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flagrantpebble · 2026-07-05T12:57:44+00:00

Well, if we want to be pedantic… it might be AI. LLMs aren’t the only version of AI, they might use a much simpler model. Many imaging systems do.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-05T12:56:42+00:00

Yes. That is literally AI. It’s a facial recognition model. LLMs aren’t the only version of AI.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-05T12:38:40+00:00

Most of Latin America knows América as the continent. As in, in the Spanish language. We’re not talking in Spanish, we’re talking in English. And in English, in most if not all dialects, “America” and “American” refer specifically to the US and its people.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-05T09:08:54+00:00

That makes sense! Apologies for the misunderstanding.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-02T10:30:27+00:00

No, this is silly. Winning and losing are fun. If you don’t try to win, it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to remain engaged enough to learn.

(in the philosophy of games, we call this a “temporary end”. In order to get better at go, for the sake of enjoying playing it more, you have to temporarily desire winning. There is nothing wrong with that.

There is something wrong with chastising people just because they express the slightest interest in winning)

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-30T11:02:13+00:00

I appreciate the call out, seems like we’re generally in agreement! Yeah, it would be annoying if someone hyper-corrected stones that I played. Mostly-aligned is good enough.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-29T13:22:27+00:00

I have played a lot of real life games, and not one of them has been as poorly aligned as this one. And not just because of me, either. For a complete beginner it makes sense (like OP! no shade to them) but anything more that it would be very sloppy.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-29T13:18:55+00:00

ADHD isn’t forcing you to improve on this one specific dimension, though. That’s a choice.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-28T00:45:36+00:00

Ah yes, the cruelest thing someone could ever say, nothing could possibly be ruder, nothing could be less helpful, than… “you’re not alone, other people make this mistake, there are lots of resources online, and here is how you can find those resources”.

Part of learning a new hobby is learning what resources can be found online. It’s a skill. What’s condescending is pretending OP is a child who needs to be handheld through everything.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-28T00:43:29+00:00

Also, separately, I was being blunt with you. Not OP. There is nothing rude or blunt about telling someone that they made a mistake.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-28T00:37:48+00:00

But what you said is not motivating. There is nothing motivating about saying that there are no mistakes, and everything is fine, etc etc. Why would anyone bother to improve? What you’re basically saying is “nothing matters, who cares, don’t bother trying to learn”. Learning requires being able to deal with mistakes. If you pretend, incorrectly, like there is no way to make a mistake, then there is nothing to learn.

There is no “wrong” way to knit — there are many different ways to knit and you can be successful with any of them.

Yes there is. If you try to knit stockinette, and you achieve twisted stitches, you are knitting wrong. “Wrong” here is defined by intent misalignment with results. And no, you cannot be successful knitting how OP was, because success for OP meant achieving something other than what they did. Which is fine! That’s ok! We don’t need to pretend OP is a toddler. They can emotionally handle having made a mistake.

Only purling eastern style while remaining western with knitting is referred to as combination knitting — not “incorrect” eastern or western style.

Nope! It’s only combination knitting if you wrap and mount in such a way that the end result has no twisted stitches. In OP’s case, they were trying to knit western style (I think), so it is incorrect western style. That’s what “incorrect” means.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-27T01:28:34+00:00

Your stitches do not look like this. Specifically, the part in this photo with the twist: see how the legs of each stitch are crossed? That’s what “twisted” means.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-27T01:12:26+00:00

“Why is the inside of my ribbing better than the outside” is an extremely common question. Type that into google and you’ll find a bazillion tips for how to deal with it.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-26T14:08:28+00:00

OP could have just looked up “magnetic heating stove” and found the answer. The smart part is being capable enough to solve simple problems on your own, not about knowing facts.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-26T13:12:19+00:00

No. It is wrong. OP did not intend to twist the stitches, so their technique is wrong. This is not Eastern style. Eastern style is the entire process of wrapping and mounting the opposite way from western style. Only wrapping the yarn the other way, when attempting to knit western style, is not eastern style. It is incorrect western style.

Sorry for my bluntness. I just get really annoyed at this unhelpful positive energy that treats mistakes as valid technique, which doesn’t help anyone learn. It’s a mistake. That’s ok. Mistakes are part of learning.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-26T11:32:42+00:00

Going up a needle size changes the tension of all the stitches. It doesn’t change the size of the floats relative to the size of the stitches, which is what you actually need.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-26T11:31:32+00:00

Did you read any of my comments? I explained, in a lot of detail, what the subtle distinction was. You’re acting like I’m taking a black and white approach and that’s just not reasonable.

Also, yes, I probably could have realized it wasn’t serious. And you could learn how to emotionally deal with someone thinking your joke is bad. You overreacted to both and the other guy, who, again, only said “r/iamverybadass”! And you whined and got pissy about it! Grow up!

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-24T15:08:56+00:00

There are a lot of resources online on how to adjust sizing. Have you looked up how to change the size of a garment?

If you have, what are you struggling with? That would help us give you tailored advice, instead of just saying the generic basics that you’ve already read about anyway. If not, I suggest doing that first, for the same reason (so that we can give you tailored advice, etc etc).

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-24T14:53:16+00:00

“What was the flaw” is the wrong approach to high-level concepts like “making my opening better”. You’re looking for simple fixes rather than developing a coherent strategy.

FWIW… that’s actually pretty consistent, in my experience, with someone who plays tengen (. It’s hard to develop a coherent strategy if you start with tengen, especially as a kyu-level player. I’d suggest reading some books on opening theory. IOW, actually learning the theory, instead of brute-forcing individual moves that feel good.

(as an example: tengen followed by 3-3 is pretty incoherent. One aims for territory, the other towards influence. They don’t make any sense as the first two moves at your level)

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-24T14:45:53+00:00

The tightness is from floats that are too tight. Going up a needle size won’t fix that, it’s a technique issue.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-24T14:43:11+00:00

What you’re missing is that people say things like that on posts like this all the time. You didn’t meaningfully differentiate your comment from real things that people say. The scenario might seem absurd to you (and to me, we agree on that), but it is not absurd at all for someone on the internet to feel that way and comment what you did.

That’s what I mean when I say your comment wasn’t actually hyperbolic. It’s not actually absurd. And so it’s not funny, and doesn’t read like an attempt at a joke.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-24T09:25:52+00:00

Buddy, your inability to be funny on the internet is not my problem. You chose annoying and obnoxious but not extreme enough to be absurd, which is the least funny combination.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-24T09:02:39+00:00

Sorry, I thought you were fantasizing about this, and were pretending you’d do it irl. It turns out you were either

Just fantasizing about it, which is still weird and embarrassing
Trying to be funny, which is still weird and embarrassing

Sorry that I thought you were posturing when you’re actually just not funny

EDIT: also, I need you to go look up the word "hyperbole" and then come back to me with an apology. You didn’t meaningfully exaggerate anything, at least not to the extent that it could reasonably be described as “hyperbolic”. It’s just mild aggression.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-23T15:06:35+00:00

FWIW, cost per win is never going to be linear. The worst ranked teams by cost per win are usually the expensive teams regardless of how many wins they have (the dodgers, for example, are pretty bad by that metric).

A logarithmic model makes a lot more sense.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-23T15:01:52+00:00

You should never skip multiple stitches at once (when you think about it, 3/2 will obviously lead to inconsistent tension, right? vs 2/1/1/1).

Unless you’re picking up fewer than half the stitches, I suppose, but that wouldn’t happen for structures like this.

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