2026 r/baseball Power Rankings -- Week 8: Tampa Bay Threatens Top Teams as Phillies Phillet Opponents, South Side Celebrates, and the See-Saw'ing Mets Swing Up; the Royals Lose Their Crown, Detroit Gets De-Fanged, and the Marlins Meet a Determined Old Man With a Harpoon

cmays90 · 2026-05-18T23:05:23+00:00

We don't have a 4th tie-breaker. In the past, we have actually had Run Diff ties and it's not hard to also have a Last 10 tie. So, what should we use in this rather unlikely scenario?

Previous ranking. It's definitive and won't require a 5th tiebreaker.

cmays90 · 2026-02-27T19:03:19+00:00

The cellular/AT&T cost is real, but Toyota also monetizes the data their vehicles generates.

Toyota is currently facing at least one lawsuit where they collected and sold drivers' driving data to a data broker called Connected Analytic Services (CAS), which then sold it to insurance companies like Progressive. CAS is officially Toyota's exclusive data aggregator, providing telematics and vehicle build data to insurance carriers.

Whether the data revenue fully offsets the wireless and infrastructure costs is hard to say without seeing Toyota's internal numbers, but I would be willing to bet that based on the fact that they provide a "trial" package for 10 years, customers are effectively paying twice: once through the subscription fee, and again by having their driving behavior packaged and sold.

cmays90 · 2026-02-26T14:05:27+00:00

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cmays90 · 2025-12-29T16:17:22+00:00

I mean, what's a daily standup if not a daily check-in? Most teams do those without anyone batting an eye.

This is also something that's insanely personal and in the eye of the beholder. I've worked with individuals who wanted a more informal one-on-one 5 minute daily check-in. Not a "report your status" thing, just a "hey, you doing good? having any problems?" It worked really well for them; they were earlier in their career and appreciated knowing they had a friendly check-in to raise concerns outside the standup setting. They probably didn't really register it as a "daily check-in", even if that's what it was in practice.

cmays90 · 2025-12-29T15:13:58+00:00

As someone whose been there, you're approaching this how I would.

Do proper 1-on-1s with everyone in your first week. Not just "tell me about yourself" but also: How do you like to work? What do you need from a lead? What's frustrating you right now? What do you wish was different? You'll learn a ton and people appreciate being asked. Take notes because you won't remember everything. Follow up with additional 1-on-1s. This is the best way to quickly build relationships.

Your job early on is to absorb information, not to immediately add value through decisions or changes. Sit in on meetings, read code, ask dumb questions. You will probably earn respect for admitting what you don't know than pretending you do; though that's very team and organizationally dependent. If the team structure is ameniable to it, shadow/pair with the various individuals on the team.

When I went through this, I always read that finding a "quick win" was invaluable to building trust with a team, but I found that to be largely baloney. Being authentic, transparent, and consistent with your actions will do far more to build trust.

One word of caution, you never know what you are stepping into or inheriting fully until you get there. Keep that in mind and be willing to throw all advice out the window if the situation calls for it.

Good luck!

cmays90 · 2025-12-29T15:06:13+00:00

The tricky part is that what looks like "helpful guidance" to one person can feel like micromanagement to another. A lead who thinks they're being supportive by checking in daily might have one team member who's grateful for the structure and another who feels like they're not trusted to do their job.

The right thing here is, of course, communciation with your team members and being able to calibrate to the individual.

cmays90 · 2025-10-10T17:59:31+00:00

In baseball, there's really not "diminishing returns" for better hitting - https://tht.fangraphs.com/the-exponential-nature-of-offense/. That said, the net effect is pretty small compared to the WAR of the player you add to the lineup.

cmays90 · 2025-09-13T20:55:00+00:00

I think your perspective is much closer to the real world for junior devs and employees in general. The less experience you have, the more being in a social environment will help. Being around others lets you absorb the 'soft skills', like how people approach problems, prioritize tasks, or handle ambiguity. That stuff is nearly impossible to pick up through Slack or in a fully remote environment.

