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Some thoughts - a theory
Counterfeit items are being produced privately via handshake agreements with overseas manufacturers OR being straight-up purchased from sources DHGate, Alibaba, etc. They are being created with quasi-correct style codes and passable (with the naked eye) leather logos and date code/serial/style numbers. Cardholders specifically because of their size and style, are not chipped and do not include any hardware. Two less authenticity factors to contend with.
How are they being authenticated by Entrupy?
Entrupy has a process which would allow you to break up the microscopic material scanning portions of the authentication from the general photos of the item.
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It is possible that a seller is taking a regular photo (1-3) of the counterfeit item, and then swapping in an authentic item to pass the microscopic portions (4-7). The microscopic portions would be passable and would generate an authentic result.
Something to consider:
An ultra fast and effective way to clear the air on these "so-called" counterfeit items would be to furnish a receipt of purchase to establish a legitimate origin.
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Hello Everyone!
I am new to DynamoDB and trying to build a small spring-boot project with it.
Below is the model for Book table:

@DynamoDbBean public class Book { private Integer bookOrder; private String title; private String description; private String coverImageUrl; @DynamoDbPartitionKey @DynamoDbAttribute("bookOrder") public Integer getBookOrder() { return bookOrder; } public void setBookOrder(Integer bookOrder) { this.bookOrder = bookOrder; } @DynamoDbAttribute("title") public String getTitle() { return title; } public void setTitle(String title) { this.title = title; } @DynamoDbAttribute("description") public String getDescription() { return description; } public void setDescription(String description) { this.description = description; } @DynamoDbAttribute("coverImageUrl") public String getCoverImageUrl() { return coverImageUrl; } public void setCoverImageUrl(String coverImageUrl) { this.coverImageUrl = coverImageUrl; } } 

bookOrder is the partition key that starts from 0 and increments by 1.
Now I want to fetch all the rows with the given list of partition keys.
I have written the following code to do so:

@Repository public class BookRepository { private final DynamoDbEnhancedClient dynamoDbEnhancedClient; public BookRepository(DynamoDbEnhancedClient dynamoDbEnhancedClient) { this.dynamoDbEnhancedClient = dynamoDbEnhancedClient; } public List findAllByBookOrderIds(List bookOrderIds) { DynamoDbTable table = getTable(); ReadBatch.Builder readBatchBuilder = ReadBatch.builder(Book.class); bookOrderIds.forEach(id -> readBatchBuilder.addGetItem(Key.builder().partitionValue(id).build())); readBatchBuilder.mappedTableResource(table); ReadBatch readBatch = readBatchBuilder.build(); BatchGetResultPageIterable iterable = dynamoDbEnhancedClient.batchGetItem(r -> r.addReadBatch(readBatch)); return iterable.resultsForTable(table).stream().toList(); } private DynamoDbTable getTable() { return dynamoDbEnhancedClient.table("Book", TableSchema.fromBean(Book.class)); } } 

Is my findAllByBookOrderIds method optimized or can it be improved further? Also will it automatically handle the 1MB limit that DynamoDB imposes?
Thanks you!

Like the title says I'm really interested in quantitative finance and Japan, but I don't know how I could make both work. I'm currently going into my junior year at the University of Tennessee Knoxville with a double major in finance and mathematics and a strong coding background in R and Python. Currently my Japanese skill level is N3, but I plan to study more especially in my masters. My idea was to graduate and get a masters in either Japan or a prestigious school here in the U.S. that has a quant degree, but I want to know the feasibility of getting a job in this space as a foreigner. I've been to Japan once in the summer on a school trip and loved it, but I realize I doing business in Japan can be hard to get a foothold in. Please let me know about and any suggestions and tips are helpful. Are there any finance careers that are usually more feasible like investment banking or private equity in japan?

i was playing some random roblox game that was recommended to me: (https://www.roblox.com/games/6731824852/I-Just-Want-To-Be-AIone),,, and it featured one of the default roblox maps, you know those ones lol… and it had a few houses and two of them had a piano within them. now usually this piano is not interactive (i think it’s a Roblox™ decal),,, i try to walk on them whenever i see them in other games but nothing happens (only the pianos that are inside this default house). this time my avatar not only sat down, but also played a full-on animation AND a song which i did not expect… i didn’t expect it because this game looked like a default one with no edits, so i’m really not sure if the song and animation is embedded within the code of the default roblox piano or if the developer added it themself… i’m really not sure to be honest,,, but anyways, i recorded the whole song anyways because if i can’t find the name of it then at least i can listen to it whenever i want in my Files app, or i might upload it as a private SoundCloud track just for myself to listen to. but yeah,,, it might be one of those Royalty-Free, Non-Copyright songs lol, but since it had no words, SoundHound couldn’t help me even when i tried multiple times. i wonder if Shazam would have had the same response… i guess,,, if i can’t find the title then it’s okay, but it would be great to know, if anyone out here happens to know. (maybe not but who knows)… thanks! 💖🖤✨

I have been learning rust for a while now, I believed if there’s a project that I can work on would be a great way to implement the concepts I have been reading. I come from DevOps/SRE background, in my line of work it’s common to deal with remote hosts, configure/run automation etc., in short, running commands on the remote hosts. So I have made a project for myself to work on during weekends and late nights, create an application which will be running as a service on remote hosts and users can submit commands to it instead of obtaining a session, with this idea I have started to write code and it is finally at a stable state now: https://github.com/chandrakanthkannam/run-it
This application runs on a remote host on specific port and users can submit commands via http instead of getting a session to it. When running remote hosts in a private closed network, this can be useful tool.
The main drive for building the application is to learn rust, and I have definitely learned things while implementing the concepts I have been reading on rust docs. I just wanted share my experience and motivation which lead to build ‘run-it’

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Does anyone have code that will upload a binary file into hubspot using a private app? I cannot seem to get it to work.

