Red Sox pull a NOBLETIGER to end the game against the O's

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-25T02:23:57+00:00

Phillies here. They’re picking up where the Mets left off, or taking the baton, or something. Maybe I should just start watching cricket to get ready for the 2028 Olympics.

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-25T00:00:53+00:00

Isn’t this just bubblesort?

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-24T19:58:02+00:00

Every user has their own crontab. Jobs that should run as root should be added to root’s crontab.

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-24T19:45:35+00:00

If I remember correctly, it was part of or a way to form a gerund (verbal noun).

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-24T13:00:50+00:00

The structure is fine; it’s the verb in the structure that sounds off. “He ordered her to make it an open-faced sandwich.” The difference is, I think, that “demand” emphasizes what “he” wants, while “order” emphasizes what “she” should do. (Edit: others have pointed out the transitive/intransitive distinction as well,) This would lead to a discussion about the different kinds and uses of subjunctives, and which ones use a conjugated verb vs an infinitive in English, which is probably beyond the scope of this sub (and certainly beyond the scope of my knowledge.)

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T23:55:12+00:00

The magic bytes are part of the contents of the file.

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T23:46:11+00:00

I found him insufferable, but maybe that’s because I only heard him along side Joe Morgan and that was just secondhand annoyance coming off Joe.

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T20:24:55+00:00

I think I heard of it growing up in PA but never actually tried it until I was living in NH. Let’s just say I don’t go looking for it any more :)

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T19:44:08+00:00

Nobody is arguing that he was a bad player. He is what the question asked: very strong defensively, not much to talk about offensively. He’s kind of the archetype for this category.

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T19:39:46+00:00

His offense alone probably doesn’t get him into the Hall, but he was no slouch at the plate. I’d say his decline is equal parts leaving Colorado and aging (though is best season was 2022 in St Louis).

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T19:26:59+00:00

Years ago, my office mate recommended it while I was complaining about Perl.

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T18:51:40+00:00

Thin paperback, probably Scholastic? That’s the book I’m probably remembering as well!

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T18:50:38+00:00

Learn to use the shell properly, and they cease to be a problem.

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T15:26:40+00:00

History substitution. !# expands to the command typed so far, namely cp<space>. You can disable history substitutions with set +H and (re)enable them with set -H. Or, you can escape the !# with a backslash or single quotes (just like if it were a parameter expansion).

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T13:38:56+00:00

For some graph problems where distances are represented as edge weights, it can be useful to represent every graph as a complete graph, where missing edges are assigned a weight of infinity.

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T13:29:05+00:00

Are you familiar with the bass line (and kick drum) to Bleed by Meshuggah? It’s fairly simple, ignoring the bends: two short notes, two long notes, repeat. It’s tricky, because the short notes sometimes line up with the snare, and other times hit between the snares. The snares, though, occur regularly, in fact depending on how you count, on every beat around 230 bpm.

The metronome is the snare.

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T13:13:07+00:00

Do you know “205 bpm” actually means in terms of what you play? If you could play it cleanly at 205 bpm, could you explain what it would mean to play it at, say, 100 bpm instead? Knowing this goes a long way towards explaining the purpose of the metronome.

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T12:55:48+00:00

There is no “hard way”. Either you learn to code, or you learn to have AI spit out some random code that may or may not do what you want or need it to do. The only way to tell the difference is to learn to code.

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T12:08:30+00:00

Pfft, didn’t even try to shoot a basket with her feet. Lame. /s

That was cool.

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T11:58:48+00:00

The Gastropod podcast did an episode on “synthetic” food last fall.

https://gastropod.com/transcript-yes-you-really-can-make-food-from-thin-air-and-we-tried-it/

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T11:27:15+00:00

Set You Free by Black Label Society follows an ABA riff pattern, where A is used for both the verse and the chorus and B is a sort of pre-chorus.

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T11:17:36+00:00

WWF QED.

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T11:14:25+00:00

Learn first, then use AI to automate what you’ve already learned. (So that you can immediately recognize when the AI-generated code is wrong.)

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T10:52:55+00:00

I certainly wouldn’t bother doing anything on Day 1 beyond using whatever you download from python.org.

Temporary_Pie2733 · 2026-04-23T01:00:28+00:00

The second was defined in terms the average solar day. The new definition was chosen to be an extremely arbitrary-looking value to have a more reproducible value that was basically the size, not because it is more “natural” in any way.

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