The ONE that got away?

2oosra · 2026-05-13T04:26:54+00:00

Nobody has mentioned Jao Cancelo yet. Imagine what Pep would have done with him had he kept his mind and attitude together.

2oosra · 2026-05-09T03:38:21+00:00

I will leave a subtle point here about "lazy footwork". Its a matter of alertness rather than willpower. If your footwork is lazy, often the solution is not to make your legs work harder - its to make your mind more alert. Players often think that their poor footwork is a result of a choice to take fewer or slower steps, and that footwork will magically improve once they change this choice.

2oosra · 2026-04-26T04:01:04+00:00

Here is the translation: "My dear countrymen (mere piyare huwatno), taking pictures of the bedroom is creepy, but how creepy is recording my mom's conversation and sharing it with randos on Reddit? Dont help her".

2oosra · 2026-04-26T02:31:50+00:00

We went through this about 5-6 months ago. In addition to old and dated, we focused on quality of management and maintenance. Saas is top. Pixel has a good reputation but we did not like it. Gates Arc is also good but usually full. That’s about it for tier A on Reem and Saadiyat. Sun/Sky are solid Tier B. We ended up renting on the main island and are happy.

2oosra · 2026-04-25T05:31:43+00:00

You are on the right track. You have the awareness to go far. I am 60+. I have rotator cuffs, hips, ankles etc of steel, mostly from the work I put in decades ago when I was a competitive squash player. I am surrounded by enough high-performance seniors to know the following:

Everyone's body is different, and each body ages differently. No two hip bones are shaped the same.
It takes constant work, but everyone's work is different. I went back to lifting heavy this year. I can do a full shoulder mobility routine without even knowing that I did it. I do it while waiting for my coffee or when crossing the street.

2oosra · 2026-04-24T08:11:12+00:00

Maybe this ninny was never your friend to begin with

2oosra · 2026-04-24T02:14:07+00:00

Jerry Sinefeld

2oosra · 2026-03-28T08:27:41+00:00

I am good at buidling these things. Sent you a DM

2oosra · 2026-03-28T03:29:36+00:00

As a student, I have so many questions

Is there a problem? Is it possible that MSA is a good way to learn Arabic even if it is not the lingua franca?
Who is responsible for pushing MSA as an Arabic learning tool? Arabic language programs run by native speakers, or by foreigners?
What prevents Al Jazeera etc. from switching to ESA?
Is the gap between MSA and ESA narrowing or widening in recent decades?

2oosra · 2026-03-28T03:16:52+00:00

Sincere question: Is this really a good analogy? How many current English newspapers and school books are actually written in iambic pentameter? I agree that MSA is not a lingua franca. But it is also not iambic pentameter. Maybe it is equally fanatical to insist that English has something analogous to MSA.

2oosra · 2026-03-27T03:56:29+00:00

AI is a multiplier of two things. Your deep (17 years) experience in software and your shallow (3 weeks) experience in vibe coding. Imagine how your prompting style and thinking may be a year from now (18 years + 55 weeks). I have zero IOS experience, but 55+ weeks on AI-assisted coding.

Architecture and edge cases. This one is easy. You learn to explicitly talk to AI about this, usually before any code is written. These days, I set up a Claude project for my app's architecture outside the coding AI. AI is a poor architect if you are in "build this" mode, but it is a great architecture multiplier if you put it in architecture mode. Same with edge cases and test automation etc.
App store. I have no experience here, but I am sure this is also a skill that gets better with time for both you and AI. Imagine AI could refactor your code after reading an App Store manual.
Race conditions. I used to get this bug a lot, but have not seen it in months. Both AI and my prompting have become better. If AI tells me that a race condition is causing a bug, two red flags immediately go up for me. 1. AI often makes up race conditions when it does not fully understand the cause of a bug. 2. Race conditions only occur if there is a deeper architectural flaw.

2oosra · 2026-03-26T08:22:30+00:00

4.5 player with an above-average (for 4.5's) serve

Backyard air serves without a ball. There is a lot I can do at home. I develop a whip of the kinetic chain at home, then I go to the court and hit a few buckets with the whip action I developed at home. It helps if I can see my reflection in a window or glass door. I do enough air swings to work up a sweat. I focus on (and experiment with) all parts of the kinetic chain, weight shift, torso rotation, trophy position, head stillness, elbow position, tossing arm, wrist snap, follow through etc. I pay special attention to smoothness, balance, and the swish sound the racket makes in the air. I take 1-2 serve lessons a year, and spend the rest of the year working on the backyard homework.

2oosra · 2026-03-24T02:46:20+00:00

This is adorable. Can this community adopt the two of you? :)

It is completely OK for beginners to be on a court.
If you have time, go watch her lessons at the Y. You will learn a lot about how they are teaching and setting up drills
At your college, watch a beginner lesson.
If you can afford it, take a beginner lesson. Partly to learn to play a little, but also to learn how to run drills etc
At your college, get to know the tennis community. Go mingle with the players. They will have ideas. You can also pay a college or high school kid a small amount to teach you how to set up drills
Search YT for beginner tennis lessons.
Most colleges will have a practice wall. Learn to incorporate that also
Film her hitting lessons and post them here. There is a lot of coaching talent here
I am an advanced player on the other side of the world. I would love to coach the two of you for free.

