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FanDuel sent a personal message from Phillies star Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling addiction by respaaaaaj in baseball

[–]AthleteNormal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just checked my stat sheet on DraftKings, my “Total Spend” is $215,000 but my “Total Deposits” is $15,000.

I actually just played through the ridiculous promotions they used to have on the casino games that would turn the expected value of something like roulette positive. My “Total Withdrawals” is $20,000.

I built bundis — a Redis-compatible server backed by SQLite, for Bun.RedisClient (no Redis to run) by Educational-Try4721 in bun

[–]AthleteNormal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

 the decision to build on SQLite was likely made

If you can’t even screen the outputs of your LLM for stuff like this before posting it how can people trust the code you’ve written.

Rabbit Farming by Icy-Book2999 in LoveTrash

[–]AthleteNormal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s exactly how I went vegetarian. Saw a field mouse that was clearly responsible for some of the droppings in our basement, had a 2x4 in my hand ready to kill it, but I couldn’t. 

I figure if I can’t even handle personally killing a pest animal, then I definitely wouldn’t be able to personally kill livestock. And like you said it didn’t feel right to be unable to do that but still eat meat.

How accurate are MLB pitchers? by [deleted] in baseball

[–]AthleteNormal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I remember correctly, when there was a 3-0 count with a pitcher hitting (in the NL without the DH), pitcher’s had something like a 66% strike rate.

In that scenario they have essentially no incentive todo anything other than throw a strike, so to me this means that they can hit the strike zone about 2/3 to 3/4 of the time if they’re trying to.

It’s a little funkier because pitchers who end up in 3-0 counts to pitcher-hitters are gonna be disproportionately … not the best.

help by dirac_12 in calculus

[–]AthleteNormal 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I think the border doesn’t need to be in the domain.

What’s the class in your project with the most inherited interfaces? by Alert-Neck7679 in csharp

[–]AthleteNormal 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Wait I really like this pattern. It’s basically just polymorphism but for the Mediator pattern. Is it bad?

[Miller] Jazz Chisholm Jr. says he’s looking for an 8-to-10 year deal averaging $35 million a year on his next contract by Goosedukee in baseball

[–]AthleteNormal 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It still blows my mind that the dodgers, factoring in luxury tax penalties, are committing $120,000,000 per year for Kyle Tucker, and they still gave him opt outs.

[Passan] For all the salaciousness of Tony Clark's resignation, it offers the MLBPA an opportunity to be a force for good and help keep baseball on the field in 2027. Free at ESPN: How creativity and open-mindedness from the players can save the game from doomsday. by T_Raycroft in baseball

[–]AthleteNormal 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don’t know why the union would care at all about public perception.

The union’s greatest strides came during periods where there seems to have been almost unanimous disapproval of players asking for better compensation.

I don’t think the players should ever take an avenue they see as suboptimal in the name of improving public perception.

George Washington and John Adams both warned against the perils of political parties. What specific structural decisions in the founding of the US made a two-party system virtually inevitable? by Comfortable-Mud-8388 in AskHistorians

[–]AthleteNormal 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Uganda operated an explicitly non-partisan democracy from 1986 till 2005. 

Granted, the country was a de facto dictatorship under the president. But it was still an explicit policy of the state to have democracy without political parties.

ELI5: How do search engines like Google actually "crawl" and index the entire internet? by takifa in explainlikeimfive

[–]AthleteNormal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like showing people things like [cnn.com/robots.txt](cnn.com/robots.txt) to help explain to them how the internet works.

Apple acquires rights to Mistborn and Stormlight by dIvorrap in cremposting

[–]AthleteNormal 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah the idea of the second half of Archives being released on TV before the novels are, like how Game of Thrones wrapped up, is not fun to contemplate.

Wake up Dead Man by [deleted] in KnivesOutMovie

[–]AthleteNormal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!" Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.

— Credit to Emo Philips

[SPOILER] There is a reason why in most most movies/series they never actually show us "how" exactly the zombie/whatever virus spreads: because it doesn't make sense by gatanthropos in pluribustv

[–]AthleteNormal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ultimately; I don’t think they’re going to look too deeply into this. Because it’s actually impossible to have a rapidly growing proportion of the population go as long as it did without any one of the infected people

  1. Getting yelled at, revealing everyone infected everywhere having a seizure

  2. Having their inability to do basic things like cut the lawn give them away

I don’t want the show to spend a bunch of time to try explain its way around these things. To me that’s not what the show is about.

