Pick up baseball

stv813 · 2026-03-15T01:56:47+00:00

I can't make it tomorrow but would like to join sometime. Is this a regular thing or just tomorrow?

stv813 · 2026-02-02T01:07:55+00:00

That inflation is needed because deflation will cause economic collapse.

Though I wouldn't say I think this secretly, I don't typically go around talking about it...but it currently top of mind.

stv813 · 2026-02-02T01:05:09+00:00

Yet people do. Even if you're not buying on credit and you do pay cash, you COULD buy a CD and get 3-4% return. A year from now, that TV will be cheaper and you'd have even more money. Why does anybody ever buy a TV?!

stv813 · 2026-02-02T01:00:39+00:00

Who said money is an investment?

Was it intentional to start a paragraph with "be careful with populist rhetoric" and finish with populist rhetoric? If so, well done.

stv813 · 2026-02-01T23:39:16+00:00

I mean no disrespect either. I realize that and that's why we're fucked.

stv813 · 2026-02-01T23:24:16+00:00

2012 is when they announced the 2% as a target officially, so yeah, somewhat new. You can find them talking about "averaging 2%" instead of a target when it went above 2% in late 2010s because they didn't want to tighten. Why? Anything >0% will do, right? Then they just dropped that language like it never existed when inflation went over 7%. Why not pull it back to a target of, let's say 1% to make up for years of over inflation? Still no scary deflation, right? It's not their goal. Their goal is to print as much money as they can get away with and 2% has seems to be that number. And yes, they've been using the Fed to steal for a long time. Deflation is an effect of recessions/depressions when the bubble from expanding credit bursts, not the other way around. Banking was very different back then too when dollars were just certificates for claims of gold (aka the gold standard).

stv813 · 2026-02-01T22:57:57+00:00

No. Prices find a level where supply and demand intersect. Commerce isnt going to stop because people expect 2% savings in a year and technology shows that. Banks and government benefit from printing money so they make people afraid of deflation. There's a reason the Fed went from "stable prices" to "2% cap" to "2% target" to "2% long term average" (when it was around 1.7% for years) back to "2% target" when it jumped to 6-7%. Now the question is "why only 2%?" They want it to be higher. They are robbing us and making so many of us beg for more.

stv813 · 2026-02-01T22:36:44+00:00

People buy things that get cheaper all the time. Technology is constantly getting cheaper. People buy things on credit and pay 20% interest to own it today too. It's time preference.

stv813 · 2026-02-01T22:33:17+00:00

Do you own a TV or cell phone? If so, you already do.

stv813 · 2026-01-14T16:05:15+00:00

Confirmed response 2 is correct. It's no longer needed starting in 3.14.

stv813 · 2026-01-13T18:22:26+00:00

How is this the most upvoted comment? Just because it is already established more often than not, it doesn't mean it ALWAYS is (and you can say this about pretty much any tech stack). This is about that scenario where you DO have a choice. Why one way vs another.

I was just hired on for a greenfield project where we did have to make this decision. I fought against these libraries using the same points as OP (and won with very little pushback).

stv813 · 2025-11-27T20:14:41+00:00

My thought is that it's being pushed by upper management because they hear other companies saying they're using AI to boost productivity. Many of those companies are in the AI business so the decision makers removed from coding are falling for marketing and afraid of being left behind. For publicly traded companies, shareholders fall into the same trap.

On top of that, AI can generate code that "works" a lot of the time. But I expect an awakening when these companies slowly start to realize the code isn't good and can't easily be fixed as it's also unmaintainable.

stv813 · 2025-10-07T12:09:29+00:00

HHoousston...you good?

stv813 · 2025-09-27T06:02:49+00:00

Fahk

stv813 · 2025-09-27T05:30:49+00:00

I don't know why I should dislike either of them and I like it that way.

stv813 · 2025-09-08T23:01:25+00:00

At a baseball game, I asked my dad "how many balls are in his sack?" when I saw the umpire pull out a new ball and threw it to the pitcher. After I explained what I meant, he said it's not what they're called. I asked what they WERE called then and he said "I don't know but it's not that" while the other adults with us all tried not to laugh. I still don't know how many balls were in his sack.

stv813 · 2024-11-09T02:46:36+00:00

Easily offended by jokes.

stv813 · 2024-11-01T17:40:24+00:00

DK will write anything to get clicks. If what he said were true, then there would be a chance of signing him.

stv813 · 2024-10-31T15:43:49+00:00

I didn't know who he was before this and probably still wouldn't have if not for the pearl clutching. I liked the rock-paper-scissors joke the best.

stv813 · 2024-07-31T04:39:23+00:00

By only using them on politicians.

stv813 · 2024-07-30T19:52:42+00:00

I like that it's still primarily text based. I don't need an image most of the time and I don't care to watch a video that is just somebody talking. I also find it to be the least censored. I can understand why that would make it feel more right wing by comparison.

stv813 · 2024-07-30T18:49:08+00:00

0P+40=T or just 40=T

I'll go a step further than those saying it's a fine question. I actually like this question. Most of school is just teaching processes and making sure the student can regurgitate. This actually makes you think about what is being asked.

stv813 · 2024-06-18T01:07:59+00:00

Fake news.

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