@simonsarris Any secrets to transplanting one? I have a New Dawn that I got to climb on an arbor...that I haven't built yet. Might need to give it a temporary home until I can get the arbor built
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Matt Rigney
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Matt Rigney
@mattrigney
Christ-follower, husband, scientist. https://t.co/YVlKaxmFzE
Huntsville, AL Katılım Eylül 2009
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For online ordering I over-buy and then rush to find places for everything, which accounts for some of the moving. I have 7 roses on a list already that are in the ground now, but will be moved in the fall. I just bought 22 peonies for the fall, and will need to cut new beds.
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my office hours are OPEN
what do you need feedback or advice on, what questions do you have, what secret trouble stirs thy breast
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@nut_history hometown team drafted him, he played his entire career there. he helped lead a wave of offensive SS. He won a WS early in his career. he won MVP in a contested race leading his team to the NLCS. the next year he became the first SS to go 30/30. He capped his career in the HOF.
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Without telling me his full name - his number, his nickname, or the team he's played for, try to describe me who you're all-time favourite baseball player is.
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@lymanstoneky The criteria for a comfortable day is...not good. A day with a high temp of 92 and a dew point of 64 qualifies. That's a hot summer day. Not sure anyone, even from the south would call it comfortable
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Huh. Interesting. Not the geography of this I had in my head but it makes sense.
Disgraced Propagandist@DisgracedProp
Totally unique on planet earth
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@shegone03 I get this all the time to. "Got to teach them how to play real baseball." Yeah...real baseball, where you can go an entire season and never have a runner thrown out stealing🫤
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I agree 💯💯💯
I remember arguing with non baseball parents over this for years!
I especially loved their reasoning when they would say “We want them to learn real baseball.”
I found that it’s a waste of time and energy to argue with people who think that they know what’s better for their kids than a professional!
#shegone
Jeff Petty@wjeffpetty
Excuse my ignorance on this. What year did we start letting 9 year olds take leads & steal bases? When we were 12 foot had to be on the base. Stealing at 9 years old & taking leads might be the dumbest thing to date I have seen on a baseball field at any level.
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@wjeffpetty Same for me as a kid. Been coaching rec baseball for years now. And I push our local league to roll back leads and steals at 9. Imagine trying to teach a 9 year old how to hold a runner. Or not balk. Or a 9 yr old catcher trying to throw a kid with a huge lead out on 65' bases.
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Excuse my ignorance on this. What year did we start letting 9 year olds take leads & steal bases? When we were 12 foot had to be on the base. Stealing at 9 years old & taking leads might be the dumbest thing to date I have seen on a baseball field at any level.
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@Carr18J @JCarrier713 @podoffame But again, dropping Sale into 1963 wouldn't be great for him either. He'd be an alien for a few games. But how long would he last? Agree, though, that Sale (and Johan Santana) stack up nicely to Koufax
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@JCarrier713 @podoffame I mentioned that. These guys were born talented and would compete if they had the same start, but plopping them into games as they were in this hypothetical scenario would not go well for them.
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Koufax faced Mays, Clemente, Aaron, Cepeda, Allen, Robinson, Matthews, Santo, Stargell, McCovey, Williams, Banks, Howard, Pinson, Musial, and Boyer on a regular basis.
Not to mention Mantle, Maris, Killebrew, Oliva, and Powell in the World Series.
Bunch of bums.
It’s Ron Time@Carr18J
Imagine the dogshit Koufax faced compared to what Sale has had to pitch to as well.
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@simonsarris @orthodoxmason @rohindhar As an addendum, 5 years in, I am impressed with the durability of the finish, which I was doubtful of. Basically no scratches even with 4 kids and a large dog.
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@simonsarris @orthodoxmason @rohindhar We are slab in grade so had to go engineered. We had to work so hard to find something that didn't look fake. Found something that we're happy with, but disliked the aesthetics of most
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If you’re doing a high end house flip
I don’t think you can use engineered hardwood floors anymore
Gotta go with the real thing
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@theoeides4 He committed the terrible sin of not being managed well and being bad at writing books without an editing team.
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@JoshDaws I've never read Patterson in my life. But if that's how he writes his books, I certainly wouldn't consider them "his" anymore thank I think Franklin W. Dixon wrote the Hardy Boys.
