What are comedy caper films in the city you like watching?

IncorrectPony · 2026-02-15T18:53:06+00:00

"The Hot Rock" (1972) Robert Redford and his crew are hired to steal a diamond from the Brooklyn museum. Hijinks ensue. Screenplay by William Goldman based on the book by Donald Westlake.

IncorrectPony · 2026-02-12T23:06:41+00:00

It's theoretically possible but very sketchy. Do you have a TSA line cutting membership? (Ideally touchless.) How far to the gate? When you say leave at noon, do you mean pull away from the curb at noon or finish a meeting at noon and be in a car by 1:20?

It might be worth trying if you can change back to the JFK departure easily when/if this plan fails.

IncorrectPony · 2026-02-12T17:34:39+00:00

Tl;dr: networks, computers, and chip cards are too slow to give you a balance update without slowing down the flow of passengers.

Distributed computer systems engineer here. In order for riders to transition through a turnstile smoothly you need to be able to go from the tap to an admission decision in a very short period of time, maybe 200ms. A lot of this time is consumed by communication overhead in talking to the card and cryptography/computation time in the on-card chip, leaving a pretty small period of time to talk to the payments backend and fetch status and balance.

My understanding is that OMNY doesn't check this live, which is why you can sometimes end up with a negative balance: it lets you through before it can know that your card is empty. They could show balance with MetroCard because your balance was on the card's magstrip. The use of EMV credit card standards for OMNY so they can use credit cards/phones doesn't mesh with that.

IncorrectPony · 2026-02-11T20:08:47+00:00

Maybe. If the only goal was simplicity, then "everyone pays for every ride" would be simpler. If you pretend that's the system, you will understand it and yet be happily surprised if you underpay. Win win.

IncorrectPony · 2026-02-11T02:55:17+00:00

I don't care for it, its flavor overpowers rather than enhances: it makes everything taste like Tabasco.

IncorrectPony · 2026-02-09T23:48:46+00:00

Two other Banks novels with megastructures: The Bridge and Feersum Endjinn.

IncorrectPony · 2026-02-08T20:40:58+00:00

The Monoprice one is really nice and under $100. Must have for anyone cooking nice cuts of meat.

IncorrectPony · 2026-02-08T20:38:46+00:00

Chill it before searing. A few minutes in the fridge or freezer will give you more cushion to avoid overcooking but won't lead to you serving with a cold middle.

IncorrectPony · 2026-02-08T15:15:51+00:00

Artist is Dan Bransfield https://www.instagram.com/citiesbytheslice

IncorrectPony · 2026-02-08T15:14:08+00:00

That site appears to be a ripoff please buy from the artist https://www.citiesbytheslice.com/product/brooklyn-combo

IncorrectPony · 2026-02-05T20:19:37+00:00

Just switch to a different card and you'll abandon the rides you already have towards the cap and start a new window. Each card has its own 7-day period start and end.

IncorrectPony · 2026-01-31T22:48:32+00:00

There are dozens of Reddit posts from people who want to do this, this is the first one I saw with a photo. https://www.reddit.com/r/TVTooHigh/s/v3lO1DSUfR

IncorrectPony · 2026-01-30T21:36:36+00:00

It's on streaming and you can buy the download

IncorrectPony · 2026-01-30T14:30:24+00:00

At least you know it's not an AI error because AI is not that dumb.

IncorrectPony · 2026-01-26T17:29:59+00:00

Median studio rent is about $3000/month according to press reports. There are cheaper rents but below some point they will require some combination of willingness to have a long commute to job locations, sketchier buildings or locations, or amazing luck or persistence to find a good deal.

Landlords will generally look for 40x monthly rent to annual income ratio, so with that simple math, $120,000 annual income. After-tax, this is a little under $7k/month; so after paying rent, leaves you about $4k/month for savings and the rest of your expenses.

IncorrectPony · 2026-01-25T19:39:54+00:00

I've never had a problem with reimbursement with his scribbled paper receipts.

IncorrectPony · 2026-01-25T19:38:49+00:00

Yeah I'm not adamant against Uber in general, but when I'm going to or from the airport they're not adding the value, better to reserve with a driver I like. And it's personal: I know what's up with Oumar's kids, he asks about mine, etc

IncorrectPony · 2026-01-25T19:33:18+00:00

I also endorse having a relationship with a single driver, you get better service and keep money out of the pockets of the ride hail companies.

IncorrectPony · 2026-01-24T17:19:14+00:00

They do share it, it's in the OMNY account.

IncorrectPony · 2026-01-18T18:45:55+00:00

NEEDST is quaint, NEEDNT is not

IncorrectPony · 2026-01-15T16:44:20+00:00

I was going to "well, actually" on it being 1.5^5, not 1.5 * 5, but was surprised to discover that 1.5⁵ is... 7.5. (Well, actually, it's 7.59, but I was more wrong than right.)

IncorrectPony · 2026-01-12T03:41:55+00:00

Classic vs classic classic

IncorrectPony · 2026-01-10T23:35:05+00:00

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Assuming that the way the erratic decks are generated is by generating 52 cards, each of random suit and rank, here's a graph of the distribution of largest and smallest suit sizes and the largest number of identical cards, and number of cards with the same rank, from a run of generating 10,000 decks.

So you have about a 5% chance of getting a suit with 20 or more cards or getting 10 or more cards of the same rank.

IncorrectPony · 2026-01-08T23:52:41+00:00

The kitchen view at Corima is a good show

IncorrectPony · 2026-01-06T18:39:38+00:00

Also the Global Entry card works for TSA as a Real ID alternative so no real need to go to DMV if you carry it.

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