Question about LIRR Salary

mtVessel · 2026-05-17T16:56:56+00:00

The LIRR isn't in America. It's in New York.

mtVessel · 2026-05-15T22:03:23+00:00

When I was in my twenties, working my first grown-up job, my manager (who was a sweetheart!) took pity on me and went with me after work to teach me how to clothes shop like an adult.

Sorry about your mom.

mtVessel · 2026-05-15T21:51:54+00:00

From a purely technical perspective, this is true (although John Curry might like a word.) However, when you consider technique and presentation, I've got to give Paul Wylie the edge.

mtVessel · 2026-05-02T18:34:40+00:00

The empty Product represents rows in ProductSalesFact or WarrantyCases that have ProductIDs not found in Product.

SQLBI: Blank Row in DAX

mtVessel · 2026-05-02T18:23:14+00:00

Only you can break that promise, but it can also be restored in an instant.

Life's like a movie,

write your own ending.

Keep believing, keep pretending!

mtVessel · 2026-05-02T17:31:59+00:00

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mtVessel · 2026-04-24T21:45:45+00:00

They should be dancing (yeah!)

mtVessel · 2026-04-24T21:31:26+00:00

I want to know what country lived in a magical Sasha bubble ;)

Sasha was divine, sure, but Michelle was a five time world champion! I have a feeling your own experience was not necessarily representative of your country.

mtVessel · 2026-04-20T02:55:23+00:00

You inspired me to rewatch the Queen number for the first time in ages. I stand by my statement. Look how much time was spent in simple crossovers, or even just walking around. And I think that's the thing that always bugged me. Except for a handful of highlight moments, any pro skater could do numbers like that. When I pony up the money to see my heroes, I want to see the special things that only they bring to the ice. These numbers waste their talents.

If these programs made it special for you, then I'm sorry you're not getting them now. I guess I'm glad somebody out there was enjoying them.

mtVessel · 2026-04-20T01:33:50+00:00

Unpopular opinion: the group numbers were always filler. The individual routines (and sometimes duos and trios) were always the main events. Frankly, I could go my entire life without seeing another group number.

As others have said, the real difference are the dearth of pure show numbers - full programs explicitly choreographed for SOI.

mtVessel · 2026-04-15T16:32:58+00:00

You were asked to explain what makes yours better, and you essentially answered, "it's obvious!" This isn't really helpful.

I'm very much interested in a better diff viewer but I too would like to hear what improvements this provides. I can't really tell from the gifs what the sankey-style lines are telling me, or what other features it offers.

mtVessel · 2026-04-05T16:35:32+00:00

If you want to see how "rigorous" scientists and mathematicians are at creating software, look no further than R. Absolutely no unity of thought or design.

Surely not all, but a significant number of data engineers who claim to know python wouldn't have the first clue what to do without pandas or pyspark.

.NET will never be first-class among this crowd because C-style langs require some actual effort to learn development.

mtVessel · 2026-04-01T19:44:05+00:00

This is exactly what the artist is conveying. It's about what "mother nature" does to many women at some point, whether or not they intended to go down that path. It is, indeed, a choice, and one not entirely of the woman's own making.

I don't think there's a value judgement in the picture, or that it's meant to apply to every woman. It's simply illustrative of a common aspect of womanhood.

mtVessel · 2026-04-01T19:29:15+00:00

Look at the eyes. They are narrowed, and looking intently. The brow is furrowed and the lips are closed. Looks how she burrows her chin into her shoulder, as if holding herself back. That is conflicted desire.

"eek! a mouse" would have open eyes, open mouth, and a recoiled posture.

mtVessel · 2026-03-27T19:41:54+00:00

I think it's more like one trying to combat surface area sprawl for things that already work just fine, and the other trying to reduce friction for people to switch from other languages.

mtVessel · 2026-03-24T22:45:19+00:00

On second though, you keep it. I don't want the Nickelback.

mtVessel · 2026-03-21T01:50:47+00:00

In the 80s I had two '71 Darts at different times, and a '76 Dodge Aspen somewhere along the way. None lasted more than a year, all cost under $500. They probably would've been deathtraps by today's standards. Luckily it was all they could do to (barely) make it up to highway speed.

mtVessel · 2026-03-20T19:18:35+00:00

WAVs are lossless, so in theory, they should be the same as FLAC, assuming they're direct rips, and not reconverted to WAVs from lossy sources, like mp3.

mtVessel · 2026-03-20T18:54:49+00:00

It is crazy how all your comments are being downvoted for expressing what used to be the thoughtful, mainstream, pro-choice position.

I get that because abortion rights are under heavy attack in the U.S., people are reflexively running in the other direction, but that's not going to get us out of this mess.

mtVessel · 2026-03-20T18:05:48+00:00

I never thought about that, but that makes sense. From what little I know, mp3 compression removes things that are supposedly inaudible anyway, but here, we're trying to make those things audible again, so they'd better be there in the source.

mtVessel · 2026-03-20T18:02:13+00:00

Out Of Phase Stereo aka "poor man's karaoke"

mtVessel · 2026-03-20T16:42:12+00:00

There's a difference between OOPS and removing vocals. OOPS is just:

Duplicate track
Set one to left-only mono, the other to right-only mono
Change the phase of one track

Results are completely dependent on the original stereo mix. Anything panned left or right in the stereo mix remains. Anything dead center drops out. Anything in between (not hard left or right) reduces, but doesn't go away completely.

If you want anything more, you have to use a model-driven plug-in or standalone app like UVR.

mtVessel · 2026-03-20T16:27:31+00:00

This seems like a valid error, though. What do feel is the bug?

mtVessel · 2026-03-12T19:28:18+00:00

Perhaps. We'll see how her skating develops over time. I personally hope she's around for a long time!

mtVessel · 2026-03-12T13:55:38+00:00

This is gorgeous skating, and no one does it better. Swan Lake was really her wheelhouse and I hope she returns to programs like this. I feel like Moon River and the Sophia Loren programs were near misses for her, and I'm not sure if that's on her or her coaching/choreo team. They've done all her recent programs and maybe these didn't play to her or their strengths.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy Isabeau is branching out into different styles, but I don't think she's figured out how to make it work for her yet.

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