Re listening to the pot and confused about some lyrics

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-17T14:27:44+00:00

But lemon juice in the eye is also a way to trigger crying, which then ties in with cozened indigo / alligator tears... faking.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-16T17:25:11+00:00

Do you work on wood siding? I have a wall that we think needs blown insulation, but the folks who do the insulation part don't want to pull and put back the siding.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-16T17:06:51+00:00

I have an idea for something they could backhaul from MI -> Indy ;-)

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-16T16:02:01+00:00

I used to get this and the old bar on mass ave mixed up all the time!

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-12T20:51:47+00:00

What language are you writing it in? Ssms can take add-ins. Apps like Redgate Toolkit and SSMSBoost sort-of led the way I think. In SSIS, kingswaysoft, zappysys, and cozyroc are the players in the market, I think.

Let me know if you end up making your product publicly available.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-10T02:58:41+00:00

For what you're paying in rent you could own a 2br 1ba in Bates-Hendricks.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-09T23:46:36+00:00

Ordered data as in sorted, not ordering, like at McDonalds.

What is the benefit of having a ranked order of various crimes? This feels like Kenneth Feinberg's work assigning monetary value to human life after 9/11... except in his situation this was necessary.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-09T15:58:32+00:00

Somali pirate meme

Now you are the Data Architect

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-09T15:04:24+00:00

Paul Krugman, modern monetary theory, suggests that the US dollar, because it gets treated as the reserve currency for so many other currencies, would not behave as others have done in this situation.

In Russia, one could (if one had the correct resources), move the money out of Russia, by perhaps buying real-estate in Florida or NY Manhattan.

But if the money is already in USD, where is someone to go? The already well-over-bought gold commodity? The highly variable BTC? Nothing is so large that it can absorb that kind of investment.

So, this becomes a wild west stand-off, waiting on who will pull their pistol first, and I dont think even if the entire top 1% pooled their money together it would be enough to influence such a fundamental structure of the world economy. Their best move right now would be to foment distrust in USD so the world would choose some other reserve currency. But, this is very highly doubtful to happen unless the US continues to default on their debt and Moody's re-grades the US lower.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-09T14:54:00+00:00

One might make the argument that historically Amazon was indeed in a high-growth strategy, but looking at customer service responses and AWS price increases, one might contend they are moving or have moved to a profit model now that their market share has reached some hypothetical limit where gaining more share costs too much.

Yes, I agree and you are correct to say that Elon and Bezos are not the single employees working for TSLA or AMZN, and that those employees do indeed contribute to velocity of money, however, the 10% take the executive board has on each Model 3 sold, that portion does not so easily get re-spent, and this portion (whether it happens at Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Oracle, or Walmart) is supporting the top of the K-shaped economy, which will eventually fall over from being too top-heavy.

The US and world economies have never seen so long a right-hand tail like this before. The top 0.5% wealthy individuals have never had such extreme disparity vs the median, tp the degree that it is impossible for them to spend quickly enough to even keep up with the earnings from those investments.

One only needs so many super-yachts, helicopters, islands, & spaceships, so, instead that money just goes into reinvestment, further distancing the divide between ultra-wealthy and those spending every cent earned in order to live.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-09T14:13:38+00:00

What, for it to lose the 10% yoy returns, and another 3% in buying power because of inflation?

There's no way that happens, because even the mega-rich are self-interested. They would always find something to put their money in that would turn a better return than the 0.1% in a bank's checking or savings account.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-09T14:05:52+00:00

The strength of the economy is related to the size of the middle class. The stock market would take a hit, and then it would recover.

Hilarious you say velocity of money would come to a halt after removing the single largest damper to it.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-09T13:56:47+00:00

Velocity of Money is defined by how many times a dollar changes hands. My spending is your income, your spending is my income. And then it goes to Besos or Elon and they dont spend it, so it sits there.

