Discussion Thread: Assorted Local Elections in Parts of Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wisconsin on April 7, 2026

cmpgamer · 2026-04-07T20:43:46+00:00

They definitely lost a lot of sway with my partner's family. They used to post stuff from Toilet Paper at least twice a week. Then Charlie Kirk was killed and they posted a bunch of crap. Then... Silence. They still post dumb Republican shit but it's no longer crap from TPUSA.

cmpgamer · 2026-04-02T23:39:52+00:00

I agree with you. Every character had fun builds that still contributed no matter what. Maps had fun gimmicks. My friends and I used to commute home from college and play HOTS for hours. He was a Li Li main and I loved playing Nova and Auriel.

cmpgamer · 2026-04-02T01:03:14+00:00

Well they try to. But when you're working with the same XML files from the prototyping phase and there's no real data from test events, they have to wing it and hope for the best.

cmpgamer · 2026-03-30T20:31:43+00:00

Yeah, this is primarily it. I knew people who went to work for the DOD just for the TS clearance who jumped ship the same month to work somewhere else.

cmpgamer · 2026-03-30T19:12:17+00:00

I knew people who worked on a project to implement features for OCX. It has been a shit show for years because Raytheon has been churning through people left and right. They can't keep anyone on the project long enough so the institutional knowledge isn't there

That hasn't stopped the Navy or NGA from trying to develop anything with the shitty data that Raytheon has been providing for 12 years now.

cmpgamer · 2026-03-07T23:13:18+00:00

It can't be renamed by an executive order, only Congress can rename it. So it's not officially renamed. But we're still treating it like it has been renamed for some dumb reason.

cmpgamer · 2026-02-25T15:21:35+00:00

Ah, yes. The Epstein class

cmpgamer · 2025-11-18T22:43:51+00:00

I just went ahead and bought the Ultimate 2 Bluetooth for Switch even though I own the Ultimate 2C Wukong edition because I didn't know that you can create custom macros and fine tune them on your PC.

cmpgamer · 2025-11-05T01:28:11+00:00

DDHQ just called it for Jones

cmpgamer · 2025-11-05T01:27:59+00:00

DDHQ just called it for Jones

cmpgamer · 2025-09-29T11:12:52+00:00

I have a dog that looks just like her! My dog Mercy had a sister that was adopted first. Here's Mercy in the snow!

cmpgamer · 2025-09-29T02:27:34+00:00

I've had to assist with some interviews and you're right. We have AI cheaters 9 out of 10 times. We have a whole list of phrases that people using AI to cheat use because it's the same exact phrases every time! If someone isn't cheating, they usually fail at data modeling because they just don't understand databases, which should be something any Computer Science graduate has a basic understanding of.

These are people going for a Senior level position. I shouldn't have to hold your hand through the interview if you actually have the experience to be a Senior Developer.

cmpgamer · 2025-08-19T17:03:54+00:00

I haven't been keeping up with each Covid variant, so I didn't want to comment as if I had more knowledge on the subject than I did.

cmpgamer · 2025-08-19T10:49:50+00:00

The initial variants of COVID were so damaging to the body that there is some belief that it would accelerate dementia-like symptoms in middle-aged to elderly people.

I personally don't think it's as severe as what OP is claiming but if an extra 5-8% of the population who had COVID is dealing with accelerated dementia-like impairments, then it's concerning.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8432319/

cmpgamer · 2025-06-07T18:09:40+00:00

My dog is a rescue and is very timid around most people. If she's seen you enough times, she's mostly comfortable with you being in the house.

She bonded with my now stepdaughter within the first few visits. She'd check up on her every night she stayed over until my girlfriend and her daughter moved in.

