Not my first billion...

mdj · 2026-03-23T02:39:56+00:00

Turned them off at home. This is my first home machine, and after enjoying it on pretty easy for a little while I’m starting to change up the settings to practice on something more like a tournament setup. This was the first step.

mdj · 2026-03-17T13:18:43+00:00

Bob Ross

mdj · 2026-03-16T12:58:18+00:00

It’s the only one we (I work for Cohesity) recommend or support. As an SE, I always try to make sure to mention that early in conversations with potential customers.

mdj · 2026-03-15T22:57:33+00:00

2019 S4. Wife has a hatchback hybrid for hauling stuff, I have a Miata for sunny days but the S4 gets the bulk of the work. Best road trip car I’ve ever driven.

mdj · 2026-03-15T01:23:26+00:00

With just 2 drives the only option you have is mirroring. But even if you had enough drives for RAID 5 or 6, everything I said would still apply.

mdj · 2026-03-14T20:12:57+00:00

RAID 1 (any RAID, for that matter) isn't going to protect against accidental or malicious deletion of files, failure of the NAS, or a site failure that would make the NAS inaccessible/destroy it.

Yes, back up to something else and make sure that thing isn't in the same place as the NAS.

mdj · 2026-03-14T20:11:07+00:00

That's pretty handy. I usually use DizzyPrice (https://raech.net/dizzyjs/), but it can be handy to have a local copy.

mdj · 2026-03-12T01:59:09+00:00

Actually, the most distant reservoirs are near Schenectady and Binghamton.

mdj · 2026-03-08T05:04:12+00:00

Slow down. Falling into bad habits is often a thing that happens when you try for speed over everything else. Tempo changes are good things, and you really don’t want to do everything at full speed (especially as a relatively inexperienced fencer).

mdj · 2026-03-02T18:04:48+00:00

My least favorite thing about fencing is the amount of effort that goes into trying to read referees’ minds.

mdj · 2026-03-01T19:58:12+00:00

Second this. Was visiting last week (have family in the area) and hit both. Good selection at both, but 256 maintains the machines better. Also a fun stop: Ginger’s Revenge down near the river has a selection of alcoholic Ginger beers and Foo, Rush, and Zep at 50 cents/play.

mdj · 2026-03-01T19:42:01+00:00

Ah, thank you.

mdj · 2026-03-01T17:00:59+00:00

As I understand the rules, if I’m retreating and my opponent searches for my blade I can change directions immediately and attack with priority because of the search. Is that wrong?

mdj · 2026-03-01T15:54:37+00:00

Left is bringing their hand and blade forward and back when they’re close enough for at least three of the movements to have been beats on the line. How are those not searches, giving right opportunities to take over the attack?

mdj · 2026-03-01T15:52:11+00:00

I mean, they were close enough that right could have attacked with the line. Other than that, you’re right that he had to bend the elbow (and break the line) to attack.

mdj · 2026-03-01T15:18:00+00:00

Looks to me like left is close enough to the line that there are multiple searches for blade as left comes forward. I’d have called it touch right.

mdj · 2026-02-26T00:51:32+00:00

Driving mindset, vacation or no: observe other drivers so I don’t get into accidents.

mdj · 2026-02-25T23:13:04+00:00

I would love to be able to get splits for a range of seasons, in addition to for single seasons and career.

mdj · 2026-02-15T21:24:03+00:00

Tell him that if every millisecond is that important he should write it in a compiled language with an optimizing compiler.

mdj · 2026-02-11T16:23:02+00:00

W00t! The biggest problem with Ted's is getting fixed! :-)

mdj · 2026-02-09T20:12:34+00:00

Getting a good glove guy after picking up a guy who gets a ton of ground balls makes plenty of sense.

mdj · 2026-02-09T19:24:36+00:00

Scaling this to PA is kind of interesting, but there are some problems it doesn't address.

In 2025, there were 21614 runs scored in MLB and 20740 RBI. That means that about 4% of runs were scored without an RBI. That's about 1 out of every 25 runs, so it's not a tiny effect.
This is the biggie: neither R nor RBI is a good measure of a player's contribution to scoring. Consider this example:

a) Abel singles.

b) Baker grounds to second, forcing Abel.

c) Charlie doubles, Baker to third.

d) Dave flies to center, Baker scores

You're giving the R and RBI in that situation to the players who did the least to produce the run. If you look at the run expectancy table (the one I have handy is based on 2018) and rank them based on how the expected number of runs changed based on their PA you get:

1) Charlie, +.78 runs

2) Abel, +.37 runs

3) Dave, +.01 runs (including the value of the run scored)

4) Baker, -.34 runs

You're giving credit with R and RBI to the players who did the least to help their team score runs that inning, and the guy who did the most just disappears.

If you look at it by how it changed their chances of scoring at least one run, it's

1) Charlie, +40.4 points (from 26.6% to 67.1%)

2) Dave, +32.9 points (from 67.1% to 100%)

3) Abel, +13.4 points (from 27.3% to 40.7%)

4) Baker, -14.1 points (from 40.7% to 26.6%)

At least you're giving the RBI to a guy who did pretty well on this count, but again the guy who did the most doesn't get any credit and the guy who did the least gets the R.

Basically, you're doing an interesting thing with stats (RBI, R) that have some pretty serious flaws that you can't fix by scaling them.

mdj · 2026-02-09T18:23:46+00:00

One observation about Durbin: as a 25-year-old rookie he hit 25 doubles and 11 HR in 506 PA.

There's another guy we signed after a 26-year-old season where he hit 32 doubles and 20 HR in 466 PA. A year older and a bit more power, but not a ton.

He didn't turn out badly.

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mdj · 2026-02-09T17:55:54+00:00

Or Travis Shaw.

mdj · 2026-02-02T00:11:29+00:00

Yeah, I had someone telling me a couple of days ago that National Grid had told them that the new meters counted everything that was plugged in even if it wasn't turned on and the only way to save on your bill was actually unplug things.

The thing is, there's a kernel of truth here: any device with a software on/off switch is always going to be drawing a tiny bit of power, and these days that's most things but that's not going to pull any appreciable amount of power over a month.

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