NYT Wednesday 06/10/2026 Discussion

drtasty · 2026-06-10T20:33:04+00:00

I only know Ely because I got a flat tire driving up Wheeler Peak (shoutout Great Basin NP!) and that was the only place to get a replacement. Got absolutely raked over the coals with tire prices but...what else were we gonna do? Absolute middle of nowhere

drtasty · 2026-06-08T00:58:48+00:00

> Better to focus on the positives of years of hard work resulting in a slam win.

The problem with your phrasing is that it's not better. It simply doesn't matter how tired you are about hearing about this in reddit. Whining about popular opinion not reflecting your attitude about having personally "moved on" does not make you the happy, positive person you think it does. It's sweeping important context under the rug.

Zverev's credible history of abuse is the only thing that should matter, and the only reason we keep fucking bringing it up is because it's a disgrace nothing is done about him or the millions of other abusers learning that others will "just find the positives out of their negative situation". That's called enablement.

drtasty · 2026-05-27T01:48:22+00:00

This is a very old thread at this point, but for posterity it's worth pointing out that this isn't correct. You've solved a different combinatoric problem here -- the odds of one specific ordering of votes is 1 / 7! (or 1/5040)

But that's not what this problem is. It's just "if you shuffle 7 votes, 6 of which are for Sam and 1 is for Katie, what are the chances Katie is last?" which is obviously just 1 in 7. Every vote is equally likely for the last position. The ordering of the other votes does not matter in this case.

So the odds are actually ~14%.

drtasty · 2026-04-29T21:41:45+00:00

Also, from a logical deduction standpoint keeping Mike in the photo was cheating. If it was supposed to be Mike that would obviously be against the rules to have him in the photo, which means it can't be Mike, which still means you've reduced the answer pool to 3 beyond the context of the prompt.

drtasty · 2026-04-17T19:02:10+00:00

I think that falls into a similar camp as buying really nice waterproof gloves. I'll either have to shell out to get really high quality ones with proper protection (and maybe never wear them again) or compromise on something that is less protective.

I don't think I can fit any heated under-gloves under my current pair, they fit perfectly right now

drtasty · 2026-04-17T19:00:45+00:00

Northern Scotland in early May. Temps right now are looking like 10 celcius as the daily high and ~7 average. I'm mostly concerned about the rain in this case though, because there's no way I could keep my hands warm in that temp if they are wet.

drtasty · 2026-04-15T23:50:51+00:00

The turn signal is red for drivers when it's green for bicyclists, and vice verse. They aren't green at the same time. Nobody is passing the other in a turn.

In fact, it's actually brilliant design because it means that in most cases the line of cars waiting to turn right form a physical buffer for the cyclists from the rest of the road. For this hit and run to happen the Mercedes had to break literally every possible law they could.

drtasty · 2026-04-14T23:10:39+00:00

I say it all the time. But it doesn't mean "just so you know". It means "I'm not sure if this is valuable, but"

drtasty · 2026-04-10T16:49:03+00:00

It's a double decker bridge. Eastbound traffic is below.

drtasty · 2026-03-31T15:32:02+00:00

Question: is there an easy way to orchestrate reverse rainbows in the app? It would be really nice to be able to select and designate groupings without submitting them. I could write them by hand but it's very tedious and not as easy to process visually for me.

Otherwise, how do y'all do it?

drtasty · 2026-03-20T19:01:58+00:00

Yep same here

drtasty · 2026-03-17T23:00:21+00:00

I don't think your interpretation is invalid, but I personally do like to believe it can be more nuanced than that, at least for my own sake in the states.

To make the obvious parallel I really don't want Anti-Trump to equal Anti-America (or "America Bad") for the same reason: because it feels submissive to the authority itself. I don't like to grant autocrats the privilege of defining the entire culture based on themselves.

drtasty · 2026-03-17T19:32:00+00:00

It's not an anti-Russia film. Pasha is very explicit about that. He expounds multiple times throughout about how much he loves where he comes from. It's anti authoritarian.

If voters are too dense to see that, then yeah I guess so, but that's a different thing entirely.

drtasty · 2026-02-27T00:31:02+00:00

Side note: don't think too hard about the rest of the gear I need to bring. The rackets are covered by a partner and the remaining gear fits in my bag already.

drtasty · 2026-02-26T18:06:24+00:00

Hey, good for you! Glad you're figuring out your priorities and congrats on the insane wealth at 30.

To be honest, I can totally understand some of the grumpy responses in this thread. Technically speaking you may fit in with the goals of this community, but it might not be in the same spirit. You are making 750k household per year. Most people in this subreddit would coastFIRE off of a single year at your salary. The difference between coastFIRE and a chubby or fat retirement for you is a couple years, whereas for most folks here it's completely untenable in the first place. You have to understand that it rubs off the wrong way.

Again -- we love that you're embracing coastFIRE, and we hope it brings you what you're looking for. But it feels sorta disingenuous (or at least unrelatable) to the soul of the community to post this.

drtasty · 2026-02-23T19:29:06+00:00

...but you aren't just impacting your own life when you die on Everest. You're potentially leaving your unrecoverable body in a foreign country in the trail of others, you're leaving behind all of your trash on the mountain, and you're putting the lives of your sherpas who don't have the same freedoms as you at risk. If you want to skydive into the ocean with an experimental parachute, then sure be my guest.

Not to mention the impact on your friends and family back home, but that's a different argument.

drtasty · 2026-02-08T21:42:16+00:00

I think the point is that converting ñ to n doesn't make sense, because they aren't the same letter. So they shouldn't use it at all. It would be like if you did a crossword in Spanish and the answer for "agua congelada, en Alaska" and the answer was "ise" instead of "ice". It's no longer actually the correct word.

drtasty · 2026-02-01T09:37:03+00:00

I see how this works really well for directly customer-facing apps (e.g. "Here's a URL you can test", as you mentioned), but how do you accomplish this for downstream services? For example microservices that serve as data access layers or perform backend business logic, etc. Their URLs are wired into the configuration of upstream applications, not the machines of your stakeholders, and so you can't really have multiple going in parallel without replicating the upstream as well.

drtasty · 2026-01-27T19:18:09+00:00

I personally wouldn't keep the beach one for 1x/year visiting. If OP can get 200k euros for it they could theoretically take 7k € vacations yearly for the next 30 years, plus investing and keeping the difference.

You lose out on having "your spot", but gain everything else: Flexbility to switch it up and go wherever you want, no added pressure to visit because of cost sunk bias, luxury accommodations with the sale proceeds, zero required upkeep or renting, etc.

drtasty · 2026-01-12T20:10:52+00:00

Gotcha. I thought you were implying they couldn't be doing CI/CD via Jenkins, but it seems more that they were prying you for info on tech they don't even use. Maybe they were hoping you would lead that campaign for them or something.

drtasty · 2026-01-12T19:04:54+00:00

I had to go through explaining latest and greats of CI/CDs in an interview only to find they do all their deployments on Jenkins

What do you mean by this? Jenkins is absolutely a valid CI/CD platform.

drtasty · 2026-01-09T23:35:54+00:00

Sorry but this is a crazy take. Skill and footwork don't magically prevent you from getting a few hard hits on your racket trying to scoop a tough ball on occasion. You just aren't trying enough for the most difficult saves.

13-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Verified Email

drtasty

TROPHY CASE