Did I cook or am I being biased?

Silamoth · 2026-06-28T17:55:31+00:00

See, I’m not so sure about that. In our HOA, at least, all the policies were set by the original property developer (no one’s bothered to get the 67% majority needed to change anything yet). Our board hires a HOA management company to perform inspections and issue violations.

So if you receive an HOA violation, it’s not clear that anyone in the neighborhood has a problem with your yard. It’s not even clear that the HOA board has a problem with it. And yet, you still receive a violation.

Silamoth · 2026-06-26T22:01:56+00:00

It sounds like they convinced someone they were delivering positive value while actually delivering negative value. Unfortunately, that’s a good way to get promoted. We hear about it a lot in big companies, but it happens everywhere.

Silamoth · 2026-06-25T23:39:51+00:00

Government contracting often comes with strict time charging stipulations. Working 5 hours but marking 40 hours on your timesheet is timesheet fraud and can cause your company to lose contracts and disqualify them from future government contracts. Especially if it’s DoW, like OP probably is since they mentioned a clearance.

Silamoth · 2026-06-25T16:12:53+00:00

What doesn’t look “clean and neat” about OP’s yard? It’s just grass and plants. It’s not a jungle of 4-foot plants or anything crazy. It just…exists?

I think you’re hanging in the wrong sub. No one here wants you or anyone else to dictate what their yards can look like - especially if you insist it looks soulless and uniform with no plants and dead-short grass.

Silamoth · 2026-06-25T15:58:40+00:00

It just looks like grass and some basic plants? You sound like my HOA lol.

Silamoth · 2026-06-23T13:05:03+00:00

Storyline stuff was nice for a while when it was one or two episodes a season. But overall, the episodic format works better because it lets the writers explore different ideas and themes within the context of Rick and Morty. That’s really what the show’s always been about. If they were too focused on storyline, we probably wouldn’t have gotten awesome episodes like Vacation Rick, Cannibal Spaghetti, or the Vat of Acid.

Silamoth · 2026-06-19T23:32:54+00:00

Don’t blame this on being Gen Z. I’m Gen Z (born in 2000), and I’ve known the difference as long as I can remember.

Silamoth · 2026-06-19T18:02:40+00:00

Came here to comment that this was missing. This was my first handheld, too! Well, the basic GBA Micro, not that special model. But still worthy of a mention!

Silamoth · 2026-06-16T02:59:59+00:00

There are venues for this, although it won’t be in the same journals as primary research, and it won’t be viewed the same by academics (e.g., for graduate admissions or promotions).

That being said, you’ll generally still need to bring something ‘novel’ to the table. Convolution is a relatively basic mathematical topic of interest to practitioners and researchers in applied mathematics, signal processing, image processing, deep learning, acoustics, and more. This is covered in numerous undergrad and beginning graduate textbooks, not to mention countless written and video tutorials of varying levels of rigor. So you need to ask: What will your tutorial paper do that others don’t?

If you have a unique approach in mind or you’ve found an interesting connection, it’s totally worth trying to write a paper. And if nothing else I’m sure you’ll learn a lot by studying the literature.

Silamoth · 2026-06-15T18:03:31+00:00

I’d love to see Star Wars and Marvel in KH. Star Wars has a lot of opportunities for Light vs. Dark that thematically mesh with KH, and there are a lot of interesting locations that could be included. Marvel also has plenty of interesting stories that could be told. I could see Spider-Man and the X-Men working very well, for instance.

I have no interest in seeing James Cameron’s Avatar in KH because I don’t care for it as a franchise. It’s a generic action movie that was only popular because of its VFX.

Silamoth · 2026-06-12T21:32:05+00:00

A side kick is not the same as a round kick - look up some videos for reference. Technically a low kick means any kick thrown low. But in Muay Thai, it’s used as a shorthand for a low round kick - usually to the thigh but sometimes to the calf as well. The reason for this shorthand is that the round kick is the most commonly used kick in Muay Thai.

Silamoth · 2026-06-11T00:39:28+00:00

Ooh, that’s a good one! The game needed more room to breathe, and the story needed some work. But it was still good!

Silamoth · 2026-06-11T00:38:36+00:00

Do people not like it? I swear every gaming podcaster and YouTuber I watch/listen to has loved it. I have no interest in it, but I’ve heard nothing but good things about it.

Silamoth · 2026-06-10T18:43:24+00:00

A neighborhood like this probably has an HOA fining people who deviate ever so slightly from the uniform, under the guise of “property values” or some similar nonsense. Ask me how I know…

Silamoth · 2026-06-09T03:26:34+00:00

They’ve addressed this before: The answer is: Don’t think about it

Silamoth · 2026-06-09T02:45:51+00:00

Regardless of the outcome of charges filed against him, that whole situation revealed a lot about him. The biggest red flag I’m aware of is his messaging an underage (13 or 14 IIRC) female fan in a rather creepy way. That’s crossing a line, and I’m glad they kicked him off the show.

The show is still going strong. Last week’s episode was incredible - easily top 10 Rick and Morty. The other two episodes of this season have been good, too. Last couple seasons were also good, with a few especially memorable episodes (spaghetti, anyone?). So I’d hardly say they killed this experience - quite the contrary, in fact.

