tance to I don't know. That's yeah, it's not here's the thing We just talk about video game movies before it's not gonna be a good movie. You know There's nothing they can do that'll make it at least Again, this also gets back to what we talked about before like there is good movies for people like the video game Then there's just good movies for everyone else. It could end up being like one of those good movies for everyone else um Like I think the reason it's coming out is because of like kong skull island Blah blah movies like that Yeah, clearly. I also think it appeals to the like Sharknado like clientele, you know the people that like the ridiculous monster stuff that doesn't make sense Well, I I mean this thing it is ridiculous. It doesn't make sense At one point they're like, uh, what you mean you didn't hear about the 30 foot wolf It's like, yeah, of course. Yeah first of the 30 foot wolf She Jeffrey D. Morgan, you know, we need to know that even the racks and stuff. Oh, of course, you know what we needed an alligator Yeah, it knows it knows it's a ridiculous like that's the thing as long as it owns what it is I'm okay with that like if it's trying to be a sharknado, that's fine Like I had no sharknado is not widely considered a good movie. It knows. It's not a good movie It's trying not to be a good movie As soon as like as soon as the way jots is like, yeah, that's what we need an alligator. It's just like, okay This movie knows that it's a bad movie But it's okay with it because it's trying to it's trying to Be one of those so bad. It's good kind of things for some people and it might get there You know, I haven't you know, it's just one trailer.  I'm gonna watch the thing is like I have not I'm one of those weird people I've watched I have not watched a duane johnson movie yet that I haven't been at least mildly entertained by Okay, he's good. He oh, he's good. Like I don't see really. Oh, it's through I'm like, uh, he's good. He's like a legit good actor in multiple roles He got to be a legit good actor. He didn't start no he didn't start out that way You know, he was just a muscle guy in some movie was just fine. I mean that's basically all he was good for back then That's Saul Schwartzneger was good for and this pony accent But then you also think like well He had to have some acting like decent acting ability that showed early Because he's still like the most popular WWE character like all time With the rock and that's all acting Granted the WWE is well known for its bad acting But like the characters that become most popular are the ones that are actually decent at acting out that character Right, like like stone cold steve offset another really popular one. Yeah, because he was all you know F the establishment, but he was it was a role Yep, and he was really good at playing that role and that's the thing like when johnson's really good at playing the rock He still plays there. He's still signed on with the WWE. He still makes appearances Um, that's cool. And he's the highest paid actor in hollywood last year probably again this year too That's so cool. That's because he's in so many movies It's so many I think it's like I watched the Baywatch movie finally and I'm like, oh, yeah I'm like, here's the thing like it's I understand why I review port of the it's not Baywatch I don't know. They might as well not call the Baywatch Yeah, but the thing is like if you go back and actually watch the original Baywatch show It's not good It's nothing at all It's not good people watched it because it was adolescent kids watching boobs bounce on the beach Okay, and then there was david hasselhoff who wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world and we all thought hey, we could be him I'm just being honest because I watched Baywatch and that's why I watched it as an adolescent It was panel Anderson before the boob job and then after the boob job. I thought yuck And Like literally you were watching it for the chicks I mean basically what it was was a soap opera made for men Yes, um completely and it wasn't a very good soap opera like I don't even know a single thing that actually happened in the show like As I got older I started watching some some other soaps out there like I'm not saying like oh my god Like my mom used to watch soaps, right? So like I knew about him. Oh, yeah The days of our lives and blah blah blah at the time. Yeah, which I think these are the cancel I think most the soaps have been canceled at this point probably I don't know why daytime soaps died out That'd be interesting to actually look into why that's happened But uh, one of them that I think is still going on was general hospital Um, and I watched like a couple seasons of that and I'm like, you know what this is way better than Baywatch It's probably why this show is still running and they watched it not but I'm like Like there's actually like decent stories here and good acting And yeah, all the chicks are basically hot, but whatever They're not like just eye candy like they can actually act All right So it's just like it was just a very interesting Uh from perspective when I thought back on Baywatch and I'm like, yeah, you know the virtual Baywatch really wasn't that good So it should be surprised that the movie itself Um, it's just okay No, I like and when I think about it like I actually think this movie is better than the og Baywatch Anyways, like I went back and started watching like the first season of Baywatch and I'm like, this really isn't that good It's literally you're just watching it for the chicks Yep So I'm like, this isn't that good and like they have hotter chicks in the new movie They have Dwayne who can actually act they have a story. That's actually semi entertaining Uh, and they have like a real villain and Yeah This actually works and the action scenes are better Is it a dumb story about another, you know, here's a guy and here's the here's the stud that comes in and expects everything handed to him You know those bro stories. Yeah, of course it is It's corny Been there done that a zillion times But it's still way better than the og show. So I don't like I said, I've never seen a doing doing Johnson movie that I haven't at least enjoyed in part Um, right even that one, uh, I forget what it's called the one where the uh They had the uh earthquakes That tore apart california Um, if we were to I actually really enjoyed that movie too and nothing is like oh, you can't really call it mustangio I'm like, I only saw it like twice But it was pretty good. Uh his daughter or like the girl who plays his daughter in that movie is actually also in day watch Um But yeah, it's just uh Yeah, interesting. I don't know. I mean for for rampage like, uh, you know, is it like uh, if it's on netflix I'll watch it kind of thing or what? Yeah, I think for me. Yeah, if it's on netflix I'll probably watch it. Yeah, but uh and in and There's certain actors that you'll watch no matter what like you said Dwayne rock johnson absolutely Uh, same thing with Robert Downey jr. It only matters what movies he's in If you watch him only he's just such an amazing actor Like yeah, like the way in could be like serious and like this big muscle guy. He can also be fun Yes, um, like when he did that movie with uh, oh, what's that? What's his name? Oh, i'm so mad. I can't remember his name now because he was in a bunch of movies for a little while Now he's been gone for a little bit Um details Help me help you. They were both uh, like like uh, the rock was a was a guy in the cia or whatever Um, and the other guy it was a a person of color character a short guy talks really fast Oh, man, why can't I'm really mad at him because I don't know. Oh, was that was that kevin hart? Yeah, kevin hart. Yeah What was that movie? Yeah, it was so funny. He was like an accountant or something and like this Oh, yeah, who was that? Oh, it was such a funny movie. I actually own the movie, too I don't know where it where it is, but I actually like own like an actual blu-ray of it um It's it's such a good move.  It's just a good movie um Like they worked so well together and I like kevin hart. I give her it's funny I understand why some people can get sick of him because like every movie is the same character Like I think the rock has a wider array of talents Then kevin hart for acting but yeah, dude. I can't help it. I just like kevin hart's character It's just like it's kind of jim carrey for a lot of years. I just like jim carrey's character I'm not saying he can't act like when he did the the number 23 or whatever it was um Like that was a serious thing and like I thought his acting was good, but the script was bad So it's Truman show had some very serious moments. So it's very serious, but also some comedic stuff Lots of comedic stuff. Yeah, like I think he's got the ability. I just think he's uh He's kind of cornered himself where people only really care about him if he does those kind of movies I think he's done. I don't think he won't is interested in being that guy anymore I don't know.  That's not that old Well, it's maybe old new thing. It's it's several years old at this point Didn't just come out like two years ago Two maybe three It was a while ago. He's kind of like will smith. He doesn't do a lot of movies anymore. Anyways um I don't even know. I'd have to see if he's even working on another movie Yeah, I don't I don't think so, but it's you never know you never know Yeah, I'm I'm like I know I know he was not happy with his character in kick ass two I never saw it It's not as good as the first one. I think it's still a good movie, but it's kind of one of those where like it was built around the girl and She's getting kind of old now to to be that cutesy Kid that's just kicking everyone's butt Um, so it's kind of like, okay. What do you do then? Um, but Yeah, he uh He had a big falling out after that like he was not happy Like he tried to sue and like get his stuff cut out of the movie and he lost because He signed a contract No, and I think I couldn't even figure I can't remember what the controversy was over why he didn't want to be in that movie anymore, but uh Huh, I didn't know I knew that. Yeah I can't remember what it was something about it just out of mom I don't know if it was like a political thing or I'm I'm not sure what it was But ever since then he's kind of like vanished.  