CosmicTurtle

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CosmicTurtle,

I work for a Fortune 500 company and I can tell you the reason why excel (and Google sheets) are used inappropriately is because cyber data controls make creating and maintaining a database very hard. Not only that but the skills required to know how to make a table in a spreadsheet is nowhere near the skills required to deploy, maintain, and provision a database table.

Spreadsheets don’t require a UI to be built. People don’t have to learn a new app just to be able to see data.

I’m an IT guy too and I’m the first to tell you that spreadsheets suck. But when it takes an act of a board to create new tables in a database, I tell ya…might as well just use spreadsheets.

CosmicTurtle,

There is a number between 1 and probably 20 where the punishment for the number of people you kill doesn’t really make a difference.

CosmicTurtle,

It took me…I’d say 2 years from being a full conservative to a left-leaning independent. And then another 2 years to being a moderate to progressive liberal.

It does happen. But some people are so rooted in their political identity that they will never change.

CosmicTurtle,

I’m not 100% convinced that buying in bulk at Costco saves significant amount of money. At least on staples anyway.

The best deals I’ve gotten at Costco were electronics. But things like chicken thighs ($1.39 / lbs at Costco vs $1.49 / lbs at the local grocery store)…I don’t think it’s worth the price.

I bought soap there for $2 or so less than at Walmart. I’m sure it all adds up but between the shitty parking and long lines, I’ve been debating giving up my Costco membership.

CosmicTurtle,

I saw the Jaden Smith film and it’s…okay. But yeah…it’s not karate. It’s kung fu. They even say that in the movie.

Yet they still called it The Karate Kid.

CosmicTurtle,

You’re missing a huge part of the reason why the term ‘tebibytes’ even exists.

Back in the 90s, when USB sticks were just coming out, a megabyte was still 1024 kilobytes. Companies saw the market get saturated with drives but they were still expensive and we hadn’t fully figured out how to miniaturize them.

So some CEO got the bright idea of changing the definition of a “megabyte” to mean 1000. That way they could say that their drive had more megabytes than their competitors. “It’s just 24 kilobytes. Who’s going to notice?”

Nerds.

They stormed various boards to complain but because the average user didn’t care, sales went through the roof and soon the entire storage industry changed. Shortly after that, they started cutting costs to actually make smaller sized drives but calling them by their original size, ie. 64MB* (64 MB is 64000).

The people who actually cared had to invent the term “mebibyte” purely because of some CEO wanting to make money. And today we have a standard that only serves to confuse people who actually care that their 2TB is actually 2048 GiB or 1.8 TiB.

CosmicTurtle,

Ngl, love the misdirect of using lemmynsfw.com url.

CosmicTurtle,

I literally just saw this episode. God I love this community.

CosmicTurtle,

I don’t think it’s the sludge one. I remember he made something that the captain liked…I’m going to have to rewatch the series again to find it.

CosmicTurtle,

I’m trying to remember and too lazy to rewatch or look it up.

Didn’t Neelix make a coffee substitute that was as good? It was when they were trying to save on replicator rations.

CosmicTurtle,

Ah…the days when perl was the shit and python was still a glimmer in the eye of some frustrated programmer.

CosmicTurtle,

Yahoo news is notorious for this. It’s like an ad after every paragraph and every paragraph is just one sentence.

CosmicTurtle,

I’ve blocked L4sbot and lemmy is substantially better.

CosmicTurtle,

This show has easter eggs on top of Easter eggs. Jeffery Colms, one of the most prolific guest stars who has played a ton of different characters, being the AI robot that wants to take over planets and then a few episodes later, Rutherford saying that Nick Locarno looks like Tom Paris.

I have Lemmy to thank for helping me find this show.

CosmicTurtle, (edited )

IR blaster was the shit. Back then, there was an app called beep and go (I think) that held the barcodes for your loyalty cards. For someone that collected them like baseball cards, it was really handy.

Anyway, Samsung actually had the ability to transmit the barcode via the IR blaster which some scanners could read if they couldn’t read the barcode on the phone.

It was awesome!

I agree that the heart rate monitor was a bit of a gimmick though.

CosmicTurtle,

Are you sure the hardware is still there? I only ask because given the number of hackers out there, I’m surprised someone hasn’t come out with a patch or something to make it more ubiquitous.

CosmicTurtle,

So you’re saying all my skin tags are just puffer fish thorns?!

Amazing…

CosmicTurtle,

Damn…I’m trying to modernize my personal app’s UI and I thought react was the shit. What is the recommended framework now?

CosmicTurtle,

Lock picking lawyer.

Used to be a channel about how locks works, how lock picking works, cool locks and shitty locks.

Now it’s just a channel to sell his tools.

CosmicTurtle,

But didn’t she recruit Tom Paris? Or did she just “restore” his rank of Lt? If she had the authority to restore a criminal’s rank, surely she would have had the authority to recruit, either way.

CosmicTurtle,

Ah I think you’re right. I think she says that at the prison colony, that he’ll be free to do whatever he wants in exchange for guiding them through the badlands.

CosmicTurtle,

Doesn’t Plex require you to buy their premium service in order to use it on mobile devices?

I remember setting up my Plex server and was shocked that I had to pay to view my own media.

CosmicTurtle,

Depends but usually because the road itself is not wide enough or you don’t want to impede traffic.

The last time I did this it was on a road with culverts on either side so the safest way to U Turn was in someone’s driveway.

CosmicTurtle,

lemmynsfw.com is growing pretty quick, though the number of reposts is pretty high.

CosmicTurtle,

Probably the most elaborate Rick roll I’ve ever received.

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