I’ve got a friend who has done the same thing. He spent 30 years in the tech industry before getting laid off a few years ago. After fruitless efforts looking for another job programming he became a bus driver and is so much happier for it. Now he’s a couple of years from retirement and getting a pension from the state.
That’s conveniently ignoring the fact that New York State is hundreds of times larger than just the city, and a huge portion of it is rural farmland.
I find myself continuously explaining to people how much of a benefit youth sports can be (soccer referee here) and how playing with your peers can be a really good form of mental growth and stability, and denying that to individuals because their outward appearance doesn’t match their gender causes irreparable harm during a child’s most formative years.
The chance that someone loses a scholarship to a trans child is infinitesimally small and the harm that is being caused to trans children through exclusion is guaranteed. The “think of the children” argument only works when you don’t include the trans child themselves in the equation. Otherwise the choice is simple.
One of the most frustrating parts to me is how the Sky commentators (while generally better) fail to understand how to explain how the regs work routinely. These cars are filling and emptying their batteries regularly because they’re limited on their deployment per lap, but they continuously talk about how someone might be low on energy because of something that happened a couple laps ago when that would have no effect anymore.
I’m generally a fan of the close racing that these regs have produced at the beginning of races, even if it is somewhat artificial (but so is DRS, so…). What I’m not a fan of is what other people have mentioned: the lack of data on screen. The sport evolved immensely in what matters in battles this year, but we never actually get to see that. Like, when is someone boosting? Maybe we can tell or maybe that was just their regular deployment, or they changed a deployment strat for this lap? Showing how much energy someone has consumed during a lap would also help us understand if they are about to make a move at the end of a lap because they’ve saved slightly more energy than the car in front.
I guess what I’m saying is I’m not as much of a doomer as most people from the ideas that these regs attempted to introduce, but I think they missed the mark in execution.
I’m so pissed about it, but I’m only one vote…
At least NYC got some more progressive candidates in.
Not just country but world now. Their K-8 program is a great entry into STEM as it is both an engineering challenge with the robot game and also the project that comes along with it (usually to design or organize around a certain challenge or theme).
FIRST also does a great job with their core values. They attempt to instill what they call Gracious Professionalism in everything that the program does. Basically, FIRST can be looked at as a program that tries to build good, competent people through the mechanism of a robot competition. In fact, the highest level award in the program is based around the impact that a team has on their community rather than how well a teams robot performs.
I might be a little biased, however, as I’ve been involved with the program (in the high school level competition) for about 17 years now. I know there are other programs out there that offer similar levels of STEM training, but none that build up people in the same fashion.
Something to keep in mind with VEX is that they just split with the organization that runs all of their competitions, so there’s likely changes coming soon. Also, the company itself has had some… Culture issues, so I personally try to avoid using their products where possible.
The Lioness Quartet and the Protector of the Small Quartet by Tamora Pierce may fit the bill here. They may be aimed more at a teen audience, but both are about girls needing to prove themselves in the face of a lot of adversity.
These books helped to shape my worldview when I was younger and they hold a very special place in my heart.
It’s okay. I’ve got a few side projects in node and I also don’t see anything too out of the ordinary here. If anything this looks more like someone’s first project with some “make it work” rather than being perfect and pretty.
I don’t understand the hostility. Even the bits that this guy talks about (duplicated code?) nothing looked duplicated - sure the names of the folders are the same but that’s more of a naming convention problem when you have a client that needs to connect to servers (or in this case has screens and functionality to connect to servers).
And now I’ve probably spent more time and brainpower on this than I should have just because I was confused.
For the Ohtani clock thing you could think of it that way. When all you’re doing is pitching you come out from the dugout and immediately start warming up for your half of the inning. If you’re getting ready to bat you’ve got some gear on that takes a minute to take off. A minute lost from the normal warm up timer may be considered too much time (that may compromise safety), so they add a little bit of time to allow for that case. The same would be done for any pitcher that is also a batter or position player, but that is a fairly rare occurrence so it doesn’t come up very often.
As far as the hitting of the batter is definitely suspect to throw inside three times in a row, but just on game state there’s no reason to hit that batter in that situation. The only reason that warnings were even issued (in my opinion) was as a result on the bench clearing, not the hit batter in a vacuum.
I’m unsure as to why or how, but my cat has different chitters for each type of bird or creature that he’s watching. The volume is also dependent on the size of the creature, so sparrows get a decently quiet “ch-ch-ch” sounds, while crows get a louder more crow-like “cha” sound.
The morning that he was making really loud unusual chirping was the morning that there was a set of vultures on the neighbors roof that he was watching.
Usually, though, I can reasonably identify the bird even if I’m in a different room.
I have a guy whose house is like this except he also has a Ukraine flag hung unironically on his house next to all the maga Trump flags, and it breaks my brain when I try to think about it.
It’s just the Dewey Decimal System, so you could look up whatever topic you like to find what it would be classified under. There’s thousands of topics that are covered here - there’s a reason it’s used for every non-fiction clarification in a library - that would be far too numerous to list on a single shelf listing. This library has chosen to prioritize the awkward questions as a way to help someone who otherwise may not know how to get help.
Alternatively, most libraries have a catalogue you can search by keyword and it will give you book results which will let you know where they are on the shelves. But again, that requires you to know that the catalogue exists and how to use it. It’s always going to be easier to ask a librarian, who can make sure you find something to help.
My friends are now into running archipelago randomizer worlds so I’ve been playing Pokemon Emerald and Fire Red together with my friends who are playing Tunic and Satisfactory.
Super pleased with how smoothly archipelago works and how much effort modders have put in to keep it that way.
I am considering buying factorio to play as well. It’s so much fun to add a multiplayer aspect to single player games while also essentially adding infinite replayability because every game is different.
I don’t think I said that OP was wrong (in fact I’m pretty sure I agreed with OP that it was annoying as a fully abled user until I figured out what was going on), but to elaborate on my earlier point just slightly - once a horizontal slider element is in focus it will always use left and right arrow keys to move if they’re pressed. Up and down always works to change the volume because there are no other elements when the video player is selected that are waiting for an input.
If they made the volume slider vertical instead of horizontal it would end up working actually better in this case (because the vertical slider would instead wait for up and down arrows), although that probably wouldn’t look as “nice”, but I’m not a UX dev so it could probably be jazzed up to look nice.
This is an accessibility function and happens because the volume slider has focus. If they made it so that left and right arrow keys always moved the video forward/backward it would break that accessibility and shut some users off from being able to use the website.
As annoying as it might be to someone who has full use of their mouse and keyboard it is imperative that websites can have all of their functionality accessed through something as simple as tab and arrow keys because that’s all that some people are able to use.
Note that I’m in your boat and find it to be annoying and just something to remember to unfocus after changing my volume, but having just recently been going through some accessibility training I can understand why this happens.
We had 59 kids, which is slightly above average for us, but that’s not surprising considering it was a Saturday night and the weather was amazing. We prep for 50-60 usually and we had just enough candy to make it through.
I was hoping for a rebound after it absolutely poured last year and we only had 13 kids.