I mean, it's just them playing their characters again I feel like that was a special engagement though because it was one of his Well, it's a movie that like those two characters made it like that you can't replace they tried They tried the younger version in a movie before and it didn't work No, it's like no you there those like it's one of those roles were like those were once in a lifetime roles No one can make that work with them No, um But yeah, I mean Jim Carrey has made a lot of money. So it's not like he needs to worry about money anyways or anything Right, but so it's like one of those I feel like Hey, I think it's kind of like will smith or will so much just pops up once in a great while Um, he popped up for he popped up for a little bit for like a three movie run in one year when he was trying to get his son Into acting and like get him to get his eyes. But then like after that like, um He kind of vanished. I know he you know, he's in suicide squad obviously Uh, I asked will smith movie in years He was really good in that movie It was basically will smith movie and I was okay with it. He was good but like I like the thing that upset me was uh, I still haven't seen the new independence day movie. I'm sure it's terrible It's so bad. It reviewed really bad But I'm just like you can't make that movie without will smith No And they tried to explain it away and it was like but like I like I saw a heart and soul First like 10 minutes of or something and I'm just like No, I'm not buying it Like I'm not not just because I really want him in the movie just the explanation for why he's not in the movie. No Yeah, no, it's great. He like that was like basically will smith's coming out party after fresh prince Like fresh prince was really really good independence day is what made his movie career and it's like right you can't Come up with another independence day and get rid of basically the lead actor Yes, you have some of the other leads that were in it. That's great. That's good They need to be there But so does will smith. He's the primary person that needs to be you could have cut out the former president Yep, you couldn't cut out will smith Um, but it's because will smith didn't want to do it So it's like and to his credit will smith was probably correct and saying that hey look like that's like a one time movie Should be a sequel to that even though you understand why there could be because of aliens came once they obviously can come again There was potential and they just did not capitalize. Yeah, it would have been one of those like if they were going to make a sequel They probably should do it back then Rather than the ending was so nonsensical But yeah, again, I didn't see the movie. So again, my expectations are for it to be crappy So it's probably slightly better than crappy. So I'll probably end up liking it. It's just not the same Um, they they literally have like the resolution to beating the alien Zach same thing from the first movie was like really cheap like Come on So you'll you might feel a little gypped if you end up watching it like really couldn't come Take a while that you had to reuse the same idea over again. Yep. What you mean like the force awakens I'll see I am in disagreement on that one It's just getting into the I really really like this versus I really really don't like this. So using the same formula again Does it matter? No, I think it was more thematic in force awakens than Overt as it was in independence day Yeah, see I think the thing is like I can't even comics. I haven't seen an inventors Anyone do that in the same movie. So I don't know I obviously don't know what it's like All I know is I came out of that force awakens to be like that was really really good You know why it was really really good. That was a new hope all over again Yeah And then I remember talking to people like well, is that a good thing or a bad thing? I'm like well, the movie was good So I guess a good thing So it's a lot like one of the best moves sci-fi movies ever. Oh, yeah, that sounds like a tragedy No, well, it's one of those like, you know, that was one of the main criticism of it It was like are they out of original ideas that could be just as good as the original ideas They're just gonna Yeah, like that was the fear for this trilogy is they're basically like, okay So the first movie was was basically a new hope second movie is basically a part of strikes back And the third movie is basically return of the Jedi. Yes, they're all gonna be really good movies But you're just repeating the same story tropes over and over and over again Um, and the thing is we don't know that I was yeah, but I was hoping that that first movie I loved him. I love force awakens I'm hoping that like they did that on purpose because they just had a trilogy of star wars movies Yeah, the past decade that weren't very good Yep, exactly. So what they needed to do is go back to what made the the series good to start it again Yep, and then this movie coming out now should be where it veers off And I feel like we're in the same discussion of like the microtransactions Just because it's star wars you're treating it differently But if it's another movie that you enjoy That is also recycling plot points from other movies that you enjoy then you don't care And that's the point I was bringing up. I'm like, I I will care if This movie that's coming out now the last Jedi Literally is empire strikes back Right if that's what it becomes because that's what it felt like they were setting up If it ends with ray missing a hand and it's like, well, we'll catch him in the next one They were setting up kylo ren to start up it like an empire strikes back kind of movement because they you know They just got that this big defeated loss Obviously they have to strike fear again empire strikes back They bad guys win blah blah blah like it feels like that's what's being set up, but we don't know There's been some interesting plot points in there um But are those plot points different enough from you know from the prior movies? I don't know like I felt I wasn't accepting what force awakens was per se For rehashing the story I was more like I understood why they did it So now it's up to them to do something original off of that And if they don't then i'm gonna be like, yeah, there's still good movies, but They really don't know how to tell a story. That's not that I'll see because they also announced that trilogy of Completely if you think about it, you know, I love the Zelda series, but I mean you play one Zelda game you played them all As I just upset a whole bunch of you know, you have it all different look at me Most of the zel games from opening of time through Even skyward sword, you know, if you ignore motion controls Basically the same kind of set up the same kind of gameplay Yeah, but if that's that's true of so many games you strip away the graphics the art direction And it's like so many games are just like the other ones Is it okay for star wars to rip off itself? Of course it is They could they could always rip off themselves. Just sometimes you wish that there was more, you know And they you know, obviously they tried some of the og ideas with with the the prequel trilogy and wasn't very good Don't know if it was the script or the story or just george lucas just too full of himself Yep Because there's a lot of story behind like yeah, george lucas is the creator of star wars But like his original trilogy that blew up so big had a lot of heavy editing and a lot of other people Putting their fingers in it to make it good Sure, because he had he had like a lot of really good ideas, but How he put it together Um at the time wasn't necessarily viewed as good Uh and the final product and it'll be fantastic. So he gets all the credit, which is fine Yeah, I mean he is the founder of star wars. He should have credit, but um A lot of stuff has come out about the history of star wars and how he is There'll be some more credit spent around the just george lucas Yeah, even though it was his original ideas um And his like it's funny how to like he gave he had disney the script for the for that he had for For these movies and they're like, yeah, no No, sorry and it's like yeah, you know that uh, maybe he It wasn't just him when uh What disney takes like oh you created the movies you figure we should care about your script. No, we really don't We're not using any of it. We're throwing it out entirely doing our own thing. Like have you seen our marvel movies? We know what we're doing yep Like we know how to make star wars great again as they say and I think is I don't even know force awakens in this upcoming Movie are any better than like the trilogy? It's just that there's so much better Than the prequels Well, I'm sorry. I was thinking the prequels. Sorry. Yeah, like disney has Disney kind of has this current launch where they don't have to be better than the original trilogy They just have to be better than the equals Absolutely, and that that's all that I require good star wars taste in our mouth Yes, um, and that's what force awakens did like to its credit as much as you might want to argue Just rip it off a new hope it left a good taste Um, I know a lot of people don't like how the rent and I mean, that's fine. You shouldn't use the villain You're not supposed to like But like I know that like there was a lot of respect for Darth Vader back in the 80s Um, a lot of respect for Kylo Ren right now But that could change in this movie and that could be a difference here where Kylo Ren isn't Darth Vader. That's the whole point Kind of the actor there adam driver. He was so good though. Well, he was good It's just a lot of people didn't like the characterization of hallow ren and I don't know why because I feel like everyone is like Oh, you super emo. He really wasn't that it's just exaggerated. It's from snl skids new Darth Vader And but that is rehashing which is what they were just getting upset with the movie about You watch the preview before you watch for so we can just watch the trailers Kylo Ren kind of looks a little bit like Darth Vader It's kind of right. It's supposed to be in a bba. That's why I say thematically. It's Yeah, that's why I'm like as much as it the setup of that was a lot like new hope What gives me hope that this is a different direction is Kylo Ren Wasn't Darth Vader Totally different and totally different. I mean he wants to desperately be Darth Vader Finn kind of had the empire strikes back ending it in force awakens where he is He's in a bad condition. He clearly lost the outcome there Even if overall rebels came out ahead. He clearly lost And obviously I feel like this this Star Wars movie has the potential to be the highest grossing Star Wars movie ever As any good Star Wars movie does but because this is the final movie for princess leo Oh, yes, true. That's it.  