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Yea. I wouldn't want to make it my primary PC. It's the same reason I want to try golf clubs from the 1800's. Feathery included!

Baseball Savant -Alverez I usually like to look at baseball savant when trying to make a decision...and Alvarez is not very desirable catcher. It can be a lot to look at...but very useful. I think the most useful thing for batters is the rolling xwoba average. It shows above/below league average. Baldwin definitely has been performing the best out of all of them...but his sample is small and he doesn't have the MLB track record of Murphy. It really comes down to playing time. With that said, I'd probably stick with Murphy. Are there any other options out there?

My dad also calls Windows XP Windows XT. I'm sure people here remember the IBM XT computer...I do not. I really want to use a C64 or some other 8 bit computer just once. I would like to compare and contrast with games I played before having kids. Today's games just seem to complex.

I know I'm starting to get "old" at 38 when our intern at work (just finished his freshman year of college) does not remember computers with spinning disk hard drives. I guess I can start understand my dad talking about RAM in megs.

I was so confused as that tweet is dated 8/6/24. When parody becomes reality less that a year later. Here is a more official tweet from a more reliable source that Fax Parody.

I'm sure this is probably part of the issue. Our IT department is really putting some bloatware on this PC. It's complete overkill with how I use the PC. That makes sense. I do a much better keeping desktops cleaner as they are easier to open up. I don't even want to begin taking apart my surface. I believe work is going to decom the PC. Maybe I'll try to snag it for home use as they are going to get rid of it? My work computer is definitely more of a super computer than my phone one...and probably more in line with the PC you are describing. 32GB of DDR5 RAM, i9 processor with 20 cores (including 2 efficiency cores). I don't remember the exact specs as it's maybe 1.5 years old...but I will say, it is great for running code and running engineering finite element models. Now my home computer, yea...not a super computer. I'll probably update it soon. My home PC is just sooo much faster than my surface. I just don't my home PC for much, so It will probably be a while. I know I can't put Windows 11 on it, so maybe this fall I'll upgrade when 10 falls out of support.

My work Surface Pro 4 from 2015 is getting replaced. I literally use it for doing some basic Excel/Word/presentations, web surfacing, and remoting into my desktop (which is definitely meant to run engineering software). There is no other software on it. My surface works...but it just seems slow and the fan runs more frequently when I'm watching YouTube videos. My question, is this slow speed mostly because one the following: 1) It's perceived because I'm used to my supercomputer desktop. I will add that I have a home desktop also from 2015 that still seems fast. I did upgrade the storage drive from a HD to SSD (after the HD failed), but that's it. I believe my home desktop has 6GB of RAM instead of 4GB...but both computers have 64bit OS's. 2) Software creep. Programs just required more computing power than 10 years ago. The OS has always been Windows 10. 3) Hardware degradation. I remember my surface being much faster than it is now...even on boot up, so I don't think it is only 1... especially when comparing with my home desktop. My hunch says it's more 2 than 3...but I don't know.

Wow. That draft sounds brutal. It kind of makes me appreciate the snake draft. Our whole 22 round draft this year took 45 minutes. I just wish our league had a free agent budget like our hockey league does.

You buried the lead with not posting the scoring system. For pitching...Wow...3 points for a strikeout, yes please. Facing 3 batters and striking out the side is basically worth a win. A reliever won't even come near that performance on average. A pitcher that gets 10 Ks in a matchup can carry you in a matchup Load up on Ohtani, Skenes, and Wheeler and any strikeout pitcher possible. For batting, I agree with the above. I find it interesting that a hit is worth a point. You could just increase the point count by one for all the others and make it less confusing.

