Moving Mooney would be just giving up on offense. This has been a down year for him - it’s shaping up to be a down year for the whole passing game. But leaving Moore as the only legitimate WR threat won’t help win games or evaluate Fields/Bagent.

If I could chose between the two, I’d like to see JJ stay. He’s a solid pass defender, although his availability has been limited by injuries.

I’m not sold on Tyrique “PI” Stevenson. Every game he seems to get beat and has to interfere.

Edit: Wait what? I thought I was commenting in the post about moving Mooney or Johnson.

I think Poles gets more time. He took over a team in free fall and saw it crash into the ground. It’ll take more than one off-season to build a competitive team. I like what Poles has done with draft capital. Claypool is a big mark against him. On paper it was a good move. At the time, I recall a lot of excitement, further fueled by talk that GB was after him.

I don’t know about Flus. Maybe one positive thing I can say about him is I believe the defense has been playing a little better since he took over. I thought the rule used to be that coaches got three years. (Trustman was a fairly recent counterexample).

I agree regarding Fields. It was unfortunate the circumstances he’s found himself in, but I think good quarterbacks would find more ways to have success. He’s going to have to play great the rest of the season too stay in Chicago. I’d love to see it, but I’m not very hopeful.

So many missed opportunities on defense. These guys need to learn to finish plays. And get healthy.

Offense is a huge disappointment. Fields is playing well below that high floor we thought he had when he was drafted. Leave it to be Bears to ruin another QB.

I don’t want to see a WR screen ever again.

I can type pretty fast on a full keyboard, so for me writing is slower. But because it is slower, I find it can be more thoughtful. About two years ago I started making an effort to hand write notes to help me think, learn, and remember things.

Pen and paper are also pretty great. You can take them anywhere. They don’t require electricity or a battery. They are small and lightweight. You can use them on a hike. You can use them if the power goes out. The format will never become unsupported.

Those look neat. You can use glass and metal nibs in them!

Moore and Herbert have some speed!

Pass was a little behind if we’re being honest, but this is what good skill players can do! JF1 doesn’t have to be flawless. I’m pumped.

That looks like a nice reliable blue.

I primarily use document inks for addressing envelopes, which can be infrequent. To avoid clogging a pen, I’ve been considering getting a dip pen like the Pilot Iro-Utsushi. It’s still a metal nib, as opposed to a glass pen, and more for everyday writing than a calligraphy nib.

https://www.jetpens.com/Pilot-Iro-Utsushi-Dip-Pen-Clear-Fine-Nib/pd/34522

I’ll be using a burgundy Pilot e95s with Diplomat Burgundy ink for work notes.

I’m a hobbyist, I don’t use common lisp professionally, but it has become my go-to tool for little personal projects and puzzles (like Project Euler or Advent of Code). The interactive development (mentioned in the article) is one of the primary reasons.

I find it so fun to build with. You can write functions and immediately test and interact with them in the repl, and then build on them from there. You can compile code at a granular level - for example you can recompile a function rather than the entire source file. This is helpful if some stuff is still being worked out and would produce compile time errors.

Occasionally I’ve gotten into a weird place because of the evolution of my code and incremental changes along the way while running a program. When I stop and completely reload a program, it behaves differently from what I previously experienced. It is something additional to keep in mind when interactively modifying a program.

The debugger experience with Emacs/Slime is the best I’ve experienced (professionally I’ve used various versions of Visual Studio, and as a hobbyist, various open source IDEs.)

The programs I have written are simple. Some day I would like to grok CLOS and the condition system.

Looks lovely! I enjoyed looking at the writing sample. Your ink really helps show off the line variation. I like how the loops in your b, h, and l letters look!

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I agree that looks to be a Metropolitan. Great pens!

As @techwizrd@programming.dev said, you won’t be able to see the ink level. When your line starts get get darker, thinner, and the pen starts to skip, it’s time to refill. Or if the pen has been sitting for a while, maybe a quick cleaning.

The Kakuno is one of my favorite pens!

I believe the Metropolitan and the Kakuno use the same nib. So if you like the Kakuno nib and are just looking for a more substantial body, the Metro should be a great fit. Pilot is know for good quality control, but it does sound like maybe you got a dud.

My favorite notebook is the JetPens Kanso Noto. They have 160 sheets (320 pages) of Tomoe River paper with a 5mm dot grid. Tomoe River paper is a premium fountain pen friendly paper that should solve your feathering problems.

https://www.jetpens.com/JetPens-Tomoe-River-52-gsm-Kanso-Noto-Notebook-A5-Dot-Grid-Black/pd/29704

JetPens offers free shipping in the US for order of $35 or more. I don’t know what options are available outside of the US.

The notebook is currently out of stock. I expect more to be back soon. Tomoe River paper was sold from one paper company to another. I think JetPens just cleared out their stock with paper from the original company and I anticipate they’ll bring the notebook back soon with paper from the new company (Sanzen). In the past, the notebooks sold for $19.50, which is a great price for a premium paper notebook (seriously, I think only the Nanami Seven Seas notebooks have a better price per page for premium paper) . However, to keep the price low, the notebook doesn’t have bells and whistles like an elastic closure or page marker ribbons.

Waterman inks may be easy to overlook because they are moderately priced and have a reputation as safe, well behaved inks. But I really like the shading I get from Serenity Blue with all but my finest nibs.

Thank you, I see your point now. You are worried bad actors could simply join this instance.

They could, but then they would fall under the guidelines and moderation of this instance. I’m not sure in practice how big of a worry this is.

And bad actors can join without needing to come from a banned instance.

This doesn’t change my view of defederation. (I won’t claim to know the correct use/threshold for defederation, this is all new to me! I’m mostly here to enjoy the discussions, not worry about what might go wrong.)

I don’t understand the point you are trying to make. On the one hand, you say:

Defederating entire instances does not stop bad actors, but an active strongwilled community does.

This makes me think you are saying not to defederate because it would be better to call out bad behavior - interact with the bad actors and point out their falsehoods, hate, etc. But on the other hand, you say:

I don’t interact with them. I don’t provide them with any value.

and

It’s not our responsibility to moderate other instances.

These make me think you are saying just ignore them. And if we’re going to just ignore them, how is that different from the perspective of the bad actors, from defederating? How does not moderating and not interacting stop bad actors?

This is all new to me, I don’t know the best use of defederating, but I didn’t follow the argument you were making.