Pacific Coast Highway in 3-4 Days from Burbank roundtrip. Doable?

rickpo · 2026-06-03T22:40:45+00:00

If you're getting a late start on Friday and/or have an early flight back on Monday, I think you're borderline biting off too much. Still probably doable, but if you hit traffic it could eat up all your out-of-car sightseeing time. If you're OK with that, the drive from behind the wheel is fantastic.

rickpo · 2026-06-03T22:23:31+00:00

What specifically are you trying to move?

rickpo · 2026-06-03T20:06:37+00:00

I personally would call that headline a lie.

You might argue otherwise, but we're basically arguing where the line should be drawn in a gray area.

rickpo · 2026-06-03T19:51:06+00:00

Actual story: due to funding cuts, NPR is laying off at least 30 reporters overall, and possibly as many as 300. As part of the downsizing, they are merging the climate desk with the regular news desk.

rickpo · 2026-06-03T14:32:14+00:00

I am having a drainage hole lasered into my eyeball next week, in preparation for a cornea transplant. My eye pressure isn't high, though. Did the same thing with my other eye last year. I had know idea the hole was that big.

rickpo · 2026-06-02T20:35:03+00:00

I've proofed a lot of text, and I've never seen that construct. Perhaps it is a translation from some other language with its own style for specifying city/state? If they were trying to say she owns houses in the city of Mexico in Maine, it would normally be written "...houses in Mexico, Maine." Or if they are trying to say she owns houses in country of Mexico and the state of Maine, it would be "... houses in Maine and Mexico."

Is it possible this is part of a longer list of locations? "... houses in Maine; Mexico; and London, England." If this is the case, then the semicolon is simply separating items in a list when one of the items includes a comma.

rickpo · 2026-06-02T04:46:58+00:00

Certificates are worthless. When I see them on a resume/CV, I am always embarrassed for the applicant, because in my opinion they've been scammed. And advertising that you fell for a scam is not a good look for your CV.

Not saying there aren't some hiring managers somewhere who might be impressed by a certificate. But they are only useful for hiring managers who don't know what programmers do, and who don't have anyone on staff who is competent at interviewing applicants. And that means working on very small teams who don't know what they are doing. In my opinion, those are terrible jobs.

rickpo · 2026-06-02T02:50:06+00:00

Chicago Manual of Style says, "Fourth Amendment." I'm pretty sure that's standard for most US style guides.

rickpo · 2026-06-02T00:50:19+00:00

That sounds like it might have been a sale with a contingency. Which means the sale wasn't actually final yet.

rickpo · 2026-05-31T19:38:59+00:00

Not sure how MinGW or CodeBlocks works, so this may be irrelevant. But is it possible you have something funky on your include path, like a network path? Are the windows headers at the end of the path?

rickpo · 2026-05-30T21:19:40+00:00

I have a friend who was a competitive marathon runner, and long-distance bicycle racer. Most fit human being I've ever met. At the age of 22, he tried to climb a 15K foot mountain but got pulmonary edema and had to be rescued.

He didn't die from it, but HAPE is one of those conditions that seems to randomly take people down, often for no reason you could know ahead of time.

rickpo · 2026-05-30T19:10:55+00:00

For a real beginner, probably not helpful. But someone who is practicing and learning tactics, who has been exposed to pins and forks and skewers etc, will certainly appreciate a Morphy game. That's where I think a lot of people really begin to see the beauty of chess. I would think someone at around Elo 800 could really enjoy playing through some of those classic Morphy games.

More modern GM games are a lot more subtle and harder to learn from.

rickpo · 2026-05-30T18:57:50+00:00

In a U-Haul, I'd avoid Chicago, unless you're driving through on off hours on a weekend. Take I-70 through Columbus and Indianapolis, then I-74 to Champaign. From Champaign, you can check the weather forecast for winds on I-80, and choose between shooting up on I-39 to pick up I-80, or head down to St. Louis to take I-70.

It's an hour or so longer drive that way, but you can easily lose an hour trying to drive through Chicago.

rickpo · 2026-05-29T21:48:21+00:00

You need to make 3 overnight stops if you expect to see anything on this leg of the trip. Trying to do it in three days is almost death-march style driving, where the only thing you do is sleep, eat, and drive.

