It picks a random stock from a random year to track over a 2 year period.

Lol, no problemo! I’m happy to talk marching band.

Basically, he was a perfectionist with high expectations. He wrote his own arrangements and wrote his in drill sheets. He didn’t want to change it because he wanted us to be able to do it. To his credit, we punched way above our weight class. We competed as a AAA band despite being a single-A size and we regularly ranked in the top 3.

He only taught at our highschool for a few years. Then he taught at a university across the country, was there a few years, and is now the band director of a very well known university band. Not interested in doxing him or me, so pardon the vagueness.

I think he is much better suited for his current role rather than the highschool he was at while I was there. Thankful for the opportunity and stewardship, but with the hindsight of adulthood, he pushed us kids more than was appropriate. Not dangerous, just disproportionate to our age.

In my high school marching band, us in the drum line had this really hard to reach mark for one show. We had something crazy like 30 yards on a 16 count. Just absolutely hoofing it.

None of us could do it consistently, except for the 2nd bass drummer who was really tall and had a really wide gate. Anyway, he’d hit is mark every time. And every time he did, the band director would yell at him because even though he was in the right spot, everyone else was wrong together, so we all looked correct and he looked wrong because while we were in a perfectly straight line, he was another 5 yards or more to the right of us. He looked ridiculous.

And what made it worse was that our line was supposed to connect with a curved line in the low brass section. Their curve was supposed to reach out and run right down to the point of our #1 snare drummer. And that 2nd bass drummer would be in their way every time. And in an attempt to avoid a collision, they would change from a smooth arc into a weird curvy wobble just to avoid him.

The band director was sick of it ruining the spectacle. The band was sick of getting points off in competitions. So, when the band director said “make the form work, and if someone is in your way, run them over,” no one in the formation spoke out against it.

The next run through the song, that 2nd bass drummer got walloped by a two tubas, and then got his bell rung by a trombone player. He was right. He was always right. And in being right, he looked wrong, he made life harder for everyone around him, and ultimately was hurt because of his stubborness.

The lesson was finally clear to him: when you are in Rome, you do as the Romans do. It doesn’t matter how confident someone is that they are supposed to be driving on the right side of the road, if everyone else agrees to drive on the left, then that person will get in a head on collision. And then we the attendees of their funeral can write “They were right” on their gravestone. For some things in this world are worth dying for, and some things are not, and there is a certain wisdom in distinguishing the two.

Because one is done in an attempt to invite a collision and the one is done in an attempt to avoid a collision

I’ve been getting interested in HAM, but it seems really intimidating to get started actually doing stuff and working towards a license. Any resources that you’d recommend for an absolute beginner?

In my experience, items are only worth what someone is actually willing to pay. Because if it is priced so high that no one in your target demographic is actually willing to pay that much, it is just unrealized gains. And for most people, an unrealized gain is equivalent to 0.

I see this a lot in the MTG community. People will say a card is worth $200 because that is what they list for on eBay. I ask if they’ve ever had an offer for that much - and the answer is almost exclusively no. I tell them that the ones listed on eBay are the ones that aren’t selling. The real value is less because no one actually buying them for $200, that is the cutoff where people stopped buying the card and so the listings stay up.

They got the trademark as soon as they started marketing their band. They may not have registered the trademark until 2022. Things like trademarks and copyright are implicit to the creator. Registering them just makes it easier for others to find your work and deter infringement and makes filing some paperwork, namely lawsuits, much easier.

I’ve used it to “park” and let people out of my car, but never left the vehicle that I can recall. I also don’t wait for the person I dropped off to come back. One notable exception for helping my mom get into a wheelchair at the ER, but that was more of a designated drop off zone that I probably stayed in too long than a proper “no parking” zone. Maybe 3-5 minutes instead of the anticipated seconds?

Why are people booing? They’re right.

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On the flip side, I am genuinely curious how much storage and processing time all the AI slop being uploaded is costing them. Some of that stuff is hours long, and like most videos on YouTube, most people aren’t watching it.

Butterfly shuffle

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Damn, that’s a good reason

Python has a popular library called “Flask” that uses stringify(). Although, python also has an implementation in its standard library called jason.dumps()

Holy cow! I don’t think I’ve ever met another developer who actually admits to using action script back in the day. Greetings fellow old person!

Does anyone actually IRL disagree with this? The clowns…

I’ve heard both. Personally, I will continue to pronounce it “Jay-Sawn” until I hear a damn good reason for why I should stop.

So… Why aren’t all these AI companies getting charged with multiple cybercrimes?

I would love to have a copy of this assignment! That reveal must have been a real gutpunch. Something that may have actually stuck with most students.