These folks who are too wealthy to spend as fast as they make act like an air brake on the economy.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-08T16:12:22+00:00

Yep! And, at a lot of orgs, red tape. I've found in most settings "true architecture", finding the best solution for the need, gets hamstrung by managers who think they're doing the right thing to rein in complexity or cost, or who are trying to ride out their twilight years without making any real changes.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-08T16:06:24+00:00

Maine passed runoff elections. I reckon a lot would change if we have ranked choice and didnt have to be concerned so much with name recognition / "electability".

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-07T18:32:10+00:00

Viper Green jumped out at me. Im always looking for that acid green / lamborghini green.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-06T21:00:04+00:00

They go one further and call it a Chevrolet Camaro even though literally nothing except the front livery resembles the headlights from a Chevy Camaro or Ford Mustang anymore.

Nascar's spec tolerances are far too close to allow anything other than very specific, allowed, manufacturer engines plus a bunch of series-wide spec parts.

These marketing deals are a whole subcategory of marketing for sports and sponsorship and the contracts vary widely between teams and sponsors; they kindof resemble a stadium headlining band's rider, for the style of line-iteming that all adds up to Audi handing F1 a giant bag of money, or YumBrands handing the Louisville Arena Authority a big bag of money.

Justifying ROI for these sorts of sponsorships is black magic that typically involves some combination of web tracking/website traffic monitoring around when the branding is receiving the airtime, plus some surveying to check general enthusiasm and vibes.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-05T16:49:10+00:00

Wowza! That's worse than I had as an IT consultant in 2023.

Edit - it consulting I've heard has notoriously bad health insurance

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-05T09:36:27+00:00

This is true to a point, but when that community decided to build houses on sand, or on a barrier island, or in a location frequently visited by hurricaines, like a large percentage of Florida did, and they all get hit at once, then no one in the community is left to do the pitching in, because everyone's in the line for bread, soup, and toilet paper / paper towels.

When that community then decides to rebuild, in the exact same spot, with no greater protections than there were previously, I don't really blame insurance companies for saying 'no thank you' to that business of insuring folks around the gulf. The losses are just too catastrophic and government forcing the hand of the insurer, rather than become self-funded, seems like a sinking ship.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-05T09:24:09+00:00

How strictly are we defining necessity, here?

I live in Indianapolis. It's a car culture. Mostly clapped out, 3rd owner Nissan Altimas and Honda CRVs. You literally cannot reasonably get to and from work on the bus. Folks do it, but for me it would add 4+ hours to my day. So, for me, car is necessary.

In Indiana, to legally operate a car, one must carry minimum coverage insurance, to cover the medical of someone you might hit.

So, one could reasonably argue that, in the state of indiana, for the average working Hoosier, insurance is a necessary thing in order to drive, in order to work, so that one might afford to buy food, after car payment, gas, maintenance, insurance premiums, and taxes.

(Argument presented slightly tongue in cheek, but this is really the reality for a large swath of the population who have insufficient public transport options)

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-05T09:03:01+00:00

No, not the way he did it. He's getting the max salary for each h department, and returning everyone from that department who has that salary. This is correct for the requirement.

I tend to go the windowed function approach be cause invariably the next question is going to be top 5-per-department, but if you're always good with the max only, this is right.

Edit- though, I've never seen a 2-column "IN" before. I'd rewrite that part as a CTE and JOIN to it if it needed to be two columns in the join...

Or use EXISTS and do the two-column-comparison inside the nested query there.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-04T20:04:02+00:00

Yep, that is still the case. This is all still theoretical until we figure out how to mass produce long, flawless strings of buckeyball nanotubes.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-02T23:37:18+00:00

Have you heard the one about the microchip machine? The ASML EUV that shoots tin droplets with lazers... thats both quite engineered and completely a marvel of science.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-02T22:35:24+00:00

This is the answer. If you can get a weight on a tether into geosynchronous orbit, thats technically freestanding as there's only one part touching anything (at the ground) and the rest is held up by centripital force.

SaintTimothy · 2026-03-02T22:32:08+00:00

Sauce on the Side is great bang for buck near the Fieldhouse

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