Link if it's hard to read in this post: https://jordankligman.substack.com/p/ontario-intentionally-denying-health
Who Is Denying Health Care?
I’d like to tell you this is an outlier, but across the board patients are getting denied access to health care. How do I know? It’s happening to me.
Family Doctors Are Denying Health Care
What do family doctors do? They don’t do physicals anymore. Their jobs is essentially order referrals and requisitions. They don’t even do that well. Roughly half of my referrals don’t go through. I had a previous family doctor use my entire appointment to lecture me on getting the COVID vaccine. I had already had my first dose and was scheduled to get my second shot at the time. Keep in mind I had that doctor’s appointment because I have serious physical pain. The doctor wasn’t interested in treating me. He was interested in pushing a specific ideology. I’ve had the Pfizer COVID vaccine in total five times. I was overdue for my tetanus vaccine. I had to ask during three different appointments before I was granted that vaccine. This is absurd.
What’s more absurd is I have had multiple family doctors reject me as a patient. Health Care Connect, a government funded service, claimed these doctors were accepting new patients but they weren’t. I found one doctor on my own that was accepting new patients. The receptionist made me bring a printout out of my prescriptions as if I was a drug addict. After waiting a month for my appointment to meet this doctor he refused to take me as a patient. Claimed he couldn’t help me. He didn’t even ask for the prescription printouts. He couldn’t give me an answer as to why he couldn’t help me. So I asked him to put in it in writing he was declining me as a patient. He declined to do so and said he wasn’t obligated to do so.
Walk-in Doctors Are Denying Health Care
I requested imaging to try to find the source of my pain from a walk-in doctor. They claim they sent the requisition. A year later and the hospital the requisition was supposedly sent to had no record of it. So I went back to the walk-in clinic to try to get them to resend the referral. Instead of seeing a doctor this time they gave me a physicians assistant. The PA refused to resend my imaging referral. Told me to go to the emergency room to get my imaging. I thought the entire point of a walk-in clinic was to keep people out of the ER? I’ve since been to the ER. No they won’t just giving you imaging if you ask even if you are prepared to wait 5+ hours. I demanded a copy of the requisition for the imaging from the walk-in clinic they claim they initially sent. I scanned it in and emailed to the hospital.
Hospitals Are Denying Health Care
Even with the requisition dated a year earlier they would not honour the requisition. It gets worse. Multiple hospitals have denied me health care. An ER doctor looked at my medical records and essentially denied me health care. He basically inferred since other doctors couldn’t find the source of my pain he wasn’t going to waste his time thinking about it. He ordered bloodwork to confirm I wasn’t actively dying and then kicked me out. I signed up for a virtual emergency call with another hospital as recommended to me by telehealth. That hospital nurse during the call denied me care because she said they don’t do second opinions. So I said fine get me an appointment with any doctor of your choosing. She then claimed where I lived wasn’t in the catchment zone for that hospital. I’ve been to this hospital many times. I have an outstanding referral that has gone unanswered from this hospital. Changing the reason mid conversation as to why I am being denied health care seems like a lot of nonsense. A finally my favourite hospital. That’s sarcasm because this third hospital scanned the wrong part of my body and then lied about it. Not only did they bully my family doctor into taking the blame for this error, but they had all my personal information wrong. This hospital thought I was in a wheelchair. They also had the wrong phone number for me. It was a area code for a city not even in the Greater Toronto Area. All I wanted from this hospital was an apology and for them to fix their mistake. The PR person from this hospital told me they were taking steps to ensure this would never happen again. I asked what steps were taking place. I was not given an coherent answer. They gave me another scan, but I have no idea if that was even done correctly. I tried to confirm with the technician what part of my body they were scanning. Her response was that she is doing the requisition called for. So no steps to ensure correct scans were being done. The extra radiation from another CT scan probably isn’t ideal but what I am more concerned about is the dye. My scan didn’t call for dye, but at some point the hospital changed the scan and decided it was a good idea to inject me with dye for a scan I didn’t need my I remind you.
The Government Is Denying Health Care
I have tried to get in touch with the Minister of Health for Ontario, Sylvia Jones. All I get back is a copy paste form letter that doesn’t relate to my situation. I have spoken to my local MPP. She was defending the doctors that denied me care. Then claimed the government is hiring more family doctors. Not sure how that related to my situation, but okay… Then she asked me if I was open to private health care. My response was I was open on a contingency basis, but I don’t think she understood me. If a private doctor could can diagnosis me I’ll pay whatever their fee is. If they phone it in and cannot figure anything out I don’t agree with private health care. The problem is private health is rampant in Ontario. So much so it’s a two-tier system. From my understanding private health care was not currently legal in Ontario, but there are loopholes. These private doctors sell yearly subscriptions ranging from $3000 to $10,000/year. I’ve heard speculation that some of these private clinics may even charge as much as $20,000 but I have been unable to verify that claim. It’s kind of hard when these clinics don’t post their rates online and operate in the shadows.
https://jordankligman.substack.com/p/ontario-intentionally-denying-health

