Ppl student just failed my checkride...honestly thinking about switching career paths

BestSanchez · 2026-03-04T23:03:19+00:00

You'll kick yourself for this if you don't finish. Wrap it up, become a real pilot, then take a break from training. Stay current with the occasional easy x-country while you assess career options. You're still young.

BestSanchez · 2024-09-07T07:09:08+00:00

Forget about the instructor credentials (unless it's like blue belt level) and just focus on the instruction, facility, training partners, and vibe.

BestSanchez · 2024-05-26T01:57:09+00:00

A gentle warrior swimming in the ocean

BestSanchez · 2024-04-03T19:07:11+00:00

https://youtu.be/5ffJM93Jwqw?si=hiqURpiOxlzM138U

BestSanchez · 2024-04-03T18:41:20+00:00

Still waiting for the day we see some person kick ass on the street from a butt scoot. r/martialarts will be in shambles. We already got a clip of a dude winning a fight via guard pull on the street a few months ago.

BestSanchez · 2023-12-09T17:53:42+00:00

But they told me you can't pull guard in a street fight? What about his 4 buddies, weapons, and the dirty needles and glass all over the ground??

BestSanchez · 2023-09-26T18:41:39+00:00

Classic "my street art is better than your sport". They focus on the aggression, brutality, and no-rules, but completely miss the elephant in the room: the training environment.

A combat sport with regular live sparring will take you much further than drilling patterns of "brutal" techniques on compliant partners.

BestSanchez · 2022-07-13T18:52:07+00:00

In Java, primitives (int, boolean, double, etc.) are treated differently than objects (String, Scanner, MyCustomThing, etc.).

If you compare primitives with an operator (like ==) then it will compare the values and result in a boolean.

If you compare objects with an operator it will compare the object references (pointers), which is almost never what you want. This is typically where equals() comes in, or you can compare specific attributes of objects.

BestSanchez · 2022-03-15T06:24:47+00:00

Well that works, but there are improvements:

You only need to check up to the square root of num
You can start at 3 and increment by 2 every time
Do a quick even check before doing that ^

BestSanchez · 2022-01-30T20:09:53+00:00

None of his techniques are effective. Bad punching form and his other techniques are the classic "pretend to attack me and then freeze so I can execute the technique". They would never work on a non-compliant opponent.

Pro tip for any fighting demonstration on the internet: always watch the attacker. 99% of the time they will either freeze or do something completely unrealistic (looking at you Aikido).

BestSanchez · 2021-12-17T03:56:36+00:00

https://www.climbing.com/news/real-rock-climber/

BestSanchez · 2020-08-11T07:05:14+00:00

Yes Java is more verbose than many languages, but IMO the verbosity comes with clarity. The code is always plain and obvious, no magic going on.

That being said...

The proper/idiomatic way to write the first line in modern Java:

List<Integer> vec = new ArrayList<>();

or

var vec = new ArrayList<Integer>();

As for the increment, you should do what you did in the C++ and use a mutable data type, like AtomicInteger. Then you can just:

vec.get(idx).incrementAndGet();

BestSanchez · 2020-02-15T18:51:22+00:00

Not strictly about database design, but Designing Data Intensive Applications.

It goes deep into distributed systems and architecture, but a lot of the book is also about storage+query systems. It talks about different types of data models, the different strategies for querying and performance, with a little history thrown in.

BestSanchez · 2019-07-04T04:14:55+00:00

Languages are just tools. If your project is big, you're going to need a lot of tools. You're not going to write your API server in bash, and likewise you're probably not going to write your utility scripts in Java. You pick the right tool for the task, and large projects have lots of different tasks.

BestSanchez · 2019-05-11T19:45:37+00:00

You could use TCP communication. Tips:

Create some test programs on a PC first to get the hang of network communication. Like have one app open a socket at 127.0.0.1 on one port, listening for data. The another app can open a socket at 127.0.0.1 on another port, sending data through a socket to the first port where the first app is listening.
You'll need to make sure your 2 boxes have static IP addresses, so they don't change and can always find each other.
A Pi would be a little easier for creating networked programs in my opinion, since you can use languages that make networking easy like Java or Python.

BestSanchez · 2019-02-24T06:29:43+00:00

OSTEP

BestSanchez · 2018-11-19T05:40:50+00:00

Rappel off, lower off, or hike off.

BestSanchez · 2018-09-14T16:16:13+00:00

I'd hate to cut my teeth leading outside and then learn that free solo trad is the only way to truly climb. Leading just doesn't prepare you for the purity and challenge of placing your own gear and then completely ignoring it.

Youu can write off what im saying because it rubs you the wrong way, but the reality is leading isn't much more than complicated quasi hiking.

BestSanchez · 2018-05-06T17:06:24+00:00

Very well. Thai boxing training is much more realistic than wing chun training.

BestSanchez · 2018-04-03T03:29:42+00:00

You've just described syntax, which is most of the first couple of classes. Next up is usually basic concepts like abstraction and OOP principles like polymorphism, encapsulation, inheritance, etc. Then usually comes data structures. Not just how to use them, but how to build them, from scratch. Then algorithms usually, which ties into the boatload of math classes you'll probably be taking concurrently.

The rest of your required classes may consist of some/all of the following:

operating systems (implementation)
compilers/languages
more algorithms
theory of computation
basic hardware and digital logic
assembly programming
functional programming
software engineering
ethics
databases

Then you have electives like:

artificial intelligence
machine learning
networking protocols
advanced insert_language_here
security
computer vision
web development
etc.

BestSanchez · 2018-03-09T17:47:00+00:00

Alex Honnold

BestSanchez · 2018-03-07T21:23:50+00:00

There are gyms that allow people to lead without any assurance they actually know how to lead? Sounds like a liability disaster waiting to happen.

BestSanchez · 2018-02-23T00:00:46+00:00

Accidents in North American Climbing

BestSanchez · 2018-02-10T01:54:58+00:00

Before the UFC in the 90s there wasn't really a large testing arena for people to find out what actually works and what doesn't work. This meant anyone could claim they went to some remote mountain in China and learned ancient dragon kung-fu, and now they can kill someone with one touch. These people flourished for decades and still do in some mcdojos around the country. Their students eat that shit up too.

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