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In the pre-online sports betting days, was there a legal way to bet on a game besides going to a casino and visiting the sports book? I remember newspapers publishing odds but still have no idea how people made wagers (other than physically visiting a casino).

> Huge amounts of white collar jobs have been automated since the advent of computers

One of which was the occupation of being a computer!

And before doing any of that, get it tattooed onto your own forearm.

Thank you, that map is fascinating. Jamming in and around conflict zones (Ukraine, Myanmar) and in China make sense to my Western brain. But why so much interference in Japan?

Actually, this sounds like a great use for an LLM or even boring old machine classification. I am sure Prague and Beautiful are commonly found a few tokens apart in a training set of say, TripAdvisor forums. While "LA"/"Los Angeles" and "ugly" are likely to be similarly co-located.

I am not sure you are interpreting the map correctly. The red-brown tones are less-dreary, while bright red is more-dreary. L.A. is squarely in the less-dreary area. See also the numerical rankings.

Your point stands though. L.A. is one fugly city.

That's the thing. It was not noticeable at the time. No heavy breathing, no pain in the legs, no sensation of "this is hard" that you get with most formal workouts. But I have no doubt that my heart rate and adrenaline/cortisol levels had already been elevated, enough so to disrupt the typical sleep cycle.

I figured out in high school/secondary school that doing strenuous exercise within a few hours of bed time would kill my chance at a decent sleep. I have always found it easy enough to do formal workouts in the late afternoon or early evening.

What gets me sometimes though is the "unexpected" exercise. A few months ago, while on vacation, I decided to climb the 10 flights of stairs up to my room, not wanting to deal with the slow and crowded elevator. 4 hours later, it's 2:00 AM and my mind is racing and it's like "why can't I sleep, that was a long day!". The next morning I remembered my trek upstairs and reminded myself that anything which elevates the heart rate is best avoided before sleep.

If you are a Reddit user r/MaliciousCompliance is full of stories* of people follow orders to the most exacting and absurd extent. Most of them are peon-level folks so I am not sure how those actions would map to a person in a position of real power.

*fact vs embellished fact vs straight fiction is always questionable on Reddit.

We are in for this ride, at indefinite intervals, for the next 3.75 years. Well, unless congress grows a collective sack (unlikely) or President Trump comes to his senses on macro economics (past experience suggests this is impossible).

> How are businesses supposed to plan anything in this environment?

They cannot. This is how you can tell Trump was never a real businessman, but rather a TV host and a celebutante. I'd venture nearly all major American business, public and private, depend on stability in the American government. Trump's actions make it painfully clear he is not, and never was, really part of the "business" or "deal making" world.

I use Strava for mountain biking and the Athletic Intelligence is just comical.

"This ride was longer and harder than usual" - no sh*t, the map, elevation profile and my legs have already informed me.

"You set 3 new PRs" - I can see that with one flick of the thumb thank you.

"Consider a rest day" - consider? None of my job, spouse, equipment or body is too keen on doing that again for a while.

"If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'"

Reminds me of an incident early in my career. I was developing embedded software and needed an expensive, specialized signal analyzer. Management refused to purchase or assign one to me. I was stuck sharing with my lead, which was highly inconvenient for both of us.

Well, turns out one of those analyzers was assigned to a guy (Dave) about to retire. I wandered over to Dave's cube the day after he left and sure enough, there is my much-needed analyzer. It is poorly locked to a table leg by a rather long cable. So I tilted up the table, slid the cable off the bottom of the leg, lugged the analyzer to my office and enjoyed an relaxing afternoon of debug.

I got a nice talking-to from management once they realized what happened. And most importantly, became the new assignee of Dave's analyzer.

> This restructuring will result in an approximately 16% workforce reduction

Probably the most salient detail for non-Automattic employees. Everything else was generic fluff.

The parallel is senior leaders ignoring secure communication rules that their rank-and-file must follow. Hillary's email server did not immediately spring to my mind.

Edit: Its safe to say that this story involves multiple levels of hypocrisy by the current administration.

This hypocrisy reminds me of one of my former lead developers. He required everyone on the team to go through multi-person code reviews and pass an extensive CI suite before merging changes into our mainline.

But him? Half that time he'd approve his own changes without review, the other half he would force-push and bypass the CI system entirely.

