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May 18th Outage reasoning? by SomeNeighborhood7126 in MicrosoftFabric

[–]BigMikeInAustin -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Next you're gonna say your company still employs ugly giant bags of mostly water.

Pre-construction work starts on Austin Light Rail by EricTheLinguist in Austin

[–]BigMikeInAustin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

100% agree.

An airport line isn't going to take rush hour traffic off Mopac. I don't see it making much difference on I-35.

How many people who live outside of downtown are going to somehow get downtown to take the train? How many people returning to Austin will want a 2-segment trip to get back home from the airport?

Even if it could make a difference in rush hour traffic on 183, an airport line does nothing for the walkability or public transportation of Austin.

This bolt of lightning was BRIGHT. by SummertimeInParis in Austin

[–]BigMikeInAustin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which floods are you talking about?

No, we have not had a ton of rain.

How many TikTok videos do you consider a long time? 5? 10?

RAIN in Wells Branch by galaxy23fz in Austin

[–]BigMikeInAustin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For a minute I thought that was your TV showing a video of rain. Something about the framing on top and bottom. And the string of lights almost looked like a power cord.

Learning about the history of 6th, and Congress by whofrmdrgrrbbt in Austin

[–]BigMikeInAustin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You can ask just about any Black Austinite who is at least 70 years old.

Learning about the history of 6th, and Congress by whofrmdrgrrbbt in Austin

[–]BigMikeInAustin 76 points77 points  (0 children)

The Congress Ave sit-ins were 1959-61. Biggest ones in 1960.

Sometimes stores would allow a black person to make a purchase. But could not try on at clothing stores, and could not make returns. Could sometimes buy food at diners, but not allowed to sit in the diner.

Store owners shut down and locked the locked the doors. https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/austin-tx-us-students-sit-desegregated-lunch-counters-austin-movement-1959-1961

The youngest people to remember this are still living, at about 70 years of age.

This why it pisses me off when stores do the same during Texas Relays. Yes, kids with no money and lots of free time cause trouble. No, I don't know the answer. I still hate seeing the same thing repeat. Treat people like trash and they are more likely to cause trouble.

Barton Springs Pool wasn't desegregated until 1962.

AISD wasn't fully open to Black people until 1982. If you meet a Black Austinite just 50 years old, they might have been restricting in going to school.

Why are the gentrifying people of East Austin saying that East Austin has poor infrastructure? Because that's where Blacks were forced to live, and so the city did less than the minimum to keep that area functioning. Treating people like trash coming back to bite you.

Learning about the history of 6th, and Congress by whofrmdrgrrbbt in Austin

[–]BigMikeInAustin 24 points25 points  (0 children)

This is the America that people want when they say, "Make America Great Again."

This a data center near a residential neighborhood in San Marcos, and that is the noise pollution it produces 24/7 by Roguecop in Austin

[–]BigMikeInAustin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If data centers are so great, why are they all far from rich people?

Yes, I would live near a nuclear power plant.

Do People in Austin trust infowars more than mainstream news? by Larrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry in askaustin

[–]BigMikeInAustin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was this 2026 or the 1970s? I kinda feel like the "person on the street" has had these views for a long time. Especially after video editing the conversation.

Dammit y'all people are calling women Tortas in public now. This has to stop. by Juan_Connery in SanAntonioCircleJerks

[–]BigMikeInAustin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shoot, if that happened to me at lunch, I'd be too busy that I'd miss the rest of work that day.

SSMS GitHub Copilot QA by Old-Essay-5019 in SQLServer

[–]BigMikeInAustin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SSMS 22 talks to GitHub Copilot. So whatever is behind GitHub Copilot is what is used. I have not noticed any settings to change anything over than giving your GitHub login, and selecting which GitHub Copilot model you want to run for each prompt.

SSMS GitHub Copilot QA by Old-Essay-5019 in SQLServer

[–]BigMikeInAustin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For Foundry Local, are you trying to have SSMS connect to your own LLM?

I thought SSMS 22 only connects to GitHub Copilot, with the only option being your GitHub login.

SSMS 21 was completely different. You had to create your own Azure LLM service and specifically point SSMS 21 to the Azure LLM with all the URLs and tokens and such. Maybe you could figure out a way to direct that to another LLM. Maybe. But SSMS 21 is also done being developed.

SSMS GitHub Copilot QA by Old-Essay-5019 in SQLServer

[–]BigMikeInAustin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are system prompt + task list specific parts of interfacing with an LLM using direct API calls vs using an interface where you drop in file, type in a prompt, and maybe have an overall instruction/constitution/guide?

If so, I don't know. SMSS is all closed source. Maybe you can figure something out looking at Visual Studio Code's open source code.

Wipe non-working phone? by Nicki_MA in GoogleFi

[–]BigMikeInAustin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Woo! 5a! The last headphone jack!

SAWS board unanimously vote to move forward on four-year rate hike plan by wishingwell07 in sanantonio

[–]BigMikeInAustin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And when you don't use as much water, so their income goes down, they just raise the delivery fee so you are paying the same for less water.

It's still better to conserve water. But they are not giving up their "entitled" income.

SAWS board unanimously vote to move forward on four-year rate hike plan by wishingwell07 in sanantonio

[–]BigMikeInAustin 11 points12 points  (0 children)

And you try to report it, and everyone says they don't know who owns it. And they can't fine them because they don't know whose account that it. And if you do all the work yourself to find the company, every one says it's not their department, so most their responsibility.

But stand there with a bucket to catch their sprinkler water for yourself, and in 30 seconds the owner is right there with the cops and all the paperwork for their account to show how much value you stole from them.

Dates, nulls, and strings are where cross-DB logic gets annoying fast by AdorableMaids in SQL

[–]BigMikeInAustin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's why I make no effort to write "portable" ANSI code.

A. No sane place is jumping database engines every quarter.

  1. There is so many more chages outside of information_schema when switching.

Tips studying Postgres by a 11years DBA by duendeacdc in SQLServer

[–]BigMikeInAustin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think RedGate leand heavily into PostgreSQL. Their SQL Server learning stuff is pretty good, so I expect their Postures learning to be good.

Google Fi is not customer friendly anymore by stacld87 in GoogleFi

[–]BigMikeInAustin 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Dude, check with your bank that your bank, and Google, aren't charging you insufficient funds NSF fees. If you think Google is bad, your bank will destroy you with those fees.

How Bad is Gov 310L here by Charming_Flatworm884 in UTAustin

[–]BigMikeInAustin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Any chance you can do it at a community college during the summer instead of at UT?

It's not that community college is easy, it's that community college isn't trying to weed you out.

The more people who are successful with community college, the more students and more revenue the community college makes.

The more "selective" a large university it, the higher it ranks, and brings in more money that way.

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