You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:50 pm

I don't practice the Lenten tradition of no meat Fridays, but do enjoy fish fry's. However, there's nothing spectacular about them. It's fried fish. How many ways can you fry a cod?

The one we go to we enjoy because they give you a decent amount of sides, plus you can order online and pick it up without getting out of your car. My in-laws, on the other hand, are serial fish fryers. They try new ones every year. I swear it's their goal in life to visit every one in Pittsburgh.

Postby **tifosi77** » Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:59 pm

The overwhelming memory I have of fish fries where I grew up was not delicious fried fish, but rather unacceptably soggy French fries.

Postby **tifosi77** » Fri Feb 23, 2018 2:00 pm

I learned a valuable life lesson this morning: Don't queue up behind a transport van/shuttle at the gas station, as they apparently have 500-gallon fuel tanks and take 25 minutes to fill.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Fri Feb 23, 2018 2:10 pm

Oh yeah, I never wait behind a big ass truck, van, etc.

Postby **Morkle** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 12:36 pm

So I actually decided to try and listen to Sirius satellite radio this week - as I'm out of podcasts. What in tarnation is it with having radio commercials on their channels, I honestly thought that was the reason to pay - but the comedy station was a commercial every 5 minutes or so.

Postby **MR25** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 12:45 pm

No commercials on 97% if the music stations

Postby **tifosi77** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 1:05 pm

Yeah, when they launched they did a pretty good job of explaining it was just the music stations that were ad-free. Never understood all the Stern fans that would call in complaining about it; they literally expressly said it was just the music channels.

Check out POTUS (124), they have a good lineup of non-partisan hosts (Tim Farley, Smerconish, Julie Mason, Steele & Ungar), and the discourse is usually pretty informative and constructive.

Postby **pens9192** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 1:12 pm

So I actually decided to try and listen to Sirius satellite radio this week - as I'm out of podcasts. What in tarnation is it with having radio commercials on their channels, I honestly thought that was the reason to pay - but the comedy station was a commercial every 5 minutes or so.

I loved XM about ten years ago. Bought an antenna and hard wired it to my new head unit. Did it all myself with no prior knowledge, probably my top ten proudest moments of my life hah.

Anyway I canceled it about five years later. A couple of my favorite stations had changed, more repeats, and then more DJ interruptions. It just wasn't worth to me anymore so I canceled.

I got a new car two months ago so I am still under the XM free trial. I tried a few of my former favorite stations and the comedy ones and I just couldn't pay for that after I have gotten so used to Spotify and podcasts.

If you have Spotify, there is a public playlist called "Stand Up Comedy". It has over 10,000 tracks in it from a wide range of comedians. Over 547 hours worth of stuff. XM can't hold a candle to that.

Postby **Silentom** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 1:12 pm

People who double click to open links.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 3:36 pm

The audio quality of Sirius XM sucks, especially the satellite units. So compressed. The desktop or app is a little better, but still lower quality than other streaming services.

Postby **Silentom** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 3:40 pm

The main software that I use at work doesn't let you paste information into fields with Ctrl+V. Have to right-click, paste.

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 3:53 pm

The main software that I use at work doesn't let you paste information into fields with Ctrl+V. Have to right-click, paste.

Oracle?

Postby **NTP66** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 4:37 pm

**** Oracle.

Postby **NTP66** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 4:39 pm

Parents who leave their bags in the chairs at the front of the viewing window for swim class but are all gathered up 50’ away chatting with each other instead of watching their kids.

Postby **Silentom** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 4:52 pm

Nah, not Oracle.

Postby **Factorial** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:10 pm

**** Oracle.

What's your beef with Oracle? I've heard this from others but have only used it once.

Postby **NTP66** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:19 pm

**** Oracle.

What's your beef with Oracle? I've heard this from others but have only used it once.

For an IT admin, it’s awful to deal with in general. The installer is bloated as hell, configuration is convoluted, and causes more oddball issues to the point that it’s almost preferred to simply reinstall everything than troubleshoot anything.

Want to use just a single feature of the client for some random tasks? You need 1GB worth of prerequisites just to run that 500kb app.

Postby **columbia** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:22 pm

Oracle PL/SQL was/is wonky and not my preference.

Postby **NTP66** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:24 pm

There’s been a big push away from Oracle and towards SQL over the past decade, and it’s not just because of Oracle’s awful licensing.

Postby **MR25** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:42 pm

We use Oracle for some stuff. Used to be the primary expense audit system

It's slow af

Postby **Factorial** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:45 pm

There’s been a big push away from Oracle and towards SQL over the past decade, and it’s not just because of Oracle’s awful licensing.

I've always heard that it (the database itself) requires too much administration by a dba.

Postby **Factorial** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:46 pm

We use Oracle for some stuff. Used to be the primary expense audit system

It's slow af

Probably crappy code or bad network connection, etc vs Oracle not being a good database.

Postby **MR25** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:49 pm

The system likely has not been updated since the early aughts

Postby **AuthorTony** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 6:10 pm

A door to door insurance salesman just showed up at my house. Did I get transported back in time to 1955?