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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: "This thing eats pests" I think to myself as I watch it scurry around some dark corner where pest control is at best a minor convenience. Meanwhile, aphids lay waste to my basil.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: News organizations seem to be content with the claims themselves being the news, rather than them being spin on some objective underlying reality. It's the purest expression of both sidesism in journalism, where opinions are valid simply for existing, the truth being its ultimat...
@jmoiron.bsky.social It's worrying how little independent verification we get for claims made regarding the current war. Iran claimed to have destroyed the US base in Bahrain in early spring but even as late as June it was still reported as unconfirmed. This is basically the same: www.lbc.co.uk/arti...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: For 1-3 I'd do the SFC remakes. 1&2 are just better, 3 is a mixed bag but it's worth having the better quality soundtrack. For 7 I think the 3DS version is the best; the new remake is probably a 'better' game but it cuts a lot. I like the DS remakes for 4-6 but the originals ar...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: imho it's less relevant to a DQ enjoyer than something like Torneko no Daibouken. My hot take DQ ranking best-to-worst 11,4,5,8,3,6,9,7,2,1 3, 5, and 11 are all masterpieces. 4 and 8 are personal faves. 2/1 are only relevant to properly experience 3. Many hate 6, not me! Only ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social As I said in my post on smart mouth guards, Gridiron is structurally incompatible with brain health. There isn't a way to stop a 220lb/100kg running back with a running start from gaining 3 yards without contact that puts both of your brains at risk.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The NFL, however.. I haven't followed it in 25 years, but I can't even bring myself to watch it. The sport feels structurally flawed. Post-contact yards are so important, tackles are just collisions. Players are constantly off their feet or using their heads in the tackle. It's...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I remember being a bit annoyed by the shift in scrum cadence from "crouch.. touch.. pause.. engage", but looking back on it, 6 people bearing the brunt of a ~2 ton collision looks absolutely mad. There will always be risk in contact sport, but I think Rugby has adapted pretty we...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Player mouthguards have accelerometers and communicate wirelessly with the officials. When a big enough contact is reported, the player goes off and undergoes concussion protocols. I wondered if the NFL has adopted these, but as far as I can tell they are just using them for dat...
@jmoiron.bsky.social The test in Joburg yesterday was immense; underestimate the All Blacks at your peril. An early turning point was Kurt-Lee Arendse going off for HIA and failing. Ref Matt Carley at the time said "mouthguard." Somehow this tech had escaped me: www.world.rugby/the-game/fac...
Argent-Matter/gcyr created comment on issue #122: verify rocket building works across both cardinal axes - Can't reproduce this based on orientation, but I did run into an issue with the scanner popping off ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social "We had too much traffic and a component failed" is a board meeting report, not an outage postmortem. The solution of rate limits and CPU/Mem alerts is state of the art for 2014, a time when Github still let engineers publish proper postmortems: github.blog/news-insight...
by jason moiron, 2026