So that's it Um, and that's fine. I don't know if they I mean they might have been planning to kill her off In this movie or the or the third movie anyways They said that she was going to have a significant role in the third. Oh, okay.   So you just you know, right? Well, he's older than she is Yeah And yet again, there's another Indiana Jones movie coming out that I know I'm gonna go see in theaters because I Freaking love Indiana Jones. Even though I don't know how an ancient Harrison Ford I mean, I know it's a stunt double doing all this stuff. I don't care How I don't know I just even though crystal skull wasn't that good The Indiana Jones moments in it were very Indiana Jones and I enjoyed it very much They were yeah, there were good moments. Well, because a lot of bad moments were like the action sequences when Indiana Jones is being Indiana Jones I'm like, oh my god. Yeah I understand that's not Harrison Ford swinging from the thing anymore Obviously, no He breaks his hip on set for Star Wars. He's not gonna You know be able to do that anymore, but still it's just it's cool Yeah, he's cool the original stunts in the other movies either. Who knows?  No, I'd like Indiana Jones I've always that's just my favorite show and like I know they tried to To replace him with Shia LaBeouf basically. Oh, he's my son And that didn't work Yeah, I like Shia LaBeouf though. I know a lot of people don't We're gonna wrap it up. 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Everyone, welcome to today's day trading recap for Friday, April 23rd. Hope everybody had a good week ending the week on a small green day plus $137. Now that's a fall from where we hit yesterday of over 3000, but that's okay. A couple of things. Um, one I went in today, making sure I was going to keep my position size super small. For one, we're trading the zero date days to expiration that move really quickly, have some serious theta decay to him. Uh, number two, based on yesterday's big winning day, came into this with the mindset of I didn't want to have kind of a euphoric mindset of, of giving it all back, you know, putting on a big bunch of big size, uh, because I kind of in the mindset of everything I touched turned to gold kind of thing. And so I went in just wanting to be very, very cautious of that being aware of my mindset. And then three is Friday and, you know, Friday, I like to keep things a little bit smaller and kind of be done early. So I only took a few trades, uh, mighty nineties did have two trades, two nice winners Nvidia for plus 330 MU for plus 224. So we'll go over these trades and I'll come back and recap the, uh, the entire week, a really good week overall. And then, uh, two runners today, AMD minus 120 SQ minus 297.  So let's take a look at these and then we'll come back and recap the week starting with Nvidia. So Nvidia was a nice little mighty 90 that we took. And I kind of managed this one a little bit like a runner. So you could have, um, I could classify it as a runner, but, but really I entered as a mighty 90. And so that's, that's where I'll classify it. I had this big pushup started to pull back. Now this bar ended up green. And so this volume bar is green, but at one point it was red down here. And so on this pullback, I was looking at it as a mighty 90 got in right here and got a pushup scaled out, got out of, uh, three quarters of my position at that point, kind of chopped around, chopped around. And I think I got out of my last piece. I think it was right here when it started to pull down. So nice 300, uh, $330 a winner there. My other mighty 90 was MU. Uh, MU had this nice pushup into this pivot with volume, got short right here, came down, I had my order to close half about right down there. It didn't quite get there. Bounced up. I thought I was going to take, end up taking a loss on this after I had a chance to get out of some. But it played nicely, chopped around, chopped around and finally rolled over, ended up getting out of my last piece right there. Four, a plus 224 on the MU trade. On to the runners. The two runners we did were AMD and SQ. So AMD, uh, AMD was, uh, was one that we were actually talking about right here, of potentially getting long on a pullback. I didn't do it because it didn't quite fit my criteria and I'm trying to be uber strict on my rules. I know some, some folks in the community got in right here and got this nice bounce in AMD. So that's beautiful. I was looking for a potential reversal. So I was looking for a break of this bar here that had the big volume. It did break it right there. And so when it bounced back up a little bit, I got short, did roll over. I got out of half my position on just on that little move with these zero DTE options. They, uh, they bring you some profits quick when they move in your direction. And then it just kind of bounced, chopped around and then pushed up and I ended up just closing it out there because everything was looking pretty bullish. So I ended up taking a loss of 120 on that one. And then square. Don't trade square too much, but had a nice little volume spike on the downside. When it bounced up here, this, this bar ended down here, but it actually bounced up to about right there. And that's where we got short. This thing just started to flush, got out of half. I was trying to get out of more about right down there. It never quite got there. And then you just ripped higher. So when it really started to push higher, cut out of my last piece and ended up taking a loss after had a decent profit, but no fault of the way traded. Just, it just ripped, ripped back up on us. So took a loss on that one. So net net plus 137 on the day. Let's bring that, bring back the sheet and I'll show you what we did for the week, uh, really nice week, mostly duty yesterday, but on the mighty 90 front, um, really, really encouraged with this of the P and L obviously is good. Plus 2,757 had 11 trades and only one loser, only one out of 11 trades were losers in the mighty 90. So over 90% win rate, fantastic. On the pairs trades just did one book 239 50. And then on the runners booked over $3,500 on 26 trades, pretty low win rate, but P and L, like I said, primarily due to yesterday's big performance. Monday was a good winner. Tuesday was a winner.  Yesterday was the big one. And then today a little bit of a red day on the runners as well, but net net over $3,500. If we took a lake look at the summary year to date, now we're at over $7,800 on our mighty 90s, over $1,900 on our pairs trades, over 21,000 on our runners, total over $31,000 in profits year to date. If we take a look at the P and L by day of week, you can see every day this week was green, which I love. I love green days. I love green weeks. In fact, going back to Friday. So that's actually six green days in a row. So getting a little mini street going here, see if we can keep that alive. And then if you look at the P and L by day, Thursday is starting to run away with it. You know, obviously thanks to yesterday, but Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, three best days of the week so far. So again, small data sample, but we'll continue to fill this in as we go and see if we can glean anything from it. I do like to, I do feel a lot more comfortable putting on additional size on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. And we'll continue to do so.  We're usually trading zero DTE Monday. It's the first day of the week. I'm just kind of trying to get my juices flowing. So I'm not really in sync with the market yet. So that's why I feel Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are my best days and will continue to be, but we will see if that continues. And then if we take a quick look at, since we've been tracking, which is since the beginning or since the end of August, you can see back on September 14th, we had a week of over 7,000, but that is the only week since we've been tracking that was better than this week. So plus 6,509 on the week. And so good stuff. And then since the end of August, total day trading P&L over 67,000. The other thing I was going to mention that I've never really talked about, but you know, one thing, you know, I've taken money out of my, kind of my income trading accounts, but on my day trading, I hadn't hadn't really done that. I'd just been kind of building. And so what I've been doing the last couple of months is I've been taking money out of the account. And I've been doing that for a couple of reasons. One is just, it was getting bigger than, than I needed for the size that I'm trading. And two, I think there's a really powerful psychological thing about taking money out of your account. You know, if you just see your money growing in the account, sometimes it, it doesn't seem real. You know, sometimes it just is still kind of like monopoly monies, just kind of funny money. And it can actually cause you to, to do things that, you know, make, make trades or up your position size to a level you may not be comfortable with. And I think taking the money out on a consistent basis can actually have a powerful psychological effect from the, from the impact that you actually, you actually know it's real, right?  And, and, and the things that you spend it on are tied to that trading because you know, you know where that money came from. And so if, if you're not doing that, if you're, if you've had trouble kind of building up an account and then it comes back down, building it up again, and it comes back down, think about systematically starting to take, take money out. I think, I think there's really something to that from a mindset thing. In fact, it's going to be the topic of a podcast coming up on the trade hacker mindset. So look for that at some point in the future. But, but overall, and then, and then when the other thing that I've been talking about and thinking a lot about is, is really starting to scale up my position size with my day trades. You know, I've, I've done it a couple of times kind of sporadically, like I'm going to take a bigger position size on this trade, specifically. But for whatever reason, and again, this is a mental block that I'm working through and I'm just kind of sharing it with you because some of you all may be able to relate or benefit from it. But, you know, I want to, I want to get to the point where you can see pretty consistently we're having two 1,500, 2,000, $2,500 weeks, right? Which is great. But I really want to get to the point, you know, where we're having 10, $20,000 weeks, right?  