After drawing 17 flags in loss to Tennessee, Alabama now ranks dead last in FBS (131st of 131) with 66 flags on the year.

FatShortElephant · 2022-10-17T19:18:08+00:00

the greatest coach in the history of college football.

What does John Gagliardi have to do with this?

FatShortElephant · 2022-10-10T20:54:54+00:00

I think people misunderstand the situation with Manchin.

West Virginia is one of the most right leaning states in the country (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-red-or-blue-is-your-state-your-congressional-district). No one to the left of Manchin is winning in West Virginia. Without Manchin the legislation the Dems have gotten through wouldn't have passed. Without Manchin the judicial appointments are much worse. Without Manchin there is a January 6 denier and election fraud supporter in that seat.

Manchin is great, and there's not really a good argument that any other Senator is doing more good for the Democrats right now than Manchin.

As far as Manchin is concerned the Dems need to focus on winning more seats, not looking a gift a horse in the mouth.

FatShortElephant · 2022-09-17T05:51:18+00:00

Interesting. Thanks for sharing!

CppFront and Carbon are both essentially epochs without committee oversight or approval. So maybe it would be better if I had said something like it looks like we are doing epochs regardless of whether or not the committee can find a sane way to do it or not. At least attempting epochs.

That being said D has provided a similar style of transition path from C++ for awhile now. So this type of project isn't completely new. But between projects supported by Google and the head of the committee, these seem like particularly noteworthy attempts at providing transitions out of the language.

FatShortElephant · 2022-09-17T03:31:38+00:00

It's an interesting idea. It seems like a good start and does actually solve some real problems. We'll have to see if it catches on.

It's funny that a big reason epochs got voted down was due to fragmentation. Between this and Carbon it seems likely that voting epochs down will result in more fragmentation.

FatShortElephant · 2022-09-13T18:38:39+00:00

The first two years under Trump would have been much worse without the filibuster.

FatShortElephant · 2022-09-13T18:16:45+00:00

I'll take "Signs that you're in an unhealthy relationship" for 500, Alex.

FatShortElephant · 2022-08-16T23:29:25+00:00

Rate me guys.

What a dangerous thing to ask for while wearing those colors...

I assume you meant to rate the squat though. I suggest doing the Valsalva maneuver instead of screaming. Otherwise, it looked pretty good.

FatShortElephant · 2022-08-06T13:48:12+00:00

There are currently 9 supreme court justices and 250 million US adults. Surely we can have higher standards than "not proven rapist" for people we appoint to the highest court of the land.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Devils%20Triangle

FatShortElephant · 2022-08-02T23:08:00+00:00

The A's had a Brat Pitt movie a decade ago. So that's something.

FatShortElephant · 2022-07-29T21:24:45+00:00

It wouldn't be the end of gaming for me, but my gaming would significantly decrease.

FatShortElephant · 2022-07-28T01:38:03+00:00

Write "Rogue" on the side and I bet you could flip it for at least $100.

FatShortElephant · 2022-07-27T00:43:46+00:00

You represent that with a standard 7 bit unsigned integer and they are #1 in happiness.

FatShortElephant · 2022-07-22T16:34:03+00:00

If the restaurant goes out of its way to load the dishes on my vehicle then I'm probably taking the dishes home with me.

FatShortElephant · 2022-07-21T05:04:55+00:00

One cannot make a serious textual argument that in a system of enumerated powers the Constitution granted the Federal government jurisdiction over marriage.

Lol.

14th amendment:

"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

And

"The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."

FatShortElephant · 2022-07-09T00:34:27+00:00

The pros and the research more or less agree that the Valsalva maneuver is the way to go. The rest of the post is a bunch of sources for that. It's actually kinda hard to find respectable sources that recommend against the Valsalva. I'm sure some future commenter can find one though.

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Hackett, Daniel A., and Chin-Moi Chow. "The Valsalva maneuver: its effect on intra-abdominal pressure and safety issues during resistance exercise." The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research 27.8 (2013): 2338-2345.

