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@EvanCarroll At the moment it's in demand so you can earn a noticeably higher rate for anything with a Big Data flavour.

Morning, Data Scientists

Well, well, well. Isn't it cosy in here? Snow ... We had the white stuff once or twice last winter here in Oxfordshire, England. This morning on the way in to work I got soaked with rain, though.

Slightly more often up in the north (Leeds)

I'm Sheffield, it's just this minute got light for the first time this week

Snow on top of our local mountain (2501m above sea level). But no snow to the WNW where I'm located.

saentis.roundshot.com

@hot2use "Oh don't mind me, I'll just be over here in the tragically beautiful Swiss panorama."

@PeterVandivier It's been dense fog the last couple of weeks.

You could always visit the West Yorkshire Pennines (Wikipedia) for some views. I know, not quite the same, but hey....

To any moderator: Is there a report which contains how many people skip votes on questions?

I ccan remember Ingleborough Hall - Outdoor Education Centre in Clapham, where I learnt about stalactites and stalagmites.

😜 somehow I think Switzerland may have a leg up on the English midlands for "breathtaking scenery"

I am having a spirited debate with my wife now though over the Swiss Alps vs. the Colorado Rockies

@PeterVandivier You get used to it.

how sad, I should hope you never would 😉

I'm originally from a small place in Norway where mountains come straight out of the sea, with snow on them during winter.

Not as tall as the Swiss Alps, but still very nice.

You can imagine how my soul suffers, literally pining for the fjords, here in the somewhat less impressive landscapes of Oxfordshire!

Pining for the fjords: youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218

@dbdemon lolwut 😂

@dbdemon Can you not, like, VOOM – and go there?

@dbdemon A man after my own heart

@dbdemon I just needed to see "dead parrot"

@AndriyM I do, occasionally, but only about once a year. Will probably go in the next few months.

@George.Palacios Glad I could help!

@dbdemon Been years since I watched that clip. Always gets me - it's been a bad day hahaha

@billinkc that is indeed odd.

does anyone use Google Play Music?

do you count YouTube Red in that?

not really... I'm mostly trying to understand how Google, a huge multi-billion-dollar company, can't create a music player app for windows that actually works. As in, works at all.

lulz, well I got YouTube Red when my brother in law bought me Google Play Music a few years ago. I use the YT Music iOS app pretty religiously

I've downloaded Chrome (just to try to solve this problem), installed the Google Play Music chrome extension, and nothing. Just nothing. Doesn't work at all. Chrome is signed in to my account, I can see music in play.google.com/music, but every time I try to download any album, it tells me to install the Chrome Play Music app. Which I have.

It's making me crazy. I'm about to try out Spotify. I really really miss Microsoft Groove. What a great platform that was.

@MaxVernon does google has any app for windows?

apart from chrome?

and google drive :)

@PeterVandivier I love the Android app, but download music with it saves the files with crazy numeric file names the same way that total piece of garbage iTunes does.

@Lamak no, they don't if you can believe it. It's incredible.

@AndriyM is there an actual app for that?

@Lamak I used to use it for work previously

@AndriyM I mean, I use google drive...but on a browser

I used it as a Windows application. Worked basically the same way as Dropbox

I mean, still does presumably

@AndriyM I seriously don't know which app is that

can't find it either

links please :D

Oh I see, sorry. You specify a folder on your disk drive that would be used for synchronisation. Then you can install the application on a different machine and specify a folder there too. And then you copy any file to the dedicated folder on one computer, and it will appear in the dedicated folder on the other computer.

It will also be on the server in your Google Drive folder, of course

> Then you can install the application

which one?

I was talking about Google Drive in this case. Dropbox would work the same way. Right now we are using Microsoft OneDrive, which is the same thing. You install this kind of application on however many computers you want to exchange files between, set up a folder on each and then you can just copy files to that folder on any computer, and the file will appear on all the others.

@Lamak @Lamak I'll help you out

@AndriyM Ah, no, I understood that. Just thought you were saying there's an actual google drive app for windows that you can install

@TomV thanks!

@Lamak Yes, sorry, I was a little slow to get to that point. Tom helped me out there :)

tom is always so helpful

@TomV thanks!

Yes, he is

what is going on with this statement that returns 0:

 SELECT CASE WHEN 'November 4 2018' = 'November 4 2018' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END

I get a 1

I expected a 1. There is something different about the 4 in each string on SSMS. I used Beyond Compare to compare the two, and the number 4 shows up in red.

I guess pasting it here converts them both to the same ascii digit.

so weird

I beat the guy who sent me that style of date, BTW.

I was gonna say that you should do that

Any oracle folks in here who can answer a quick question google is finding suprisingly difficult.

Anyone know what the unit of measurement is in elapsed time on a trace file?

