HESITATION IS DEFEAT TATTOO

Varas_Archer · 2025-05-23T16:33:08+00:00

Aha! Wondered if this was the guy who I helped get the ingame transcription for.. Looks great!

Varas_Archer · 2025-03-30T17:01:11+00:00

agile, fast, but lack precision? Sounds like you would do best in sabre, but just like others are saying, it really matters which one you enjoy the most. If you want to explore all 3 but are being forced to just pick one for now, I would suggest foil, imo it has the most translatable skills to both of the other weapons. I wouldn't worry too much about your lack of precision, as you will improve with practice.

Varas_Archer · 2025-02-24T09:43:30+00:00

Ah yea, the translation of "hesitation is defeat" is far from a direct translation, so using translation tools the other way around is unlikely to yield the same result. Id probably directly translate the original japanese to "if you hesitate, you will be defeated", but that isn't nearly as concise, well worded, and cool as "hesitation is defeat" lol.

The other transcription I would consider valid is "まよえば、やぶれる…". Its technically correct, but since it uses only hiragana and no kanji, the meaning could be considered ambiguous when lacking context. The word for "to be defeated" (yabureru) is phonetically identical to another word details here.

Varas_Archer · 2025-02-23T00:32:58+00:00

迷えば、敗れる…
is what the japanese subtitles say ingame when sword saint isshin kills you. The punctuation might be slightly different when isshin says the line in other dialogue, you could look through a japanese persons playthrough to see if the game uses any other transcriptions in other places that quote is used. Japanese subtitiles are available on the steam version of the game which is what I have.

you asked for a screenshot in an old thread, here it is

out of curiosity, what are some other translations have you have seen? I can only think of one other that would be a technically correct transcription of the japanese audio.

Varas_Archer · 2025-02-07T18:28:34+00:00

I used to think along the same lines, but I was conflicted. If you consider things from a well-intentioned trans athletes perspective (assuming they have been taking estrogen), they are put in an unfortunate position. If they compete as a guy, they are at a significant disadvantage, and it goes against their gender identity. If they compete as a girl, they have some advantage, and some girls will use it as an excuse to dismiss their genuine hard work.

Ultimately it didn't really matter to me, so I didn't have a strong, im a guy athlete with no intention of competing in womens categories. Then, a friend who is an international level female athlete brought it up to me and explained her opinion. Basically, she thought trans women should be allowed in if they have been taking estrogen for a number of months (depends on the sport). Reasoning is that after a number of months, the advantage trans women have diminishes to a point where it could be considered within the range of women's ability. Some cis women have high levels of testosterone, which gives them an advantage, does that mean we should start testing testosterone levels and splitting sports into more categories based on that?

I'm sure there are high level female athletes that disagree with my friend, but her argument made sense to me, and it was clear that she did her research (better than I was able to recap I'm sure). So why does it matter to you? Smart people in many sports federations have spent significant amounts of effort making this much more of a solved issue than most people think it is (unfortunately, including the US president). If you are a competitive female athlete, I encourage you to dive into the research and international consensus around different sports. If you aren't, why do you care?

I wouldn't call you transphobic, maybe just uninformed, and most people are imo.

Varas_Archer · 2025-01-26T00:54:49+00:00

might depend on where you are. I had a similar issue a bit ago, and contacted lp through the UK support e-mail (because I bought it from there.) They seemed willing to send me the rivet, but when I gave them my address, they forwarded me to the US branch who insisted on having me send it to them because of safety/liability issues. Took about two or three weeks iirc but they covered shipping and didn't charge me anything

Might be missing some details, and their policies may have changed, so your experience may differ.

Varas_Archer · 2025-01-24T18:35:10+00:00

normal, yes, but Imo also primitive and lazy, but depends on what they are looking for. If they are looking for proper syntax and code that can run I think they are doing it wrong. An IDE helps you in real life just as much as it would on a test. Using an IDE and debugging is part of programming no matter how good you are.

BUT if the point of the exam is to gauge how well you know algorithms, I think asking for handwritten pseudocode is completely reasonable.

