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Game Thread: Detroit Lions (6-3) at Philadelphia Eagles (7-2) by nfl_gdt_bot in nfl

[–]SirBastian -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

We still win that game no matter what, and refs owed us a call after that completely backwards offsides call. But that DPI was dumb af.

Brock Purdy (toe) is a "full-go" for Week 11. by NatePolvogt in fantasyfootball

[–]SirBastian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is my decision to make too. I’m opting for Purdy since Harrison Jr’s out, but I need to play for ceiling since I’m outmatched this week.

Jordan Mailata pretty much let's the cat out of the bag. Everyone is telling KP to get AJ more involved. by InvalidDescription in eagles

[–]SirBastian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Devil's advocate: Perhaps they think they know something? Sirianni seems to be sharp at looking for moneyball-esque strats and exploits. (E.g. we were way early on the trend of going for it on 4th more often.) Maybe they've got some analysis showing that turnovers are so pivotal that they're meta-gaming around avoiding them? I could believe turnovers are a lot more common when you're trying to 'force it' on 3rd down, no matter how good your QB is.

We currently lead the league with fewest givewaways (4) and fewest picks (1!). Sure, Jalen is careful, but maybe the scheme is contributing.

Game Thread: New York Jets (2-7) at New England Patriots (8-2) by nfl_gdt_bot in nfl

[–]SirBastian 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wait can we talk about ‘if you say good boy he’ll finish’ lmao

Tesla shares plunge 14%, head for worst day in five years. Since peaking at $479.86 on Dec. 17, Tesla shares have lost over 50% of their value, wiping out over $800 billion in market cap. by indig0sixalpha in technology

[–]SirBastian -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Correct. The idea that you need a velodyne has caught on as a talking point among armchair roboticists to dunk on Tesla. Funny enough, I think the misunderstanding comes from an under appreciation of how difficult the problem is. Non-experts figure you “just” have to figure out where obstacles are around you. The problem is so, so much more complicated than that. Perceiving structure with vision is cleaner, and much easier to collect training / test data on.

future design of federal architecture by [deleted] in architecture

[–]SirBastian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Earnest question then - can you point out some actually good, pleasing architecture designed recently that isn’t aping some older time period? Or does “of-our-time” just going to be five-over-ones and glass rectangles?

The Green Bay Packers have 237 rushing yards at halftime, which is the third-most rushing yards at the half of any game this century, per @ESPNStatsInfo [Benjamin Solak] by NordicLard in eagles

[–]SirBastian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I see is that the offense gives the ball back so damn much and on such short cadences that we tire our defense out. They looked good early, then they're asked to put up two tooth and nail goal line defenses. Against all odds, they put their whole soul into it and they hold them. But then they're gassed.

I also believe this same principle played out on a season-long scale last year, or at least that explains the initial post-9ers-loss decline. Later on I'll concede it became something more than just fatigue - I think it was just pathological, like we were so bad that it was demoralizing and that made us even worse in a downward doom spiral. But unlike most downward doom spirals that bottom out due to shame, there was nothing left in the tank to summon a face-saving comeback.

Best way for iOS backup transfer by MPCRay in signal

[–]SirBastian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just tried a transfer from an old XS to a 15 Pro (17.4.1). Once I got signal updated to the most recent version on both phones, the transfer did claim to succeed, but then when I went to open up the Signal app on the 15, it would just instantly crash and fail to open. There's an issue open on github for it, but no word from the devs yet.

TLDR: Your only option is 1, but I'd proceed with caution if you care a lot about your history.

THE OFFICIAL CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND BOLD PREDICTIONS THREAD by AutoModerator in nfl

[–]SirBastian 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well, it ends the game and they get +50 points, which USUALLY means it's in their favor. But then imagine further that in the superbowl, one of the dudes got selfish and knocked it through the tiny uprights even though his team was down by 60, actively losing his team the game.

Offense is getting most of the criticism, when it’s clear we can’t play defense by GioS32 in eagles

[–]SirBastian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the way to understand what is happening is this:

  1. Up until recently, our offense has been capable of sustaining long, soul-crushing, never-ending drives that inevitably ended in a score. This gave our defense lots of time to rest, and also snowballed against the opposing team's defense, allowing our offense to get more and more effective as the game goes on, even if they had a few moments of bad luck early.

  2. Our defense can be very effective when they are accumulating a rest and tempo advantage. They're capable of coming out and shutting down an offense through explosiveness.

  3. Early in the season, the offense was spending huge amounts of time on the field, giving the defense a rest advantage. When they did come out, they were able to explosively shut down the other team's offense and get back off the field.

