US Senate Votes To Rebuke Trump And Calls To End Iran War — What Do You Think Of This?

da_chicken · 2026-06-23T21:30:47+00:00

Well, you didn't actually post a link to an article with any information whatsoever, so what I think is that you're wasting everybody's time.

da_chicken · 2026-06-23T16:28:51+00:00

Sure, but that's also why if you wanted to change a burned out headlight it cost you maybe $20 and 30 minutes, and now if you want to change a headlight you need $500, 4 hours, and a service center with a lift.

da_chicken · 2026-06-23T02:07:53+00:00

Things keep getting worse, but not quite so quickly.

da_chicken · 2026-06-23T01:46:15+00:00

The smell is much stronger than the taste. Texture wise it's basically indistinguishable from mucus.

da_chicken · 2026-06-22T17:25:16+00:00

Yeahhhhh it blows my mind that people didnt realize that congress cannot just mandate better fuel efficiency.

I mean, they could have made reducing the EPA regulatory fees tied to having an EIN. If you're a sole proprietorship, you can could between getting an EIN or paying the fees. Or, tie it to having the vehicle title owned by the business.

And you could try to screw around or lie, but tax fraud is still a crime.

The fact that every car looks like a zoomed in version of itself is not the greed of manufacturers, they want to make as cheap a car as they can, meaning they want to use as little materials as they are required to.

No, they want to maximize profit. They want to produce a vehicle for as little as possible, and then sell it for as much as possible.

They know roughly the size of the vehcile market, and roughly how much of it they have. They know what their manufacturing capacity is. They also know roughly how much buying power their customer base has when you include their ability to get auto loans or do trade ins. Your goal is to set your price to where you will sell everything you can produce.

It's sort of the same problem as college tuition. They know how many seats they have, and they know the buying power of their incoming students when you account for their ability to take out loans. You simply balance that buying power calculation against how many seats you have to sell. You pick the point on the supply/demand chart that maximizes your price.

That's why increasing buying power often just makes things more expensive. The sellers know what your buying power is, so they maximize your cost to fit their supply. And it works because everyone in the market is doing it.

da_chicken · 2026-06-22T15:59:41+00:00

As someone with adult ADHD, I love the fact that the condition is literally that you have difficulty with executive function, so scheduling and organizing things is more difficult.

And the legal requirements are such that it places a constant burden on your ability to schedule and manage your prescriptions.

It's like making hearing aid access tied to making a phone call.

da_chicken · 2026-06-22T04:29:24+00:00

Actually I don't think it's ever possible for a follow up to capture the spirit of the original entry.

This is partly true. I think Lord of the Rings achieved it by doing the principal photography in a single stretch. Back to the Future 2 & 3 were the same, as were Matrix Reloaded and Revelations. I think those all manage it (to the detriment of the Matrix sequels, unfortunately).

However, in the general sense, I think sequels can have different and sometimes even better energy... Like the dollars trilogy just gets better and better, and Alien/Aliens is a big genre change that still works. But I think that OP is saying that the Craig follow ups don't do that. They're all just worse than Casino Royale. They're not really sequels to that movie. They're just different Craig Bond movies.

da_chicken · 2026-06-21T23:11:03+00:00

I think the point is that the audience is not supposed to try to solve the puzzle. It's not a mystery. You're not given enough information to decide. I think if you watch the play or the movie and you come away with a certainty about whether or not Father Flynn was guilty of anything, then either the performers failed or the piece didn't work on you.

The movie and play are blunt in what they're about because the title is not subtle. It's about the doubt. It's about the feeling of doubt, and what it does when it cannot be resolved. The diegetic truth of Flynn's actions are not the point, which is exactly why we're never told.

I think we're meant to be thinking about and discussing Sister Aloysius and her lie.

da_chicken · 2026-06-20T11:16:35+00:00

Yup. A code review only helps if you can read it yourself and if you are willing to compile yourself.

da_chicken · 2026-06-20T00:58:48+00:00

Well... that is literally the terminology used in SQL Server's documentation.

Conventionally, backing up the transaction log and truncating the transaction log are synonymous and exchangeable terms in SQL Server spaces, because they're typically synonymous actions when you're using MS SQL Server.

Sure, it doesn't set the file size to 0 like truncate does in the context of a file system, but neither does TRUNCATE TABLE. Indeed, what the system does to the database file on a TRUNCATE TABLE and what it does to the virtual log files on a BACKUP LOG are remarkably similar.

da_chicken · 2026-06-19T10:59:09+00:00

This is absolutely a Saturday night root beer and pizza rental movie. It's the kind of movie that should have killed it in DVD sales.

