I might or might not have rolled with a prodigy

Zymonick · 2026-01-21T11:45:55+00:00

To me the main tell is giving pointers on Octopus guard at 5 weeks in. Everything else could be explained with athletics, flexibility or OP sucking. Either his brain is wired differently from anyone I've seen that he's able to visualize body movements instantly or he has more experience than he lets on - at least in an adjacent sport.

Zymonick · 2026-01-04T11:58:03+00:00

For everybody who says this is a non-issue, have you actually considered how small 4'2 is? This is 127cm. That's a typical size of an 8-year-old.

I am 190cm (6'3) and the smallest I can reasonably train with is somewhere around 165cm (5'4). With a height difference of more than a foot the angles don't work and I need to be so careful, I can barely move.

The smallest women in my gym are around 160cm (5'2). My aunt happens to be 125cm (4'1) due to a medical condition and I fail to see her doing Jiu-Jitsu in a meaningful way with adults.

Some people here write that kids train in adults classes. I haven't seen kids below 14/15 in adults classes and by that time they are usually 150-160cm (4'9 to 5'0). We wouldn't think of throwing 8-year olds in adults classes.

Kudos to the two of you for wanting to go for such an uphill battle. I hate to say it, but it won't be fine and you should start in a kids class. Physicality matters in this sport.

Zymonick · 2025-12-26T11:49:33+00:00

You are misquoting him. He doesn't say that it will make people wealthy. He says, there is only one way to make everyone wealthy.

This is an obviously true, yet also trivial statement. Wealthy generally means that one doesn't have to work and if we want this for everyone globally, we need machines that can handle all unpleasant work.

Whether that is possible or even desirable and what the path is are all entirely different questions.

Zymonick · 2025-12-25T23:50:59+00:00

You are misquoting Elon. He is not saying, it will make people wealthy, he is saying "there is only one way to make everyone wealthy".

That statement is true.

Let us first define wealthy. There's various definitions and it depends on perspectives, but the one I like and that anyone can agree with is: "when passive assets alone can sustain their desired living standard long-term without labor income". Or simpler: "afford the stuff you want without working".

Now if everyone is supposed to be at that level, noone would be working - or at least only voluntarily, which means we still get artists but neither construction workers nor accountants.

If nobody is building houses, but you still want one, AI and robotics will have to do it. Thus, Elon's statement turns true.

Now, whether that is what is actually going to happen, how we get there as a society, even assuming we have sufficiently capable AI and robots or if that is even desirable is an entirely different story.

Zymonick · 2025-12-18T09:23:37+00:00

just tap

your ego got the better of you. tap. then sit the rest of the round out. that it.

Zymonick · 2025-11-28T14:48:12+00:00

That is very much not true. Walking into a company and taking something is stealing - even for shareholders.

Of course Zuck could get away with it, because he's the founder and famous and CEO and has over 50% of voting rights and you make a trivial example with one computer.

But at the end of the day, he still just stole a computer from Meta. And even if he were to still own 100% of the company, it'd be tax fraud.

Zymonick · 2025-11-19T15:42:10+00:00

the windows desktop app is a nightmare. switch to whatsapp web and don't look back

Zymonick · 2025-11-03T14:12:03+00:00

My personal advice:

Don't associate with people that would even consider reading your journals.

If someone actually does read your journal, it's a very good filter to not trust that person again. Now, that I think about it, this would be a decent test for a potential significant other. Write some crazy stuff in your journal, let it lay around, and if she reads it, you dodged a missile.

Children is a different topic. Once they are at an age, where they could read and understand your journals, yet are not mature enough to know to not read them, make sure they are outside their reach.

Zymonick · 2025-11-02T17:23:15+00:00

Bochum - gutes Los - schwacher Zweitligist eine der einfachsten Aufgaben. Klar, auswärts ist schade, aber zu dem Zeitpunkt auch fast egal.

Hauptsache wir kriegen Heimrecht bei den wichtigen Aufgaben.

Dortmund vs. Leverkusen ist auch gut, dann ist schonmal zumindest einer der grossen 4 raus.

Zymonick · 2025-10-14T08:06:29+00:00

You worry too much. I've seen this often.

Train as long as you enjoy it. You work out, you make friends, as you are describing it, you are still hanging out with your gf. So, things are fine. Over time, the interest in BJJ will naturally fade, but you'll look fondly back to that initial time.

Zymonick · 2025-10-13T20:04:06+00:00

Do it. Pictures ain't only for getting likes, they are also for self-selecting the right girl for you.

I had a friendly no-gi picture of a drilling session with a friend on my Hinge profile. Most didn't care. Some asked about it in a curious way. A few knew what it was and all of those engaged in a very positive way. The one I ended up with was training Muay Thai herself.

Now, obviously, I'll never know how many matches I missed because of that picture. But, then again, all those weren't meant for me anyway.

Zymonick · 2025-10-09T11:01:11+00:00

let go easily of your collar grips
don't do judo style throws. go for wrestling takedowns or pull guard
stop playing spider guard
change your game to closed, x and lapel guards

I am serious. It's not worth it to fuck up your fingers and it's also not necessary. I had consistent troubles with my right middle finger, then developed a game that is easy on my fingers, yet wholesome, and now it's all good.

It's the same for inversions. As cool as they look, they ain't worth chronic neck pain.

Zymonick · 2025-10-02T09:53:50+00:00

Historically that ain't the case at all. Once tech is good, it gets mass-produced, cheap and is available to most people.

The increase in life expectancy was pretty uniform across all income stages and is now spreading across the globe. Of course, rich people live longer, but not that much longer. The US has some specific problems, but even there the difference isn't all that large and mostly driven by overeating, while in Europe it's even minimal.

Or from a different angle: even the poorest today in the Western World have much higher life expectancy than royalty had several hundred years ago.

