day 35 of porting an app from gtk 3 to gtk 4.

i think i've mostly turned a corner. i think the hard part is done.

they take money to help kill strangers

the pga tour has a lot of shitty events with really bad fields, they're going to turn they around they say -- but the hawaii tournaments used to have GOOD fields.

and now they can't even have one shitty tournament there.

if the pga tour only had 20 events, one should be on hawaii.

you can see how the hawaii time zone makes it hard to broadcast in prime-time or whatever.

newser thumb, of a guy in a yellow shirt swinging a golf club with an ocean in the background the headline: pga tour breaks run in hawaii

this is what's wrong with the pga tour: they leave places where golf belongs, and it shrinks the game.

there's a story about liv golf having its funding pulled from the Saudi PIF i'll believe it when i see it.

ok it's been 1 month of porting a gtk 3 app to gtk 4. i'm still on the first difficult hurdle. after that, maybe 2 more.

the ceo of liv golf stated that they made about a half billion in sponsorships last year. this is much more than i expected.

they have 14 events with a prize purse of 25 million -- so they're covering that much anyway.

okay, fedora 44 hasn't been released yet. i guess they have some blockers.

watching liv golf mexico and david feherty's voice is completely shot. he's got a cold or something and sounds like he swallowed a frog.

fedora 44 drops today, with gnome version 50

still porting the app from gtk 3 to gtk 4. it really depended a lot on the blocking nature of gtk 3.

day 20 of porting a gtk 3 program to gtk 4.

i'm in the center of the complexity now, once i get thru this it will be smooth sailing, just a lot of it.

day 16 of porting a gtk 3 app to gtk 4

anyway, there's no saving scientology. it's a cult that wants your money.

to me the idea that some people are benefited by it is just absurd -- like reading a textbook but then bashing yourself on the head with a hammer every 30 mins. i learned a lot of math! they say.

with real religions there's a line in the sand about if scripture is final, or new scripture can be written. scientology is in the former camp -- and it would obviously help it a lot if it weren't.

they could get rid of the space opera and what not. they could make management structures that work

ol ron needed protect his leadership by doing a 'nobody can make tech but me', and then once he's dead the cult suffers.
i guess it shows LRH was only looking out for number 1.

scientology really is built to fail. it praises "the tech", but offers no improvements since L Ron Hubbard died. it can't get with the times bc there's nobody with the authority to make changes.

dave miscavige tries of course, but even his hands are tied.

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some songs are bad and then they produce them up until they're actually kinda good. from 1992.
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yep, it was bob dole's plan. republican bob dole. they'll take a republican idea before they'll take a socialist one.

day 3 liv south africa

the fans are truly rabid for golf there. it's quite a sight.

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the tricky thing here is i can't really say what i'm balancing. one thing is that liv's fields probably have a larger gap between the best player and the worst.
you don't want to reward bad players just bc they happened to be a tournament with john rahm and bryson.

29 players is a lot less than 40-65 players on the tour who get points.

so what's the answer? i'd say the top half of a liv field definitely deserves to get points, which is 29 players.

how many points that're given out is a function of the strength of field etc. and that's a debatable thing.

but it's the virtual cut that does the most damage to liv golf. it unfairly protects pga tour golfers. more liv players deserve points than top 10 and ties. not saying how many points.

the masters had no cut for its first 36 years. in 1926 the r&a standardized the cut. why? it was probably more of a mercy rule back then.

the cut is also a way to limit the payout and have more money available to the winner -- which isn't about scoring, it's about how to operate the tournament.

i think the owgr isn't interested in giving points to liv golf. i think they're a bunch of pga tour guys and they're protecting the monopoly. so it doesn't matter if the virtual cut doesn't make sense. it doesn't matter that a cut player could still win a tournament in their sleepy old model.