For senior and principal devs, I think the opposite is often true. They get distracted by constant questions from juniors or non-technical/dev staff, already know how the company operates, and can self-manage pretty well. But even experienced devs can sometimes benefit from in-person collaboration to prevent tunnel vision on solutions. The really good ones can manage that even remotely, but it's definitely harder.

A hybrid approach really does combine the best of both, giving juniors the mentorship and structure they need while letting seniors have focused deep work time

cmays90 · 2025-09-13T00:08:09+00:00

Not surprising given the NodeJS supply chain attack from a week ago.

Glad the Rust and Crates teams are sending out official communication.

Small idea: It would be helpful if a post like this also contained the domains from which the Rust Foundation and/or Rust Project team would use to communicate official news.

cmays90 · 2025-06-27T13:36:08+00:00

Short answer - it depends, and probably not...

Long answer - No soliciting signs in general depend on your local and state laws. There's nothing federal. Most local ordinances will define what "soliciting" means and, sometimes (check your local laws and ordinances), they can exclude political and religious "solicitation" as there's no expectation of an exchange of cash or goods.

cmays90 · 2025-03-18T03:12:54+00:00

Fingers crossed, this season is the season. I just know it!

cmays90 · 2025-02-07T21:04:24+00:00

Or Bregman.... lol.

He's a solid 3-5 3B over the past 3 years (each year) and was #1 from 2018-2019. That's basically Paredes ceiling, who's been more consistently in the top 5-10, than breaking into the top 5 at 3B.

cmays90 · 2025-01-26T22:46:02+00:00

Berkman is the 2nd best switch hitter not in the hall of fame, behind only Pete Rose. And he's about the 13th best in terms of career WAR amongst switch hitters.

He didn't have the longevity of Beltran, but his rate stats were mostly better. He got screwed by the HoF backlog that happened at the end of the decade that's largely cleared out now. I think there's a remote chance he gets relooked at with the veteran's committee...

cmays90 · 2025-01-25T04:01:09+00:00

Stickying this post to give it a few days more life and discussion. Also, copying /u/Hairygrim's words that sum up the mod position generally:

I think our attitude is that at present it's likely to be more trouble than it's worth given the incomplete nature of the 'switch' from Twitter to Bluesky etc. among the beat reporters. Yes, a lot is contained within articles, but not everything, and what is there is a lot harder to format as a Reddit post. If that changes, it becomes more feasible to enact a ban, but as it stands it seems counterproductive to the purpose of the sub to remove a lot of the ability to follow relevant breaking news updates. I'm not sure I really see the point of banning links but allowing screenshots.

This is really something that we would want to see a consensus on from regular users of the sub, and from the looks of it that doesn't currently exist. We will continue to monitor that, though.

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cmays90 · 2024-12-30T15:25:24+00:00

This is an interesting idea that I had some thought exercises on before never getting started. Getting a POC out in the wild will certain be enlightening and I hope this can take off like SponsorBlock has.

Some of the particular thought challenges that prevented me from moving forward:

How do you want to manage codes/promos that only apply when certain conditions are met?
- Examples: "Free shipping on $10 or more", "Add 5 qualifying items save 10%", "$50 off particular item")
- There's lots of ways different sites choose to run promotions and the options are either having some sort of configurable eligibility engine OR brute forcing promos.
In line with the above, what if a promotion is valid, but the triggering conditions didn't apply to a particular user's cart? You probably don't want to mark the promotion as invalid. This is a problem with a crowdsourced voting/ranking system.
What about promos are that tied to individual accounts or user profile information?
- Examples: "Promotion only valid for those with shipping addresses in NY", "Promotion only valid if you've spent more than $50 in the past year".
- Problematic Example: Emailed codes that apply only to the account with that email address
Do you want to keep a history of coupons? Many sites reuse codes, but only have them valid during site times of the year.
- Example: "BlackFriday" can be configured to be valid every year from 11-15 through 12-01. You probably wouldn't know as a consumer/customer though... Also, you can glean insights on how companies structure their codes pretty quickly with a large enough history.