Ethernet has landline 1900s phones two pairs wires reserved in the spec sheet its 8 or so wires when crimping the ends uses like two with one for ground and one seemingly empty and then has two for phone and some unused, with old 10/100 baseT coax with terminating ends exactly like optical or coax 90s cable TV with optical fiber 99% of the way just your block has coax to the rest which uses the 'same'DOCSIS data over cable standards as fibre optic.. just slightly worse latency and bandwidth is calculated by latency things like wifi lan has like 11 channels or 15 channels of frequency which optical calls wavelengths of light. A 2015 or around there linus tech tips video of him going to a swedish lan party called dreamhack had a bunch of multiple redundant 8Terabit or was it bytes of fibre optic internet they explained with light having 7 colors but having 8terabytes of bandwidth with different wavelengths of light called frequencys or a better term for optics is known as LASER ARRAYS of light at fixed frequencys that often plugs into the PC via ethernet cables or whatever for a gamer lan party or home/residential or small businesses at realistically within budget of anything with enough users to require that bandwidth or 'web hosting or web servers' you dont need to be an undersea cable or international link with 200terabits plus for an internet exchange to your main CBD or the fastest like the netherlands IX...
So the problem im trying to solve is, here in australia we got our undersea cables done wrong they kept breaking and we didnt have a navy or defense force securing our countrys communications to prevent war crimes and keep us connected to the global banking systems or whatever.. and then when our biggest telcos cable or fibre all had dialup speeds for around 2 weeks in the early years 2000s to force us to pay other countrys to connect to their links and be ' end of the line' maybe paywalled or proxied off the internet randsomewared to connect to and borrow bandwidth from other countries satellites and other countries undersea link cables which truly were indestructible to any cruise liner ships anchors whatever being flexible giant steel braided cables big as a CAR when australia finally paid to lay small sections of that stuff to link up to others and not pay randsome to internet butt bandits or have private businesses and multi nationals run their own links and ignore the public our lack of a defense force actually let somalian pirates literally somehow pick up and walk off with our expensive undersea car sized cables filled with a few arms thick of hair thin fibre optics which is cheapest clear resin enamels plastics about $3 not sure if USD per kilometer and resembles modern glass/glazing. How does anybody steal that stuff without people noticing like you cant just load it onto a truck and drive away? or a boat? if only satellites and some sort of defense organization existed to prevent us from being impersonated or whatever.. So now in australia ANYTHING with words like gigabit costs a fortune for a mainboard or switch or ethernet hub.. but the ancient 1900s 10/100 telephone land line wires of ethernet 10/100 clock in at a whopping 13 or so mhz sometimes 27.. and 60 or more mhz for like gigabits and whatever it increases shockingly fast with each mhz clock cycle as its units of work over time in nano seconds or zeptoseconds you see billionths of a second nano second RAM and PC with windows realtime kernel actually uses like ryzen hardware negative latency faster than reality freely syncing with any device in the universe and fixed mhz frequency bus can drive like 50 to 100 or thousands of GPU's and HDDs and monitors or whatever from the one modern multicore PC or whatever.. 90s AMD business server still holds world records for most connected devices though it had stackable CPUs opteron and would have used infinity cache type stuff probably software 3dnow and evolving game worlds tech of 80s and 90s AMD gaming evolved advertising.
So in australia anything gigabits costs hundreds of dollars for a switch router some thousands for lots of ports.. but its the shittiest weakest bandwidth ever with mhz and performance miles short of a raspberry pie or whatever. I had to pay a fortune for a mainboard with 10gigabit LAN port and everytime i got a high speed LAN port its been broken or missing so some pricks can sell ebay routers or switches for thousands here.. not knowing why its so expensive is youre paying fortunes for any real bandwidth because australia has to pay literal somalian pirates for their internet connections or privately owned businesses like telstra for access to their private links and glares at countries like new zealand and hawaii for being super technologically superior.. a cheap USB ethernet adaptor costs under 10 bucks on ebay or whatever and is maybe gigabit and your switches and routers 90% of the time you want the cheapest UNMANAGED switch possible. Yet the mainboard i recently purchased ASUS pro art creator x670E i recall had an issue with some asshats trying to steal pathetic measly 40gigabit USB4 chips from all the boards at the computer store to sell on EBay as other junk, when anything in the universe with an M.2 ULTRA slot does 40gigabits since PCI express 3.0/4.0 as PCI express 3.0 SSD drives famously use a specific I/O controller chip which gives them 38gigabits of the ultra M.2 slots 40gigabits of bandwidth. But for a couple years when AMD had pci express 4.0 and better than M.2 ultra intel was playing catch up on PCI express 3.0 and still had regular m.2 in all their boards until AMD was ready for pci express 5.0 my friend on intel bought the same NVME drives and complained they had corruption errors or issues i later learned his board wasnt fast enough and he was maybe trying to use the samsung magician RAM disk and enable NVME features and functions intel maybe did not yet support.
So.. why is USB 4 so many years late and why is it so dang expensive when terabits of ethernet or anything optical is like the cheapest stuff ever and comes with every internet connection since the 90s at the lowest cheapest mhz and 1900s land line wire telephones ever, remember digital isnt a physical thing and everythings literally analog with a sensor or multimeter whatever mathematically translating it to a graph or algebra equation mapping it into different values digitally +10 -10 whatever using microphones or camera sensor whatever. the gigabits tax and uhh LAN port taxes for dumb gay australians being literally see it via satellite outerspace levels dumb and gay astrogaylian should not apply to the cheapest of raspberry pie free 3d print or laser CNC yourself something computery like risc V for the cheapest of USB flash drives or memory cards etc.
I get intel pretends to have invented court ordered USB to probe their hardware after it was proven to have used other peoples code and chips by the chip makers and them selling computers with keyboard and mouse hardwired in so you bought a whole new computer when a key broke on the keyboard couldnt replace them.. and every other device had USB but theirs didnt free open standard and it kinda being the only way to connect any device in the universe and freely sync with it (mics/phones whatever).
why is 1900s phone tech ethernet so dang expensive to go from 20mhz ranges to 80 or whatever mhz ranges or use something very similar to 90s optical audio SPDIF output or anything remotely like a laser in australia? and who would be dumb and gay enough to be so financially retarded as to think that USB 4 was expensive or special as to steal it? am i... missing something?
also before you complain, but ethernets not the same as USB you cant power over ethernet or use your houses electrical wires as ethernet. You also cant use ethernet for monitors or displays, and its not like you can extend HDMI range limit of a about 10 to 15 meters by swapping its ethernet wires with optical ones for it to maintain its HDMI 0 latency spec or type C USB 0 latency spec. USB lets you connect heaps of devices you cant do that with an internet or ethernet for things like keyboard and mice or monitors or whatever. I understand what you mean power over ethernet or PPOE standards suck theres no way those are a thing. using devices over the internet and not the intranet who does that? thats so dumb. remote administration, theres no such thing youre mistaking malware or rootkits im sure. you cant connect a heap of devices up or entire computers to a ethernet port thats the dumbest gayest thing i've ever heard in my entire life! My gaydar is going off and it looks like the wifi symbol.
when trying to use anything ethernet with lame awful bandwidth thats limited, on my AMD board where the website images show AMD ethernet lists as marvel yukon controller i cannot use as its maybe broken there no light on the back, in devices managers advanced tab you can see the send receive or transmit buffer sizes and countless other ethernet settings are MISSING or a blank space. and are limited to 128 on send and 256 on receive up to 4096 or whatever max. But low latency 128 or 256 is maybe best but not all are an option and most networking features on the intel LAN adapters are missing countless advanced ethernet properties and settings because they're fake and lousy and the worst latency ever and they literally seem to swap your windows kernel out with something not realtime so you cannot ever hope to record or playback audio or video or anything close to a video game in hopes of slowly selling it back to you. Linux distros did this too its the dumbest thing ever that to hear or record or playback or play games you must patch in a realtime kernel for free to game like its the 80s and 90s or DOS or whatever. most 90s PCs were CAS 1 or lower nanoseconds. DDR 3 1600mhz depending the maker might be CAS1-4 latency. How can we verify our kernels are correct? and our ethernet and I/O bandwidth is correct? the youtube video about linus tech tips dream hack lan party of gamers in sweden was edited and reuploaded by illiterate asshat buttpirates maybe from somalia or the ones randsoming us some of their internet connections as a proxy piggy back on the international links as we dont have a defense force or army or whatever and dont know what war crimes are or why they are or what the heck a bank is and sure as shit dont know the cost of anything cheap USB or LAN. The dreamhack linus video falsely shows as 6TERABIT. they wanna steal 2TERABITS of EVERY optical or ethernet devices which isnt the government doing it if they wanna see whats in your computer they can document their reasons of why which is what a warrant is they dont need one if they believe a crime is occuring and literally take the computer by law to inspect it then give it back when nothings wrong they leave you a claim ticket and have you document it at the nearest policing station or whatever fill out forms sign 'they are taking my PC and i can get it back when it wasnt used for crimes." when australia doesnt technically have an internet and doesnt technically have RAID arrays which is required to use USB or SSD or NVME or storage tech with no moving parts and multicore a 2TB SSD is twice as fast and often has 2x 1TB wafer chips in there figure it out the IO controller chip supports many and you can buy the cheapest USB sticks with like 16terabytes of storage space i just see a $extend folder or uhh file format header thingy in the partition in my mainboard bios on that particular drive and using any cheap SSD or USB devices makes linux cry about the partition managers cant write or read extending past the storage limit. it doesnt take a genius to figure out what dumb gay fags the whole internet is.
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Okay, here’s the tea! So we have a few main people for you to remember let’s start
G = g is one of my closest friends
R = one of our friends in our friend group
K = me and G’s crush
A = R’s boyfriend
Okay let’s start. Me, G, and R are all best friends. One day we meet these brothers (K and A) R really likes A and A really likes R so they start dating. Me and G like K but he doesn’t know. We make code names for our crushes and all of the annoying people at our school that we want to talk about, so A’s code name is ‘Coconut’ and K’s code name is ‘pineapple’ we started using these names in front of K and A and they were really confused trying to guess who they were. Eventually word got out and A found out that his code name was ‘coconut’. K was really confused and found out that he was ‘pineapple’ luckly, we managed to convince him that ‘pineapple’ was someone else and we kept leading him off. Now K eavesdropped on us talking in private and now he knows that either me or G like him. WHAT DO I DO??????????

