HAPPY APHELION EVERYONE !!!
From here on in for the next six months, the Earth accelerates in its orbit.
STAND BY FOR ACCELERATION !!!
HAPPY APHELION EVERYONE !!!
From here on in for the next six months, the Earth accelerates in its orbit.
STAND BY FOR ACCELERATION !!!
I need to download this to check it out later:
Calling @Chartodon Spine ...
It's enraging ... all of it ... and I hope you take them to the cleaners, and justice is served.
CC: @ashleygjovik
Never deploy at 16:30 on a Friday afternoon.
Trying to follow the suggestions about preventing the cacheing of an image, I've now borked my access to the server. I've been locked out for breaching some mod_security rules.
I really, *really* hate *everything* to do with web programming, and anyone who does it competently is not being paid enough.
People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. -- Neil Gaiman
Bertrand Russell on how fascism starts: 'First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent.' (Compressed ... full quotation: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/906301)
@dcnorris While I agree with you, this needs to be put in the context of random people reading the comment.
In my experience, most random readers would read the first 15 to 20 words and lose interest.
To gain readership it needs more "punch", which I think the abbreviated version(*) provides
(.*) I didn't write this, I saw it elsewhere. The justification here for the simplification followed by a link to original is mine.
@AstroAndyN I'm not changing the HTML file, so I can't insert randomly changed things in the image name.
CC: @theruran
@AstroAndyN Thank you ... I'll try that when I get access back to the web site. Currently, having followed someone else's suggestion, my access is totally borked.
CC: @theruran
@AstroAndyN OK, access has been restored.
https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Cricket
Seems to be working ... thank you!!!
It shouldn't be this hard ...
CC: @theruran
@jtwcornell91 It would also be making sure that England ... their traditional "friend" ... doesn't make it out of the group stage.
But the benefits of manipulating results like this are marginal, uncertain, and almost certainly the payoff absolutely isn't worth it.
With my experience in security-adjacent fields, I can't help but speculate.
@hattom That's a wicket.
Once again, live charting the cricket:
It's a must win game for Pakistan, they're already unlikely to get out of the group stage, but if they don't win here then they're going home.
Canada, on the other hand. If they win they have a great chance of going through.
Chart is here:
@jtwcornell91 I could go through all the combinations, but certainly there is the chance that PAK won't go through. If IND beat CAN (likely) and USA beat IRL (outside chance) then PAK can't get enough points.
It's interesting.
CC: @fu
Looking forward to live-charting this afternoon's #ICC #Cricket World Cup game ... #RSAvBAN
Continuing to improve the automation of the process ...
@smurthys (a) Rotating players is absolutely a thing that teams do.
(b) You have no argument from me about deliberately not playing your best is a rules violation. No argument that it's a rules violation. None at all.
@smurthys But deliberately choosing a weaker team under the guise of rotating players is potentially a way to cause a losing outcome.
I'm not claiming they will do it, I'm exploring ways that it could be done if a team *did* choose to do it.
(a) Rotating players is common;
(b) Rotating players can lead to a weaker team than might be chosen;
(c) Deliberately choosing a weaker team under the guise of rotating players is therefore possible;
(d) If they then happen to lose, they won't be upset, because actually that's more-or-less a desirable outcome.
@smurthys We are agreed that deliberately losing is (a) "Not Cricket", and (b) against the rules.
We also agree that there are circumstances where losing the game is actually better for the team.
What I'm saying is that there are ways to improve the chances of losing without it being obvious, and I was just speculating about some of them.
With significant experience in security-adjacent activities, seeing the possibilities is unavoidable.
In the #ICC Men's #Cricket World Cup, if Australia beats Namibia, and then loses to Scotland, then Scotland and Australia would go through to the knock-out stage, and England would not.
Would Australia deliberately field a weaker team against Scotland? Would they quietly lose to Scotland with a lot of small errors that could be attributed to carelessness or a lack of attention?
The #GameTheory strategy is actually pretty clear ...
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