The benefit of splitting services between VM’s is the same as it always has been: I can break one service without breaking ALL of them. Containers are an improvement over native installs but they do not solve this problem completely.

Not nearly good enough to make me give up Quicken but it is nice to see some more self hosted options popping up.

Ah Manage Engine. Lots of full featured products that are roughly 75% complete.

The kind of place where “backups” means playing Russian Roulette with one set of old ass tapes, if you’re lucky.

Forgot “Pasting it into a Word document”.

The best thing about MongoDB is that you can stop using it completely and switch to PostgreSQL, which will happily accept all the horrible JSON data you can cram into it.

“…If there’s a problem writing your data, you’re fucked. Does that sound like a good design to you?”

“If that’s what they need to do to get those kick-ass benchmarks, then it’s a great design.”

Oh God. I am laughing so hard watching this.

That works when you have access to a SQL database instead of a bunch of massive CSV files.

And at least at my workplace, a lot of work processes use poorly-designed Excel spreadsheets for critical tasks, because it’s such a simple way to manipulate data.

I also find that when I need to do more complicated data analysis, Excel starts to become limited, and I find Python to be a more powerful and flexible tool.

Capability is a double edged sword. Any tool that is capable of doing something is going to be used by someone to do that thing, regardless of whether it should be. Excel gets abused and used for things that it shouldn’t be frequently in corporate environments because of its capabilities. I can understand being frustrated by that.

I use Excel for reporting and analytics because it makes manipulating and visualizing data very easy. Especially if you know what you’re doing. No need to write a UI or worry about portability between workstations, etc. At the end of the day it’s a tool. A very capable one. Like any tool, it’s not the right one for every job.

Lol. Don’t bother asking Chat GPT for help. You will get so many completely wrong answers. At least the answers will be formatted nicely. Complete bullshit. But easily readable bullshit.

You’re entitled to your opinion but I would say Excel is one of the best, if not THE best spreadsheet application ever produced. It’s one thing that Microsoft actually got mostly right and one of the only reasons I still pay for an Office 365 subscription.

If you’re just creating simple spreadsheets, there’s plenty of other options out there.

But, if you’re a power user doing a lot of complex data analytics, Excel is still the king.

My main gripe is that I still have to use VBA for a lot of stuff behind the scenes. Yuck.

Unfortunately, the current penalties are insufficient.

If you can stand the fuss, buy corded tools and skip the brand loyalty that comes with batteries.

Just want to second this. A good quality corded tool can last you a decade or two, even with moderate use. You’ll probably be replacing your cordless tool batteries within 5 years.

The only cordless tools I have are a drill, lawn mower, and chainsaw. That’s only because I use them often enough to justify it.

False. I am definitely an introvert but if I’m going to pay for it, I’m going to get what I asked for.

I wear a men’s 14. That’s bad enough.

Other musical numbers including:

“How do you solve a problem like the Nazi’s”

“I have Hand Grenades”

“Wounded Going on Dead”

“My Favorite Weapons”

“The Lonely Fuhrer”

“So Long, Farewell (Forever)”

The hell I can’t.

Oh yeah!

Mosquito genocide is the one kind of genocide that I am totally fine with. Hell, I’ll participate in it with glee.