They're the "import electronics, slap a sticker on em and charge 300%" province, yes

We should just sell Chile Tierra del Fuego. For $1. Maybe we toss in the Falklands claim as a treat

sometimes they just change endpoints and I have to go to the help desk to ask them to send me the latest version of the pdf of their API docs. Because fuck openAPI I guess

at work we have a system that charges us extra for using their APIs and they don't even have most of the information available through those paid APIs!! Or any sort of proper documentation whatsoever!

It's never the complex problems that are this fucking annoying, it's always some dumb thing like this that only exists bc some mf at Microsoft decided to be paternalistic about how semantic models work

Istg I will write a script to automate opening the stupid goddamn file and pressing "refresh" because rebuilding this damn semantic model would be a PITA

What do you mean they should be dataflows. What do you mean I can sidestep this by having an Excel do the materialization step and literally nothing else but now I have to manually press the refresh button twice

I do this too and I'm not autistic 😭

I could never be her 🥲

bonus points for what group of famous economists his older brother was part of (though that one is more predictable)

So is making silly comparisons between the US minimum wage and works of literature "using your magic thing to maximize your efficiency for your capitalist boss"? Or is that perhaps using the magic-box-that-everyone-has for personal entertainment purposes?

teaching penelope of ithaca about girlbossing so she realizes she can just Kill All The Suitors and get her man back herself

"not X advice" when it's something the person has zero liability for is like the laziest, most cowardly copout

bro you're an influencer, not part of any serious professional association