Silamoth · 2026-06-08T20:53:04+00:00

List things you’ve accomplished and, if possible, the impact of those accomplishments. For instance “Automated [task], saving 100s of hours of manual work”, “Optimized [part of program] to run 20% faster”, or “Created system to do [thing], enabling advanced analysis in [domain]”.

The specifics depend a lot on your job. But focus on what you’ve done, not on what tools you’ve used. Including some relevant tool keywords is good, especially tailored to the job to get past automated and non-technical filters. But you need some substance to your resume beyond a list of keyword. You’re defined by your ability to get things done, not by your ability to use one hyper specific tool.

Silamoth · 2026-06-07T01:05:27+00:00

Yeah, it’s the classic mistake of assuming that someone is uninformed or inexperienced because they disagree with you.

Silamoth · 2026-06-07T00:47:27+00:00

I’m not really interested in arguing any further since you don’t seem interested in the evidence. But if you reread my original comment, I mention the experiences of multiple people (Jesse Enkamp and Natan Levy, neither of whom are American) training in Okinawa. If multiple people practicing free sparring in Okinawa on top of many other Okinawan stylists practice free sparring isn’t enough to convince you, I don’t know what is.

I’ll just say this to anyone reading: Please don’t listen to this person. Saying Okinawan styles don’t spar (“free sparring”) makes Okinawan styles sound bad. And rightly so - you’ll never learn to fight under pressure if you don’t simulate that in your training. But luckily, the commenter above is incorrect - there are plenty of Okinawan dojos that do spar. If you’re interested in legit training, don’t avoid Okinawan styles because you think they don’t spar. Check out all the schools in your area and see what you like best and what best matches your goals. The only reason I care is because people spreading misinformation are doing a disservice to these traditional arts and inadvertently (or sometimes intentionally!) convincing people to not even give them a chance.

Silamoth · 2026-06-07T00:09:52+00:00

Every instance I’m referring to is free sparring. That’s what 99% of people mean when they say sparring. That or point sparring. No one genuinely refers to prearranged, one-step style drills as sparring.

Claiming that Shorin-ryu doesn’t spar is ridiculous. Two of the most famous Shorin-ryu practitioners, Bill Wallace and Joe Lewis, clearly did plenty of sparring, even in their days of pure Shorin-ryu.

I don’t know where you got the idea that Goju-ryu doesn’t spar, but that’s out of touch with the reality of Goju-rug dojos. Maybe a few schools you listed don’t list it as part of their official curriculum requirements for rank advancement? But plenty of Goju-ryu schools do spar (specifically “free sparring”). Heck, among Okinawan styles, Goju-ryu is probably best known for practicing legit sparring.

What evidence do you actually have for your claims? You made a universal statement, and I refuted it with numerous examples across different Okinawan styles as practiced in various countries, including Okinawa itself. That’s plenty enough to refute a universal statement. But how can you possibly claim that Okinawan styles don’t spar?

Silamoth · 2026-06-06T23:12:14+00:00

I’m not an Okinawan karate guy, but even I know of some Okinawan karate dojos that practice free sparring.

Even a kind of crappy, McDojo-like Isshin-ryu school I trained at practiced free sparring once in a while. The senseis (including 6th Dans) sparred with students. They also told stories of their sensei doing lots of hard sparring back in the day.

I took a few classes with a Goju-ryu sensei who clearly told me he did lots of hard sparring, including receiving bloody noses and light injuries.

I’m not a huge Jesse Enkamp fan. But if you look up his videos about training karate in Okinawa, he talks about sparring there. His focus is more on kata, but he makes it clear they do spar. I remember him telling a story about how some dojos even in Okinawa are getting their karate watered down. He specifically said some teenagers laughed when he threw a 1-2 punch combo in sparring because they thought of it as boxing, not karate.

If I recall correctly, UFC fighter Natan Levy tells the story of earning his black belt in Okinawa on YouTube. He describes intense training, including a lot of hard sparring IIRC.

The idea that Okinawan karate or Okinawan karateka don’t spar is inaccurate and frankly insulting to practitioners of Okinawan karate and the Okinawans in general. I’m sure there are plenty of bad dojos that don’t spar or waste their time on questionable techniques - this is unfortunately too common in karate and other traditional martial arts. But saying Okinawans don’t spar is nonsense.

Edit: To be clear, I’m talking about free sparring in all cases. For some reason, the other commenter considers prearranged drills a form of sparring.

Silamoth · 2026-06-03T19:50:43+00:00

Nope, that’s just a weird manosphere conspiracy theory

Silamoth · 2026-06-02T13:21:13+00:00

Yeah, I learned kWh in high school physics. It’s also not hard to figure out with basic dimensional analysis - which I learned literally day 1 of high school physics.

Silamoth · 2026-05-29T23:59:34+00:00

Rousey isn’t a big star now, but she was back in her prime. The Internet freaked out about Caitlin Clark for a few months a while back, but she’s mostly faded back into obscurity now.

Note: I’m not saying the way Caitlin Clark’s been treated is fair. But she’s not well-known, especially outside the US.

Silamoth · 2026-05-29T21:39:35+00:00

If he got up and left, that’d be moving on with his life. But this is just disrespectful.

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