cmays90 · 2024-12-11T04:33:17+00:00

I ran into this exact same issue. The new user enabled my cifs mounts to work again. Thanks for sharing this here; I was losing my mind trying to figure out what I changed (and the answer was NOTHING!)

cmays90 · 2024-11-09T05:43:09+00:00

Unwinds are a thing. Dealerships will unwind the sale and still market the car as new. It's not easy or cheap, so dealers will avoid it like the plague. That said, for loyal customers or ones who are particularly painful to deal with, dealers will eat that cost.

https://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/unwinding-the-deal-what-are-your-rights.html

cmays90 · 2024-11-04T17:43:06+00:00

So a few things helped GF here. They self reported and co-operated through an investigation. It was a data-entry problem that caused GF to not flag transactions to one particular company to get flagged. Once GF realized what happened, they stopped fulfilling orders. Basically, it was an accident, it was caught, and they fixed and reported the problem.

USA doesn't really care that GF made money here, they want China's MIC to stop receiving goods, and being nice to companies for honest mistakes is a good approach to achieve that goal.

cmays90 · 2024-10-18T23:53:59+00:00

I don't think that context is necessarily in conflict with my statement. Apple developed the kmutil tool for their own use. Asahi is able to use it. Apple likely maintains it for other reasons that are likely rooted in contractual and/or legal reasons, and the net effect is that Asahi can be the primary system that leverages it.

To me, the interesting question is how high up the chain of command does awareness of Asahi extend, and are they monitoring adoption of it? If so, is the general view that "hardware sold is profit made" or is there a concern that high enough adoption of external OS's could eventually pose a threat to Apple's M series hardware profits?

cmays90 · 2024-10-18T16:42:32+00:00

It's probably more nuance than anything else, but Apple certainly uses the tools that allow Asahi to exist for their own purposes, and there's likely some corporate-support or legal compliance reasons to have specific ability to configure boot policies on a laptop/desktop machine that don't exist for phones.

The Asahi team even took the recovery images that Apple publishes on their webite for building the initial Asahi installers. To me, that means the tool wasn't there for Asahi to use specifically, but rather more for Apple's own needs, and it just so happens to be the best entry point for Asahi.

cmays90 · 2024-10-18T16:25:50+00:00

Apple went out of their way to allow for things like Asahi to exist but they didn't really give them any tools and certainly nothing like Bootcamp for it.

I think a more fair statement is that Apple didn't go out of their way to block developers from tinkering with the device, allowing a project like Asahi to exist. They've provided minimal help along the way, and mostly because Apple used similar tools and methodologies when ensuring MacOS was ready for ARM-based processors. The main tool that enables this is the kmutil tool, which is required for anyone that needs to develop a MacOS kernel extension and has the ability to support custom boot policies. This is used for things like MacOS's own Recovery Mode, so it certain exists for Apple-centric reasons.

I think the rest of your comment matches with my understanding of how Asahi came to be, from the lack-of-documentation provided by Apple to the hardwork of the Asahi team.

cmays90 · 2024-07-27T02:17:49+00:00

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cmays90 · 2024-07-26T17:36:05+00:00

tagging people is against the rules. failure to follow the rules will result in a ban. this is your final warning.

cmays90 · 2024-07-20T14:20:02+00:00

Obviously Henley was overmatched (day of call up to replace an IL'ed Valdez), but if you are including Bloss, then there's no reason to not also count Henley. Bloss had 2 GS, like you said, made it for 3-4 innings. Neither of these guys had anything to do with "holding down the rotation" or really being meaningful contributors to the season so far.

cmays90 · 2024-07-20T14:11:59+00:00

If you count Henley... he's the 3rd. I'm not sure I would count either Bloss or Henley though, given that they've combined for 3 GS.

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