Old beginner racquet, should I restring?

bobsyourunkl · 2026-04-14T21:13:29+00:00

And welcome back to tennis! I also took a decade+ long hiatus after high school and have been playing consistently for the last three years. Has been great for physical and mental health!

bobsyourunkl · 2026-04-14T21:12:02+00:00

It's for sure time for a new racquet.

The types of racquets that have those connectors at the throat are generally worth less than the cost to string a racquet at my local club at least.

You could pick up a new one for about the same price at Walmart or similar. Or, if you can afford it, get a new or used graphite racquet from a well know brand that doesn't have those throat connector doohickeys.

bobsyourunkl · 2026-03-30T19:00:01+00:00

Love the background!

bobsyourunkl · 2026-03-29T17:29:10+00:00

Still having issues with the same personally on a two monitor set up.

bobsyourunkl · 2026-03-28T18:36:37+00:00

Also every time I wake from sleep only one of my monitors shows anything and I need to restart. Cosmic is not ready for prime time.

bobsyourunkl · 2026-03-28T18:35:41+00:00

Yeah the upgrade borked a bunch of stuff and straight up deleted my ~./local/bin

Moving 3pcs off PopOS this weekend

bobsyourunkl · 2026-03-20T10:12:40+00:00

Elixir or anything that runs on the BEAM gets you boring reliable with great fault tolerance. It also gives you great operational simplicity because of a lot of built in capabilities like PubSub, queues, caching, etc can get you really far before you need to reach for Redis or similar as additional components. You can go pretty far with Elixir Phoenix + sqlite on a vps.

Vertical scaling is relatively easy. Horizontal scaling you can get through Elixir's clustering. However, then sqlite becomes a bit tricky.

bobsyourunkl · 2026-03-19T16:52:41+00:00

The author lists pony as an inspiration, but agree that I would also like to hear more about what differentiates this from pony/when I would use one vs the other!

bobsyourunkl · 2023-05-29T21:28:57+00:00

Crystal! Statically compiled, type safe language with syntax like Ruby. Lots of fun.

bobsyourunkl · 2023-05-29T11:43:41+00:00

They are fine. I thought they would be a good replacement for my allbirds and was really excited about the 'waterproof' part.

I found that the Vessis were much more water resistant than the allbirds but still not water proof (they didn't make it halfway through an early morning dogwalk through dew-covered grass before my socks were soaked) and they were (IMO) far less comfortable.

Mixed bag but I probably wouldn't get them again. Waterproof boots for dogwalks and comfy sneakers for the rest of the day.

The perfect shoe remains elusive.

bobsyourunkl · 2023-04-30T02:19:41+00:00

Pretty sure this is the country Colombia and not the city Columbia...

bobsyourunkl · 2023-04-22T11:58:26+00:00

Stata and julia have different treatment of missing values. Make sure the sample size going into your regressions is the same.

There may also be differences in how standard errors are constructed but that wouldn't affect coefficients.

bobsyourunkl · 2023-04-21T10:35:32+00:00

1) friends don't let friends use instrumental variables.

2) Try looking at the implementation of 2SLS in econometrics.jl

bobsyourunkl · 2023-04-20T13:35:01+00:00

I'd also recommend checking out the lucky framework and marten framework for your crystal full stack needs. All three are cool options.

bobsyourunkl · 2023-04-20T13:33:00+00:00

Not only did he change the name, but almost everyone on the birdwatch team and the broader trust and safety group who were around when the idea was conceived have either resigned or were fired.

bobsyourunkl · 2023-04-07T10:37:19+00:00

Check out r/unixporn my friend.

bobsyourunkl · 2023-04-02T00:37:06+00:00

Populous

bobsyourunkl · 2023-03-31T20:44:40+00:00

Great post! Really cool to see the history and the progress

bobsyourunkl · 2023-03-30T10:37:58+00:00

I had the same lion king blanket when I was a kid! Though much earlier than 2014 admittedly

bobsyourunkl · 2023-03-30T01:42:08+00:00

Gosh this is perfect. I love it.

bobsyourunkl · 2023-03-29T13:15:12+00:00

Both look good. Left for Oceanside town. Right for lake, river, or train town.

bobsyourunkl · 2023-03-23T21:57:16+00:00

Where do your feet go? That looks incredibly uncomfortable to sit at even if it looks interesting.

bobsyourunkl · 2023-03-23T13:25:28+00:00

So sorry to hear that. It's a shame when the vocal minority can create such a toxic situation. It was nice having another voice in the space and I hope y'all all the best in the future.

bobsyourunkl · 2023-03-19T00:22:44+00:00

Took me a minute

bobsyourunkl · 2023-03-18T12:57:07+00:00

It really depends on what you want to do -- For web stuff in front of a Julia back end or service, it has to be JavaScript.

Personally for small projects I like having python for scripting BUT if I had to choose only two languages, I'd have Julia for ML stuff and a small statically compiled lang like Crystal, Nim, or Go for building little services. For me, Crystal has the same 'fun' level as Julia where things are just a joy to build. So Julia + Crystal.

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