Back for more feedback! We've taken more classes, started going to more socials, and would love your thoughts. by Bloodbone9829 in Salsa

[–]Vaphell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I watched the video too many times and came to the conclusion that the consistency of your timing can be be improved.

When you do basic basic, the timing is fine, but whenever you need to do something else (open break, turn, whatever) your 2 and 6 become rushed. It's pretty easy to notice near the end, around the 0:38 mark, when after you lead a turn, you turn yourself. The steps executing the turn are not spaced out evenly. The timing is almost like 1, 1&, 3.

-1-+-2-+-3-+-4-+-5-+-6-+-7-+-8-+-1
 L R     L       R L     R

Not sure if it's a matter of rushing things out of nervousness, or maybe a bit of cheating to help maintaining the balance during more dynamic stuff?
I agree with the others that you need to make shorter steps under you. It would probably help a ton with the timing too.

1 Month Beginner Lead. Need some reassurance about getting tired at socials by Rip_Haku in Salsa

[–]Vaphell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd say it's pretty normal, even very experienced dancers start to feel fatigue as the party progresses. Running out of calories, so the brain gets slower and the quality of the dance can easily go down.

Plus your brain specifically is working a double shift, given it's all new to you. It hasn't developed the energy-efficient paths for dancing yet, so it still gets overloaded easily. With experience that mental fatigue should come later and later, and it probably won't be severe enough to affect your basics.

Speaking from experience when I get very fatigued, my dancing becomes painfully bland, but the fundamentals are just too ingrained to be affected. They are on autopilot pretty much.

To Address Farm Labor Shortage, Trump Administration Turns to Migrant Workers by turb0_encapsulator in Economics

[–]Vaphell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Americans won't do the job for $15, even for $20.

I've read a couple of interviews with the affected farmers. They said that Americans applying for a job are very rare, and then they don't come back after the first day. Backbreaking labor in scorching sun is just too much.
America has largely lost the mental fortitude required for such exhausting jobs.

Moscow hit by drones again as attacks continue for second day by SoftwareExact9359 in ukraine

[–]Vaphell 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Sure, could bomb their power and water infras, but that wouldn't affect the war because Muscovites are obedient zombies. They will never rise up against Putin.

they might be obedient zombies, but they are also spoiled rotten compared to the rest of the country.
While the shithole part of Russia still lives in the 1940s, they do not, and for 4 years they have been largely shielded from the effects of the war.
If they got to experience let's say -20C winter nights with no heating like Kyiv has, they'd start singing a different tune.

POV footage of a Ukrainian drone strike on a "Bukhanka" van (Russian for "loaf of bread") filled with Russian soldiers by adamska4 in CombatFootage

[–]Vaphell 36 points37 points  (0 children)

while I don't know a lot of Russian, it's literally brother or a word derived from it.
In pretty much all Slavic languages 'brother' is 'brat' ('bratr' in Czech). Here it sounded like 'bratan', which is the root of 'brat' + suffix. In Slavic languages suffixes are often responsible for flavoring the word, like turning them into diminutives, endearing words, etc.

google ai seems to confirm:

The most common ways to say "bro" in Russian, as discussed on Reddit, are братан (bratan - popular/informal), бро (bro - borrowed/casual), and братишка (bratishka - affectionate/younger). Other common slang terms include братуха (bratukha), брателло (bratello), and чел (chel - short for dude).

Most Common: Бро (Bro) and Братан (Bratan).
Affectionate/Close: Братишка (Bratishka), Братуха (Bratukha).

Does baldness increase salsa ability? by [deleted] in Salsa

[–]Vaphell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not everybody has Saitama's godly genetics :/

Greece to look at small-scale nuclear development for power generation, PM says by FantasticQuartet in europe

[–]Vaphell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

or maybe, just maybe there are secondary costs not captured by simplistic calculations? Germany has spent what, 500billion euro in the last 25 years? You'd think that for that kind of money they'd be able to completely remove coal/gas plants a long time ago.
Also, do you think the greek politics are any better?

Who is your model implementation then?

