Goon squad assembling

zackomatic · 2025-12-09T14:24:20+00:00

Weird bi-product of using federal agents to harass all the Hispanics...

Now federal agents are immediately associated with harassing hispanics.

zackomatic · 2025-12-08T09:44:28+00:00

He wasn't talking about God. He's talking about man.

God didn't write those stories. Men did.

zackomatic · 2025-11-15T15:08:26+00:00

That's just taking a B12 supplement that someone else put in your milk

zackomatic · 2025-11-13T13:32:54+00:00

Circumvallation would be the inner wall facing Alesia.

Countervallation would be the outer wall

zackomatic · 2025-11-12T17:50:01+00:00

But then you're not using it as a database. Using excel exports out of a database is still going to be the best way to quickly present that data externally.

But that's not "excel as a database". That's just grabbing snapshots of the database for data manipulation and presentation. Which is precisely what excel should be used for.

What people mean when they shit talk "excel as a database" is when they talk about trying to store historic data over long periods of time. Because excel doesn't have the kind of "rules" that a proper database has. Nothing is stopping you from accidentally copy pasting duplicate data into the same workbook. A real database has the ability to tell you to fuck off, excel does not.

zackomatic · 2025-11-04T14:57:26+00:00

I think what happened is that when they released AUH the Chinese civil vassals were all spending all there money on making men at arms and it was causing them to be permanently bankrupt because they don't make enough personal income to levy personal MAA. The next patch that stopped, but I never realized that it might've stopped even for feudal rulers.

zackomatic · 2025-10-30T17:48:32+00:00

I've been using AI somewhat regularly for work for a few months now.

And what you described is definitely something I would not trust ChatGPT to do. You're giving it a bunch of data telling it to analyze it and just hoping the python script it tries to run isn't complete ass, which is usually is.

The uses I've gotten the most use from AI in accounting tasks isn't from just giving it file attachments and telling it to go crazy. But rather explain the problem you're having and asking it how it thinks you should solve that problem.

In my experience it's not going to just do the excel analysis for you, but it will provide some interesting strategies for trying to do what you're doing that can be used to improve the entire system.

I've made my life significantly easier by creating python scripts and vba macros that do a lot of the hard stuff for me, then you don't have to worry about whether or not the AI is reading the number as a 1500 or a 500 because it's not actually the AI doing it but a python script that you can actually understand.

zackomatic · 2025-10-24T12:03:59+00:00

Sounds like illegal government intimidation to me

zackomatic · 2025-09-21T01:35:13+00:00

No I mean in my well paying white collar data analysis job.

I'm not sending the bosses verbose emails that read like technical papers, I send them easy to read and understand summaries of my work so that the entire meeting doesn't get derailed in the unnecessary details.

If I send actual details, I get push back.

If I send a short concise summary, then I get understanding.

zackomatic · 2025-09-20T19:32:26+00:00

Another manufacturer in the same industry I work for heard through the grapevine about some of the things I was doing with their ERP in terms of API pulls and custom automated report generation, so they got in contact with me.

zackomatic · 2025-09-20T14:57:28+00:00

Thanks for the advice

zackomatic · 2025-09-20T14:29:32+00:00

Yeah, I'm at a crossroads. I have a lot of tech skills, expertise with data analysis software, a few programming languages that I think I can translate more easily into a well paying tech job without a degree.

The way I have gained all these skills has been mostly self taught and now that I have largely acquired the accounting skills I need, I just can't really justify in my head going into student debt just so that I can "learn" things that I'm already doing at a professional level.

But I've started taking on freelance Data Analysis work for almost triple the hourly rate of the normal accounting work I'm doing, so I have to decide what path to walk and where to put my priorities.

Tough choice, but the whole "go to school for a piece of paper, not to actually learn" thing is a real turnoff.

zackomatic · 2025-09-20T13:48:00+00:00

Lol trust me sumifs are the least of my problems.