In case you don't know, the Sun Princess is Princess Cruises' latest behemoth ship. I just got back from a 2-week sailing and took meticulous notes on this epic new vessel. Here's my extremely detailed, no-BS review:

The Sheer Size is Nuts

When I say this ship is massive, I mean it's absolutely nuts how big this floating city is. Especially when you get off in ports and have to walk back down the dock to reboard - that's when the sheer scale of the Sun Princess really hits you. Even though it carries a ton of people, the only time it really felt crowded was during breakfast. The Eatery fills up quick and the International Cafe, which sits outside The Eatery doesn't lend itself well for crowds of people wiaint for their coffees. You kind of end up waiting in the middle of where the walking traffic moves.

The Medallion Life

Your entire cruise experience revolves around the new Medallion wearable device and app, for better or worse. I'll admit it has some creepy "Big Brother" vibes with how much it tracks your every movement and purchase. But the convenience it provides is undeniable.
The medallion is your modern day "cruise card" that you tap everywhere to make payments, order drinks, unlock your stateroom, get on/off the ship, and more. But what's crazy is the app can use the medallion to detect your location anywhere on board. Order a drink or meal through the app and the server will manage to find you anywhere on the ship to deliver it, usually within 15 minutes. Caveat: there were times when it took longer and other times when our order was marked "delivered" and it never arrived.
The medallion definitely feels like getting on/off the ship is way faster. The only time we ever waiting in line was for the few minutes it took people to run through security.
This made getting food/drinks almost too easy. On port days when we needed to get off the ship early for excursions, setting up a scheduled delivery of my Egg McMuffin, fruit plate in coffee was really convenient.
Fair warning though - if you're anti-tracking and value privacy over convenience, the ubiquitous Medallion system may not be for you.
Story: we were sitting by the Crooners bar having our nightly pre-dinner cocktail. The bar was packed on this night for some reason. A staff member in a suit started wandering the room, made eye contact with me from 40-feet away and then made a b-line for us. He wanted to sign us up for a wine/food pairing event they were having. I have to believe this is because of the tracking being done via the meddalion. They could see we drink our share of wine. It definitely felt like targeted marketing.

Premium Package Was Best for Us

We opted for the Premium beverage package at $80 per day and I'm glad we did for a few reasons:

1. If you need to have more than one device connected to the internet at a time, Premium makes sense just based on that (you can have four devices). The cheaper Plus package only allows one device, which was a non-starter for me needing both my phone and laptop to be online. I'm unfortunately not able to just live off the grid for almost three weeks and need to periodically check in with my clients.
2. The wine selection is way better with Premium vs Plus. As a wine drinker, the upgrade was 100% worth it.
3. Two free speciality dining meals are included, which was clutch on our 2-week cruise to break up the repetition of the main dining rotation.
4. Unlimited premium desserts and ice creams - a nice perk for those with a sweet tooth.

