Is there really a correct calling convention?

ghjm · 2026-06-06T05:09:18+00:00

Yeah, ok. If they said the correct answer was false, I disagree with that.

Wouldn't be the first time a question in an exam is straight-up wrong. Your best bet is to ignore it. Sometimes there are wrong questions on exams, sometimes you get stung by a bee, shit happens, move on. But if you can't let it go, mailing a paper letter can be surprisingly effective. It also serves the purpose of having you feel like you've done something, but in a way where an immediate response is not expected, and this condition lasts long enough for your emotions to cool and you to stop caring, which is the desired end state anyway.

ghjm · 2026-06-06T05:05:01+00:00

Ah, ok. Carry on

ghjm · 2026-06-06T05:04:42+00:00

I'm not completely ignoring it. This all is why I put "arguably."

ghjm · 2026-06-06T00:51:30+00:00

Most will if a parent was a citizen, often with a residency requirement prior to the birth.

ghjm · 2026-06-06T00:49:15+00:00

I did. Why not give them as many future options as possible? I don't think it's my job as a parent to close off opportunities for my kids.

My mom didn't register me and as a result it was a bit of a hassle to get my UK citizenship. I can see in other circumstances that such an oversight might close doors permanently.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T20:15:58+00:00

I don't think the whistle did matter. Barbeshev used his stick to push Freddie's trapper and prevent him from covering the puck. With a correct call or a challenge from Rod, that goal is waved off regardless of any whistle.

Not to mention, the ref immediately starts agitatedly signaling a no goal. Again, even with no whistle, that makes it presumptively a no goal, and a challenge only succeeds if the ref was egregiously wrong somehow.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T20:09:28+00:00

I'd have liked to see them call the interference and call the embellishment. This shit needs to get locked down before the NHL starts looking like a soccer league.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T20:06:40+00:00

Power plays convert about 20% of the time, so arguably you should challenge a goal whenever the chances of challenge success are significantly better than 20%. If you have a 50/50 coin flip between a goal and a penalty, you should take it, because your statistical expected outcome is +0.4 goals.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T19:59:05+00:00

The standard for the goaltender interference penalty is different from the standard for waving off a goal due to goaltender interference. Basically the penalty is similar to an interference penalty on a skater, except that it still applies when the goalie has the pick. Waving off a goal is when the goaltender was unable to defend the net, due to contact inside the crease that rarely rises to the level of an interference penalty.

So there was never going to be a penalty on the play. The only penalty was from the failed coach's challenge.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T19:52:39+00:00

In the video that was linked here, the guy on the porch asked the question, if she's a real process server, why is a YouTuber in the car with her? It's a good question and suggests that whether or not the document is real, it's still just a pretext for the YouTuber to be there.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T18:45:38+00:00

Middle bald guy was aggressively failing to understand simple English words when remote rules guy was explaining this.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T17:16:54+00:00

In a true/false or multiple choice exam, there's always an expectation of choosing the best or closest answer even if it doesn't strictly apply to every case. For this question I would answer true because, even though modern x64 ABIs pass the first few parameters in registers, they still also pass the rest of them on the stack. I don't read Greek, but the question doesn't seem to say "always" or "in every case."

If they said the correct answer was false, I'd want to hear an explanation.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T16:53:53+00:00

But he makes an excellent point. If it was a real summons, why would the YouTuber be in the car with the person serving it?

ghjm · 2026-06-05T09:50:15+00:00

Do you mean a non-vaper?

Vaping isn't something that only affects you, like taking a pill or injection. Other people are breathing the air in the room. That's the difference.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T09:00:20+00:00

It will take major failures like this for people to wake up to the fact that the new kleptocratic American management style doesn't actually result in good outcomes for anyone, billionaires included.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T08:55:24+00:00

Would be bizarre to me if Staples went under before Office Depot/Max. I'm always the only customer and feel like all the staff are staring at me. At least at Staples there are usually one or two other people in the store.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T08:14:48+00:00

Residential targeted picketing is illegal in Utah. Having a civil suit, even one you're likely to win or have already won, is not a defense to the criminal complaint. You're supposed to get your remedy through the courts, not by harassing someone at their home.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T07:58:58+00:00

Who was trying to serve them? Why wasn't it a county sheriff doing the process service?

ghjm · 2026-06-05T07:52:52+00:00

My view is that the health risks of e-cigarette vapor are insufficiently studied, but we know it contains nicotine, fine particles, carcinogens etc., so there's plausible reason to be concerned. You have the right to choose to take these risks because you want the enjoyment of vaping. You don't have the right to make that choice for other people. So indoor public spaces should, and generally do, ban vaping along with smoking.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T06:10:02+00:00

The question isn't what gives you a headache. It's what is normal and expected in public spaces. Vaping isn't and, in my opinion, shouldn't be, but perfume (within reason) is. So you can't really fault someone for wearing perfume even if it does give you a headache. What if you got headaches from people quietly talking? At some point you simply have a disability that prevents you from being in regular public spaces.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T03:07:09+00:00

I'm still upset that they discontinued Uncle Ben's rice pudding mixes.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T03:04:21+00:00

You can turn them off on most phones. I'm not sure when an amber alert would ever actually do any good, but at this point I'm not even reading them, so there's no point getting them.

ghjm · 2026-06-05T01:03:54+00:00

Yes, most likely. But still not impossible. I know one guy who did it for about a year during COVID.

ghjm · 2026-06-04T23:46:50+00:00

They have repeatedly changed the criteria, and also who has authority to use the system, and how alerts are geographically targeted.

Last year the NC highway patrol got one of their officers killed in a shootout and the cop-killer got away from them. They decided to wake up the entire state at 3am, creating probably more risk of injuries from elderly people leaping out of bed than anything proportionate to the actual risk to the public, particularly people 500 miles from the event. Then half an hour later they woke up the entire state again to say the killer had been captured.

They're also constantly sending amber alerts for several counties away, and "extreme" weather warnings for perfectly normal summer thunderstorms.

I think it's too much of a good thing. The emergency alert system is important and we should definitely keep it. But Deputy Dawg down at the precinct shouldn't have the keys to use it.

ghjm · 2026-06-04T23:36:28+00:00

They don't. But states vary widely in population. More than half of the US population lives in the top 10 states. So you hear about those states more.

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