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I can juggle ...
If it smells it's chemistry, if it crawls it's biology, if it doesn't work it's physics.
In Soviet Russia... (Score:4, Insightful)
...you are being juggled by an astounding list of work goals and hobbies!
In Soviet Russia... (Score:1)
...bad joke is made out of you!
Re:In Soviet Russia... (Score:5, Informative)
... the line punches YOU!
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... the line punches YOU!
I like how this is modded "Informative" rather than "Funny." It is serious advice for when traveling to Russia via a time machine, clearly.
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Tips to prevent RSI (Score:2)
- Drink lots of water. (like a bottle of 1.5 liters a day explicitly) What the heck does that do against RSI? It makes you piss allot, which makes you change you posture more often preventing RSI. Also, it has other benefits. Like that it lowers the salt in your body, which we eat too much of.
You forgot step 2 (Score:1)
Get a bunch of 1.5L bottles of water and juggle them. Do NOT lose or break the water bottles, you'll need the water for step 3.
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Drink lots of water. (like a bottle of 1.5 liters a day explicitly) What the heck does that do against RSI? It makes you piss allot,
Awesome idea, thanks.
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No, walking doesn't cause RSI becasue there is no* straining. When you juggle, there is strain.
*If there is, seek medical help from a medically train physical therapy.
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Disclosure: I juggle. Used to do it professionally as well as teach. Both part time for fun, but I got paid.. and it's been about 20+ years since I did either for money.
Yes, it repetitive. It's like you are saying 'Typing poorly will prevent RSI in your wrist'. i.e. nonsense.
Juggling can cause RSI in the elbows and shoulders.
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Re:Tips to prevent RSI (Score:5, Funny)
Also, it has other benefits. Like that it lowers the salt in your body, which we eat too much of.
I like long pig as much as the next man, but perhaps you're right and we should eat less of it.
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I learned to dance instead. Swing dancing, I found it right about the time Swing was at its peak, but regardless of type of partner dance
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>partner dance
I prefer breaking. I might learn the other type at some point though.
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Juggling impresses no one, and it IS a skill.
How you present your juggling impresses people.
I like how you choose a hobby the involves doing the same thing over and over again to avoid repetitive strain injury.
It doesn't have to be water, It can be things that contain water. A soda for example. Although I would avoid sugared sodas.
Juggling is easy, stopping is hard (Score:4, Funny)
All objects can be juggled. Object.Juggle(Objectlist) adds Object to ObjectList and starts Juggling all objects in ObjectList if juggling is not already in progress.
Stopping juggling is another matter.
To prevent compile-time errors,
Object.StopJuggling(Objectlist,Object)
and ObjectList.StopJuggling()
are both defined but they return ERROR_CANNOT_REMOVE_OBJECT_JUGGLE_IN_PROGRESS and
ERROR_CANNOT_STOP_JUGGLING
respectively for classes that do not override these methods.
Juggling is not an efficient operation and should be used sparingly. If any non-empty ObjectList is currently juggling, significant CPU and other resources are used.
Re:Juggling is easy, stopping is hard (Score:4, Funny)
Just make sure to have a catch block when that code throws an exception...
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Just make sure to have a catch block when that code throws an exception...
*Whoosh* ... parent is funny, not informative. (Juggle, throw, catch ... oh forget it.)
What's really wrong with Java (Score:1)
You can drink and drink but you can't go to the bathroom.
When the JRE decides it's time to take a leak, things gets messy and you aren't allowed to clean it up.
Actually, absolutely the opposite (Score:1)
You can start GC manually but you can't prevent it from running... So you can take a leak when you want to or when JRE wants you to, but you can't choose not to take a leak when JRE wants you to, even if you are in the middle of a time-critical task and have more than enough memory left. You can TRY to please your JRE overlords by recycling objects, etc. to reduce the frequency of the GC but in the end, it all depends on the current position of the stars.
Game programming in Java can drive a person insane.
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Game programming in Java can drive a person insane.
Trying to hit a nail with a screwdriver feels exactly the same.
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That must be .NET because the Method Names Are Capitalized. There is nothing wrong with Java.
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All objects can be juggled. Object.Juggle(Objectlist) adds Object to ObjectList and starts Juggling all objects in ObjectList if juggling is not already in progress.
Stopping juggling is another matter.
To prevent compile-time errors, Object.StopJuggling(Objectlist,Object) and ObjectList.StopJuggling() are both defined but they return ERROR_CANNOT_REMOVE_OBJECT_JUGGLE_IN_PROGRESS and ERROR_CANNOT_STOP_JUGGLING respectively for classes that do not override these methods.
