I'm more than a Trekkie than a... Warrie (?), but does Project-4K77 means I can finally see Han shooting first?
Yes! And you don't need to see Hayden Christensen's ghost at the Ewok party in episode 6, etc. They are a true gift.
Readit NewsRenevith commented on Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse? animebythenumbers.substac... · Posted by u/zdw
nice feature.
so its like backcharge via app instead of calling credit card customer care.
do you mind sharing the credit card company
This is getting to be the norm rather than a unique feature. I can dispute a credit card transaction through the app for my Citi, X1, or Fidelity cards.
Still working on my books site https://thegreatestbooks.org that I started in 2008. It's been a 1 man team the entire time. I recently made some major algorithm changes that I think greatly improves the rankings. My algorithm code is open source https://github.com/ssherman/weighted_list_rank
I do plan on open sourcing more of the code over time. I also have started working on other sites using the same algorithm implementation (music, movies, video games)
This has just been a side project over the year generating passive income. I get around 250,000 page views a day, and with ads, memberships, and affiliate links I make around $2,500~ a month.
Tech stack is ruby on rails 8, postgresql 17, opensearch, redis, bootstrap 5.3 hosting on 3 servers on linode.
Nice! I've been looking for a reliable book ranking site. The main rankings skew to the "classics" that don't always hold up (looking at you Moby Dick) but the books in the genre filters look more interesting.
A couple questions:
* Is this primarily intended for discovering new reads, or for people who've already read the books to debate which is greatest? I found the book descriptions sometimes give away too much, to the point where I stopped reading them for any book I might be interested in reading for pleasure. Examples include The Great Gatsby and Madame Bovary. Perhaps you could have a concise description that stays far away from plot points, and a more expanded description behind a "more" link.
* What dictates whether a series has one place on the list or separate places? Narnia has one for the whole series but Harry Potter has individual listings per book.
* Are ratings and reviews from your own site taken into account in the rankings?
Renevith commented on The Biology of B-Movie Monsters (2003) fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2... · Posted by u/cainxinth
Always (usually) fun to read an expert talk about their field as it crops up in unusual places, at least when it's done without an ego.
I've avoided the YouTube clickbait "real bank robber reviews movies" videos, but maybe I shouldn't.
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If you're looking for some good quality "expert reviews their field as represented in movies" videos without too much clickbait, Vanity Fair has a long playlist of them that I enjoyed: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ2lDrDpOLrusAYQFq2yVHf...
Renevith commented on An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes gregorygundersen.com/blog... · Posted by u/alexmolas
> European and American calls cost the same on non-dividend paying stocks
All else being equal, I would prefer to buy an option contract I can exercise at any time vs one I can only exercise on a certain date. It doesn’t make intuitive sense they would be priced the same, can you please elaborate?
The parent is assuming that you can always sell your option to someone else for its fair value. If that's the case, there would never be a time where it's optimal to exercise a call option, because the optionality will always make the option value higher that the value of owning the stock.
This is shown in the article: the curved lines representing the option value are always above the straight lines of the final option payoff (the value if exercised).
This is not necessarily true for put options or for call options if the stock pays dividends. In those cases the option value can be below the payoff line and early exercise would be better than selling the option.
Isn't this exactly how Doom worked, long before Serious Sam?
But Quake went a different direction, sending the client updates about every entity they could see. Which had some benefits (players don't have to be perfectly synchronized) but also drawbacks (bandwidth proportional to scene complexity).
This is covered at the very end of the article, in the "Comparison with Doom and Quake" section. And yes, that's exactly the comparison and distinction the author draws, and they explain why Serious Sam would have opted for Doom-style networking (the notoriously high scene complexity).
So putting my money into a HYSA isn't a good place for an emergency fund? It will take 2-3 days to transfer (without fees).
I've never understood this mentality. I've got a credit card with nearly 6 months of expenses as a limit, most of it not used because I pay it off month to month.
I'd be more worried about the tax implications of selling ETFs and such than the 2-3 days of wait to transfer.
Maybe I lack imagination, but I can't think of anything that I'd need my entire emergency fund immediately. Throw the emergency cost onto a credit card, and transfer the money from the emergency fund to pay off the bill. I guess that doesn't work in some other countries where credit cards aren't as prolific as the US.
For what it's worth, Wealthfront's HYSA offers free same-day transfers, at least to major banks (they just need to support RTP transfers, which many do). But I agree with your point that an emergency fund is fine as long as you can access it within a few days.
Renevith commented on Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers heynote.com/... · Posted by u/jonatanheyman