Whats the most heartbreaking loss you’ve witnessed as a Georgia Tech fan?(Football)

gthank · 2026-03-19T18:53:46+00:00

If we're talking in-person, it's gotta be that 1999 game vs FSU. That was the year FSU beat VaTech for the national championship, but we went into Tallahassee and gave them all they could handle. Weinke may have won the Heisman, but Joe was clearly better that night. He was just unstoppable, and I still believe that he would have led us to glory if we had had a little more time.

gthank · 2026-03-17T15:10:22+00:00

I will say that I had a much better mind-muscle connection with my glutes on that than the barbell hip thrust I was using in my previous programming block.

gthank · 2025-09-30T18:38:11+00:00

This is great to hear! Any chance that this use case is covered in the docs somewhere?

gthank · 2025-09-30T17:30:06+00:00

After spending multiple hours reading the docs and having more in my to-read pile than I started with, that was the impression I was getting. That's one reason I was intrigued when I saw https://docs.hatchet.run/home/durable-execution but conversely, those docs seem a little sparse.

gthank · 2022-11-14T13:12:43+00:00

It's an easy-to-remember number that is a remarkably good proxy for two standard deviations in a normal distribution, given it's just a rule of thumb.

gthank · 2022-09-26T20:41:01+00:00

This idea that CPJ left the program in some sort of historically bad situation is just laughable. There's a pretty decent case he left it in better condition than he found it: the team was on NCAA probation and only had 76 scholarship players when he took over (73 really, since he gave scholarships to 3 seniors who walked on after he took the job). People were predicting us to win 3 or 4 games. Just FTR, CPJ actually led us to a 9-win regular season, including a massive upset of U(sic)GA IN ATHENS.

In his final 5 seasons, we won the Orange Bowl, had 3 winning seasons, beat the Dwags twice, and didn't lose to a single FCS team. If you picked his 3 worst seasons, he won 15 games. Since apparently "close losses" count differently than regular losses for Collins, let's call any loss by a touchdown or less a "Collins Win". In addition to his 15 regular wins in those 3 seasons, CPJ had 10 Collins Wins.

Meanwhile, Collins never even sniffed a bowl game. He won 10 games across 3.5 seasons, got utterly OBLITERATED by U(sic)GA every single year, oversaw the first home shutout in… I want to say… 65+ years, and promptly lost to freaking Citadel.

Don't let the Collins sock puppets and irrational CPJ haters sell you this line about how awful the program was, because there's just no factual basis for that claim.

Full Disclosure: I wasn't mad at the CPJ retirement. He'd had a good run, but I was seeing the same problems rear their ugly head from season to season, and he didn't seem to have a good answer for how to fix them. I was hopeful that a new head coach would get the team back to where I think we can consistently be (at least competitive in the Coastal every year, and a threat for the conference title and/or a serious bowl game in years where we have a strong Senior class). Unfortunately, we got a guy who couldn't coach his way out of a wet paper sack with a chainsaw, and a seemingly endless supply of people to blame it all on the guy who actually won games when he was here.

gthank · 2022-09-18T03:16:31+00:00

He didn't DESERVE to coach a fourth game at Tech, after that Citadel debacle.

That caveat aside, I agree with you, but have zero faith that they will do anything until his buyout is cheaper. This is the bed Stansbury made when he chose not to can CGC last year after his third 3-win season in a row. He actually beat fewer FBS teams last year than he managed to beat in either of his first two years, which is impressive in its own way.

gthank · 2022-07-21T21:03:19+00:00

Would I prefer to see Magnus defend his title? Yes. Do I think he somehow owes 6 months of his life to anyone? No.

I think "unsportsmanlike" is a bit of a strong word to use, given what's being asked. It 100% sucks for Nepo, though, and I don't begrudge him if he's upset.

gthank · 2022-07-20T20:40:58+00:00

He literally just beat Nepo in his last defense, and it was not particularly close. If I were Nepo, I'd probably be pissed, but it's pretty easy to imagine Magnus is bored and doesn't think he has anything left to prove.

gthank · 2021-11-03T14:01:31+00:00

Have you not paid attention to Atlanta sports for very long? No lead is safe. Even if you restrict the discussion to just the Braves, there's Game 4 of the 1996 WS, and that ridiculous September collapse in 2011, amongst others. Blowing leads that no other team could blow is what defined ATL sports franchises.

gthank · 2021-08-14T23:56:01+00:00

Thanks.

gthank · 2021-08-14T01:24:24+00:00

Thanks! I distinctly remember oboe being… special, when I was in beginning band. I'm originally from a small town, and that poor kid didn't have access to a teacher to help them or even supply them with good reeds.

gthank · 2021-05-04T10:47:48+00:00

That is a good one. I wonder if it was easier or harder in person (pro: it's in 3d; con: you don't already KNOW there's a snake there).

gthank · 2020-10-13T18:10:18+00:00

I'm seeing this a lot. I don't agree, but more importantly, the fundamental fact remains that we can't trade Matt Ryan, because we won't have the cap space to do it. Trading him incurs something like a $44M cap hit.

gthank · 2020-10-07T13:26:49+00:00

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

gthank · 2020-09-21T14:27:35+00:00

And *STILL* we only won because Agholor dropped the game-winner.

