adhocfungus

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[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 7 points 2 months ago

Currently reading The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow. Not sure how I feel about it yet. The positivity and inclusiveness were nice at first, but it's being laid on so thick that it's starting to feel uncomfortable. Like fan service in an anime.

It's really good at making you feel like peace and progress are fragile while fascism feels iron-clad.

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What do you do with the used oil? When I was a kid my family would dump it in big barrels, then we'd bury them once they got full. Obviously not something I want to do now. But I've asked the oil change places around here and they charge a fee to take the used oil.

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

I shed a tear and sing In the Arms of an Angel by Heather McLachlan every time I do this. Even for a single noodle.

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's definitely not required, but ever since we got one I've grown to like it. If you have a ceramic sink it helps prevent scratches. It also helps dishes stay put, like pot lids that normally slide around. Most of all I like it when I put a strainer down. I know the strained liquid won't touch the sink and flow back into the food, even if the risk was low before.

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Ripped off the brand-ad, some would say.

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I wish! It's more of a loose collection of random business softwares in various states of abandonment. D365 CE is a platform for Sales teams to organize and track leads, quotes, contracts, etc. D365 BC is an ERP platform born out of the ashes of NAV, the core of which Microsoft bought decades ago. D365 F&O, D365 S&M, and others are various flavors of AX, another ERP platform Microsoft bought over a decade ago. They are direct competitors to D365 BC for some reason. None of these softwares can communicate directly with each other, and none allow direct access to the Azure SQL. Occasionally Microsoft will throw a bone towards integration stuff like DualWrite or Synapse or Fabric, but they can never seem to commit and eventually abandon those too.

I would actually be much happier if it was just crummy databases instead of an archipelago of rotting digital islands.

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Does anybody have a link to an actual source for the claim? I would absolutely believe it, but this article's "source" just seems to be the same article but Russian. The guy on Twitter claiming to be the author of the code seems to be trolling, leaving me with no leads.

I want to send this to my coworker who hates React, but I don't want to spread misinformation.

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 145 points 2 months ago (13 children)

Against every developer's advice, management has moved our entire stack to Microsoft Dynamics 365. It took over a year of prep, millions in ISV consulting charges, and it performs like trash. Now management is constantly complaining about outages, Microsoft nickles and dimes us for tens of thousands more than the estimates, and they are constantly jerking us around to half-baked tech by removing support for anything that actually works. "Want data out of F&O? We're killing everything except Synapse Link. You spent months migrating yet it drops data? That's not surprising since we fired everyone working on it. You should be on Fabric! No, that's not finished either, but we need to test it on someone!"

I'm very bitter.

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 7 points 2 months ago

It worked for Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm. For a while...

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I forget for too long I get reminded by a random rewatch of Blades of Glory.

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Gonna have to read the English book. Sounds incredible.

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Plus that Gavin Belson guy keeps trying to jam his horrible signature into his products.

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