole, and instead of thinking the OP was overreacting, you have both proven them right and shown that you are even worse.
- Comment on "Want some get some" as a wise man once told me. 1 week ago:
Oh look, a double entendre.
- Comment on The USA was always broken 1 week ago:
The system started with slavery, but counting 3/5 of each slave as part of the population for the benefit of that state’s slave owning white landowners. Then we fucked over the native people repeatedly for centuries. We just pretended to like immigrants for a while to abuse their cheap labor. The glory days post WWII were just for middle class whites.
The country has been fucked up since the founding.
- Comment on A troll (https://lemm.ee/u/shinigamiookamiryuu) is a new moderator of AskLemmy on Lemmy.world. What can be done about this? 1 week ago:
Thank you for not continuing to shit up the thread because you can’t read.