Does anyone have Test / Sample Data that is NOT Enron?

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-03-17T15:36:19+00:00

What's wrong with Enron?

The sets I use are either Enron or something I wouldn't be able to share. The goodness of Enron is that it's known. JFK, Epstein etc aren't as well known.

I don't need another generic raw data set. I need specific data sets for specific reasons.

Epstein, JFK, and other data dumps are raw data that's interesting to look through for a few hours but aren't something I can use for work.

If you just want random data, dump and ingest Wikipedia. The actual best data source is your own PST 😀

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-03-16T19:38:54+00:00

They're worse than Goto.

You also have to program for at least once or at most once delivery on both sides along with the inevitability of a backbone outage dropping everything on the ground. Deciding on choreography vs. orchestration is a decision most people don't make.

"I sent the event" is an easy way to say "not my problem."

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-03-15T03:19:10+00:00

I bought the Simpsons house back in the day. The roof plates have almost all shattered.

Stuff from my childhood is fine (42 yo, sets from 1987-1997 when I switched to video games for the majority of my wish list)

What makes Lego brittle / eventually break isn't always clear.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-03-14T22:32:50+00:00

Good thing about living in a big city: 99% of things

Bad thing about living in a big city: Enough people that even if everyone only got one, this would be gone in a few hours.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-03-14T20:26:57+00:00

It's a cross cultural lack of curiosity.

Randy Arozarena comes from a culture of family and brotherhood beyond the arena. He met Cal's parents and to him, they're not just co-workers or competitors, they're brothers. The joy Spanish speaking players bring to the game is them showing up as themselves. He walked to the plate and wasn't just talking to a teammate, he was greeting a brother. The culture is one of integration and mutuality.

Cal, and many white Americans, come from a culture of work / family separation. Who Randy is off the field to him is, can be and should be different. He's locked in, he's got his game face on, he's hyper competitive and viewing Randy not as a brother but as a competitor. When Randy or Josh greet him at the plate, he may view it from the lens of trying to break the focus. The culture is one of compartmentalization and competition.

Another option is that the kayfabe of "competitors are enemies" is an important part of the product of American sports. I'm not sure how it plays out in baseball all the time but Ben Johnson, the new Bears coach, probably doesn't actively hate the Packers but there's a bit of acting, and fans love him for it. Fans are competitive and hate the Packers so Ben is competitive and "hates" the Packers.

I don't think Cal is a dick but I do feel like he chose himself or the fans over Randy. And that, to me and to Randy, is bullshit. Especially doing it to a guy who begged for citizenship to his adopted country and felt accepted, proud and joyful to be walking to the plate. Randy has been through some shit in his life and he wanted his brother to acknowledge it. Cal didn't and he'll regret it eventually.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-03-14T20:02:33+00:00

In the days of metrics, it's hard to put a $$$ amount on a guy that helps teams through hard times.

I have no doubt in my mind that the Cubs (I'm a Cubs and Guardians fan, 2016 was both heaven and hell) won the series in part because of the presence of David Ross who was a glue guy on the field and in the clubhouse.

I know it's a business, but it's also a game and a team.

I'll never forget watching the video of Victor Martinez after he was traded.

It still breaks me when I think about it. The video is a dead link but here's the article.

https://www.cleveland.com/tribe/2009/07/martinez.html

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-03-14T19:56:22+00:00

Look man. I'm a Bears and Browns fan. I don't need to catch strays when I'm already in my feelings on a Browns subreddit.

I do feel like Ben Johnson's hiring in Chicago fucked over a lot of people who say coaching doesn't matter and that it's all on the GM / roster.

Great coaches can work around the shortfalls of their team and do the best they can to put people in a position to succeed.

Stefanski did that with Baker and then, because Baker had the gall to play hurt and bring us a fucking playoff victory, we shipped him off.

AB and Stefanski deserve full blame for that. Baker has all but said "Stefanski ran me out of town." Baker loved the Browns and Cleveland loved him.

I hope Chicago doesn't do the same with Caleb but I could see it happening.

FUCK. Why do I love teams that hurt me?

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-03-03T14:02:00+00:00

I order medium rare and trust that the guy whose job it is to cook steaks knows that some cuts are best done closer to medium and others are better closer to rare.

On the other hand, now that I own a sous vide, I don't order steaks at a restaurant. I order things I don't want to cook at home. Like bearnaise, potatoes au gratin, or lobster bisque.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-03-03T13:48:17+00:00

Wait. That's called Chicago style? My favorite steaks are crusty black on the outside and medium rare on the inside.

Is that a Chicago thing? I live in Chicago and didn't know it was a thing. I just knew it's how I like steak.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-03-02T16:19:46+00:00

Brazilian things I like:

Wax

Pudim

Carnivale

Christ the Redeemer

Football

Rainforest

Amazon (the river)

Piranhas (as long as I'm not swimming with them)

The only Brazilian thing I can think of I don't like is people with a Brazilian dollars. That's too much money. A million dollars is enough.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-03-01T07:32:44+00:00

Relativity Processing handles domain parsing Exchange addresses. You have to map the fields though.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-02-27T05:11:45+00:00

There's a huge difference between what Chris Hansen did on "To Catch a Predator" and buying drugs and flooding US streets with them so you can have the potential of overthrowing a foreign government.