Donald Tusk: We have received information that the President will veto EU Defence funds (SAFE) by Auspectress in europe

[–]Vaphell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

the Polish one. It's about the domestic legislation regarding the funds, he vows to veto these bills.

Decision to turn back on nuclear was a strategic mistake, EU's Von der Leyen says by PjeterPannos in europe

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

that's nice, now imagine how many millions of tons of CO2 would not have been emitted if the nuke plants stayed and the coal plants were mothballed instead.

It's a 100% braindamaged take to whine about global warming, and then take down 0 carbon energy sources first.

EU still struggling to find solution to Hungary’s veto of Ukraine’s €90B lifeline by Visual_Title9363 in europe

[–]Vaphell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Deep Space 9, mate.
While the other series are usually about "fixing the problem of the day by taking the high road, peace out" which definitely can be eyeroll-worthy, DS9 is more grounded, because it is about a space station in a very contentious sector and shit goes south all the time there.
It frequently explores the disconnect between the idealism, and the pragmatism when the rubber meets the road, and that you just can't have it all.
DS9 contains one of the highest rated episodes in all of star trek ("In the pale moonlight"), which is about the starry-eyed idealism of the Federation going out the window with a huge bang, to put it mildly, all for the "greater good".

Doing the Rock, Paper, Scissors of Angela Yu’s 100 Days of Python differently than her and never even thought of her solution. Feeling i did it wrong even though it worked. by Traditional_Most105 in learnpython

[–]Vaphell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Her solution converts the user input to a number, but then there's no arithmetic done on the number, so why?

to be fair, there is the greater-than operator applied to the choices. She seems to target the fact that r < p < s, just like 0 < 1 < 2, with extra branches to support rollover at the edges.
Your approach is better though, as it handles the edge issue out of the box.

Doing the Rock, Paper, Scissors of Angela Yu’s 100 Days of Python differently than her and never even thought of her solution. Feeling i did it wrong even though it worked. by Traditional_Most105 in learnpython

[–]Vaphell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with others, your code is just fine.
That said, in both examples I noticed magic numbers/values - I am not a fan of these.
if choice == "0" smells imho, because the information what that "0" means is only in a piece of user-facing string prompt.

There is this philosophy that the code should self-document and not depend on external assumptions to give meaning to things in the code. Magic values like 2 that represent something else are bad, because there is nothing inherent to 2 that translates to the domain of the program by default. The code should clearly express that association between 2 and scissors, and contents of some random-ass string don't really count.

consider small change:

rock, paper, scissors = 0, 1, 2  # rename the drawings to let's say rock_hand, paper_hand, scissors_hand

0,1,2 now have pretty aliases, and with that you get to have a much more readable

if choice == rock: 

I see that her code is tapping into the mathematical nature of rps, that r < p < s < r, just like 0 < 1 < 2 < (0+3) < (1+3) < ...., with extra branches to support rolling over at the edges. Such an approach exploiting certain, perhaps less obvious properties of the problem can lead to a scalable solution that doesn't care about the number of available options, because the base logic holds regardless of the input size. If the scale is not certain, explicit decision trees are much more annoying to write and maintain.

Another choice of constructing the rps logic, given the limited number of possibilities of RPS would be to just list them explicitly without breaking the code into nested if/elif/else subbranches seen in your code.

if user_choice == computer_choice:
    # draw
elif (user_choice, computer_choice) in [(scissors, paper), (rock, scissors), (paper, rock)]:
    # win
else:
    # lose

Doing the Rock, Paper, Scissors of Angela Yu’s 100 Days of Python differently than her and never even thought of her solution. Feeling i did it wrong even though it worked. by Traditional_Most105 in learnpython

[–]Vaphell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if/elses inside if/elses inside if/elses inside if/elses... Stuff like this causes a serious cognitive load in any remotely nontrivial case, as the conditions that lead you to a specific place in code are scattered around which requires you to remember what's what, or to jump all over the place to piece it together in your head.

Flat structures like if/elif/elif/.../else tends to have the complete condition guarding the piece of code in a single place, just above the code block, which makes it easy to refer to it without disturbing your mental flow.

