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- Comment on Facepalm on multiple levels 4 hours ago:
Why don’t we just wait and see if even these idiots want that in a few years? It’s been a couple of weeks and it’s already starting to look like most of the polling locations will be covered in rubble by 2028.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 day ago:
Because the speculative “economy” necessarily grows faster than the actual economy.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 day ago:
I think citizen’s united. The spirit was dead probably before I was born, but legalizing corruption made it inevitable.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 4 days ago:
I believe you, but this is also a very left-leaning site that pretty much filters out all of the conservative idiocy from it. The general public doesn’t seem to give a shit and when I go out and about in the world it’s like nothing has even changed. I suspect it will be this way for a while even if eventually there is full-blown fascism with a world war, and death camps. I remember reading remarks by people who were around during the formation of the Third Reich in Germany and I remember them writing something like all the shops and everything were open and people were going to work like normal for a large portion of it. There was even a person that didn’t realize how crazy the country had gotten until he saw his small child imitating Hitler and saying antisemitic shit about Jews.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 4 days ago:
The feeling that nobody else really gives a shot is what does it for me.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 5 days ago:
I’m talking about a SQL join. It’s essentially combining two tables into one set of query results and there are a number of different ways to do it.
www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_join.asp
Some joins are fast and some can be slow. It depends on a variety of different factors. But making every query require multiple joins to produce anything of use is usually pretty disastrous in real-life scenarios. That’s why one of the basics of schema design is that you usually normalize to what’s called third normal form for transactional tables, but reporting schemas are often even less normalized because that allows you to quickly put together reporting queries that don’t immediately run the database into the ground.
DB normalization and normal forms are practically a known science, but practitioners (and sometimes DBAs) often have no clue that this stuff is relatively settled and sometimes even use a completely wrong normal form for what their doing.
In most software (setting aside well-written open source) the schema was put together by someone who didn’t even understand what normal form they were targeting or why they would target it. So the schema for one application will often be at varying forms of normalization, and schemas across different applications almost necessarily will have different normal forms within them even if they’re properly designed.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 days ago:
SSNs being duplicated would be entirely expected depending upon the table’s purpose. There are many forms of normalization in database tables.
- Comment on Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration. 1 week ago:
Other people actually giving a damn enough to do something other than post about it. I protested in the past and absolutely nobody gave a shit and it had zero effect. I don’t even think the protest was covered on the news.
I suspect that for any average American (or even a single digit percentage of them) to bother getting involved things are going to have to get extremely bad.
- Comment on Might be fun idk 1 week ago:
😆
- Comment on Might be fun idk 1 week ago:
I can’t imagine this will reach the right audience, but in the lead up to the superb owl this year I was saying that a great sketch about this country would be to have this giant hyped up spectical where everyone’s getting all fucking jazzed up and talking about how all of this epic shit is going to happen and then at the climax of the sketch you get to the actual “action” and it’s just a dude flipping a coin once.
That’s America IMO, and it’s definitely illustrated fully in the super bowl: six hours for ten seconds of actual action interrupted constantly by bullshit and commercials and followed by idiots tearing “their city” apart because their laundry was crowned “world champions” of a sport only played by people in one country.
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 week ago:
I’ll go shittier phone before I’ll go phablet ever again. I bought a motorola razr 2023. I bought a foldable because I want the shit to fit in my pocket. It also is the only flip phone I’ve seen that hasn’t made the imbecilic decision to coat the entire front panel in glass. I don’t need a full miniature phone making my shit more fragile when it’s clamped shut. If they continue to glass panel it up on the outside I’ll try to find a case that just covers the entire outside.
But ultimately I’m holding onto this thing as long as I possibly can.
- Comment on When they say they got your back, that means they will stab you there. 1 week ago:
When people (inevitably) retaliate against for you going to HR, if the labor laws in your state support it, you can file a lawsuit against the company and they’ll usually settle out of court for a tidy sum of cash. I don’t remember what I saw it on but this one dude was talking about how that’s what he always does. He gets a job at some factory or something, goes into the breakroom and someone’s always talking about something sexual regarding their personal life, he says “I don’t want to hear that” and they always repeatedly fuck up, he goes to HR about it, HR doesn’t do what they’re supposed to and the person reported retaliates and then he sues and they settle out of court with him and he gets another payday.
- Comment on Nothing a whole lotta *COPE* can't fix 2 weeks ago:
Being overly informed is a trap. You definitely don’t need to know every bowel movement Trump takes. I’m sure they’ll eventually prove scientifically that consuming the constant barrage of doom news impairs your ability to effectively plan and organize against “shock and awe” politicians.
- Comment on Nothing a whole lotta *COPE* can't fix 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s definitely conditional and worse the younger you are. If you own a place or have owned a place for a while your overall cost of living is treading water and in some cases even going down over time. That’s definitely not the case for renters.
- Comment on I'll show them 2 weeks ago:
When was January Jones a nineties office worker?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Cuz we’re a society full of propagandized idiots who constantly victim blame.
I would recommend taking all of the shame out of getting ripped off. Shame only helps the person who ripped you off because by not discussing and naming and blaming the people who did it due to your own shame, you help them victimize others.
This is the land of the fee, and home of the rip-off. We’ve nearly all been ripped off either knowingly or unknowingly many times in our lives.
- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 4 weeks ago:
It’ll inspire me to never buy it…until of course it goes on sale for $20 a year later.
- Comment on Nintendo stock falls after mixed reaction from Switch 2 announcement 4 weeks ago:
Nintendo consoles have better exclusives and last longer than the competition.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 1 month ago:
I think the movie Elysium is basically what they want.
- Comment on Mildly McInfuriating 1 month ago:
Stop buying shitty, overpriced food from a dumpster organization.
If you stop buying it, you’ll help signal to the dumpster organization that their prices are too high.
- Comment on We need to go back! Back to the terminal! 1 month ago:
Not if notepad isn’t installed.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 1 month ago:
In a lot of cases, I find I’ve already read the underlying content or skipped it with my reader and therefore can go right to the comments. But ymmv of course.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 1 month ago:
I’d recommend trying RSS and if they don’t support it just quit reading them.
- Comment on The Greatest Cover Song of All Time? 1 month ago:
Mainstream speaking it’s hard to beat All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix.
- Comment on The Greatest Cover Song of All Time? 1 month ago:
If we’re going obscure, chvrches is worth a mention: youtu.be/msgimk3mV6g
This Kendrick Lamar cover is incredible. Similarly, they have a cover of the Arctic Monkeys that’s awesome.
- Comment on If investing in the S&P 500 is such a surefire way to make money, then why isn't everyone doing it? 1 month ago:
Not everyone has money to do it, and not everyone knows you can do it. Also, as the dollar devalues most everyone will become a millionaire, but being a millionaire won’t mean what it used to anymore – which is already the case.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 2 months ago:
We need something in America to distract us from the consequences of our actions.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 2 months ago:
COINCIDENCE? I think…so.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 2 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 2 months ago:
save one jackass, ever considered the job worth a damn to do anything over.
I feel like there’s a Dwight Shrute in every type of job under the sun.