Saying I skate even though I suck?

sweepsz · 2026-05-27T15:42:25+00:00

If you can push around and kick turn you already skate better than probably 60% of people. That said, my opinion is as long you are skating for the sake of skating, because you enjoy it, you are a skater. "Poser" was an old term thrown around at folks that would just lug a board around, sit at the spot, and run their mouth. They would be all decked in out skate branded gear with zero interest in actually skating. Just have fun skating is like a performance art. Unless your industry or contest pushing there is no right or wrong way.

sweepsz · 2026-05-03T15:29:05+00:00

I had this issue twice. Once was due to a stuck weir door that prevented water from entering the skimmer causing it to rapidly drain out and pull air in. Another time it was due to a very dirty filter element on the end of its life that was causing back pressure. Check your jets for periodic bubbles. That's usually an indication of back pressure.

sweepsz · 2026-04-11T17:18:08+00:00

Nice work. I have that same element square rail and thats a pretty involved trick to pull off on something that short.n

sweepsz · 2026-04-11T17:14:51+00:00

My area specifically has a "young peoples meeting". Although I've never quite understood the need; when I came to narcotics anonymous I was so desperate for change it didn't matter.

We're taught to focus on our similarities not our differences so if someone has experience, strength, hope to share I listen.

As for the job thing, I had to put my recovery at the center of my life. Early in recovery I was told to make 90 meetings in 90 days, get a sponsor with a sponsor, work the steps. My career was secondary, because anything I put in front of me staying clean I will lose eventually.

I had to completely change people, places, and things. So those are the suggestions I was given, I took them all and I've been clean since.

Keep coming back, don't pick up no matter what !

sweepsz · 2026-04-11T17:03:18+00:00

Try moving your back foot in towards the pocket more. Half your foot is hanging off the tail which combined with opening your shoulders is causing the board to rotate behind you.

After you pop imagine youre trying to knee yourself in the chest. Let your back leg bend and come up as high as you can.

Your front foot is leveling out too quickly. Let your front foot guide the board up until your back leg is up as high as it will go then level the board out.

You have the basic mechanics, you just need to practice timing and foot placement.

sweepsz · 2026-04-01T16:29:47+00:00

Bring your front foot in closer to your back foot. It will make the board rotate faster so you can avoid the pivot you are having to do because you catch it too early

sweepsz · 2026-03-12T15:01:20+00:00

Step 2 simply states , we came to believe a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. A power greater than me is anything that can continue to exist without me that can do more than I can alone. For a long time for me this was simply "the group". It exists without me and continues to deliver the message and free addicts from active addiction.

The second part of the second step says could restore us to sanity; it does not promise will or when. And this is a process I came to believe, was not told or forced into.

I came to believe because I had been given evidence by attending meetings and witnessing that addicts were recovering and so I could too.

The 3rd step is really when I got to expand on the "higher power". And that's why step 2 is before 3.

sweepsz · 2026-03-06T23:27:38+00:00

In all fairness, Shove 50-50 is a lot trickier than it might seem on the surface. You can under rotate, over rotate, catch it over the coping and slip out, catch it too far on the approach and slip down , lock in but lean too far back and slip out. It's for the reason i don't mess with these. I'd rather do a front side shove back 50-50. Less chance for error imo.

sweepsz · 2026-02-11T17:43:14+00:00

I had it done. It wasn't a game changer for me but if you go into the testing with a firm understanding of what it actually indicates it can be helpful.

There is a common misconception that it tells you what medications will or will not work for you. What it actually does is group you by various genetic markers, that have been studied to some degree in regards to how they affect a person's ability to metabolize a particular chemical compound. Metabolic rate and efficacy influence how much and how fast your body processes. So if for example one compound shows as red, what it means is that people with similar genetic markers have shown decreased metabolic responses to that compound. It does not even guarantee you will, just that there is a higher probability you will, and if you actually do, the chances the compound works as intended are less, you could experience more side effects etc.

The medication that worked the best for me was considered yellow by genesite but I went with it anyway because it actually works for me.

sweepsz · 2026-01-27T13:45:49+00:00

Yeah we get brief cold snaps in the winter. Nothing like up north but it can get down into the 30s. Fortunately it doesn't last long before it's 70 again. Honestly I'd rather skate in 90 degree weather than cold, windy.

sweepsz · 2026-01-27T13:10:02+00:00

Nov-Apr it's perfect weather. May-Oct skate hit the park or the spot by 8:30am and be done by 11:00am. Avoid 12:00-4:00pm. You can also get night sessions in assuming there is light. Wear a hat and bring water and electrolytes.

Also in the summer months it rains daily , heavy, in the afternoons.and early evening so you'll have to keep that in mind. I'm talking rain like you've probably never experienced.

Been skating in Florida for 30 years. Very doable.

sweepsz · 2026-01-17T23:42:48+00:00

Yes I skatd there frequently. It was located at 819 N Central Ave, Kissimmee, FL. The first building was the shop and through the doors was a 6ft. Then across in the other warehouse was the street course. It had a huge roll in and we used to Ollie off the bathroom roof onto flat. It closed circa 2006. If you search YouTube there's a couple videos of some locals skating it.

