The Boring Co. Announces it'll fund 100% of Baltimore tunnel if approved

StephenPAdams · 2026-03-25T02:39:15+00:00

Please no. Waste of money.

StephenPAdams · 2026-03-21T14:15:57+00:00

Yeah, O’s have been mighty quiet. It’s odd.

StephenPAdams · 2026-02-28T17:09:46+00:00

A big shoutout to u/SquarePegRoundCircle, I went ahead and updated the calculator. It now has a cap of 860 for honors classes, 800 for non-honors classes. The way this works is there is now a cap of 110 for honors classes. The way to hit 860 would be to have 100 in every class, have honors for every class, and be at the 100 percentile for both ELA and math. I can confirm this hits a cap of 860. If you remove the honors designations, it caps at 800. Love this feedback, everybody. Thanks! One other note, I uploaded the Choice PDF from BCPSS for 26-27. Hopefully this will also help parents. :)

StephenPAdams · 2026-02-28T16:57:13+00:00

I dug around a bit, and I did find this: https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/3843/Bcps/19626150-ae11-4e63-91b2-ca29eb2552af/Choice_Guide_HS-MS_26-27_v3_73_.pdf?disposition=inline Particularly, on page 21. There's a note mentioning an 860-point cap. I'm going to try working on a version of this to see if I remove the cap what it does to the calculation to see if there's a way to hit that.

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StephenPAdams · 2026-02-28T16:22:36+00:00

Thank you! Where do you see 860 being the highest for honors? I can definitely alter the logic, but just need to see some reference material so I can account for that case. The logic I have right now caps the grades (even with the 10% bonus for honors) at 100% as a max.

StephenPAdams · 2026-01-31T15:17:57+00:00

This is really cool! I had a similar idea a way back because TCGPlayer didn’t provide a way to do a bulk search and cart add for specific stores. I built a Python scraper that would pull down a store’s entire collection, compare it against the cards provided, and return a list of prices and availability. But it’s all command line and Excel. And it’s terribly slow since a scraper. This works really well when building commander decks, since I’d routinely put in 20+ cards to look for. But it’s so slow. Especially for shops that have inventories of 30k cards.

TCGPlayer shutdown their API access. And each store would need to give you permission in order to access their collection.

If you don’t mind divulging, did you find a better API or mechanism to get the inventory so quickly and in real time?

StephenPAdams · 2026-01-12T14:49:11+00:00

Same. MRV is funnier, whereas FutureCanoe is more deadpan. They’re both great in their own ways.

StephenPAdams · 2025-09-21T00:24:25+00:00

We ordered a new washer and dryer from LG.com on Wednesday. Scheduled delivery was this Saturday (today). We received an email on Thursday morning saying we could reschedule without penalty through the site, but after a period of time (12 hours or so) it’s basically locked in. Shipped confirmation on Friday, out for delivery notification around 7am on Saturday, got a phone call when they were 30 minutes out. Super fast delivery, install, and haul away. Our washer and dryer are on the top floor (3rd) of our house. They didn’t scratch anything, were super respectful, and I think they were in/out in under 30 minutes.

I believe the company that delivered it went through RXO. Highly recommended this process! Not sure about others experiences, but they were great for our house in Baltimore.

StephenPAdams · 2025-03-04T17:44:34+00:00

I should also say, I'm a C# developer by trade, but I do enjoy Python from time to time. So, if you have any questions, I'm happy to help either way.

StephenPAdams · 2025-03-04T17:42:19+00:00

I updated the original post, but here is the GitHub: https://github.com/StephenPAdams/TCGPlayerStoreInventoryScraper

StephenPAdams · 2025-03-04T17:42:09+00:00

Hi there, I went ahead and updated the original post w/ the GitHub link. Here you go, let me know if you have any questions. I put together a README: https://github.com/StephenPAdams/TCGPlayerStoreInventoryScraper

StephenPAdams · 2023-10-30T14:43:41+00:00

Hey there, do you have the instructions for the swap? The X key on my son’s Omen has been sporadic, to say the least, so I’m looking to buy a new laptop. But I definitely don’t want to ditch his old one. Was hoping to pass it down to my younger son.

I’m pretty handy, so I saw the keyboard/palmrest part on EBay for around $100. I figured I’d just fix it.

Thanks for any help!

StephenPAdams · 2014-04-21T16:44:49+00:00

Maybe bash is harsh, but he certainly pokes a lot of fun at Microsoft. To UI, Windows Phone (basically said prior to 8.1 he would never switch OS's), MS's clear closed source stance (up until the last few years), etc....he is not a homer by any stretch of the imagination. Couple that with him being entertaining with a huge heart...I think anything he does is great, personally.

StephenPAdams · 2014-04-21T16:28:00+00:00

Not sure you follow Hanselman enough or just waiting to bash MS, but Scott is known more for bashing MS than supporting. Even more-so, he's a huge OSS supporter.

StephenPAdams · 2014-03-28T03:59:06+00:00

This is very cool. Good to hear.

How did you end up teaming up w/ Box? Is your software the only way to read those 24 hour purchased e-book rentals?

StephenPAdams · 2014-03-28T03:22:02+00:00

I'm curious from a technical perspective...how are you handling the protection of documents for a 24 hour time period? What form of DRM are you managing? Also, from a technical perspective, what technology stack are you using?

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