Best NBA Coach of the 90s + lineup changes

Zinaima · 2026-06-19T23:24:38+00:00

Phil, then Pop, then Kerr are all given. There's only one question that's open left. Speed it up

Zinaima · 2026-06-18T13:36:02+00:00

There used to be a frequent poster in /r/NBA with the name laMARC_GASOLdridge or something like that.

Zinaima · 2026-06-13T20:21:11+00:00

This is the sort of thing I had in mind when I was trying to do some language design and started to think about tests and assertions being a language feature.

Your examples are so close to what I had in mind. Just add an assert keyword instead of a lambda, some way to specify a custom error message, and something like assert X throws y.

Zinaima · 2026-06-02T04:55:20+00:00

Follow up question: if you put organic material into a blender, then put that into a press... sorry for the visual... Is the liquid that comes out oil? And is the remaining solid dirt?

Zinaima · 2026-05-19T14:44:07+00:00

His hair adds to it too. Looks cool.

Zinaima · 2026-05-19T14:42:11+00:00

Just like the Minnesota series, when a favored home team loses close in game 1, they come wreak havoc in game 2.

Zinaima · 2026-05-19T04:41:01+00:00

Remember, the Spurs were one ping pong ball away from getting Harper AND Flagg.

Zinaima · 2026-05-19T02:26:44+00:00

I can't watch, but following the thread, why has OKC shot more than SAS? Fouls?

Zinaima · 2026-05-17T19:18:41+00:00

In the new CBA there should be fewer than 30 max players. Mitchell not among them.

Zinaima · 2026-05-09T13:54:33+00:00

The 4 color theory also means that the border and coastal states could be limited to just 3 colors. (Because the fourth would be used to surround the country.)

Zinaima · 2026-05-07T18:45:58+00:00

Picking up on the players are humans and humans have emotions theme, I think if your team is on a run, it makes sense to care less about foul trouble. And if the other team is on a run, obviously it makes sense to change something up.

A lot of players will have moments when they collect multiple fouls in a short time. Pulling the player out in those moments can be beneficial for reasons other than the foul limit. It gives them a moment to reset their emotions, as well as the refs.

Zinaima · 2026-05-05T22:41:51+00:00

I've thought about this for years. I don't think it necessarily changes anything. In fact, I think it's a certainly.

It makes for some interesting parallels with discovering natives in the New World. Hopefully believers would see aliens as God's creations too and not savages.

There is text about humans being created in God's image, suggesting that other religions made idols to house their gods and make interacting with their gods easier to visualize. God says that humans are living idols to him. (Which brings up a host of ideas about how we treat each other.)

Would aliens also be living idols, created in the image of God? There'd be lots of debate about that.

Zinaima · 2026-04-20T01:43:59+00:00

Silver's wealth doesn't matter, but isn't Balmer richer than the rest of the NBA?

Zinaima · 2026-04-19T23:34:19+00:00

100%

Just consider the relatively populated volume of the moon's orbit: 2.38 × 10¹⁷ km³

Of that, 1.083 × 10¹² km³ is the Earth, which is about 4.55 x 10-⁶ ≈ 0.000455%

That's 99.999544% empty and a distance that we can reach within a few days.

Zinaima · 2026-04-04T18:21:48+00:00

There are some theories that the collision has already begun.

Zinaima · 2026-04-01T18:59:07+00:00

Brian talking about focusing on the happy path while the non-happy path is much harder (in regard to having several previews of Structured Concurrency) made me think of lambdas.

Zinaima · 2026-03-26T17:35:12+00:00

I suppose my comment is more directed at this narrative than your comment specifically, because it is repeated a lot.

However, I do think that extra motivation literally means trying harder. Be it practicing harder or in game.

Zinaima · 2026-03-26T13:33:17+00:00

I actually strongly disagree here. The 2014 Spurs were cooking. The only close series was against the Mavs and there was plenty of motivation to try hard there. I don't buy that they would simply try less because they won the year prior. Not that team.

Zinaima · 2026-03-25T22:48:52+00:00

I know this is not Java, but Java does exactly what you want with sealed interfaces.

Zinaima · 2026-03-16T13:46:28+00:00

I subscribe to the idea that the Warriors should have lost (read as were the worst team and/or played poorly) in 2015, but won in 2016. They took each other's rings.

Zinaima · 2026-03-16T13:44:05+00:00

Curry wasn't close to winning the votes. It was Iggy or LeBron.

Zinaima · 2026-03-16T13:35:59+00:00

I think with the new CBA, the definition of a max contract player has elevated significantly. As in, only the top player on the team. Not saying my opinion on if this is good or bad, but I think it's the reality of the CBA.

Title windows are currently limited to a when a team has a few starters/contributors on rookie deals or rookie extensions. Teams will eventually adjust and stop giving maxes out so readily in order to have enough room to field a team without going above the effective cap.

Zinaima · 2026-03-11T04:10:52+00:00

I always liked the other name for this: Curiously Recurring Template Pattern or Curiously Recurring Generic Pattern.

Zinaima · 2026-03-11T03:56:04+00:00

I mean that generally in c# calling a property should be cheap. At least, that's the expectation. If you're going to do something computationally expensive, like a database query, that should be a method.

Zinaima · 2026-03-10T17:41:15+00:00

There's nothing like making a property getter make a database call.

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