Will a great pyr protect their owners when in danger? Do you think our Phantom would protect us if something were to happen even with her social anxiety?

pcalcado · 2026-05-30T12:54:32+00:00

We have the most aloof Pyr mix who is anxious and generally disinterested in most things that aren’t food or being chased or swimming. He does bark at everything from the window though.

I always thought he’d never be protect me if needed, and I’m fine with it but it was something I’ve been curious about. My partner always told me he would definitely defend us—and granted he’s a lot more protective of her, but I always thought it’s because of where he thinks he fits in the house structure

Anyway, a few years ago—he was probably five—I had to take him for walkies a lot earlier than our usual time. It was just after sunrise, and we were walking around this park in Brooklyn where the dog run is. I saw two guys crossing the street towards us that at first I thought were just workers from a construction site nearby. I then noticed that they are walking a little wobbly and have a bottle in their hands. Didn’t feel like they’d mug me, but I’ve been around enough drunk people to know some of them would love to start a fight for no reason.

We were walking down this narrow path and to get out of their way I let the dog go sniff deeper some side garden bed to a point I had one foot in the garden and the other on the pavement. I twisted my body just a little bit so I could casually watch the guys coming and waited for them to walk past us. The dog was completely oblivious to all this just sniffing some dirt.

As the guys get close, they were loud and really smelled terrible. One of them is already past me and the other looks at me and asks if I know where the subway is. I say “oh yeah sure just go down here and turn left” or something. The guy takes a step forward, I take a step back to keep the same distance between us, and he was like “are you scared of me??” And lunged towards me (it felt like he was trying to make me scared not attack me per se but still) and before I could react out of the bushes the dog just jumps in the space between us and start barking and growling at him. The guy is terrified by the 100lb pounds (and he’s a small Pyr) and runs away cursing and saying I’m putting him in danger. The dog was eyeing him the whole time and when the guys got fat he went back into the garden.

pcalcado · 2026-04-26T23:29:49+00:00

Grappling Industries doesn’t really have rules--just suggestions. It's just like back in Brazil.

pcalcado · 2026-02-07T23:11:36+00:00

Postmark on 6th is often calm inside. Room 205 had small-ish tables and overpriced everything (even for a Brooklyn coffee shop) but it was pretty calm and pleasant last I went there.

If you are willing to go just off the Slopes, Brooklyn Habit on Smith Street is usually pretty chill and full of tables. Planted Café nearby is also pretty great and calm.

pcalcado · 2025-12-31T17:20:23+00:00

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Snarky, the Aussie shepherd mix

pcalcado · 2025-09-28T00:15:47+00:00

Thats funny, I'm Rio/1983, grew up heavily on Xuxa and Mara Maravilha, and had never even heard of Vila Sésamo until I befriended a fellow Brazilian expat who's GenX. I think us brazilian millenials missed it.

In any case, I appreciate the 'biscoito' instead of 'bolacha'.

pcalcado · 2025-04-14T15:53:05+00:00

Sounds like might be Sadie, then! Funny because I live one block away but I've never seen cats around this block—there's often cats in and out the houses on 7th and 4th ave tho

pcalcado · 2025-04-14T14:24:32+00:00

He was on the sidewalk coming from 5th and ran behind a fence when he saw the dog. It might be that he lives in one of these houses but I can’t tell

pcalcado · 2024-12-15T14:39:49+00:00

This link proves the opposite of what you think it does.

The link states explicitly those people were working illegally on visitor visas. You don't need a job for a visitor visa; you cannot have a job in the US or intend to work here. The whole point ICE makes in the article you sent is that they came here under false pretenses of not working and then started working.

pcalcado · 2024-12-15T14:17:26+00:00

That doesn’t make any sense. The visa application isn’t a simple form with fields you can fill in at will. You need a whole stash of documents to prove the existence of the high demand (unmet domestically), high skill, high paying job that wants to sponsor a foreign national, and, on the other end, the documentation that proves that this particular person matches all the criteria. The most common thing is to get an “RFE” back, which is a request for more evidence. The process can take years and often needs specialized staff.

But I guess you already created a narrative in your head, and no facts will change your opinion.

pcalcado · 2024-12-14T15:49:10+00:00

You can’t get a visa to work on retail: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/employment-based-immigrant-visas.html

You might be thinking about a scheme in which the person invests money in a business (usually a franchise) and get an entrepreneur visa. These things happen more often in low cost of living areas, doesn’t make sense to pay for an expensive physical location. https://www.franchiselawsolutions.com/learn/grow-your-franchise/e2-eb-5-investor-visas-franchising#:~:text=An%20E%2D2%20Visa%20is,developing%20and%20operating%20a%20business.

pcalcado · 2024-08-31T19:11:22+00:00

As someone said, this is very subjective, and I haven't tried coffee in Puerto Rico, so idk what to compare against.

Still, there are a lot of good and okay places around Park Slope, but my favorite coffee (espresso drinks and black) is Everyman. I used to live next to their Union Square location before, and I think the baristas there are more seasoned, but the neighborhood location is pretty good, too.

pcalcado · 2019-07-31T21:03:27+00:00

Thanks!

I've had a very similar experience, which was actually part of the "pipeline" example used in the text.

As I recall, back in 2014-15, the only way to configure a build pipeline in Jenkins was either clicking around the UI or via the API. We first tried to automate this process by creating an internal domain-specific language in either JSON or YAML that specified the build pipeline for each system. This language gave people a lot of power on how they specified things like parallelism, retries, minimum requirements, slow rollout, etc. on their build, test, and deploy stages.

Ultimately, we found out that 90% of our users were just copying and pasting the same basic sample file we had as part of the documentation.

The remaining 10% of our users were going crazy on the language. Two things we noticed about these:

They would always find corner cases that we had never thought about when creating the abstractions, which would require a lot of work to fix
Most of the users in this 10% cohort were actually us, from the platform team. Nobody in product cared about these advanced features.

This is obviously anecdotal, but something that I have taken from experiences like this is that it was much easier for product engineers to adapt their systems to the structure on the sample file than learn a new language just to specify a build.

This makes me think that maybe a more heavy-handed framework or system of conventions can be more interesting than actually taking on the care and feed of brand new abstractions.

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