Well, the question of privacy in an LLM is a trivially simple one - there is none.

Guardrails are a lame pretence at securing the LLM, the data can leak, you...

This is why I watch cricket with beer - it helps.

Well, not so much by the 5th day sometimes, maybe, but there you go.

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"It's a pull because you're asking someone to accept your code. You pushed it into the Pull Request, but they don't have to take it. They have to pull it."

Eh?! ...

I can only assume that anyone using that many parameters is simply doing it plain wrong.  Either

1)  the table structure is just wrong - I mean in a properly designed...

Yeah,

if you think you're going to get a delighted response from a production engineer if you're providing them with randomly crap data, I hope you can duck and weave well. ...

Is VB Script even supported any more?  I thought MS had killed it

"On the plus side, storing telephone number as int uses less storage than a varchar. Ok you won't need to use any numeric functions on it, but you probably won't...

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Well,

while I agree with you that it's an abomination, and I would also go as far as to say it's a hallmark of absolute rank, wilful incompetence, and if you...

the lesser of 4 sockets or 24 cores, yes.  So realistically the limit on modern kit is 24 with the number of cores on chips these days.

That said, while I've...

One of my absolute pet hates.  I'm not quite sure whether this is because it's an abomination in itself (it just smells of "I couldn't be bothered to actually think...

Aye, but if you can manage to find anything in Dynamics or Sharepoint that could be considered good practice, I do believe there's a prize on offer

Given that the name is misleading, certainly in terms of how many people claim to understand it, I would personally change the NOLOCK hint name to IDeliberatelyCodedThisJoinToReturnCrap.  With immediate effect,...

Third party contracts like that are only as good as the last test.

Given some of the systems I work with, probably Plague Doctor