Fair enough. Not like they’re anywhere close to favorites of mine or anything. Was just the most immediate non-Gaiman example of books by a bad person I could come up with.

Yeah, you can actually run C# code “inline” in it without having to compile to an exe, which is simulataneously really cool, kinda janky in practice, a bad idea, and pretty cursed.

There’s definitely some weirdness with the syntax, and some odd footguns, but I’ve found those in most languages I’ve used for any considerable amount of time.

I work in an almost exclusively Windows environment, and the base version of PowerShell is preinstalled on all Windows stuff since I think Windows 7, with some really good integration with the Windows sysadmin tools. Not sure I’d reccomend it outside of that sort of environment.

I understand that, but it’s literally in the preview text of the article (at least in the Jerboa app for android), and more importantly it’s stated in the fucking body text of the post.

I didn’t read the article either (this time). There’s no excuse here.

People get upset about “tone policing” lately, but I can’t just stay silent when it’s this blatant that people are complaining about something that isn’t even true.

Edit: I’m not seeing the comments that were talking about this as if they had removed the age minimum entirely now. Guess they’ve either been deleted or I blocked those users earlier and don’t remember that I did that.

Be careful, don’t you know that you aren’t allowed to enjoy things made by bad people?

Don’t mind me, I’ll be over here with American Gods, Good Omens, and the Harry Potter books. Not enjoying them one bit. Because I’m a good person who believes good things and only supports good people.

More seriously, I’ll try to buy any future copies of his stuff used, but I’m not going to sweat it. There are far more things I purchase and use on a daily basis with far worse people and power structures behind them. Not going to worry about a single author.

Hahaha, I’ll do whatever you want boss, but you’re sorely mistaken if you think you’re getting away without a written record of you signing off on telling me to do stupid shit.

Lol, welcome to the party. I’m not in a programming position, I’m on a systems engineering team. Most of my team mates can do some PowerShell scripting, but I have some programming classes under my belt.

I have a PowerShell script that is complex enough that I’m confortable calling it a program instead. Roughly half of the code is comments or logging the program flow. Every run generates a step by step log of all actions taken. I have 2 Word documents that summarize the process to different levels of detail, and a fucking flowchart for the visual peeps.

I’m still treated as the only person who could possibly flip the clearly labelled read only and route email to our team only switches and troubleshoot it.

To be fair, I recently learned during a vendor meet and greet that the vendor’s tech guy in the meeting had previously made a consulting firm to sell exactly what I built this program to do. Probably means I’m in the wrong line of work.

Last I checked, they both get less than 10% of their funding from the government, and that amount is less than 0.5% of our military budget.

I’m not surprised by this, but it needs to be said: They need an efficiency checker for their efficiency checkers. In and of itself, trying to defund NPR and PBS is just wasting money and time on virtue signalling, or the right’s equivalent. So doge is off to a great start, lol.

So that’s why my tooth fillings stopped getting Sesame Street and started getting phone calls!

So they lowered the earliest buying age from 21 to 18? You can join the military at 18 (not that I think that’s a particularly sane thing either), so this makes a vague amount of sense.

Why are there comments here acting like they removed the age minimum entirely?

Did you know gaming

You can tell it’s not a real CAD comic because it’s actually funny and also isn’t a novel disguised as a comic.

Group task planner, shared calendar, shitty wiki functionality, shitty file sharing with multi user real time collaboration and revision history… which works infinitely better if you go through the underlying sharepoint site for the group instead of the batshit Teams UI.

Navigate through the documents by going to the sharepoint site for the teams group. Much much easier, and better search functionality.

I have no earthly idea why Teams itself doesn’t just send you there and insists on having its own shitty file browsing UI.

Look, I truly mean this as softly as possible, because Teams does not in any way make this shit easy, but you are using it wrong.

Teams groups should have Sharepoint sites (on Azure) backing them, and are meant to be interacted with through the Office 365 online SharePoint “portal” thing if you need more than you can do through the Teams UI.

Why in the hell Microsoft has both OneDrive and SharePoint is one of the universe’s stupidest and most confounding mysteries.

And in my experience, links to the documents through sharepoint do auto redirect/correct/stay working if you move the files around within the same sharepoint site, as long as the person opening the link still has rights to open stuff in the new location. If they didn’t, I have a large project with a lot of interlinked documents that would have gotten absolutely fucked.

OneDrive also tends to do really fucky shit with that top level folder structure. Like trying to save things in the root of my onedrive that isn’t synced instead of in the synced documents folder I always save to. Anyway, I stay away from using OneDrive as itself as much as possible and just use the automatic folder sync/redirect and interact with my local drive like OneDrive doesn’t exist and my documents folder is magically synced across multiple machines by a capricious spirit. Don’t even get me started on how it handles fucking one note stuff stored in onedrive when you browse through the web ui. Just fucking madness.

But if you’re concerned, just make the only thing in the general folder a link to where shit really is. Probably the easiest solution.

Nope, planner is still integrated into teams. My department uses it regularly.

Maybe the speech recognition has improved since I last gave automatic transcription a shot, but in my experience it was almost always laughably bad.

Hooray, more bullshit bills purely for the purposes of signalling!

Holy shit that is hilarious.

Not really a fan of RationalWiki, but they seem to have a decent writeup and their examples are killing me:

KJV Luke 11:53-4

And as he [Jesus] said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

“Conservative Bible” Luke 11:53-4

As Jesus told them off, the scribes and Pharisees furiously interrogated Him about everything, plotting and seeking to quote Him for a politically incorrect remark to use against Him.

KJV Luke 12:43-4

Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.

Conservative Bible

Blessed is that manager, whose employer finds working so diligently. Truly I tell you, he will promote that manager to run all of his affairs.

KJV 1 Corinthians 1:17

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

Conservative Bible

In any case, Christ didn’t send me to baptize. He sent me to preach the gospel, but not with the kind of liberal claptrap that would make Christ’s sacrifice ineffectual.

I’m fucking rolling.

… and it’s time to rewatch Silicon Valley again.