

Like the Cedars of Lebanon, long, long since logged out of existence.
Like the Cedars of Lebanon, long, long since logged out of existence.
No I think slurs are awful, but its just laughably easy to annoy a lot of tankies by pointing out fairly well-evidenced, uncontroversial facts, so its a bit of a hobby of mine.
Speaking of which, here’s another well-evidenced, uncontroversial fact:
The Pooh Bear meme originated in China, amongst Chinese netizens, criticizing Xi.
Oh, shit, fuck, I guess that makes me uh, a cultural appropriator, yeah, fuck, damn, I’m such a bad loser person, that attack angle will work!
I just view it as a pointless 50 year old squabble, it’s current name is SQL to me so S-Q-L it is, ig I didn’t have “old timers” to corrupt me during the formative years of my career though so maybe that’s why.
I mean hey, there ya go!
Regardless, my real beef in this is if someone makes hiring/firing/promotion decisions based on that. Like a fun office debate about it, cool, it’s whatever. Choosing not to hire or promote someone over something so petty is asinine IMO
Oh I completely, 1 million percent agree, and that kind of bullshit was a huge factor in why I left MSFT and went to work for other places, rofl!
Way, waaaaay too many coked up MBAs with tiny small dick syndrome, who compensate by developing a god complex and constantly shaming people over not knowing all the latest buzzwords, which they often themselves just literally heard for the first time in their previous meeting.
You said you doubt people under 50 collect on Social Security.
… Disabled people do.
Generally, SSDI is not really worth bringing up on if it is taxes or not…
Hey I mean yeah, sure, unless its your only source of income!
Not like I’ll become homeless and die within 3 to 6 months if taxes going toward SSDI suddenly get reclassified or rerouted or totally removed!
Not like that’s the case for about 6.3 million Americans under the age of 65 whose only income is SSDI!
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/stat_snapshot/
sigh
…and I’d personally argue that tying someone’s ability to live disabled to their previous work is needlessly cruel.
At least we agree on that.
Do you say hetips for HTTPS?
No, because there isn’t an easily pronouncable equivalent word that already exists in english.
The sequel thing didn’t even start naturally, it picked up this sequel moniker because of some ancient trademark beef in the 70s between the original devs when it was named “Sequel” and some company (That isn’t even in business anymore)
They renamed it SQL and out of protest against the company people continued to call it sequel even though it makes no sense and 50 damn years later here we are.
Yep, and I’ve worked with a bunch of old timers who were around when that happened, and picked up their pronunciation.
If it was originally called SQL and the above never happened, I guarantee it would just be another DNS or HTTP and many many pointless debates about it would have never happened.
I mean, I am not … debating in the sense of ‘my way is objectively correct and everyone ahould say it this way’.
Obviously I know what anyone means if they say S Q L and this does not bother me, I just am used to more commonly saying it as Sequel.
Though it is worth mentioning that… history did in fact happen, the original name was SEQUEL, for Structured English QUEry Language, and it had to be changed because a small aircraft company happened to already own the trademark for ‘SEQUEL’.
Disclaimer, this doesn’t apply to the MS product that is called sequel.
Ah, well perhaps that explains why I am so used to the Sequel pronunciation;
I used to work for MSFT, and a number of other Seattle area companies with siginifcant SQL database backends…
… and, given that Seattle was mainly known for Boeing before it was mainly known for Microsoft and Amazon and Starbucks, it does make sense that Seattle area old timers would get pissed over a rival, foreign aircraft company (Hawker Siddely, later merged into BAE) forcing a name change of the software they routinely use.
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EDIT: So basically, it actually was originally an acroynm, and then got forced to become an initialism, and most the people I’ve worked with and learned from remember when it just was a pronouncable acronym.
Nah.
Look at everyone attacking Mamdani, ethno fascists, techbros, liberals…
Its pretty much all ‘he is a big bad scary communist.’
He is of course not actually a communist, but even an actual socdem is so far to the left of the American Overton Window, the only vocab words that exist are ‘commie! socialist! which are the same thing, or something!’
Granted, the fact that Mamdani has significant public support means that there are more Americans who are more left-wing … but the actual Dem leadership, as with Bernie, cannot countenance losing their corpo megadonors, so they pull out the stops for anything left of … rainbow capitalism.
Hi, disabled under 50 yo person here, my only income is SSDI, Social Security Disability Insurance.
Don’t worry, us disabled folks are entirely used to our existence being entirely forgotten about.
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Oracle:
Only the best in B2B marketing for our shit software.
EDIT:
hah ok, round two, more directly playing on the actual company name:
Oracle:
We tell you what you think you want to hear.
After having suffered with T SQL at MSFT for a number of years… yep, PostGres is almost always the best for almost any enterprise setup, despite what most other corpos seem to think.
Usually their reasons for not using it boil down to:
We would rather pay exorbitant licescing fees of some kind, forever, than rework a few APIs.
Those few APIs already having a fully compatible rewrite, done by me, working in test, prior to that meeting.
Gotta love corpo logic.
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I’ve been working on and with sql dbs since… 2011?
Earlier than that if you don’t count professional work.
Always pronounced it Sequel, as has everyone I have worked with, at least of those who actually have some kind of software dev related role.
Its got two syllables.
Quicker and easier to say than three syllables.
The equivalent of losing (part of) a finger on each success/failure, instead of totally evacuating the contents of your skull.
I believe you are correct, but I was perhaps not clear enough there.
What I meant was, had Kamala won, I doubt she would have sent B2s to bomb Natanz, Fordow and Ishfahar.
She maybe, might have agreed to some kind of support role in a much, much more limited version of that kind of a strike, but it likely would have been at least given the Blinken treatment of a veneer of plausible deniability.
Which is fucking awful, but is at least more competent in terms of staying on messsge and presenting an official ‘stance’… in neoliberal ghoul logic, which does unfortunately convince many people.
EDIT: Or, maybe, now being President, she could have actually broken from the seemingly very Biden driven deference to Israel, and actually drawn a line at at least… maybe no Israel, you shouldn’t bomb Iran that provocatively, we will actually stop giving you some kind of weapon if you do that… maybe even abstain from some UN vote on whether or not you’re doing a genocide, instead of voting no.
Hypotheticals, but…seemingly at least possible, to me.
Well, its… kind of hard to totally disentangle Syria from Israel and Iran… and Palestine, and Iraq, and Lebanon, and the Kurds, and Russia… and Trump recently just directly, very publically, bombed Iranian nuclear facilities…
I am reasonably confident this would not have happened in a Dem regime.
They are genocide enabling and duplicitous assholes, but Trump and his cabinet turned that situation up to 11 by sending in B2s with GBU 57s, and being very, very public, antagonistic about this.
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Regardless of the strike actually being effective or not, it completely slams the door shut on basically ever doing another nuclear deal with Iran (again, done under Obama/Dems, revoked by Trump)…
… barring something like a complete 180 in some theoretical future Dem regime that totally 180s on basically everything connected to Israel. No clue how likely that is or isn’t at this point, but it is at least theoretically possible.
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Dropping morality from the equation, massively directly aggroing against Iran, with is a player in Syria, is just incompetent on its face at being any kind of sensible policy.
Like, I guess just even more full throatedly going against Iran does remove a significant amount of their influence in Syria (maybe?)… but the cost is looking like a completely insane mad man at the international level…
…not to mention pissing off a significant domestic chunk of Trump’s own base, the ones stupid enough to somehow believe Trump was the ‘peace candidate’.
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US foreign policy irt Syria in particular has been a shitshow for about 2 decades now, simply on its own terms of theoretically ‘promoting American security interests.’
Trump has accelerated this from ‘a clusterfuck’ to ‘a paradigm ending disaster that has totally ended the US as the dominant world hegemon’.
It has totally destroyed any remaining remnant of plausibly being a morally justified ‘World Police’.
The US is now just obviously a rogue state, by its own definition of a rogue state from 10 years ago.
This is what I mean by ‘making sense’, or really the complete absence of that.
Foreign policy kinda involves having allies.
Not many people wanna ally with a beligerent mad man.
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Maybe a shorter version of my viewpoint could be:
Pete Hegseth is the Secretary of Defense.
Trump has the best foreign policy, in terms of making sense.
/s
Not like the Dems were much better, but yeah, the Trump regime is even worse.
does lemmy have some kind of a !remindme type thing to pester me into actually doing this, lol?
You know, I think I might make a cut of this, but… more somber, tense music, … more relevant modern references.
Apparently also chipmunks.
… sorry, Alvin.
Hunters and hikers in northern WA are still advised to be aware they are rare, but still a possible encounter, in the Cascade foothills.
But yeah, they are certainly a lot more rare than they used to be.