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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
anything within the written rules is allowed
Definitely. Seems football has it a little better than baseball. They can just rotate in the benchwarmers. My understanding of baseball is they're pretty much locked into a predetermined rotation.
Not entirely. You can substitute one player with another pretty much any time. However, once player A has been replaced by player B, player A cannot return to the game for any reason. So replacing A with B is a strategic decision; are you going to need A's specific talents later?
Pitching is less flexible. Yes, you can still substitute, but due to the nature of pitching, a pitcher can't pitch again without a day of rest (or a few days), depending on how much he pitches in this game. Starting pitchers, who tend to throw more pitches, generally get 3 or 4 days of rest between appearances, and they have a fairly fixed rotation among themselves. A reliever who is brought in just to face a couple of batters to get out of a tight spot might be able to pitch again the next day, but it's probably not a good idea to make a habit of it. So the strategy has to consider not just what's needed in the rest of this game, but what is likely to be needed in the next few games.
Baseball substitution is also less flexible than football due the difference in team sizes. The positions on both are specialized, and a player can play a different position only with a serious disadvantage, so that's almost never done, but for any given position, a football team usually has more to choose from. An NFL team has about 80 players (11 on the field at any time), while for most of the season, a MLB team has 24 (minimum) to 26 (maximum) players, up to 13 of which are pitchers. Typically, there will be one backup catcher (2 total), two spare infielders (6 total), and two spare outfielders (5 total). For most positions, excluding specialists like kickers, an NFL team has at least 2, maybe as many as 6 or more replacements available.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
An NFL team has about 80 players
Or 55 (the current max), which was an increase of 2 from the last several seasons. You are also allowed 6 people on your practice squad (they are contracted to the team but can only play by taking one of the 55 player slots, which requires that player to either be on injured reserve or released from the team).
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Or 55 (the current max)
I just pulled up the current roster of an arbitrary NFL team from some web site (ESPN?) and counted the number of players. There were 81 players listed. I looked for but didn't find anything with actual roster-related rules.
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You probably pulled a pre-season roster. The teams can have up to 90 players on the roster until the day prior to week 1 of the regular season.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
The issue is a particular piece of California legislation that, depending on who you ask, is either 100% essential in making things fair, or completely screwing over, "gig economy" workers. AIUI, the legislation makes it so that if you're not hired as an employee with full benefits, you can't do more than x units of work per month for one company.
The legislation was written with the specific goal of making Uber et al. treat their drivers as employees; which is not a bad goal; Uber is a company that treats their drivers like and flouts laws that regulate transportation companies.
However, as is so often the case, unintended consequences result from a badly-written law. It applies to all freelance workers — authors, photographers, artists, musicians, beauticians, whatever — and it really screws them (and not in the pleasant way).
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Chris is musician, plays the trumpet in ad hoc bands. Chris calls their buddy Lee, "Hey, I hear you've got a dance gig this weekend. Need a trumpeter?" "Yeah, sure do, but I can't have you play for me. You've played for me 35 times this year, so I can't use you again until next year. You know anybody else that's available?"Wait, it is really hardcoded as 35? In the law? As a magic number??
Someone should point them out that it's a known antipattern.
Also, there are plenty of countries with similar laws (we've actually had a discussion about them here, few weeks ago), but it is at least defined by %, with some more complex heuristic (which is usually decided by appropriate agency and maybe the court, if necessary).
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
Wait, it is really hardcoded as 35? In the law? As a magic number??
IIRC, yes, but I'm not certain. I'd check, but there's a warthog in the way.
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@Kamil-Podlesak
It's not a magic number, the law defines a constant right at the beginning
MONEY_GRUBBING_CAPITALIST_GIG_COUNT = 35
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak
It's not a magic number, the law defines a constant right at the beginning
constexpr byte MONEY_GRUBBING_CAPITALIST_GIG_COUNT = 35;
Fixed. Because more than 255 will never be possible!
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@HardwareGeek I'm afflicted by non-warthogitis for some reason.