Basically, Premium removed almost any need to think about or worry over costs on board. For $80 per day, the premium drinks, speciality dining, better wines, desserts and internet made it an easy choice for our group's needs.
And for those wondering about the 15 drink per day limit (since there's almost a weekly post asking about it) - it was never an issue for me. I'm a scrotch drinker and to get a decent pour, you basically have to order a double. Even drinking doubles, I never got to 15 drinks/day. This even includes sea days where we'd typically have a mimosa or two with breakfast, a few cocktails/beers at the pool, an cocktail or two before dinner and then wine at dinner.

Staff & Service

I can't say enough about how incredible and friendly the service was across the board on the Sun Princess. Our room steward, waiters, bartenders - everyone went so above and beyond daily, it really elevated the experience. I'm always amazed how they remember everyone's names.
However, we did notice a clear slip in the quality of service in the second week compared to the first, likely due to a crew changeover partway through our sailing. Simple things like forgetting drink orders or getting meals wrong became more frequent from our new set of MDR servers.

Suites & Staterooms

We originally booked a balcony room. When the bid offer came in I followed some old advice and just placed bids on upgrades because "you don't have to take the offer if you don't like it." Well guess what, that's not the case anymore. My offer was accepted and we automatically became the proud recipients of a Reserve Mini-Suite for an additional $500. In hindsight, I'm glad it worked out. The room has noticably more space than a standard balcony room. These mini-suites are spacious, basically a separate living room and bedroom divided by a curtain you can close off. Having two TVs and an extra closet was great.
As mini-suite guests we also received a nice amenity of free premium wines in our room - on the second week they even topped us up with two more complementary bottles! I guess each week is looked at as a new sailing -- so you get two more bottles! Some older posts complained about the wine quality. It looks like it's been upgraded because we received a Pinot Noir and Chard from La Crema. Being California wine people, La Crema works great for us. If you can swing it, I'd highly recommend going for a mini-suite over a regular balcony.
That being said, I'd avoid the "Cabana" balcony suites. The layout is really bizarre and in my opinion a downgrade. When you walk out onto your balcony, it's not really a balcony. There's another area in front of your balcony that connects a few other cabana suites. The idea is that a few rooms share a private balcony with jacuzzi. However, it also means that walking out onto your balcony doesn't give you a private ocean view because there's this 20-30 feet of additional patio in front of you and everyone above you just looks down into your balcony area.

Dining Highs & Lows

Main Dining Rooms

It can be confusing because there are three floors (Decks 6, 7 and 8). We reserved dining in the MDR prior to the trip via the app for the first few days just so we knew there was a guaranteed place to eat. On night one, the dining room manager introduced himself to us and said he went ahead and booked our table for us every night of the trip. If we didn't show, it was fine.
Food quality in the main dining rooms (MDRs) was consistently good across breakfast and dinner. On port days, it's an "express breakfast" which just means a shorter list of options. Nothing mind-blowing, but solid and tasty. My biggest gripe here is the operating hours. On sea days, the MDR closes for breakfast at 9:00am. You basically have to choose between sleeping in a little, hitting the gym, or getting a decent breakfast.
Pro-Tip: Biggest breakfast tip is stay away from the scrammbled eggs -- they're gross. We figured out that the scrambled eggs come from a bag. If you want real, cracked eggs, either get an omelett or over easy/medium/hard/etc.

Reserve Suite Dining Access

The Reserve mini-suite gives you access to the Reserve Restaurant. It's a little bit more elevated of a dining experience and reservations aren't needed -- you just show up. We dined her a few times and it did feel more elevated. Unlike the MDR, the server in the Reserve Restaurant feels more personal because they're handling smaller groups.

Lido Deck

For more casual fare, the Lido deck had some surprises like an awesome made-to-order salad bar station that became my go-to for healthier meals between all the indulgent dining. The burger grill, taco station and pizza areas were pretty standard, but that salad bar slapped.

Lackluster Buffet

On the flip side, The Eatery buffet left a lot to be desired. Despite different themed stations, the quality was mid at best. We largely avoided eating at the buffet outside of quick breakfast grabs. The Eatery closes for breakfast around 10:00 AM. At which point if you move further into the ship, the restaurants that are normall Catch and Butcherblock become a buffet extension that's opened later -- it's kind of funky.
The layout of the buffet is weird and leaves people wondering if they're cutting in line especially when you go to the extended buffet at Catch/Butcherblock.
What's odd to me is you can go grab a million cheese plates, fruit plates or hummus/veggie plates at the buffet. But if you order those things through the Medallion app, it's not "complimentary." You have to pay like $4.99-$5.99 for those items. We still can't figure out why it costs $5 to order a tiny cheese plate but ordering a cheeseburger is free.

Specialty Dining Winners

We used our two speciality dining credits at Crown Grill and Butcher's Block. I was a little worried because I had read mixed reviews on here about both of these restaurants. However, both meals were really good and before you come at me, I'm a foodie guy -- I'd tell you if they sucked.
We chose Crown for my parent's anniversay dinner. The service was awesome and they made us all feel really special. The setup here is like a steakhouse, where you order your beef and then the sides are a la carte family style. We had a group of seven -- the manager just said "we'll bring you out all the sides, enough for your whole party" which was great.
The next week, we hit up Butcher's Block by Dario. I've never left a meal more full on a cruise ship than at this place. It's family style dining and they just bring out everything for you -- almost like a brazilian barbecue place. We started with a bread appetizer and a glass of wine while you wait for them to get the dining room setup. Then there's more bread on the table + veggies. Then the food starts coming out: beef tartar; beef carpaccio; etc. The main event is the massive tomahawks and porterhouse steaks they carve up tableside. They'll just keep putting beef on your plate until you beg them to stop. Finally, there's desert and a grappa digestif.
Both restaurants were great experiences and a very welcomed change from the MDR after a week of repetition. The food, service and overall vibe were a noticeable step up.