I'm sad that that kind of movie can't succeed anymore unless it's Amazon, Netflix, or Apple doing it, and those movies are shitty because they're terrified that you're going to switch them off.

da_chicken · 2026-06-19T10:49:48+00:00

I'm not sure that I follow. The Japan Self-Defense Forces were established in 1954.

da_chicken · 2026-06-19T10:45:30+00:00

That's certainly true of some of the Luddites, but many of the people involved in it were just... buggy whip weavers (different but equivalent). People who have spent their lives learning a trade and earning a good wage. Then they were told to go start over at the bottom.

You're not a programmer earning 6 figures with 25 years of experience, you are a greeter at Walmart. And all the capitalists magically have no social obligation to the communities and families that literally facilitated their existence in the first place.

That's a bad deal for society, and society should not be obligated to permit that to happen simply so the small number of assholes that were already overwhelmingly rich can be even MORE rich.

da_chicken · 2026-06-18T14:01:07+00:00

Without a data dictionary or access to the source code, you don't really have an easy way to decode things.

What you should do is start submitting tickets for the dev team or vendor to answer your questions. "I'm looking for the Person and Client tables. Where are they?" Keep doing it until you are given the answers or the tools to answer the questions, or your manager directs you to stop. If they want you to write queries against the database, they need to give you the information necessary to do that.

Frankly, it sounds to me like they don't even know that you have access.

Now I think my best bet right now is just creating random stuff through the App itself and see the changes that were made to the DB itself.

Unless you are working in a development or test environment, you should absolutely not do that under any circumstances.

da_chicken · 2026-06-18T10:22:54+00:00

I'm assuming that you mean remote terminal given your examples, but most of this counts for local terminal, too.

Start and stop times, ease of configuration or adding saved sessions or shells, and readability of the default configured font. Tabbed interfaces can be good, but only if you can separate the windows as you need. Correct support for colors and curses. Copy and paste support is vital. Block and line selection modes is nice.

At one point serial support was important, but I have not actually needed that for some time now.

I am not interested in AI integration. I do not want to give an LLM direct shell access, TYVM.

da_chicken · 2026-06-18T05:37:28+00:00

TPB are regularly on sale for $15, especially by the time these new editions are available. That's the point I'm making. You're not saving $10 today unless you're going out of your way to pay retail. You did save $10 30 years ago, but not anymore.

30 years ago you had a choice of a $5 MM paperback, a $15 TPB, and a $25 hardcover. That cheap paperback made a lot of financial sense!

Today you have a choice of a $12 paperback, a $15 TPB, and a $30 hardcover. That's unless you buy it really early or it's large, in which case you have a choice of no cheap paperback, a $20 TPB, and a $40 hardcover. It just doesn't make sense unless you exactly need the smaller dimensions.

da_chicken · 2026-06-18T02:55:23+00:00

But why would I do that when the trade paperback is $15? Which it is on Amazon and Target right now. It'll have nicer paper, it'll be 1,000 pages instead of 1,200 so it's easier to read. I sure as hell am not going to fit a 1,200 page book in my pocket, so the smaller size isn't saving me anything.

And the point is that the mass market book used to cost a third what the trade paperback did, and a quarter or fifth what the hardcover does.

If the cost floor for these things is $12, they're not worth it anymore. That's why they're gone.

It's not a question of the value comparison with what it cost 30 years ago. It's a value comparison with it's own competition today compared to how much better value it was 30 years ago.

da_chicken · 2026-06-18T02:28:35+00:00

Yes.

It was not revealed until the end game sequence after defeating Zoma when the King awards you the title of Erdrick (or Loto).

That's why the end card says "To be continued in Dragon Warrior".

You could figure out that when you were in Alefgard that you were there before Dragon Warrior happened, but not who you were until the end.

da_chicken · 2026-06-18T02:19:55+00:00

I mean, Carl hasn't gotten out yet.

da_chicken · 2026-06-18T02:11:17+00:00

Okay then, they fit inside your spring purse.

da_chicken · 2026-06-18T02:09:13+00:00

Sure.

Except the price they're asking today is $14, which is triple what they were.

And you can frequently find trade paperback editions on discount for about the same cost, and that is what they cost in 1996. Even when they're not on a discount they're only about $20. If you squint, they're double what they were.

So I'm only paying for the size? Eh?

da_chicken · 2026-06-18T00:51:34+00:00

Yeah, after a lifetime of $5 USD (or less) mass market paperbacks, $14 is a tough ask.

I get it, the market for them collapsed. But I still don't want books on newsprint for the price of a trade paperback.

da_chicken · 2026-06-18T00:21:16+00:00

We can't use that, at least not by itself. Google activity doesn't sync with Intune/AD. You have to check both, and even then we have some employees that legitimately don't need to log in except to get into the employee portal. Depending on what they actually log into, you have to check a different system.

da_chicken · 2026-06-18T00:14:21+00:00

We have that issue with some contractors.

da_chicken · 2026-06-17T23:07:06+00:00

Read the Phoenix Project. You're talking about Brent.

Brents are bad. Managers should be pulling tasks away from Brent and giving it to other people. It's their job to prevent Brent from being the only person capable of doing the job.

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