The bill hardcodes 35 as the maximum number of "submissions" per year by "a still photographer or photojournalist [... or] a freelance writer, editor, or newspaper cartoonist" can make and still be presumed to be an independent contractor. The legislative history indicates that they arrived at that number as 67% of the weeks in a year. A number of other professions are also exempt without any quota, including accountants, marketing, legal, graphics design, and beauty. Otherwise, to be a non-employee, freelancers have to meet the following test:
- The individual maintains a business location, which may include the individual’s residence, that is separate from the hiring entity.
- [... The] individual has a business license, in addition to any required professional licenses or permits for the individual to practice in their profession.
- The individual has the ability to set or negotiate their own rates for the services performed.
- Outside of project completion dates and reasonable business hours, the individual has the ability to set the individual’s own hours.
- The individual is customarily engaged in the same type of work performed under contract with another hiring entity or holds themselves out to other potential customers as available to perform the same type of work.
- The individual customarily and regularly exercises discretion and independent judgment in the performance of the services.
Chris the musician isn't subject to the 35 number. However, if he's in any band that gets booked for gigs ("professional services"), he'd better be in at least 3 or 4.
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I think (but IANAL) that one way around this would be for the freelancer to incorporate as an S-corp the corporation does business with the newspapers or whatever, and the individual is an employee of the corporation.
There's a pierce-the-veil clause. I'm pretty sure the intent is that employers-in-fact still have to provide for freelancers even if they incorporate, but the practical effect is that both the freelancer's minicorp and the employer-in-fact have to pay/provide benefits/etc, making things even worse.
An “individual” includes an individual providing services through a sole proprietorship or other business entity.
Edit: Uber/Lyft drivers specifically fail points 3 and 6. The intended business model also runs afoul of 2 (it's supposed to be a gig, not a professional service!) and arguably 5 (drivers for Uber and Lyft don't typically drive for any other company anymore, and Uber and Lyft collude to allow drivers to drive for the other, so some Negative Nancys are treating them as a single hiring entity for the purposes of the regulations).
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@HardwareGeek Right now, the NFL preseason is going on and teams are allowed to have extra players on their roster for developmental purposes.
By September 5th, each team must cut down to 55 players in preparation for the Week 1 games. (Most teams will play their Week 1 games on September 13th.)
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
extra players on their roster for developmental purposes.
After they cut the extra players, are they developmentally disabled?
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@boomzilla
A furry cup?
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@DogsB This is like the "people can trick self-driving cars into crashing!" panic. Yes, they can, but they can also trick human drivers into crashing, or just drop an anvil on them from a bridge, it's not really a new risk.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
extra players on their roster for developmental purposes.
After they cut the extra players, are they developmentally disabled?
That usually takes a few regular season games.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah Is it any worse than a "cup" that can't be used for drinking because it has no bottom?
Which sport has that?
I'm not sure how many of those are described (describable?) as "cups" but Formula One has some pretty... weird... ones. Search for "f1 trophies" or click here:
Though since F1 drivers apparently don't know how to drink champagne, I don't think not having a cup to pour it in is really a problem.
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@Mason_Wheeler Sounds pretty good
The new device does so using "photosheet" technology. Out of it comes oxygen and formic acid, which can either be stored as a fuel or converted into hydrogen to provide clean energy.
How good is formic acid as a fuel, and/or what's the process to get hydrogen out of it?
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@Mason_Wheeler It's funny how the article talks about Epic and App Store, but the oneboxed video sports a title:
Is there a future for the Intel Macs? Yes, with Windows
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@Bulb Yeah, Zdnet oneboxes very poorly.
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Despite the best efforts of the anti-vaxx movement, there are now only two countries and one continent with endemic polio.
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A Google search on the part of Schwartz suggested that Boyne must have perfunctorily searched for “how to dye clothes red” to come up with the passage, landing on a site listing the recipe for red dye in the game, which was released in 2017.
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@anonymous234 Wow! I can see an author making a mistake like that, but... how did it get past the editors and alpha readers and other safeguards an author is supposed to have to keep exactly this kind of problem from happening
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@Mason_Wheeler Welcome to the 21st Century, where QA is left up to the
usersreaders.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 Wow! I can see an author making a mistake like that, but... how did it get past the editors and alpha readers and other safeguards an author is supposed to have to keep exactly this kind of problem from happening
Because most people don't play video games. I played the first couple of games a looong time ago. I've never even heard of the game it came from, "Breath of the Wild," let alone recognize "red lizalfos" or "Hylian shrooms."
