Paul White

@ErikReasonableRatesDarling There's no need for serializable isolation in that example

@ErikReasonableRatesDarling I think that's the conversation you're referencing

I have had it set that way for years in SQLPrompt

No, that's the way I've always written them

Good spot. Fixed

Why does everything I try to do recently immediately reveal some long-standing issue

Last minute edits FTW

It had a red squiggle and everything

Fixed

FFS

Only available on 𝕏 for the moment

A New MERGE Bug Appears!

It's self defeating, like obnoxious advertising flashing and beeping and scrolling to attract attention. I'd prefer not to use a blocker but so many sites are just unusable without

Having to click through pointless cookie banners and pop ups to read some text on a blog or news site is just dumb

You do. And the trade off is pretty minimal. I don't much care who tracks what. That happens on a vast scale anyway. Cookies can't store information I don't provide, so I don't provide anything important to sites other than ones I explicitly trust and have had a relationship with over a long period of time. Even then, sensitive stuff is never stored

If you're concerned about privacy, don't use the internet or computers, your phone or anything really

It seems almost entirely performative

I have no idea where all the excitement about cookies came from

I absolutely don't mind rules with a purpose and a benefit

It's the same mindless regulation that puts stupid cookie messages on every damned webpage

Passes the audit

Ticks the boxes

But it's compliant

You've been disconnected for security reasons. Please restart the entire circus performance from scratch

Not even like most of it achieves anything. At least not anything that couldn't be done 1000% better with 1% of the friction. It's depressingly stupid

It's just so ridiculous. Why do we tolerate it

Imagine trying to get anything done through three layers of jump box security

Yeah whatever the modern equivalent is

People emailing themselves because the clipboard is disabled is so funny to me

@ErikReasonableRatesDarling and the core is still protected by password123

It's simply amazing most large companies continue to function at all

Like that's the main reason right there

Makes me laugh when companies arrange meetings, workshops, and form task groups to work out why productivity isn't improving

No one. Too busy with overheads to be productive

Perhaps Microsoft need to fire some people. I mean, love or hate X, it was done there and it didn't fall over. More new features than ever. People are annoying of course but they ruin everything regardless

I mean they're 90%+ the same really

2022 is a good release but mostly because 2019 was and so was 2016

We're overdue a good Windows release

As does Windows 7 to be fair

I still have XP on a VM somewhere I think. Man that starts quickly

Right

How did we end up tolerating this sort of nonsense

It's a bit like the secret hoops you have to jump through to avoid a Microsoft account when installing Windows

It's not like there's a 365 Personal option without Bro Pilot "included"

MS are really working hard to make money back on AI investments aren't they. No trick too dirty

PowerPoint 😂

I barely ever open Word. Excel one a year at tax time

I wonder what Office 2024 does that my 2019 or whatever it is doesn't

Good news! The standalone Office 2024 includes no cloud features at all and no Teams!