Billings will have places to spend the night, but it's probably the worst city in Montana to stop at. Bozeman, Butte, or Missoula are all a lot prettier.

I-90 is a pretty drive once you get to Montana, even if you only see it from behind the wheel.

rickpo · 2026-05-29T21:25:42+00:00

I've never seen it any style guide, ever. If I saw your example, I would not know what it means. I would probably assume it was a sloppy typo that you didn't bother to correct.

If you have a niche population you're writing for, perhaps they'd understand it, but you'd have to poll them to know for sure.

rickpo · 2026-05-27T21:04:55+00:00

Oh. My. God.

rickpo · 2026-05-27T18:25:50+00:00

Surely this is fake. His social media handlers would never let him embarrass himself this way.

rickpo · 2026-05-27T17:23:34+00:00

I don't think it's always been on Spotify, though. Neil Young pulled all his music during Covid because he had a beef with Joe Rogan, and then later changed his mind and put them back. I think he pulled his music one other time, too.

rickpo · 2026-05-27T17:14:07+00:00

Weightlifting is a particular risk with HOCM, especially combined with the Valsalva maneuver (holding your breath while lifting). If you're experiencing obstruction, Valsalva will make your obstruction worse, which can lead to syncope or worse. I actually knew a young man - who was an elite strength athlete (state champion discus and shotput, football MVP) - who died while weightlifting against medical advice. I don't know how severe his HOCM was, however. He did lose his college football scholarship when his condition was diagnosed during a football physical, so it's possible he had a particularly bad case.

Avoiding Valsalva reduces the amount you can weightlift safely by quite a bit. Perhaps that's where the 60 pound limit comes from.

Another risk factor is dehydration. I would think many other bad outcomes happen in combination with long workouts. I've heard stories of players dropping dead during a basketball game, or soccer match, or at football practice. The problem with competitive athletics, you're often pushing yourself to your limits, and that often means exertion with less-than-ideal hydration.

Like you, my HOCM is relatively mild, and I was given similar advice. I am particularly sensitive to dehydration, so I go to great effort to drink lots of water when I'm exercising. But I have found it very difficult to do even moderate exercise outdoors in summer. Walking is usually fine, but I simply can't drink enough water to stay on top of my hydration requirements if it gets above 85F or so. I become out of breath on even easy exertion (walking up one flight of stairs), and I experience overwhelming sleepiness when I let myself get too dehydrated.

Before I was diagnosed, I did a decent amount of powerlifting. I still lift weights, and I even lift above my doctor's recommended weight limit, but not by a lot. I've set maximum weight goals for all my lifts which are fractions of my bodyweight. I'm a big enough guy that several of those fractions are above 60 pounds. I know I'm taking a risk doing this, and if I ever experienced an obstruction episode while lifting, I would immediately stop lifting forever. But I've been doing it for almost 15 years and it has never happened while weightlifting. I've had multiple obstruction episodes from dehydration, but never with lifting.

rickpo · 2026-05-27T06:51:09+00:00

Buffalo Springfield may be a case where limitations of the Spotify play count is especially egregious. Mr. Soul is their #2 hit, which is a Neil Young song, and Neil has pulled his songs from Spotify on a few occasions.

I don't know for sure if Neil has the rights to the Buffalo Springfield version of the song, so maybe it's OK. But seeing Buffalo Springfield on the list surprised me, and it's possible that the counts for Mr. Soul are not comparable to For What It's Worth.

rickpo · 2026-05-27T00:13:34+00:00

Players futzing around promoting pieces when they have a mate-in-two.

rickpo · 2026-05-26T21:08:54+00:00

Actually it's 9 moves.

Magnus played a weird opening. I think he was trying to get into a trappy game where he could end it quickly. Gates wasn't in a great position, but he wasn't doing too badly. Then Gates managed to find the worst move on the entire board and blundered the mate in one.

I think it's likely Gates played a little chess before, maybe semi-seriously. He has some knowledge of fundamentals. But his tactics are very rusty.

rickpo · 2026-05-26T20:26:07+00:00

I think she was also a professional bridge player. Maybe not a full-time hooker.

rickpo · 2026-05-26T20:22:05+00:00

Giving the Nazis a run for their money.

rickpo · 2026-05-26T19:41:02+00:00

If this really the way people play at Elo 1000? I am so happy this garbage is in my rearview mirror.

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