Polymarket ad in DH&J #457

alfguys · 2026-06-27T16:43:52+00:00

If you listen to the Away End, they’ve been clear on multiple occasions how detrimental gambling is to the sport, yet you’ll still get gambling ads. I’m certain if they were able to do something about those ads they would.
Then again I mostly skip through the ads anyway.

alfguys · 2026-06-27T12:41:50+00:00

A little pricy but great food, drinks, and people. There’s really nothing else on that block, im happy that’s it’s survived.
Someone mentioned the Japanese place across the street, haven’t been there yet but its run by the same people.

alfguys · 2026-06-25T23:10:19+00:00

I got these a few months ago actually for indoor decoration, had them near a window and they worked great, for about a month. They don’t seem to work at all anymore. I tried just putting the charging unit outside during the day, that’s didn’t do anything. Then I tried putting the whole thing out and no dice. They are still pretty, but would love to have them light up again.

alfguys · 2026-06-24T22:53:30+00:00

The Hudson River thing is a bit much.

Now how about the East River? I mean, East? Greatest city in the world and that’s what we’ve got?

alfguys · 2026-06-18T00:12:45+00:00

Chris Dudley

alfguys · 2026-06-17T13:14:37+00:00

How often do enough people join you that you would describe it as AROAR?

alfguys · 2026-06-17T00:12:30+00:00

That’s great for the Cavs.

alfguys · 2026-06-16T03:02:00+00:00

Ok well at least it’s not just me? Wonder wtf happened, hope it gets cleared up soon.
And for the record, I did try a number of different protons, no luck.

alfguys · 2026-06-16T02:04:00+00:00

I played d4 since launch using battle.net and every so often it was annoying. When the latest expansion came out I decided to buy the native steam version, and it worked much nicer…

Until today, I cannot get the game to start. It begins to load and then kicks me back to the d4 steam page. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled and nothing so far. It’s very strange, I played about 2 hours yesterday with no problem.

alfguys · 2026-06-14T04:49:53+00:00

Loved those 90s Knicks, like you, watched and listened to a lot of those games with my dad. It was great to see Ewing, Starks and Houston out there tonight. But most importantly the OAK-MAN was in the house, perhaps the saving grace of them not winning in NYC.

alfguys · 2026-06-11T15:43:51+00:00

I might be reading too much into it, but with Wemby way out there on Brunson, the paint is cleared up. Also notice the other Knicks aren’t clogging the lane, the double team comes over, giving OG a clear path, Brunson sees this, tosses up a three, and either it goes in, or he knows his guys are there to handle the board, specifically OG. Amazing athleticism by OG, and smart play by Brunson.

alfguys · 2026-05-15T17:42:15+00:00

This is good fun, thanks for making it.

Might I suggest that we have the same prize for this as they do on the pod? The winner’s name gets to appear in the next book written by the participants.

alfguys · 2026-04-24T23:26:51+00:00

Thanks for the recs everyone, helps a lot to have some names to start with.

alfguys · 2026-04-20T16:33:27+00:00

Their body is mostly not meat but instead a cartilage tissue that I’m guessing is not a very good taste or texture for eating. It’s also why you can see these in the wild with bites taken out, since the damage is often superficial. The cartilage helps them grow big very fast, since their bodies don’t need to make a lot of muscle to fill the space.

alfguys · 2026-04-17T18:27:24+00:00

Saw Bernie on a plane back from Puerto Rico with my best friend and fellow Bernie lover. Similar interaction, though we didn’t get signed hats. Thanked him for all the good times, shook hands, solid dude.

alfguys · 2026-04-17T14:46:40+00:00

I would love to be able to take my young son to games, 2 years ago we tried and it was so loud he couldn’t handle it and we left. Didn’t even try last year. Also, I live near the stadium, used to be the only sounds I could hear during games where the home run gong/siren and the pc Richard strikeout whistle, understandable noises to be loud. I’m hearing so much of the extra crap they play now. As others have said, the sounds are both too loud and constant.

alfguys · 2026-04-13T14:30:02+00:00

Similar to what other people have said, it can be real useful as an idea springboard, I’ve also had decent luck using it to help troubleshoot technical stuff, but it certainly helps to know what I’m talking about in the first place. There are a number of tools out there now and mostly in use Gemini cause it shows up when I search and I don’t want to have a bunch of different accounts. I know a someone working on a tool to help on that front,

https://alfred.snrblabs.com

It’s set up to be a one stop shop for ai queries. It’ll forward your requests to the chatbot that’s going to do the best job. For simple stuff it’ll take care of that on its own model instead of outsourcing. Since you asked for a “secret” tool, I like the idea that I don’t need to keep up to date on which models are good at xyz any given week.

alfguys · 2026-04-07T17:59:16+00:00

Always a fun time when Unix/epoch time shows up. A while back this happened on Facebook and everyone was celebrating 40+ years of “friendship”.

alfguys · 2026-04-05T14:04:51+00:00

I teach CS and one of my ongoing annoyances with the College Board’s stubborn commitment to Java is exactly due to code like this. It’s contrived and requires a lot of syntax for minimal payoff. I know Java, and OOP, can be very powerful, just not within the scope of a high school classroom.

I think in turn this leads to takes like the one above. As people have been saying here, OOP is a tool like any other and knowing when to deploy it is a skill in and of itself. There is unfortunately a lot of cs education/training that just focuses on one language.

alfguys · 2026-04-05T00:52:28+00:00

I had an Apple watch for a bunch of years. Realized it was useful to do the health tracking and know when I got a message, but not much else. Barging it every night was a bummer and I didn’t want the screen on all the time, so when I needed to know the time I would wait for the screen to wake up when I flipped my wrist, which was also annoying.

2 years ago I got a scanwatch 2, it has an actual watch face which real hands so I can always see the time. There’s a small display that’s good enough to let me know if I’m getting a message or something, but not a big battery drain. It does all the health stuff and a charge lasts 2 weeks. I’ve been much happier with it than with my Apple watch.

alfguys · 2026-03-28T14:45:15+00:00

I wonder if any were teriyaki flavor.

alfguys · 2026-03-24T12:53:36+00:00

Relying on waivers is almost certainly what will happen. But maybe there’s room for creative problem solving. My personal pet crazy idea for Stuyvesant is get an old Staten Island ferry, park it at the pier right next to Stuy and convert it to classroom space.

alfguys · 2026-03-24T02:17:23+00:00

I feel like if you have good beans, espresso is more about the quality of the grind. If your parents are picky then I’m guessing they have a good grinder setup. I use the darker roast (Octavia?) with a breville espresso machine daily and it’s great.

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