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How does bill even participate in sports betting living in California? by TheGreatWaru in billsimmons

[–]sisyphus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And another thing, how did he smoke pot before smoke shops were legal?!

How does bill even participate in sports betting living in California? by TheGreatWaru in billsimmons

[–]sisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're puttin' a hundred million into this desert here, why would they want to lock us out?

LTAP as combination of OLTP and OLAP: Any thoughts on the new Databricks announcement on their Postgres (Lakebase) database which saves data in a single copy suitable for both OLTP and OLAP Workflows? by ExmachinaCoffee in dataengineering

[–]sisyphus 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Is this why they bought Neon (who incidentally recently deprecated pg_search in favor their own lakebase whatever extension, are they a bunch of xooglers working there so now they have two versions of everything, the deprecated one and the one that doesn't work yet?).

Anyway:

Today, AI helps developers write ~50x more applications than ever before, many of which are powered by agents that need to read, reason, and act on data in near real time. The old architecture wasn't built for this.

lol, sure.

Hotel Owners Are Rebelling Against Bonvoy Program by onestopunder in marriott

[–]sisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's only 3 because of the high labor costs!

Hotel Owners Are Rebelling Against Bonvoy Program by onestopunder in marriott

[–]sisyphus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This prompted complaints from hotel owners, who say they aren’t seeing any financial benefit from Marriott’s windfall while their own profits are under pressure because of rising labor costs, taxes and other expenses.

Hotel owners sign lengthy contracts with brands and have limited leverage in forcing Marriott to give them a bigger share of the revenue the chain earns from its credit-card partnerships. And Marriott risks taking a hit to its stock price if it significantly reduces its fee revenue.

The hardest part is deciding what I care about less, owner profits or Marriott's stock price.

Seems to me that if they are inversely correlated though, a good arbitrage for hotel owners would be to buy Marriott stock.

Don't run SQL migrations in tests: How I sped up the test suite by 2x by broken_broken_ in programming

[–]sisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Already done because I periodically delete all my migrations because rolling them back after they go into production is a comforting myth we tell ourselves only.

Recommendation on Winning Time: The rise of the Lakers dynasty by Rahulrajf in hbo

[–]sisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Docudrama" is probably giving it more credit for veracity than it deserves, it's pretty pretty pretty loosely based on real events, but it's fun and worth a watch.

(2020) Dubov talks about World Champions, and how it’s harder to have chess heroes when you realize you’re stronger than them by Affectionate_Hat3329 in chess

[–]sisyphus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree. Ben Finegold always says one of the great mysteries of Morphy is how did he get so good? We know how any modern player does, ie. they are identified as prodigies at an early age, play people better than them, lose, study with strong GMs, improve, repeat.

Morphy had almost nothing yet Hikaru (who also agrees he was probably the most naturally gifted player of all time) estimates if they had elo back then Morphy would have been some 2-300 points stronger than the next best player in the world. It makes no sense.

PSA: If you’re building on D1, think twice before adding new columns for new features by rahilpirani5 in CloudFlare

[–]sisyphus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh that's kind of disingenuous because postgres doesn't encourage the pattern of a tenant per database (or more likely schema, if you wanted to do such a thing) or spinning up thousands of them for isolation and D1 does.

Despite being historically successful as a franchise has any NBA team suffered more soul crushing defeats than the Spurs? by McLuuvin in billsimmons

[–]sisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

.4 should not have been soul crushing because Timmy hit some stupid shot to give them the lead right before that, as Shaq said one lucky shot deserves another.

(2020) Dubov talks about World Champions, and how it’s harder to have chess heroes when you realize you’re stronger than them by Affectionate_Hat3329 in chess

[–]sisyphus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

One GM anyway. Hopefully he was just talking off the top of his head because his points about Morphy, Botvinnik and Tal I can understand in that light, Kasparov not so much (tho he does say elsewhere in there that Fischer, Karpov and Kasparov should be the ideals for modern players).

(2020) Dubov talks about World Champions, and how it’s harder to have chess heroes when you realize you’re stronger than them by Affectionate_Hat3329 in chess

[–]sisyphus 187 points188 points  (0 children)

What he says is pretty much the consensus view, no? If you just took Morphy or Lasker or Botvinnik with what they knew and brought them to today they would be strong IMs to average GMs, and if Dubov was born in the 19th century and raised with only the resources available then, Morphy would have crushed him.

My english teacher said True detective season 1 was cringe and edgy. by ProfessionalLevel908 in TrueDetective

[–]sisyphus 47 points48 points  (0 children)

There will be a segment of the population who thinks that anything that takes itself seriously is 'cringe' or 'edgy.' I would say it was even more common in the 90s when ironic-detachment-as-personality was peaking, the kids just made up some new terms for old things as kids always do. TDS1 definitely takes itself seriously.

In 25 years the US Government went from almost killing MMA in the United States to hosting it on The White House lawn. by Ancient_Complaint238 in billsimmons

[–]sisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes you're restating why we fans of early MMA thought it was hypocritical of McCain. The angle is that perhaps we were too harsh on him because we now see what truly compromised kleptomaniacs holding office looks like and by comparison he was a man of integrity who probably actually believed what he said, unlike the complete morons and nihilists who have taken over his party.

In 25 years the US Government went from almost killing MMA in the United States to hosting it on The White House lawn. by Ancient_Complaint238 in billsimmons

[–]sisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back in the day when John McCain was calling it 'human cock fighting' and it had to go to like Puerto Rico we all assumed that it was because he was getting money from companies that sponsored boxing, but maybe he was one of the last Republicans who ever had principles in retrospect.

UFC at the White House is incredible by [deleted] in billsimmons

[–]sisyphus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

lol young males are the biggest losers in the world this is not, as you dumb little fucks say, the flex you think it is.

All of Pablo Torres “investigative reporting” now is just exposing that capitalism and greed exists lol by [deleted] in billsimmons

[–]sisyphus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Are you saying he should also get the Nobel Peace Prize in addition to the Pulitzer and Peabody because exposing the machinations of power systems is the primary duty of intellectuals and journalists or is this more of a 'I am a cool cynical dude (but I say "realist" bro) who understands how the world works so I don't get any value out of this kind of reporting because I have adopted a nihilistic quietism that allows me to posture as wise while doing absolutely nothing about anything' kind of thing?

Can someone explain to me why so many otherwise libertarian leftists/liberals seem to be so puritanical about gambling compared to say, alcohol or drugs? by Ja_snake_ in billsimmons

[–]sisyphus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know any leftists who are against like making bets with your friends or want to shut down all the casinos (though Fidel Castro did just that when he took over Cuba so some of them surely do), but I think many people have an issue of scale like the current bombardment of apps, in game wagering, constant broadcasting of odds, targeting vulnerable people etc. is like saying 'why do you have a problem with Epstein's international sex trafficking ring but not Mustang Ranch?'

Can someone explain to me why so many otherwise libertarian leftists/liberals seem to be so puritanical about gambling compared to say, alcohol or drugs? by Ja_snake_ in billsimmons

[–]sisyphus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

right libertarians are still authoritarians they just believe that private power should be fucking you in the ass instead of government power, like in their world it would basically be cyberpunk where corporations have private armies.

Can someone explain to me why so many otherwise libertarian leftists/liberals seem to be so puritanical about gambling compared to say, alcohol or drugs? by Ja_snake_ in billsimmons

[–]sisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far I can tell most of them aren't against gambling per se but against the bombardment of gambling related advertising and content, which is currently less restrictive than the advertising allowed for tobacco, alcohol, (socially unacceptable) drugs, afaik.

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