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  • POTUS' office is calling Amazon fulfillment centers a source of "good, high-wage jobs" ahhaha
  • So I am running a system at my company which is dependent on having some data from another system. Directly connecting to that system is a bad idea since it has regular outages (it isn't really the productive system, but a reporting part, and the outages come from the data being updated into it once a day), so I wrote myself a Stored procedure on my database that connects to that system and asked the database team to put that stored procedure into a regularly executed job, to be executed daily at 5:00 AM (the update of the date in the other system starts at 1:00 AM, but can occasionally take a couple hours). They kindly did that of course and the person who did it also said he tested it.

    Since then we had little problems, except recently there were some major changes which should have propagated through this database structure as soon as possible, when we noticed that it somehow took an extra day for the changes to also be present in my system. So I went ahead and asked when the job is being executed. The response? 0:05 AM.

    Yup, they somehow managed to turn the situation from "possibly a couple hours out of date" to "always at least 23 hours out of date"...
  • The raise I got with my promotion was disappointing.
  • More and more the conclusion seems to be my stomach and alcohol do not get along anymore.
  • http://www.freakonomics.com/2013/08/01/do-baby-girls-cause-divorce-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/


    Couples who conceive a child out of wedlock and find out that it will be a boy are more likely to marry before the birth of their baby.
    Parents who have first-born girls are significantly more likely to be divorced.
    Fathers are significantly less likely to be living with their children if they have daughters versus sons.
    In any given year, roughly 52,000 first-born daughters younger than 12 years (and all their siblings) would have had a resident father if they had been boys.
    Divorced fathers are much more likely to obtain custody of sons compared to daughters.

    Men still suck.
  • edited August 2013
    No-one told me there is a Freakonomics podcast.

    This isn't surprising given the feeling that girls usually attach more to their mothers more than their fathers. Lets not talk about what happens to girls in places like China and India.
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  • yea it's pretty awesome. Right up there with Planet Money.
  • edited August 2013
    Both have BBC equivalents. You and Yours and Behind the Numbers.

    In other, minor fails. I found out what was making Youtube slow for me on Time Warner Cable but can't fix it.
    TWC's CDN network is slower than it should be. You used to be able to block the CDN's IP address to have it fall back to going directly to Youtube but now the flash player has been updated to be much more insistent on getting the CDN connection, such that it hangs instead of diverting. Reloading the video will get you to the fast YT servers but it's not worth it.
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  • Men do suck. I know of far far too many deadbeat dad's, abusers, and otherwise horrible dudes. Luckily my main crew is made up of upstanding dad's, with the exception of my single celebate self.
  • Currently camping in France, and someone sliced open our tent with a knife. I slept through it, but Juliane woke me up as she investigated. I investigated too, and found that our friends' tent was similarly sliced. By their car I found a backpack with the contents strewn across the floor. The fucker had found the car keys in the bag and stolen a phone, two laptops, money, credit cards, and more besides.
  • Currently camping in France, and someone sliced open our tent with a knife. I slept through it, but Juliane woke me up as she investigated. I investigated too, and found that our friends' tent was similarly sliced. By their car I found a backpack with the contents strewn across the floor. The fucker had found the car keys in the bag and stolen a phone, two laptops, money, credit cards, and more besides.
  • A mutual friend of my brother and I admitted something that...just put me in the dumps.

    "The only times your brother speaks highly of you, is when he says that your D&D character did something funny." .-.

    Does anyone else here have particularly shitty siblings? Because...wow, that really hurts as someone who's 25 and finally about to graduate.
  • Daft Punk was not on Colbert tonight.
  • http://www.freakonomics.com/2013/08/01/do-baby-girls-cause-divorce-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/


    Couples who conceive a child out of wedlock and find out that it will be a boy are more likely to marry before the birth of their baby.
    Parents who have first-born girls are significantly more likely to be divorced.
    Fathers are significantly less likely to be living with their children if they have daughters versus sons.
    In any given year, roughly 52,000 first-born daughters younger than 12 years (and all their siblings) would have had a resident father if they had been boys.
    Divorced fathers are much more likely to obtain custody of sons compared to daughters.

    Men still suck.
    It seems like the perceived need for a male role model for the boy child could explain pretty much all of those statistics. A single mom can be the female role model for the girl child. Not so much the male role model for the boy child.

    That is not to say a single parent can't raise a child of the opposite gender just fine. However, there's certainly a perception that it is harder.

  • Is that the common perception? That a male role model is more important for the boy? I kinda feel like the girls need a male role model just as much, if not more-so.
  • I don't think anyone needs any particular gender-based role model.
  • edited August 2013
    I kinda can't imagine any situation in modern culture where having a "male role model" is particularly desirable. Having a second person to raise a child? Obviously welcome. But I can't think of any reason why people should have an example of masculinity to look up to/idealized when our society has such a twisted view of masculinity.
    I don't think anyone needs any particular gender-based role model.
    I dunno about this. Girls should have positive examples of women with agency in their life because society tries to shit on that concept at every turn.
    Post edited by open_sketchbook on
  • The troubling thing for me is the greater rate at which fathers leave daughters.
    I don't think anyone needs any particular gender-based role model.
    I agree
  • Is that the common perception? That a male role model is more important for the boy? I kinda feel like the girls need a male role model just as much, if not more-so.
    Yes. It is.
    I don't think anyone needs any particular gender-based role model.
    I agree
    You guys are not exactly a representative sample of the population at large.

  • You guys are not exactly a representative sample of the population at large.
    Neither are you. The population at large mostly fills me with a combination of pity and frustration.

  • edited August 2013
    You guys are not exactly a representative sample of the population at large.
    Neither are you.
    Awwww. :) I love you, too.

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  • edited August 2013
    I don't think anyone needs any particular gender-based role model.
    I don't disagree on a deductive level. So I guess I don't disagree. There is some anecdotal evidence for something in the number of women in abusive relationships that I have known that did not have a father in their life, but I don't have anything other than intuition to back that up.
    Post edited by Anthony Heman on
  • You guys are not exactly a representative sample of the population at large.
    Neither are you.
    Awwww. :) I love you, too.

    The FRCRF, where "you are not a representative sample of the population at large" is a compliment of the highest magnitude.
  • So this is happening: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/FBI-investigates-suspicious-package-at-Fed-Bldg-evacuation-ordered-218713171.html

    I really wanted to step outside for a break too.
    Up to 2 hours with no AC? Awesome. I assume you are not on the floor that got evacuated, because then you would have been able to step outside, right?

  • This is correct. I'm on the 12th floor. We have AC? That's news to me. It feels at times the heater is on where I'm at.

    I've been staring at this computer for over 6 hours now. I wanted to step out on another beautiful day to just relax my eyes and stare. I could go to my boss's office and stare at the pier, but then he knows I'm not working.

    I just hope it's taken care of by the time I am off of work.
  • Threw up for the first time since I was a child.
  • Dawkins fail was pretty good today, but it's also par for the course I guess.
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