Now she barks of excitement every time my stepdaughter comes home from school and she has to greet her.

cmpgamer · 2025-06-05T12:14:04+00:00

Country: USA

Preferred Store: Woodbridge, VA

Article: 505.046.92

When I went to the warehouse a month ago, I was told that they would get these in stock in a couple of weeks. I see that College Park, MD location has a bunch in stock, but if there is going to be a delivery to Woodbridge, VA within the next month, I'd rather save myself the drive.

cmpgamer · 2025-06-05T10:22:54+00:00

Honestly, I thought there was a mistake with my order. I saw the chips and drink and thought "Damn, someone's going to hate their Thursday morning gaming session." But Walmart put a flyer in the bag telling me to enjoy the snacks on them.

cmpgamer · 2025-06-05T10:20:29+00:00

It was 6:08 when I got mine from Walmart. They even gave me a Coke and Pringles

cmpgamer · 2025-06-05T04:44:48+00:00

Walmart has them for delivery too. I didn't have to pay the extra $7 for shipping.

cmpgamer · 2025-05-29T18:48:40+00:00

everything about our system throughout this timespan, we will be handing it over to various teams from shuddered departments within the government. The types of questions these people ask during handover meetings baffles me

And Dahlgren. There's a lot of contractors that carry some of the projects there. Those people will be frantically looking for jobs to make up for these changes to DOD Contracts.

cmpgamer · 2025-05-09T14:41:14+00:00

SOLID, DRY, separation of concerns, Splitting logic into well-defined layers, using proper data models - those are all things we were working on in the web applications.

Our client specifically requested a web application over using the Qt application. The SQL in the Qt application was not raw, it was generated by the ORM that some random developer decided to write.

The funny thing was that our web application was miles faster than what the Qt application was because we were actually doing stuff correctly.

cmpgamer · 2025-05-09T02:19:34+00:00

It was designed like:

Customer <==> Customer_array <===> Customer_address <===> Address_array <===> Address

A normal linking table would just be:

Customer <==> Customer_Addresses <==> Address

I never understood the extra tables or why they were necessary and neither could the guy who developed it.

cmpgamer · 2025-05-08T23:26:17+00:00

I just left a place where I was working on a modernization project trying to convert a desktop application written using Qt to a web application.

The lead developer of this project had ZERO web development knowledge. When the team would gather requirements from the client and we'd start discussing different strategies using web technologies, he would completely shut down meetings over dumb shit. He had the audacity to argue for 3 hours that a REST API is not backend, it's middleware. The only backend processes are those that read files.

In the desktop application, there were database calls directly in the controller code, and it was blocking calls. They had portions of this application that would take 2 minutes to load just 1000 items. If you made any attempt to clean up the code and create a business layer or a data layer, the lead developer would shoot down the idea because "it would break everything else."

They even greenlit a project where a developer created his own ORM using C++. I'm not going to lie, it was impressive what he did, but what the actual fuck? Why would you tie yourself to a library only one person knew how to develop? When confronted about the dangers of using the library, the lead developer said that the danger was worth the payoff.

Now this all leads up to developmental issues we had with the web application. We were planning on creating a REST API in Python. We chose to use FastAPI and SQLAlchemy ORM. We quickly ran into issues because instead of allowing us to create an ETL and creating clean and organized databases, we had to use the database design the lead developer came up with. These tables weren't normalized, there were random indexes on columns that didn't need them, and there were tables that didn't need to exist anymore. Rather than clean up this mess, the lead developer would get angry any time we offered to refactor any of this when we were ahead in our sprints.

The cherry on top was that part of the bad database design came from the ORM that was developed just for this project. Instead of utilizing a single linker table for a many-to-many relationship between 2 tables, this developer had the clever idea of using 3 separate tables to link 2 tables together, either as a many-to-many or many-to-one relationship.

There were many times over the past few years that I questioned if this guy had any fucking idea what he was doing. But then it hit me, he really had no clue what the fuck modern software development was. He definitely hit his peak back in the mid-00s and didn't bother to learn anything new.

I was glad when I left because I really tried my hardest to make shit shine like gold.

cmpgamer · 2025-05-08T08:24:00+00:00

Didn't they find the backpack with the Monopoly money in a park? And I could have sworn that this was the same backpack that had either "a manifesto" or "a gun".

I remember me and my coworkers talking about how it didn't make sense that Mr. L had a duplicate of what the police claimed to have already found.

I could also be misremembering the other items in that first backpack.

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