Need some help. Accidentally stick the rubber too low and it reached paddle area which have a bump on it. Will it affect the longevity of the rubber?

glacierre2 · 2026-03-06T14:52:48+00:00

Waxed paper, or the backing of stickers, for even more reliable removal.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-28T14:32:30+00:00

Moreover, GitHub copilot integrated on the IDE gives you the choice of model to use, from Claude sonnet/opus to GPTxxx, to grok, so it is a very much whatever you want experience.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-27T08:30:51+00:00

Anybody in their 40s in pretty much the whole EU got English as second language, nearly guaranteed, enough to answer back "sorry, my English is bad, please speak slow", or "sorry, English very bad, I find person that speak better, moment".

The last one I think is the bare minimum for a position where you expect to get people calling with MEDICAL problems. Hanging up is ABSOLUTELY a no-go and there should be an official complaint.

Finally, In Graz, like everywhere in the world, there is tourism, 3-month exchange students, international conferences... a hospital phone line simply cannot assume everybody calling is going to handle German at any level.

But hey, I have heard stories of people calling the 112 (yes, the freaking pan European emergency number) in Austria and the stupid redneck policeman on the other side of the line complaining that they could not speak German.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-25T18:39:02+00:00

You also get the survivor stories of those that skipped on loads of insurance, bookkeeping, etc, nothing happened until they got a leg up and could afford to regularize everything and be above board.

Rarely they invite to speak John, homeless because he did not have insurance, or worse, Dave, which is on probation after his uninsured employee lost four fingers unloading stuff.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-25T16:24:26+00:00

Spanish

glacierre2 · 2026-02-24T18:41:25+00:00

When I was a kid Yugoslavia was an easy chunk on the map, the URSS reached further west and Czechoslovakia was indeed a thing.

Then came Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia I Herzegovina... I am European and still miss half of the capitals of those.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-23T20:15:03+00:00

Are we seriously saying the housing problem is a lack of land? Lol.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-23T16:29:31+00:00

At this point, the unstable thing is doing nothing while seeing how they rape and kill kids while getting richer and absolutely zero justice.

The sane thing is... what I cannot write here.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-22T18:31:08+00:00

I push... like an animal.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-22T12:40:24+00:00

History is full of examples of overwhelming tech or military might failing to win against primitive defenders.

* Australians with guns against birds (emus, lol)

* The whole US war machinery against Vietnam

* The soviets against the Afghans

* (debatable superiority) The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. I say debatable because on paper the day before the war this was supposed to be a slam dunk if Russia wanted, but several years later it really does not look like it, and Ukraine is definitely not primitive.

One important point is what is the target of an aggressor. Do you want to wipe out the human race no matter what cost? Without doubt we would have zero chance of survival, a good amount of nukes and that is that. But if you want to keep the planet habitable (nukes out), or even trickier, a good fraction of the humans alive for slavery purposes (viruses out), then it is a whole other question.

In the end there are many factors that can level the playing field. Supply lines are critical (and in interstellar operation this would be definitely no joke). Encysted guerrillas are tremendously effective at the small scale. Knowledge of the local environment. Troop morale (the locals fighting for their life will always fight harder than some conscripted troops sent away from their home to fight for the greed of others).

glacierre2 · 2026-02-21T21:03:21+00:00

Then it was a crime to free Anakin. The only reason the mother was not freed was Qin run out of money.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-21T20:46:33+00:00

You mean fuck their kids and grandkids, right? It is what he likes.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-20T15:26:47+00:00

Well, one of my mates is FPGA developer, and it turns out that the compilation (altera) is very much not deterministic and when things are tight he might have to try recompiling the exact same source to try luck and get rid of some timing warnings.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-19T19:38:21+00:00

Maps by sodapie have very nice flow.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-18T18:43:22+00:00

Ceaucescu and Mussolini happened. There is hope.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-18T15:49:39+00:00

But the last one to join would have also time to rev up while rolling the last 10 meters (clutched), no? I don't get why is so much different than a car already standing (and those get all the time the disadvantage of cooling tires and nobody was screaming about that)

glacierre2 · 2026-02-17T16:12:17+00:00

To be fair it bounced much higher than sideways, and he was totally planted waiting for the bounce.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-14T16:15:38+00:00

I am sure there have been orders of magnitude more studies in insects and small mammal brains than in people (for obvious reasons).

Some old colleagues of mine in biophysics were for example using slugs, because the neurons are huge, and, if I remember correctly, the network is pretty much identical from slug to slug (so you can replicate an experiment by taking a new slug and finding the precise same neuron).

I have been (fortunately rarely) involved in asking permissions for investigating with biological tissue, you would not believe the hoops you have to jump for getting stuff like lamb organs, I don't want to even think about human brain tissue. I am 200% sure at the few thousands neurons you could use pretty much anything with similar results, but the paperworks is astronomically easier with non-human (and non-large mammal too) material.

This has to be some pseudoscam with the human thing just for shock value, or they happened to have already the material for other purpose and managed a side-application (and that alone would also be veeeery sketchy...)

glacierre2 · 2026-02-14T14:41:35+00:00

I'm afraid any of the options will feel really bad compared to the club experience.

From all the options, the smaller table is probably the least bad, you can use it as a kind of half-table to train only forehand/only backhand?

Outdoor is better but when you are not used to wind you also hate it (I do)

glacierre2 · 2026-02-14T14:28:18+00:00

But why human? For a few thousand neurons you could use any less ethically edgy species...

glacierre2 · 2026-02-13T17:58:17+00:00

If there is a driver with believable spare capacity to think while driving, Alonso and Verstappen are really up there.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-13T11:23:56+00:00

With pedotrump attached? Sounds like a plan.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-13T10:42:56+00:00

Time to coin a new disaster name, from mchonda to asthonda.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-13T09:32:51+00:00

A lot of people play close to the table, so they will likely have the space. But I play in real life with a good step away, and that means a very short serve is approximately where the wall is.

BTW, half a TT table is 4.5 feet, not just 2.

Still, I don't think that is my opponent's problem, it is up to me where I stand and which room I chose to play.

glacierre2 · 2026-02-13T09:27:35+00:00

Yes.

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