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Doesn't have any packages, one star https://x.com/mistersql/status/1003696031253528576/photo/1

Turkish delights have Turkish ends.

I had that game. Wow, my laptop, err, computer that folded in half. https://x.com/ZXRetro/status/1003436537621729281

For a small fee & I suppose an optional opt in, you can listen to GDPR read to you until you fall asleep. In the morning you'll want to ask that your data on your night time listening habits be deleted.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/3/17413390/gdpr-legislation-asleep-in-seconds-listening-meditation-app-peter-jefferson?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

I hope GotDotNet & Codeplex died because they stunk (well GotDotNet Did, Codeplex was fine) and not because someone at MS didn't see the value in the general idea.

Jamey Comey worked so hard to keep the FBI non-partisan that he took actions that helped throw the election to some1 who wants to eliminate independence anywhere in the fed gov't. This is only rational if he was *convinced* HC would win or that investigations changed no ones vote

In James Comey's book, he said at 1 press conference he wore a gold tie to emphasize that he was non-partisan. Now every time I put on my gold tie, I think about it.

If you buy a Lotto ticket online from Georgia & you're not in GA, they charge you with something like hacking:

"... (a) the crime of "computer trespass" as set forth in OCGA 16-9-90..."

The concept of trespass onto a public endpoint bothers me.

ref: https://www.galottery.com/en-us/games/draw-games/fantasy-five.html#tab-buyNow

IDEA: in comp sci random number series that people thought were random keep turning out to be non-random. Could that sort of analysis be exploited with state lotto? (I'd imagine if this strategy did work, it would only improve betting odds from 1 in a billion to 1 in (billion/10)

When you are young, you find out about retirement accounts you didn't know you had.

When you are old, you find out you no longer have retirement accounts you thought you had.*

* Does Penny Benny do anything for 401k accounts?

Homeopathic theory of team staffing-- if big teams are bad, then a team with no specialists or staff at all will do better than all the other team sizes.

(i.e. the counterpoint to software is like making babies, you can't make 1 in 1 month with 9 women)

So you want a python decorator that takes a parameter, well that is just a function in a function in a function

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5929107/decorators-with-parameters

Horse race gambling is a tax on people who somehow aren't good at math, despite being able to follow the rules for how to make a bet, which requires a sense of combinations--- just to make a bet, forget about evaluating if a bet is on long odds or not.

https://www.twinspires.com/wagertypes

Best way to wake up

217 pages of tabular lotto payout data in PDF for the MD Racetrax Superfecta ... 217 pages!

What do you think this is, MD Lotto, some sort of game?!

https://cdn.mdlottery.com/Game%20PDFs/Superfecta_Payout_Chart.pdf

People who post tables of public data on websites as PDF (alone) are bad people & should feel bad.

In the meanwhile, this is doing a good job of extracting tabular data from PDFs:
https://tabula.technology/

OH**: "What do you call an extra banana?
A spare, I guess"

** In this case, the speaker is actually from Ohio.

But why should we all pay $60 a year when Experian action's put our IDs on the "dark web" (that $2500 for the rest of my life, time the 160 million IDs they leaked) https://x.com/mistersql/status/1002269827476713473/photo/1

I guess that is one acceptable outcome, $#!++y internet in Alabama and Wyoming, etc, and net neutrality internet on all the coastal states & Colorado. https://x.com/chrissnyder/status/1002242637452242944

If you find a website with a bad SSL cert, submit your resume to their HR department, interview for a job doing server admin, fix the SSL cert, resign. Repeat.

For example, Maryland Lottery - http://www.mdlottery.com/

Quick what is a language agnostic make-like, build-script-like thing that can hash files so it doesn't re-lint source control tree that hasn't changed?

Pynt is too little
https://github.com/rags/pynt

Ms-build is xml

Make is fuddy-duddy & millennials hate it

cmake is too c centric

InsecureRequestWarning

"Come on requests library, you are good enough, smart enough and people like you"

Hold my beer- one data point is enough. Sometimes I'll settle for zero. (Me a one time economist) https://x.com/taylorterry/status/1001808669867208704

I just made the repository matthewdeanmartin/keno on GitHub https://ift.tt/2sgv0R9

Code for Maryland Keno game simulator with genetic ticket selection that I wrote this weekend. Probably similar results for other state Keno games.

https://github.com/matthewdeanmartin/keno

Improved keno sim says optimal ticket
max loss $500
max plays 50
max ticket price $50
maximize odds of winning $2500
is
10 spot
bet $10
5 games
neither bonus option

I think I'd previously over-valued the bonus options. I'd thought 10 spot was the sucker bet, I was wrong

1st iter of genetic algo modeled only death. Had to implement lesbian sex & children that divide asexually. Not sure how to model males.

After ten generation suffered from a population explosion, had to implement birth control.

Dunno if it works, but the Vatican disapproves.

Dunno about this genetic algorithm. Took forever to write the dating website and most data structures aren't getting to the 2nd date.

Wrote a Maryland Keno simulator to pick the ticket that is most likely to win $10K within 20 plays & with a ticket less than $25. Turns out to be 10 spot with super bonus, $2 bets and 4 games. Not what my intuition thought.

I won $0. If I got more than 0 friends, happy to split.

Atari BASIC - no way to define a function UNLESS, you used USR() to execute assembler.

10 INPUT A
20 INPUT B
30 GOSUB 200
40 PRINT C
50 END
200 C = A+ B
210 RETURN

No functions, no scope. Amazing anything could be done.

IDEA: tab completion for TODO:

If everyone freezes their Equifax, but not the others, Equifax will go out of business because it is so hard to unfreeze your account. It is a f'ing criminal enterprise, should have been shut down long ago.

Insurance companies aren't stupid about firearms. You want to have your teacher pretend to be shoot-em up super-heroes, the insurance premiums are going to be colossal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/one-roadblock-to-arming-teachers-insurance-companies/2018/05/26/59d6c704-5f7e-11e8-8c93-8cf33c21da8d_story.html?utm_term=.cb9e5ce61b45

1st & 2nd world problems (because who can't afford a microwave now, right?) - There are *no* quiet over-the-range microwave vent fans. The all kick on when the range or stove is running and they are all loud. The dishwasher & air conditioners can be replace with quieter things.

Watch "Inconvenient Sequel" - Take away is *at least* switch your home's electric to renewable/carbon free - I just did.

https://inconvenientsequel.tumblr.com/