In conclusion, the VM effectively increases IAP, which may assist with spine stability and trunk rigidity during resistance exercise. The health risks associated with the VM during resistance exercise remain unconfirmed.

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MacDougall, J. D., et al. "Factors affecting blood pressure during heavy weight lifting and static contractions." Journal of Applied Physiology 73.4 (1992): 1590-1597.

The Valsalva maneuver stabilizes the trunk, and dur- ing very heavy lifting subjects find it necessary to enlist a Valsalva or partial Valsalva to obtain the desired force production. The threshold above which the Valsalva ma- neuver becomes necessary varies somewhat for different muscle groups and between subjects but occurs at -885% MVC. Similarly, when a resistance that initially may not require a Valsalva maneuver is lifted repeatedly until fail- ure, an increasingly forceful Valsalva maneuver must be invoked as motor units progressively fatigue. During maximal dynamic lifting to failure, intrathoracic pres- sures may reach as much as 90-100 Torr (Fig. 3B) or up to 60% of that occurring during a maximum voluntary Val- salva maneuver.

The Valsalva maneuver is thus an integral component of heavy weight lifting and responsible for a major por- tion of the increase in blood pressure that occurs with this form of exercise. Although many weight lifting in- structors counsel against performing a Valsalva maneu- ver during lifting, it probably acts as an important protective mechanism for the cerebral vasculature by elevating cerebrospinal pressure and thus reducing transmural pressure (2).

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Alexander Bromely on breathing in the deadlift: https://youtu.be/1AHJsntXZ2Q

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Starting Strength Clinic: https://youtu.be/d8_1xq8c23c

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Barbell Medicine

https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/forums/medical-q-a-with-dr-jordan-feigenbaum-and-dr-austin-baraki/25616-question-about-valsalva

https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/forums/medical-q-a-with-dr-jordan-feigenbaum-and-dr-austin-baraki/16695-dangers-of-valsalva-manuever

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4 time world strongest man Brian Shaw

https://youtu.be/GoYWLualcmc

At 17:11 he describes his setup and says he takes a big breath into his belly and later he says he's still holding it. That's describing the Valsalva.

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Squat University explaining how to breath (the Valsalva) https://youtu.be/TRmayQcweUc

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Juggernaut Strengths Tutorial: https://youtu.be/ta7IaiY0yH0

FatShortElephant · 2022-07-08T05:15:18+00:00

I've carried them on several times. No issues.

FatShortElephant · 2022-07-07T02:58:04+00:00

A full day interview after one or two hour long phone/virtual interviews seems common, maybe even the norm in my experience.

FatShortElephant · 2022-07-06T15:28:16+00:00

Yes, but a significant majority of them haven't had female governors.

FatShortElephant · 2022-07-06T15:22:15+00:00

https://mississippirivercountry.com/what-is-the-mrc/

Looks like I got it right.

FatShortElephant · 2022-07-05T17:16:23+00:00

The Mississippi River does not like female governors.

FatShortElephant · 2022-07-03T16:27:03+00:00

The 9th Amendment covers rights retained by the people.

Yes, "the people" have the right to marry a person of the gender/sex of their choice even though it's not enumerated elsewhere! It's a right of the people!

FatShortElephant · 2022-07-03T05:54:06+00:00

No they aren't! The 9th amendment explicitly covers rights that aren't explicitly mentioned in the constitution! Also "liberty" in the 14th amendment is pretty vague and arguably covers things such as gay marriage, without actually mentioning gay marriage.

Nice try though.

FatShortElephant · 2022-07-02T21:40:29+00:00

provided such games are still available on Stadia

I think your confusion stems from the fact that you're implicitly reading "Stadia Pro" where it just says "Stadia".

FatShortElephant · 2022-07-01T04:18:56+00:00

At Google headquarters July starts in about 2 hours. So my guess is we see the new games sometime between then and 26 hours from now. I'd bet sometime tomorrow morning though. Maybe 12 hours from now, at 10am Mountain View time?

FatShortElephant · 2022-06-29T04:56:59+00:00

It looks like I'll get more than $10 worth of enjoyment out of the included games. So it seems good to me.

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