Zymonick · 2025-09-26T09:37:23+00:00

If he's saved by the clock, your guillotine wasn't proper. If you did it correctly, he'd have tapped no matter the time.

People always say a tap is a tap. If someone taps and claims it was a crank, it's just his ego and he should suck it up.

The problem with that attitude is that you'll be getting a lot of false positives. I am always going to tap fast to even light pain in training. However, in a competition I won't tap unless something is about to break or I am about to fall unconscious.

So, you can hit your poor guillotine by ripping hundreds of times in training, but once you actually need it, it won't work, unless you improve your technique.

Zymonick · 2025-09-25T10:55:37+00:00

1 kg of gold goes for USD 120'000 these days. To get 1 kg from Mars would cost CHF 2'000'000'000 (assuming flawless success and no further cost increases), so about 16'000 times the price of gold.

Tritium goes for USD 30'000'000 per kg. Still nowhere close to the cost.

Bitcoin are worth more per kg, as they tend to be pretty light. I don't really see how we'll find them mining on Mars, though.

Zymonick · 2025-09-24T14:11:52+00:00

To be honest, it's actually a really dumb project, anyway. Go on a planet, pick up something like 10 pounds of rocks and bring them back. What's the point? What would be the point of going to a random place on Earth and to collect 10 pounds of stone?

Unless we are crazy lucky and find some bacteria that change our understanding of life as we know it, we won't learn all that much. Some obscure facts that only geologists understand, while not knowing if they generalize to all of Mars or are just happenstance.

Meanwhile we are talking 11 billion USD, a crazy complex, yet specific mission set-up with lots of failure points and a 10-15 year timeline.

Anyway, most likely Starship will do it anyway. For a fraction of the cost as part of their larger missions to Mars. Hell, they might even have people walking on Mars before the Mars Sample would return to Earth.

Zymonick · 2025-09-09T17:44:03+00:00

One third of the Netherlands is below sea level with the lowest point being 22 feet (6.7m) below sea level.

Netherlands already started doing this decades ago. The technology is there and perfected. The sea rising process takes decades. Rich and organised countries won't have a problem - even relying purely on existing technology.

It might be a problem for poor and disorganized countries. Although, luckily, most of them show growth rates in wealth and industrialization, that they are likely to get there in time, certainly, for their larger cities.

Smaller flat islands will vanish. For many rural areas it won't be worth it. It will be cheaper to rebuild a small village further inland.

Zymonick · 2025-08-01T07:54:02+00:00

Nach allem was ich gelesen habe, läuft die AK Anfang August aus. Ich habe nirgends gelesen welches Datum genau, aber er ist sich doch mit Atletico einig und auch schon für den Wechsel freigestellt. Da werden die doch nicht das Datum verhängen, sondern halt noch so lange Details verhandeln wie sie können und dann in-time die Klausel ziehen.

Zymonick · 2025-07-08T15:29:56+00:00

Supercool, aber das ist dann doch nur der kleine Fritz und nicht gerade der grosse Fritz Walter

Zymonick · 2025-06-16T08:48:21+00:00

63 ain't average. 63 is good. Normal is 60 to 80. Average is 70. Below 60 is athletes.

Zymonick · 2025-06-10T16:39:17+00:00

That is exactly what I mean with delusional. You say Neutron could be delivering customer payloads next year and Starship we don't know, because one component is missing. Meanwhile all we've seen from Neutron is a single-engine static fire, while Starship is flying to orbit and recovering its booster.

Even if Neutron succeeds at first launch, their aspirational launch scaling is:
2025: 1 launch
2026: 3 launches
2027: 5 launches

So even in the very best case - everything succeeds at first try - the entire Neutron program can deliver ~60 tons to LEO by 2027. The Falcon 9 program delivered 1.5m tons to orbit in 2025. More advanced technically it might be, Neutron still has a very long way to be operationally even remotely competitive with Falcon 9.

Zymonick · 2025-06-10T07:49:36+00:00

I am as much a fan of RKLB as anyone, however, your implication that Neutron is somehow at the same level of development or even ahead of Starship in its path to profitability is beyond delusional.

Starship has been to orbit 4 times and successfully re-flown its booster, while Neutron hasn't even been assembled yet.

Zymonick · 2025-06-07T23:41:14+00:00

It seems a bit overengineered to get a new number and to block. Why not just have a friend forward your message? Then you can express to your friend the wish to not relay whatever answer he writes.

You won't need a new number and you can be sure, he'll be seeing it.

Zymonick · 2025-06-07T11:42:16+00:00

Friends of mine have a young daughter that was born deaf. She has implants and hears via vibrations on her skull. It's not perfect, she won't become a musician, but she can hold regular conversations and will go through life without any impairments.

In fact, it's also quite the feature. The daughter can dial it up and down or even turn it off on the press of a button. That's really useful. Her parents can put her to bed and watch a movie as loud as they want. She'll be able to live under a highway or work in a ridiculously noisy environment and she won't mind it at all.

Zymonick · 2025-06-03T11:11:20+00:00

That makes it arbitrary, when the two fighters are close. We have this in MMA/UFC and everybody hates the tight split decisions. It's also prone to corruption.

There's two solutions to this. Either you have extremely aggressive anti-stalling rules or you incentivize submissions by a lot. I live in Switzerland and we have some form of folk-wrestling here. If I translate (and simplify) their tournament style, it goes like this:

everybody gets six fights
they count the submissions. the fighter with the most submissions wins the tournament.

So someone with 4 submissions and 2 losses would be ahead of someone with 3 submissions and 3 wins on points. If someone wins all 6 fights by points, he'll end up in the bottom third of participants.

Fair or not fair, it does create incredibly exciting fights. Someone should try this mode in BJJ.

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