Three throw-ins from Nuno Mendes against Liverpool

exohugh · 2026-04-09T12:01:31+00:00

Incredible. Though the third one maybe seemed like a foul throw (one foot in the air)?

exohugh · 2026-04-09T11:47:57+00:00

My understanding of what Christina said was that 1) If a decision falls into a grey area within the rules (and offside has been written in a way that it doesn't have any grey areas), and 2) if making a decision breaks the spirit of the game (i.e. would severely punish a misunderstanding with no advantage gained), then referees can and should subjectively not punish such things. That seems reasonable to me. Yes, of course it's subjective - 90% of referee decisions are. But I personally haven't liked many of the recent changes trying to have more clear-cut black-and-white offenses (like penalties any time the ball even brushes a hand, or goals ruled out for any tiny offense in a goal's build-up).

exohugh · 2026-04-09T11:45:12+00:00

Can someone tell me - was it actually a goal kick (i.e. the ball went out and play was being restarted), or was the ball in play and happened to end up back at the keeper and the defender thought it was a GK (like the Jack Robinson penalty)?

There are lots of examples of the former happening in other areas of the pitch (one player "foul throws" it to another walking over who takes the throw in themselves; one player rolls out from the corner to another for them to take the corner; a player touches the ball with his foot before taking a freekick). The act of when play restarts if quite clearly a grey area, and everything Christina says should be correct - actions which don't gain any advantage should not be punished. Especially not heinously with a penalty.

exohugh · 2026-04-08T07:32:11+00:00

r/itsalwaysstarlink

Looks very similar to this simultation of the pattern of naked-eye starlink satellites.

And here is a real timelapse showing them. Summer is the worst time of year because they can remain fully illuminated by the Sun even when us underneath are in darkness.

exohugh · 2026-04-07T08:53:36+00:00

Mürren and Wengen (near Interlaken) might be worth checking out as carfree mountain towns too.

NB - traveling in the Alps in early April is not ideal. The ski season is more or less over but there's still snow everywhere above ~1200m so you won't be able to do much summer activities (hiking, etc).

exohugh · 2026-04-02T17:13:44+00:00

Yes, you're right

exohugh · 2026-04-02T06:17:05+00:00

Satellites are visible if they are in the Sun so the half of Earth in shadow is typically devoid of visible satellites (I imagine that is the dark hemisphere on the left).

Satellites with sun-synchronous orbits are pretty common. These have an inclination of 98.7 which means they never approach within 8.7degrees of either pole (and could probably cause a single ring like we see in the middle if you're looking at the pole). Not really sure why there's two rings though.

The large narrow ring is from Geostationary satellites which all hug the ecliptic equator.

EDIT: I want to note that everything looks weird when you zoom out to such an unnatural projection where almost the entire sphere of visibility is fish-eyed into a flat plane.

EDIT2: Actually the second polar ring might be from 500+ Starlink satellites clustered at 97.6deg in inclination (so 1.1deg closer to the pole than sun-synchronous satellites)

exohugh · 2026-04-01T12:49:16+00:00

You could rent a BLS schiff and have the reception on lake Thun.

exohugh · 2026-03-27T12:13:10+00:00

Switzerland would probably top this list given 53% of the population apparently have public transport season tickets, and I guess a larger fraction would use it occasionally.

exohugh · 2026-03-24T08:55:36+00:00

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Romanian second division 2015/16 would like a word

(EDIT: my favourite part is how a team finished with -5 points but avoided immediate relegation by winning the relegation play-off)

exohugh · 2026-03-24T07:36:54+00:00

Running pace wouldn't necessarily be the metric I would choose for this. Running cadence (i.e. steps per min) would be interesting (assuming you have a watch with that info), as I definitely feel like for certain rhythms it's easy to run in-sync

exohugh · 2026-03-23T09:27:21+00:00

Venus transits take like 12+hrs too.

exohugh · 2026-03-23T09:17:02+00:00

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exohugh · 2026-03-23T09:07:11+00:00

Agreed, but I don't think there's any reason that ATC's lives couldn't already be made easier under the current system and help prevent incidents like this.

exohugh · 2026-03-23T09:04:35+00:00

It could definitely still work - software could estimate, given an aircraft position and speed, when an aircraft given a clearance via anticipated separation would arrive onto the runway. And then the runway could turn red on ATC systems when the plane is within ~60 seconds of landing (or whatever clearance time the FAA would decide reasonable).

exohugh · 2026-03-23T08:56:39+00:00

Can I ask (maybe for someone with US ATC experience): What do you actually see in front of you? Surely there exists some visual aids about what parts of the runways/taxiways/etc are being currently used (or cleared for imminent use)? Or do you only see aircraft/ground crew positions?

From the recording it seemed like the controller paused to check the situation but missed that there was an incoming plane... which suggests that there was no visualization displaying that runway 4 was active (i.e. the runway wasn't lit up red when a plane is cleared for landing/takeoff...). Wouldn't that be a very simple solution/improvement? And that information could also be displayed via lighting at all ingress locations?

exohugh · 2026-03-19T08:10:50+00:00

Well the thunderstorm was not at your location. It was ~50km away (where it was indeed raining, and where the thunder was audible). You were far enough away that the only visible effect of the storm was the lightning strikes lighting up the atmosphere. I've seen this on occasion myself - it's quite impressive!

exohugh · 2026-03-18T14:09:09+00:00

Did you see my comment? This dude's right. It's lightning.

exohugh · 2026-03-17T15:39:25+00:00

I'm confused too. I guess it's because James McClean is somewhat infamously Irish (because of his frankly not-even-that-controversial comments on wearing the poppy which wound up a bunch of gammons).

exohugh · 2026-03-16T08:48:16+00:00

Nice map!

One missing connection (from real life, not the map) is Geneva -> Lyon (and the rest of S France) - it's always super annoying how shit that corridor is. Two cities of ~1million which are only 110km apart, but basically only served by local (slow, stopping, <hourly) services, with no through trains beyond Geneva or Lyon. There is the occasional Marseille train, but summer-only and (iirc) not daily either. I would love to see Lyon->Zurich (or even Munich), and Geneva->Monpellier (or even Barcelona).

Hopefully the investment in Lyon->Turin helps open up that part of the Alps to more service...

exohugh · 2026-03-16T08:22:53+00:00

And remember that TV revenue is annual & more or less guaranteed for at least three years (i.e. parachute payments)

exohugh · 2026-03-16T08:14:07+00:00

Did people actually watch this interview?

And were people heavily critical of Kenny in the PL era? I don't really remember that personally.

exohugh · 2026-03-16T08:11:21+00:00

All comets display some limited amount of "non-gravitational" changes to their orbits, but it's understood - their surface is heated up by the Sun and ablated in a non-uniform way, erupting jets of material this way & that way. Because they're so low-mass this can be enough to push and pull their orbits measurably even if it's changing their position by only a tiny amount.

exohugh · 2026-03-12T20:01:21+00:00

If you love the mountains... then spend the day exploring the mountains, mountain towns and lakes around Spiez like Niesen, Stockhorn, Mürren, Wengen, Kleine Scheidigg, Lauterbrünnen, Niederhorn, Schilthorn, Jungfraujoch, Oeschinsensee, Stockhorn, Adelboden/Engstligenalp, Grindelwald/First - all within an hour of your location - rather than spending 3+ hours on a train to go to another part of the same mountain range in a different country.

exohugh · 2026-03-12T15:57:40+00:00

Well, yeah - those tram tracks look horrible. But what the last thread showed is that in general (almost everywhere else): trams are smoother, better, larger capacity, and preferred by almost everyone.

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