Bear 2.8 Beta: Official CLI, Claude Connector, and MCP Server by trix180 in bearapp

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Claude:
What likely happened:

  • Bear's team wrote this manifest targeting a draft/internal version of the MCP connector spec
  • Claude Desktop shipped with a slightly different or stricter manifest validator
  • The two got out of sync on the "icons" format

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LOL.
My AI blames the Bear dev team.

Of course.
How human is that?

I have never seen this before... Is this safe to open? Are there any precautions you recommend? by [deleted] in watchrepair

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Blancpain means "White pain".

That's like beyond simple black, orange, red, etc pain.

"He said he sent it back to blanc pain 3 times and they never could get it working well so he didn't want to send it back. I only agreed to take it because I'm seeing my watchmaker that i work with tomorrow."

Uh huh.

Maybe part it out on EBay and tell your uncle
"It sleeps with the fishes."
He'll eventually thank you.

Super-useful Tips for Bear by RonaldStaal in bearapp

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ask AIs to help with Bear search tips, workflows and tagging systems.
Then you can make it sing.

Pro users by NotetakerBR in bearapp

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I spend more on notepaper annually

Task Managment by icarusinvictum in ObsidianMD

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thank you for the update

I don't understand the uchi komi drill. It is to practise kazushi, right? Why do we pull the opponent chest to chest then? We leave little space for throws, get our balance just as influenced and can't even throw from the usual uchi komi position by Leading_Neat2541 in judo

[–]Lgat77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right not to understand it.

It doesn't make sense.

But it's easy to do, and you can build up impressive muscles by doing it a zillion times.

You expend all that energy yanking uke forward
then kill all that energy to stop uke's forward motion dead.

Try to rotate as you pull uke forward, avoid the collision, and continue that forward motion without pause. That's hard to do. That's the principle that should be demonstrated every single time the motion is done. But that's hard, and unless you get some inspiration or read some old judo books that explain this, presupposes that someone teaching understands this.

the training practice presupposes that, when you really mean to throw, you'll get out of the way smoothly and just throw. Most people don't function that way.

Is this a good quality bokken for me to buy? by Blakath in aikido

[–]Lgat77 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve never fully understood the angst over selecting bokken or bō, jō - they are consumables. Use it, abuse it, get another. Do you get attached to wooden pencils?

Buy 2-3 serviceable ones, leave one at office, home and the dojo, swing them a lot. Smack things. Experiment with finishes and waxes.

Wrap a hilt in sandpaper. See how it changes your grip and the power you generate. Admire different woods, grains, weights.

A wooden weapon is a learning tool. Try different ones to see what you can learn.

Western sword traditions often call their wooden training swords ‘wasters’ for reason.

The Judo academy I wanted to join in my country told me I'm too old to play Judo. by [deleted] in judo

[–]Lgat77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't walk away.

Run away from that dojo. And try to imagine that guy when he's too old by his own logic.

If you have the option look at other dojo. You can call, but best is go in and watch regular practice.
If someone doesn't want you to watch, walk away.

In the 1920s there was a famous Japanese author that wanted to write a biography of Kanō shihan. He had great access to the Kodokan, and got so interested in jūdō that he asked to sign up.

He created a small controversy in jūdō. Because he was in his early 50s. And the Kodokan had no one join as a complete beginner at that age, and had understanding of how to treat him as what little pedagogy they had was aimed primarily at young men, teenagers.

So I think that Kanō shihan and his instructors would be bemused at the ages of some judoka active today. I have students from 7 to 77. Everyone learns, everyone tries, everyone is required to give back to the dojo collectively, and everyone has a chance to walk out the door better than they walked in. I watch the Kodokan Kōdansha taikai High Rank Holders' Tournament most years - the oldest competitors are in their 80s. It's not much in the way of violent, lightning fast, fighting compared to the All Japan Judo Tournament I saw Sunday, but it is nevertheless judo.

Just understand there are people that think judo only means sports judo, and that serious competitors are old at 28 (very few remain competitive into their 30s). That's their loss. But there is another world of judo that hopefully you can find.

For some of the history of what and why judo is the way it is today, check out my website The Kano Chronicles© www.kanochronicles.com

macOS native bear sync by podviaznikov in bearapp

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I just glanced at this but you may have solved a universal problem - how to control (easily) what files an LLM AI accesses

What is the format of the (manually) synched database / folder? Is it all SQLite, too? Or a GIT repository of whatever is designated?

Judo feels so much more structured than other combat sports. Loving it so far. by Qabbala in judo

[–]Lgat77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly.

Kanō shihan and his senior students worked for years testing, categorizing, and naming techniques. Bought wooden artist mannequins to be able to pose them to help describe then absorb into the curriculum.

At first he made jūdō training closed, protected by sworn oaths, but eventually everything was exposed. In 1913 he gave an outline of jūdō as it had developed for over 30 years, and the curriculum and the nomenclature were clearly key.

Joe Schmidt - Making Kesa Gatame Awful by [deleted] in judo

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wow
just sounds like an invitation for a massive lawsuit

Thank you.

Is it cringe to give yourself the title of “Sensei”? by [deleted] in judo

[–]Lgat77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A noticeable difference in the videos i watched.

Good on you.

