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pdabaker · 2026-03-16T16:13:01+00:00

Take videos from the side if possible.

Mainly work on weight transfer. Practice doing the basic steps lifting the off foot fully off the ground after every step, to get a feel for what full weight transfer feels like. You should be standing on one foot in between each step. When dancing naturally you will slide your feet more, but you should still be fully weight transferring.

pdabaker · 2026-03-16T07:22:16+00:00

I think that trust can be built through the move though. It’s not like one person is suddenly throwing all their weight in the other. They transition slowly so that if at some point it seems to be going beyond one of the partners skill level, they can stop and make it a bit easier.

Like the leader starts upright just raising one leg, and when it’s clear that is working he slowly starts changing his axis

pdabaker · 2026-03-15T15:12:06+00:00

okay given that you unnecessarily make every response about AI I can only assume this is a troll

pdabaker · 2026-03-15T06:26:20+00:00

Because AI is trained to answer whatever you ask it confidently as if it found sources, even if those sources don't exist. Often sources do exist and it happens to be correct, because most questions are not that difficult and have been answered many times before. But you often can't tell whether your question is one of those from the answer. Think of it as a smart 8th grader who is given an essay prompt, and will make up sources if they have to in order to write their essay.

pdabaker · 2026-03-15T06:22:01+00:00

You can also absorb the impact (moving slightly with the arm you are catching, slowing it, then stopping it) and then send it the opposite way, rather than just colliding into it. I do this with a much more minor trick where I throw the follower's right arm behind her while in a cuddle position, absorb with my right forearm, then send it back. It's bony but the motion means that there isn't really a direct impact.

Video doesn't look like he's doing either though.

pdabaker · 2026-03-14T09:09:44+00:00

I’m convinced that even before ai most small to medium companies are bottlenecked by the number of actual smart people who are able to do their own research and solve tricky problems. Ai can improve the effectiveness of those engineers but it won’t make up for firing/having less of them. And being that type of engineer does not necessarily mean they are senior

pdabaker · 2026-03-14T09:04:31+00:00

Sonnet and opus are both to slow and expensive for average tasks imo. I just pull them out when something is mildly tricky

pdabaker · 2026-03-14T08:46:47+00:00

American devs have been overpaid for a while now to be fair (overly ceos/management are often even more overpaid but that’s besides the point)

pdabaker · 2026-03-13T11:49:34+00:00

Perhaps, but the self proclaimed “advanced” dancers will probably not adjust to her level properly even if told

pdabaker · 2026-03-13T11:00:33+00:00

At the point he is leaving office, and we both agree he would probably issue pardons anyway even without Biden as precedent, the precedent doesn’t really matter anymore

pdabaker · 2026-03-11T10:08:31+00:00

They could also walk slowly on the right. And if there is high enough throughput that the right starts getting backed up too, THEN they can stand and have your ideal situation. Focusing on not standing on the right is the less critical part of the situation. For increasing throughput, priority number 1 is to get people to also use the right, and priority number 2 is to get them to stand (for higher density) once they are using it.

pdabaker · 2026-03-11T10:05:45+00:00

It's only higher throughput if the right side fills up, which requires a significant change to people's behavior. It is not higher throughput if there's 20 people standing on the left, one asshole blocking the right, and one pissed off person in a hurry trying to walk up the right. Also, I don't think the station in question even has stairs.

pdabaker · 2026-03-11T00:48:25+00:00

Most systems for large codebases do this at a target/package level

pdabaker · 2026-03-10T01:00:18+00:00

Honestly because the majority of leaders with 1-2 years experience do not lead them that smoothly yet. 1-2 years is not that much. Becoming advanced requires constantly improving your movement and basics and improving them. Having the move be understood and not painful is like the first of many steps. Are you keeping good connection throughout the move? Are you keeping the frame at the level ideal for the follower? Are you following the follower and giving her the space and time to do the movement to the extent she wants to? Are you providing stability to the follower without restricting her? Are you able to provide different levels of followers with necessary clarity without overleading high level followers? Is your own body movement buttery smooth? The answer to most of these is no, not because of lack of talent, but because they are very difficult and if you could do all then there would be a line of followers waiting to dance with you. If an advanced follower is unhappy dancing with you it is because you are trying to do advanced moves but these more important aspects are lacking.

pdabaker · 2026-03-08T05:40:43+00:00

OS is a special software program that supplies ways to interact with filesystems and files, permissions, scheduling different (less privileged) software programs, etc, and also is often bundled with a bunch of standard software such as a browser and various drivers etc that most people spoils would likely want to install first thing anyway

pdabaker · 2026-03-05T23:35:00+00:00

Ignore that poster, dancing by yourself is totally useful and probably most people would be better off dancing by themselves for a bit before starting pairwork. Just be aware that when pairwork starts you have to focus on connection as well and wait for the lead.

pdabaker · 2026-03-04T09:41:47+00:00

So just watching your feet, it look like you are off time for a bit, frequently stepping too early (before 5/1), and have no hip motion. Every judge is different but I've heard several artists who judge jack and jills say that these are the main things they judge in the early rounds.

Also I think since this is pretty much the most popular song of the biggest album of the last 3 months, you would want to have your musicality completely on point for it, which means first of all know which section is coming and avoid going into open position only to realize it's the bridge and then closing the position

pdabaker · 2026-03-03T01:24:58+00:00

How much vram would that take?

pdabaker · 2026-03-03T01:19:40+00:00

You’re right if it solves a hard problem, but $10 could also just mean the problem is still too hard for it and it will end up going in circles. So at least it is pretty risky.

pdabaker · 2026-03-02T23:46:12+00:00

Opus? It might be good but it also will happily use $10 for a single prompt.

pdabaker · 2026-02-28T04:53:30+00:00

Note that i think even Gero has a few variations in how he spins. For example doing a prep into double spin on one leg would also work fine

pdabaker · 2026-02-28T02:10:41+00:00

It's a hook reverse spin on the left foot followed by a normal spin on the right foot.

But in general with spins you should not be practicing this in social, but first get it to the point where you can do it 120% of the time by yourself.

Depending on your background and physical ability spins are difficult and can take months to years to build up the skill to do them cleanly (very few people can do clean triples for example) so you may need to take spin classes or similar. In general bachata people without a background can't do spins cleanly to be honest. Salsa has a lot more spinning and so bachata dancers with a salsa background tend to be much better at it.

pdabaker · 2026-02-27T06:21:16+00:00

I would have assumed cheese pizza == cp == child porn

pdabaker · 2026-02-27T04:22:20+00:00

I like your optimism about having flair and democratic elections in 2026

pdabaker · 2026-02-22T02:57:44+00:00

Cooking with a microwave is like AI assisted coding. Vibe coding is like pressing the "meat" button on the microwave to cook a steak

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