Sounds like typical made up nonsense.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Because most people don't play video games.
A year ago, I would have believed you, but my mother has recently managed to get a perfect save game in Super Mario Odyssey before I did. That's someone who calls me when she receives spam.
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@dfdub said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Because most people don't play video games.
A year ago, I would have believed you, but my mother has recently managed to get a perfect save game in Super Mario Odyssey before I did. That's someone who calls me when she receives spam.
Exhibit A on how Nintendo's new stuff isn't a true video game
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler Sounds pretty good
The new device does so using "photosheet" technology. Out of it comes oxygen and formic acid, which can either be stored as a fuel or converted into hydrogen to provide clean energy.
How good is formic acid as a fuel, and/or what's the process to get hydrogen out of it?
Well, you could either use it directly in a fuel cell (there's actually a formic acid fuel cell out there, though it hasn't seen much use for obvious reasons). Though you can also get the hydrogen out of it - you'll need a catalyst (e.g. platinum), however.
I'm a bit more dubious on its actual efficacy due to that part of the article:
The new device is easier to make and stays relatively stable
The cynical part of me says: "Relatively stable to what? A mayfly?"
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
The real "first James Bond":
Frederick Truesdell. Played James Bond in the 1917 film "Outwitted".
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@da-Doctah But not the Bond, James Bond.
The character in this film named James Bond, played by Frederick Truesdell, is not the spy character created by Ian Fleming in 1952.
It would be rather surprising if he played a character created 45 years after the movie was made and 23 years after the actor's death.
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If we are being about it:
is the first adaptation of the Fleming novels to the screen, albeit for TV and not film.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
If we are being about it:
is the first adaptation of the Fleming novels to the screen, albeit for TV and not film.
And of course, on the big screen, the first actor to play Bond-007 was not Connery but stuntman Bob Simmons, in the opening gun-barrel sequence of Dr No.
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@HardwareGeek
He should spent some time improving the Scottish Wikipedia.... or the Russian submarine commander Edition.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek
He should spent some time improving the Scottish Wikipedia....Speaking the language is not required.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/ig9jia/ive_discovered_that_almost_every_single_article/
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Speaking the language is not required.
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@HardwareGeek David Niven was the best bond.
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Oooooohhh I wonder how this affect our always pull policy.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
our always pull policy
Always pull policy in what?
If you are deploying to some environment with always pull policy, you are actually doing it Wrong™. The thing is that you don't get much control over when that “always” is. When I don't have containers with already unique tags, I started pulling the manifests through kbld, which replaces the tags with the hashes.
… and then you can install a proxy, so that the one pull
kbld
does when resolving the image ID is the only pull that hits the hub.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Oooooohhh I wonder how this affect our always pull policy.
Free plan – anonymous users: 100 pulls per 6 hours
Free plan – authenticated users: 200 pulls per 6 hoursI guess if you have a large organization? I only "use" docker here and you guys know how often we deploy.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Onebox: "Here's what paramedics are saying about how this happened."
Actual article: not a single quote from anybody in the entire medical industry
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Comodo revokes any code signing certificate whose signature is attached to any file that any scanner in VirusTotal identifies as malware. They also don't timestamp the revocation, so all code signed with that certificate becomes ... problematic.
Who wants to shoot down a bunch of MSIs?
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In other news today: So, earlier this week some self-proclaimed "free thinkers" announced another demonstration against Covid and masks and stuff for today. Their last demonstration had to be shut down because they did not comply with distance and mask wearing rules.
So the responsible agency and the police told them to take a hike because they did not expect them to comply with the rules this time (as evidenced by the theme and previous experiences).
The morons promptly went to court which ruled that "because the organisators pinky-sweared that they would comply with the rules they are allowed to hold their demonstration".
Today, after about two hours of people gathering (before the actual start of the demo) the police announced that they would shut down the demo because multiple public reminders about the rules were not complied with.
The ruling judge: