I was floored at just how many MCU movies in the past ten years I didn’t know about. No fuckin wonder people are getting burnt out on it.

Wait, you think that will convince them?

They’ll just turn around and go “well FDR had FOUR…”

I don’t know when everybody decided “their government does bad things = they should die” was a woke take

It’s okay to kill hundreds of thousands of people of a different ethnicity and religion than you just as long as you don’t hate gay people?

Man the bar is fuckin low

When did “I’m thick as mud” become a viable political argument?

Me when a guy in a white supremacist administration makes a nazi salute and the ADL goes “no, it wasn’t”

Me when an interest group which for decades has cried out against genocide and targeted ethno-religious persecution actively and deliberately proclaims it is going to eliminate an entire ethno-religious group from a large area of land

Me when people are defending that

We need the actual “it was actually done” versus “the circumstances were created such that it could have been done”

You mean blaming leftists?

Is that your general experience with people doing dumb things? That they only do it once?

I think the best outcome would be that it might uncover deliberate malfeasance that might prompt some folks in congress to do what is needed. I wouldn’t be optimistic though.

Slightly more likely is that such discovery would drive the public towards a congressional swing away from his enablers at the next congressional election next year, assuming we have it. I’m moderately more optimistic on that, apparently such a swing is already forming, but to what extent isn’t clear.

We can’t undo the election results, the congressional count done on jan 6 is definitive.

I remember asking a few weeks after the election if anyone at all was talking about it being rigged. It seemed at the time everyone just accepted the result. Only in the past month or so have I started seeing talk of it.

C# was originally J++ which was originally Java++ until Sun sued MS.

Yeah there’s a part of me that really didn’t want him to do that because now I have to like something about that prat

When we finally onboarded the D365 ERP replacement, management wanted to run perf testing on it told them we could do it in JMeter, and we already had JMeter code that we’d used for the older systems, and we’d learned more than enough from including it in integration automation, that I was sure we could do it.

Instead they hired two chodes from an agency and told them to use some odd tool. Literally a month into that project one of the contractors asked me straight up why we weren’t just using JMeter.

They eventually cut those guys because they weren’t able to produce, and then went with some kookball Akamai solution (Cloudtest?) They didn’t even seem to realize that by going with that solution, they were going to be beholden to paying Akamai every time they wanted to run it. They somehow managed to cajole Akamai into giving us a standalone version of the tool, but they didn’t seem to comprehend that when you run it that way you don’t get the cloud.

It’s funny, someone asked me the other day why I quit that job, and I’m now suddenly starting to remember why.

It was actually a pretty good company, it just wasn’t a software company, so its tech decisions were often really bonkers. But that aside, it was actually a good company, and part of me kicks myself for leaving it – I’d probably still be working there four years later.

I might have needed a lot of therapy in the meantime, though

Salesmen

Frankly it’s a bit like HyperCard.

One of the things we learned early on in trying to integrate a D365 system into our UI integration test automation, was that when you changed pages, the previous page was actually still in the DOM and so if you didn’t update your locators to the new “context” or screen, you’d be trying to interact with things from two screens ago. I dunno honestly what they would have done without someone like me who could actually RE that. The guy that had seniority over me was completely lost.

Imagine JS and C# had a baby, and it was mentally challenged.

We used it for ERP, including sales, CSR, and inventory. But we still had a separate WMS, and we had to build glue to sync the WMS inventory data with the D365 data, bidirectionally.

Pray you never do

Yeppers. When I worked on a D365 transition we were upgrading from a 1980s era DOS based thing (D3 aka Pick). We literally had like one of the last Pick developers left on earth. He ended up training his two kids on the system so they could take over for him. They all ended up having to learn X++ instead. I wonder which was worse to deal with.