• 4 Posts
  • 1.21K Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 9th, 2023

help-circle
  • At the risk of resurrecting an old thread, I had a somewhat similar scenario today, but totally opposite results …

    I rely on my Apple Watch as an alarm: the tapping always wakes me without being loud or obtrusive.

    However I forgot to charge my watch, brought the cable to work, forgot to charge it at work, and forgot to bring the charging cable home. Point is, my watch battery is dead, so how did I get up on time this morning?

    1. Apple integration for the win! My iPhone automatically took over the alarm. It was loud and obnoxious, but worked
    2. My music came on. While I set the schedule through the SONOS app, I’m pretty sure it runs locally. While that relies on streaming music, I have in the past awakened to a shriek as a backup for when streaming doesn’t work

    So, vendors that “just work”, devices with intelligent failure, multiple independent sources, local control.


















  • It’s going to depend on the school and level

    Given this example of eighth grade basketball, my kid technically had tryouts but everyone made the team. It was a small school though, and bigger schools may be different. He came in cold, not knowing the game but is a natural athlete. He had fun and learned the game and that one year was enough. I pushed him to play this year because he had been interested, he had a bunch of friends in the team, and he is an athlete. Importantly he’s not really tall enough for basketball, so eighth grade was likely his last chance to play. (It was funny to watch his crew of three soccer players and a hockey player take over the team and try to adjust their skills to a new sport)

    Sports tends to get competitive in high school, especially for varsity teams, but there are usually options. For example my kid made the varsity soccer team after competitive tryouts. Part of the competitive nature was encouraging the kids to play competitive club soccer in the off season. To secure his starting spot, my kids spent the off season lifting weights, gaining about 30 lbs of muscle while cutting any remaining fat. Yes it was competitive. But he also joined a town league and a rec league for fun off season because he just loved playing: non-competitive, no tryouts


  • Is this argumentative or trolling? It has no bearing on real life.

    • you can’t require mixed gender teams on the theory that a few outliers will succeed despite gender differences
    • yes, you could argue women have an advantage in bendiness sports like gymnastics. You might have noticed gymnastics are segregated and men and women compete in different variations where the other gender is unlikely to succeed
    • those physical benefits have not overcome the size and strength differences pretty much anywhere. I think I read maybe ultramarathons but there’s not yet enough women insane enough to try.