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James Patterson is one of the biggest selling authors of all time. He’s had over 100 NYT bestsellers and cranks out 10-15 books a year. He pretty much admitted he writes an outline and has assistants write a draft which he polishes. Nobody questions if those are really his books. So explain to me why using AI the same way is cheating. telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/…
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@bb55guns @booksandbbq The county league has rules about drafting, but little ability (or will) to enforce them on local communities that play in the league. It is not the only problem, but the rise of travel ball is a significant detriment to local leagues.
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@mattrigney @booksandbbq Our local Optimist organizations have strict rules against players going from one club to another to stack a team, but it happens. Also, the parents of those stacked teams are typically, those who run the clubs.
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@booksandbbq Knew Levi from his music. It is not a great novel. But it's a good book. I think Levi wrote a "Phillipians 4:8" book. Will it be read in 50 years? Doubt it. Do I wish there was more Theo of Golden and less Colleen Hoover on the NYT bestseller list? Most definitely.
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@JoshDaws @BMcGrewvy @GShaneMorris If implanting a neuralink in his brain enabled him to write the words himself, and express his feelings more eloquently, should be get it? It should he allow God to be made strong in his "weakness"?
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@BMcGrewvy @GShaneMorris Because he’s not a wordsmith he has no business using a tool that can help him express what he’s feeling and what God has been teaching him?
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Anyone who has ever seriously written understands this truth immediately: writing is not compiling propositions or facts. It's not getting in keywords. It is opening the doors of your soul and letting your cumulative experience and personality spill out onto the page.
Alan Levinovitz@AlanLevinovitz
The answer, at least for me, is that AI-generated writing does not allow me to produce better work at a faster rate. Coders can use AI to produce pretty workable code, which they then revise. I've tried to do this with AI, but it doesn't work. The AI doesn't generate helpful ideas, structure, or syntax. I have to rewrite the whole thing. On top of that, writing is tied to the identity of the writer. That's why there are bylines on articles, and authors on books, and people want to know if something has been ghostwritten by a celebrity or not. You can have "favorite authors." Good writers have distinct style, themes, etc. Identity/origin are part of their product. This isn't true for code, which is entirely functional. I think writers would have no problem with AI-generated writing in contexts where the genre is already generic, like mission statements or legal briefs.
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@suzania @teafortillerman @JoshHochschild Hey, don't lump all of us "STEM guys" into the same bucket. I'm a proud STEM guy Luddite😁
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@teafortillerman @JoshHochschild Yes, the context that he’s spent the last couple of months saying that he doesn’t really see the most of the point of the Christian humanist anti-AI argument. He is a good man but he is a STEM guy and doesn’t understand.
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This is so dark. It’s the equivalent of saying “what if you grew a baby in an artificial womb & then sent it to be raised by robots who simulated loving the baby & looked just like the parents— what’s the actual PROBLEM with that? There obviously IS none! gotcha, luddites!”
Neil Shenvi@NeilShenvi
A series of (Gettier) art problems. Pick a beautiful artwork, like Rembrandt's Return of the Prodigal Son. 1. Is the painting itself objectively beautiful? 2. What if you discovered that Rembrandt was a secret atheist who intended to mock the parable with his painting? 3. What if Rembrandt created the painting by splashing paint randomly on a canvas, so that he did not intend the final result to look as it did? 4. What if Rembrandt thought the randomly generated painting succeeded in mocking the parable? 5. What if, after Rembrandt had created his painting, his Christian assistant had accidentially detroyed it and then copied the original perfectly in order to honor the parable, not knowing Rembrant's actual beliefs? 6. What if the assistant's rival, an atheist who knew Rembrandt's actual beliefs, saw what happened, destroyed the Christian's copy, and then reproduced it perfectly, thinking that Rembrandt's original successfully mocked the parable?
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@JoshDaws @ref_andrew Neither is central to the creative work. Using AI to compose your sermon seems to tread very close to replacing the fundamental, embodied calling of the pastor in preaching.
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@JoshDaws @ref_andrew The core/primary/fundamental function of the pastor in preaching. If the calculator wrote conjectures and theorems about how the physical world worked, that would be problematic for physicists. I would tend to think of a calculator as similar to a spell checker....
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A pastor can spend 20 hours soaking in Scripture, poring over commentaries, tracing connections, and discerning exactly what his people need to hear. Then, if he uses AI to help articulate that, none of it counts? How does that one tool erase the wrestling that came before it?
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