It's pretty normal to get points for Ks and IPs. If you have access to last year's data/look at the projected points for this year, it should give you an idea of what to target on draft day. In our league, you can find really good relievers cheaply. Lots of teams rotate through closers...or someone is bound to get hurt. This is so true. Last year I got Chourio at #127 and Jackson Merrill as a free agent right before the first game. This year I got Chourio at #33. Maybe a little to high? We will find out. Our league is nice where you get two keepers and you can only keep someone three times. Ohtani was on the draft board last year because of this. For this year, I kept Tarik Skubal and Gunnar Henderson and rolled the dice on Chourio. Maybe I will be able to keep him an extra year now?

The problem I've had with chasing wins and saves is they are team dependent. Sometimes a closer won't pick up a save in a week...and they occupy a roster spot all the time. Innings and Ks are more reliable. Plus top closers may only pitch 60 to 70 innings in a year. I've gotten pretty good value from free agent pickups of multi inning relievers at a much cheaper cost. The @bulk_guy on Twitter can help with finding bulk relievers. In our league, wins are 5, quality starts are 3, and saves are 3. Losses are -2 and BS -3. Maybe if the points are more substantial, it could make more sense? You'll have to figure that out during the course of the year.

In my points league, good starting pitchers that rack up Ks can dominate. We get a point for an out and a point for a K. A prime starting pitcher can average over 20 points...which if you get a few of those, you don't need to have the best offense to win. Our league has 3 bench spots and I have them filled with SPs. I only have Megill has an RP...and I took him at pick 165. Drafting closers aren't worth it in my eyes as a good starting pitcher can score at least 2x the points over the duration of the season. Closers just don't pitch that much. In my drafts, I tend to take a few good SPs early...but I then draft 50/50 between pitchers and batters. I usually try to draft high ceiling players as it seems maybe only 25% of the guys drafted make it to the end of the year anyway. You'd be surprised how many above average players you can get during the season... especially SPs. Offense seems to be harder to obtain...especially the infield positions.

Random pointless comment: In my work pool, I'm in 1st out of 42 teams. In my family pool with the exact same bracket, I'm in last out of 9 teams. I have no idea what the scoring difference is between the pools, but I feel it must have something to do with upsets.

But it's in a state where his former employer (on his behalf) paid into, so it is completely rational. I hired a nanny when our twins were born to help watch our 2 year old and I didn't have to withhold any payroll taxes...but I did have to pay unemployment taxes. Side note...it was also quite fortunate that I didn't have to send her a W2 because she was just under the minimum wage...and I missed the deadline to file with the state because twins will do that to you.

I heard the smell like death...and went here. I had no idea that it was mung beans. Full circle! Some of the alternative milks aren't really that bad. Oat milk is actually pretty good. When they fortify them, they are pretty much on par with milk and their shelf life is so much better. When you actually think of it, drinking milk from another animal is really kind of weird...especially a human animal Yup...all the easy things that are available usually have milk or egg, so you have to get creative. The premade vegan stuff is usually expensive too. Also it's impossible to find a dairy free meat lover's frozen pizza. I've always enjoyed cooking and I've gotten pretty good at it. I just got done making some blueberry pancakes that we will freeze and thaw when we need a quick meal. We also virtually never get to go out to eat. My wife and I may get out together a few times in a year on a date night. We've also got almost two year old twins to go with our four year old who has severe allergies. Now I'm starting to see why I haven't been able to watch the Brewers as much as I used to.

The name is even more misleading...but they are made of mung beans. They taste fairly close to the real thing and actually make pretty good French toast and even do a good job making cookies/muffins/other baking substitute. True egg replacer is awful. Now we can't have dairy in our house either...so if you need advice on vegan "milk", I can do that too.

I saw in the grocery store yesterday that the price of the vegan eggs we have to buy because of my son's severe allergies were cheaper than the regular ones. This was also the person checking out in front of me. I'm guessing they did self-checkout because they wanted to be anonymous.

