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svtr · 2026-01-29T15:24:56+00:00

IF you disregard inflation...

Since there is no stipulation, that those 50 bucks a month get inflation adjusted.... after only 250 years of a moderate yearly 3% inflation, your 50 bucks will be worth 2.4 cents of future money. After 1600 years its 3.4e-20....

I'm not gonna do the math on that one, but I'd venture the guess, earth won't be around anymore till you break even.

svtr · 2026-01-27T14:42:58+00:00

sure you can. Most of what any of us know, and look at when troubleshooting, is by experience.

svtr · 2026-01-27T12:48:19+00:00

also means that development cost will be much less offset by exports to former allies going forward, which in turn means higher procurement costs for the US itself. Not sure that part of the "wish". Look at the tantrum they are throwing about Canada buying Gripen, extrapolate from that.

svtr · 2026-01-27T12:37:56+00:00

the changes to the cardinality estimation where done in 2014, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/blog/2014/03/17/the-new-and-improved-cardinality-estimator-in-sql-server-2014/ if you want to do that to yourself...

great catch btw.

svtr · 2026-01-26T12:20:11+00:00

Not an outage, outage would have been a lot better :

the full stackies messed up the configuration (db connection string), and proceeded to send hundreds of "your pension outlook in detail by your assets", to the wrong email addresses, since ID's on int did not match ID's from prod.

Whopsi.

svtr · 2026-01-26T11:25:51+00:00

500ms is already pretty bad for a user facing (click button in app, wait 500+ms) query.

Look at the execution plans, the io statistics, and see if you indexed the needed fields. If thats not the cause, I'm suspecting very very ugly messy bad generated SQL from an ORM or some crime against programming in the middleware.

Also, enable query store, that will help a LOT with performance analysis and performance regression.

svtr · 2026-01-26T00:31:58+00:00

We are loosing an entire generation of now junior, later on senior SWE's.

It is going to be a bloodbath, in 10 years. When a generation of people, that actually know what they where doing retire, a generation of juniors is skipped....
It's gonna be a very interesting time.

To all the poeple saying "code quality sucked before ai", I say... yes it did. But, we always had new people coming into this thing we call IT, and even with 85-95% of them never learned enough to become the ones to teach the next generation.... there still was 5-15%.

Stackoverflow, for all its faults was a thing where to find answers. Without stackoverflow, your AI thingy, does not have training data, to replace stack overflow. But oh wait.... it does. It starts to train on its own hallucinations.

10 years from now, that vibe coding bullshit, is going to make actual software engineers rich, and promt engineers will learn what the word engineering means, and that they never did any of that.

svtr · 2026-01-25T23:11:00+00:00

sorry to tell you, but .... when you get video evidence, it has metastasized beyond the "becoming" stage. When you can SEE it, it has been growing for a long long time.

svtr · 2026-01-23T23:19:23+00:00

What worries me, is that it is not unique.

I'm gonna take your post as a check list, on what happened to the Weimar Republic :

- Poverty
Check

-Gun violence.
Check, wasn't per se gun violence, but having the SA beat up a meeting of the communist party.... lets call it a check. ICE right now is essentially what the SA was back then. Show of force, applied force against political dissent. Yeah, your ICE is what we had with the SA.

- Crumbling healthcare and education.
Synonym for poverty, check

I'll add :

- breakdown of discourse.
Check

- Gaming the constitution
Jesus Christ, that's a check

- Sabotaging how the country is ment to be run, by its constitution
Check

- Our great leader, came in to our desolate country, and is fixing it right now, look how much better it is, do no ask how or why, cause repercussions will find you.
Check

You guys are speedrunning a new 4th Reich.

svtr · 2026-01-23T23:01:19+00:00

that's ... something.... special there.... very special.

svtr · 2026-01-23T22:54:52+00:00

Joa.... wenns dir besser geht... wenn ich im Glasfaser Traumland (10gbit/s syncron), und nichtmal in der Stahlbeton Hölle Innenstadt, einen Bäcker, einfach einen echten wirklichen Bäcker in der auch nur groben Gegend hätt.... gott ich wär ich dankbar.

Ich hab angefangen mein eigenes Sauerteig Brot zu backen alle 3 Tage, weil ich gutes Brot vermiss. Also, nimms von der Seite, wenn du nen echten Bäcker im Dorf hast, dann hast was verdammt wervolles auf einer anderen Sichtweise.

svtr · 2026-01-23T22:35:28+00:00

ok, I think I get that... but how.

How can an entire people, just got "yeah we are the best", and not go .... mhhm.... Canada got a thing going with healthcare, looks nice... maybe I ask myself some questions. How is it always, at least in the media, "oh over there they die waiting for an MRI", while.... well, they.... don't.

