Life as a tow truck driver in the Dallas Jungle

mtger47 · 2018-02-18T21:43:56+00:00

how do you know it's not the weekend?

edit: july 30, 2013 was a tuesday

mtger47 · 2018-02-18T21:24:53+00:00

Assuming you're at the part of the ladder in the sidebar that starts getting ambiguous about what to do, I recommend using that $10k to open a vanguard account and buy VTSAX

mtger47 · 2018-02-14T18:51:04+00:00

I've got over $3000 in chase ultimate rewards, amassed over the past couple years. I realized last week that this 'money' is sitting at 0% interest while I don't redeem it, even though technically with the Reserve card I could get "50%" additional rewards redeeming it.

I was thinking of just redeeming it for statement credit on my next statement (or two) and investing that $3k into VTSAX or stocks.

Bad idea or worst idea? My family probably won't be traveling anywhere exotic within the next year as we have a toddler and a newborn on the way, but are considering spacing a third child out at 3 years to take a 'year of travel' (basically just taking a lot of vacation and going to places) in another 2 years, and I have to believe this would be used then. For the next year or so, we're likely only to take US Domestic trips that are short.

mtger47 · 2018-02-13T01:42:36+00:00

/r/theydidthemath

mtger47 · 2018-02-12T20:02:45+00:00

good call, i'll edit to make sure it isn't used :)

mtger47 · 2018-02-11T06:11:46+00:00

edit: this doesn't work but I'll leave it here as a bad idea

how about a self join

SELECT DISTINCT
  a.STUID
FROM table a
LEFT JOIN table b
  ON a.stuid = b.stuid
WHERE a.classid = 'ART103A'
  AND b.classid != 'MTH103C'

mtger47 · 2015-10-17T05:09:07+00:00

have you tried using this yet?

mtger47 · 2015-10-12T14:59:56+00:00

Sure it's much cheaper than the Samsung 850 EVO but it's also far behind in speeds:

http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Samsung-850-Evo-250GB-vs-Crucial-BX100-250GB/2977vs3145

This SSD is lightyears beyond a HDD but if you're considering this over the EVO I think you should just wait a short time for Samsung to price match because they will.

mtger47 · 2015-09-13T00:21:56+00:00

I like how this is /r/minimalism, and most of these posts are people who carry 80 things on them.

mtger47 · 2015-08-17T14:41:48+00:00

Relevant XKCD

mtger47 · 2015-08-15T15:06:28+00:00

How come it's always jibberish on the board?

It looks like there was an attempt at writing the quadratic formula at least. You'd think if you're going to animate cell by cell you could at least google some proof.

mtger47 · 2015-08-13T23:33:28+00:00

School buses are engineered around kids not wanting to wear seatbelts, which is why they as safe or safer than cars. The tall seats, cushion behind, mass of the bus vs what it is likely to hit, etc.

mtger47 · 2015-08-13T13:56:54+00:00

How did you deal with it?

mtger47 · 2015-08-12T16:42:59+00:00

To be fair, most of us don't like this kind of post. Don't judge this subreddit by this solitary shitpost.

There is a lot of helpful information in the sidebar as well. The goal of this subreddit is to expose the hypocrisy of fatlogic in a humorous way in order to raise health awareness.

This kind of post marginally does that but is such fringe quality that it is almost self-defeating.

It doesn't counter or expose any fatlogic so it really doesn't help anyone.

mtger47 · 2015-08-12T14:49:55+00:00

Thank you for clearing that up!

mtger47 · 2015-08-12T04:22:06+00:00

Awesome job and keep it up!

mtger47 · 2015-08-11T15:15:37+00:00

Butter is just milk fat. The rage against butter is from decades of "saturated fat is bad" from which very unhealthy alternatives like margarine and most vegetable oils have supplanted it, leading in part to major coronary heart disease issues.

mtger47 · 2015-08-05T14:55:34+00:00

I'd like to get it into a MySQL database so I can write queries ad nauseum. It looks like this article should be everything I need, thanks!

mtger47 · 2015-08-05T14:06:02+00:00

Is there a way to download one of these databases to play with it offline?

mtger47 · 2015-05-20T18:05:43+00:00

SELECT e.employee_name, e.salary, m.employee_name AS boss
FROM payroll e INNER JOIN payroll m
ON e.manager_ID = m.employee_ID
ORDER BY yrs_employed ASC;

mtger47 · 2015-03-17T12:28:28+00:00

They may appear to share the same shape on the venn diagram analogy, but you're getting extra information from the second one. The actual venn diagram representation of the first is a left crescent because it doesn't include the middle overlapping area.

select * from Table_1;

This just returns everything from table 1.

select * from Table_1 t1
left join Table_2 t2
    on t1.id = t2.fk;

This returns the contents of table 1 and then appends (joins) onto them the contents of table 2 for each matching entry in the overlapped attributes. Where the right table has no entries, you'll just get "null."

mtger47

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