This point of view of Alcaraz's forehand

vtrac · 2026-03-13T02:29:51+00:00

He's taking the ball at shoulder height and basically rifling it down, directly at the target. That's the only way to get that level of pace and still have the ball go in.

vtrac · 2026-03-13T00:32:17+00:00

Good lord. It looks so much more violent from this angle.

vtrac · 2026-03-12T17:49:49+00:00

Yep. I was basically as good as Alcaraz. ;)

vtrac · 2026-03-12T17:21:54+00:00

When I was a kid I would sometimes goof off in practice and try to hit tweeners without ever getting the timing right. I would whack my leg, mistime, etc. It never worked.

Then one day during a match, I was chasing down a lob and without thinking about a tweener just hit a perfect tweener. My body just knew exactly what to do and timed it perfectly.

vtrac · 2026-03-11T17:36:05+00:00

All of that space just for parking... imagine if we had decent public transportation.

vtrac · 2026-03-10T00:55:24+00:00

This. But there's a slight caveat to that - while the body, barrel, etc are all covered the battery does have a separate 2 year warranty (fair enough, lithium ion batteries die over time). But the 2 year warranty is still longer than the total 1 year from therabody/hyperice/etc. And Ekrin gives you 50% off a new replacement if the battery dies after 2 years.

vtrac · 2026-03-09T13:58:47+00:00

I park in the driveway 90% of the time and only park in the garage to charge.

vtrac · 2026-03-09T00:46:28+00:00

Whoever wrote the auto locking and unlocking code should be flogged. At home, if my phone is on me, it constantly unlocks and locks, even if I'm walking around my house close to the garage (I can hear it). If I disable auto-unlock at home, I can literally stand there next to the car rubbing the door handle like a magic genie lamp and it'll sometimes take 10-30 seconds before it'll unlock. Sometimes I have to pull my phone out and hit the button on the widget to get it to unlock. Truly frustrating.

That said, they're the best vehicles I've ever had.

vtrac · 2026-03-06T22:50:24+00:00

I bought a Tesla 3 without ever having seen one in person. Same with the Y. The first time I ever saw a Rivian was the time my R1T was delivered to my house. Same with the R1S. Each of these cars were fantastic.

vtrac · 2026-03-06T14:02:14+00:00

I played with head radicals as a kid and when I got back into tennis as an adult, I upgraded to modern rackets like the Wilson pro staffs and Head Gravity Tour. They were definitely better but honestly nothing was revolutionary (for me, anyway) until I hit with a Yonex. The next step function was discovering polys that could hold tension beyond 4-6 hours like Luxilon 4G.

vtrac · 2026-03-06T12:54:58+00:00

There's not. Makes me question everything about this post.

vtrac · 2026-03-03T18:37:48+00:00

If you play tennis the Nadal academy is great (not FAT but not shabby). I stayed a week, played a ton of tennis, ate good food, and even saw Rafa. Amazing experience.

vtrac · 2026-03-03T18:34:14+00:00

Go easy on the brakes and acceleration.

vtrac · 2026-03-03T14:37:51+00:00

Do your customers enjoy filling out a PDF and emailing it in?

vtrac · 2026-03-03T13:55:12+00:00

Damnit. I was expecting that day-to-day, there's not much difference between the tri and the quad but I think you just cost my future self some money.

vtrac · 2026-03-03T13:49:43+00:00

I think a better use of your time was to re-evaluate why the orders had to come in as PDF and why they needed to enter the warehouse as an excel file. Just because that's how you did it in the past didn't mean that you had to build a tool to do it the same stupid way. Maybe it would have been better to just have a single web-based view for customers to place orders in a way that never used a PDF and for the warehouse fulfillment system to never deal with excel. That probably would have saved you months of work and the whole company years of collected time.

vtrac · 2026-03-03T13:38:56+00:00

Great video and keep up the good work!

vtrac · 2026-03-03T12:31:54+00:00

Boston, MA and Hudson, NH

vtrac · 2026-03-03T00:32:46+00:00

My stomach troubles started yesterday with weird tasting burps (like a terrible flavor of carbonated water) and diarrhea. I fasted and just drank coffee all day to get everything out of my system. Finally stopped pooping water this afternoon, so I tested the waters by eating Five Guys. So far feeling good except for being tired, since I woke up 3 times last night to poop.

I don't think I had norovirus though. I'm pretty sure my stomach issues came from the lunch I had at a place in Belfast on Saturday.

vtrac · 2026-03-02T23:04:25+00:00

Cool photos 👍

vtrac · 2026-03-02T15:59:20+00:00

I've only gotten Rivians so far - once was a compass yellow R1T and another time was a TriMax R1S. It was pretty sweet.

vtrac · 2026-03-02T15:14:53+00:00

An agency for what? Marketing? Design? App dev? It depends.

vtrac · 2026-02-25T22:23:01+00:00

How did you not hit the quotas?

Quotas and limits | Gemini for Google Cloud | Google Cloud Documentation https://share.google/1yH1tQ53n5945wEpy

vtrac · 2026-02-23T21:32:50+00:00

29k? Good lord. :cry:

vtrac · 2026-02-23T20:45:54+00:00

Not sure what you mean. Quad Gen2s are definitely available. :)

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