Juggling is not an efficient operation and should be used sparingly. If any non-empty ObjectList is currently juggling, significant CPU and other resources are used.
I've thoroughly checked the MSDN .NET documentation as well as the Java documentation and could not find any classes that support a juggle method.
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Best practice is to start the juggling on an isolated worker process. To this end, you must serialize the juggle list and pass it to the juggle process. To stop juggling simply kill the juggler. If asked, whether this is reasonable, answer "more guns".
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1? (Score:4, Interesting)
Isn't there a number between 0 and 2? I can't handle two objects in motion, but I can manage one object getting passed and back and forth.
Re:1? (Score:4, Interesting)
Technically speaking, 1 object is not considered juggling... ...you'd think. But there's things like contact juggling [wikipedia.org]. So yes, 1 would technically be an option, but it would most likely be misunderstood by many.
Re:1? (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm pretty sure that 0 objects wouldn't be considered juggling either.
0 or 1 = shorthand for "I can't juggle" (Score:1)
It was editor's choice on how to word the "CowboyNeal can't juggle and neither can I" option.
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Actually, I answered 2...and I don;t consider that juggling either (unless it is done one handed), so I would have taken the CowboyNeal option too. Generally, I would say 3 is the first level where its actually juggling. Before that its just practicing the motions/timing.
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Well aren't you special? 1 and 2 objects is juggling. There are many types of juggling, stop being closed minded.
Juggling is about the manipulations of objects.
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It very much is considered juggling. A Siteswap "1" throw is a throw straight across from one hand to the other. Repeating this ad-infinatum is juggling 1 ball.
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You're speaking semantically, not technically.
Re:1? (Score:4, Interesting)
Zero is treated as plural? (Score:2)
;>)
[stealing a sig from someone here, i remember the sig but not who's sig it is] temp sig: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers...
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Not true. "I can juggle a half object" is gramatically correct.
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Less abominable is the common usage of decimals in this context e.g. "I have 0.6 oranges". Again, the plural form.
I have six tenths of an orange. Not of oranges.
Is it just me who is irritated by GPSes that read loud, and how they pluralize everything except one?
"Go one point one miles, then turn right"
The way my language ear works, only countables and zero should have the plural s. Not unity and fractions.
I'm probably fighting a losing battle, just like with my not accepting singular they.
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Less abominable is the common usage of decimals in this context e.g. "I have 0.6 oranges". Again, the plural form.
I have six tenths of an orange. Not of oranges.
Is it just me who is irritated by GPSes that read loud, and how they pluralize everything except one? "Go one point one miles, then turn right"
The way my language ear works, only countables and zero should have the plural s. Not unity and fractions.
Do you apply the same rule to units of mass, force, time, temperature, etc., or only for distance/length?
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Do you apply the same rule to units of mass, force, time, temperature, etc., or only for distance/length?
Mass, definitely. 7.5 kilogram, not 7.5 kilograms. For 7 kg, either 7 kilogram or 7 kilograms would work. There are countable kg weights.
Force too, but for a different reason. Newton is a proper noun, and doesn't pluralize. 1.2 newtons would just be plain wrong. Same with Ampere, Ã...ngstrÃm, Watt and similar units. I know many people say Watts, but it should be Watt.
Temperature - well, I guess it depends on the scale. 273.15 Kelvin, not Kelvins, for the same reason as other proper nouns
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you can have six tenths of 10 oranges.
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Both are correct, but the second sounds wrong when you say it. Doesn't matter if you substitute fractions.
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What are you, some sort of juggle nazi?
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No, he's just wrong.
I, OTOH, am a juggling Nazi.
NO NO NO.. sorry! (Score:2)
I am NOT a juggling Nazi! That sentence sounded terrible.
Let me rephrase.
I am strict about what is juggling, and the person you original replied to was wrong. More presisly, I hate people who try to artificial limit what juggling is. They are usual pretensions twits trying to make them selves look better by ignoring huge pieces of the juggling pie.
Nazi's are horrid people.Again, I am not a Juggling Nazi.
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I have a juggling ball filled wit bird seed. i.e. I single set of many objects.
I can juggle that one ball, and it's many objects.
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Juggling is the act of evenly distributing objects between your hands. That makes juggling 2 objects just holding them there. 1 object requires you to pass it back and forth between your hands.
This, and 4 objects is the only place where it's easier to juggle an even number of objects than the next odd number. Juggling 6 objects is harder than juggling 7.
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Juggling is the act of evenly distributing objects between your hands.
