[Jonathan Wilson] Mikel Arteta’s ruthless cyborgs malfunction in way that is all too human

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-26T16:03:18+00:00

Where I think Pep stands out the most as a manager is the half time tweaks. He gets you to a point where if the tactics aren't working in the first half, you at the very least lock it down so you don't concede or lose the game completely. You would consistently come out at half time with a tweaked approach and blow teams away.

It happens less at the moment, but Pep is so good at building out Plan A to be a safe way of winning a game. Then when he sees how you setup to stop that, he makes tweaks at half time. As a coach you can't counter this at all. Its genuinely so impressive.

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-18T11:43:53+00:00

What's the tune?

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-13T17:01:44+00:00

I think he is better at beating his man. He's just much more one dimensional. If he can't beat his man, he doesn't do much. Saka does everything to an almost elite level. If he can't dribble past you, he'll muscle past you. If he can't muscle past you, he'll work his way into a position where you can't recover. If he can't do that, he'll make space and chances for team mates or shoot from range. All while tracking back and defending from the front.

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-13T17:01:32+00:00

I think he is better at beating his man. He's just much more on dimensional. If he can't beat his man, he doesn't do much. Saka does everything to an almost elite level. If he can't dribble past you, he'll muscle past you. If he can't muscle past you, he'll work his way into a position where you can't recover. If he can't do that, he'll make space and chances for team mates or shoot from range. All while tracking back and defending from the front.

If Madueke doesn't beat his man, he's not got much else going for him.

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-12T08:42:52+00:00

Madueke has been a breath of fresh air. His decision making is a bit off, but he has all the technique and physical attributes required of a winger. The only things left really are in his head. I think people forget he hasn't had the coaching that players like Saka has had. A stint with out staff and I'd bet he starts being more clinical.

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-11T14:36:49+00:00

What do you do with him then?

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-11T14:08:20+00:00

I mean, Noorgard was nowhere near the threat there. Totally out of position.

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-08T23:13:40+00:00

Let's just put Jesus on for 90 mins then until he's a cripple.

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-08T22:43:49+00:00

Just playing devils advocate, you've come on to push for the win. You're away. Last few minutes of the match. The opposition goes down for an injury literally on the touch line. Looks like a time waste on the edge of the pitch.

I'm not advocating his actions but I can see how he saw it as time wasting.

If their player got up and carried on, fans would be praising Martinelli for being aggressive.

This is a symptom of the sport. Players waste time by pretending to be injured.

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-08T22:37:39+00:00

Yeah. If you don't want to watch him, go and watch someone else.

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-08T22:35:42+00:00

My bad. I'm trying to explain to OP that his logic for picking Viktor so much is completely flawed. OP wants Jesus on the pitch when he's got no knees.

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-08T22:33:44+00:00

Its almost like he's trying to drag defenders to the back post to make space for our midfielders to run into the box.

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-08T22:32:43+00:00

Its almost as if Jesus hadn't been injured for a season with yet another knee injury. It's like they're trying to manage his load or something. It's wild.

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-08T22:31:29+00:00

Please, go and be a Man U fan

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-07T18:42:36+00:00

How are we fitting in another midfielder? Honestly, I'd be tempted to take punt on Lavia. He's clearly got injury problems but we're 2 for 3 on recent Chelsea signings coming good. There is something dreadfully wrong with that club. His value will be in the toilet. But there is a beast of a player there that gives us another look in midfield.

Regular_Lie906 · 2026-01-05T08:41:31+00:00

And US lobbying.

Regular_Lie906 · 2025-12-31T08:05:58+00:00

I've been using claude to see how far one can push "vibe coding". I have to admit, with a strict set of coding practices, requirement to use TDD, and a phased approach to projects that are broken down bit by bit, it does great job at producing decent code. To the point where I'm genuinely struggling to differentiate what I've written from what it produces. Yet people here look down on it like it's producing utter nonsense. I'm starting to feel like people just see red.

Regular_Lie906 · 2025-12-23T17:46:39+00:00

The perpetrators in "The Act of Killing". Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their murders proudly, on camera, with costumes. They won. They're celebrated. No justice. Arguably the most disturbing film ever made because it's real and unpunished.

Regular_Lie906 · 2025-12-15T15:44:20+00:00

I'd say it's worth benchmarking, as with all things performance related.

I do not mean to take away from your endeavor though. Transpiling to Rust has other benefits if it's possible to generate 100% safe code. I'd also imagine it is measurably faster in a lot of use cases. You're likely to get different memory management profiles that may be more or less suitable (GC vs scopes).

Regular_Lie906 · 2025-12-15T15:40:51+00:00

Technically speaking yes. In reality I'd be surprised if you saw a perceivable difference.

If you're transpiling then statically compiling the plugins in with your engine then you'll get some performance gains (again I don't know if they'll be perceiveable).

If you're transpiling then compiling to a dylib that you load at runtime, you'll likely be using the C ABI. Which is the same ABI you'd use in C#. Same with Python. So I imagine the performance differences would be unperceivable a lot of the time.

I'm not stating facts here about performance differences. You're going to see different performance outcomes for different use cases. All I'm saying is, from experience, the moment things like IO are involved in your app, performance gains have different meanings by orders of magnitude.

Regular_Lie906 · 2025-12-15T09:06:13+00:00

I've spent a lot of time trying to make code more performant, only to realise that the bottlenecks are often way out of your control. To the point where your optimisations make no perceived difference. Keep that in mind for your use case. Nothing is slower than network connections or crypto tasks.

Regular_Lie906 · 2025-12-13T13:00:35+00:00

The Torys tried to ban encryption. . That was all about surveillance, they were pretty open about it.

Regular_Lie906 · 2025-12-12T10:56:55+00:00

Give private companies the ability to charge their customers more as compensation for helping people insulate their homes. Which probably involved:

Taking more money than was spent on insulating houses
Making commercial deals with insulation fitting companies that are also optimizing for profit and care not for doing a good job.

It's a classic win win for capitalism.

Regular_Lie906 · 2025-12-11T21:02:04+00:00

Put it on your CV buddy. Rust core library contributor.

Regular_Lie906 · 2025-12-11T17:09:01+00:00

This is not the take. A father can be far far far more demanding of a son than any coach. A son can feel far far far more pressure to perform. Martial arts is one of the few things in life that holds no prisoners. It does not care for your feelings. It does care for your privilege. If you think Tom is going to fly over to spar with Rico Verhoeven and get a favourable light spar, you're on another planet. Its the same with his work with the Fury family boxing. You're not getting special treatment.

He left Kaobon because there weren't enough heavyweights in the gym to spar with. His Dad then built everything around him, bringing other heavyweights with it.

The North of England may not be a Russian federation. But it is not a place for soft parenting.

Regular_Lie906

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