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I'm not sure if you're referring to me as OP or easytiger but my point is I have the (completely reasonable!) expectation that elected officials will act with integrity with regards to the policies they enact.

Please note I did not include a judgement on whether the rules are justified or not. Whether or not they are justified, if an elected official enacts a rule they expect others to follow, you can be damn sure I expect them to have the integrity to follow it themselves.

You're shocked I expect politicians to enact policies in good faith and then abide by them themselves?

edit: I'm no longer surprised they act this way, but it still angers me greatly.

The "rules for thee but not for me" on display by elected officials is maddening. It's certainly not unique to the US. Here in Canada the mayor of Windsor recently had "an unfortunate accident" (ate at a restaurant with a group of people hours after calling for zero tolerance) [1]. Earlier in the pandemic the premier of Ontario Doug Ford drove to his cottage after asking everyone else to stay away from theirs. There's never any consequences and leaves people (me at least) increasingly frustrated, angry, and feeling a complete lack of faith in our politicians.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-mayor-dining-... [2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-cottage-covid-19...

If we can't agree on a definition for religion, then saying I belong to a religion is a fairly meaningless statement no?

It's still not clear to me how that implies I have a religion. Being influenced, consciously or subconsciously does not mean I have a religion, but maybe I'm misunderstanding your point.

How does that imply I have a religion? Doesn't religion have some element of the supernatural by definition?

edit: reworded.

As someone who would deny having a religion, can you clarify what you mean by that?

> I made sure to get to the office hours and I was surprised that there was almost no one there most of the time.

One of my biggest regrets about university is not taking advantage of office hours. For me it was a combination of 1) social anxiety and 2) thinking that if I really belonged in this program (physics) I should really be able to figure everything out on my own. I know now that this is a stupid way to think but it's the way I felt at the time.

Yes, I agree in this case it's exploitative.

For sure. Certainly not ideal but better than naught.

"The advertisers will have no metrics on how often the ad was skipped over"

Lots of the advertisements ask you to visit a custom URL or use a discount code which the advertisers can use as lower bound on how effective an advertisement is.

If you knew you could flip a $16k investment into a $1MM return practically overnight I bet you could come up with $16k in an instant.

Most of the creators I watch are switching to a combination of Patreon and in-video advertising "reads" (have you heard about Kiwi Co?!?) both of which cut Google out of the equation so it's not too surprising to me Google is cranking up the dial on their own advertisements.

Exactly. Apple has done a good job of selling the "we care about your privacy" line, but it's still just a line they're feeding you.

It looks nice and seems very fast but doesn't seem like it has walking & biking paths in my area.

MotoGP obviously doesn't have the same level of tech as F1 but it is the apex of racing series IMO. Dorna has done a great job with the rules to keep the series competitive in recent years. It's amazing that there are 5 out of 6 manufacturers legitimately able to produce wins this year!

A gift (c. 1997?) from my parents of a "box" of Turbo Pascal is easily one of the most influential moments of my life. It was such a great programming environment and the docs (books!) were fantastic and quite accessible. I'm still chasing the dragon of the feeling of programming I had back then.

"One International Unit (IU) equals 0.025 mcg of cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3) or of ergocalciferol (Vitamin D2)" [1]

[1] https://walrus.com/questions/converting-units-iu-of-vitamin-...

Looks nice! Especially this bit "All Spinach workers are part of the system that schedules periodic jobs, there is no need to have a pet in the cattle farm.". The fact that you can only have one celery-beat running is one of the main reasons I chose something other than Celery.

I also checked out this one! Can't run it on multiple servers unfortunately which disqualifies it for my use (https://github.com/arteria/django-background-tasks/issues/10...)

I also evaluated Huey when I was looking around and it seems nice. IIRC the main reasons I chose Django-Q were 1) Built in DB as a broker (Huey is mainly focused on Redis I think) 2) Django-Q can run multiple clusters (I run in an AWS auto scaling group) and not duplicate scheduled tasks and 3) it will run on Windows (I run an OS project that is cross platform).

For anyone who's been looking for a simpler Task Queue for Django, check out Django-Q [1], it's been working very nicely for me. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Celery but it's very simple to get up and running using the DB as a broker and comes with periodic tasks out of the box.

[1] https://django-q.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I really think "it's 90% rider and 10% machine" is a big exaggeration in MotoGP. Even Marquez is not going to win a race on a current generation Aprilia, and I'm not sure there is anyone other than Marquez who can win races on the current Honda.

edit: regardless, Dorna has done a great job making MotoGP competitive and MotoGP has to be at or very near the top of the list for the best racing on the planet.

Not happy about it but it worked in Canada for me too.

Even though this is not related, you may have missed Google Play Music which was Googles Spotify competitor. It's getting axed in favour of YouTube Music.

"In poker, you can play perfectly and still lose."

Only true over the short term: all you have to do is play GTO poker over an infinite number of hands in a rake free game and you should at least break even I think!

That said, this fact is the main reason that the game of poker really "works". If playing perfectly (or at least at a much higher level than your opponents) allowed you to always best your opponents, then you'd quickly find yourself out of opponents. There needs to be enough luck involved to keep losing players coming back to the table (the same reason most casino games have a thin house edge).

Poker can be an absolutely soul crushing game to play professionally. "Running bad" where you lose money over 10's or 100's of thousands of hands even while playing well can make you seriously question your sanity. It can also cause you to add subtle (or not so subtle) errors into your game (e.g. playing too cautiously or aggressively) which can turn your once winning game into a losing game, making it tough to decide whether you are currently a winning player running bad, or actually a losing player.

I purchased PDF Studio Pro and it works pretty well for me.

> To add to this, most of the additional countries aren't really umm... worth traveling to, at least for most people.

This is a quite unfortunate attitude to have. Every country I've been to has something to offer, has helped me gain perspective and empathy with other people and has been "worth" traveling to.

Of course there are some great stations to stream; there is infinite musical content online that I use to great advantage. But we're specifically talking about FM/AM broadcast and the chaff heartily outweighs the wheat in most locations.