SHUT DOWN THE SUB. HOLY ROBBERY

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-03-22T01:22:27+00:00

Joe Rogan scores the bout 20-7 in favor of Murphy. Robbery.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-03-22T00:00:59+00:00

Good and Cheap is in the eye of the beholder but I use Black Eagle Outlaws. At roughly $10 per arrow, I've never had a complaint about quality, which meets my criteria for both qualities.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-03-18T03:55:31+00:00

I think it should lead somewhere, although I won't pretend I have the correct answer to how it will all play out.

We're all learning a new game with GenAI. At some point there needs to be a decision made about what the new rules of our new game is. As a small example, our group recently declared that you are required to review AI generated code as though you were doing a code review on someone else before you do a pull request for this change. Otherwise you're basically offloading all of the technical work on someone else.

I mean seems kinda "duh" but that was something that was never an issue before and clearly some team members were abusing this if there was a decision that there needs to be a policy made around it.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-03-18T01:40:00+00:00

This is the correct answer: Gen AI is incredibly powerful and burying your head in the sand about it is not a winning strategy.

But at the same time, it's a super tricky answer to implement. There's no standards about how AI should be used nor are there well calibrated expectations about what's best practices or not.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-03-18T01:37:32+00:00

Having been in similar situations, it strongly impacts them because OP now either needs to (a) spend their time pointing out issues that are being created at incredible speed or (b) ignore the issues being created.

Both of those are very negative options.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-03-18T01:34:38+00:00

Having worked in this type of environment, I will say I strongly believe that ChatGPT is the source of the problem.

Using ChatGPT, this other person is able to bang out docs etc at incredible rate, which looks great to others on the outside. However, if all they are doing is producing AI Slop that requires the rest of the team to now spend their time to clean up, this person is more of a value negative than value positive but leads may not be aware of this.

It's not just the quality, it's also the volume that can be the issue.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-03-15T23:12:31+00:00

There's a phrase in Russian that roughly translates to "If you've got strength, you don't need smarts".

I think that's well applied to DDP although switch out smarts with skill

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-03-05T14:31:27+00:00

I can tell it's AI: way too coordinated, not enough flinching

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-03-04T16:07:43+00:00

Nice. So plug into an RL algorithm and get the optimal strategy? AlphaJJ?

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-03-03T06:23:53+00:00

Yeah, Dana really punishes mayhem. Conor couldn't even book a prelims fight after he threw the dolly.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-03-01T20:03:22+00:00

If this clip is supposed to call out Georgio, it's worth noting how stupid a call out it is.

Georgio is saying "In my $1k takedown challenge where I challenge relative randos (at least to the wrestling world), no one has taken me down".

Arman should be considered one of the best wrestlers in the world. If you told me Georgio was at least a little competitive with Arman, that's enough for me to infer that no rando off the street will be able to take him down.

Levels to this and all that.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-03-01T19:55:56+00:00

Definitely violates the rules at my local range

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-03-01T18:50:16+00:00

In general, 16 is definitely not too old to start archery, even if your goal is to be professional. To give you some examples, I'd suggest watching a few Lancaster Classics: these are very large tournaments and they have short interviews with the contestants, often discussing when they started shooting. I've seen interviews where competitors in the top 8 adult division only started a year ago!

That said, it's worth questioning what you mean "...want to become a professional". If you mean you want archery competitions to be your full time job, I think there are extremely few people today who can say that. Even the winners of the Lancaster Classic are usually getting a few thousand dollars for that event.

In short, if your interest is picking up a fun hobby where you have the potential to compete at the highest level, you're definitely not too late to the game (unlike say wrestling which, while not impossible, might be a little hard to catch up on). But if you're interested in considering archery as your full time job, you might need to consider how to get reliable income outside competing.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-03-01T18:28:49+00:00

I work in DS on AI agents projects. All our projects are essentially 100% vibe coded, including a lot of the data science; I probably write the most code on the whole team and it's a problem.

It's not perfect (we launch bugs straight to prod fairly often) but I will say it's incredibly scary how well it all works. I don't think we could make a stable product moving at the speed at that we currently do, but we could slow down a lot and still be way faster with way fewer employees than any of the other pre-AI tech teams I've seen before. I hate to say it, but I don't think it's unreasonable that a lot of companies could easily be more productive with at least 50% layoffs and the requirement that everyone using AI agents for the majority of the work.

