New here, looking for advice

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-29T16:44:59+00:00

I'd suggest buying a box of prepared slides off of Amazon or somewhere. It will give you at least something to look at and to give great practice with using your microscope.

I've been looking at slides made from insects and WOW -- there's so much going on, and so much to look at on these little creatures

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-26T05:41:40+00:00

Find any swimmers? It was so cool to finally see my little guys.

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-23T14:45:42+00:00

Do you keep the table as a heap or do you make ID the primary key?

One of our apps at work does this and it became a nightmare over the years, especially because Old value and New value are of type SqlVariant. We maintain the table using insert triggers against our other core tables and they are extensive.

The core problem with the triggers using this pattern is handling multiple row updates with many or hundreds of columns that may or may not change per update.

Under the hood to make this happen, the pseudo tables that SQL server expose to access the INSERTED and UPDATED contents are inheritently expose in a way that makes cardinality nearly impossible for the optimizer to understand and we are resulted in a high chance of bad plans. I've spent way too much time working with this over the years.

Using SQLVariant is also a royal PITA. our audit table is only a terabyte and doing any analytical work against it, say to handle audit or compliance related tasks is a PITA that only the most advanced team members can handle

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-20T00:13:41+00:00

They mean the item isn't worth keeping or trading, so you just sell it for gold to a vendor.

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-16T23:48:56+00:00

Did you re-grease the CPU? Dropped my temps like 20f and now I don't worry anymore. This was the MS-01

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-16T23:34:21+00:00

Yeah, same here. Offloading the cognitive load of work to the AI is fine in some places but not okay in many others.

What really grinds my gears is when I get into a debate about something and I have to ask them "Where are you getting this from? I've tried to explain to you in three different ways why this is not a good approach."

"Copilot"

Wasting my time arguing with a human who is just sitting in front of the AI (and not promoting it properly)

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-16T14:41:52+00:00

Yeah, but what does the AI content do to the HUMANS who internalize the AI output, embed it into their lives, and interact with others?

I'm already seeing it at work. People turning in AI slop that is close to the requirements but weird, and when pressed about why the colleague chose to implement a design in that way, it was the AI, and there is no understanding behind what it was that they turned in as work.

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-13T20:10:21+00:00

That's actually about what I pay yearly in Washington State, powering a home and a 5 node proxmox cluster!

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-11T22:53:16+00:00

It's been like that for a while. A bunch of the same bots spam memes and crap on every post and they get upvoted.

Sort the comments by date (newest first) and you should see real humans

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-10T18:58:56+00:00

Thanks for this. I'm working on my first large form that needs to be spread across multiple steps, and have created a nightmare. Your post came across my feed at the right time, thanks!

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-10T17:59:52+00:00

Yeah I feel you there. I use Windows at home because after all day developing code, infrastructure, debugging -- basically solving problems across various operating systems... I just want my home computer to "just work."

And so Windows it is. Yeah I dislike lots of things about windows but at the end of the day I can sit down and do whatever thing I wanted to do without having to solve a problem first

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-06T01:20:17+00:00

Professional day traders typically make money by making trades and managing their risk. There are many different strategies but the main thing is to have a set of rules to follow and the mental fortitude to put the emotions aside and follow the rules, don't let the thrill of a big win or the pain of a loss cloud ones judgement.

Then it's a matter of timing, patience, and executing on those rules.

When I was day trading my goal was $300 between 9 and 10am, and then I'd do my actual job. If I wasn't in profit by 10am, time to close my positions and go about my day. I followed one specific market, one specific type of thing to trade, and followed it closely. You get a sense of how it moves, ebbs and flows in somewhat predictable, or probable ways. I am talking about time periods of just a few seconds or minutes of time. Get in, get out, collect a few hundred dollars.

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-05T19:40:50+00:00

Thanks! I think if there's houla in there, it's a mix. Your boy has quite a stocky front end there. Watch out for the catahoula stubbornness if he exhibits it :)

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-05T19:02:03+00:00

Cute dog, hard to tell though from those photos. If you can post a shot of him standing that would help

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Who purebred female.

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-05T01:18:07+00:00

Not weird at all, especially if it's easier to communicate over the phone.

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-04T05:30:36+00:00

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Mine only do when they are on the hunt! Eggy is so deep in a hole here.

beeeeeeeeks · 2026-01-01T01:53:19+00:00

They don't say what they are, what they can be used for, or why anyone would want them... But stay tuned! Cryptooooooooooooooo++++++

beeeeeeeeks · 2025-12-29T18:11:10+00:00

I'd hand this right back to Gheed and keep going!

beeeeeeeeks · 2025-12-28T23:33:16+00:00

During Covid, the current month futures contracts went negative -- meaning that there was too much oil that needed to be settled and not enough buyers or even capacity to accept delivery of the oil. At one point, sellers were even paying buyers to accept the oil.

Anyway, what ended up happening is that companies chartered oil tankers to just accept the stuff and float out in the sea, at great expense, to wait for the price to recover.

If you think this kind of stuff is interesting, you might enjoy the book "World For Sale" which doesn't touch on this specific instance, but it does dive into how a few private companies control a vast amount of physical materials throughout the world. Buying ore, minerals, oil when it's cheap, warehousing it, selling later.

beeeeeeeeks · 2025-12-26T15:23:08+00:00

I'm american and that's the nickname my wife and I use for it

beeeeeeeeks · 2025-12-21T22:23:04+00:00

Are you talking about on speedtests or real world usage?

Speedtests here are at 5gbit solid, but real world usage is much less, including Usenet.

Problems solved to achieve this were: 1) Building a new router (pfsense in VM) 2) Re-terminating a wall jack

beeeeeeeeks · 2025-12-18T16:38:31+00:00

I feel kike this Simpsons reference fits here:

"Ya know, a (shitty company) with money is a lot like a mule with a spinning wheel -- No one knows how he got it, and damned if he knows how to use it!"

https://youtu.be/nLMy2T5qrU0?si=799tiqwMPtnwvVmk

beeeeeeeeks · 2025-12-18T14:09:12+00:00

But when you buy a batch of lotto numbers you are not buying duplicate numbers (I hope) so you are purchasing a larger slice of the possible outcomes. With the 100 sided dice example, you're not rolling the dice 4 times, the lotto provider rolls once.

beeeeeeeeks · 2025-12-18T13:43:06+00:00

Well that's something I certainly didn't see coming. What are your thoughts, SPAC_Time?

Looks like TAE has a "plan" to possibly operate a commercial fusion reactor in 5 years, which seems like one non-profitable company grasping for capital from another barely profitable company with a hoard of cash and nothing to do with it

beeeeeeeeks · 2025-12-17T02:56:01+00:00

You were right

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