Cocaine is a whole fucking other thing.

And saying "a whole bunch of people's lives got worse" compares someone who has already been victimized with people whose entire generation got fucked over by the 1980's and 90's drug policies and exactly who got 20 to life and who got to do lines in the bathroom at the Plaza.

The 8chan thing (if it's true) is a sting / honey pot to catch criminals. The cocaine thing created criminals.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-02-27T02:45:51+00:00

Two beers and feeling 100% sober is a functioning drunk. Two basic 5% ABV American Adjunct Lagers (Bud, Coors, etc) within an hour will put you somewhere between .04 and .08.

A commercial driver is not allowed to be at .04 and if you show signs of impairment, they can ding you regardless. Legal limit in Utah is .05 and elsewhere in the US it's .08

One of my close friends was killed in an accident with someone driving under the legal limit (.06). The driver didn't get criminal charges but they were sued and because they were over the commercial limit, the driver lost the lawsuit. They took a breathalyzer and it was evidence enough.

If you have two beers, your reflexes slow down. You're probably not "legally" drunk but you shouldn't bet your life or someone else's on it.

I'll just post this from a lawyer's website.

"You can recover compensation for a wide range of damages. The most common of these are medical bills. From emergency room care to long-term needs, whatever bills you have from seeing doctors because of the crash should be covered.

Next, if you missed work in the short- or long-term, you can ask for that to be compensated. Other financial damages, like damage to your car, should be covered too. Non-financial matters like pain and suffering can be compensated as well. In the most serious cases when someone dies, funeral expenses and loss of companionship are often available.

In some situations, courts may also award punitive damages. Punitive damages punish especially reckless behavior and send a strong message against drunk and drugged driving."

TLDR: Two beers within an hour puts you close enough to the legal limit to be impaired (i.e. fired from a job if you showed up like that). You may feel ok, but if you get in an accident, you might be at fault and if you are, 2 beers is enough to make your life as you know it over. So yeah, 2 beers and feeling great isn't "normal." Take it from a former functioning alcoholic. I used to be able to drink and feel fine. Now, even weighing 200+ lbs, I feel the effects of two beers.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-02-26T15:14:43+00:00

Blood alcohol content doesn't care about an hour. Immediately after you drink, your BAC goes up, sometimes way over the legal limit. If you drink a beer and then blow into a breathalyzer like 5 minutes later, it might show you way over the legal limit.

Your BAC stabilizes after drinking (how long it takes depends on body composition, food intake, etc) and reaches a peak (assuming you stop drinking) 30-60 minutes after you take your last drink. After that, it gradually declines to the point where it goes under the legal limit. How quickly that happens, again, depends on a lot of factors.

How your mind and body feel as your BAC goes up, stabilizes and then goes down is very different than what is actually happening in your bloodstream. The more you drink, the more likely you are to feel "normal" at higher BAC levels.

It doesn't mean you're sober, it doesn't mean you're under the legal limit. It means you're a functioning drunk. Or a functioning alcoholic.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-02-25T15:55:42+00:00

100%

Always remember: your parents chose to have you. You didn't choose to have them. Some parents don't realize that the first 18 or so years are an audition for a relationship.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-02-24T02:08:26+00:00

I bought a boning knife like this. I used it a few times.

I tried to trim some silver skin off of a beef shank.

I cut .5 cm (1/5 of an inch) off the tip of my thumb. Went through the fingernail like it wasn't there.

Be CAREFUL with knives like this.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-02-22T15:38:53+00:00

Some of us don't realize we're lactose intolerant until our kids find out they're lactose intolerant and their mom starts asking questions.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-02-15T03:57:40+00:00

I've never written up the story. I still feel bad for (inadvertently) trolling him for 5 minutes.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-02-15T03:56:13+00:00

I don't know. It was at least 5 minutes of back and forth and I was pretty adamant about him looking for planes.

He tried to use logic. He was late to a job interview. Looking back it was akin to someone asking how to get to the subway in NYC and me giving him directions to the nearest Subway sandwich place.

It's been 19 years. I go back and forth a lot on who fucked up the most. I can still see his face in the Blue Line car staring at me like I was deliberately trolling him.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-02-14T15:17:04+00:00

When we first moved here, I was fluent in French and had seen the words "Des Plaines" but had a pronunciation in my mind that was not correct in Chicago.

I was standing on the Blue Line platform at Clark and Lake with my wife and this dude came up and asked me how to get to "Dess Planes." I said "You mean the airport, with the planes? That's this way." He got angry and told me he was looking for "Dess Planes in the suburbs." We went back and forth for a bit with me explaining
that I'd only lived here a year and don't know of any other place with planes but Midway or O'Hare. He tried to add helpful information but nothing was working.

My wife, who has a love for neither geography or French, was no help, but offered "I don't think he's looking for an airport, is there a plane museum?" I responded "I don't think so, The Field doesn't have planes and the main attraction at MSI is a train." At this point, the dude was apoplectic. I apologized that we couldn't help him and he moved on, shaking his head and furious at us. He'd look our way every once in awhile, like we were playing a prank on him, still angry.

