This post is very timely because I was just introducing some new people to Mongo earlier this week and led off with "Now you might still hear people say 'mongo is trash, it's not even ACID compliant!' but those people are dumb... it's had that for years and years and is just another DBMS at this point (but not relational)"
... the last part also answers the other reply to this post. Yes.
I usually only drive past one on Sundays (church crowd) but that one is always completely packed. Unsure how it does other days. I want to say I've been by there a few times on Saturday morning and it's also been very busy.
Source: deep south US, if the term "church crowd" didn't already tell you that.
Quotes I highlighted from Wolff's book on trump's first term, most of them quotes from trump or people in his orbit that came up in interviews for the book.
“I don’t get it,” Trump said.
Of course the United States manufactured things, but reality did not match the vision in Trump’s mind.
“I just do,” Trump replied. “I’ve had these views for 30 years. That doesn’t mean they’re right,”
It was clear Trump had no clue what that was or who Porter was.
As far as Porter was concerned Navarro was a member of the Flat Earth Society on trade deficits, like the president himself.
No answers were forthcoming. But Trump soon forgot his questions.
“I don’t want to hear that,” Trump replied. “It’s all bullshit.”
Trump seemed not to comprehend the value and the necessity.
The president was speaking as if the U.S. military was a mercenary force for hire.
“He’s a fucking moron,” Tillerson said so everyone heard.
Cohn concluded that Trump was, in fact, going backwards.
It seems clear that many of the president’s senior advisers, especially those in the national security realm, are extremely concerned with his erratic nature, his relative ignorance, his inability to learn, as well as what they consider his dangerous views
"I can’t sit around and listen to this from the president. He’s just a moron.”
It was clearly Russian propaganda, McMaster said. He and the NSC and intelligence experts had concluded that. But the president had picked it up and shot it out.
Trump seemed not to remember his own decision because he did not ask about it. He had no list—in his mind or anywhere else—of tasks to complete.
“The president has zero psychological ability to recognize empathy or pity in any way.”
Trump had no understanding of how government functioned.
Trump liked signing. It meant he was doing things,
The president thought special assistant sounded a lot better, not realizing it was an even lower position.
Kelly said of the president, “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in crazytown."
“Can we change the libel laws?” Trump asked
He had told the West Wing staff and even some on the Hill that the president didn’t understand what DACA was, that he was ignorant of both the policy and the mechanics.
The president can’t do this on his own, he’d told West Wing colleagues, because if he does it on his own, he’s going to screw it up.
“He’s a professional liar.”
“Mr. President, I cannot, as a lawyer, as an officer of the court, sit next to you and have you answer these questions when I full well know that you’re not really capable.”
He could not say what he knew was true: “You’re a fucking liar.” That was the problem.
Somewhere out there is a person with a single folder named "music", with zero sub folders, containing thousands upon thousands of tracks with names like "1.mp3" and "1 (1).mp3" and they're totally okay with it.
Something I found today - ask it for the lyrics of your favorite song/artist. It will make something up based on the combination of the two and maybe a little of what it was trained on... Even really popular songs (I tried a niche one by Angelspit first then tried "Sweet Caroline" for more well known). The model for those tests was Gemma3. It did get two lines of "Sweet Caroline" correct but not the rest.
The new gpt-oss model replies with (paraphrased) "I can't do that because it is copyrighted material" which I have a sneaking suspicion is intentional so there's an excuse for not showing a very wrong answer to people who might start to doubt it's ""intelligence"" when it's very clearly wrong.
I couldn't do the instinct 2 solar because of the 50mm size (I have dainty little wrists) but the instinct 3 solar is available in 45mm.
I'm over a month in and at 70% battery with minimal direct solar, but it does give it a 1-3% bump when I'm working outside.
At this point, I have to see how long it can go without charging.
(Again, I don't use any of the "smart" stuff, just the heart rate monitor for sleep tracking - is that a new thing to require HRM for sleep tracking? Long ago, they did it with the accelerometer)
I remember looking for a new watch awhile back and seeing a review that said "The battery life is outstanding! I get almost two whole days without a charge!" and thinking "naw dude".
But, I also don't like "smart" watches... or "smart" anything. I want a damn watch that can occasionally do GPS tracking when I want it to and the battery should last, at minimum, one month.
Just (re) started Dead Space after not playing it for 10-15 years. Still good, still enjoy, why buy when I can just replay games I've forgotten the story to?
Same for Control a few months ago... And I'm sure others.
"stand ten toes down on your beliefs"
That's an interesting idiom(?). Never heard that one before.