Spellbound

We also splurged one night for the Spellbound immersive magic/dinner experience and it was easily a cruise highlight despite the $150/pp price tag. After an elevated multi-course meal, you get ushered by a guy in a top hat into an exclusive hidden club. While waiting for the magic show, you hang out in their bar which is reminiscent of the Dinseyland Haunted Mansion. While enjoying your drink, there's a magician perorming more intement magic for everyone at the bar. Once they're ready for the show, you're brought into the room where the actual magic show takes place. Afterwards, you're welcome to hang out in the Spellbound bar and continue drinking.
If you're from LA, you probably know about the Magic Castle in Hollywood. Spellbound is an extension of the Magic Castle. Just like with the Magic Castle, you show up in formal wear. This means a coat and tie for the men and an evening gown/dress for the woman.
Overall, we really enjoyed it.

Room Service

This was hit or miss for us. You fill out the paper door hangar and place it on your doorknob before heading to bed. Then you hope and pray that it will actually arrive -- which in two of our instances, it never did. Your options are also super limited. You also may or may not receive what you actually ordered. With coffee for instance, you have a choice of ordering it to-go (paper cup) or stay (actual coffe cup). We always seemed to get the opposite of what we ordered to the point where it became a running joke for us.

International Cafe

This became our goto for a lot of things: coffee, snacks, quick breakfast food (pastries, coffee cake, avodcado toast, Egg McMuffins). Werid fact though: if you order the Egg McMuffin through the app, it comes as an egg patty just like McDonalds and with cheese. When you get the one at International Cafe, it's just an over easy egg and no cheese. Why they can't just be the same is odd.

Night Owl Needs

My main dining gripe was the lack of solid late night food options for us night owls. The Eatery buffet closed at an absurd 10:30pm, leaving only spotty room service or mobile ordering as the choices if you worked up an appetite after evening activities. More robust late-night casual dining would be appreciated.

Bars & Alcohol

Overall, great selection of cocktails. All of the bars have their own little theme and different menus. The ladies I was with were consitently impressed at the quality and thought of the cocktails at each bar. They were also super impressed with the quality of the glassware being used. I must admit, everything from the rocks glasses to the martini glasses really were beautiful.
If you just want straight spirits, you have to order a double to get a normal pour (they're actually measuring out the pours). That being said, with either Plus or Premium, you'll get a good selection of top quality booze.
You gotta try really hard to hit the 15-drink max. Some days I had drinks at breakfast, during the day, lunch, before dinner, during dinner and after dinner. I never hit my max.
One thing that impressed me was staff actually being concerned about drink quality. We were having drinks at one of the bars on the Lido deck. The supervisor was upset with the bartenders because they ran out of premium liquor and hadn't requested more. He made sure to remind them that when someone orders a premium drink they get a premium liquor -- no exceptions.
You also must checkout the Good Spirits bar. There's a few times throughout the night where you watch a live cocktail demonstration. The bartenders at GS are so fun and playful -- really makes for a great vibe.

Amenities - Hits & Misses

The gym facilities on board were a bit of a disappointment, especially for a new ship. While they had a nice assortment of cardio machines, the actual weight room was laughably small with only a few pieces of strength equipment that were always monopolized. Not a deal-breaker, but an area that could be improved.
The pool areas were nicely spread out across different sections of the Lido deck. On sailing days, there was typically a band, the DJ and then a random movie on the jumbotron. The random blasting of action movies at 3pm really ruined the pool vibe and it's typically when the deck would thin out. One minute you're relaxing in the jacuzzi, the next an action movie with explosions is shaking the pool area. It made no sense and seemed tailored for a much younger crowd despite this sailing's passengers being mostly older adults.

Technology & Support

In addition to the Medallion app, the overall internet speeds on board were fast and reliable enough for me to easily stay connected for basic work needs.
The technology support via the app's live chat feature, however, was utterly useless. Any time we had issues properly being charged for drink packages or had to modify reservations, the live chat was a time-wasting nightmare. You're clearly just talking to an outsourced rep with zero actual knowledge of Princess' systems or operations. Your best bet is to go in-person to the guest services desk.

Other Notes & Quibbles

• Dress codes weren't enforced at all. We did the whole suite/gown routine for formal nights only to see plenty of people still rocking jeans and t-shirts in the MDR. Same lack of enforcement for the "formal attire required" Spellbound event. Either lose the formal nights or enforce them.
• Our drink package tallies often had errors, with our group's drinks randomly getting combined onto one person's account. Always double check and ask for corrections.
• The "Cabana" balcony suite layout is bizarre - your balcony is just a shared landing in front of other suites, rather than a private space. We avoided these after hearing the lack of privacy.

I work at a couple of different pools. One is a public pool that was owned by the city, but has been operated by private company for a few years. The other is part of an HOA.
The director at the HOA pool recently asked us to start enforcing the pool's dress code.

Bathing suits must be family friendly, all thongs and revealing attire will not be permitted within the facility.

The private pool's dress code is less specific.

Appropriate swim attire is required at all times when using the pool.

Thongs are pretty common at both pools. I usually see at least one during my shifts and a lot of athletic swimsuits don't provide much coverage.
I really do not feel comfortable confronting people about their clothing choices, so I've just ignored violations. The other staff has generally done the same. Revealing swim attire has never caused a problem.
The manager at the private pool and I are friends. I asked what they thought about the situation at the HOA pool. They speculated that it was probably coming from the homeowners association. When I asked how they thought the dress code should be handled at the pool where we work, they said that unless there's a safety or hygiene issue, lifeguards shouldn't say anything to swimmers about what they are wearing and that if someone complains about another patron's swimsuit, we should just refer them to the manager on duty.
I was curious where they'd draw the line and ask someone to change. They said that as long as it was a swimsuit, covered the bare essentials (g-string or more), and wasn't see through, they probably wouldn't do anything about it.
Do people wear thongs a the pools where you work and have you ever been asked to enforce a dress code?

