Not like super seriously, but in limited joke capacities it does work

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1rsbxn9/stop_sp...

> Training using VR equipment is picking up steam, as typically you need a sizeable amount of real estate to practice when the weather is bad.

I always wondered, how does that work?

Over in bullseye rifle we live and breathe dryfire (no ammo), but I understand the equivalent (no arrow) with a bow is a recipe for breaking the bow.

Like my brain just cannot comprehend how to get enough reps to get good enough at a thing without being able to do dryfire at the volume we do for rifle.

Answer is that it's the human body that's the weakest link here, as muscles get sore and tendons might get damaged if you overdo it.

Prepping for tournaments is a field in and of itself as you need to time your trainings right to achieve peak form at the event itself.

My sister, who's been doing this competitively for a decade now, showed me an excel sheet her team has - there's an optimisation problem you have to solve to get every member to their best shape within the specified timeframe.

Also there are so-called "trads" - people doing traditional archery with period-correct technology, where the stakes are understandably lower.

Also they ingest, ahem, aiming fluid each meeting, so it's way more casual than what modern competitive archers practice.

Olympic style fencing is pretty interesting too, to be fair. Physical Chess

Also it's less... scary? At least you'll get less scary-looking bruises (though probably more total number of bruises)

>Olympic style fencing is pretty interesting too, to be fair.

It just seems incredibly divorced from it's martial origins. To each their own.

Oh for sure it is very gamified. It's still very interesting in its own right though.

Just don't go into it if you are looking for realism.

I dunno, but it does seem a time honored tradition

https://goomics.net/106

Maybe because buildings are easy to describe the surface concepts to people without deep understanding of civil engineering or architecture or whatever, compared to other engineering disciplined like mech or chem or electrical.

Everyone knows what a building foundation is and why it's important, but if someone starts talking to you about negative roots being necessary for a stable linear time-invariant system, most people's eyes are going to glaze over.

San Francisco homicide rate is like what, 2x Berlin and 3x London, so Berlin is half a Mad Max?

you think people in those cities didn't wish they were as safe as Tokyo? maybe i was a little too focused on America specifically, we are just by far the worst.

but also imagine thinking the richest city on the entire planet should just be fine with 3x the homicide rate of other comparable cities and 20-30x worse than Beijing or Tokyo. I mean its just embarrassing that you think your comment is defensible.

We've completely resigned ourselves to living in the most dangerous developed country by a long shot for no good reason.

Well if the objective was just about distracting from some domestic issue, then maybe it doesn't matter from Trump's perspective.

Fair, but at the very least "hyperinflation caused Hitler" is a significantly weaker statement than "deflation caused Hitler", given that the former was replaced by the latter like 8+ years before Hitler's takeover.

Economic problems was a big part though, the 1929-33 great depression. It features heavily in political literature pushed by the Nazi party leading up to takeover. You know, like "Arbeit und Brot", etc.

I don't think apollo 11's toilet malfunctioned, it was just not very good. Everything smelled like poop mixed with chemicals, and that was by design.

I mean five nines is legitimately difficult to accomplish for a lot of problem spaces.

It's also like.... difficult to honestly and accurately measure. And account for whether or not you're getting lucky based on your underlying dependencies (servers, etc) not crashing as much as advertised, or if it's actually five nines. Or whether you've run it for a month and gotten <30s of measure downtime and declared victory, vs run it for three years with copious software updates.

I always assume most people claiming five nines are just not measuring it correctly, or have not exercised the full set of things that will go wrong over a long enough period of time (dc failures, network partitions, config errors, bad network switches that drop only UDP traffic on certain ports, erroneous ACL changes, bad software updates, etc etc)

Maybe they did it all correct though, in which case, yea, seems hard hitting to me.

5 nines is at best a temporary achievement, given enough time.

Hyperinflation in weimar Germany ended by what, 1924-ish with a return to gold standard? Hitler came to power 8+ years later