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  • Shame climate change has rendered it about as useful as looking out the window at predicting the weather.

  • Isn't that the joke?

  • Ok fair enough, just thought it was strangely straight for an "I'm ok folks" wave.

  • Anyone notice the salute Trump gave mere seconds after the shooting?

    He swiftly turned it into a wave/fist and weirdly brought up that it was definitely a fist during his last speech.

  • Me: Here's the URL for the web service I've just deployed. I've set up users and permissions so just copy it into your browser and you should see a very similar system to what you've been trained on with all your data in there.

    Customer: All I'm getting is a blank screen.

    Much panicking and headscratching later...

    Me: Waaaiiiiittt, did you press Return/Go after copying the URL?

    Customer: That was not in the instructions.

  • Good to see the left/centre rallying when it mattered most need to reject fascism again.

    From an outside perspective this seemed like quite a shrewd political move by Macron for once. Is that a fair assessment?

  • I was going to say "Planet Earth" but yes you are correct.

  • So apparently I have a similar contorted expression to my mother when eating sour food.

    My father always referred to this as my mother's-maiden-name-gene. Let's say her maiden name was Chaplin, he would say "Ah there's that Chaplin gene again!"

    Being young I misunderstood this as a verb, ie. I was "chaplinging".

    Cut to first year of school where I proudly waltz around informing any classmates eating fizzy sweets that the correct and proper term for their reaction is "chaplinging". It was a few years until the penny dropped.

  • So they've failed at pushing full return to office and now they're commissioning unscientific studies to try to make hybrid seem necessary?

    These results really can't be applied to all jobs. Some jobs obviously require in-person but many white collar jobs can be done entirely remotely saving workers time, money and freeing up infrastructure for those that need/want to go in. Not to mention other benefits to mental health and reduction of emissions involved in commuting.

  • I have somewhat of a pet extension to projection theory... Many people who are anti-gay think that it is a choice as they themselves have made that choice. ie. They are repressed bisexual/gay.

    Completely unsubstantiated with no evidence but I find it fun to think about as it would explain their complete misunderstanding of it not being a choice. "I made the tough choice and am living with it, why can't they?!"

  • Completely agree, requirements are key and often badly defined due to the customers' lack of knowledge of the intricacies of the system. You are correct to ask for clarity or it could come back to bite you later on.

    I've just had a spec through from a BA which consists entirely of screenshots of an existing system with no technical definitition of any of the requested fields so relate to this right now.

  • We are just recovering from a similar situation here but the Overton window has shifted so far the supposed left-wing workers' party now look like centre-right conservatives.

  • Right on cue, the descent into fascism begins ahead of the impending climate disasters.

    It's so depressing to see France like this, I always held it up as a prominent antifa nation.

  • Not substantially, it had a different title and was toned down.

    I withdraw the word essay and apologise for any rudeness.

    Have a good one.

  • My original message was "Wow ok chill." then elaborated to clarify.

    Where I'm from people are way ruder than anything I said here so perhaps I misjudged the room. However, calling it out seems to have had the desired response as since posting OP went and apologised for his anger.

    I in turn apologise for my rudeness to them.

  • Cavity protection ain't gonna cut it where they're going.

  • Did you read it before the edits? If it's written like that I think I'm entitled to exaggerate back slightly to make a point by calling it a rage essay.

    Anywho I wouldn't choose to rant like this to my coworkers or online. A quick 🤦 in chat usually does the trick.

  • Completely put to task, yep really got me there. I will never see the world in the same way again.

    Also, I don't think you understand what irony means.

    You too.

  • Wow ok chill.

    The title of this post was "I hate programming, why did I choose this field".

    I responded suggesting maybe OP isn't suited to SQL in particular. There are plenty of other languages to learn that they might pick up quicker if they are struggling with SELECTs.