That's your definition, and it's also dead wrong.
First of all, the word juggling is related to jocular, and was what a jester was doing. Including singing, telling jokes, and other things. Like spinning and tossing objects, which is what the word mostly means these days.
If you think two hands are needed, you have obviously never seen a one-armed juggler.
If you think passing multiple objects are needed, what about gyroscopic juggling, like spinning a wheel in the air and make it appear to defy gravity, or
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"First of all, the word juggling is related to jocular, and was what a jester was doing. Including singing, telling jokes, and other things. Like spinning and tossing objects, which is what the word mostly means these days."
In that case, what does a pattern juggler do
Note: He is obviously different from the yellow Jester who does not play, but gently pulls the strings
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"In that case, what does a pattern juggler do"
retains data..but they do not know why.
First and last options are the same (Score:1)
My astounding list is astoundingly empty.
Got up to 5 (Score:2)
Dyslexic and un-coordinated, but stubborn enough to learn juggling. Even got up to 5 balls at one point. Once you learn, it is engrained. Can still juggle whilst drunk.
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Can still juggle whilst drunk.
That was the piece of information I was missing. It is important, otherwise I'll have no time window to show off my juggling.
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save yourself from hellfire.
We'll meet you there.
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"save yourself from hellfire."
put some smoke between you and the laser designator
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There is no God.
Now that you know that, you can move on and be responsible for your own actions... or inaction.
You're welcome.
juggling as tension relief (Score:1)
I learned a simple three ball cascade as a way to relax. You just cannot juggle if you are tense. You have to relax and let the balls flow. It's very calming.
0 Objects? (Score:2)
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I don't see why you can't juggle when blind.
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I don't see why you can't juggle when blind.
I see what you did there!
Anyhow, blindfolded jugglers are common enough. Once you have a feel for the objects, vision doesn't help you much. If you have to look at all the objects to know their trajectory, you're doing it wrong, and hilarity will ensue.
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Of course the pun was intended, but that's exactly what I mean. I can 'juggle' only 0 or 1 objects, but with some practice it should be easy to do that blindfolded (or just with my eyes closed).
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To me, "0 Objects" implies that you have no hands, no arms, or you're blind.
To me, juggling 0 objects means you can only do one thing at a time, which means you are juggling nothing.
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But of course the greatest benefit is - they resemble breasts!
No, they resemble testicles. Which is the origin of the name. Ahuacatl (testicle). Then Aguacate (water pear?), then Avocado (lawyer). Guacamole also comes from Ahuacatl, plus Molli (sauce). So literally "Testicle Sauce".
depends on... (Score:1)
size of the object and available meomry.
I program in C (Score:1)
I program in C, you insensitive clod!
I can juggle Eight balls (Score:1)
Three of them.
What is juggling? (Score:2)
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That's how I randomly happened upon learning to juggle three.
Funnily (Score:3)
I can manage four with two in each hand, but not for very long. I never really felt much need to go up to more than three anyway.
Missing Option (Score:1)
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A lifetime skill-- (Score:2)
I've taught many folks how to juggle since that time. Taught my son. He's getting damn good with five, which I never completely mastered.
He's also taught others, passing it on. It's easy to learn, and addicting -- you go through a phase where you'll try to juggle anything that won't fight back (hints: tape the paws together; shake frogs and other small animals first to make sure they're empty before throwing them over y
I can juggle... (Score:2)
0-3 object... is the poll cumulative? :)
People are still unimpressed (Score:2)
missing option... (Score:2)
i can juggle one object.
I can juggle... (Score:1)
... three, maybe four women before I start losing track of them all.
As many as i want! (Score:1)
Juggling a list is easy! (Score:2)
Paper is pretty slow in the way it falls, even if a tad unpredictable, so catching it before it hits the ground isn't all that difficult.
I postulate... (Score:1)
How to juggle (Score:2)
How to juggle
I taught many people how to juggle IRL.
Here's my attempt to teach it online, without visual information and without constant feedback.
It isn't hard, and you don't need much time to learn it.
I tried my best to cut the learning process in as many small steps as possible.
Some might seem obvious to you, but they are important nonetheless.
It helps to have someone nearby that can show you how a proper 3 ball cascade is performed. No need to show off!
The cascade should be smooth, with a constant rhyth
none, but... (Score:2)
I can't juggle, but I taught my brother how to. I learned from a book (Juggling for the Complete Klutz, which I highly recommend, btw), but didn't have the patience to actually develop the muscle memory. Meanwhile, my brother was wanting to learn, so I taught him!