Yeah, this is what I end up doing. SQL does all the heavy lifting, and python or M usually doing the rest. Though M can be soooo slow.

God, I’m so over SQL.

It’s great, but it is so old and shows it. Feels like 99% of my SQL queries are just cheese.

Works though, and quick.

Friend’s colleague needed Excel to, “return the month where the majority of days in the week fall into”. Had Copilot do it and sent it to my friend, apparently impressed by making such a robust looking formula.

The formula:

My friend’s solution a minute later:

I can see it could be slimmed even less, but I assume the table is large so LET is doing performance stuff.

Satisfaction.

…why would a professional whatever make a remark for technology doing their job for them and making their career redundant?

Farmer, coder, driver, whatever. “I can’t wait for the bots to do this” is not a common muttering. Except maybe if in the c-suite…

This is another fine example of where assumptions get you no where on the internet. My job isn’t coding but it requires knowing to do it well. If I exit the job market, as per your request, I cannot be replaced by a coder. Believe it or not, most jobs that require a coding skillset are not about coding. Crazy, right? 😲

God, I’m so sick of coding. Please. Bring it.

As of right now though? 5-6 years fie the basics

I dunno. I view my dogs as companions. Yeah, they need me to look after.them like they’re children, but I need them to take care of me in the wilderness, protect the house, cheer me up, entertain guests, tow me on the longboard.

There’s no association with them and a human child for me. If anything dog ownership has shifted my mentality into the symbiotic relationship of a pack. I think being stuck thinking of them as children would make for some very miserable times and bad behaviour from both the owner and the dog.

I have the confidence level turned down too but lately it doubles down on itself.

The usual conversation…

VI: “You could do this.”
Me: “That won’t work because XYZ.”
VI: “No, you can definitely do that. XYZ has nothing to do with it.”
Me: pastes it’s own suggestion in.
VI: “Almost, but that won’t work because of XYZ.”

It’s most notorious one is adding an s to Table.AddColumn() then proceeding to make a full snippet around this newly made up function. This specific example is so regular it’s become a joke at work for giving someone an unhelp response,

“What do you want to do for lunch today?”

“Have you tried table add columns?”

Especially when the worst that could happen is nothing which is exactly what’s going to happen if OP says no. Literally can’t go backwards no matter what, but it’s possible they could go forward.

Well…unless something psycho happens, I guess. Then OP will suffer greatly, go very backward, traumatised for life etc. etc. etc…

Nah, they’ll be fiiiine.

Kennedy is generally opposed to vaccines, but he is particularly hostile to mRNA-based vaccines

I reckon the mistake was calling them mRNA vaccines. Yes, that’s what they are, but RNA sounds scawy and vaccines cause autism and homosexuality, so something with some razz to it would be the right call…

“What’s going on here?! Is that an RNA experiment?”

“Umm. It’s a-… Um … Elixir.”

“Oh, I see. And how does it work?”

"…universe stuff. It’s complicated, sir. Sugar, nitrogen, phosphate… "

"Indeed. I’ve seen those on a cereal boxes before, and nitrogen is from that racing movie with the pretty women. What’s it do?

“It’s for…um…mosquito bites. Also a good degreaser. Jenkins has it in his head it cures viruses too, ha. We’d obviously have to test first.”

“I like that Jenkins. Which viruses?”

" The annoying ones."

“What about viruses that put thoughts about a person’s daughter in their head all the time?”

“…Sure.”

rolls up sleeves “Give it to me. Right above the lamprey hickey there’s a good vein. You’re doing good work here, son. We’ll up the budget to get this Elixir of the Universe out to the shamans.”

That’s true…

Dick Tracy then!

Technically Tintin…? 🤣

A character doesn’t need superpowers to be interesting. People can enjoy the Punisher despite him being “just a guy who shoots people with a gun” in the same way people enjoy “John Wick”, Judge Dredd, “Taken”, Jason Bourne, “Die Hard”, or any movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

How did you get through all of that without pointing out Batman?

And the hippie mums dig it.

My first thought is its not the microwave unless they’re multitasking TV dinners and League of Legends a few times each evening.

I just got this hunch it’s something like clogged channels or something, but OP thinks a microwave just sitting there is the issue. But that seems just as unusual.

I think they mean to write the word “wheel” into surface rust.

They usually don’t block progress, they just influence the rate or level of it, generally concerned off too much or too quick.

Those are the exact same thing.

points to pile of bricks on the ground

“Damn. That solid wall has stopped any further progress.”

In the rest of the western world, centrist US Democrats are definitely moderate-right.

Generally, centrists look at holding a degree of conservatism with the idea that ultimately progressing is a very good thing at the end of the day. They usually don’t block progress, they just influence the rate or level of it, generally concerned of too much or too quick.

US centrists are definitely not this. Many US leftists are not this. The US Democratic Party is seen as light to moderate right-wing. The Republican being (one of) the most extreme right-wing in the developed world.

Edit: Oh my. The thumbs get a bit large on the phone’s soft keys after some wines.

I’d like to add, genuine centrists should get the praise they deserve at times. They are the most level-headed and least selfish in their intent—again “genuine centrists” not the common US variety.

However, they are not the people you want in charge of getting out of situations that require immediate action. They’re like the “We should split up to cover more ground” person in horror films. While other times being the “We should split up to flank them” person when other fools want to rush in. They’re typically not someone you want to be, but at times they’re someone you’re glad was there. They’re the most likely to be in a “I told you so” position to lefts and rights. Smarmy twats…

It’s hard to imagine, but the world would be so much more divided and chaotic without them. Just be wary of anyone that claims to be a centrist but clearly isn’t. It is often used fallaciously.

Edit Edit: Having said that, I say this from a position people would say is left-centrist. In the US I would be considered moderate-left to “a spineless limp-wristed hippie socialist” depending on who you asked. But I’m entirely opposed to the concept of a two-dimensional spectrum when it comes to political and social views. It’s so basic and outdated. People that conform to that ideaoogy are literally simpletons. It’s just easy to use for a fly-by situation report before getting into the actual details. As such, centrism is more “misc” than it is grey.

Some pure transparency of my opinions for y’all. Refreshing, ain’t it?

The statement is not true, it’s just a competition no one else wants to be a part of.

You’re right. Could literally design anything and people that know nothing about any of it could figure it out quickly. But instead, a salad of sex preferences, gender, race, kink, specific US cities, all appearing to be under the Intersex insignia.

It’s always seemed so bad to me that it’s more likely to be done by an anti-woke troll or someone like Michael Scott discovering Pride Month.

It’s just offensive. Obviously to the eyes, but also to any group being shoved together within its borders.