Its the Percentage of maximum velocity of a sheep in a vacuum

@MaxVernon I do. It's great and comes with add free youtube. I only use it on my telephone though.

When at home I tend to hit the ole record collection.

@Zane yah, I love the ad-free youtube.

@MaxVernon wait, what?

@Zane NICE! i had a bootleg Led Zepellin album a while back

@Lamak if you pay for Google Pay Music ($10/month) you get ad-free google youtube.

which is nice

@MaxVernon I don't have any bootlegs but I've got all studio albums and the song remains the same.

ah, I See

@Zane love it!

@Zane the album was called "Live in Japan", and they had a rendition of On Blueberry Hill.

all my albums got destroyed. such a bummer.

@Lamak the actual problem was the space between November and 4 - one has ascii character 160 and the other 32.

not sure how the 160 got in there.

I blame Microsoft

it looks like you need to go give another beating

that's just what I was thinking.

brb

;-)

@MaxVernon how? and yes that is a bummer.

@Zane mice. It was a long time ago, when I was young and stupid.

what the h-e-double-hockey-sticks, google? secret key sequences?

In the age of digital I love to keep those things. So many constant reminders that anything I buy digitally I'm pretty much just renting until they fudge some agreement and something gets pulled from my library

@MaxVernon lol while I appreciate the bit you shouldn't have to do a bit to fix your software.

@MaxVernon ah, the konami code

I feel like I'm using a Nintendo.

@Lamak indeed.

ok, so this let me download all my purchased albums with Google Music Manager app for Windows

> open the toolbar settings and cycle the use small icons button, then double click the music manager icon and hey presto it opens !!

@Zane the entire "rent everything" culture we seem to be in now really sucks. Great for large corporations of course, since you have to pay every month. Not so great for the poor old consumer. This is the primary reason I hate SaaS, PaaS, and just general cloud offerings so badly. If it's on a cloud, it's not yours.

I prefer to use a non-google music player on my phone. To accomplish that, I need to download the music from Google Play into my computer, then connect my phone to my PC, and copy the music from the PC to my phone's SD card.

Fight The Man. Down with The Man.

lol, I just tried syncing to my phone by plugging the wireless charger USB cable into my computer. Not gonna work.

@MaxVernon we know you changed the search term after you got those results and didn't click search again

Question is. What were you really searching for when you got that ad?

@MaxVernon It's gotten so bad that I backup every xbox game I buy to a remote drive in case they pull a game from the store. I've had a few where even if you bought it you can't download it anymore.

@TomV lol

@Zane yah, I bought several albums from Groove Music that subsequently disappeared. Of course, I'd already downloaded them, so I was ok.

but it's frustrating that even though you ostensibly "bought" the thing, you actually didn't.

@TomV I wonder what keyword that add is looking for. Linux? or version? My money's on "linux"... as in a ton of Linux geeks are bound to have their significant other leave them.

I love when interacting with a vendor and they keep trying to shift the blame and then you show them proof that their app is messing up. The tone shifts in a huge hurry.

good greif some of these training videos are just absolute gold.

Whoever used their voice for this training video is a comedy genius. He's reading all of his lines in a Christopher Walken voice and I'm dieing of laughter.

@Zane I had a good encounter with Microsoft again last week. One of their first liners was shoving the issue back to me as if it was our fault or problem

The ticket eventually got escalated and one of the seniors in support was involved. I recognized the seniors name as somebody who has already helped me a lot in the past and knows what he is doing

The first liner set up a call and started running through his script when the guy who has been doing this for 15 years interrupted him and said 'I know this guy. I know he investigated before calling and I'm sure it won't be any of the bullshit reasons on yourblist'

they should publish the list of bullshit reasons.

I'm in the habit of telling the person who answers the phone, before anything, "I've already rebooted".

I could prove tcp client port exhaustion with 1 loop and a powershell script parsing netstat

Newbie asked for a repro

@TomV and you tell the front-line person that, and they'd have no idea what you're talking about.

Exactly

The senior support guy is cool though. I remember a time where I got myself into trouble having asked for a maintenance window a'd then realizing I lost the files for the hotfix

jeez, such a noob :-D

I pinged the guy on Skype and his response 'I'll send it right now but it's supposed to go via a ticket. Log one and send me the advisory number afterwards'

wow, on Skype! You've got real contacts! Impressive!

Isn't Microsoft federated with everyone on Skype for business?

It must be hell for their employees

I should try stalking sean

oh I see, you just looked him up. /let down

not SQL related, at all but still interesting.

have a hard time getting excited about that.

It's America, we have political prisoners, the state kills people, we throw in jail protestors, and the police kill black folks.

Chinese CEO won't have much sympathy here from anyone.

Trump prolly knows it.

@EvanCarroll Wow, sounds pretty communist...

Sorry if that was obvious, I was looking for my :crying_for_ceo: emoji and just typed that out instead.