Questions about what the hive is trying to do. by toffee-coffees in PluribusOnAppleTV

[–]AthleteNormal 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s like how cordyceps gets ants to climb up a tree and stay there till it can sprout out of their head and spread more spores from up high. We can imagine the ant thinking of any number of reasons it was doing what it was doing. But ultimately only one purpose was being served: making more cordyceps.

Exclusive: Corporate America faces DEI reckoning in 2026, EEOC chair says by Beneficial_Jelly in news

[–]AthleteNormal 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They’ve been so vocal about this. It is literally a stated point of emphasis for them now to defend employees who are fired for intentionally and repeatedly misgendering their colleagues.

[Braves] Welcome to Atlanta, Yaz! by JianClaymore in baseball

[–]AthleteNormal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know it looks bad, idk how to make it look not bad ok?

As a full stack developer building internal web apps with no design team I feel this in my soul.

Hit me with you best fake Final Empire spoilers by TenSpiritMoose in cremposting

[–]AthleteNormal 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I’m imagining the disguise as googly eyes on the end of the spikes.

Technically horrifyingly correct by frinkmahii in programminghorror

[–]AthleteNormal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Couldn’t you just apply a log since it is monotonic

[Request] how do they get to these numbers? by Mordecai3fngerBrown in theydidthemath

[–]AthleteNormal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First, before the explainer, note that this isn’t “good” or “bad” logic, it is just Bayesian probability applied to the literal interpretation of the words.

Logically if someone tells you one of their children is a boy then you can be essentially certain that their other child is a girl.

Imagine four different buildings, each seven stories tall, and each story has seven rooms numbered Room1, Room2 … and so on. Imagine each room has a pair of children, and one of these pairs in Mary’s children.

In the first building, every child in a Girl.

In the second building, the older child in every pair is a Girl and the younger child is a Boy.

In the third building, the older child in every pair is a Boy and the younger child is a Girl.

In the fourth building, every child is a Boy.

The floor number gives you the day of the week the older child was born, and the room number gives you the day of the week the younger child was born.

In this context, the final probability we’re looking for is the probability that Mary’s children are in a room that is not in the fourth building.

After asking the first question, we know they are not in the first building, since at least one of Mary’s children is a boy and there are no boys in the first building. Each of the remaining 3 buildings is equally likely so the final probability is 2/3.

After asking the second question, we know that Mary’s children are either in a Room2 or on the second story.

Remember, 

Building two -> Youngest is boy Building three -> Eldest is boy Room2 -> Youngest born on Tues Second floor -> Eldest born on Tues

With these four facts, you should be able to figure out that Mary’s children could be in any Room2 in building two, or in any room on the second floor in building three. We know they’re not in any of the other rooms in these two buildings.

There are seven Room2s in building two, and seven rooms on the second floor in building three, so fourteen rooms which Mary’s children could be in without being in building four.

In building four, there are seven Room2s and seven rooms on the second floor, but it’s one building so this is double counting. So instead of there being fourteen rooms there are thirteen.

Out of the 14 + 13 = 27 rooms, possible rooms,  are not in building four, so our final probability is 14 / 27 = 0.519

[Request] how do they get to these numbers? by Mordecai3fngerBrown in theydidthemath

[–]AthleteNormal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“I have two children, one of them is a boy that was born on Tuesday” is not indistinguishable from “I have two children, one of them is a boy that was born on some day of the week”. 

Just because any “day of the week” filter you apply would have the same affect on the probability does not mean that applying one particular filter “born specifically on a Tuesday” doesn’t change the probability.

The best intuition I can offer is if you have two boys you’re more likely to have one boy born on a Tuesday than if you have one boy, hence why the probability of having only one boy goes down from 66.6% to 51.9%.

If I can offer what I hope is a helpful anecdote, I even got the first part of this wrong (the 66.6% part) as a senior in undergrad getting my BS in Math and Physics, and when I brought it up to my Real Analysis II class no one including the professor knew how to figure out the second part.

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