Duncan Smart
@duncans.bsky.social
SQL Server 2025 has been out for over a year now but the official SQL Server pages are still rocking like it's 2024?!
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
SQL Server 2025 has been out for over a year now but the official SQL Server pages are still rocking like it's 2024?!
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I've been blaming memes for this, and I think it fits. A lot of the angriest people out there aren't actually consuming news, they're consuming news-flavored content, and the content is a funhouse mirror version of reality that they're mistaking for being real.
October 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I've been blaming memes for this, and I think it fits. A lot of the angriest people out there aren't actually consuming news, they're consuming news-flavored content, and the content is a funhouse mirror version of reality that they're mistaking for being real.
@jamesomalley.co.uk Thought you might find this interesting, regarding the propensity to avoid installing/using air conditioners in Europe x.com/levelsio/sta...
@levelsio on X: "TIL more Europeans die from heat-related causes than Americans from shootings" / X
TIL more Europeans die from heat-related causes than Americans from shootings
x.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
@jamesomalley.co.uk Thought you might find this interesting, regarding the propensity to avoid installing/using air conditioners in Europe x.com/levelsio/sta...
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AI in search engines is the equivalent of a mate on your quiz team who thinks he knows the answer but isn't sure.
May 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
AI in search engines is the equivalent of a mate on your quiz team who thinks he knows the answer but isn't sure.
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It's "addictive", not "addicting".
March 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
It's "addictive", not "addicting".
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have you read this great piece? I think about it often... www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/i-sh...
I Should Be Able to Mute America
The rest of the world should not have to know the name Bari Weiss
www.gawkerarchives.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
have you read this great piece? I think about it often... www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/i-sh...
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Zelensky's finest achievement to date may be in not lamping these cunts
February 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Zelensky's finest achievement to date may be in not lamping these cunts
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The suit exchange should go down in history showing how brilliantly sharp and funny Zelensky is and how he put Vance down (all in his second language).
Vance: Why don’t you wear a suit? You never wear a suit.
Zelensky: When the war is over I’ll wear one. Maybe one like yours or maybe a better one.
Vance: Why don’t you wear a suit? You never wear a suit.
Zelensky: When the war is over I’ll wear one. Maybe one like yours or maybe a better one.
February 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The suit exchange should go down in history showing how brilliantly sharp and funny Zelensky is and how he put Vance down (all in his second language).
Vance: Why don’t you wear a suit? You never wear a suit.
Zelensky: When the war is over I’ll wear one. Maybe one like yours or maybe a better one.
Vance: Why don’t you wear a suit? You never wear a suit.
Zelensky: When the war is over I’ll wear one. Maybe one like yours or maybe a better one.
Enjoyed this article by @daivaughan.uk regarding IT scandals. Hadn't heard about the glucose meter one at a UK hospital where 70 (!) nurses were *assumed* to be faking the glucose readings, rather than it actually being staff training/sloppy data management/IT issue dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2024/ho...
Horizon IT scandal: repeating patterns
There is so much that has been written and said about the Horizon scandal over the past 10 years, that it’s hard to pick out what actually happened, and how it got so bad.
When things go really badly ...
dafyddvaughan.uk
January 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Enjoyed this article by @daivaughan.uk regarding IT scandals. Hadn't heard about the glucose meter one at a UK hospital where 70 (!) nurses were *assumed* to be faking the glucose readings, rather than it actually being staff training/sloppy data management/IT issue dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2024/ho...
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It’s incredible really how Musk threw away a truly enviable public image. Five years ago if you had heard of him at all you probably thought of him as super rich but also successful, probably clever, innovative, maybe interesting. Now you know much more about him and think he’s a stupid dickhead.
October 6, 2024 at 1:46 PM
It’s incredible really how Musk threw away a truly enviable public image. Five years ago if you had heard of him at all you probably thought of him as super rich but also successful, probably clever, innovative, maybe interesting. Now you know much more about him and think he’s a stupid dickhead.