There was, once upon a time, some limit to the market valuation of a company that approximated the most money they could earn if they came to dominate their entire market, times the inverse of the rate of return for highly secure (like AAA) bonds.

Now speculation assumes that companies will grow to exceed the size of their whole industry, perhaps in the near future, and returns from highly secure investments were really low post covid (resulting in pretty much a 40x valuation multiplier), which has just… held on since then.

It’s weird, and I don’t like it. Why should a company ever be worth more than all the money it could ever make?

I don’t see the gay side of this one, yet. Was the city inspector really hot or something?

The biggest recent Republican conventions were July 15-18 2024, August 24-27 2020, and July 18-21 2016. status.grindr.com doesn’t have history back to July 2016, but for those dates in 2020 and 2024, there are no incidents.

People might report to down detector or things like that, but… that’s amusing trolling, and part of the stunt, so it isn’t relevant.

I don’t know anything at all about grindr’s infrastructure, but I’m really, really dubious that with 5.5 million daily users, they’d have more than 1 or 2 points of presence for the entire continental US. That means those POPs are sized for >100,000 users per hour, and 20,000 horny Republicans aren’t enough to cause major issues, even if literally everyone at this convention is jumping on grindr afterwards. Also, modern infrastructure autoscales. Also also, the SREs for Grindr would notice if the app breaks every other year, and track when republican conventions are happening.

One time the physics, engineering, and math students in my dorm all finished our homework assignments at roughly the same time (~2:30), so we all went over to the other building and made brownies to celebrate. We had some wild parties, as you can tell.

I agree, and I think we’ve seen the same perspective blindness at a much bigger scale. Early in the covid lockdown, there was a proposal floating around to let people that had already been sick go back to working in regular contact with the public, because they would have good immunity.

It wasn’t until it made it out to public discussion that someone not rich finally pointed out that means telling people living paycheck to paycheck “Go get sick, then you can go back to providing for your family”. To people with surplus money, “stay home unless you are immune” is hardly a sacrifice at all, so there’s no motivation to put yourself in danger just to avoid that. The rich can live without going out to buy lattes for a few months, we’ll all tough it out together.

Meanwhile, the person making those lattes doesn’t have a financial safety net big enough to last a thousand years, and those same few months will be catastrophic.

I mean… “Sit in this room with a pen and a piece of paper until your thoughts are on that paper. If we see you pull out your cell phone, we’re taking it away.” is pretty effective.

He’s also spherical and frictionless, poor guy.

It’s a website, there’s no such thing as…

clicks refresh Crunch.

The calculator.net BAC calculations assume a linear reduction in BAC over time, so as long as you start drinking at the beginning of the game, and never get down to 0% before you finish drinking it works out the same under those assumptions.

I remember the great lakes with HOMES.

I guess it’s not too hard to switch to SHAME

Miller lite is 12 fl oz, 4.2% ABV. A baseball game is typically 2.5 hours long. Assuming a 200 lbs man, and using the calculator.net BAC calculator, drinking 3-5 beers over the course of the game will leave him in the “buzz” range between 0.02% and 0.06% BAC at the end of the game.

Consuming 23 beers over the course of the game will result in a 0.38% BAC, which calculator.net helpfully describes with:

“Stupor, central nervous system depression, loss of understanding, lapses in and out of consciousness, low possibility of death”

In metric:

Miller lite is 0.355 liters, 4.2% ABV. A batball game is typically 9 kiloseconds long. Assuming a 90.71847 kg man, and using the calculator.net BAC calculator, drinking 0.3-0.5 decabeers over the course of the game will leave him in the “buzz” range between 0.02 metric% and 0.06 metric% BAC at the end of the game.

$1,750 per job assuming ten jobs per week is $17,500 per week of working. Assuming 4 weeks per month, that’s $70,000 per month. Assuming 12 months of working per year, that’s $840,000 per year. I’d be calling it “almost a million” at that point. I think the math works out, but the business prospects don’t.

I have a buddy with a wife, so I know it can take a while to go from wife to single. Months, or more :(

A coworker of mine made the worst code base in the world. Beginning as soon as it was allowed, he used generative AI to work faster, add more documentation, review his MRs, write tests, and make changes to embrace industry norms.

It went great until this code was actually deployed. It turns out that he more than doubled the size of the code base, and made the worst code ever written by humans even worse. It has become superhuman levels of bad. The code AI wrote for him is going to produce the singularity of stupid, out of which hyper-anti-intelligence will emerge, and grow to consume every compute resource for the remainder of time.

In related news, yes, I could end my use of AI.

There are plenty of kinds of surprise that can be wonderful in the right context. Perhaps easiest is when someone tells you they want/would like something, you keep an eye out for opportunities, and surprise them when it comes around. (My wife wanted to see a comedian. I subscribed to their newsletter, and then got (refundable) tickets when they were performing near us, years later.) There can also be things that you are confident someone else will like, which they don’t know exist. (I bought a friend a battery operated pruner after seeing him struggle to keep up with bushes.) Or small things that someone likes (flowers, chocolate, breakfast in bed, depends a lot on what they are into).

The guitar repair was the worst kind of surprise: something irreversible, which the surprisee clearly knew about, and has chosen not to do at every single opportunity - while the surpriser doesn’t know why they are choosing not to. That’s not respectful, which is the absolute minimum requirement for a surprise to work.

In case you don’t know, C is the successor to B (which used imperial variables). There was a planned successor to C called D, which would use all unitless quantities, like they do in Fermi approximations, but it turns out those aren’t very good. That’s why we have C++ (which supports metric and imperial) instead.

They take up mental railroading instead?