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smcl commented on GNU Artanis – A fast web application framework for Scheme artanis.dev/index.html... · Posted by u/smartmic

serhart · 8 days ago

Relax, it's just a play on https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43291/sailing-to-byza...

The code is a mouse wheel scroll down.

smcl · 7 days ago

Calm down it was a little joke, no need to flag me

smcl commented on Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022) hillelwayne.com/post/pyth... · Posted by u/agluszak

vlade11115 · 13 days ago

While the article is very entertaining, I'm not a fan of the pattern matching in Python. I wish for some linter rule that can forbid the usage of pattern matching.

smcl · 13 days ago

If you're experienced enough with Python to say "I want to eliminate pattern matching from my codebase" you can surely construct that as a pre-commit check, no?

smcl commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits · Posted by u/thebestmoshe

pluto_modadic · a month ago

*cannot possibly subsidize an unlimited plan and must course correct on pricing to reflect cost-plus-pricing instead.

smcl · a month ago

Last year they had $900 million in revenue and ended up losing $5.6 billion. I suspect cutting off a few whales isn't enough to reverse that and they're gonna need to "course correct" a bit further

smcl commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits · Posted by u/thebestmoshe

jimbo808 · a month ago

I'm not sure how this will play out long term, but I really am not a fan of having to feel like I'm using a limited resource whenever I use an LLM. People like unlimited plans, we are used to them for internet, text messaging, etc. The current pricing models just feel bad.

smcl · a month ago

The problem is that this company is haemhorraging money and cannot possibly offer an unlimited plan.

smcl commented on Vanishing home field advantage in English football blog.engora.com/2025/07/v... · Posted by u/Vermin2000

ignoramous · a month ago

> Sunderland played Coventry in a two-legged playoff semi-final, having won the first leg 2-1 in Coventry

Feel for Frank, but this wasn't the top clubs & best players playing in the Premier League.

smcl · a month ago

It was a very high-profile example of exactly this type of shenanigans during a live game picked up by the biggest broadcaster in the country, which will have been watched by millions across the world. The claim was that this simply isn't allowed happen, and it literally happened. I don't even particularly like the English leagues, but this is a daft thing to brush off

smcl commented on Vanishing home field advantage in English football blog.engora.com/2025/07/v... · Posted by u/Vermin2000

Certhas · a month ago

If I have a coin that shows tails 55% of the time, then there still is a 45% chance that heads wins.

If heads and tails play many games against each other, then the probability for tails to win the overall "tournament" goes to 1. But football is a sport of relatively few games in cup tournaments and low scores (this relatively high variance). This is very conducive to upsets even if we assume perfectly independent probabilities.

Compare to Basketball play offs, with best of 7 Series and on the order of 100 "goals" per game.

That's maybe why in football the league title is more prestigious than the cups, while in basketball the regular season is not considered anywhere near as important as the play offs.

smcl · a month ago

> That's maybe why in football the league title is more prestigious than the cups

Tell that to supporters of Scottish Cup Winners 2024/25 Aberdeen FC (I am a supporter of Scottish Cup Winners 2024/25 Aberdeen FC) :D

smcl commented on Vanishing home field advantage in English football blog.engora.com/2025/07/v... · Posted by u/Vermin2000

amelius · a month ago

I mean a large number of matches played between the same two teams.

You can compare it to how it is done in medicine. Imagine a match between a drug and migraine. Would we only do a single test to determine if the drug "wins" against migraine? Of course not. We do many tests and determine a p-value. We can do the same thing in soccer.

Now, of course we cannot do this in a real tournament (it would take too long), but we can draw conclusions from such a test, or several such tests.

smcl · a month ago

The problem there is that there is often far too much variation in the teams year on year - squads change as players get bought, sold or retire, managers come and go. And when you do find a pattern I can virtually guarantee that it won't be due to some novel gamesmanship, but rather finance. It is no secret that the most successful teams are those who are wealthy enough to able to buy (and pay) the most sought-after players and coaching staff, and build and maintain the most sophisticated training facilities (and a whole host of other smaller things that cost money). If we take a look at the finalists of the Europa League this year you can see that the money they both spent on their squad dwarfs all of their previous opponents in the competition combined: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1krtgtt/combined_pu... (ideally you'd factor in wages too but that's harder data to get hold of, but it'll paint a similar picture of not a more polarised one).

What is really interesting and far more worth studying is that there are some very fun outliers - clubs like Bodø/Glimt who have a miniscule annual budget but have overperformed in European competition in recent years. They reached the semi-finals of the Europa League - beating Lazio, Olympiacos, Porto along the way - and in previous years have had similarly deep runs where they battered Roma 6-1 and beat Besiktas and Celtic both home and away. All of the teams I mentioned Bodo/Glimr defeating will have an annual budget that is 10 time theirs (or more) and will frequently make high profile international signings, while Bodo spend frugally and have a predominantly (if not all) domestic squad.

I mentioned Manchester United and Tottenham - they're also outliers worth studying, but in another way. They were both utterly woeful in the league last season despite having astronomical budgets.

If you can crack what causes a Bodø/Glimt, a Manchester United or a Tottenham then you'd be a very valuable addition to the backroom staff of any football club with a desire to punch above their weight...

smcl commented on Vanishing home field advantage in English football blog.engora.com/2025/07/v... · Posted by u/Vermin2000

amelius · a month ago

Best can be defined as the team that wins most often if a large number of matches are played (between the same two teams).

smcl · a month ago

The winner of a tournament is by that definition the best, it is basically a tautology.

smcl commented on Vanishing home field advantage in English football blog.engora.com/2025/07/v... · Posted by u/Vermin2000

ignoramous · a month ago

Broadcasters rule football. Even if there was no regulation, the broadcasters would be absolutely livid if their audience wanted to see the best players & top clubs play tiki-taka but were served smash & grab.

The Premier League & the Champions League are money spinning ventures for a reason.

What you say still happens in International Cricket, but not usually for club tournaments like The 100 or the Indian Premier League.

smcl · a month ago

The broadcasters have absolutely no say whatsoever in how a groundsman prepares their pitch for an upcoming fixtures. In fact the kind of gamesmanship we are talking about happened as recently as the last few games of the most recent English season. Sunderland played Coventry in a two-legged playoff semi-final, having won the first leg 2-1 in Coventry they had a one-goal advantage going into the home fixture. Coventry had a player Milan van Ewijk who was able to deliver a very long and precise throw-in, so any throw in Sunderland conceded within 20-ish yards of their own goal would basically be like conceding a corner (a set-piece seen as a good goal-scoring opportunity). Sunderland mitigated against this by shrinking the distance between the touchline and the advertising boards at the side of the pitch, shortening the distance van Ewijk could run prior to taking his throw-in, and stunting his ability to turn it into a goal-scoring opportunity.