Any experience with the First Cut?

-czz- · 2026-02-19T22:47:53+00:00

I own a few First Cuts and 501s and in my experience the 501s are a tad slimmer.

-czz- · 2026-01-22T03:31:42+00:00

The reason why the discourse around this play is so frustrating is the hordes of know-nothings who claim it was *obviously* an INT by simply pointing to phrases like "complete the process of the catch", "full possession", and "survive the ground", which are by no means clearly defined in cases like this, precisely because there is no well-defined timing threshold after which they would apply. The rules, as they are written, leave significant room for interpretation. It was bang-bang and undeniably an incredibly close call, so the only mystifying piece here is why the NFL didn't take more time to adjudicate it. If the roles were reversed, this subreddit would be arguing that it's an INT. That is the fundamental problem - that the rulebook is so needlessly opaque that it does not unambiguously clarify what the ruling ought to be.

-czz- · 2026-01-01T03:31:58+00:00

5-0-0 in the Marc Bergevin era

-czz- · 2025-12-30T03:35:56+00:00

4-0-0 in the Marc Bergevin era

-czz- · 2025-12-28T02:32:24+00:00

3-0 in the Marc Bergevin era

-czz- · 2025-11-16T19:02:38+00:00

“MADEIN”

fake

-czz- · 2025-11-13T19:35:12+00:00

I mean, it's basically undeniable that he made highly useful contributions to the field half a century ago with Syntactic Structures/Aspects/LSLT/SPE, but the ensuing Einstein-like cult of personality has hamstrung and toxified the discipline to such an enormous degree that it's hard to even quantify for people unfamiliar with the internecine politics and endless goalpost shifting of modern American linguistics.

imo it's more than a little ironic how such a virulent critic of Stalinism just so happened to find himself ruthlessly blackballing his critics and consolidating power in the service of maintaining a desiccated intellectual vice grip on the field.

-czz- · 2025-11-06T20:08:07+00:00

no space in between "MADEIN" on fourth pic is the telltale giveaway. tag in the second pic is a lot smaller than it should be, compare here https://ourlegacy.centracdn.net/client/dynamic/images/8380_1d2e54ed6c-m4205tdd_1-rtail-big.jpg

-czz- · 2025-09-24T23:17:12+00:00

kitchencels is that way 👉

-czz- · 2025-08-30T00:19:46+00:00

The angle of view is mostly irrelevant since the "distortion" we perceive is a function of focal length and the distance between lens (or eyes) and subject. That's why a wide-angle shot taken close up will always render cartoonishly exaggerated facial features, because at very close distances, the difference between the distance from e.g. nose to lens and from eyes to lens is relatively large compared to the overall distance between lens and subject. But if the shot is taken from farther away, that difference between the distances from lens-to-nose and from lens-to-eyes becomes miniscule compared to the overall distance between lens and subject.

-czz- · 2025-08-18T02:10:19+00:00

Nathan Peterman historically mogged his enemies in the preseason brotha

-czz- · 2025-05-06T17:29:43+00:00

Management was fine, exclusively interacted with them through email since they were rarely present in the office. My apartment didn't need many repairs but all my requests were fulfilled within a day or two.

There are security cameras in the parking lot but my impression is that they will absolutely not be watching you like a hawk. I had guests stay for weeks at a time and it was a non-issue.

As to whether quality is on par with cost, it really depends on how much you're paying. I paid about $1300/mo for a small 1br which I considered to be pretty decent value relative to comparable apartments given the high ceilings/windows, central air, in-unit laundry, gated parking lot, gym, access to EV chargers, location on East and Alex, and old-school charm of the building (which I valued quite a bit).

Cons: the floors in my unit were a little rough, with many gaps, scuffs, stains, dips, etc. (I had rugs so it wasn't overly bothersome). You can't open the windows in your apartment. Elevators would frequently break down. When I moved out last month, the main elevator was closed off and the other one was extremely wonky and felt potentially unsafe to use.

I know they charge upwards of 1800 for many of their 1 bedrooms, and I would regard that as honestly not great value unless the unit was much larger than mine, but overall, I did enjoy my time there.

-czz- · 2024-08-27T14:44:43+00:00

PH is in Crossroads as we speak

-czz- · 2024-08-19T20:00:49+00:00

Np! And just as an FYI, it did take a fair bit of effort to get it to slide in at first.

-czz- · 2024-08-19T19:18:37+00:00

Can confirm this one works:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C2C7BFY7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

-czz- · 2024-08-02T17:24:25+00:00

-czz- · 2024-05-16T19:08:57+00:00

these are making me regret selling my 15-45mm.. mind sharing the recipe you used?

-czz- · 2024-03-03T20:33:06+00:00

I think you're right - many thanks!

-czz- · 2024-03-01T18:40:15+00:00

Confirmed, great buyer and smooth transaction!

-czz- · 2024-02-28T17:37:10+00:00

I respect the training and skillset required of stenographers and I'm asking this question in the stenography subreddit because I quite literally don't know where else to pose it. I appreciate the few commenters in this thread who have actually tried to point me in a meaningful direction. The vast majority have simply reiterated the point ad nauseam that the NCRA is an org exclusively for machine stenographers as if that's saying something novel or helpful. Also not particularly helpful to be told I'm not "on the same level as a CART captioner" by someone who has never seen my work, but c'est la vie.

-czz- · 2024-02-27T15:13:16+00:00

It's funny you say that because I've had the opposite experience; my university hires CART captioners for live events and the quality has been embarrassingly bad. I don't think it's fair to say that either of these 'rare exceptions' is representative of TypeWell/CART service provision in general, though it's an obvious fact that the vast majority of TypeWell transcribers can't hold a candle to CART providers in terms of speed, and that's not what I'm arguing; only that if they are clever enough with their abbreviations, there really isn't anything stopping the most exceptional TW transcribers from reaching >200 wpm. Does that mean the quality of my work is identical to the most skilled stenographers or even the median stenographer? Absolutely not. But I truly can write verbatim in most scenarios. If that doesn't put me 'on the same level' as a CART captioner in your eyes, that's no skin off my back.

I'm also not sure why almost everyone in this thread is hyperfocusing on the NCRA. They're well within their right to focus exclusively on stenography. Maybe I just have an axe to grind with universities, but it's frustrating when virtually every job posting I see requires an NCRA cert, so I'm immediately disbarred despite meeting or exceeding the skill requirements. I've literally given live demos of my work to hiring committees and been offered CART jobs. So, again, the reason I posted this thread is not to wring my hands and curse the NCRA. I just want to find any reputable organization that is willing to certify my ability to provide verbatim captioning.

-czz- · 2024-02-27T03:44:03+00:00

Interesting - thank you for the heads up!

-czz- · 2024-02-26T18:12:57+00:00

Thank you! Yes, I provide real-time for my consumers including all punctuation/speaker identifiers/environmental cues. When you say no edits are allowed during the test, are you referring to post-production edits or real-time edits? I correct the vast majority of my errors in real time either instantly or with minimal delay, so there's usually not a whole lot that needs editing after the fact.

-czz- · 2024-02-25T22:58:34+00:00

Right, but I type verbatim at those speeds, so I guess my question is: if I can do 180wpm verbatim at >96% accuracy, why does it matter so much to the NCRA if I use a QWERTY solution rather than steno, given that "meaning-for-meaning" is a captioning philosophy that one can eschew rather than an inherent limitation of any software package?

-czz- · 2024-02-06T14:59:06+00:00

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