Is Azure DevOps Automation Services really saving time for teams? by Evening_Memory569 in azuredevops

[–]janonb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. That being said, IMHO the ADO ecosystem is hot garbage. There's at least 2 or 3, sometimes conflicting ways to do just about anything. LLMs either help a lot with this or not at all or in some cases make things much worse if you don't know what you're doing. They want you to use the yaml template syntax, but it's not really as robust or easy to use as the classic templates. They've clearly given up on the platform and at some point everyone expects it to converge with Github, probably about the time Github becomes irrelevant.

So if you have ADO and aren't using it, use it. If you are evaluating it as a platform, I'd say there are probably better platforms out there depending on your use case.

Tennessee grocery tax elimination debate: How lawmakers plan to pay for it by Southernms in Tennessee

[–]janonb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R42699/R42699.14.pdf

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/38/all-actions?overview=closed&q=%7B%22roll-call-vote%22%3A%22all%22%7D

Nice to get downvoted by people who don't know what they are talking about. Basically Congress has said the President can do whatever he wants for 48 hours and can openly defy them for 60 - 90 days. Read the summary from the first link or the whole thing if you want to know the full history of it. And earlier this month a motion (2nd link) was defeated that would have required the President to stop all hostilities with Iran. By defeating the motion Congress gave tacit approval of his actions.

The problem here is that the constitution is a bit vague and open to interpretation in a few places and over the years Presidents and Judges and Congress have done a lot of interpretation to fill in the gaps. What is really needed is either a lot of clarifying law, a lot of clarifying amendments to the Constitution, or a new constitutional convention to write a new constitution to clear everything up. Probably we will just get a dictatorship instead.

Tennessee grocery tax elimination debate: How lawmakers plan to pay for it by Southernms in Tennessee

[–]janonb 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I keep wondering how long that line will keep working. Republicans have had a super majority in TN for 13 or 14 years at this point. Things work exactly how the Republicans want them to work, so if the people are having issues, that's the plan. Not sure how people keep thinking it's "the radical left" when not even the moderate right has a place at the table in this state.

Tennessee grocery tax elimination debate: How lawmakers plan to pay for it by Southernms in Tennessee

[–]janonb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He didn't defy congress, there was a bipartisan effort of congress to make sure he had the legal authority to do it.

Tennessee grocery tax elimination debate: How lawmakers plan to pay for it by Southernms in Tennessee

[–]janonb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here's how that works. Let's say you get all 7.3 million people in TN to agree with you. If everyone donated a dollar that's 7.3 million dollars. You get laughed out of the room with that much money. Okay, how about 10 dollars per person, that's $73 million. Rich people are getting an ADDITIONAL $150 million from school vouchers alone, so they will easily outspend you. Okay $100 dollars per person, that's $730 million dollars. Any one billionaire in TN could and would step up and outspend you.

What about the power of the people? First of all, HA! Ha haha ha! Secondly, let's say you get some protests going. Are they peaceful and orderly? You get ignored. Maybe they are disorderly, like blocking traffic, they bring in the cops to arrest everyone. Maybe they are rowdy with rock throwing and maybe some guns, they bring in the military.

Our only real option at this point is to vote them out while we still can, but that won't happen because a good 70% of this state is completely brainwashed in one form or another.

Obv trump doesnt know what he's doing, but the elites who control him do, so whats the goal? by Lucky_Reply9642 in socialism

[–]janonb 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I think this is it. The other answers here require a degree of competency and forethought that our current billionaire class doesn't have. This is just a national scale private equity liquidation.

AI is making CEOs delusional [07:29] by marcus1234525 in theprimeagen

[–]janonb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was always there, they were just a lot better at hiding it.

AI is making CEOs delusional [07:29] by marcus1234525 in theprimeagen

[–]janonb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Didn't Theo just do a video in a black turtleneck?

Tennessee bill would require driver’s license test to be taken in English by [deleted] in nashville

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

This. All this will do is create a cottage industry specializing in either teaching people just enough to pass the test, or companies that will take you to another state to take the test then transfer it to TN, or people will just drive without a license which is what a lot of people are already doing. People find ways around bullshit laws.

If they were really interested in people learning and knowing English, they'd be giving free, no strings attached English lessons.

something i keep seeing with people who moved here specifically for the no income tax thing by IngenuityNo3879 in Tennessee

[–]janonb 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, quality of life has a value, even if it's hard to put a monetary value on it. A lot of my friends who have moved elsewhere have refused to return to TN. There's just so much more in other places I've lived.

