jkf
2d ago
Can you typically tell whether an MLB pitch is a ball or a strike without seeing a replay/specialized camera view? I guess they have some electronic BS for this now too, but for me that's not necessary to enjoy the game!
I guess I don't understand the complaint -- typically it seems like people are saying that they can't see the puck at all -- but you are saying more like "90mph slapshots are hard to track"? That is true, but I'm not sure it's that big of a problem -- for another example, does it bother you when they bring out the chains to see whether a football team has made first down?
jkf
2d ago
Sick final though. Trading two teeth for the gold medal in OT is legendary.
I'm watching it right now -- yes I know what happens, I'm watching it anyways!
NBC doesn't serve hockey to Canadians apparently, but looking at footage elsewhere it's a hard shot that bounces out -- this is hard to be sure about sometimes even for the refs and players! That's why there's a goal judge sitting behind the net. In this case it looks like it might have bounced off some of the crap they've got stationed inside the net; in the past you'd mostly see the impact on the netting, but there's still the rear bars -- normally there's a noise though.
If you think hockey is bad you should try watching lacrosse -- crowd injuries used to be a major problem there for people who didn't follow the action. Now I think there is dumb netting all over the place so people can safely focus on their beer.
jkf
2d ago
jkf
2d ago
but I can't really see the puck being shot or going into the net in real time.
I'll put in a "nuh-uh" on that -- maybe only Canadians can see the puck? Certainly you lose track of it at times when they're fighting for it in the corners or whatnot, but out in the open being passed or shot it's just, like -- not hard to see? Easier than, say, a baseball in flight I'd say?
The "i know where the puck is even if I can't see it" thing is not that you never see it -- it's that you know where it is, so when it pops out onto open ice that's where you're looking. Maybe your TV is too big?
jkf
3d ago
Vscode was a breath of fresh air when it released.
Windows 10 was actually amazing on (pre)release -- I still have somewhere an install disk from one of the first Tech Preview versions that I wouldn't mind figuring out how to hack the time-bomb on. It ran great on old Core2 era laptops, and was generally unobtrusive -- I even put it on an original Intel (white) Imac, and it was miles ahead of Snow Leopard or whatever OS Apple decided to abandon those with.
Since then basically everything about the OS has gotten worse -- work put Win11 on my laptop, and it's not so much a new OS as a slightly shittier Win10 -- essentially just following the pattern of previous Win10 update versions.
It's like they have a competent team who builds stuff, and then hands it off to the enshittification team who fails (for instance) eliminate the remaining XP-era dialog boxes and fucks around with misfeatures and generally bogging things down.
I expect it's too hard, but I (and a lot of other people, but probably not people who want to pay) would like a somewhat compliant browser engine for Mac OS9 -- obviously this is pretty much exactly a Netscape clone, but a POC would be interesting and would get the model well out of it's training set, thus testing for 'thinking' vs 'parroting' quite well.
How about 'non-interactive render of arbitrary web page; will run on my MDD PowerPC, OS 9.2.2'?
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