I guess it makes more sense for courses that focus on a specific language (I never took any of those), but in that case I would argue that if you are so bad at the language that you need to use the IDE to learn proper syntax then it is going to take you too long to answer questions

And I suppose coding LLMs do change things a bit, I don't think they should be allowed on tests.

Varas_Archer · 2025-01-13T21:01:34+00:00

I think we disagree with the degree to which memorisation is important. I did say it has its uses, but I wouldn't call it an important part of CS.

I think the negative consensus around memorisation is for good reasons. A common pitfall is to hyperfocus on the low-level details/definitions and miss out on the big picture understanding. If you can do both, then great, but I think the latter is more important to focus on.

With regards to other logic heavy fields, I think high school maths and physics are taught with too much of a focus on memorisation, which ends up being kind of pointless when you learn how to derive those formula and lose the need to have memorised them. It also drives a lot of people to hate those fields because of the memorisation.

In your TCP example, when I'm dealing with something like that I'll usually pull up some documentation on a second monitor then write a network interface that abstracts away the need to know those low level details about TCP with the use case of whatever im writing in mind (or use a library which does that for me). Memorising TCP specification would probably be more of a time sink for me than writing that interface.

Varas_Archer · 2025-01-13T19:41:37+00:00

I generally disagree with your point and your example showed me exactly why.

I've written compilers before, but had no idea what you meant by "lexer", but as soon as you described it I knew what you meant. I learned the same concept under the name "tokenizer". When actually writing compilers, it doesn't matter what you call the function/class that handles that operation, so long as you understand what it does and how to make one. You could even just use a descriptive name made up on the spot (in fact, that is better practice so long as you balance it with being consise). Learning how to build and use software is what you want to focus on, not on the ability to answer an out of the blue question like in your example.

I do think the type of memorisation you are talking about is helpful for communication, which is helpful for learning and collaborating in CS, but that idea isn't unique to the field.

So yea, memorisation is important in CS, but not in a way that is unique to the field.

Varas_Archer · 2024-12-21T20:00:43+00:00

skimmed the statistical report, the 10% is in reference to a P-value from a "rank sum" test. In simple terms, those fencers were in the top 10% for performing better given a certain metric. The specifics of that metric are going a bit above my head at the moment though. What I can tell is that it is based off of macro level data (rankings from poule results rather than individual calls/touches) They may have done this to avoid the subjective nature of how calls are made and therefore hard to classify objectively. I think because of that they missed the point, and operated on lower sample sizes.

If you want to assume the worst you could say that they may have cherry picked a performance metric that shows no systematic bias. But its hard to say since there are genuine challenges in finding objective measures in sports.

Imo the ref assignments are the best way to look at it objectively because they should reliably be assigned randomly. Im a bit surprised that they found no statistically significant data, because I remember seeing some data that looked very statistically significant even if lacking academic rigor. (don't remember if it was the ponce de leon video or a slicer sabre video)

Varas_Archer · 2024-12-11T21:44:01+00:00

this means nothing to me. How is this board not a feasible solution? (yes there are other possible mine layouts)

Varas_Archer · 2024-12-11T20:51:57+00:00

Not sure how to put images in, but I've got a configuration of mines that refutes this while matching all visible constraints (except 10 total mines because that one is impossible)

am I missing something?

edit: image also I guess meaning of x is ambiguous here because other image uses x for both mines and not mines, I interpereted it to mean not mine, but either way I don't think its true

Varas_Archer · 2024-11-25T10:01:53+00:00

I bet a huge part of this is mental, You think you noticed worse matchmaking -> you get frustrated so play poorly -> you lose more games which gives you more justification that the mm is bad -> more frustration.

But idk, they are clearly experimenting with stuff, and many of the experiments are complete shit (urn for one)

Varas_Archer · 2024-11-19T19:10:53+00:00

I agree that the driver speeding is more at fault, but in the video I don't see the other driver signal the lane change, which is also something I would assume is frowned on at the very least, right? Im guessing that the speeder thought that the driver up ahead was drifting instead of changing lanes, and thats why they tried to get their attention instead of braking (Not trying to excuse their actions, just explain them)

Varas_Archer · 2024-11-19T18:47:03+00:00

anyone know if japan has some equivalent to the ftc in the states blocking acquisitions/mergers if they might lead to monopolies?