He knew the system well and seemed to do enough local testing to avoid major breakage but still. Why have a bunch of rules and policies that you do not follow yourself?

Is it me or do attempts to generalize career development across companies seem futile?

The concrete example here I can give is working at one company where "Manager" meant you had 10+ direct reports and were expected to do almost no technical work. Versus a second company where "Manager" meant you had 4-5 directs and were doing significant amount of technical work. The path from IC to Manager at company 1 had almost no commonalities with company 2 despite similar-sounding titles.

I guess what I am saying is that promotion ladders are so tightly integrated with company norms that attempting to seek outside advice on "how do I get to the next level" seems useless.

Edit: To rephrase more succinctly - Are articles like TFA useless or do I not know how to interperet them?

I travelled to Stockholm from North America a few decades ago, right around midummer. Worst jetlag of my life.

The problem was that 20 hours of daylight, especially having 2:30 AM feel like 6:30AM. It was impossible to get an adequate amount of sleep. The paper thin curtains in the cheap hotel where I stayed did nothing to block out the light.

If I am ever in that part of the world at that time of year again, I will be bringing a sleep mask and seeking out a hotel with proper blackout blinds or curtains.

My in-laws only obtained passports in their late 60's. They took one trip to Canada, which was their only international trip, ever. My FIL is quite proud of having never seen the Pacific Ocean. They are also 3-time Trump voters. If they survive the next 3.5 years while rejection of the constitution continues, will likely be 4-time Trump voters.

These are the types of people who 1) support the policies from TFA and 2) will not notice the loss of visa-free travel.

Perhaps your idea isn't to punish the Trump voters, but to galvanize the non-Trump voters?

> he falls for every single "the current thing" in the book. I remember when he was pushing for so much of the crypto stuff and all of that evaporated to nothing

Isn't this what an early-stage VC firm is supposed to be doing? Lots of investments in companies working in whatever the hot new tech may be. Most companies lose, some break even, one wins so big you forget about the rest.

High risk, high reward, high volume is always how I thought of a firm like YC. And one expects a lot of investments to evaporate to nothing for such an industry.

My office now has an automated machine. I’d give it a 4/10. Not great but much better than the 1/10 from the old drip machine (and the occasional 0/10 when someone brewed with a double quantity in a misguided effort to coax a more pleasant flavor from those burnt beans).

No. I use like 3 eggs a week. Not worth the effort.

Well, he (probably not she) is describing expected earnings once hired, not chances of actually getting hired.

Thank you. I was trying to figure out what "forge" meant here.

When I think "forge", I think a tool to turn a raw material into finished product. Ergo, the blacksmith tool that turns iron into a horseshoe.

The software analogy would be turning text source code into a runable binary. Ergo, a compiler or an interpreter.

Github and SourceForge move source code from one place to another. To overextend the analogy, they are more like a combination shop/delivery service. Source code is moved but never altered or transformed.

Long story short, this crusty C/C++ dev thinks forge is a really weird term for a self-hosted, sugar-crusted Git server.

5 hours of thought later, I am recalling that Greece is also seismically active.

I have trouble lumping those 5 services together. Maybe its something to do with me being a middle-age American male?

Instagram/X/TikTok: Hot garbage. Good riddance. Ban them and this country is a better place.

Whatsapp/YouTube: Actually quite useful. The former for real-time global communications. The latter for visual how-to's of all kinds (bicycles, home maintenance).

Southern Italy. I believe the rest of Europe is quite seismically stable.

Breaking up the travel on the way to the much, much better beaches and much, much clearer water in the Caribbean?

That's the only reason I'll be spending a night in America's wang.

Am I missing something or is that ADALM-PLUTO a really good deal? Its going for $195 direct from AD. Half the frequency range of a USRP but 15% of the price.

I was going to hold off on my SDR hobby until a few more gray hairs and $$$ came into my life but might need to pull the trigger on that guy (yes I know you can get an rtl-sdr for like $30).

From the press release:

> expand very low power device operations across all 1,200 megahertz of the 6 GHz band alongside other unlicensed and Wi-Fi-enabled devices.

Unless I am missing something, this means Wifi6 currently operates in this range.

I've no idea how to quantify such things.

I do know that adding C to that graph would require changing the Y axis to a logarithmic scale.