Thanks for the advice. Just to give another update, I met again with my supervisor today and it sounds like we may be ok for the shorter term as we landed a couple projects. I brought up the idea of cross training people on my team to help with this new project and he thought that was a possibility. I just don't like letting good structural engineers go because they are hard to find/train. In the long run, it's almost a bigger investment to lose them and rehire that it would have been to just keep them...especially if the new hire isn't what you were expecting. It's one position...not a whole team. We also discussed this new hire and my supervisor wants to just stay the course. He said if our group can't take him on, another department could definitely use him. I want to communicate that with the candidate so he isn't blindsided. The plan in the long run would be to have him join our team.

My supervisor said I'm likely going to have to let someone go in my team of 5 people due to the current slowdown in our work. For the last 2 quarters, we were beyond busy, so this is not easy thing to do. To complicate things more, because we had team a team member get licensed and we were crazy busy, we actually have another team member starting in May after they graduate. I wish I knew what to do.

Wow! Two NL central division members at the bottom of the list. Both were back when the Brewers were still in the AL. Especially the 1979 for the Pirates, I feel like 30 years of behind home plate season tickets isn't worth the taxes one would pay on it.

The one thing to note is the #29 Tigers won a playoff series last year. I didn't look it up, but I feel the last time the Brewers won a playoff series was in 2018. Edit: I don't want this to read like a salty post. I do like the Brewers direction and enjoy the regular season success.

NVDA is now up 8.82% so I missed my chance to cash in on people panicking. That does make sense though. It's just hard to predict what will happen in the long-term with single stocks which is why I just can't get myself to invest in single stocks. My mutual funds I'm sure have quite a bit of NVDA in their portfolio.

I don't really buy single stocks. But if I did, does that in theory mean NVDA is on sale and it's time to buy? My uninformed guess is companies will copy each other much like Apple and Android have copied each other for years and the stock will quickly rebound?

I'm so happy to hear other more experienced coders have had the same love hate relationship with AI as me. AI has helped me port code to JavaScript for our website. I agree that i feel the art of good coding will die a little bit. Maybe it will be akin to when the computer came into the workplace in the 80's when people were doing everything manually? The computer became a tool and enhanced the best workers but didn't replace them. Implementing untested AI code sounds like a complete disaster. Yikes! Someone should get fired for doing something like. Installing pandas there sounds awful. I've heard of it, but I have no idea of what it actually does. I've wanted to learn Python, but I just don't know why I would learn it. It seems I can do everything I need in a language I already know. When it comes to automating Excel, the dinosaur VBA seems much better suited for my needs. We don't really do data analysis, but do more calculations. I tried using the Excel Python once and it just didn't really work well. Can someone explain why I should learn it? Also, if I ever want to stop being a structural engineer and become software engineer, what would be the best way to do that? I'm so terrified of AI written code and it breaking our work servers that I rigorously test everything. If something were to happen in our office of 70 people, I would be getting yelled at. This is the downside of being the only person in the company that codes and also has full access to the back end of the network. The president of our engineering firm feels like we are "behind" the AI curve after he saw a presentation from a competitor. I have assured him that we are not behind. We just automated a lot of our tasks the old fashioned way of actual coding. Most of the stuff happens on the back end where the average user probably doesn't even know something happening. I'm working on front end things too...but I don't get time at work to do that as I have to put on my structural engineering hat.

Maybe this deserves its own thread, but it is bugging me how AI is being pushed into everything despite it not being as polished as it can be...especially writing code. To me it is a big buzz word. As a hobby coder that has had no formal coding training and an engineer by trade, I can see the utility of it to help write code/spreadsheets. However, I spend almost just as long debugging as it would have been me writing it from scratch. I've found if you give it the smallest task, maybe it will get it right maybe 25% of the time and it takes quite a bit of iteration before it is actually usable. If I have it do everything, it is comical how bad it can be. Then I say, this is not right, then it's all "oh, your right, let me fix this for you." It's also notoriously bad at math sometimes. AI could be better in the future. However, my job as a structural engineer is not going away anytime soon. Maybe the low level coder is going away, but someone that is good at coding and knows how to design code will still have more value than AI.