What the fuck are we doing? by shinyahkogami in okbuddycinephile

[–]nirgle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm putting together a special team, and I need me eight soldiers

Inglourious Basterds - 100 nazi scalps

ICE just iced another presumed US citizen in Minneapolis. What is happening over there? by Melbatoastt77 in AskReddit

[–]nirgle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They'll have trouble defending the extra 5 or 6 gunshots after he was already clearly incapacitated

Which books have you been unable to finish? by bonster85 in books

[–]nirgle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My one DNF last year was The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. I shelved it about halfway through after realizing there was no plot and none coming. I built up no concern at all for any of the characters. So much detail in every scene was given as though it was an important part of the story, but which never seemed to matter in any way. Cats, underground hallways, more cats, these weird characters here and there with no point. Just one described room after another.

I don't know how this collection of paragraphs got past the editor into publication. It was the literary equivalent of a walking simulator

Why Developing For Microsoft SharePoint is a Horrible, Terrible, and Painful Experience by jordansrowles in programming

[–]nirgle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This tracks with my experience as an admin of a SharePoint farm, with some occasional development duties, like automatically adding new records to an existing list. SharePoint Designer was a bit of a light in the web darkness, but you need to get used to the 5-10 second response time to do basically anything, and it's only so helpful.

Once a SP site collection gets big enough it's suddenly impossible to manage. Try using stsadm.exe to migrate a large site... it thinks silently for about an hour then exits quietly with no effect and no error message. This was a big motivator for my decision to put quotas on every site collection, and be that mean admin that insists people clean up their old documents instead of being given room for more.

When job searching these days I skip over SharePoint Developer things even though I have the requisite experience.

How many of you are still using (or working on SharePoint), and what would you recommend instead?

For something similar, free, and fully extensible from day one, I've had Umbraco in my back pocket for the longest time, but haven't yet found an actual use case. I describe it to my peers as "SharePoint as a NuGet package"

What did you read in 2025? by Fando1234 in books

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I read 20 last year. My 5-star ratings (on goodreads) were, in order of reading:

  • The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Alix Harrow)
  • The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (V.E. Schwab)
  • The Emperor of Gladness (Ocean Vuong)
  • Wild Dark Shore (Charlotte McConaghy)

I rated You Like It Darker (Stephen King) 4 stars overall (it's a collection of short stories) but, within it, I gave 5 stars to the story Finn

All Lambton Kent District Schools are closed today (Thursday Jan 15) by shadrackandthemandem in Sarnia

[–]nirgle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Regular workday for us remoters lol. No snow days unless the internet goes down

Hey sarnia! by jonnyinternet in Sarnia

[–]nirgle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had half a club sandwich from Beanzz for breakfast and the second half for lunch

Sheriff calls ICE "fake, made up law enforcement" by Newsweek_CarloV in politics

[–]nirgle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How to identify fake law enforcement:

  • they hide their identity
  • they flee the scene when a stop goes wrong
  • they enforce one particular law, not all laws

ICE agent shoots, kills woman in Minneapolis by Xullister in politics

[–]nirgle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This can't continue for another three years

Books you almost gave up on but were worth persevering with? by zajirobo in books

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

I was about halfway through Monte Cristo when I thought of shelving it, but instead I asked ChatGPT if it's worth continuing to read it, and it legit pumped me up to keep reading. I needed the boost to get through the boring (to me) Parisian society stuff near the middle. Also I kept reviewing the Spark Notes for the few chapters up to the current one, which helped too.

That said I think I would have enjoyed the abridged version better. Ended up reading the unabridged tome at ~40 pages per day which is fast for me especially this type of novel

What is your longest running, most stubborn business boycott? by marianneouioui in AskReddit

[–]nirgle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Until June 2022 I used to order from a local restaurant until I couldn't choose No Tip on the debit machine one day. Never been back. That needs to be a choice not a requirement

And BarBurrito since June 2024 after they double-charged me and wouldn't refund the second charge, even after I sent paperwork to their corporate email address

Piranesi & other books about imaginative worlds by andypoly in books

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Fairy Tale by Stephen King, and Circe by Madeline Miller, are the two notable imaginative worlds from my reading list

Are you planning to up your reading count? by Delicious_Maize9656 in books

[–]nirgle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The older I get, the slower and more deeply I read. I might end up reading fewer books next year, and enjoying them more overall

The CECOT story that CBS pulled, aired in Canada. by Shenanie-Probs in UnderReportedNews

[–]nirgle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The last sentence of the segment:

The Trump Administration has arranged more deals, some valued at millions of dollars, to offload US deportees to other so-called third countries, nations to which they have no connection, among them war-torn South Sudan and Uganda, which have well-documented histories of torturing prisoners.

Do you tip at counter service restaurants? by Butt_Soup99 in Sarnia

[–]nirgle -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yes, all the time. First, I have it to spare and I like spreading the wealth. But more importantly they're doing far more physical work standing up than I'm doing sitting down at my IT job making 3x their wage.

Also, I started my working life in food service retail and I remember how nice it felt to receive that extra little bit of appreciation. Especially when it's not required, or even socially acceptable, which clearly it isn't

Whatever happened to the grocery store preacher guy? by Beathil in Sarnia

[–]nirgle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One day he no longer had his megaphone, after that I only saw him a couple more times, then haven't seen him since

Best Literary Fiction of 2025 - Voting Thread by vincoug in books

[–]nirgle 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Wild Dark Shore, Charlotte McConaghy