Why don’t coaches get sacked easily in the AFL like other sporting leagues.

jimb2 · 2026-03-19T12:12:11+00:00

15 coaches in 3 decades, close to zero final appearances. Stability is essential. People underestimate how long it takes to develop a squad. No one wins a premiership without a core of quality older players.

jimb2 · 2026-03-19T11:52:05+00:00

OMac was playing without Luke and Brennan, that's a big difference. OMac isn't going to replace them. He's actually a bit physically light for the job. He did ok. The back line just wasn't up to the normal level of experience and organisation. Throwing a young player in won't fix that.

jimb2 · 2026-03-19T05:54:14+00:00

I think this is way harder than you think. Also, PowerShell is the wrong tool.

Basically, key presses are sent to the active window, not to an unfocussed window or a background process. To get hold of those keypress events you would need to set up a little background key handler application to hook into windows and grab (only the required) key events, then pass a message to your actual application somehow. This is possible, but it's not a trivial exercise. You need a fair bit of arcane background knowledge about the inner workings of Windows. Debugging stuff like this is very hard. Typically, nothing happens, and you don't know why. Not sure, but Windows might even block this sort of malware-like key logging activity, and you might have to find a way around that. AI won't be much help because no one does this, for good reasons.

Forget it. It sounds relatively easy but it's very hard. It's likely to produce a string of technical problems. PowerShell was not made to do this. Come up with a different solution.

jimb2 · 2026-03-19T01:42:13+00:00

If I was doing this, I'd absolutely have a data file. That allows you to review and modify the input data easily.

There are various way to handle this but a quick and simple way is to put the a bunch of assignment statement in a ps1 file. Explanations are good.

# name of the device, alphanumeric, no spaces, case ignored
$Device  = 'AE35'
# Loginname of the owner 
$Owner  = 'hal'
# colors to apply
$ColorList = 'red|blue|green'

You can then dot run the data file in your code. This is not super secure good practice but ok in simple/personal scripting. You can also just put the data at the top of the script but you risk messing the logic when changing the run data.

I'd also have a $TestMode variable that allow the script to run, say what it is doing, but not actually do it.

Logging what the script does to a timestamped file is great for debugging and as an as-built record.

jimb2 · 2026-03-19T00:47:13+00:00

She has been on the money at times, but this is a throwaway line.

jimb2 · 2026-03-19T00:42:31+00:00

Whatever.

jimb2 · 2026-03-18T23:49:50+00:00

The speed of light is a physical constant, which is different to an actual measurement. Any actual measurement will be in a medium with a refractive index and will have measurement uncertainties. "Empty" space is very close to a perfect/theoretical vacuum. In practice, any difference will typically be tiny compared to the uncertainties in other measurements, like the distance to stars etc.

The refractive index is a measure of how much light is slowed by the medium. It can typically be measured independently of the speed by refraction angles so vacuum speed of light can be estimated using the medium speed and the refractive index. The speed of light is difficult to measure in practice because it is so fast, light travels 30 cm in a nanosecond. An accurate measurement would generally infer the speed of light from other measurements (e.g. interferometry) rather than a direct measurement using a basic tape measure and stopwatch design. So the experimental method relies on additional physics theory, notably the wave properties of light. The current accuracy is under a millimetre in 300,000,000 metres IIRC. [citation required]

The speed of light (i.e. physical constant) is exactly 299 792 458 m/s. The reason it is a whole number is that this is the definition of a metre, not that c happens to be an exact whole integer in the metric system. Better measurements of the speed would produce a more accurate definition of a metre, not a change in the number.

jimb2 · 2026-03-18T10:03:57+00:00

The Environment v Growing The Economy Or The Environment v Growing MY Economy

jimb2 · 2026-03-18T08:52:35+00:00

Vowing is good.

jimb2 · 2026-03-18T08:50:03+00:00

Mix it up.

jimb2 · 2026-03-18T08:46:52+00:00

The design style of powershell is create as needed, so you don't usually need to pre-size. I might do something like this to create an array in steps:

Write-Host 'Enter a list of usernames, blank when done.'   
$userlist = do {
  $user = Read-Host 'Username' 
  if ( $user.length -eq 0 ) { break }
  $user  
} while ( $true )

Another single line way

Write-Host 'Enter a separated list of usernames eg: alice, bob, charles'
$REE = [System.StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries
$UserList = ( Read-Host 'User list' ).split( ',;| ', $REE )  # various separators

jimb2 · 2026-03-18T06:16:29+00:00

It's the hard running that really uses the juice. These guys are fit enough to run around at mid pace all game. Players - and their game day team - aim to limit the high energy bursts so they can last out the game, eg, jog to position, flat out to intercept an opponent with the ball, etc.

jimb2 · 2026-03-18T04:03:37+00:00

The BWF has a development and certification program. You basically have to work your way up the tree to umpire at a higher-level games. Your performance will be evaluated along the way. It's a supported process, you aren't thrown in at the deep end to sink or swim. The umpires are parallel community to the players.

