Stop giving him ideas. He’s gonna put a hangar right next to the east wing ballroom and shove it in there like the Spruce Goose

Hey al-Biruni and Ulugh Beg did it, why not?

Could you export a few of those to Louisiana?

Even Mississippi State has a bar to clear - by the way, I know of PhDs from Jackson State who are faculty at CMU

And about me.

I wasn’t addressing you but the comment replying to you.

So was I!

The Inner Game of Tennis has entered the chat

Not every STEM grad student is a CS masters

STEM PhD students do not pay for their education

STEM PhD students typically pay with labor rather than cash. Labor to teach undergrads, and to perform other university research. (though they typically pay their undergrad with large piles of cash).

That is, very much, a substantial form of payment.

This is manifestly not true. What leads you to believe this? Certainly there are some who don't, just as with undergraduate education. But there's no blanket program in the US to pay for all STEM PhDs.

All of the dozens of US STEM PhDs I know from recent decades had to pay their tuition by working as TAs, RAs, or usually both. They didn't walk in the door with a trust fund, work through the coursework, and then write up a dissertation. I'm not sure that's even a possibility in most STEM fields: you need access to millions of dollars of ultra-specialized equipment which you can realistically only get by working in an existing lab, which means being an RA.

Right, they work a job to pay for their tuition. But they still pay, even if it's bartered.

You have a point!

They work like a 120k a year job for 30k a year.

True, but I would say a large fraction of foreign nationals who do PhDs in the US were undergrad educated at least partially in the US.

I did hear about it at a local DBA conference but didn't think it was a big deal

It's a pretty big deal as without an actual JSON data type queries are really parsing against strings for every action, which is much much slower in practice.

Most of the JSON functions added in iirc MS-SQL 2016 really performed poorly and is a significant reason why denormalized JSON data was used very sparingly... with actual JSON data types (assuming a binary deserialized form of storage), then queries and operations against that underlying data structure can run significantly faster.

I've been pretty critical of it since I tried using it for a few things a few years ago... it still worked well enough for the needs of what it was doing, but I'm glad that it's doing better.

For reference, what it was being used for was to semi-normalize most stored procedures to receive 2 argumenst and return 2. All JSON... the first argument would be the claims portion of the JWT for the service, the second would be a serialized typed request object representing the request to the service and the two results are the natural results to the sproc as well as an error result if an error occurred. This allowed for a very simplified API surface (basically 4 utility methods being used for all API calls), in the project in question it was a requirement for data logic to be inside the database, of which I'm not a fan, but it did work out pretty well for what it was. Other isseus not withstanding.

How would you recommend them based on winter performance?

I live in a snowy area and am quite happy with them.

I believe they are directional tires so it would make it hard to operate with a full size spare otherwise I’ll definitely consider them