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  1. Not sure if I can fault Leonsis for that one. The Caps had suffered so many early playoff exits, and Trotz could not get past the second round in three years of coaching. So they waiting on extending him in his final contract year they ended up winning the Cup and then Trotz was a free agent. They did make a good offer but Trotz just saw greener pastures. The Caps were between rock and hard place going into his final year. If you extend him early, then suffer another early exit, you look like idiots for extending a mediocre coach. Ice hockey coaches (at the NHL level) are somewhat overrated in any case. Its mostly about the players and how they gel. And having a hot goalie. If anything, Leonsis was often too easy on people in his organization. At least early in his tenure.
  2. Since the 70s generally yes. I think maybe a brief period in the early 90s where it didn't align. The Fed really doesn't like inflation. We like being the world's reserve currency and if people have to eat Noodle Ramen out of a tent in order to maintain stable value of the USD, well too bad for them.
  3. Owners can be an ahats, but if their teams win locals tend to forgive quite a bit. JKC was no saint either. I can understand why Wiz fans would dislike Leonsis, but the Caps at least have raised the championship banner (first to do for a DC area team in 27 years), as well as convincing a generational talent who will almost certainly break one of the marquee NHL records to stay on the team for his entire career (up to this point), which was not guaranteed. You can argue, and I would agree, they probably should have been more successful during #8's prime but they did check off that pretty important box. In terms of winning, Angelos was actually not quite as bad as I think alot of Os fans make him out to be. That 14-year losing streak was pretty horrenduous to witness, but part of the problem they were stuck in the hardest division in baseball, probably in all of sports, as a mid-market team in a league without a salary cap. And they weren't too shabby in the 90s. Its just that for O's fans, given their history the expectations were probably higher than for alot of other franchises. I think they've righted the ship fairly well over the last decade.
  4. Maybe we could start calling it the The Strome Dome. At least sometimes. Amazing what merely cutting dead weight does for a team. Its not exactly like we had a fire sale, our big name vets were mostly injured/underperfoming. But moving on from Kuznetsov and Mantha I has woken this team up a bit. Would be hilarious if we somehow made the post season.
  5. If he is suspended by the league, then yes. I cannot believe he would be that stupid. Then again all Japanese people seem smart to me.
  6. What I hate more was "you must use the app to use this site on mobile" garbage. Both from a consumer and a developer perspective. Prior to the to WWW becoming popular, this is how things used to work. Every company/organization/entity that provided a network service, had to define their own client/server protocol, and their own custom rendering code for each platform. It was a big ****show, as any developer who worked during that era will attest. Don't get me started on CORBA 💩 The beauty of the WWW was in part, you don't need that anymore. We're going to define standards (HTTP, and HTML) where anyone with this thing called a "user agent" (aka "web browser"), can access our service. And from a developer perspective, you just follow the standards and it worked* on any platform * Yes, this was only partially true depending on what you wanted to do, in practice the competing browsers did not all implement everything the same (looking at you IE!) Yet the trend now has recently been, let's go back to the mess of the 90s and before where everyone was silo'd off into their own custom runtimes and sometimes even protocols
  7. Meh, once everyone's naked photos are on the internet one will care anymore So maybe once everyone turns 18 they have to get photographed naked and it will be posted on the internet. Like to get a drivers license or something
  8. Fond memories of the “HSB” line circa 97-99 …. no one messed with those guys …
  9. None of the last three CEOs of Boeing going back to 2005 have had a background in engineering or even aviation. They've all been pure businessmen/marketers/accountants/"finance bros". I guess this is what you get when the leader lacks an appropriate background
  10. Fly private? Not that it would be cheap ... but I think you might be able to get away with "only" 3-4x a commercial flight. ..
  11. I’d say it’s a strange culture but it’s it like ours isn’t
  12. Looks like Russia hit one of the Patriots 😔
  13. Ovechkin's contract is up so we can tell him whatever we want, but he can take his talents wherever he likes at this point. So if we want him to remain on the team, we'll have to accommodate him. Like I keep harping on, we should have restarted the rebuild 5 years ago after it was apparent the team was done after the Cup run and Ovechkin was under contract. Would have been a much better position now. As it is, I don't know how much Ovechkin is going to play past 40, so it will be a tough to complete a rebuild before he seeks greener pastures. Having him break Wayne's record wearing anything but a Caps uniform would be an embarassment for this franchise. I'm hoping even he sees how its just not possible for the Caps to be competitve again while keeping to slap bandaids on the team.
  14. Probably meant Russian counteroffensive. Every offensive after the initial attack has been billed as "counter offensive" because it followed an offensive from the other side. I don't think Zelensky getting assassinated would help. It would just make it seem like Ukraine was a lost cause.
  15. Some of the image processing/signal processig does require some fairly heavy math. But things like understanding ANNs, which are used frequently all over the place, for classifiers (also speech recognition) isn't really that hard. Its basically just a big matrix multiplication. And after that, getting the right labelled data, tweaking parameters and testing the model. A lot of grunt work The challenges are just having the right data and the economic cost of storage/retrieval. That's why there's been such a big resurgence after it was dormant since the early 90s. We now have the dat, processing power and storage The basic models haven't changed all that much since backpropogation was discovered I 1986. yeah, they came out with CNNs (convolutionalneural networks). But those are really just an extension to account for image offset/rotation/scale. Its mostly a case of "we now have the hardware"
  16. Not sure how I come up with these ideas
  17. Yeah I seriously doubt Lutin is going to test NATO without trying to destabilize first … Latvia would be an obvious target
  18. This is Silicon Valley we're talking about. Everyone's pre-revenue for like at least 10 years, than another 10 years to turn a profit (if they last that long)
  19. Scratch another Russian AWACS ... https://kyivindependent.com/russian-a50-plane-shot-down-over-azov-sea-military-says/
  20. A really long tunnel? I hear Russia is pretty good at construction ...
  21. I think technically its only nuclear attack, but I see the point Edit: It was all attacks, not just nuclear https://policymemos.hks.harvard.edu/files/policymemos/files/2-23-22_ukraine-the_budapest_memo.pdf?m=1645824948 Unfortunately we are entering the era of realpolitik and "treaties are only pieces of paper"
  22. Stats aren't exactly easy to pull for all years, but from what I could find in the US in 2012 there were 10,322 fatalities due to drunk/impaired driving and 13,384 in 2022, both according to NHTSA. So the answer is most likely, no. I suppose this makes sense. The perpetrators are probably people who drink habitually so much (i.e. alcoholics) they aren't going to bother with ride shares. vs. the people who go out at most few times a month. But I would note, it decreased heavily from its peak in the 70s/80s, where they were closer to 20k per year. And this was with a smaller population. Car safety tech may have been partially responsible, because all fatalities went down, not just due to alcohol impaired crashes
  23. Yeah and I mean ride shares have been around for over 10 years now so if you really want to go out and wasted, don't drive. If you can afford drinking you can afford an Uber/Lyft
  24. True driverless cars would fix the problem. Of course, they're always "five years away".
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