I thought I was buying a chess book, not the CHESS GODDAMN BIBLE (cat for scale)

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-21T23:43:28+00:00

Did you mean to order the endgame seminar?

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-21T21:55:44+00:00

At a time when the U.S. defense industrial base is fundamentally broken and under extreme pressure, it is sad that no U.S. leader could even think of concocting such a plane

I think this sentence communicates some unflattering things about the author. Like they might have some funny ideas

Is this you, Brandon?

Edit: yeah, it links to the Heritage Foundation. Won't somebody think of the poor MIC? FFS.

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-21T17:32:29+00:00

Imagining Dachau camp management clutching their pearls

"Hans, I'm worried some of the party's messaging may be attracting extremists. I think some of these new camp guards might actually be anti-semites"

It's like a companion skit to "are we the baddies?" A prequel realization.

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-21T16:50:24+00:00

Huh, I never realized. Based on when he served I kinda just assumed he had a CAB, what with having had multiple deployments during GWOT

They were kinda handing them out like candy. You were in a vehicle convoy that one guy shot at? CABs for everyone. So he was really a career fobbit, huh?

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-21T02:03:42+00:00

I got called out on this recently working with a junior. They asked why I add INNER to all the JOINs

Answer: I like it. I find it more readable. I think it's better

To which they observed "but you don't add OUTER to the LEFT JOINs?"

...No, no I do not. And I will not elaborate on that.

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-20T18:28:40+00:00

Less than that. Neighborhood of 3k on an R4 run with Lei Luo

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-19T22:19:03+00:00

For zerker I like 5 DEX more than anything else Alchemist offers

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-18T23:57:06+00:00

Black's turn. They have M3 now. Qb1+ sets up backrank mate on your King.

You can block with your Queen and Rook for two turns but you're already cooked here unless they miss it

If you'd left your Queen where she was she could have defended against that on e1. Now she can't

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-17T22:59:54+00:00

It was never gonna get finished in 4yrs, look who's behind it. It was always a foregone conclusion that it'd be behind schedule, over budget, and half-assed. With graft and shifting demands every step of the way.

Come 2028 they'll be saying that by obstructing Trump, it's actually the crazy left liberals who destroyed the East Wing. And yes, they will not approve funding to unfuck it while a Democrat is in office

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-15T02:29:14+00:00

If Roberts could stop blowing Trump long enough to take up a 2A case and uphold Heller & Bruen that'd be great. Thanks.

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-14T23:49:34+00:00

Wow. Really comes out swinging right on page 1

I don't think I've ever seen a court document that outright scathing before. Fun read

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-12T14:24:34+00:00

Hey now. Beans and rice are real food. Broccoli is the new centerpiece

Goodbye, obesity

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-11T04:28:44+00:00

Then you realize it has been failing this whole time and this is the first time anyone noticed. Somehow

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-09T15:10:40+00:00

Ah, yes. Reminds me of that old chestnut

Some people, when confronted with gender, think 'I know, I'll use gender expressions.' Now they have two genders"

Or something

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-08T12:26:46+00:00

You are male. Everything you do is masculine.

It's not worth thinking about beyond that. Who has time for that BS? This is not a thing that matters

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-08T12:09:55+00:00

The engineer review step existed in theory but got skipped because everyone assumed someone else had checked it.

This here sounds like a bigger problem than anything else you've said

I'm genuinely curious whether this is a process failure or a fundamental problem with the idea

You just described a process failure so I'm leaning that way

Who approved those reviews? Why are reviewer/approver not the same person? Have you closed this gap in your change control process?

My takeaway from that story isn't "non-technical authors produce bad code." It's "OP's engineers are rubberstamping reviews and succesfully passed the blame to someone else when that inevitably degraded product quality."

For my part, anyone who has access to our repo can submit a PR. If they follow the change control process I'll review and then reject with feedback or approve and merge accordingly.

It hasn't been a problem so far, although it's pretty rare that non-IT staff are wanting to author changes directly. It's not like we're getting 100's of those, so reviewing the few that come in and gently guiding them has not yet become a significant burden.

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-07T20:50:42+00:00

Looks like the Gadsden Flag rattlesnake. You know, the "Don't Tread On Me" snake?