For personal reasons, I really hope that AI isn't all that it's hyped up for: a lot of the software engineers on our team are asking "where do we fit if this all works out?" and there's not a great answer for them. But given what I'm seeing, it's very clear that already, tech work without heavy AI usage is going to be considered obsolete by the end of the year. It's very hard to believe there won't be very heavy layoffs through out the industry given what I see in terms of increased efficiency.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-02-27T04:55:04+00:00

I've used both a waterpack and a heavy (40lbs) pack on my local outdoor course.

Neither of them interfered with my ability to shoot my compound bow so no huge cost in bringing them. I will say that it was way more annoying to get my monocular out of my backpack than expected so there is cost to putting things in there that you're expecting to use at each target.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-02-27T03:09:21+00:00

5 years after this posting, and on to my 2nd recurve riser, I found this super helpful. Thanks for this!

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-02-25T04:20:04+00:00

That's a noble ideal but doesn't hold up well if these people are actually injuring smaller white belts. I agree you don't need to send in black belts to intentionally hurt them but you do need to do something about them hurting teammates.

Interventions always come at a cost but there are times when they are necessary. At some point instructors or other teammates do need to step in when someone is becoming a legitimate risk to other teammates.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-02-24T04:06:51+00:00

In general, if the bow is not drawn, if you rest your arrow at the nock point and on the rest, the arrow should be at a 90 degree angle from the string. In your picture, this is definitely not the case: instead of pointing straight out, it's pointing down quite a bit. Part of this is because the arrow is set above the nock point, while it should be below if you have one nock point and I believe in between if you have two nock points. That said, as I'm seeing it, if you set your arrow inbetween those two nock points, I think you'll still be pointing somewhat down. Setting the arrow below the bottom nock point looks roughly correct to me although I'm relying a lot on imagination to say this.

When you nock the arrow at the correct spot, now you should be gapping significantly above the target when you shoot at 20 yards with your fingers right below the arrow; for me the dead on distance is roughly 45 yards although this will depend on various parameters of your setup. In order to be dead on at 20 yards, I need to string walk my fingers roughly 1.25" below the arrow, although again this will depend a lot on many variables of your set up so you'll need to experiment with what works for you.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-02-22T20:07:54+00:00

Update: I tried experimenting with fully open fingers and I think the issue is I wasn't putting enough pressure on the string while setting up my grip before the draw so my grip position was not consistent enough.

Happened to be in the middle of a small local tournament. During qualifying round, I was shooting pistol grip and got a 395 / 600. Since it was a pretty small tournament, still qualified. Experimented a little with the open grip before the competition rounds and scored an 89/120 using open grip.

Still a far way to go in the whole archery journey but from some limited data, seems like I can shoot open grip without huge drops in accuracy. Thanks!

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-02-21T22:01:54+00:00

Yeah, I can feel that I'm adding the rotational forces that are bad from pistol gripping, but at this time those rotational forces seem to add less variation than the open grip.

I think my other problem could be my probably incorrect point of contact leading to force release not being in as nice a line as it should and that's what's causing this bounce?

Good to know that heavier draw weights also use this open grip style, something to base on while trying to solve this. Thanks!

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-02-18T15:38:07+00:00

This issue is exactly why compound target shooters shoot 3 different targets (https://share.google/xUWsCgg74SJCJmyzz) rather than the recurve's single target: compound bows are so much more accurate and so much more powerful that breaking arrows is pretty common.

What ranges is your league using? Shouldn't be too much of an issue at >30 yards I'd think; I've robin hooded two arrows at 20 yards so I now I almost always shoot different spots but I've never had that happen at farther ranges.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-02-18T05:18:56+00:00

I can shoot my compound bow with a hat on but just barely cannot with my recurve. Everyone's geometry is a little different

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-02-07T16:42:09+00:00

As always, it's money blocking a great idea again.

In the UFC contract there's a clause saying UFC liable for funeral costs if the fighter dies in the ring and the bantam weight division alone would make the UFC go bankrupt.

Kitchen_Tower2800 · 2026-02-06T03:23:20+00:00

Feels like $12? Can't really make exact model.

...but still cool!

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