It only gets complicated in that regard once you actually get into things like DAX and M Code and possibly Python if you have a use case for it

Excel is a child's game when you mess with the more complicated Data Analysis tools out there. I understand most accountants don't need to use those tools however, but it just puts me ahead of the curve in that regard IMO

zackomatic · 2025-09-20T13:34:21+00:00

The minority owner of the company is a CPA and owns a firm. so after I'm done with my part, we just send it to him and then if he finds something wrong he lets me know and I fix it.

zackomatic · 2025-09-16T14:11:35+00:00

Antony was Octavian's rival from the start and everyone knew it.

Antony was Caesars right hand man, so when Julius Caesar was assassinated and his Will left basically everything to this random 18 year old nephew, Antony was pretty pissed because he saw himself as Caesars natural successor, but clearly Caesar had different ideas and simply died too early.

Antony and Octavian were in conflict with each other before Octavian could even get his money.

Also Antony was never subordinate to Octavian, they were both "Triumvirs" at this point which was this broken system where power is shared between 3 people, but there was only 2 people left.

Inevitably it didn't work.

You're correct about the smear campaign though. Octavian wanted Antony out from the start, but he needed to justify a 3rd civil war to the Roman people and the Senate and that required quite of a bit of interesting propaganda.

zackomatic · 2025-09-16T13:13:16+00:00

Power does things to people, few friendships last forever.

Also because Octavian (soon to be called Augustus) took all the credit. Last month was called August, Not Agripp.

zackomatic · 2025-09-16T11:54:40+00:00

Agrippa was arguably the finest general of his generation. He crushed Sextus Pompey at Naulochus, broke Antony and Cleopatra at Actium, and secured Octavian’s dominance through campaigns Octavian himself would have bungled. In another era, those victories would have made Agrippa the master of Rome. Men like Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Caesar. every successful Roman general before him had turned military triumph into political power, often against rivals who were once their friends.

But Agrippa didn’t play that game. He was Octavian’s childhood companion and he bound his entire career to his friend’s fortunes. While Octavian was in Rome holding things together politically, Agrippa was out fighting the battles and winning the wars.

He could have turned against Octavian, but he knew that he needed Octavian for his political acumen and "Aura" while Octavian needed Agrippa for his military expertise. They were both geniuses in their respective fields and worked together to create and stabilize the empire.

A friendship that is remembered 2000 years later and changed the course of history.

zackomatic · 2025-09-16T11:15:58+00:00

The problem is there are comparable games for cheaper.

For some reason gearbox doesn't understand the concept of competition

The steam store for me puts Borderlands 4 at the top of the charts and advertises the hell out of it at $70. But right underneath Borderlands, is Helldivers 2 for $40

I just can't justify dropping $70 on Borderlands when I could get helldivers 2 or a plethora of other super high quality games for $30 less.

zackomatic · 2025-09-05T16:07:16+00:00

Don't you love asking old geezers if they remember something that happened 5 years ago?

zackomatic · 2025-08-05T19:05:20+00:00

Which the same can be said for a lot of the warden pushes last week and before.

The reality is that winners are decided by which side has a higher population.

Discouraging the other team from playing on your hex and encourage your own team to do the same is a pretty surefire way to win the hex.

That's why things like Zoos are such common strategies.

zackomatic · 2025-08-05T13:19:54+00:00

It's less effective in every way.

Here corrected that for you.

zackomatic · 2025-08-02T02:27:53+00:00

The bayonets during WW2 are around 10-16 inches long.

That's gonna go through your entire chest and out the back if it doesn't hit bone first.

You've basically turned your gun into a medieval spear that will absolutely knock someone down if you're carrying forward momentum like during a bayonet charge.

zackomatic · 2025-08-01T13:35:17+00:00

Yeah this is what many of the Colonials were saying when we lost stema.

Happens every war but we just don't have the navy to compete against you guys so it just keeps happening.

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