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[chat] Van Nguyen
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April 29, 1975
The Vietnam War is going very poorly.
Ba Van Nguyen, a Major in the South Vietnamese Air Force, realizes that the war is lost and the chain of command has completely broken down.
He takes a Chinook helicopter (big dual-rotor helicopter) and lands it in front of his family’s home in Saigon, loading his entire family on board. He heads out to sea, hoping to escape heavy fighting in the city. He hears English radio chatter and realizes there may be a nearby US vessel that can aid the people aboard his Chinook.
That ship is the USS Kirk, which has been taking in desperate refugees like Nguyen and his family all day. However, the Chinook is far too big to land on the deck.
So Major Nguyen hovers above the deck and people start jumping. Once everyone but himself is safely aboard, he now has a problem. He can’t simply jump out without crashing the Chinook and killing everyone on the Kirk.
So he flies off to starboard and hovers above the sea. He removes his flight suit while somehow still holding the Chinook steady. And then, he rolls it into the sea, jumping out so as not to be caught in the giant metal death trap
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dHJm3Ptoo3o
The Vietnam War is going very poorly.
Ba Van Nguyen, a Major in the South Vietnamese Air Force, realizes that the war is lost and the chain of command has completely broken down.
He takes a Chinook helicopter (big dual-rotor helicopter) and lands it in front of his family’s home in Saigon, loading his entire family on board. He heads out to sea, hoping to escape heavy fighting in the city. He hears English radio chatter and realizes there may be a nearby US vessel that can aid the people aboard his Chinook.
That ship is the USS Kirk, which has been taking in desperate refugees like Nguyen and his family all day. However, the Chinook is far too big to land on the deck.
So Major Nguyen hovers above the deck and people start jumping. Once everyone but himself is safely aboard, he now has a problem. He can’t simply jump out without crashing the Chinook and killing everyone on the Kirk.
So he flies off to starboard and hovers above the sea. He removes his flight suit while somehow still holding the Chinook steady. And then, he rolls it into the sea, jumping out so as not to be caught in the giant metal death trap
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dHJm3Ptoo3o“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
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Hope I never have to experience that.
god I fucked that up
ChatGPT, have feelings
Have feelings of an almost human nature
Actually, I think firstly and foremostly, of a lone Chinese man, standing in front of a column of tanks.
Lately the person who pops into mind for me is Leon Lewis, a Jewish attorney in L.A. who created his own spy ring to infiltrate and disrupt the shockingly, stunningly significant American fascist movement before and during WW2.
He had to do this because the cops were either more worried about communists, or were members of the organizations in question, or both....
It’s wild what we leave behind and destroy to ensure it doesn’t get into anyone else’s hands/break opsec
I just yesterday read about the scuttling of the german ww1 navy. And how some of those old ships were harvested for low-background radiation steel to be used in medical equipment. Since for some decades all steel that was made new was too irradiated just by being on the same planet as all the atomic bomb tests.
I don’t even know how to describe that whole chain of events. Wild, I guess is apt.
Still in a foul mood.
Thanks to those who gave e-hugs earlier
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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10 years from now we will just ask GPT-41 to give us info from the database. We need not ever know how to do anything ever again.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
This only one who knows. To seek his wisdom is to court...death.
Is it a vulnerability to have users
I mean theyre literally risking opsec by logging in
My naive scripts and database structure only got me one displeased letter from the managed hosting provider for excessive usage so I do consider myself a bit of an expert on scalable database systems
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
We can do better I think!
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ORMs 5ever.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
They had to
The Kirk wasn’t a carrier at all. It was a frigate. Its on paper carrying capacity for helicopters was 1. They had a whole bunch flying in with refugees. They had to make room.
And they saved thousands that day
strange but true
One of my GenXer patients had the audacity to leave one of those tacky canned scripted voicemail messages, like it’s 1988 or some damn thing
A company I stepped in to help / consult at had a LAMP stack application they were handling hundreds of thousands of product detail records and millions of photos inside of. This thing was built so badly that it got to the point where basic requests could take 90 seconds to execute.
So clearly, the solution to the problem was to put a declaration in the index.php bootstrap to override the php.ini settings with an execution timeout of 10 minutes. For every call.
So yes, I did know. I saw every bad decision that could be made in an app in this thing.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Got anchors to hang a mirror.
*reads back*
…wtf
after coming from Hades, this feels like bowling with the guard rail up. Had to immediately increase the difficulty to not get bored
FOR EXAMPLE
Today I wanted to find out how many times commercial power had failed at a site the last few weeks. So I check the backup in Access. And I get something like 20,000 records.
Because there are two alarms that have been hitting every couple minutes for six weeks.
Son of a-
Remember, this is just one site out of probably a couple hundred that we monitor. There's so many records, a query sometimes takes a full 30 seconds to process. And this is only for the last 4-6 weeks.
(I tagged the alarms, meaning I basically turned them off. They're not actionable, so there's no need to see them.)
using the standard odbc connector, you can point an access app to MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, etc...
It might be worth it; porting out of access to SQL is very easy.
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I mean it got Bruce Willis out of handcuffs in Die Hard 3
It is literally just ass covering.
So
You say that
But the odbc connector is super old, updating it breaks everything, and using it any way aside from already existing things doesn't seem to work. I tried fixing this 3 years ago and gave up.
To be fair, I'm no where close to a DB expert, but it's a completely ad hoc system put together by a tech who doesn't work here anymore, and the DB team that actually manages the REAL SQL database doesn't want anything to do with it.