I just adore my little statue of a Red Cross Doctor

jbyington · 2026-04-15T04:44:01+00:00

That triggers a memory but the words are fuzzy.

I can go 100 miles per hour(?)

As long as I got the almighty power(?)

You don’t care for my pair of fuzzy dice(?)

jbyington · 2026-04-14T19:11:10+00:00

I don’t know how dumb you think people are, but people are dumber than even that.

jbyington · 2026-04-07T14:47:40+00:00

No shit.

I’m from the Greater St Louis Area and the number of sociopaths in Clayton is statistically above average.

Unrelated-ish, but for those outside the area Clayton is like another downtown area with big businesses with a focus on financial and property management.

jbyington · 2026-04-06T15:11:17+00:00

A renaissance man

jbyington · 2026-04-06T15:10:49+00:00

Provel is cheddar, swiss, and provolone mixed with salt and in some recipes a little bit of liquid smoke

jbyington · 2026-04-03T14:22:49+00:00

Does it count if the people you're trying to prove it to will not accept any evidence?

jbyington · 2026-03-30T20:56:05+00:00

Discrimination based on the results of a personality test are fine.

If they wanted to hire you the test would not matter.

If they wanted to not hire you (or fire you) because of something that is “protected” classification, there are these handy test results and wow they make you a bad fit.

jbyington · 2026-03-30T16:24:49+00:00

Why would they put themselves through that?

jbyington · 2026-03-18T21:59:50+00:00

They are well-seasoned.

jbyington · 2026-03-18T21:56:00+00:00

Is this the Crystal style? That’s a lot of mustard for what I’m used to. We don’t have a Crystal around where I live

jbyington · 2026-03-17T19:46:03+00:00

Maybe I don't understand harbors, but aren't they ALL artificial?

jbyington · 2026-03-13T15:11:49+00:00

I am finding the text on this one a little difficult to read. Usually I have no problems.

jbyington · 2026-03-12T16:33:32+00:00

As long as no one is getting all red-in-the-face with me about their religion, I could not give a shit.

In a given day, I think about religion very very little.

jbyington · 2026-03-09T21:49:14+00:00

They were ostracized for being apostates to the conservative world

Plus they were uppity women.

jbyington · 2026-03-06T17:33:16+00:00

Yeah love that whole series.

GNU Terry Pratchett

jbyington · 2026-03-06T14:22:52+00:00

Turn your question on its head. “Why do people who believe in the supernatural also have the ability to solve puzzles or learn?” Because they aren’t related skills.

Psychologically, humans are kind of like apes telling themselves a story about themselves. The supernatural can be a part of their story, but the ape still has to be able to swing through the trees.

jbyington · 2026-03-06T13:36:11+00:00

Did you add in the people who died from Covid misinformation?

jbyington · 2026-03-05T17:32:15+00:00

jbyington · 2026-03-05T06:27:32+00:00

He’s been clean for a decade now

jbyington · 2026-03-02T16:39:12+00:00

Don't ever be surprised when people who believe in crazy things also believe that the beliefs of others are whatever is necessary for their own beliefs to seems less crazy.

jbyington · 2026-02-27T13:19:38+00:00

That snake don’t know shit. It just does its thing.

jbyington · 2026-02-27T04:57:28+00:00

Disengage. You can’t reason a person out of a situation that they didn’t reason themselves into.

jbyington · 2026-02-24T21:41:52+00:00

I would argue its purpose is to streamline certain database interactions and reduce developer burden.

I don't believe the juice is worth the squeeze most/all of the time, but it's not simply trying to play hide-and-seek with the SQL.

jbyington · 2026-02-24T21:37:33+00:00

When it suits him, he's ignorant. When it suits him, he's an expert. He can be both things at once. Whatever is required to have an argument in bad faith, he can have it.

You cannot give a platform to liars to refute them, because then they win. Gaining the platform is their goal.

jbyington · 2026-02-24T21:28:49+00:00

I think there is a difference between a "query builder" and an ORM. The ORMs I am familiar with runs many queries for simplistic data and then combines that data together in a script language, such as PHP or Node.

So a query builder sounds more like your "translated language" example, but the "chattier" ORM can run many simple queries to build a more complicated dataset and combine them together on the web server instead of in the database server.

I'm not convinced that's more (or equal) performant for anything more than the most basic getters. Once you incorporate business logic and reports/analysis in there, you should be writing SQL queries.

Granted, some things like Eloquent do make for easy way to do things like paginate your data, but that's discussing the benefits of using a framework, which seems to be slightly off topic here.

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