But what I've, what I've found is the current position size that I trade is a very, very, I'm in my comfort zone, right? It's, it's very comfortable for me. The P and L swings that I have are very comfortable to me, right now. And there's, and there's nothing wrong with staying there. But at the same time, I want to, I want to grow that, that comfort zone of mine. And so part of that is just incrementally doing it.  And so that's something that I'm, I'm really focusing on and, and wanting to, to work on to, to really gradually kind of get these, these weekly P and Ls up to a significantly higher level on average. So anyway, just some random thoughts that I wanted to share and to kind of get you guys thinking about your own trading and, and how it might help you. So hopefully that helps. We will be streaming Monday through Thursday live next week. We will be offline on Friday had something come up that I have to, that I have to be at in the morning. And so Monday through Thursday and then we've also posted the full schedule for May in the live streamer. And the only, the only two days we're offline in May is one Memorial Day because it's a holiday, the markets are closed. And then we're also going to take off the Friday before Memorial Day because trading is probably going to be light, not the best day trading conditions. And so we're just going to be offline that day as well. If you guys have any questions, let me know. Otherwise have a fantastic weekend and we will talk to you next week. See ya.


This is stock number 11471Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used RAM and heavy duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2014 RAM 3500 mega cab short box dual rear wheel. This truck has the 6.7 liter high output Cummins diesel. It is paired up with the Icing Heavy Duty six speed transmission. It has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. Flame red clear coat is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you'd like to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link to our website click that and check us out. There comes with some nice raptor chrome step bars. This one has the aluminum rims. The open country Toyo LT 25580R17 tires comes with the and these tires have probably about 60 to 70% of the tread left on them. So it does have a leveling lift kit on it. Frame and underbody looks exceptionally clean. Front fender is in excellent shape. No dents or dings on that. Projector lamp headlamps, LED running lights, factory fog lights. Front bumper is in excellent shape. I didn't see any dents or dings on there. You do get the chrome trimmed grille and the headlight lenses are nice and clear. The hood is in excellent condition as well. I didn't see any major dents or dings on that. And the passenger side front fender is in nice shape too. Passengers side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes. And as you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, you can still see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises. And that's why we offer the Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right hand part of the screen. You can link right to our website where you can apply for financing, get pre-approved, see a payment quote, even appraise a trade all from the comfort of your own home. So when you do get here, all you have to do is drive the truck, love it, and you'll be all set to go. Dual tub looks pretty good. Back rim is in nice shape as well. And the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires, maybe even a little bit more. Frame and underbody is in nice shape. Get the wheel well protectors there or liners. Has all the remaining factory exhaust, so it hasn't been altered in any way. And the body looks really good. Lower rockers are in nice shape as well. I didn't see any major rock chips or anything on the dual tub. Here's one little, one little ding on the top of the tub. Wanted to point that out because these are used trucks and they're not going to be perfect. This is a 2014 rear bumpers in perfect condition though. No denser dings on that. Does have the backup parking sensors, full towing package, which includes the receiver, H4 pin and seven pin wiring. Tailgate is in very nice shape as well. Has a locking tailgate and backup camera. Comes with a drop-in bed liner. That's a ram bed liner. And it does have a turnaround gooseneck hitch. Has a good on the driver's side, pretty clean as well. I didn't see any denser dings on the box. And for full disclosure, this back rim is in nice shape too. Down the rest of the side of the truck looks really good. Doors look good. Cab looks good. This one does have the heated fold-out tow mirrors. They fold up like so. They have directional signals. They also fold in like that. Has the enter and go system. So you just have to have the key fob in your pocket. It will automatically unlock.  You get Laramie embossed into the backrest. There's no rips or tears on the seats. Both these seats are heated and cooled. Memory driver's seat, lumbar, factory floor mats, auto headlamps, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, leather bolsters, wood grain trim. And we'll hop inside. Turn the ignition on so you can see the instrument cluster and the radio and everything. This one has the digital speedometer, the 7-inch TFT display, compass, outside temp display, information center. Our instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel. No major rips or tears or scuffs on that. Cruise controls on the right. Bluetooth and information center controls on the left. Six-speed automatic ice and transmission. Push button start. Turned out four-wheel drive. 8.4 3C radio with the factory navigation system. It has AM, FM, and Serious XM radio capabilities.  And you can check out your cargo cam right there. And then if you wanted to check out your backup camera that actually shows up in the rear view mirror up there. You also get 911 and assist buttons in that mirror. Now if you don't like doing your climate controls up here, you can do them down here with the more tactile buttons, including your dual climate controls, volume and tune controls, and your fan right there. Factory brake controller, stability control, tow haul, factory exhaust brake, parking sensors, you can turn those off, heated and cooled seat buttons and heated steering wheel. If you like the more tactile buttons once again, and then a 115 volt, 150 watt plug-in. Carpeting and passenger side floor mat and seat are in excellent condition. No rips or tears on there. Headliner looks really good and it does come with the power sunroof. Map lights up there, power side mirror window, home link buttons for your garage doors, security systems and lighting systems. And once again 911 and assist buttons in that rear view mirror. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may want to put back here. Factory floor mats and then these seats fold down two different ways. First of all, is the backrest goes all the way down like so and you get a nice flat load floor that goes all the way to the back of the cab. Why that's nice, you can put both sides down and you got a nice flat place to lay if you're going to be tired and need to take a nap. Or if you got pets you can put both sides down they got a nice flat place to lay as well. The other way that these back seats go down is it just the backrest goes down.  There's also a couple storage bins back there as well. And then they go up like that. And just very nice clean back here. Those have child safety locks on the back doors. The inside of the doors and door jams look really good. We'll start it up and take a look under the hood. No check engine lights or anything like that looks really good. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around. Inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6.7 meter high output from the diesel. Engine base very clean runs very smooth. Once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the foods have been checked and topped off. And this truck is 100% ready to build. I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. And to see more pictures of this truck from one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, wranglers, halftons, recoder tons, one tons. You name it we got it go to that website right there www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at www.summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com so I have some an auto number two like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact in a second you'll see a link to subscribe to our youtube channel in the upper left. We link to more Ram 3500 truck videos like this one in the upper right. You'll link to this truck on our website in the lower left and a link to our latest youtube video in the lower right. 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So, the main challenges that we have to face are basically very much in line with what other European countries do have to encounter, basically being able to implement and instigate a culture change within our academic community. Also, to persuade policymakers that open science has to be a top item on our agenda. Also, one of the main challenges that we do have as a small island is basically that we do not have local peers, so basically you have to tap on our international peers. When it comes to opener, our main responsibility is basically to liaise with academics and researchers and support our academics and researchers with all issues pertaining to open science, to liaise with the various policymakers, as well as to ensure that we come up with the main infrastructure which support open science. Recently, we have implemented the first institute repository on the Maldives Islands. Basically, this has been extended and we are also accepting research articles from researchers, academics who are not part of our affiliated with our university, so as to speak the repository service as a national repository. We have also recently implemented an open access policy, an institutional open access policy for our university.