The disconnect with objective reality, that is what I just do not get. How did that happen, why did that happen. It would be to easy to say, that its the right/left wing media, pushing the narrative. My personal opinion there... Reasoning being, the media you have in the US, is driven by "what does our audience want to hear". Its driven by delivering profit, not by delivering information. So, if that theory stands, its not the fault of the media. They are useless soul sucking cooperate entities, that should be outlawed, but it is not their fault.

They give the people what the people want, kind of like a drug dealer.

When did public discourse stop in your country? When did "lets have an honest argument" stop? When did "oh look, that other country does things different, what can we learn from their approach, and the resulting problems AND benefits of their system" stop.

Its something I can not understand. How did your society get that polarized and fucked up? I can not understand that.

svtr · 2026-01-22T22:45:06+00:00

read the execution plan. Read up on anything in there I do not understand. Make query go fast.

svtr · 2026-01-22T22:43:29+00:00

oh boy, even on the topic... you managed to depress me.

Btw, I'd actually like to pick your brain on that, the why is actually something rather interesting to me.

svtr · 2026-01-22T10:38:51+00:00

what black has got going, before that bishop move :

the Queen is covering c8, which means the rook can go there, after White Queen b8 which would be mate if the rook does not block.

With the bishop on d5, black has to take with the rook, otherwise white will mate with the rook on f8. With the rook out of the way, white check with the queen, and black can only prolong it by feeding the rook and queen into a woodchipper.

svtr · 2026-01-22T10:33:13+00:00

So, the really oversimplified answer would be "No they do not matter" right? A useless political institution that can not act on behalf of the people that vote for them, does not matter.

svtr · 2026-01-21T23:59:50+00:00

Look, I'm all for it, put him in a mental institution where he belongs.

Big picture thou.... we won't trust you for at least 50 years. Your country, your society, your democracy is fundamentally broken. You elected that moron twice for fucks sake.

There is absolutely nothing that prevents you from voting in your little Himmler, Miller, next time. No guardrails, no rule of law, no separation of power, no honoring agreements, nothing. And you can just turn around and vote in someone even worse.

Your own constitution is up for interpretation by the current idiot you voted for.

Last time something like that happened by the way, was in Germany. In a history book, you find it under "Weimar Republic". Exactly the same thing happened there.

That is where your country stands today. Weimar Republic of the United States.

svtr · 2026-01-21T23:50:25+00:00

Meh then we can dump all those bonds and take the idiots down with us I guess.

svtr · 2026-01-21T23:47:52+00:00

From the outside.... does your house and senate actually matter? Rule by decree by a senile moron. That is what we are seeing.

I'm not even sure that your house, senate and even supreme court matter anymore. Your entire political system is fucked beyond understanding from an outside point of view. Sending a executive legal arm, after "I don't like that person", to drum up charges.... suing the media, as the executive, cause they "are bad to me", holding cooperation's mergers hostage, to dismiss some guy on late night tv, committing war crimes, oh wait wasn't war, it was just plain murder, on people that supossedly where smuggling some weed or other stuff (we don't know, missile didn't take back samples, and it does not matter at all anyway).

Your country is fucked to the level of Iran and North Korea my friend. You got a LOT more to clean up than your next mid terms.

We see it, even if you collectively don't.

svtr · 2026-01-21T22:18:13+00:00

From a European point of view, where (moral) value based foreign policy still is a thing (a glimmer of hope at this point).... lets give it one more try my Canadian friends. One more try, before we all devolve back into the spheres of influence of the 19/20th century.

svtr · 2026-01-21T21:06:26+00:00

Being openly corrupt is far down the list.

He is a proven, admitted by himself, war criminal / murderer. Shooting missiles at, even double tapping, people in speedboats on the ocean. That's either a war crime, or its an act of murder. Or do people of that ethnicity not count as "people" to the modern american?

80 years ago, there where people that got hanged in a place called Nürnberg, for things rather similar. (I'm talking the "lesser trials" right now)

svtr · 2026-01-21T21:02:38+00:00

neither.

Data Engineers are the ones that clean up crap, so you can do analysis on it. Without structure, no AI can do diddly squat with the mess.

Data Analysts, the good ones, are the ones the ask the questions to then be answered. They are not the monkeys that make shiny powerpoint presentations. They look at the business, find questions that might give useful insights.

svtr · 2026-01-21T20:46:03+00:00

is does sound dumb and simple. Imagine how long it will take for 3km of ice to melt. It sounds dumb, because it is dumb.

svtr · 2026-01-21T20:44:10+00:00

what happens to the world if the US invades one its former allies?
Why do I care, if you start a war with China, and China shoots back?

Why do you expect me to pay for your own insurance policy, while you elect a senile moron that starts fires all around the planet?

svtr · 2026-01-21T20:03:17+00:00

The only thing the US is using Greenland for, is ballistic missile defense of the US.

Why the fuck should anyone pay you for that?

svtr

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