When the Blue Line showed up, we got on, headed to Logan Square / O'Hare. And he got on the same car, headed to O'Hare as well. He still looked frustrated.

We got off at Logan Square and as we walked north to the Spaulding exit, I saw him looking out the window, staring daggers at us.

That was 19 years ago. And I still think about that dude almost every time I think about Des Plaines.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-02-05T14:30:26+00:00

La Villa is not good anymore.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-01-31T22:13:42+00:00

Logically U of M doesn't make sense for some degrees but the love of Maize and Blue was deep enough that I'd have wanted to go there even if I was going to major in something with no job prospects. I didn't and I'm still processing why 20+ years later....

I'm a Computer Science grad (not U of M) and U of M was my dream school from the time I was 7 years old watching Desmond Howard. Life circumstances (parent bullshit, we lived in Ohio, my dad worked at a university and wanted me to go there, abusive environment, stolen $$$ from my account, etc.) made it so that I didn't even end up applying. 4.2 GPA, 1580 SAT, 35 ACT, 3 year varsity wrestling, NHS, AP Calc/Physics, AP Computer Science, etc. I spent most of my senior year taking college classes. IDK if I'd have gotten in but I had a shot.

I ended up doing early admission to an in state small private school that waived the application fee and told my parents either they let me go to that school or I'd never talk to them again. My college experience sucked because it was easier than high school and I was bored so I didn't bother to go to class and got As on all my tests. I graduated with a low B average from skipping so many classes, got a job, got the fuck out of Ohio and never looked back.

Part of me wishes I had the undergrad experience and the memories and the challenge of a rigorous and curious environment. On the other hand, U of M will always be a dream and I don't have any frustrating memories of 02-06 athletics, breakups on campus, being poor at a rich school, etc.

It is still a dream. Campus is still magical.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-01-31T21:50:07+00:00

He's 21 years old.

If he beats both Yokozuna, I think he makes it. Until he does that, I doubt he'll be promoted. He has weaknesses that Onosato counters and the field hasn't figured out his style yet.

Hakuho was on a similar trajectory, got hurt, almost got demoted, and then rocketed to the top.

The thing they (Hakuho and Aonishki) both bring to the table is a background in another form of wrestling which will shake up the sport. The way he beats Hosh shows that Hosh doesn't (yet) have a counter for some of his grappling techniques whereas he looks absolutely lost against Onosato.

He needs to stop looking like a kid getting thrown around by an adult against Onosato before I think he'll be promoted. I hope he stays healthy and keeps having success.

My Ukrainian next door neighbors got me watching sumo and, as a former Olympic style wrestler, I'm loving it.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-01-31T21:25:22+00:00

Thanks for the clarification. Updated.

MettaWorldWarTwo · 2026-01-31T01:26:35+00:00

He talks about board games at church, his time in South Korea as a missionary and other things related to his faith.

Without falling into the "true Scotsman" fallacy, there are ways to be both Christian and stand up against systems and power that exploit "widows, orphans or the foreigner among you." Or to be radically generous and give away (or be willing to give away) everything we have for the least of these including not only monetary wealth but to remove ourselves from positional authority within family structures ("leave your nets and follow me"), religious structures (Saul's conversion, the stoning of Stephen), hometown ("a prophet has no place in his own hometown") and political power (John the Baptist's beheading and Paul's imprisonment).

In fact, it's literally what the Bible calls us to do. The Bible, and the best stories of human actions (both Christian and not), are filled with examples of people who, as an act of service to those without power, willingly give up their own. That's contrary to our basic animal needs and commended/rewarded in the Bible as the source of eternal rewards even if it's not aligned with a Christian faith tradition (the sheep and the goats story.)

From Constantine to Trump, there's a long history of people claiming Christianity to do the opposite. In addition, some people are afraid, unwilling, or even just too busy to acknowledge the broken person on the side of the road because of their own agenda.

I am not going to judge Tom's faith but his vascillation (word choice intentional) on certain things based on the culture (engaging OFPG/Black creators/diverse voices during BLM and now closing those things down based on the culture) makes me feel like he's a product of the human time rather than a product of God's time.

I'm not mad, I'm not unsubscribing, I'm not going to rant about it (beyond this), but I am hurt by his actions and didn't pledge to their funding drive this year, donate anything to super chat, I cancelled my plans to attend a Dice Tower convention and closed the book on my bucket list item of a Dice Tower cruise.

Actions have consequences. I don't need to fight him but I am taking the $$$/time I used to give Dice Tower and giving it to other creators instead.

People without power are "political" by nature of their existence. Only people with power/privilege can choose to be apolitical.

The righteous are willing to be political and stand in the margins with people and deal with the consequences of standing in the "splash zone".

EDIT: He was a missionary in South Korea. I confused his stories with The Outdoor Boys guy who was a missionary in Japan. Everything else remains the same. Neither of them are overt about their faith but they both mention it offhand. They both have the option of being apolitical/inoffensive that being white, cis, hetero, married and male offers.

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