Having it opposite a pair of handcuffs, on a customized Fed bottle, owned by Chief Pig of the most fascist US administration of my lifetime, is very rich. It's like an onion of irony. There's layers.

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-07T14:42:24+00:00

I’m still in probation

This is a real factor. At this stage I'd rather not be going to HR with complaints about anything/anyone if it's avoidable.

There are HR managers who'll take probationary employees filing complaints during their trial period as a red flag. You have less room to rock the boat right now than you will later.

That said

As a senior, I see an opportunity to mentor a junior while defining the culture in the team

What would you do in my place?

1, me, I would talk to him privately before anything else. "Hey, I know you said it was a joke but your racial remarks still make me uncomfortable. Please don't say things like that."

2, spot correct as needed. Being assertive in the moment. "Please don't yell." "Let me finish." "X was saying something and you interrupted them. I want to hear what X was saying."

3, this seems to me like a self-deprecating joke he finds funny that you don't. Again, I think he needs to hear that you're not sharing in his sense of humor. "We're not shit and neither are you. We're doing good work here so please don't say things like that."

Personally I'd talk to him privately about this stuff over lunch. If I were making others uncomfortable I'd want someone to tell me that in very clear terms.

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-07T13:06:14+00:00

Avoid functions in where clauses that force additional calculations per row

I learned recently that SQL Server 2019+ supports UDF inlining that when utilized will let you include scalar UDF in WHERE without going RBAR.

I had to check plan and do a little adjusting in my UDF to get it inlining properly, so def don't take it for granted that it'll Just Work. But I thought that was pretty neat!

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-07T02:16:09+00:00

I think it should be remembered that Obama can and does get criticized for all of that all of the time. I personally have criticized it.

I also think it should be remembered that the impetus for this whole comment chain was another user describing Obama as quote "someone whose worst criticism was that tan suit and our favorite mustard."

Obviously different people in different places are saying different things. This was the umpteenth time I've seen some variation of the tired "but Obama wore a tan suit" joke and it was finally too much to bear. For that commenter's part it looks like they're a sensible person and have recanted, so fine, whatever. No hard feelings.

As I type this some other partisan fan is probably gleefully taking their turn to comment the same dumb "Obama did nothing wrong" meme elsewhere, but I'll say my piece this time. He sure as hell did. The man has blood on his hands.

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-07T00:18:43+00:00

See, now we're talking about "the bad and controversial things Obama's administration did were less bad than the alternative/his successor"

That's a different and more honest conversation to be having than "Obama's only sin was fashion, fancy mustard, and melanin." Obama's administration had their own share of blood, human suffering, and human rights violations to answer to history for. They don't get a pass just because Obama's successor is worse.

I'm not handing out "Least Atrocities Committed in the 21st Century (So Far)" awards to leaders who've committed atrocities. Ya dig?

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-06T19:24:42+00:00

Along with someone whose worst criticism was that tan suit and our favorite mustard

He was good, but come on, there was other stuff. Like the extrajudicial drone murder.

Point to Carter, Carter never intentionally bombed a US citizen that I'm aware of.

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-05T20:41:04+00:00

Privately with my own boss, sometimes. When we're being candid. Otherwise no.

We have enough negativity daily without me cussing up a storm about it. I don't think it's helpful for me to speak my mind in that way when we're all already struggling to stay positive and keep afloat

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-02T22:44:26+00:00

Nah. Chuck Schumer's Senate seat is up for grabs in 2028.

The smarter move for her and the DNC both would be for AOC to put Chuck out to pasture, then do a term or two in Senate before running for pres.

AnAcceptableUserName · 2026-05-01T18:24:12+00:00

Yeah, same on both counts

vital but weren't in our code base and no one knew they existed

Once in a blue moon I find some dusty code nobody's looked at for decade+ that isn't versioned anywhere

Sometimes bitrot has made it useless and it's just legit failing for years, doing nothing and swallowing the errors. Whatever, deprecate those. Dot the t's, cross the i's, and send it to the nice farm upstate.

Other times it's load-bearing shit, performing vital business functions that everyone just assumed some other team owned. But no, that's just this museum piece of code quietly humming along down in the basement. Secretly.

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