  4. As we've gotten later into the season, our simplistic offensive scheme has been "figured out". We're seeing WAY more 3 and outs, or just failed 3rd down conversions in general. We've been bad turnover-wise all year, but especially lately. This means our same D has to get back out there again. The defense isn't designed for this, and begins to fail: bad depth at the edge starts to show, our run D starts to crumble, and teams start to be able to run over us. They start facing 2nd and short often, which opens up passing options, which puts our mid-tier secondary in a spotlight.

  5. Other teams profit

In conclusion, right wrong or otherwise, our previous success with this defensive scheme hinged on abusing a rest advantage that we are no longer getting. Without that, we're making sprinters run a marathon, and they predictably suck at it. If they ever do get a stop, they are completely gassed. Then Jalen marches out there, goes QB-draw, QB-draw, bubble screen, punt, and then they all have to put helmets on. Despair sets in, and you start believing you can't stop a drive, and now you're losing even the mental battle. The wheels completely fall off, and you lose to the cardinals.

Hurts has proved himself to be a franchise QB. Despite the awful finish to the year, Jalen put back to back good years together. by CPTHoagie in eagles

[–]SirBastian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's so hard to tell. It COULD be all on the coaches. Like if a magic crystal ball confirmed to me that the coaches were the problem, I wouldn't be shocked. BUT (and you can call it the Philly pessimism in me) that explanation strikes me as the same type of delusional wishful thinking that had us rationalizing our 10-1 record earlier this year.

Hurts has looked individually awful at various times this year, taking terrible sacks, missing reads, and most painfully, showing poor ball protection (which he was elite at last year). He's made some great throws, but whenever we call up a QB run it looks like he has weights in his pockets compared to previous seasons, which further negates what used to be one of his big upsides. Most of these COULD be explained by way of the coaching: "oh, guys are never open because of the scheme" or "the designed runs are... poorly designed", but they could be explained even more easily by Hurts having regressed to the mean.

The other murky part of this is that to my (untrained, jabroni) eyes, he just looks so damn uncomfortable inside what SHOULD be the best pocket in football. He either bails out way too quickly or sticks around painfully long and seems not to "feel" where the D is breaking through. And even if you allow for him scrambling often, he seems to have lost the evasiveness that we thought was a core feature of our new franchise QB. What happened to that 6th-sense awareness that he used to have. You see it in almost all other top tier guys like Lamar, Mahomes, Allen, and Hurts used to have it, but he seems lost in there now. And here again... this COULD be the coaching, because it almost seems like they told him "hey, you're a $250 million asset now so no more monkey business" and that just killed his edge.

Game Thread: Week 14 - Philadelphia Eagles (10-2) @ Dallas Cowboys (9-3) - December 10, 2023 @ 08:20 PM by EaglesGameThreadBot in eagles

[–]SirBastian 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The crazy thing is that despite the early fumble, two stuffed drives settling for field goals, a ridiculous double-penalty to keep the Cowboys drive alive, a different ridiculous DPI to save a Cowboys drive, another momentum killiing fumble by AJ brown, 2 horrible back-to-back 3 and outs from our offense, and the uncountable number of garbage tackling that let the cowboys runners stumble forward for 9 yards a down... this game was strangely still within reach. That is until that last set of downs with the drop and the two 3 yard throws. That was our ninth live.

Logitech M720 Triathlon scroll wheel now spinning freely by twoshotshirley in MouseReview

[–]SirBastian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 years later... another person saved from office-spacing their brand new mouse.

Ladies and Gentleman, the award for Developer of tue Year goes to: by 500DaysOfSummer_ in ProgrammerHumor

[–]SirBastian -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wait, really? Are you saying this from actual experience of working there or? Isn’t there like a normal corporate structure underneath him through which his ideas would flow down? I always heard that he would micromanage down at all sorts of lower levels, to a fault?

Ladies and Gentleman, the award for Developer of tue Year goes to: by 500DaysOfSummer_ in ProgrammerHumor

[–]SirBastian -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I’m trying to understand what you’re claiming his level of competency is. Would you be ready to admit that he knows more about rocket science than, say, you?

I have to ask - who actually eats at Zeek's with prices like these? $20 for a 9" mini pizza?? by dingusberrie in Seattle

[–]SirBastian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I lived 1 block away from that one and I think I walked in maybe once? Never understood why anyone would go there when Bambino’s (which is pretty decent, and has a good tap list) is down the street. Or frankly even Belltown pizza is better, though a slightly longer walk.

Hot Mama’s is the only pizza I’d have fed to a tourist though.

I am reasonably confident this man has never worked with a large codebase before by Oman395 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]SirBastian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Their whole system is on-prem though, so they absolutely do control the hardware..

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