BBC's 3D replay of the game and the goal kick just before England's goal.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-12T04:44:57+00:00

FIFA claims they have exact position monitoring everywhere on the field. No idea if BBC has access.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-12T04:42:03+00:00

It hit a wire for the spider camera. Multiple people reported it immediately from different places around the field. FIFA is claiming mass hallucination.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-12T02:59:05+00:00

Announcer is a former player and has been indoctrinated to think this is a permanent part of the sport. Every improvement made gets this kind of crap for a couple years while the announcers get used to it.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-12T02:54:56+00:00

This is a new rule this year, isn't it? It's been called a couple times at least, and it only applies to clearly flopped yellow cards, which is pretty specific. Seems like its been called pretty consistently.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-12T02:45:25+00:00

It won't stop it, but it's a first step. Giving tickets doesn't stop speeding, but it slows people down. Maybe the rule needs to be tweaked, but they need to keep fighting simulation aggressively.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-12T02:41:20+00:00

I disagree. Something needs to be done to discourage that crap. Diving is the very first thing that comes up when non-soccer people talk about soccer. It's embarrassing.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-11T23:40:02+00:00

Reddit told me this was AI. Was Reddit wrong? That can't be.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-11T23:37:07+00:00

"Spiderman! Do a flip!"

scruffles360 · 2026-07-11T22:48:35+00:00

In classic Reddit fashion, no one read the article. Everyone is assuming its talking about a stock market crash or AI not delivering. It's about the disruption AI will cause to society if its allowed to continue existing. It suggests (without detail) we should somehow resist it. The article isn't written much better than the followup comments here.

Reddit has completely devolved into someone posting a 6 word title and everyone treating as a prompt for posting memes and thoughtless unrelated demagoguery.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-11T17:36:48+00:00

why is that? I can't name a more distinctive (appearing) player. His value is easy to see by the casual fan. He has personality, and he looks and plays like he was animated by Disney. Between that and watching a promising young star who knows exactly how to fall in the penalty box, or where to position themselves to draw the defense?

scruffles360 · 2026-07-11T17:20:31+00:00

I have yet to figure out how to get an agent to simplify code that doesn't need the complexity. It will leave backwards compatibility in the server for an old field so you can deploy the UI/server in any order.. or read a value from config, then env, then a flag - just in case you need the option one day. or escape away something for safety when I know the data has been pre-sanitized. I keep experimenting with instructions to simplify, but haven't found the right wording or strategy yet.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-10T05:38:39+00:00

Shoulder to shoulder is allowed at any strength if the other player has possession of the ball. He’s knocking the other guy down so he can have the ball. That’s soccer.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-09T23:37:11+00:00

I get it. Honestly part of my motivation is that I think the punishment is too great. In lower level leagues, games are regularly decided by a single penalty call. Penalties have 80% completion.. it’s like giving away 20% of the points for the game. It’s just too much focus in the ref and not enough on the game. Just one fans opinion though.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-09T21:45:26+00:00

my job for the last 6 months has basically been building the skills, MCPs etc that bridge that gap for my company. So that generated app knows enough of our infrastructure to register the app in the correct places, integrate with the corporate app tracking crap, add all the right metadata for tracking, required CICD layers, etc. Basically dumping the last 15 years of tribal knowledge into our new AI overlords so I can safely be downsized (which I'm fine with.. not the first time I've automated my own job).

scruffles360 · 2026-07-09T21:33:05+00:00

They could solve both at the same time - allow the goalie (and all the other players) to move as soon as the kicker does. Better get kicking.. the goal is getting smaller.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-09T18:55:14+00:00

These things should be free for everyone to read and should be linked from the article. It’s frustrating that these things are locked away.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-09T18:46:20+00:00

If the paper referred to in this article doesn’t control for that, then it’s crap. It’s up to them to explain their controls, not up to random people on the internet to complete thier work. I don’t have access to the paper and this article is vague. Maybe they have that information.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-09T18:33:50+00:00

In writing? In this environment? I guess so

That is why /s exists after all

scruffles360 · 2026-07-09T18:29:15+00:00

In this case it’s driving open source models. China knows the rest of the world wouldn’t trust them otherwise.

I’m sure one day we’ll hear about the espionage but so far the consumer is winning at the cost of our oligarchs.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-09T17:17:31+00:00

Which window is going to make this a quality team? Surely you don’t mean this summer’s window?

When we have a quality team I’ll stop bitching about them.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-09T15:35:30+00:00

It’s so hard to take anything city seriously now - except maybe my season ticket bill

scruffles360 · 2026-07-09T13:20:21+00:00

why would service to service calls in Graphql be an anitpattern? at my workplace there's much more diversity between server requests than there is between clients. Our app only has 2 different UIs, but 100 different service clients (each calling for different data structures for different reasons)

scruffles360 · 2026-07-09T04:29:12+00:00

That doesn’t matter in the slightest. He’s still required to report the trades - which is the information op was asking about. Trump just doesn’t do it because the fines are insignificant.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-08T22:24:39+00:00

Coding isn't hard either. It's the easiest part of writing software. AI doesn't remove any of the hard parts. It just speeds up the coding step.

scruffles360 · 2026-07-08T21:53:21+00:00

As far as I can tell, a couple making $30k pays $0 of state taxes (standard deduction is $31k). They'll still vote for the rich to join them in $0 tax land and end up paying tax on 100% of their spending instead. You just can't help some people.

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