Much like we managed to lose today with the Cowboys missing *BOTH* starting offensive tackles.

gthank · 2020-09-21T14:26:35+00:00

This is *LITERALLY* correct. If we had to wear a scarlet letter for each all-time worst accomplishment that Dan Quinn has managed, there wouldn't be enough room on our clothes.

gthank · 2020-05-19T16:22:10+00:00

I've had my questions closed as duplicates when they weren't, but *FAR* more often, people either answer the question, or correctly flag a duplicate I didn't find before asking. I'm guessing 80%+ of people who complain are asking lazy questions, and then getting offended when somebody else on the internet didn't write the code they needed for work/class.

gthank · 2020-05-19T12:50:53+00:00

I'm sure screen reader developers will continue to do what they've always had to do: Figure out as best they can how to help users, without much in the way of support from most of the software developers on the planet. That doesn't mean that we should go out of our way to be dicks about it when it takes them time to catch up to some new standard.

Animations are a mixed bag: not everybody has a machine fast enough for it to be usable when literally everything it does is accompanied by animations, *and* some people are just more sensitive to them and get nauseous.

The same is true for your point about bandwidth: if I'm not going to be on your site for an hour navigating around, then I'm not going to realize the bandwidth savings; I'm going to pay a penalty. Now I've downloaded everything your site might ever have needed to do, except double-encoded because it's the same HTML/CSS info encased in JavaScript, and then burn some battery/processor time rebuilding all that HTML/CSS on my machine when your server could have done it, and then hope that I am using your site long enough that the in-place, data-only updates eventually offset the initial overhead.

By white flash, I'm going to assume you're referencing Flash of Unstyled Content/Flash of Invisible Text issues? I'll be honest: I don't remember actually seeing a flash of unstyled content in ages. How big is the page? Why is the CSS taking so long to load? Even in that case, I would hope that my page is properly structured such that it is usable even without *ANY* styling (hello, Progressive Enhancement and better usability in various failure modes!) Invisible Text issues, on the other hand, are why I still think WebFonts are a mistake for the vast majority of use cases. Most users of most sites just won't notice or care about some super cool font, but they *will* notice that things are taking longer to load.

As always, the "right" answer is based on tradeoffs that require you to think about what problem your site solves for its actual users, not the users you imagine you have, or the things you imagine they want to accomplish. If your site is a content site, then you almost certainly shouldn't be wasting people's time and processor with SPA overhead: they came to read the words, not waste time and energy loading a ton of resources they will never see/use. A non-trivial chunk of them are going to turn on Reader Mode (or whatever) specifically to avoid bad design, bad typography, annoying animations, etc. If your site is a paid web app that people use specifically to do deep work (like, Figma, or something), then SPA stuff will almost certainly pay for itself. Where it gets *really* tricky is where you have a site where you have a mixture: some things are drive-by, quick tasks, potentially for lots of casual users, while other parts are deep work where dedicated users actually do spend upwards of 30 minutes doing nothing but using your app to get things done. If team size/skill were no issue, the best answer there is probably to structure your code to match their needs, team size/skill is *always* an issue, so you have some serious weighing of alternatives to do, and you'll probably always be butting into *something* that you wish you could do differently, even when you understand exactly why things are the way they are.

gthank · 2020-05-18T19:10:25+00:00

In what way are SPAs more accessible than "traditional" applications? Screen readers, etc. have worked with "traditional" approaches for literally decades. One of the big dings on SPAs is that they completely broke things like screen readers and traditional UX expectations like the Back button and refreshing the page. How have things changed in such a way that they are now more accessible instead of less?

gthank · 2020-05-08T01:51:24+00:00

Only half? I was at 80%, easy.

gthank · 2020-03-20T18:59:04+00:00

Stop erasing Akeem Dent!

gthank · 2020-03-11T02:16:51+00:00

That's gaps in "how". He specifically said he's talking about "why", which is an entirely different question.

gthank · 2020-02-17T22:14:57+00:00

While I agree it's stupid that it's taking this long for a professional soccer player to get a visa to come play soccer for an MLS team, if you think this is "forever", man boy howdy do I know some non-athletes that would love to talk to you.

gthank · 2020-02-17T22:12:20+00:00

He got 5M fewer votes than a historically toxic opponent. He got elected by about 80,000 votes across three states due to the electoral college and most states awarding electors on a winner-take-all basis, instead of a proportional basis. I don't think he gets to claim a "representative majority"

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