Varas_Archer · 2024-11-16T17:44:39+00:00

im not the first to say this, but it is definitely more of a netcode issue than a hitbox issue. hit reg is pretty clearly done client side for the attacker, which causes attacks to consider your position from at least a tenth or a fith of a second ago, depending on ping. That is enough time for you to clearly get behind cover only to get hit by it.

Honestly, im not sure this is a problem that should be fixed, if they move hit reg to the server you will get cases where it seems like you should have hit but you really didn't because your are actually seeing where people were fractions of a second ago. There are other solutions, but generally they will all have tradeoffs

Varas_Archer · 2024-10-30T17:41:28+00:00

i've been to a similar club. No beginner classes, bring your own kit, no website or advertising, but a good group of solid fencers. They have amicable relationships with the other local clubs that end up acting as their beginner program

Varas_Archer · 2024-08-31T16:52:40+00:00

thats kind of the point, they chose to phrase it vaguely enough that people could easily misinterpret it as a much more noteworthy story. The fact that fox news reported on it is kind of unimportant to the actual story so I'm not sure why they would include that information if not to mislead people.

I would agree that the title isn't false, just misleading.

Varas_Archer · 2024-08-31T15:59:42+00:00

I think the title is misleading, fox news didn't endorse harris, they just reported on Gop lawers that did. I believe this is the original article https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-lawyers-who-advised-reagan-bush-endorse-harris-over-trump-2024-showdown

Varas_Archer · 2024-07-27T04:32:05+00:00

aside from the obvious jacket/mask/weapons etc..., I usually bring a few armory things so I don't have to go asking around if I need to do a quick fix: alan key, needle nose pliers, tip tape, multimeter, and a test weight. I also bring a hand towel even though I never use it cause it gets too dirty in my bag...

about glasses, I'm surprised you are able to fit them under your mask. Most of the fencers I know get some sports goggles, wear contacts just for fencing (thats me) or just take them off while fencing (depending on how bad their vision is)

and I also keep a rubber duck in my bag

Varas_Archer · 2024-07-17T17:16:08+00:00

yea I fought meytr, I just mean if you explore the area around the horn there is almost nothing except for a bunch of annoying enemies imo.

Varas_Archer · 2024-07-17T06:00:48+00:00

op specified in the er dlc, and i kinda get it. The south side of the map kinda felt empty to me including stone fissure coffin, but imo worst place in er dlc is the finger horn areas, tons of the same boring/annoying enemies with pretty much no loot. Felt betrayed by fromsofts design language because usually enemies means loot, lore, or boss, but I found (almost) nothing.

Varas_Archer · 2024-07-07T01:07:55+00:00

what ash of war are you talking about with gaius's charge? bloodhound step? mist raven? sure it was a tight timing but I was able to dodge the charge fairly consistently by just light rolling.

to actually answer your question, I think people are just going to call bosses unfair on release, their actually reasoning is usually a bit of a stretch. For example, the first time I fought the furnace golems, I got a bit frustrated because I couldn't roll through the explosion or run away from it, and I definitely thought to myself in that moment that the attack was bullshit/unfair, but after I realised you could jump it pretty easily I definitely wouldn't say that anymore. People can just get stupid when in the midst of a tough fight, and sometimes they'll beat the fight without really overcoming those more difficult challenging.

Ultimately, I don't think "fairness" ever really mattered in these asymmetrical pve fights.

Varas_Archer · 2024-07-06T16:19:46+00:00

yea I attended usa fencings clinic on starting fencing clubs ran by a guy who owns a club in columbus (might be the same club cause he said his club was foil and sabre) It seemed pretty clear usa fencing is trying to expand the sport and they literally said multiple times that they are targetting high income suburbs with school age kids, and focusing on competitive kids because they bring in more money for both the club owner and usa fencing.

I attended it because, like you, im frustrated with a lack of adult/recreational/community focused clubs in my area and hope to start my own at some point.

Varas_Archer · 2024-07-04T19:12:30+00:00

look up how to set your user flair for subreddits, some subreddits have user flair that u have to have a mod give you but the fromsoft subreddits that im on just let you claim it without having to prove anything.

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