I'm having a very basic problem where autowire is working in my Controllers, but not in constructors. I've whittled it down to basically examples from the symfonycasts site that do not work. Is there something basic I'm missing here ? services.yaml is stock
/hometest1 returns the contens of blank.html /hometest2 gives an error: Too few arguments to function App\Foo\TestFoo::__construct(), 0 passed in src/ControlleHomeController.php on line 37
(Edit: While showing in the debugger the problem is the contstructor, TestFoo.php line 11)
Test Controller:

render('home/index.html.twig'); } #[Route('/hometest', name: 'app_homepage_test', methods: ['GET'])] public function test(HttpClientInterface $httpClient, LoggerInterface $logger): Response { $strUri = 'http://localhost/blank.html'; $response = $httpClient->request('GET', $strUri); $statusCode = $response->getStatusCode(); $logger->info("Code: $statusCode"); $content = $response->getContent(); $logger->info($content); return new Response ($content ); } #[Route('/hometest2', name: 'app_homepage_test2', methods: ['GET'])] public function test2(HttpClientInterface $httpClient, LoggerInterface $logger): Response { $objTest = new TestFoo(); $response = $objTest->getTest(); $statusCode = $response->getStatusCode(); $logger->info("Code: $statusCode"); $content = $response->getContent(); $logger->info($content); return new Response ($content ); } } 

Test Service Class:

httpClient->request( 'GET', $this->strUri, ); return $response; } } 

If you're thinking about making the jump to spend a week (or three) in Italy to give a "turbo boost" to your language schools, maybe there's something you can take of this report to help you make the decision (or maybe help you with planning and preparing expectations).
Background: I live in an English-speaking country and I've been studying Italian for 3 or 4 years through reading, podcasts, and a weekly zoom call with a personal tutor. I was due some annual leave, and I decided to treat myself to two weeks in Italy at a language school.
Choice of City: I chose Verona because I had briefly visited before and it seemed lovely -- and I can now fully confirm that it is lovely. Choosing a smaller city definitely ended up being the right move. The transport and accommodation was much easier compared to my earlier tourist trips to Rome for example. I would definitely recommend a smaller city rather than Milan or Rome.
Choice of Season: I decided on April/May because June-August is hot, crowded, and expensive. SeptembeOctober would also work well, I think. The school said that the second half of the year was much busier for them.
Choice of School: There are four Italian language schools in Verona, although two of them collaborate closely so in practice there are really only three. All of them offer similar products at similar pricing. The group classes are in the morning, for roughly 4 hours (minus a 20 minute coffee break in the middle). Our school had the first two hours of "Grammar", and the second two hours of "Conversation". The afternoon is used for private classes for those really looking to make extra progress. Personally, I found that the 3.5 hours in the morning was plenty sufficient for one day.
The school I chose was InClasse. All of the schools have superb ratings on Google. I settled on InClasse mostly because it seemed to be the most "professional" of the schools, in that it had less focus on entertainment, and more focus on the "learning" part. Although, I have to say that I had a ton of fun in the classes. It wasn't at all "strict" or "dull" at all, I promise! Was this school the best? I don't know. But I can confirm that it was very, very, very good!
Class Levels & Sizes: All levels were catered for, from A0/A1 through to C2. Although, I don't think there were any C2 students during my time there, the B2/C1 class was the most senior class I think. Class size was a hard-cap at 8 students. I believe the beginner class was 6-8 students. My B2 class size was between 3-5 depending on comings and goings, which was a perfect class size for me. 3 or 4 students mean you get a bit of a chance to listen, and to prepare what you're planning to say.
The School Overall: The mood in the school was fantastic. There was an excited buzz every morning as the students turned up, all of us with a common purpose. Students from so many different countries. I had to work hard to try not to make too many friends, because I knew I had to leave and say goodbye (that being the most painful part of the visit). Of course I was a bit nervous on the first day, but by the second morning I felt right at home. And the teaching was great -- they did a great job of adjusting to match each student's capabilities even within the same class. They prompted just the right amount, corrected just the right amount. Spot on. The school can also help you sit your exams, if you want to get accredited officially.
OK. So yeah, the school part turned out absolutely as well as I could have imagined.
So what about logistics?
Accommodation: We found a very reasonably priced AirBnB just around the corner from the school, which was also 2 minutes walk from the arena, and from the restaurants, cafes, and the tourist visit stuff. All of the schools in Verona were on the edge of the "old town". I definitely recommend finding accommodation that is walking distance from the school. The bus network in Verona is excellent, but you really don't want to have to deal with that on your first few days... plus it's very crowded in the morning! Taxi/Uber is not a cheap option. So, yeah, picking the right apartment is going to be key.
Actually, InClasse offers a service where they can arrange Accommodation for you as part of your booking! They have a deal with some apartments. I didn't take them up on that, I just booked a place directly. But if it's your first time in Italy and you're not super-confident, then that's definitely a good option. One less thing to worry about! If you're going to do that, then you definitely want to book sooner rather than later, since they have limited apartments available. You'll also want to confirm your classes a few weeks in advance too, and pay your deposit -- since they really do enforce the maximum class size!
Transport: Verona transport is great. There's a smallish local airport. To get from the airport to town you'll take the 199 bus to the central train/bus station. That's €6 or so, you can pay onboard with tap-and-go. Then it's 1km to the big Roman wall that marks the start of the old town. You can walk that, or take a bus if you're very tired. Again, you can tap-and-go for €2 onboard, although if you're taking lots of buses, it's cheaper to buy a 10-pack of urban tickets. Using the bus phone app is problematic, it seems you need a +39 Italy country code mobile in order to register for the phone app. So, yeah, just credit card or go buy paper tickets.
Stuff to Do: Verona is an incredible tourist town. There's enough to keep you busy for two weeks easily. If you're staying longer, then you can take the train out to Mantova, or plenty of other little places nearby.
Final Recommendation: Hell yeah. Do it. I'm already thinking about my next trip.
TL; DR

• Italy Language School: YES, DO IT
• Verona: YES, GO THERE
• InClasse: ALSO YES

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I'm an ESL (English as a Second Language) Teacher from Mexico City with 14 years of experience. I have been a professional translator for 7 years. My native language is Spanish and I've spoken English for 18 years.

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I was part of the Spanish localization team for the game "Katawa Shoujo" 10 years ago. It was a big project of around 300k words (roughly the size of the Lord of the Rings trilogy).
Locally, I've translated manuals and documents assigned by the Institute I work at.
Professionally, I've worked as an ESL teacher for 12 years in a private institute and 2 years at three public elementary schools.
At reddit I've already translated brochures, a short kids book, several videogames, some webpages, software and other content.

