« first day (4226 days earlier)      last day (941 days later) » 

Charlieface
Charlieface
01:49
@ErikDarling What is it about Americans that they seem to believe that non-rhotic accents are exclusive to New England. It's not even true in the US, never mind the rest of the English-speaking world.
Then again, rhoticity is a funny thing. The UK had it a couple hundred years ago and lost it, but most of the US had it, lost it, then put it back. So not surprising people are confused.
And to be fair, it's the T and D flapping that most annoys me about American accents. That and the entire impossibility of getting around the US with even a basic British accent, never mind something thick like my native Geordie.
@PaulWhite Coming to you soon: x IS NOT DISTINCT FROM BETWEEN y AND z
 
5 hours later…
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
07:06
@Charlieface i've never thought that, but then again i had a cultured childhood. saw mary poppins at quite a young age.
the real kicker is when people who you couldn't pay to pronounce the letter r where it exists will stick it at the end of words where it should never be, like when 'idea' becomes 'idear'.
Paul White
Paul White
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (German pronunciation: [ʔaʊf ˈviːdɐˌzeːən ˈpɛt]) is a British comedy-drama television programme about seven British construction workers who leave the United Kingdom to search for employment overseas. In the first series, the men live and work on a building site in Düsseldorf. The series was created by Franc Roddam after an idea from Mick Connell, a bricklayer from Stockton-on-Tees, and mostly written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who also wrote The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? and Porridge. It starred Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail, Timothy...
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
who also wrote The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? and Porridge
Paul White
Paul White
I knew a charming young lady from Sunderland once. She had a quite lovely accent, which I thought was Geordie at the time.
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
07:22
ever the cad
 
2 hours later…
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
09:05
hm
InsertSpoolForPlanForcing new optimizer rule in ctp 2.1
Paul White
Paul White
There's also early join substitution for long IN lists
and a few other bits 'n bobs
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
@PaulWhite SelInToJoinGb?
Paul White
Paul White
Sounds related, not the primary as I recall
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
i don't see anything else in there that looks related
erikdarlingdata.com/sql-server/…
Paul White
Paul White
Won't see it without a TF
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
09:12
shucks
i'll have to talk to the TF keeper
Paul White
Paul White
@ErikDarling That might be the rule but TF is needed to activate
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
That seems arduous
Paul White
Paul White
09:27
I thought the names were something like SubRuleSelINtoLSJN
Anyway
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
Anything else juicy?
Paul White
Paul White
CTP 2.1 doesn't have much juice
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
It seems PSP was relaxed a bit, the demo I initially had that it didn’t kick in for is “fixed” now.
The big plan is a bit wonky but at least it’s there.
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
09:52
@PaulWhite bogus
 
2 hours later…
Charlieface
Charlieface
11:31
@PaulWhite Yeah, every town up there has a slightly different accent as does the rest of Northern England. I couldn't tell you myself even when I was living there, but there were those who would explain the exact differences. Mackem (Sunderland) and County Durham I could tell were different even though they were only 20 miles away, but couldn't tell you Heeds (Gateshead) vs Toon (Newcastle) which were closer.
It wasn't just accent, there was an actual dialect difference with different words (quite a few Norwegian), and a huge tendency to drop lett-ahs all ower the place. And it was "we" and "us", not "I" and "me".
Most dialect words are forgotten now, I think, especially the younger generation. There's just the lingering accent, which is waning also.
Now I'm in the North West, where Liverpool, Manchester, Bradford, Stoke and Sheffield are all about 40 miles from each other and have entirely different accents.
 
4 hours later…
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
15:10
@Charlieface do you ever hang out in Manchester?
Charlieface
Charlieface
15:21
@ErikDarling Let's say...
 
2 hours later…
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
17:12
@Charlieface I always ask because I have a fetish for Briton’s Protection. Drank there every night a few years back when SQL Bits was there.
Paul White
Paul White
a professional would have drunk there during the day as well
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
17:47
My night starts when I stop presenting
Paul White
Paul White
Fair
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
18:10
Or when I’m not presenting
Or sometimes when I wake up and I don’t wanna present
ypercubeᵀᴹ
ypercubeᵀᴹ
It's always morning in the Heap™
It's always night for Erik ;)
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
18:26
🦇🦇🦇
Zikato
Zikato
Morning
After a week-long holiday, going to work tomorrow :(
 
2 hours later…
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
20:07
@Zikato just don't do anything
Charlieface
Charlieface
@ErikDarling I'm not much of a drinker, and a bit boring (I don't hang out much, except with family), but England definitely wipes the floor with the States in terms of pubs (which are not bars!), there's so many quaint ones out in the middle of nowhere you can just go and have a quiet drink and enjoy the atmosphere.
ypercubeᵀᴹ
ypercubeᵀᴹ
I find pubs mostly depressing
maybe I should visit the North
Charlieface
Charlieface
20:23
Somewhere out in the countryside where all the old-timers yarn about the war and the miners strikes, mainly because they were involved in both
Erik Darling
Erik Darling
20:40
@Charlieface well, i hope you have some hobbies outside of sql server. i only asked because most people who use sql server a lot tend to also drink heavily.

« first day (4226 days earlier)      last day (941 days later) »