Grumpy Old Man
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@siam said in Grumpy Old Man:
@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:
@kiwiwomble said in Grumpy Old Man:
@nostrildamus ...i want to hear that story now
To cut a long story short, there are very educated Americans out there that don't realize there exists different spelling in the UK to America (let alone the colonies).
Ummm....umm...realise?
As I pointed out above you can write realize in the UK. Progress. The grumpy kind of progress.
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@bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@crazy-horse I refer to it as "oncoming traffic" usually, although occasionally "the opposition".
Motorcyclists call them "car drivers".
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@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
I often find that people struggle to know/understand the word "triple". It's quite eye opening.
Like when asking for a "couple" of things.
"How many?"
Two!!! You fucking moran
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@victor-meldrew who needs a lane?
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@bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@victor-meldrew who needs a lane?
Not some of the pricks driving in Cornwall for the first time,, that's for sure.
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@victor-meldrew I've seen the movies, just drop a gear and twist your wrist and you can wheelie over them.
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@bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@victor-meldrew I've seen the movies, just drop a gear and twist your wrist and you can wheelie over them.
Fuck that. Might lose my hat.
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@kiwiwomble said in Grumpy Old Man:
im going to start giving a trigger warning before i give out my number from now on, just to be safe
edit: have to add i love how no one can argue there needs to be some cadence to how you give your number...but lets still all have a friendly pile on about HOW its done
Chunking. It's a memory enhancement technique but most people do it unconsciously to some extent when faced with strings of numbers. If you give it rhythm you actually hear the numbers in your head and it assists recall. Except for @bones , he just starts dancing inappropriately.
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Started watching BBC's "Round the World in 80 Days". So my rage is directed at smart-arse TV producers who take a classic novel and fuck it up by "making it more relevant".
There's a reason the book has lasted 150 years, you morons - it's a great story and doesn't need re-inventing by some toss-pot "moderniser"
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@victor-meldrew ah Phileas Fogg chips. Introduced adult snacks to the world in the 1980's.
I assume they've also been bastardised beyond recognition.
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@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
@victor-meldrew ah Phileas Fogg chips. Introduced adult snacks to the world in the 1980's.
I assume they've also been bastardised beyond recognition.
"Between the late 1980s and early 1990s, Phileas Fogg Snacks achieved a turnover of more than £30 million. It was subsequently purchased for £24 million by United Biscuits. The four founders left after the sale while United Biscuits made significant changes to the packaging and identity, precipitating a decline in popularity." Wikipedia
Looks like the bastards have moved into making TV shows.
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Random work grumpy today: annoying fucker copies me in on an email where he's asking the vendor why his database query doesn't work.
Rather than provide the text of the query for quick troubleshooting, the silly fluffybunny takes a screenshot of the query.
ffs...
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@nta said in Grumpy Old Man:
Random work grumpy today: annoying fucker copies me in on an email where he's asking the vendor why his database query doesn't work.
Rather than provide the text of the query for quick troubleshooting, the silly fluffybunny takes a screenshot of the query.
ffs...
Ha... I don't know if I've already shared this little gem.
I take over control of a group of people. Supposedly "technical" people - experts in databases. And our particular team - specialising in the performance of databases.
I give one chap the task of collating certain metrics.
He asks me "In what form should I collect these? Word document, Confluence page, or what?".
I politely suggest "Well... we're going to be wanting to do analysis against the numbers involved, maybe create some charts and shit to show patterns... so the simplest method at this point is probably Excel." (This is EXTREMELY early days - obviously any advanced collections would be going into my glorious RDBMS.)
A week later, I get his first draft for review.
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<spoiler>
It has fucking screenshots... JPEGs - inserted into Excel worksheets.
I shit you not.
I fucking shit... you... not.That was probably the highlight. The SQL queries he'd collected from google searches made for some light entertainment also.
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@nta said in Grumpy Old Man:
@kruse every time I think I'm not up to it, stories and people like you describe makes me realise that 20+ years doing this makes me pretty fucking good at it
Yeah, I occasionally fall prey to the "Feel like I'm a fraud" Syndrome... but then I come across the real frauds... and remind myself... "I may not be going home, sitting at a fucking machine in my free time practicing and writing books about it... but I'm still better than 90% of the fluffybunnies out there. 99%".
Still... I'm constantly reminded it's a pretty low goddamn bar. -
@kruse a decade ago my company let go all the SQL dedicated staff they had. Now we get bad outcomes in database design, system architecture, and platform management.
Some of the queries I've seen in our primary Oracle platform has subqueried case statements - would make you weep. And I don't even have Oracle in my history.
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@nta said in Grumpy Old Man:
@kruse a decade ago my company let go all the SQL dedicated staff they had. Now we get bad outcomes in database design, system architecture, and platform management.
Some of the queries I've seen in our primary Oracle platform has subqueried case statements - would make you weep. And I don't even have Oracle in my history.
Ah... I probably shouldn't admit this, but I'm Oracle. Very much so currently, when caught out in NZ by this virus-thing, I was pretty much forced into taking a permanent role for the Big Bad Red O themselves.
Typically, it's not the SQL written by dumb-fluffybunnies themselves which cause the biggest headaches.
It's that fluffybunnies have become SOOOO dumb - that they've resorted to "tools" which write SQL for them... drag a few lines between the pretty pictures on one's screen, choose some drop-down filters, and voila! A fucking shit piece of SQL which is going to perform horrendously and then make the dummies complain about database performance.Fuck you Hibernate. And a smaller Fuck You to developers who create "database-agnostic code" ( (and slightly unwarranted, it's an admirable idea, just sucks in practice) ). Or in more truthful terms - developers who develop code on MS-SQL, then migrate it to Oracle, ignoring all the features Oracle has, creating massive bottlenecks with their shitty home-built "sys_sequence" and "sys_trigger" and shit, and then complain about performance.