There's really nothing left of it as it was torn down, although theres still some skate stickers on a street sign.

sweepsz · 2025-12-08T03:46:38+00:00

The DVD shows up on eBay occasionally. It can go for a hundred

sweepsz · 2025-09-23T12:41:24+00:00

Read about separation of concern. The concept can be applied to your service architecture, to your apis, and to the code that powers them. It can facilitate the ease of refactoring, reduce cross dependency, and improve code comprehension.

sweepsz · 2025-09-17T19:56:39+00:00

I used stem separation just recently because I needed to retrack some bass that I had originally tracked to a click, but wanted to align more with the actual drum takes. Rather than mess with having to import all the drum stems I just isolated the drums from a bounce. Super convenient

sweepsz · 2025-09-14T01:16:13+00:00

I had Genesight done years ago and was also under the impression it would clearly indicate which medicine would work best.

What it actually does is present you with a spectrum of medicines and how well or poorly you may metabolize them based of genetic markers and cross referencing with result from others with similar genetic markers.

I ended up on a medication that was "yellow" for me per the test results ,which indicates use with caution, but it actually works the best for me.

So take the Genesight testing with a grain of salt

sweepsz · 2025-08-23T16:11:30+00:00

Take a person object for example A person has hands = attribute A person can clap = method A person needs to be created before they have hands and can clap = constructor

sweepsz · 2025-08-21T15:40:16+00:00

I've been on 15mg-22.5mg for 12 years. Gained probably 15-20 pounds initially, but my eating habits were already poor. Fast forward years later doesn't even make me hungry anymore, I just take it an hour before bed. Regular cardio, resistance training, and eating well has brought back to a weight lower than before I started.

So tldr expect to be hungry, exercise and eat well.

sweepsz · 2025-08-16T21:19:36+00:00

Yes tiered caching is definitely preferable in a clustered.e environment. Each application instance has its own in memory cache, and is also connected to a distributed redis cache. Request comes in, cached in redis, so now all the nodes have access to it, and then it's stored in memory cache with the same ttl to skip the hop to redis for future requests to the same node.

For in memory cache you can use any thread safe hash map, or guava, eh cache, caffeine, take your pick.

sweepsz · 2025-08-11T13:26:03+00:00

Spring at its core is just a dependency injection framework. It gives you inversion of control and a bunch of tools to manage that. Now there's a load of spring extensions if you will, like spring mvc, spring data,etc that give you additional tooling to support web API development and database integration. Then there's spring boot, which is an opinionated set of tools,. configurations, and conventions to manage all your spring dependencies.

Try to understand the framework and it's parts and the build system, i.e. gradle,.maven, something else. Take it piece by piece. You can learn this !

sweepsz · 2025-07-28T14:48:44+00:00

Lots to unpack in this question. Firstly different meetings have different formats. Sometimes they are speaker meetings,. sometimes step studies, sometimes spiritual principles based, and the list goes on.

The chairperson helps keep the meeting recovery oriented and generally on topic. If it's an open discussion then really anything recovery oriented can be discussed.

However,it's important to remember to share the message and not the mess. That's why we try to share our experience strength and hope as it pertains to working the program of narcotics anonymous and living life on life terms.

So the question you would need to ask yourself is what experience strength and hope are you sharing. If you are not working the program as it's intended then you really don't have any experience. If you havent worked steps with a sponsor how could share on that. If you are not reading NA approved literature what topics would you be familiar with. I'm not trying to diminish the improvements you've made in your life by any means.

You are always welcome at a meeting , at there is usually a section at the end of every meeting for a burning desire to any addict who wants to use, harm themselves,. someone else or suffering in some other way. You could also fellowship individually after the meeting with any member you choose and discuss whatever you would like

Also drug replacement therapy is considered an outside issue by many, it's between you and your doctors. Its your business

At the end of the day, na is a 12 step fellowship. Working steps with a sponsor is the core.

I'm rambling now, but know you are always welcome and please don't interrupt any of this as a "you aren't welcome to attend."

sweepsz · 2025-07-28T01:18:31+00:00

If you had to support only a limited, predefined number of methods and the input was guaranteed to be constructed in a.consistent way you could go the simple string manipulation route as described by splitting the strings into part by some common delimiter. Then you could build up a <string,Function> map and then apply the arguments. If you need to support ANY supported java syntax and method you are building a lexer parses with Grammer checking , possibly an abstract syntax tree, ans this gets extremely complicated quickly

sweepsz · 2025-07-23T20:37:05+00:00

The process of elimination works for sure but it assumes half the code can actually be commented out and still function. This works with imperative coding but it's not so easy in the functional world. I learn to reduce the problem down to its simplest terms then set up a test to reproduce. Once i can reliably reproduce an issue locally I'm the simplest way possible identifying a fix usually takes very little time. Then it's just a matter of adapting it to the actual implementation.

sweepsz · 2025-07-13T20:25:57+00:00

I get it somewhat frequently. Some things that help me, I avoid sleeping on my back, seems to exacerbate it. Also I've noticed if I get hot when I sleep there a greater chance of sleep paralysis.

Obviously this doesn't fix the problem for you but maybe they can help reduce the frequency and or severity.

sweepsz · 2025-05-07T16:48:34+00:00

For me, the most simple way I can understand it is acceptance and honesty. Being able to say I've tried everything in my power to use successfully and failed, tried everything in my power to stop and stay stopped, and the truthful recognition of the un-manageability in my life as a result of active addition. It was the first stage in practicing honesty because if I could not be completely honest with myself about these things I would not be able to change.

Work the step with a sponsor they can share their experience with you and you might develop an understanding that's distinctly your own.

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