MelodiousFunk

Because interest rates are insane trapping people in homes they no longer want but can’t afford to leave?

I’m in this comment and I don’t like it.

Me before reading the article: It’s got to be dates. Excel thinks everything is a date.

Me after reading the article: Even the workaround is halfhearted. Jeebus.

iT rEgUlAtEs ItSeLf

Plot twist: it’s the neighbor’s baby in a newly constructed “luxury” apartment complex with paper thin walls. OP is just a really empathetic and patient person, and does not begrudge the neighbor.

Who educated them?

I think the most common answer for this topic would be, “No one, really.” Except maybe energy marketing/ads. You know, the folks that brought us “clean coal” and “fracking is totally safe and will definitely not bork your groundwater.”

A perfect example is this guy from my last job. Thought himself a leader. Thought himself knowledgeable. Always had an answer, regardless of actual facts. Alternated between barking out orders and lamenting on how he had to do everything himself. Constantly getting schooled by people who actually knew the subject matter. Those who had been around just kinda put up with his BS because he filled a position that nobody else wanted.

Enter new management, who was very impressed with his authoritative tone, apparent breadth of knowledge, and willingness to lick boot. Suddenly management is bypassing dude’s bosses to go straight to the horse’s mouth and get the straight dope (which often involved taking credit for other people’s work and bus-chucking whoever was handy). All because someone who barely knew what he was talking about spoke confidently to people that had no idea what was going on.

Cello, because cellos sound freakin awesome.

American here. My ISP blackholes certain sites at the DNS level. Easy enough to work around, but it’s there.

Netflix, what are you trying to do? I can’t cancel my subscription in protest if it’s still cancelled from the last time you did something boneheaded.

hack … through solarwinds

I’m almost afraid to ask, but was there another breach? SW was my bread and butter for awhile but I’ve been out of that scene for a year or so.

Kbin doesn’t display federated downvotes (if it even pulls them). Any downvotes you see on kbin came from kbin.

I know just enough Spanish to be throughly confused about how any of that is related to “science funding.”

“A HA! We knew it!”

Fund the IRS

You can’t fund the IRS. The IRS is a government agency. And those are awful. Watch, I’ll prove it:

starves agency of funds for years

See? They suck. They can barely function. Time to make more cuts in the name of fiscal responsibility!

see also: EPA, USPS, ED, HHS, DOT, DOL, FCC, FTC, etc.

I can’t think of a time in like 20 years that they actually had the thing that I went there to buy.

Like a few folks have mentioned, I bought my last two TVs there. If it sucks or it’s a bad panel or I just don’t like it, I just box it up and take it back to the store. No wondering if it’ll get damaged in shipment or ganked off the porch (or take a day off and hope it’s delivered when it’s supposed to be).

They’re also really good with getting in amiibo, but that’s a super niche thing.

Til all are one.

Saturday the 14th

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. It brings me back. I can smell the independent movie rental place, the one with the low ceilings and the wall of NES games. Simpler times.

Lawnmower Man (read the book first, then watch the movie, then go WTF did I just watch)

I’m not sure that one gets back around to being good. Nailed the WTF part though. As a corollary, you can do the same with The Mangler. I saw the movie first, thought it was unremarkable. Then I saw it in one of the King short story compilations and was curious to see what they changed. It’s even shorter than Lawnmower Man, like two pages. And they made it into a whole damn movie.

Look Who’s Talking Now

…wait what

they are sprawling complexes built smack dab in the middle of the suburbs with NO amenities or public transport within walking distance.

One of these behemoths went up near me, after a nightmarish yuppie shopping center had already been established. (It’s “walkable” but also “drivable” and doing either makes you feel like you’re going to get aquatinted with the other against the will of all involved. But yay amenities?) The only way in or out is via one moderately trafficked road and one extremely congested highway. But hark! A train station! Within walking distance! Except the train station was built decades ago and only designed to be accessed from the other side of the tracks. It’s all fenced off. The only way to get to the train station is by driving a quarter mile through the shopping center to the highway, getting on the highway for a quarter mile, going into the shopping center next door, and driving another quarter mile through that shopping center. Then you can park and wave at your neighbors. Theoretically you could walk or ride a bike… but there’s no pedestrian lanes on or along that highway.

It’s stunningly awful.

Indeed. In my case, I fought through managerial malaise and turned the entire process on its ear. But even after the approach proved its worth, they refused to put a dev resource on it. It became my problem 24/7.

Remember kids, being good at something outside of your job description means it’s now your job. If the boss refuses to compensate you for it, slap it on your resume and find someone who will.

I have seen critical enterprise applications run in VBA in excel.

I wrote one of them. It replaced periodically writing down application outputs on paper and sounding the alarm if something went pear-shaped. It wasn’t my job to develop software but I didn’t want hand cramps to be my job, either. I had vague ideas about how to do what I wanted to do with Excel so I poked at it and googled until it worked. More than a decade later, I’m no longer there but that freakin spreadsheet is still running 24/7, being proudly showed off during tours of the facility.

I will cackle if MS ever pulls the plug on VBA.