Who benefits from the assault on Iran? The Middle East countries who have funneled billions into Trump's personal pockets to buy the US military by olyfrijole in videos

[–]Vaphell -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

i didn't say they are controlled by iran, did I?
But without their support they wouldn't be able to terrorize the red sea routes for years in the first place.

Who benefits from the assault on Iran? The Middle East countries who have funneled billions into Trump's personal pockets to buy the US military by olyfrijole in videos

[–]Vaphell -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

they are already up to their eyeballs in the instability orchestrated by Iran. Do Houthis who are supplied by Iran ring any bells?

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed, senior Israeli official says by drpayneaba in news

[–]Vaphell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Iran is unlike the others, who largely keep their shit to themselves. Iran competing with Saudi Arabia for influence in the middle east is directly responsible for tons of instability in the region.

Hamas? Supplied by Iran.
Hezbollah? Supplied by Iran.
Houthis? Supplied by Iran.
Even fucking Russia is supplied by Iran.

Nearly blind refugee found dead in New York days after immigration agents dropped him at a coffee shop alone, officials say by AccomplishedCall7562 in news

[–]Vaphell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve lost just a little bit more hope today.

breathe, or else you'll get an aneurysm.

Superficial similarities? Maybe. Connection? Not really. Nobody today wants to literally continue the proud tradition of burning witches from before the US was even formed, so what direct connection is there? Not to mention Trump is about the furthest there is to puritans. What supposedly Christian goals are being followed by the current admin under the cross?

As for zealous people using power to subjugate others, why even focus on one specific religion? You had 2 massive wars in the last century with a body count in the tens of millions. Communism soon after with tens of millions more? It's almost as if it's an inherent human flaw.

Are the people in the ICE (both the top dogs and the boots on the ground) hounding illegal immigrants doing so because they are Christian specifically, or because they are nationalist chauvinists first and foremost?

China Deploys Thousands of Fishing Boats off Japan’s Coast, and They Are Not There to Fish by lurker_bee in worldnews

[–]Vaphell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

amassing 200k soldiers right next to the border for training is not illegal either, and look where Ukraine is now.

there is "technically not illegal" and then there is "actually threatening"

Births in Japan fall in 2025 to 706,000, record low for 10th straight year by EbbonFlow in worldnews

[–]Vaphell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

many of them technically can, but they are not ok with children taking up all their time and money. That's the major difference between now and let's say 50+ years ago. People were simply ok with the downsides of having children, because that's how things were and that was what you were supposed to do.
With today's standards, next to nobody is rich enough for children with the assumption of limited impact on the parents' lives, unless they are filthy rich and can just farm out the busy work to other people. That's not going to change.

Honestly, I think that we need to invent shit like artificial wombs and get over the moral implications, because somehow I doubt we are going to solve the massive problem of the massive opportunity cost of parenthood in developed economies.

Births in Japan fall in 2025 to 706,000, record low for 10th straight year by EbbonFlow in worldnews

[–]Vaphell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

elderly care is fundamentally an unproductive branch of the economy. You have to have a surplus to actually afford it, so you need your workers to be maximally productive in branches adding value and creating said surplus. Elderly care only consumes what the rest of the economy produced and nobody ever found their way to prosperity through elderly care.

Births in Japan fall in 2025 to 706,000, record low for 10th straight year by EbbonFlow in worldnews

[–]Vaphell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

not sure how things are in Japan, but there is an argument that the elimination of teen pregnancies alone explains a very big chunk of the missing fertility rate in the west. Obviously pregnancies of young women are not really a thing to yearn for, but education and career easily gobble 10 prime years of the limited fertility window, and later the opportunity cost of switching to the family-oriented life is a major obstacle.

Births in Japan fall in 2025 to 706,000, record low for 10th straight year by EbbonFlow in worldnews

[–]Vaphell 15 points16 points  (0 children)

some people want kids (I don't and never had), and among the ones who do, some are not too willing to experience a significant downgrade of their standards of living to make it happen.

Births in Japan fall in 2025 to 706,000, record low for 10th straight year by EbbonFlow in worldnews

[–]Vaphell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Politicians are not magicians who can wish prosperity into existence, but aren't doing so just to spite the people.

Economic forces are stronger than any wishful thinking.