Welcome to part 6 of this eDesign Suite video tutorial series. In this video, you will learn how to export your project, including BOM and ORCAD files, and start prototyping. As demonstrated in previous episodes, let's navigate to the eDesign Suite page. Select an application use case. In the Power Management Design Center, open the Power Supply Design tool. Select DC-DC, non-isolated, and buck. Let's specify our operating conditions. Select the L6983 DC-DC buck converter and start the design. As explained in previous episodes, the eDesign Suite interactive dashboard gives you a preview of the design, including a fully annotated schematic and a bill of material. Here you can visualize your design's operating conditions and performance, make changes, and evaluate the outcome of those changes. You can also launch EDSim to perform an in-depth simulation of your circuit. Once you have tweaked your design and achieved your application requirements, you are ready to start the prototyping phase. First, save your design by clicking the Save button in the toolbar. A project repository will be created in your MyST workspace. Give it a name and a description. Notice how the Save Project dialog box lists all the projects you have already saved. Let's now export the project to your PC. For that, locate the Export menu in the toolbar. Click Export to File to save a complete description of your design project that you can easily share. Click Export Bomb to save a CSV file listing all components you need to develop your project. Also in the toolbar, locate the Export DSN ORCAD button. Click it to download an ORCAD representation of your design. Click it to export your design to ORCAD and start prototyping. In the next episode, you will see how eDesign Suite can help you select the right evaluation board for your application use case.


Aaron Bistani, you have spent the last week or so in Glasgow. What are your main takeaways from what has been achieved at this conference, what hasn't been achieved at this conference? The nature of COP26, is it all a big waste of time? We're at COP26, there have been 25 Cops previously. I think it's fair to say that 24 were failures in and of themselves. There's been positive direction in some instances, less so in others, but 24 were failures. This was the one time it was seen as a success. And then the question is, is this another failure? Probably, yes. So given the historic context and how Cops generally pan out, it's not that bad. It's in Britain. We've had, as a result, far greater coverage of it by the media in this country. And so it's important to underscore how poorly we are doing. Because, of course, they regurgitate the press releases, they like to repeat the positive bluster of people like Boris Johnson. But things aren't looking very good. And it's a failure across multiple nations. And despite what you'll repeatedly hear, that it's a failure because of the likes of China, India, it's generally speaking, overwhelmingly speaking, a failure of the global north of the wealthier countries, particularly the United States, Canada, Australia are the easy climate bad guys, Britain too. And it's important to say that somewhere like China, is at least doing enough to make up for its historic emissions. That's what it plans to do. The likes of the UK, there's basically no country in the West, in the global north is doing that. In terms of the particularities of what's going on in Glasgow, what hit me was that the actual nature of the climate movement has drastically changed in the last several years. It's no longer about polar bears as lovely as they are. It's no longer about species extinction as important as that is. But actually what was being put front and center at COP26 was land rights, indigenous peoples, and habitats that need to be protected from capitalism. And that's not to say that there's an agenda being pushed by the powerful because it's not. But it means that the face of the climate movement has changed quite dramatically. I don't think the media and its coverage of climate change has kept up with the changes in technologies, the changes in renewable energy, and like I say, the changes in the climate movements. The media lagging behind is a big one for me. They're stuck in this quest for permanent optimism. We can do it. We can feel good about ourselves. No. We're in a really dreadful situation and it's important to start with honesty. We're not going to hit 1.5 degrees C. Extraordinarily unlikely. Secondly, I think it's just the brazen mendacity and hypocrisy of the countries involved. For example, Michael is, well, we want to end deforestation by 2030. And of course, the bad guys and all this are Brazil and Bolsonaro and the good guys. Well, as always, you know, Europeans, the lovely progressive liberal Europeans calling on Bolsonaro to stop with his deforestation and tree burning and destruction of the Amazon. And yet the EU sides a trade deal with Brazil to double imports of beef. Now, implicitly, that beef requires deforestation.  And so on the one hand, you have this hand wringing about what we have to do. And on the other, carry on with business as usual. You know, Germany is going to be burning coal into the 2030s. Britain, yes, we've phased out coal, but you can't say, well, that's leadership on energy. You've gotten rid of coal when we're still we're still drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea in dozens of sites. You've got news sites being prosecuted all the time. How's that leadership? So, yeah, like I say, the two things that really stand out, very poor media coverage. I really think the media is just not informing the public. Some great journalists out there, of course, but by and large, very poor coverage. I think that starts the BBC, actually. Just regurgitated press releases by and large and sprays and mendacity. One of the things that's been all the rage at COP26 has been tree planting. And actually, it's a big part of net zero. You don't have to stop or reduce massively fossil fuel emissions right now because we'll be able to plant trees. They're being called nature-based solutions. And often this is a very, very, very poor strategy. You know, I'm all for reforestation. I wrote about it in my article on China. It can be done effectively. Sometimes it wasn't China, often not. But the idea that, oh, well, we can cut down thousands of hectares of wild forests with biodiversity, indigenous land rights being respected.   