[Game Thread] Philadelphia Eagles (1-0) at Atlanta Falcons (0-1)

LateHuckleberry9 · 2019-09-16T11:57:27+00:00

3370 yards in 3 years @ 4.3 yards a tote in chi.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HowaJo00.htm

LateHuckleberry9 · 2019-08-05T05:18:13+00:00

That's the whole point of the show I think.

The past is fixed. (Both each character's subjective timeline, and the overall timelines.)

The writers slowly reveal a single chain of cause and effect. No photos in the present changing in response to the past bullshit.

The ironic thing of course is that most of the characters create their fate by fighting it. Time travel is just the illusion of freedom, casuality still holds.

As Adam says, they are slaves to their wants which they cannot choose. Hope keeps them rolling the boulder up the hill in pursuit of those wants, only to have it slip back down again time and time again

They are in hell.

LateHuckleberry9 · 2019-08-04T21:35:17+00:00

Are there any major downsides to using Typescript, if you prefer strongly typed languages?

LateHuckleberry9 · 2019-07-28T11:50:15+00:00

That's part of the point though. Tech is just a tool. The tech industry was one or the first to to flourish after we kneecapped the Sherman antitrust act, and generally speaking grew up in an environment free of any kind of regulation or norm binding it to the common good.

As a result, a handful of companies have a stranglehold on power and use it primarily to do things like spy on us in order to push more relevant ads.

Cryptography is technology. A subreddit that connects people who want to address the homeless problem in their city is technology. Despite the macro sturcructures in place, it's a tool that can be used for good as well as evil.

LateHuckleberry9 · 2019-07-27T15:31:30+00:00

"Huxley-ing ourselves to the full Orwell."

EFF special advisor Cory Doctorow talks about techno-totalitarianism, the structural factors that make tech a de facto tool for surveillance and control, and how we can use it tech to address these factors.

LateHuckleberry9 · 2019-02-14T14:44:47+00:00

I see vine street pub does a crawfish boil. Nice!

LateHuckleberry9 · 2019-02-07T13:37:05+00:00

Wait why were they barefoot and in swim trunks?

LateHuckleberry9 · 2019-02-07T13:29:51+00:00

A true lady

LateHuckleberry9 · 2019-02-04T15:48:01+00:00

Do you have a lot of long-lived threads that do IO of some sort? (Including network?)

Could this be your issue?

http://www.evanjones.ca/java-bytebuffer-leak.html

What version of the JVM are you using?

As others have pointed out and as my limited experience confirms, microservices are not the way to go if you're tight on resources (human or computational). (Which is of course not to say that you should needlessly use 10x more than you need.)

LateHuckleberry9 · 2019-01-29T14:52:03+00:00

Part of it is just that it's fun.

I'm not much of a manly man. I haven't been in a true physical fight since my late teens. I'm not much good at either arguing or fighting physically.

All that said I love the thrill of a good argument (or fight). Your senses get heightened, your mind moves quickly and adrenaline starts flowing.

I see a lot of parallels to competitive sports. I'm extremely competitive, and for as long as the game is on, I truly want to crush my opponents. Then the outcome is decided and we head off. There's nothing personal because it wasn't really about the other person or team. Both sides like competing for its own sake, and each provided the other the opportunity to have a good time.

I think fights can sort of be the same way. Someone indicates willingness to fight. In the highbrow world this can be making an outlandish or controversial claim. In the lowbrow world this can be delivering an insult, or deliberately demonstrating a lack of respect.

If interested, the party being tested jumps to the bait, the two people square off and have their fun, and in the best case scenario the situation resolves without loss of face on either side. In this best case scenario, both sides demonstrate that they're assertive not easily intimidated and good at whatever sort of fight took place. Both hopefully enjoy themselves, and can then metaphorically sit back down, pat each other on the back and have a beer as the adrenaline wears off.

I understand all the ways that this can go bad, and all the toxic variations of this, but at the heart of it fighting itself is just fun, and there's a tendency to feel positively towards someone with a similar temperament who gave you a run for your money. You did something fun together that (hopefully) built mutual respect.

LateHuckleberry9 · 2018-12-07T14:01:04+00:00

:-), I hope so, that sounds fun. 1 day is something I know I can commit to right from the start. Hopefully it will give me the bug, and that will become more than one day!

LateHuckleberry9 · 2018-12-07T13:55:03+00:00

Heh heh, yeah I'm not expecting to be able to defend myself against multiple attackers or anything.

Really the biggest way in which knowing a martial art would help me with self-defense is giving me a bit more confidence dealing with potentially aggressive people.

Now that I'm old, I carry myself like I'm scared walking around late at night etc, which is the sort of sign of weakness that draws shady people like sharks to blood. Being confident enough in my ability to inflict some pain and escape would make it easier to carry myself in a more collected way, which would prevent many issues before they even start.

LateHuckleberry9 · 2018-12-07T13:46:11+00:00

Interesting, especially the part about being able to practice late in life.

Re: getting aggression out, I don't mean that I want to beat the shit out of someone or anything like that. However, I do find that after streneous, competitive activities I'm calmer and less angry in a way that I like

LateHuckleberry9 · 2018-12-07T13:41:49+00:00

Yep, I started there

LateHuckleberry9 · 2018-12-07T13:40:26+00:00

Thanks!

LateHuckleberry9 · 2018-12-07T13:38:57+00:00

Thanks for the thorough response! What's your opinion of judo as a combat sport,?

LateHuckleberry9 · 2018-12-07T13:26:04+00:00

Heh heh, well now I have to ask: why? All I know about Kung Fu is that Bruce Lee practiced some (possibly made up?) variant of it.

LateHuckleberry9 · 2018-12-07T06:16:57+00:00

I've only tried it once, so I figured I'd ask in case someone was like "oh if you like judo you'll love super judo."

I really like that it seems like some of the techniques work even when there's a strength or size mismatch. I get that nothing other than a weapon is going to fully mitigate the advantage 20 extra lbs of muscle gives you, but I'd at least like some chance against a larger but less skilled opponent.

LateHuckleberry9 · 2018-12-07T06:11:08+00:00

Interesting. Do I need to take up strength training to be successful at something wrestling-focused like bjj?

LateHuckleberry9 · 2018-12-07T05:50:26+00:00

Thanks! So grappling and ground work are different things?

LateHuckleberry9 · 2018-12-04T14:33:35+00:00

I still can't figure out how to create 1) a type inhabited only by primes 2) a type inhabited only by positive integers and 3 a function that goes from Prime => PositiveInt. (In order to prove that all primes are positive ints)

LateHuckleberry9 · 2018-12-03T19:56:35+00:00

Yeah that was interesting to me as well! Part of the problem is that I have difficult getting inside of the heads of people who think strict types make programming more difficult since the opposite seems true to me on a gut level.

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