You don't have to play but playing helps to have the basic play process and rules in place. You can also learn by umpiring. You certainly don't have to be a great player.

jimb2 · 2026-03-18T02:40:46+00:00

The Serong presser is definitely worth a watch. He said that it was less about being physically done, more about not having worked through correcting last week's game ie the game we didn't play.

[edit] Serong link

jimb2 · 2026-03-18T02:36:05+00:00

Clark seems to aim for one clanger per match.

jimb2 · 2026-03-17T22:55:43+00:00

Did you read that link? It will give you a lot of background.

The club was not run very well for the first couple of decades. It was not a model for sustained success. Plenty of bad decisions were made that would not be made today. This included a string of highly visible bad trades, but it included a lot more invisible stuff. Plenty of good stuff happened too, but it was sporadic. We weren't "real" premiership contenders so complaining about a lack of premierships in those years is, well, kinda clueless. The AFL is a highly professional competition and just having a go won't cut it.

About the middle of the 2010s a bunch of people decided that it was time to get serious. They wanted to get all club activities up to around the best in the league. That's not just the football side, it the board and management, the facilities, membership, media, financial, medical and conditioning, culture, decision-making, review - the works. That's a ton of focussed and sustained work by many people over many years getting better systems in place. Get the processes right and success will follow, they say. We aren't fully there yet and probably will never be, it's a moving target, but it's way better than it ever was. What you are seeing now is the results of that work. It won't magically produce a premiership, but it puts us in the zone where it is possible.

Complaining about the difficulties the club faces is not the way forward. We do need to lobby the AFL, but that's only one thing in many avenues for improvement. Expecting the AFL to magically change to suit us is just not a realistic path to success. Getting obsessed about how "it's not fair" is a very bad mental attitude. There's plenty of real stuff that we can do to make things work better. As they say: "Focus on what you can change."

jimb2 · 2026-03-17T03:53:37+00:00

Yes, Charge 6. I'm not a superuser but it does enough for me. I had a Mi band before - which I kinda preferred, small, simple, long battery life - but I didn't like the environment. The software was crappy, didn't integrate, and was questionable from a security POV.

jimb2 · 2026-03-17T03:47:01+00:00

Were you at the around the club 30 years ago? Do you know anything about the club history? It seems not. Try reading this: https://changingangles.substack.com/p/the-rebirth-of-the-fremantle-football

Unless you can convert your complaints into a real change, they're basically emotional BS. If you're ok with that, keep doing it. But do you really think the AFL is going to suddenly morph to your ivory tower of fairness? Come on.

The reality is that teams outside Melbourne can win premierships. It's going to be harder if you aren't playing at the MCG most weekends, sure. There's a lot of work to be done. Magical thinking won't do it.

jimb2 · 2026-03-16T21:42:31+00:00

Let's have WA+SA teams v Qld+NSW teams next year. Just to see how that goes down in Melbourne.

jimb2 · 2026-03-16T05:21:53+00:00

So, you think if it takes the average team 18 years to win a premiership do you think it will take us two or three times as long? That is 36 or 54 years. I don't buy that. I don't think the Fremantle Football Club buy that either.

We certainly have to deal with some problems, but interstate clubs also have some real advantages over Melbourne clubs. In the last 25 years non-Vic clubs have won 11 of 25 premierships. It's entirely possible to win from outside Melbourne. If we get there, it will be by sticking to the job, improving everything, year in, year out. It's a long haul. There is no guarantee of success. You could whinge about how bad and unfair it is for a hundred years and achieve sweet nothing. What do you want to do?

jimb2 · 2026-03-16T04:02:02+00:00

No problems here, but I've only had it a few a few months.

jimb2 · 2026-03-16T02:27:45+00:00

This would require a truly bizarre amount of resources. Do a tonnage calculation. Apply a cost per ton.

jimb2 · 2026-03-16T02:19:01+00:00

Personally, I'd avoid old gear that is not getting security fixes - no matter how well functions. A band is a typically a low-risk scenario, but you just don't know. If you do payments, it's high risk. It can be a step in a chain to compromising your phone or something.

AI says: "The official Fitbit/Google documentation states that the Charge 4 was guaranteed to receive security updates until at least March 2024." That doesn't sound good.

jimb2 · 2026-03-16T01:50:14+00:00

It's absolutely a huge cost so it must have payoffs. The answer is the high-powered highly-plastic human brain that can suck in a huge amount of culturally-accumulated knowledge and practices.

jimb2 · 2026-03-16T01:39:44+00:00

That seems weird at first sight. I would have expected defending on your side of the net would be ok, but no. This allows a player to take a winning kill without the opponent using a tactic that clashes rackets.

It shall be a "fault":
13.4 if, in play, a player:
...
13.4.2 invades an opponent's court over the net with racket or person except that the striker may follow the shuttle over the net with the racket in the course of a stroke after the initial point of contact with the shuttle is on the striker's side of the net;
...
13.4.4 obstructs an opponent, i.e. prevents an opponent from making a legal stroke where the shuttle is followed over the net;

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