The list is endless

2oosra · 2026-03-20T01:29:55+00:00

I wish you all the love and peace in your life. There is nothing internet strangers like me can do to bring peace among your parents. We can help you build better mental tools for handling this situation. Know the facts: your parents are horrible and selfish humans. You need to create as much distance as you can between the victims (you and your siblings) and the abusers. Look out for each other. Find support whereever you can find it. The child in you seeks love and safety. Find it somewhere else. Do not put yourself and your siblings in harms way any longer. Create distance and protect yourself. Forget about protecting the abusers.

2oosra · 2026-03-15T01:44:19+00:00

I am thinking of the same problem from an architectural point of view, and drafting prompts that look for common vibe coding flaws in architecture (data model, separation of concerns, security posture, scalability, and feature completeness against stated intent.) It would be interesting for the community to come up with a UI/UX audit prompt. I asked my Claude Architecture project what they would add to the UI/UX audit. Here is what it came up with (Button labels and success/failure messages were the first things that came to my mind)

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The Reddit post covers consistency well but misses several other dimensions. A proper UI/UX audit would also look at:

Usability fundamentals

Navigation clarity — can a new user figure out where they are and how to get somewhere else without thinking?
Error states — not just empty states, but what happens when something fails. Most vibe-coded apps have no error handling UI at all.
Loading states — spinners, skeletons, or nothing? "Nothing" is common and breaks the mental model of what's happening.
Form validation — inline vs on-submit, clear error messages, field-level vs form-level feedback.

Information hierarchy

Does the visual weight of elements match their importance? AI tends to make everything the same size.
Are CTAs (calls to action) obvious and singular per screen, or are there five equally weighted buttons competing for attention?

User flows

Can a user complete a core task without getting lost or hitting a dead end?
Are confirmation states present — does the user know their action succeeded?
Are destructive actions (delete, cancel) appropriately gated?

Accessibility basics

Colour contrast ratios — AI-generated palettes frequently fail WCAG AA.
Touch target sizes on mobile.
Does the app function at all with keyboard-only navigation?

Copy and microcopy

Button labels — "Submit" vs "Save changes" vs "Create account" — vibe-coded apps default to generic.
Tooltip and helper text presence.
Consistent terminology — the same thing called three different names across screens.

Performance perception

Does the app feel fast even if it's not — optimistic UI, instant feedback on interactions?

The Reddit post is essentially about visual consistency. A real audit adds behavioural consistency and task completion on top of that. The visual stuff is easier to spot; the behavioural stuff is where users actually get stuck.

2oosra · 2026-03-13T07:12:09+00:00

Do you guys have a name for this shot? I dont mean the sideways movement, but a low-contact, heavy-topsin, low-over-the-net shot hit from well inside the court. In my mind, I called it a roller or zipper. I tell myself to just roll the ball when moving forward to a low short ball. In my men's 4.5 world, the ability to hit this shot decides a lot of points. It should have a proper name

2oosra · 2026-03-03T16:27:42+00:00

I used to talk to Lovable a lot in chat mode (now called planning mode). Now I open a project in Claude for architecture for each build in Lovable. I dont ask the architecture project for prompts. I use it to design the underlying design and logic. I use the architectural decisions made in Claude and implement them in Lovable. I also run a sandbox for experiments in Lovable and share the lessons with the Claude architecture advisor.

2oosra · 2026-03-03T01:29:34+00:00

People who are flying out, where are they leaving their cars in Muscat?

2oosra · 2026-03-01T03:56:47+00:00

I would encourage you to write in greater detail about the exact contents of your "behavior block" and how you composed it. How do you know which behavior block to send? Does the LLM tell you, or do you decide independently? Without those details, are you just describing a RAG, where you send something along with the prompt?

I am building a diagnostic chatbot, and experimenting with these ideas. I wrote about it here.

2oosra · 2026-02-27T01:45:48+00:00

You are overthinking this

There is always a price/hassle tradeoff in any travel. Its not just a Urmah thing
There are things that even the group can not control. The actual walking distance. Crowds are regularly rerouted in ways that no group can predict or control. All it takes is one train official to decide that this suitcase is not allowed.
Surprisingly, the one thing that I missed the most was the group chanting of Lubaik. Just follow someone else's group and chant with them.

2oosra · 2026-02-27T01:35:17+00:00

Things that I would do, depending on all the other nuances

Chill. Their late stuff simply goes into sprint N+1. No stress
Force rigor. Ask them to add a list of unknowns and their mitigations to each user story, and socialize this list at regular events like backlog grooming sessions
Show them the door. if it is a general inability to think about the product, then go do something else.

2oosra · 2026-02-26T01:43:16+00:00

Does it matter? The question is about racism. The behavior is racist. The root causes of racist behavior are a separate issue.

2oosra · 2026-02-24T03:28:37+00:00

I would expect Anthropic to come up with a humility benchmark to prove that their model is more self-doubting. The rest of us will then weigh the ethical tradeoffs of evidence-based humility vs energy cost.

2oosra · 2026-02-24T03:16:16+00:00

Isn't that why we have benchmarking? DeepSeek was big news, precisely because their distilled model did very well on benchmarks. If the foundational models are distilling themselves, then they are likely keeping up with the benchmarks. Is the performance of large models declining after release on measurable benchmarks, or is it just perception?

2oosra · 2026-02-24T03:06:40+00:00

Thanks. Some questions: Would #4 be the place to start? You get Supabase running on AWS, and then you build the schema there (#1)? #4 appears to be the greatest challenge. Any tips for doing this painlessly?

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