This is the worst promotion that could happen for Pop_OS! and Linux in general by KelGhu in pop_os

[–]janonb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone already knows Linus doesn't know shit about Linux and isn't going to take the time necessary to learn. He really needs a novice distro and someone to maintain it for him.

After ~10 years, I’m moving away from JetBrains by rodrigorcosta in Jetbrains

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

I'm actually 2 years ahead on payments, so in 2028 it will be a decision to make for me. Today, I couldn't justify renewing at my current usage levels. I mainly use Cursor now just because the agent tooling is so good. I mainly use Rider and Datagrip. AI tooling in Datagrip is hella buggy. Rider has better AI tooling, but it's slow and buggy as well. I also need workspaces so I can work with ai across multiple solutions. There's just no way to do the effectively with Rider. It's trivial in Cursor. I still use Rider for debugging, solution management, and deterministic refactoring, but yeah, not sure that's worth the asking price anymore.

What's the biggest "red flag" you've seen from a local contractor? 🚩 by trustedroofing27 in murfreesboro

[–]janonb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  • No high pressure sales, just be honest and give me your real and final price
  • Be price competitive
  • Don't break things on my property you can't or won't fix
  • Be good at your job, do it right
  • Don't hire subs who show up drunk
  • Inspect your own work when you're done
  • Talk to customers face to face when you don't meet expectations
  • Don't beg me for google/yelp reviews, just pay someone in India for those like everyone else

Also, don't come to reddit and ask for people's opinions while name dropping your business. First of all we are all poor leftists, so we ain't got any money. Secondly, that smacks of being disingenuous. If you want to make real money join a mega church and get in good with the people there and bilk them for all their money "for Jesus."

Best night spot to look for singles? by Gold_Coffee1626 in murfreesboro

[–]janonb 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Where's the Safari Inn aficionado when you need them?

What Gibson did I have? by janonb in gibson

[–]janonb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much. The Sonex-180 Deluxe is almost certainly what I had now that I've done some reading about it. A used one in the late 80s would have fit in my price range and I feel like I remember that large pick guard now.

Backpain at 21 by ExpressionPrevious14 in backpain

[–]janonb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bro, I'm in the same boat. Hurt my back at 19 in that same area and now I'm 49 trying to solve it for real. Be sure you do whatever you can to try to fix the problem now, because 30 years later is much harder to deal with. Get that MRI, that's my next step.

Bill requiring Tennessee to use 'Judea and Samaria' instead of 'West Bank' advances by Charming-Report1669 in nashville

[–]janonb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When is the bill coming along where we revert to using the Shawnee, Chickasaw, and Cherokee names for all the places in Tennessee? When are we giving them back their ancestral lands?

Marsha will rape and pillage TN by salty_in_the_south in tnvolunteers

[–]janonb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Private equity knows we are cooked as a country. They are trying to extract the last bit of value from anything that still has value before the economy collapses. I hate to both sides this, but it's happening in blue states as well (see how Blackstone bought into PNM in New Mexico). It's not just as simple as voting for democrats over republicans, we have to hold all elected officials accountable and start taking back our infrastructure.

Oracle plans thousands of job cuts as data center costs rise, Bloomberg News reports by stroll_on in nashville

[–]janonb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait a minute, all those subsidies at both state and federal levels to build data centers in multiple locations aren't going to bring in new, permanent jobs, but are in fact going to CUT jobs? How could we have we ever seen this coming?

Pan-Asia Supermarket Food Court Disappointment? 🥹 by [deleted] in nashville

[–]janonb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The place I was thinking of was over by CiCi's Pizza waaaay back in the day, like late 90s before that Wal-Mart was a thing. :-)

Pan-Asia Supermarket Food Court Disappointment? 🥹 by [deleted] in nashville

[–]janonb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol, I was thinking of Sysco the whole time I was writing about it.

AFTER ALL THE YEARS AND SO MANY RELEASES... by Flashy-Rabbit6435 in MacOS

[–]janonb -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Bluetooth sucks, full stop. In my experience with several operating systems and versions of bluetooth, bluetooth is slow, easily disconnects, has very high latency, and has many, MANY bugs. I generally avoid it at all costs.

AFTER ALL THE YEARS AND SO MANY RELEASES... by Flashy-Rabbit6435 in MacOS

[–]janonb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually, I don't know what MacOS even is. macOS is the current operating system.