lostapathy

So what do you actually recommend?

Perhaps the kids that could be soccer superstars stick with basketball until they figure out they aren't tall enough for the NBA, but are too old or just never developed enough interest in soccer to become a pro at that. But if they didn't have that NBA dream growing up, they may well have become a soccer superstar?

This is probably less true than you'd think. Freak athletes are great athletes no matter the sport.

There's kind of a soft cap on NFL player height at about 6'5" or 6'6" - hardly anybody is taller than that. But the NBA is majority guys 6'6" or taller. That split isn't because all those kids got sorted into the right sport when they were kids. It's because if you're enough of an athlete to go pro and tall enough to make a living off basketball, that's a lot easier life with a longer career than playing football.

Women's soccer is relatively popular, however.

This may be a function of the fact that no other women's team sport is at all popular in the US?

Honestly, I'd debate this.

The problem is the "handyperson" may "know" (but not actually) and do what they think they know. When I encounter the same task, I don't know I stop and try to learn the right way first. So there's a good chance the homeowner is actually on a better path.

A lot of the handypeople you hire, kinda by nature of being under-the-radar, also end up intentionally cutting corners where "it doesn't matter" because savings are a priority for their customers, and it can go too far. I, on the other hand, at least know I'm not trying to cheap out on my own work just because my last customers were broke and I'm conditioned to working in that mode.

The other trouble is that every handyman thinks they have a great handle on everything but have at least one blind spot where they do really, really stupid stuff.

Self hosting a mailbox is easy - getting email back out is the hard part.

Relatedly, it's a skill that goes with positions that are clung to such that nobody else gets to practice and learn said skill.

I think this varies with the type of film. If it's a film with real fans and excitement is thick, a packed theater is amazing. OTOH, films where the audience isn't engaged, or dare I say invested, having a crowd can often just be annoying because of the chatter or people moving around.

My 9 year old got verified as 21+ somehow. He obviously doesn’t have a photo id, so there is no way to verify him as a child. Support refused to help. The whole system is insane.

Did perl5 to perl6 actually happen? I feel like perl mostly fell out of favor along the way.

So much of this - never would have guessed how much code I wouldn't write doing this as a career.

You're complaining about things that were changed years ago.

What's the "somehow" about the mouse? They've supported that for a while now.

At which point if you're short on capacity (but who knows how your demand might shift over a decade) it's not like you need to replace the original batteries to get that 20% back, you will probably be able to just expand the pack to bring the capacity up.

This right here - I have been investigating getting my own contractor license for DIY work on a property I own that must be permitted but city will only issue permits to licensed contractors. Took a practice test for the exam on a whim and nearly passed it without studying. Anybody seriously considering DIY'ing the install of something like this probably could get a license without a lot of work.

Yes, let’s solve a tricky problem the hardest way possible.

Is it really "accepting a concession" if the "alternative" is so expensive as to not be an option anyway?

This is like telling someone who doesn't like that they have to wait in traffic they should just take a helicopter to work everyday. Yes, it's technically an option for some people, but for the vast majority it's not.

The "you can just not agree to it" argument is so bogus. You can only buy good/services that are for sale, and when they all have the same crappy terms, you have to agree to somebody's to live in the modern world.

That's like the people who claim only idiots live in HOAs but neglect the fact that, in some markets, nearly all real estate worth living in is covered by an HOA of some sort so your alternative isn't "buy a different house" it's "live in an apartment forever"

Who exactly would you ever ask to find out that the samsung fridge you were looking at was going to get ads in the future?

Certainly not the appliance salesman, they don't know samsung's plans. And good luck calling samsung and asking for the "future plans" department. This is such a dishonest take.

Dental insurance is even worse. My dental insurance has ridiculously low limits, but it gets you access to the "real" negotiated rates rather than whatever silliness "retail price" is.

I tried going without when I switched jobs to an employer that doesn't offer it, but one cleaning as a "cash payer" cost more than the annual premiums to buy insurance privately.

I've been in the hospital more than once for a week at a time. At no point did I ever see the same doctor more than once in a 24 hour period - from that perspective, it seems irrelevant to continuity of care how long their shift was.

Perhaps if we didn't expect superhuman schedules from doctors, doctors wouldn't command as much of a cost as they do now.

From the doctors I know, it seems like most don't get into it for the money, but they put up with it long-term because of the money. If we treated them better and increased supply, they would almost certainly cost less.

Might be an opportunity to make such a site?

It just says injunctions should only apply to the actual parties in the case.

So every person wronged by the government should sue individually?

Hard disagree. I have replaced hand written reports that were total nightmares to reason about and maintain with fairly trivial activerecord implementations that were quite literally hundreds of times faster.

Activerecord may not give optimal solutions but it can get close enough for a lot of workloads, and complicated sql can become a complete bear over time.

Correct - I wasn't trying to normalize obesity upthread, at all.

Bears are an example that shows very clearly it's normal for animals in nature to become very much "not lean" to survive, and the drive to put on fat stores is probably much broader in nature than animals that hibernate to survive winter.

What's unique about humans is that we've engineered our environment to the point that most of us no longer suffer long stretches of being unfed or underfed to strip the excess fat stores off of us.

Some people are clearly better than others at fighting the behavior evolution has programmed into them. It's not good for them today, but at the same time that drive for survival is what kept their ancestors alive.

Bears that go into winter slim aren’t bears at all come spring.

I maintain those pallets might be more valuable to other sellers with other stuff instead of strollers. If I'm running a business selling small stuff in flat rate postal boxes, and I don't want to deal with being a stroller mechanic, having broken strollers out of my pallets (and having other stuff instead) is actually a positive for me.

If you're just buying pallets of random returns, removing one category of items from that random pallet may not even devalue the pallet for that customer either. Heck, it might even make the pallets more valuable to have less variety in them (after all, the stroller-only pallets became more valuable when they are stroller-only).