Christopher Schmidt

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Tilter at windmills. Alphabet Workers Union. Opinions stated here are my own, not Google's. He/him. Signal: 617.599.5778. @crschmidt on Twitter. Available on tootfinder.
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Formerlyhttps://twitter.com/crschmidt
@DemonHusky @crschmidt.net Ah, right, I should have included one other crucial numbmer here: those $50k wagered was in 650 individual bets :) (It's been an entertaining project for me, because I'm a giant spreadsheet nerd.)

@DemonHusky @crschmidt.net And the biggest thing that keeps me from making bigger mistakes is diligent record-keeping: I carefully track each bet, double checking the records for "what did I think I did" against the actual sportsbook records, and figuring out if I fat-fingered something before I lose $200 on it.

I don't expect the average person to do that :)

@DemonHusky @crschmidt.net I did make a pretty huge mistake at on point -- I attempted to take advantage of what looked like a really good bet, and it turned out that the software I was using had made a mistake, so I had $2000 in unhedged bets. I was able to turn that $2k of risk into just $100 of loss, but it took several hours of work and (in the end) a little bit of luck, otherwise it would have been -$300.

On average, I make mistakes costing $20-$40/day.

@DemonHusky @crschmidt.net Since i'm betting $100 each side of each bet, small mistakes shouldn't eat all of the gains, but yes, this is why I have made lists of "all the ways I have screwed up" to convince people just finding arbitrage betting it isn't just easy no-risk money :)
@slothrop I believe the default configuration is to show your current configured language. https://firesky.tv is probably better as a sense overall of what languages are in use (but of course will be heavily impacted by time of day).
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@zacchiro @cwebber @simon None of this requires the technical elements of your phone listening to you. "Don't worry, It's way worse than you think" isn't reassuring, but is important to note: even if you destroyed the microphone in your phone, you're still part of a surveillence capitalism panopticon that would See All!
@zacchiro @cwebber @simon Yeah, the actuality of "Your phone isn't listening to you; it's tracking where you are physically at all times, correlates who you spend time with, and has a large number of your purchases tracked via third party aggregates from credit card companies and the like". Your friend just bought a fancy new Oral-B toothbrush, and they come over to your house and tell you about it? You'd have gotten the same advertisement whether they told you about it or not.

it still makes me sad that twitter is a bad place now. it used to be a good place, and the world would be better overall if it was still a good place.

Merry Melancholy Christmas, I guess.

@NNN @mclean.bsky.social I own a dozen different kinds of batteries. Every single one of them will (correctly) refuse to charge when the battery is too cold. Most of them will automatically start charging once it's warm enough, though some cheaper ones require you to unplug the battery and plug it back in to start charging.

Basically, any BMS on any bike I've bought in the past 3 years does exactly what you say here.

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