And I talked to indigenous people from Central India, Aravasti people from Ecuador, from Chile, from Brazil. They all said the same thing. If we want to protect this planet's biodiversity, we have to leave that in the hands of indigenous peoples. And that is not the agenda of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and the major powers, by which I mean European powers, the US, Brazil, China. That is not their agenda because it's also their economic growth. So all coverage. And frankly, the whole thing is just riven with hypocrisy. And I think it's important to start with that as a premise. On nature-based solutions, which you just spoke about the limits of, I spoke earlier to Kitana Chandrasekharan, who wrote a great article for Navarra Media on this, in fact. So this is what she told me about nature-based solutions and their role at COP26. So all their targets to achieve their mitigation are net zero. And the net means that it is the carbon emissions of your net minus what you're able to draw down from the atmosphere, carbon sequestration or carbon removal. And that's where the nature-based solutions come in, because nature-based solutions are what enables, so trees and forests or soil carbon, for example, draws down carbon from the atmosphere. But what they're essentially saying is that they're going to achieve net zero, which means what they are going to do and what they're already doing at the moment. Corporations, 1,500 corporations, rich country governments, are going to keep emitting, according to their trajectories, expand fossil fuel extraction. The UK itself has 40 new fossil fuel projects, but will then use land in the global south, forests and trees to offset the emissions that they're going to emit. And that's what nature-based solutions here is about. So it's actually in the COP test now, not as the term nature-based solutions, but as the term nature as net carbon sink and enhanced carbon removals from nature. So there's a lot of definitions you'll hear for how lovely nature-based solutions is and what it is, but this is what is actually the politics of nature-based solutions. Aaron, do you agree with that?  I mean, we are going to need significant extraction of carbon from the air though, aren't we? Because, you know, as far as I understand, our carbon budget is going to be used up in six years, unless, you know, we really, really have a dramatic transformation in sort of how the world deals with this kind of thing. What's your take? This is quite hard for some people to understand, Michael, because I think, my God, look, the green movement has been talking about deforestation for decades. We're saying, here's more trees and it's still not making you happy.  We thought you were tree huggers, but it's a bit more complicated than that, Michael, because if you don't plant the right trees in the right place, it doesn't just not solve the problem. It can actually make things worse. So examples, for instance, of trees being planted in certain areas, you know, pine trees in Latin America and they take up too much water and actually they do nothing for biodiversity. They might not live very long. Often the initial deforestation efforts in China, trees were dying, about half of the trees being planted were dying. And of course, the worry is if you have reforestation where you chop down some trees, which will continue for at least 10 years and you plant them elsewhere and elsewhere they're sucking up precious water reserves or most of them are dying and they've got no biodiversity, it's still a massive net loss, Michael. I think we have to get this really through as political commonsense. If we're serious about expanding the forested parts of the planet, which we have to do, you're absolutely right. It's a critically necessary thing to do that has to be led by Indigenous peoples. That's not some woke thing I'm trying to say to score brownie points and to look cool or to knock Western governments. These are the people who presently administer, I believe 70 to 80% of the world's rain forests and habitats like that. They're very good at maintaining these places. And so if we're going to adopt that strategy, Michael, which was saying rightly that we have to do, you have to center Indigenous peoples. And it can't just be, you know, the UK says, I'll give you an example. We're going to plant 30,000 hectares every year after 2025. How many trees per hectare? What kinds of trees? These are hugely important questions. Secondly, you also have all these commitments around planting trees. When you actually break it down, it often looks like there isn't really enough land. And that's before you sort of ask questions about, well, people live on this land. Where are you going to put them? Obviously conflicts between agricultural land and we need to use land for agricultural purposes. And you're saying also we need to use it as a carbon sink. I mean, that's something that Bill Gates says. I kind of agree with him. You know, he says there's an important conversation here. We need to feed the planet equitably and in a far healthier way than we presently do. That's a lot harder than it sounds. So the reforestation thing is good. It's positive. It's a really positive thing that we're here. But the likes of Bill Gates, the billionaire class, are attracted to it for a reason. And the reason is, actually twofold, the first is it allows them to carry on burning fossil fuels for a little bit longer, the second half of the century, which should not be happening for developed countries. And secondly, this, of course, provides a whole new area of financialization because you can trade the carbon, you can create futures markets. And actually the idea of nature being a commodity is why we're in this situation in the first place. And I find it very hard to believe it will therefore be part of the solution. Criticism of tree planting reforestation, they may sound strange initially, but it's being adopted and it's all the rage at COP26 for a reason because it means we don't talk about the thing that matters the most, which is stopping fossil fuels. We can't drill any more oil and gas wells. And yet in this country, we're doing it in dozens of places. China, which I think is doing considerably better than the United States or any European country, is still gonna open dozens of new coal-fired power stations over the next decade. If we're serious about 1.5, none of that would be happening, but it is. So the idea of net zero reforestation to sort of redress carrying on with this business as usual, and at the same time saying, well, we can stick to 1.5, 1.5 to stay alive, it's 2.4, it's three degrees C. And three degrees C is really concerning. Today, well, the last 24 hours, I think we had about 1,200 undocumented migrants come here in the UK over the English Channel. Look, in a world of three degrees warming, that's a walk in the park. You're gonna see displacement of billions of people. And so 1.5 is still very possible, but net zero is an agenda, I think, kind of locks in us going far beyond it.


Other than overcompensation for expected caloric reduction, there are two other ways that even the most non-toxic, non-caloric sweetener could still be harmful if we're not careful.   Fruit, sweet potatoes, beets, right?   It knows if you eat too many calories of any food.  So there are signals that come up from our gut when we absorb calories into our system, telling us eventually to, okay, slow down, we've had enough. But with non-caloric sweeteners, we have a disconnect. We just have the appetite-boosting effects on our brain of the sweet nerve sensations from our tongue, but without the appetite-suppressing effects of the calories coming into our system. And so this revved-up appetite may lead us to overeat more than we would have without the diet soda and end up gaining weight.