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EXTRA*: If your project is longer than 12,000 words I can offer you an extra discount.

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Contact me via Chat, send an e-mail to forseti99(at)gmail or add me on Discord forseti99

BACKGROUND

You can read detailed info about my work on MY WEBSITE
I'm an ESL (English as a Second Language) Teacher from Mexico City with 14 years of experience. I have been a professional translator for 7 years. My native language is Spanish and I've spoken English for 18 years.

EXPERIENCE

I was part of the Spanish localization team for the game "Katawa Shoujo" 10 years ago. It was a big project of around 300k words (roughly the size of the Lord of the Rings trilogy).
Locally, I've translated manuals and documents assigned by the Institute I work at.
Professionally, I've worked as an ESL teacher for 12 years in a private institute and 2 years at three public elementary schools.
At reddit I've already translated brochures, a short kids book, several videogames, some webpages, software and other content.

SERVICES

English => Spanish translations only.
Payment is through paypal, 50% upfront. These rates are REDDIT EXCLUSIVE!, normal rate is $0.14 USD per word.

• Literary Translation (Fiction): Starting at $0.08/word. I specialize on Science-fiction and fantasy, but all genres are welcome, even erotica. Extra discount for novels or entire series, let's chat.
• Literary Translation (Non-Fiction): Starting at $0.08/word depending on complexity.
• Game and Software Localization: Starting at $0.08/word depending on complexity and length. I have a programming background, so editing directly on scripts, code, and stuff is not really a problem for me.

You can find more information at my site. If you send me an e-mail, please specify you found out about me at reddit to get the starting rate of $0.08 USD.
EXTRA*: If your project is longer than 12,000 words I can offer you an extra discount.

CONTACT INFO

I can send you examples of translations I've worked in. You can also ask any Spanish player at KatawaShoujo how happy they are with the localization of the game.
Contact me via Chat, send an e-mail to forseti99(at)gmail or add me on Discord forseti99

BACKGROUND

You can read detailed info about my work on MY WEBSITE
I'm an ESL (English as a Second Language) Teacher from Mexico City with 14 years of experience. I have been a professional translator for 7 years. My native language is Spanish and I've spoken English for 18 years.

EXPERIENCE

I was part of the Spanish localization team for the game "Katawa Shoujo" 10 years ago. It was a big project of around 300k words (roughly the size of the Lord of the Rings trilogy).
Locally, I've translated manuals and documents assigned by the Institute I work at.
Professionally, I've worked as an ESL teacher for 12 years in a private institute and 2 years at three public elementary schools.
At reddit I've already translated brochures, a short kids book, several videogames, some webpages, software and other content.

SERVICES

English => Spanish translations only.
Payment is through paypal, 50% upfront. These rates are REDDIT EXCLUSIVE!, normal rate is $0.14 USD per word.

• Literary Translation (Fiction): Starting at $0.08/word. I specialize on Science-fiction and fantasy, but all genres are welcome, even erotica. Extra discount for novels or entire series, let's chat.
• Literary Translation (Non-Fiction): Starting at $0.08/word depending on complexity.
• Game and Software Localization: Starting at $0.08/word depending on complexity and length. I have a programming background, so editing directly on scripts, code, and stuff is not really a problem for me.

You can find more information at my site. If you send me an e-mail, please specify you found out about me at reddit to get the starting rate of $0.08 USD.
EXTRA*: If your project is longer than 12,000 words I can offer you an extra discount.

CONTACT INFO

I can send you examples of translations I've worked in. You can also ask any Spanish player at KatawaShoujo how happy they are with the localization of the game.
Contact me via Chat, send an e-mail to forseti99(at)gmail or add me on Discord forseti99

"Hello Seattle! I am a mother of 2, a service worker, and a homeowner. You can't accuse me of hating tech bros or not "understanding" tech culture. I'm just very sick of this behavior like these tech bros take priority over everyone else!

• Tech bros off leash all over the city, including beaches
• Tech bros in restaurants and grocery stores, in areas explicitly against health code!
• Tech bros being allowed to monopolize in the middle of park areas where people are supposed to be able to enjoy the grass. There are plenty of areas NOT in the middle of picnic and play areas for them to set up their gadgets and tech talks that won't spread disruption to the rest of us!
• Tech bros encroaching on private yards and landscaping. Your tech bro gadgetry is disruptive—are any of you paying to replace it??
• Tech bros sprawling across businesses and restaurants! I see this regularly! Owners casually standing around like there is nothing wrong with their tech bros lounging just feet from someone's front door??
• Tech bros on extra long phone calls all over the sidewalks making it dangerous for everyone else. Walk your tech bro properly so there is room on the walkway for the rest of us and we aren't having to dodge around your tech meetups!
• Tech bros being allowed to accost others at the crosswalks while we wait. I don't care if they "are nice"—CONTROL YOUR TECH BRO!
• Tech bros taking up bus seats! Not everyone wants to be near your tech bro's gadgets!
• Tech bros lying about their gadgets and "startup ideas" being essential. The law is VERY CLEAR that your startup pitch is NOT essential! STOP LYING!!!
• Tech bros not cleaning up after their tech messes, or leaving their discarded gadgets! How disgusting, rude, and lazy does one have to be?

You love your tech bro. That's wonderful for you both. That doesn't mean your tech bro shares the same rights as people and children! The majority of tech bro owners wouldn't appreciate a filthy child jumping all over them at the bar but see nothing wrong when their gadget does this? Anyone who doesn't appreciate it is the problem?
Enough is enough. I wish the city would start handing out tickets for all of this nonsense. Have some decency and respect for the rest of us who also have to live in this city. Properly control your tech bro, stop bringing them into places they don't belong, and clean up after them!!
*and don't leave an excuse about how other people leave worse messes...that attempted misdirection is tired and has nothing to do with you as a tech bro owner taking responsibility for your tech bro.
Please and thank you."