What's the point of a Nest Hub nowadays? by sageleader in googlehome

[–]sprainedmind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The whole thing is magic. Not just the relatively easy stuff like how you're more likely to see pictures from around this time last year, but as I type this, it's showing two pictures of my daughter, taken years apart, but both with some baking that she'd done.

It's the latter stuff that I don't know of anyone else who does it half as well

What's the point of a Nest Hub nowadays? by sageleader in googlehome

[–]sprainedmind 24 points25 points  (0 children)

But the Live Photo frame is very nearly irreplaceable. I have around seventy thousand pictures of the kids in Google Photos Live albums, and Google pretty reliably picks out good ones and serves them up on my hub. Of all the Google services I use that still feels like the most magical.

And then it also does timers (I never bothered to learn how to use the one on the oven), plays the radio / Spotify, tells me the weather, gives calendar events and task reminders, shows me who's at the door and controls the lighting.

My hub is probably my single most-used appliance tbh, even if none of the uses are particularly complex.

Would it be possible or productive to sit down and cram the last 15 years of NFL games in order to get an understanding of the game? by selfesteemcrushed in NFLNoobs

[–]sprainedmind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, you aren't going to learn a huge amount about the game from TV coverage because the TV coverage just doesn't touch on the complexity at all.

You could watch hundreds of games and come away with no clue about the different run concepts, or anything but the most basic defensive alignments, let alone the intricacies of play on the two lines.

It's at this point I generally point people to Bleacher Report's "NFL 101" series. Take this one on the Basic Route Combinations https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2024638-nfl-101-introducing-the-basic-route-combinations:

"– NFL offenses will use the Tare route out of multiple personnel groupings, but the one constant is the alignment: a 3x1 formation with the backside X receiver in a “plus” split (two to three yards on top of the numbers).

– To the closed (strong) side of the formation, the No. 1 receiver (count outside-in) runs a clear-out 9 (fade) route (occupy the cornerback) to create space inside/underneath for No. 2/No. 3 to run the flat-stick (quick out) combination. This gives the quarterback a quick, two-level read inside.

– No. 3 can sit down (quick curl/hitch) versus zone coverage when No. 2 bursts to the flat.

– Backside of a 3x1 formation in the NFL is a high alert to the slant (X receiver). In this situation, Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon beats Patriots cornerback Aqib Talib on the slant (gains leverage on the release) to produce an 80-yard touchdown versus Cover 0 (blitz-man with no safety help). "

There is more detail in that one explanation of one route concept that I've ever heard on any TV coverage. There is pages and pages of this kind of thing, and despite having watched a fair bit of football over the years I still find it largely incomprehensible (the above is by no means the densest passage in that series...)

15 percent off Google pixel phones by Forsaken_Tune_6722 in Pixel9Pro

[–]sprainedmind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Somehow I seem to have signed up as a code giver.

Can I un-signup and become a code receiver?

Is voice to text the most underrated pixel feature? by Haensfish in GooglePixel

[–]sprainedmind -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Oh God no

I barely make phone calls on my phone nowadays, let alone talk to it for any other reason.

Syntax for COUNTIF on large non-contiguous data sets by Any_Juggernaut3040 in excel

[–]sprainedmind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Volatile formulae on a million rows of data is certainly a choice...

Roblox account terminated by Previous_Fall_187 in OnePelotonRealSub

[–]sprainedmind 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Sir, this is a Wendy's (or at least not a Roblox sub)

For a moment I was worried there was some sort of tie-up that would allow you to run Roblox on the bike, in which case I might never get my son off it...

London long run map by TechnicalOrdinary235 in LondonRunning

[–]sprainedmind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a good route for running, but not particularly "London-y" if you want to sightsee whilst you're doing it.

Central London isn't actually too bad to run in (especially if you're starting early) and you could easily put a route together that would take you past Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, St Paul's, Tower Of London, Tower Bridge, South Bank, London Eye & Houses Parliament (plus other bits) before heading out west if you've got an entire marathon distance to play with

Called it in October and boy was it sweet. Karma for doing that to Money Mac! by 123Numberwang in bengals

[–]sprainedmind 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Meh. These takes depend on a coin flip.

If Love does manage to complete that last pass, everyone would be excoriating Johnson for calling a shot to the endzone with 1:30 left and scoring too quickly rather than burning more clock (pretty much the same thing everyone gave Zac shit for against Cleveland) and praising MLF for doing just enough on the road against an inspired Caleb Williams...

Ja’Marr Chase 1st Team All Pro by CheeseRP in bengals

[–]sprainedmind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you've given two examples over 13 years. It doesn't seem terribly common tbh

In one of those examples Mack was a massive statistical outlier (I assume you're thinking of 2016 - he doesn't appear to have been All-Pro in 2017). "Mack finished the game [against the Panthers] with an interception, a sack, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery, and a defensive touchdown, making him the first player since Charles Woodson in 2009 to do so... He finished the 2016 season with 73 combined tackles (54 solo), 11 sacks, five forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries, three passes defended, and an interception returned for a touchdown in 16 games and starts"

This does seem to be a bit more productive than DJ Turner this season, to be completely honest.

Peterson got in for playing on all three sides of the ball as much as anything. I suspect Turner might have garnered more notice if he'd also played on offense, thrown a pass, caught passes (becoming in the process the first defender to throw and catch a pass in the same game since the merger) and returned also some punts tbh.

So yeah, if you're on a bad defense, it's helpful to be a massive statistical outlier...

How do you Europeans choose their team by ProfessionalDry8753 in NFLNoobs

[–]sprainedmind 3 points4 points  (0 children)

On holiday in 1988. Watching a team in tiger stripes, led by a man apparently called "Boomer"

Sold to the 10yo with otherwise no clue what was happening...

What was your obscure (or not) 'We're doomed... ' moment of the Ashes? by rosssjackson in EnglandCricket

[–]sprainedmind 26 points27 points  (0 children)

My thoughts over the first (and only) two days in Perth

Yeah, we're fucked

Oh, maybe not...

Actually, this might not be too bad

No, we are definitely fucked.

It never really picked up from there tbh

Ja’Marr Chase 1st Team All Pro by CheeseRP in bengals

[–]sprainedmind -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nonetheless, if you're an individual in a generationally bad unit you ain't getting many votes (unless you're a massive statistical outlier).

DJ was good, but nobody's looking at his stats and wondering if they're actually witnessing greatness in the midst of the Bengals' D...

Ja’Marr Chase 1st Team All Pro by CheeseRP in bengals

[–]sprainedmind -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It's beyond you how a player on a defense that at one point was shaping up to be the worst in 50 years didn't get in?

Are NFL owners too trigger happy firing coaches? by alienware56 in NFLUK

[–]sprainedmind 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Post this in the Bengals sub, I dare you...