The full title of this talk, which does not actually fit on most CFP submission forms, is the Illustrated Adventure Survival Guide for New Rustations and Natives of Rubyville, with apologies to Why the Lucky Stiff. How many of you are familiar with Why the Lucky Stiff's work? Awesome! That's so great! That's the most people I've seen in a room, and I've given this talk like ten times. Well, okay, so if you are familiar with which many of you are, you'll recognize a few things in this talk. If you're not, I would strongly recommend looking him up after this. He was a Rubyist who did a lot of really interesting work. That was a big reason for me getting into programming, and this whole talk is kind of an, well, half the talk is an homage to Why's Pointing Guide to Ruby, which I think you can find online somewhere for free if you want to check it out. Anyway, welcome. I really have to commend you. It took a lot of courage to sign up for this mission. This adventure we're about to embark on is not for the weak or the faint of heart. So if any of you are pregnant or nursing, or suffer from any kind of heart condition, or if your doctor has advised against the eating of spicy foods, I ask that you consider consulting your physician, spiritual advisor, psychic medium, or nosy next door neighbor before accompanying me on this journey. While we wait to board the ship, some of you might want to know a little bit about me, your guide, before moving forward with this seafaring journey, and I get it. I understand.  I'm not. I'm Liz. I used to be a cartoonist. I drew comic books. I went to art school. I drew a few graphic novels. A few years ago, I learned to code. I went to the Flatiron School in New York, and I started working in web development. Nowadays I work at Tilda in Portland, Oregon. Mainly I work on our product Skylight, which is an application that helps developers working in Rails or other Ruby-based frameworks to optimize their own apps. We also use Rust, which is a big part of why I started learning Rust in the first place. So before we get on the ship, I'll show you a map of where we'll be going. Right now, our ship is docked at the port of JavaScript, just off the coast of Rubyville. We'll be sailing the seas of chunky bacon, and should be landing at the cargo bay of Rustlandia in no time. So let's get on board, take your seats. No standing. No eating or drinking, but most importantly, no staring at the ship captain's eye. He's really sensitive about it. So say goodbye to your loved ones, and off we go. Sailing, this is a song about sailing. I don't know the rest of the words. If you all look out your windows to the west, you'll notice a beautiful sight, some foliage that's native to Rubyville, an abstract syntax tree. Its nodes are particularly lovely this time of year. You're probably used to seeing these if you're from Rubyville. They tend to sprout any time some code gets thrown into the interpreter just before it gets turned into bytecode so the Ruby virtual machine can run it. As you might already know, Ruby is an interpreted language, so this is more or less what you're used to if you're a Rubyist. But in Rustlandia, we have to remember to compile our code before we can run it, otherwise it won't work. So when we get there, just remember two key phrases. Cargo build and cargo run. They will come in handy when we reach the shore and start trying to chat up the locals. If you try to just run your code directly like you did in Rubyville, they won't know what you're talking about. I almost forgot to mention on the way out, you'll notice a big pile of mains. Don't forget to take one. You'll need to put all the code that gets run for your program inside of main unless you're building a library but we're not there just yet, so very important. All right, everybody off the ship. Here we are. Welcome to Rustlandia. Let's check out the town. Remember, things move a lot faster here, so be careful. Look it out. It's the stack and the heap group of let's go inside. You're probably used to not giving much thought to memory back in Rubyville. Before I came to Rustlandia, I had heard of the stack and the heap, but I knew what it's like to do with memory, but I didn't really understand it. So watch how things work at the bar. People come in and they give their programs to the bartender and she compiles and runs them. Someone wants a fancy whiskey and a cheap whiskey. The good stuff is fancy, so we put that in a box and store it on the heap. Because we want it to be able to stick around for a while, even though it's high up and it's a bit slower to get to. So most things in Rust are stored on the stack unless you specify otherwise, which is why we had to put the fancy whiskey in a box in order to store it on the heap. So when we run this program, the good whiskey gets a spot on the heap at the far, far end of our available memory. And we put a pointer on the stack that points to that spot on the heap. Next on the stack, we put the cheap stuff. In this case, it is old granddad, which is a very terrible bourbon if you didn't know. The cheap stuff gets served up first because it's on top, and then we have the pointer to the fancy stuff, which the bartender has to go way, way, way up to the top of the heap to get, which she does. All that sea travel made me hungry, I think. Let's check out one of the local eateries. I've heard good things about this one. It's called Cafe Destruct. Oh, sir, I can't quite read this menu. I'm used to seeing things like this. There's a defined class, and the instance methods for that class are defined with a simple def, and they end with the word end. Instead, I see all these strange new things, like structs and impulse, and what's this all about, huh? Waiter! So I'm sorry, madam. I know this isn't something you're used to back in Rubyville, but we here in Rustlandia, we have no class. No class! I believe it. This is terrible. How are we going to get along without class? It's the one thing separating us from the animals. Don't worry. Don't worry at all. You can still get what you need. Here, here. Here's the chunky bacon struct. This is where we define all the attributes we expect out of it, like flavor, chunkiness, price, et cetera. So then I can just do something like this, and I'll be all set. No, no, my good lady. For that, you'll need to write an impulse. That's an implementation of chunky bacon. So if you want a new instance of chunky bacon, you'll have to write a new method yourself. It doesn't just happen automatically. Well then, very good. I'll have a salad. And now a word from our sponsors. Me? Yeah, you there. You want to try some rust? You mean the iron oxide produced as a result of a redox reaction of iron and oxygen in the presence of water or air moisture? What have you been reading, Wikipedia? No, not that rustful. Rustland, my friend. Oh yeah, that cool new systems programming language all the kids at school are talking about. The very same. Well, what about it? Do you like abstraction without overhead? Concurrency without data races? I think. What about memory safety without garbage collection? That sounds good. Love rust. Welcome to Mutability Lake. It's a lovely day, and so many of our distinguished towns people are out sailing their toy ships. Some are fancier than others. Some are mutable. Some aren't. This one here is a nice one. This one's not mutable. So we can't change anything about it, but I can pick it up and show it to you. Look how nice. But if we try to change anything about it, hey, you can't do that. Ah, the compiler is yelling at us. So we know we can't change this boat. It's immutable. Let's try another one. Let's look back what other ships are in the lake. Cool. This one's definitely mutable. It has a little flag that says mute. Let's just make a few changes before we return it. Let's add some wheels to this boat. Perfect. Compiler, what do you think? Matter compiler. You put wheels on a boat. It's not a boat anymore. It's a car. You said you would return a boat. You must return a boat, as is clearly illustrated here. The boat struct does not include anything about wheels. OK, OK. I'll take the wheels off. I thought it looked pretty cool, though. Let's look for another boat in the lake. Hey, that one looks pretty cool. You're like, oh, it doesn't belong to you. Oh, I'm sorry, compiler. Who owns this boat? I do. So sorry. Can I borrow it? I was hoping to play with it in my bathtub. Well, will you bring it back? Of course. Go right ahead. Don't forget this ampersand so everyone knows you're just borrowing it. And now a musical montage. Hey, thanks for returning my boat. Compiler, does everything look good to you? I'm not in a tugboat. That's not OK. But compiler, these boats are all vectors of strings. All I did was push a tugboat onto it. A tugboat is a string. The tugboat isn't yours, and neither is the boat. Yeah, that tugboat is mine. Well, what if I just, boom, punch the tugboat guy in the face and hit him with a remove? Looks like no one owns this tugboat now. You want a tugboat on your boat, sir? Sure. Let's do boat.push and pass in the tugboat. Now you have one. And now another word from our sponsors. Hey, kid. What? Did you get all that information about ownership and borrowing? A lot of the cool stuff I was telling you about before. You mean like when you were yelling, memory safe, David Algarg, I'm just calling a hand at me. Yes, you got it. I only know Ruby though, so these aren't really problems I've had to deal with. Well, let me tell you, if you were a C programmer, you'd be really excited. You bet it's OK. Can you just teach me something about rust so the kids at school will finally think I'm cool? Sure thing, kid. Let's try a less convoluted metaphor. Watch this. Hello again, travelers. Have you seen our esteemed library? It's pretty great. You can borrow just about anything as long as you return it. They even have this great big pile of books over there that don't belong to anyone. You can just take them if you want, and then they're yours. Every so often people will come by with donations of books they don't need anymore. It's great. If you want to borrow a book, you just need your ampersand. If you try to change a book while you're borrowing it, we'll yell at you and your code won't compile. However, if you see something you like in the free pile, you can just take it and do whatever you want with it. It's yours. You there in the back. You had a question? Yes, what about if the book is a mutable reference? Great question, friend. Well, you