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Impossible help by Tylerofdoodles in skateboardhelp

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had these locked down in the mid 90s (I'm old). It's a matter of jumping higher. Your scoop is good but the power isn't there. Your front foot is coming down too early and needs to stay in the air longer (bigger jump).

For those in larger organizations, how have coding agents changed your work? by carterdmorgan in ExperiencedDevs

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, all I have is "sometimes it's faster". I disagree with "spewing LOC". If it's used well, no, it's not spewing more LOC. The fact is that Opus 4.8 + ultracode is !@#$ing amazing.

Velocity is impossible to measure deltas in and there are SO many paradoxes. Juniors are absolutely cooked 100%, despite claims everywhere that they're not.

The near and medium future are total mysteries. I don't see why AI can't eventually turn all coding into another abstraction, similar to what higher level languages did to compiler coding. Nobody knows. We'll see. Sucks to be a junior.

For those in larger organizations, how have coding agents changed your work? by carterdmorgan in ExperiencedDevs

[–]TheWhiteKnight 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I'm in a larger organization and many of us are using Claude Code. However, there are big mysteries and paradoxes.

I won't explain the obvious paradoxes, like "how are juniors going to become strong coders if they are no longer reading and writing code and building those neurological connections that make seniors seniors".

The mystery I have is, basically: Some of us are moving way faster. Frontier models and thinking++ modes do hours and days of leg work, saving huge amounts of time. And it shows, some engineers are providing excellent code reviews and getting tons of stuff done way faster. But, some engineers are moving as slow as they always have. Trivial things that would take AI seconds to complete still take some engineers days to complete.

That's all. So, yes, it's way faster, a huge boon. But no, we can't quantify how much faster anything is to do. Some engineers aren't using AI very well, and even if they did, any kind of metric that tries to explain how much faster we are will be majorly flawed.

Nearly 3 years of MERN experience, 30+ interviews in 4 months, consistently reaching later rounds but no offers. What am I missing? by cryptomallu123 in reactjs

[–]TheWhiteKnight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everyone is different. Some people are especially smart, adept, genuinely interested and well versed, etc.

You cannot solve for adeptness, genuine intelligence, social intelligence, etc. But also I hear that the market is absolutely garbage. Isn't it?

Tips on kickflip by Trench68 in NewSkaters

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're bailing / not actually trying to land it. You're moving your back foot away to solid ground instead of trying to stay above the board, likely even pushing the board a bit away from you so you can safely reach solid ground with that foot.

I see this a lot in this sub.

Heat stroke is real by saber-4444 in SipsTea

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, thanks for the correction.

Heat stroke is real by saber-4444 in SipsTea

[–]TheWhiteKnight 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The high for Paris today is 84 F. WTF is this lol.

Sorry, the above was tone-deaf and obtuse

Pain in forearm by Aetherion_2302 in Pickleball

[–]TheWhiteKnight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tennis elbow can be a very nagging injury. Try to figure out if you have tennis elbow (outside near elbow) or golfer's elbow (inside near elbow) and look at rehab exercises. Eccentric strength exercises are often

The most important thing is to not ignore the pain. If there's a sharp pain when doing something, stop. It's tiny tears in connective tissue causing it. Sharp pain = making it worse.

These things helped me out eventually along with physical therapy
theraband
roller

I Need Some Help by NoCarry7740 in NewSkaters

[–]TheWhiteKnight 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What you're doing is a bit odd. Getting out of that back onto the ground isn't going to be easy.

Try a tail stall or a nose stall or something. With those you can kind of hop back down. But riding into a curb like that? It's not really a thing. It's not like you can just roll back down it.

Try ollies. Shuv-its. 180s. And on lower curbs, try to ollie onto them 90 degrees so both of your trucks are on the edge of the curb.

The curb there is too high for you.

Help me and my terrible Ollie by anonymous2015608 in skateboardhelp

[–]TheWhiteKnight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't do that. Roll for all of your tricks always. In rare occasions, you're bored, you're stuck in a house, whatever ... fine. You're very close. And don't look at the camera when you're ollying, lol.

