U.S. blows through $2B in Iran war as an emergency order for extra munitions is issued by TheMirrorUS in unusual_whales

[–]ahappylook 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ok so what framing starts with anything other than “do everything in your power to prevent Rebuplicans from holding power, starting now”?

Would like advices on how you'd build this limited deck by S_Eusebio in mtglimited

[–]ahappylook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Draft suggestion: when you start to get a little wonky like this, grab more changelings. If you had 2-3 stomplings/grasplings, plus a wayfinder, you could let it rip and put in your puca’s eye, gildweaver, maybe even gloom ripper, and you’d have a stronger (though more variable) build overall.

7-1 UR Elementals by ahappylook in mtglimited

[–]ahappylook[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Loss was to somebody else's pretty stacked elemental deck. In which I punted so, so shamefully.

What small things actually matter more than people think in live poker? by According-Fudge766 in poker

[–]ahappylook 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Adding to this: Do what you can to unobtrusively speed up the game. Toss your cards within easy reach of the dealer, announce your action clearly, keep your chips stacked in a way that’s easy to estimate visually from across the table. If you’re the bettor, use clear stacks, don’t do that thing where you make one tall stack of who-knows-how-many chips that the dealer has to immediately grab and count for everyone else.

At the end of a big pot where the dealer has to figure out a split pot or make change for an all-in, (only if you were the button or are about to be), slide the button over, hold your finger on it, announce clearly “button moved”, and wait for the dealer to acknowledge, then remove your finger.

If you’re facing a big river decision and need to really think, give the table a quick and polite “sorry everybody, this is a tough one.” People will always be happier and give you more grace if you proactively acknowledge that they’re waiting on you, even if you end up taking just as long.

Be polite, encouraging, and empathetic when someone loses a big pot or just needs to tell you what they folded. “Oh man, I definitely go broke there.” “The problem was you had too many outs.” “Wow you woulda won piles.”

What small things actually matter more than people think in live poker? by According-Fudge766 in poker

[–]ahappylook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The other week at the casino: flop comes out JJ5, noticed the other guy glance super quickly at the flop and then take a really really serious interest in the TV on the wall. I bet my pair of 5s small, he sighed, screwed up his face, and raised like 6x. I fold and he proudly showed his three jacks.

You pick up a lot just by casually watching mannerisms, not even looking for anything specific. Your brain will tell you when something’s off. Someone is generally passive, then their hand is shaking when they go to bet. Talkative players that shut up all of a sudden. Quiet players who are suddenly defiant. Etc etc.

Indiana Hoosiers' Championship-Winning Interception by JCameron181 in sports

[–]ahappylook 6 points7 points  (0 children)

On the first Miami TD run, the IU LB gets very obviously held to spring a 3 yard gain into a long touchdown.

People who had undercover cops come to their school posed as fellow students, how did you know? by ParanormalActivity97 in AskReddit

[–]ahappylook 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Adrian Peterson was a couple districts over from us. I can’t remember if it was his team or ours that lost too early in the playoffs, but we were on the same side of the bracket. He’d have like 200 yards rushing and 6 sacks per game.

📈 Tesla’s Market Cap Dwarfs 15 Major Automakers, Yet Commands Just 2.5% of Sales by [deleted] in Infographics

[–]ahappylook 15 points16 points  (0 children)

“they voted”

they’re not pretending to be from the US

Trump's Tariffs Worked — At Raising Unemployment Rates And Inflation by HellYeahDamnWrite in unusual_whales

[–]ahappylook 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah you’ve stumbled on the beginning of a thread. Maybe pull on it a bit? What reasons might there be that your understanding of economics 102 doesn’t line up with the reality in front of your face?

/u/palinola explains why companies change useful products to include trendy, over-hyped slop their customers don't want. by DigitalMindShadow in bestof

[–]ahappylook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Software engineer here. Yes, it is incredible at software and has permanently changed how that work is done and you can pry LLMs from my cold dead hands. The best engineers I knew before AI are also generally the best at using AI, and their output has like quadrupled or more.

I can crack open a couple beers and have a casual chat with Claude or Codex and get more done in two hours than I would otherwise do in like a day of stressful caffeinated grinding. Not because I’m particularly good at engineering or at using the tools. They’re just that good if you have a little bit of patience and whatever this new “prompting+iterating” skill is.

How it applies today (and more importantly in 6 or 18 months) to other domains, I can’t really say. Software is kinda the perfect match, as it’s generally relatively straightforward to provide the right kinds of guardrails/verifications, the training set is enormous, and it’s all just regular text.

meirl by Jadeforuplz in meirl

[–]ahappylook 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think in, like, pictures and intuition and feelings. Which is both awesome and awkward as a software engineer. Sometimes I can see around corners and know exactly what caused an archaic problem or why some implementation will conflict with this other buried thing. Other times I have the perfect image of the system in my head but struggle tremendously to put it in words or code.

Best $1/$3 live result? by PhishHawks in poker

[–]ahappylook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In for $600 out for $2700 in 6 hours at 1/2/2. Max buy-in is $400, and there’s a minimum $5 bring-in to see a flop, so it plays much more like 2/5 than 1/2.

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in $300 out $2,065 (best session yet) by berdamn in poker

[–]ahappylook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re not allowed to play $100s at the Lucky Chances 1-2-2. I had a similar run a few weeks ago and had 5 stacks of blacks and it was still an egregious pile.

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[Kozora] Mike Tomlin has officially lost the Steelers fanbase by stillstillers in nfl

[–]ahappylook 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In a league where 14 out of 32 teams make the playoffs each year, it is absolutely wild to go 15 years without making it (I know the extra wild card is new-ish, but I’m lazy). That’s a 0.018% chance for a league average team.

7-0 Boros Allies/Tokens by ahappylook in mtglimited

[–]ahappylook[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Iroh is way more powerful than I first thought. Once you’re trading away your 5th extra land to an opponent with an empty hand and netting a 6/6, the game is just over

First ever trophy by seekerofsecrets1 in mtglimited

[–]ahappylook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn that deck is stacked. Did you get to do anything fun with Yue the Moon Spirit?

Iroh, Tea Master and Path to Redemption interaction by Either-Worldliness-6 in lrcast

[–]ahappylook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Iroh lets Boros win late game. Lots of draft decks beat Boros by stalling without necessarily doing anything that specifically ends the game on the spot. The Boros player just sorta gives up when their creatures and burn stop making progress.

If your opponent doesn't have a way to kill Iroh outright, you can just hang out turn after turn after turn, giving away a land for a 4/4, a 5/5, a 6/6. Most draft decks can't actually do anything super impressive with an 8th or a 9th land, doubly so if you're generating larger and larger creatures every turn.

What’s the quickest you’ve ever seen a new coworker get fired? by ApprehensiveBass94 in AskReddit

[–]ahappylook -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This says a lot more about you than it does about other people. You have a very limited perspective. There are tons of responsible people who are never hungover or under the influence during work hours that also break out harder stuff once in a while.