might very well be borrowing something that's mutable, like our collection of coloring books here. You can continue coloring in them while you have them, and you can return them altered. Only one person can have one out at a time though. We also have some exquisite corpse books that are pretty cool. Every time someone borrows one of these, they add a little bit of it themselves before bringing it back. I want to borrow the exquisite corpse book. Me too, I want to borrow it too. No, no more than one mutable reference at a time. You can have it now, but you have to wait until the first person is done before you can borrow it. Aw, man. No complaining. Do you want a data race? Do you? So you might have noticed how clean and beautiful Rustlandia is. And yet you might have also noticed there are no garbage cans anywhere. It's actually because of that system of borrowing and ownership that Rustlandia is able to do without garbage collection. It's a big part of what makes everything so fast and safe here. But isn't it annoying having the compiler yelling at you all the time? Hey now, don't judge the compiler. Look, you hurt his feelings. He's not such a bad guy. He's just making sure everything we do is good before we can run it. The compiler is our friend. He just wants the best for us. Sure, his advice might be a little hard to understand at times, but once you get to know him, he's really a good guy, I promise. And now, another word from our sponsors. Tonight on WRST, it's the true story of how one statically typed programming language risked it all to figure out how to handle it when things go wrong. Being and nothingness and error handling based on a true story. If everything goes right, the reactor will cool down and the city will be saved. But if something goes wrong, if this whole thing goes south, I guess I'll just do nothing. I mean, it seems like it's time to return an option, right? I mean, the compiler feels fine about it, right? Looking good. Meanwhile, across town, the grocery store doesn't have the mustard I like. Pay attention to me.  I need my Dijon. Compiler, you agree. Don't you, compiler? Looking good. Public service announcement. Just because the code compiles doesn't mean it's something you should do. Results, for when something could go terribly wrong and you need to throw an error. Option, for when it's okay to just do nothing. Live it, learn it, love it. Hey, welcome back. Just in time for the last boat back to Rubyville.  If you wanna stay a little longer, there are some very nice boxes at the heap. Otherwise, the boat is ready to board. On your way back, we do have some very nice reading material if you're interested in learning more about Rust. I strongly recommend starting with Rust by Example. This is an online book that will lead you by the hand, step by step, through many examples, explaining everything along the way. After that, you can look at the official Rust reference documentation, which is very helpful. If you'd like to try your hand at some Rust of your very own from scratch, there are many excellent exercises available at Exorcism. If you have questions, there's the Rust Reddit and the user forums, or you can chat on one of the many channels on IRC. In preparation for the original version of this talk at RustConf last year with some help from my boss, I've developed a playable text-based adventure game in both Ruby and Rust. This way, you can check out Ruby and Rust code that do similar things side by side. I've written a few very little ones over the years, usually when I'm trying to learn a new language or if I'm playing with a new idea. Some of you may never have played one, but it's basically a game where everything is text. In my case, the whole game is played in your terminal like it's the 80s. So the way it works is you get a prompt, usually a sentence or two followed by a question, like, you are in a dark forest. You see a light in the north. You have a map. What do you do? And then you type something like, look at map. Then the computer responds with something else. And you type something else. The computer responds to that, so on and so forth, until your character dies or the game is over. I think nowadays games like this are also called interactive fiction. Let's take a quick look at the actual game I wrote to give you a better idea of what I'm talking about. Let's see how this goes. Let me put this up quite a bit. What is your name? My name is Liz. What would you like to do? Look around. This room contains a rare and glorious unicorn. It's amazing. This room contains a jar of unicorn forts. Unicorn doctor is here too. What now? Talk. Hi, I'm a unicorn doctor. It's pretty cool. I have a vial of unicorn blood. Do you want it? What now? Let's see. Take a vial of unicorn blood. Because who doesn't want a vial of unicorn blood? Okay, I wrote it wrong. Take vial of unicorn blood. Maybe? Vial of unicorn blood has been added to your inventory and removed from the doctor's inventory. Okay, I want to use vial of unicorn blood. I want to know what this does. It's made me invincible. It's amazing. So great. Okay, I want to get out of here. So that's the game. But how did I actually build it? Before writing a single line of code, I had to think about the architecture of the game. There were a million different ways I could find a structure. In the end, I wanted something super simple. So I went with a really basic loop. It continues to ask what the player wants to do until a particular condition is met at which point the game ends. So in this example, which I stress is not real code, just an example of the structure I was using, we start by defining playing is true and while playing is true, the game asks, what do you want to do next? Then it parses whatever the subsequent user input is and it performs an action based on that input. Like if the user says move north, then the player's position has changed and maybe we output something like you have moved north. We don't exit the loop unless the user dies or the game ends at which point playing is redefined as false. So what does this look like in Ruby or Rust? In Ruby, there's a lot going on before we get to the play method, but that's where the loop is, so that's what I'm showing you. This is a method on the game class which is initialized with a player, a map, an array of rooms and with the value of playing as true. So as long as playing remains true, the game will keep asking what now. Then it'll parse whatever the user types and respond to that. So this example is ignoring a lot of other code I wrote to support this, so it wouldn't fit on the screen, much like the Ruby example, but for the sake of simplicity, here you can see we are creating a player, a map and a game, and you can see that while game.playing, game play, pretty close to what I illustrated earlier. What you can't see though is that unlike Ruby, I had to write my own new method because Rust doesn't automatically give you anything like Ruby's initialized and isn't object oriented by nature the way Ruby is. So there are no classes per se. Otherwise, it seems pretty similar to the Ruby version. It's just a little more code, which is fine. So what differences did I notice in writing the game? With Ruby, I felt like I could just write whatever I wanted, make something work quickly, and then reorganize the code as I went. It's really easy to have a flow like you're just writing your ideas in your journal and you're making things up as you go along, but the downside of this is that it's really easy to get caught up in that flow and forget to check things out as you go and forget to test, forget to run every single part of the program you just wrote, which I did many times. I periodically run the program and things would just break without adding a whole bunch of tests after the fact, which isn't great. I didn't have a lot of confidence that something wouldn't just unexpectedly fall apart at runtime, all because I got caught up right in the game and I forgot to check things out as I went along. Rust, on the other hand, is kind of the reverse experience. Since Rust needs to be compiled before you run it, the compiler literally won't let you run the program until you fix all the stuff it doesn't like. Not coincidentally, I have not run into any of these pesky random bugs in the Rust version of the game, probably because the compiler caught them before they would become a problem. This can be super frustrating, though, when you're first learning Rust because it can be so satisfying just to see something working and you could be working for hours and seeing errors like this over and over and it can easily become really disheartening if you're new to it. Yeah, it's just, yeah, Rust is good. This might seem like a weird simile. The best thing I can think of to compare Ruby and Rust in terms of my personal experience with the two is their two different parenting styles. This might seem like an odd comparison, but bear with me. Ruby is like the hippie parents who let their kids do whatever they want. They don't put a whole lot of restrictions on them because they're like, you'll figure it out, man, it's cool. You'll be okay in the end, I trust you. The downside, of course, is the kids will hit all these bumps on the road along the way because no one told them, like, you shouldn't go walk into traffic or whatever. Rust is like those parents who are constantly telling their kids what's best for them. They're a little bit strict. It's not that bad, but they're just always giving this unsolicited advice based on their own experience and maybe it turns out their advice was right, but it's definitely annoying to be hearing it all the time. And just like parents, you can't really say one way of doing things is better or worse than another, but they both have their pros and cons depending on what you're trying to do and how you prefer to work. I'm sure someone with more experience could give a more in-depth analysis, but this is my opinion based on my limited experience just writing a simple text game. So if you're thinking of learning Rust or Ruby, I'm sure you're all Ruby people anyway, or both, I say go for it. You can check out the game I built at github.com slash tilde IO slash learning dash rust. Both versions are playable and both have kind of filler stories in them. The Ruby versions filler game is a little more fun though, if you can only play one of them. Thank you for having me. I have been Liz. I'm on Twitter at underscore L Bailey. That's it, the end.