The best way to spot an idiot is to “look for the person who is cruel”, Pritzker says. “When someone’s path through this world is marked with acts of cruelty, they have failed the first test of an advanced society. They never forced their animal brain to evolve past its first instinct … Over my many years in politics and business, I have found one thing to be universally true – the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/23/how-to-spot-idiots-jb-pritzker-northwestern-speech

The full quote and where Ike said it.

"I think the women, therefore, must be concerned with these values, and I return to my statement that if a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power." - President Dwight David Eisenhower, at the Fourth Annual Republican Women's National Conference (6 March 1956)

Today in 1972, Beatrice Worsley died. Born in Mexico in 1921, she was the first female computer scientist in Canada.
She wrote the first program to run on EDSAC, wrote the first compiler for Toronto's Ferranti Mark 1 & taught at the University of Toronto for over 20 years.

#computers #womenshistory #computerscience #canada #history #histodon #histodons

I have two performance tips for #sqlserver #SSMS users.
1. If you are working with a very busy database where backups or deletes are holding locks and SSMS can't expand OE nodes or open property sheets, use this registry hack to put SMO queries in Read Uncommitted mode. https://guibubbles.wordpress.com/2017/06/05/ssms-and-smo-query-isolation/

2. When opening Object Explorer to an Azure SQL Database instance as a non-admin user is taking a long time, set your "Connection Timeout" value to a small number like 10 or even 5 seconds. This will cause some background connections to fail more quickly and unblock the real work.

In addition to Home Depot, which was the focus of the Privacy Commissioner's report, CBC found the following retailers were sharing customer data with Meta when customers asked for electronic receipts:

- Anthropologie.
- Bed, Bath & Beyond.
- Best Buy.
- Gap.
- Hudson's Bay.
- Lululemon.
- PetSmart.
- Sephora

Full CBC story here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/retailers-sharing-data-meta-1.6737484

#canada #privacy