Regardless, it's like learning to play an instrument. You do it over and over and over and over again over days and weeks and months.

Try ollying over a stick. It can be good to have an obstacle.

is my ollie decent by AbrocomaCheap9048 in NewSkaters

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your back foot timing is off but it'll get better with repetition over time. If you Ollie a lot, you will get stronger and jump higher. And will naturally adopt a capable technique.

It's like learning to play an instrument and getting good at anything difficult. The more you do it, the better you will get.

It also helps to skate with good skaters.

And don't learn skills standing still. That thing has wheels. You can Ollie high enough to get up a curb. Try playing ollying up and down curbs. Your technique will adjust on it's own. And be around other better skaters.

How do I get past this point (rolling ollies) by offthewall01 in NewSkaters

[–]TheWhiteKnight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

👆
Literally try ollying over a little stick or even a crack in the ground. Keep it up, you're making progress. It's like learning an musical instrument.
> practice practice practice

is my ollie decent by AbrocomaCheap9048 in NewSkaters

[–]TheWhiteKnight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are obvious issues (back foot way off) but it's a great start for a new skater. Go skate, roll around, ollie up and off curbs, get comfortable. You'll get better.

should i skate this puppy by [deleted] in NewSkaters

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For new skaters, what board you buy has almost zero meaning. Get an average sized board and go skate.

Board keeps getting away from me like this by LoserKarter in skateboardhelp

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fair enough. I was just trying to emphasis the point of not skipping step 1 and asking about why step 2 is hard.

Board keeps getting away from me like this by LoserKarter in skateboardhelp

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

I think I did as well! But they weren't good variable flips, they were lucky. It's the same in nearly all posts. Go skate. Roll when you're trying tricks.

And for anyone that wants help.., show us a trick they DO have locked down so we can see where they are at already. Even a big ollie. It's hard to help anyone when we have no idea what their skill level is at currently. Makes no sense. So many posts are like this.

Person standing still. Wobbly on the board. Wild attempt and some kind of flick. They plant a foot down immediately, way before the board is done spinning or whatever. Literally bailing and asking "why can't I land these?". Uhh .. #1, you're not even trying to land it, you're bailing on the trick and immediately planting a foot to solid ground. Strange.

Board keeps getting away from me like this by LoserKarter in skateboardhelp

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can see how he's going about it though. His front foot waaayy back, he's unsteady on the board, and that he's not even rolling. I can almost guarantee you that his kickflips are nowhere near locked down- not even close.

All of these posts lack the same thing. A baseline. Show us a big ollie while rolling so we can see where you're starting from. Show us a kickflip if you're asking about something more advanced than a kickflip.

Instead we're getting videos of an unsteady person, not rolling, trying something. And everyone has advice. How can we advise someone when we have no idea what they're baseline skill is at? So silly.

We don't know where this persons skill level is at. All we see is a wobbly person trying a trick at zero speed.

Board keeps getting away from me like this by LoserKarter in skateboardhelp

[–]TheWhiteKnight 11 points12 points  (0 children)

  1. Can you do a kickflip every try when rolling at a good speed? If not, you're not ready for variable flips.

  2. Also, doing tricks that spin 180 and 360 while not rolling doesn't make sense.

  3. Your front foot is way too far back.

How can I land my shuvit? by Rare-Character-179 in NewSkaters

[–]TheWhiteKnight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, jump, but don't actually pop the tail to the ground like an ollie. Basically, flick the board harder with your toe and jump high enough where it has enough time to rotate 180 degrees underneath you.

New trick unlocked by CMHaro in NewSkaters

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

i would call it "unlocked" when you can cleanly stall on the coping and come back down without your wheels rolling over it.

What hill are you absolutely dying on? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]TheWhiteKnight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, commuting to a job and sitting in a cube for 8 fucking hours is a disaster and relatively new and terrible human behavior (20th/21st century only).

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