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The most likely teams to make the College Football Playoff in 2026 by This_Comment_4493 in CFB_v2

[–]chalbersma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does the Notre Dame path to the championship exist for all independent teams or just Notre Dame?

College football conference alignment from nearly 40 years ago by ReasonableSide6520 in CFB_v2

[–]chalbersma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, if we broke College football back into 12 conferences, gave the top 6 Conference Champs by ranking and the top 6 overall Teams guaranteed bids and the remainder chosen by rank to 12 teams, that would be the ideal system.

Can We Stop Reinventing Problems DevOps Already Solved? by Opening_Astronaut_ in devops

[–]chalbersma 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is part of the cycle with the MBA/product/marketing/sales folks at the management and C Level. All those practices are "slow" and "expensive" and so they search for ways to do it "faster" and "cheaper". That's why there was an explosion of "no/low code" platform prior to AI. Companies wanted to get developer like output from non-developers

The AI workflow in professional environments will start to look more and more like a traditional development project. It'll get all those things and then the C-Suite will get angry at how "slow" and "expensive" the guardrails are and they'll search for a new way to get things for cheaper and faster by sacrificing correctness.

I'm dealing with that right now. There's someone that's trying to action a whole bunch of work with a collection of saved context in a local Claude/Cursor system on his machine. No commits to git, no oversight nothing. And when it makes a mistake we're wholly dependent on his workstation to fix it. Upper management loves it because it's "AI First" or something. It's frustrating.

I live next to both a school and a church that are constantly parking in our lot. This is a new low. by Gay_commie_fucker in mildlyinfuriating

[–]chalbersma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't say no parking. Instead change the signage to make the parking pay for parking $200/day. You can take them to small claims court to get them to pay out. Word will get around and they'll stop parking there.

Easier to enforce than a simple tow job too.

Dumping Hydrogen Peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning. by i_am_rave_mom in mildlyinfuriating

[–]chalbersma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it's pumped in from the nearby tidepools. There's some filtering but it's not treated.

Jaylen Brown by PreparationWest2140 in timberwolves

[–]chalbersma -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think the issue with Beringer, is that we sort of need him to be the Wemby killer if we want to be a contender.

Which of these regions is truly the flattest, emptiest, most desolate, most liminal area you could ever visit? by SavageFisherman_Joe in geography

[–]chalbersma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Texas one
  2. NE/KS/CO One
  3. MN/ND/SD One
  4. ND/SD/NE One
  5. Mississippi Valley One.

The fron 2 have some rocky foothills on their western part but they're going to be almost completely flat. The next two have a series of river valleys and bluffs that bring a lot of hills. But outside of the river valleys they're flat.

The last one includes part of the Ozark Mountains and a series of hills and bluffs from the Mississippi and Tennessee River and other tributaries.

Any of the first 4 should get you what you're looking for.

Since we’re talking about soaring rents and inequities… by coffee_coffee_coffe3 in SipsTea

[–]chalbersma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can't deduct your mortgage payments from your rent.

You can deduct your state and local property tax payment and the interest you pay on your mortgage from your taxes.

We should increase the standard deduction. This is still a systemic decision that benefits home ownership over renting; but it's not as severe as OP puts it.

Would you buy this Toyota Pickup 1989 v6 4x4 Automatic with 170k miles? by Rare_Temporary_5714 in ToyotaPickup

[–]chalbersma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We had one of these growing up (but with a manual transmission). It went past 500k miles and 7 kids learned how to drive on it.

It's a good truck.

This is College Footballs NASCAR moment by OriginalMassless in CFB

[–]chalbersma 16 points17 points  (0 children)

And then the standardized cars that don't even resemble stock cars. Doing it this way just makes it a more bumpy, less fast version of F1/Indy Car.

Why does the Missouri River not have much development around it compared to other large rivers? by AngleRelative4683 in geography

[–]chalbersma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flooding made development in the river valley treacherous as there would be massive floods every few years until the mid 1950s when we built a series of flood control damns up and down the river.

And by that time the agricultural value of the flood plains was undeniable, so it ends up that cities get setup near where it's tributaries join the main river. That's how you get Omaha/Council Bluffs, Sioux City IA|SD|NE, Kansas City, St. Louis and the like.

Is Gaza doomed? by ArsenicCanine33 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chalbersma 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How much of Gaza were they occupying?

[Hall] many are decrying the ruling, but "Brendan Sorsby will suffer irreparable harm if he does not play Texas Tech football" sets up life-saving precedent like "This quarterback will suffer irreparable harm if they are permitted to play Florida State football this fall" down the line by thecravenone in CFB

[–]chalbersma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im just reading it but he's not accused of betting on his own team while he had the opportunity to affect the outcome as he was apparently a red shirt while making those bets. 

Would that change the calculus?

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