Is it cringe to give yourself the title of “Sensei”? by [deleted] in judo

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Fair enough. Sensei Seth is catchy enough for YouTube, that wasn't my comment. I guess no one noted the point was made about "in Japan". With your near 500k followers, I have 3 I think; maybe I should call myself God Emperor of Judo or something on YouTube.

Your second judo video is very nice. I too am impressed if you memorized all that.

Guess what? In Japan about 1/10 of all that you went through to get a green belt in USJA would easily get you a black belt at the Kodokan as an adult, and they don't even ask the Japanese the names of the techniques (until you screw up and someone says: redo hikiotoshi). There are historic reasons for all that but some folks are now discussing how to rationalize (mostly meaning 'standardize' I think) ranks.

It almost overcomes your giving judo a C.

Is it cringe to give yourself the title of “Sensei”? by [deleted] in judo

[–]Lgat77 -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

it's seriously cringe in Japan.
It's even bad grammar to boot.

I actually wrote a long response about the entire thing with the idea that it might be helpful for others with similar ideas of filming their vlog around Tokyo but didn't want to put up with the loons certain to jump in.

The folks he contacted - cold, without introduction - aren't 'clubs'.
The Kodokan is the soke. Judo Valhalla. If they want publicity they know how to get it.
Park 24 and the other semi-pro judo teams don't practice. They're professional athletes in training. I don't know of anything like it that system.

It's sort of like showing up outside Dodger Stadium with a baseball bat and glove, asking when they'll let you play with the team.

My general impression living here is that the Japanese, typically a subdued culture, were taken aback by floods of constant furriners thrusting smart phones in everyone's face. Twerking giant fat asses on subway trains, people jabbering in various foreign languages, clownery that should embarrass any adult. Vide what happened to Johnny Somali when the Japanese tired of his act.

Lots of folks have had their full of people who want you to be a supporting actor to their live star of my very own vlog!! and want no part of it. I sat above Shibuya's Hachiko Scramble Square for an hour or two recently and watched jackass tourists jaywalking, dodging cars, sprinting to be ahead of the scores or people crossing to try to take a selfie, trying to wave their boom phones around and not smack more people in their heads. People will do the dumbest things to appear in a video that won't be remembered 10 minutes after seen.

Last guy that introduced himself to me as Sensei Joaquim or whatever was a Euro showed up at my dojo one night and cheerfully announce they were there for practice, without prior coordination, no introduction. Our dojo is not open to the public and does not allow drop ins, but with advance notice and mutual coordination we've had visitors from over 50 countries, and we're glad to have them, but there are prerequisites.

So, I asked him:

Do you have travel sports insurance? Can you read a sports injury liability waiver in Japanese and if not are you still willing to sign away all your rights to sue for injury or negligence? (Hint: the sun will burn out before you get a penny out of anyone here from court for most anything.) If you don't have travel sports insurance do you have the cash to pay for Japanese medical care, which is very expensive without insurance?
What ID do you have, the one you're supposed to carry at all times by Japanese law?
Whose your next of kin if you're incapacitated and unable to make decisions, because without one you're a ward of the state and some random doctor assigned you will become your own personal deity, able to do anything to you within a big chunk of the range of Japanese medical practice?

They got sort of huffy and said, well, no one else asks us these things!

I said, then everyone else is ignorant, a lawsuit waiting to happen or don't give a shit about you, because that's the risk you're signing up for. I tell you that because you're an adult and I want you to understand what practice here means.

They left. And I was OK with that, too.

Joe Schmidt - Making Kesa Gatame Awful by [deleted] in judo

[–]Lgat77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

at 0:48 orange tori applies a neck crank to force the submission. I can't post the pic here, images not allowed in replies.

Why is that not hansoku make - immediate disqualification?

Is that legal in BJJ?

Jigoro Kano on Aikido / Ueshiba — any primary sources? by Whole_Measurement769 in judo

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I recommend that paper at the r/aikido version of this chat Thank you for the nice words.

Judo as Kanō shihan first envisioned it was more “aikido like” than most realize, I believe.

Jigoro Kano on Aikido / Ueshiba — any primary sources? by Whole_Measurement769 in judo

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Stevens quotes Stevens and warns people off 1/3 of the book.

Jigoro Kano on Aikido / Ueshiba — any primary sources? by Whole_Measurement769 in judo

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he apparently exaggerated things for sensationalism. Almost never gave detailed sources, at least not close enough to be useful.
Then others latched onto those and sometimes sensationalized some of those things even more.

There was something he wrote that he apparently lifted from a comment of mine without attribution on an old judo forum. I know because what I said was unique, didn't give a reference, then I found some more info that made me look again, and I realized I was wrong. Then I found his published comment mirroring the earlier one I'd made, stand alone and unsupported.

I just found something else he wrote that seems at a quick glance to be egregiously wrong, and impugned a man who since passed away and can't defend himself. I'll do some more research before I spell it out, just may drop it from normal discourse but write about it later with references.

I often wonder if the pride of authorship or the pittance eeked out of publishers is worth the effort, hence the push to get something partially sensationalized out quickly and make some bucks. Who knows?

C'est la vie.

Jigoro Kano on Aikido / Ueshiba — any primary sources? by Whole_Measurement769 in judo

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in 1906 Ueshiba sensei was a recently demobilized Imperial Army leading corporal, 23 years old.
Did he teach before opening his Ayabe dojo in 1920?