u/former_farmer

One of the things that helped me learn the game the most and improve in tactics, court positioning, anticipation for shots, etc, is watching professional padel.

I know that I don't have to imitate everything they do, of course. They have been doing it since kids, they have talent, great genetics, years of training etc.

But my game improved a lot when I started watching and learning from them.

If you are a beginner or intermediate and only play but never watch professional padel. Watch at least some matches highlights a few times per week. You will learn a thing or two.

Listen dudes. I don't know about the market and I don't know about what people want. But Cursor became huge for being basically the VS Code IDE with AI agents integration at the right side.

Now every time the app updates or I open the app, I'm forced to your new "Agents view", and I have to click on IDE to go to the normal experience.

Stop forcing that shit to me. I'm not interested. Thank you.

I would love to see them playing together ASAP.

Well. A week ago I asked here because my mum has Belgian and Dutch ancestors and wanted to know what were my chances. I learnt 5 years ago that some of my far cousins have the Belgian passport but in my close family they never asked for it and I never knew we could.

So I did my tree/line, and asked formally, and was told that according to the current law and the laws of the time of birth of my ancestors and myself, I could have gotten my Belgian citizenship before the age of 5 if claimed by my parents, or, at the window of age 18-28 if I claimed it. Now it's too late and I have lost it forever. My mum was always proud of her Belgian last name and heritage, but she also didn't know we could get it. We were told she can get it though, just not her sons. So we will get it for her at least.

I feel like crap about this. I live in Europe now for some years (work visa) and I'm applying for citizenship next year, but still, to know that I could have gotten this passport 10+ years ago would have made things so different. I would have moved here 10 years ago, bought a house, probably married with children at this point and not depending on a visa...

I guess I should say... never disregard any line even if your ancestors are great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents. Do your research and try it all before it's late.

Hi there. I'm from Argentina. I know lately these conversations about citizenship by people with far ancestors receive a lot of hate. But I already have a EU citizenship as well. This is more of a curious question I have had for some years.

I have second great grandparents from Germany, Netherlands, and Belgium. All emigrated to Argentina around 1890. One of my great grandparents did ask for his Belgium passport if I remember properly but that was like around 1940 and he died around 1990. The chain ended there. My mum even holds their lastname.

Is there any way that I could start a claim of these citizenship?

I had this thought where Tapia looked at the ranking and he had the #1 ranking shared with Coello. So in order to prank Coello, he calls Galan and convinces him to play a tournament together just to prank Arturo and be #1 in solitud. Tapia plays on the right side.

Then Arturo has no option but to play with Chingo. Chingo plays on the left side as he already did a few times. Then Galan and Tapia win in the final, making Tapia #1 in solitude and he mocks Arturo and they laugh at the end together.

Why don't we get this type of fun in Premier Padel? it would actually be awesome. Forced to play with another partner after 6 tournaments, for one match, and then, you can return to your regular partner.

Just had a match tonight. My partner kept doing the same mistakes I've noticed in intermediates in my past 5+ matches.

#1 lob return, lob this, lob that: Stop returning with lobs just because. Stop playing lobs just because. Most of the time at this level you can win points by being consistent playing lower balls. Strong balls, not so strong, some chiquitas. Use variations. Use the lob as a last resort if things aren't going well while playing low. Stop lobbing all the time for no reason. Not to mention often the lobs are shorter and I'm exposed to an attack while being at the net and we lose the point.

You can win the net also by playing low and transitioning if you feel you are not in danger.

#2 losing the net to a normal lob: So you are at the net. You are lobbed and the lob is not short. What do you do? you can go back, hit a bandeja/vibora, or let it bounce if it's an even better lob, and hit the bajada de pared. Let's say you have to run back until your serve line, and decide to go for the vibora or bandeja. Don't stay there!!! you hit these shots not necessarily to be aggressive, but the whole point of those shots (specially a forced bandeja) is to not lose the net. So you hit the bandeja, and immediately make two or three steps towards the net to be ready to attack and not concede the net to your rivals, who will otherwise attack you and win the point.

If you go for the bajada de pared, do not lob it unless the bounce is uncomfortable! play it hard! attack it. And go at the net again to pray if possible, or evaluate, but stop not taking advantage of a high bounce there. Hit an aggressive bajada or at least a decent one. And take it as high as possible. Don't let it get down to your waist. Hit at head/shoulder level.

#3 waiting for the ball on the serve: Some balls don't bounce too high on the walls. Especially if you are playing on the left side returning with your backhand, make a step forward and hit the ball early if possible. Don't do crazy stuff like returning after a double glass bounce. Not even pros do that often. Most of the time you want to be ready to hit the ball early. These balls to the corner are tricky.

#4 using slice from the back too much: These balls aren't great. They are safe, but often float too much and are slow. They are easy for your opponent to attack. Most of your back shots should be flat or with a little bit of topspin. Some chiquitas here and there might use slice, but not normal shots.

#5 playing slow/floating balls when your teammate is at the net: Slightly related to the previous point, but if you have a true intermediate player as a teammate, you will notice they will often smell blood and transition to the net. If you decided to stay at the back for whatever reason, make sure to not put your teammate in a difficult situation by playing an easy shot. Because an easy shot will be attacked to the side of your teammate and the point will be lost. And in this case, if the attack was a result of your poor/weak shot, then your teammate is not to blame, but you. Be firm with your shots, have intention on them. Be brave. If you go for a lob, it better be a good one... short lobs are a lost point.

And that's it people. I hope this is useful to you to become a truly intermediate player that can start playing more seriously.

Hello everyone. I created this subreddit back in 2018 to try to help people with digestive issues since I had been suffering from IBS and Microscopic colitis for some time.

Recently the subreddit has been growing. I'm glad to see the new people here.

There is an automod script to set any post with pictures as NSFW, but for some reason every year it breaks and I need to update it. I just updated it. It's not cool to see poo pictures appear right away in our timeline. Please mark your poo pictures as NSFW just in case :)

Please be respectful to others, and thank you for helping this community grow.

Official post by alibaba: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2084100707423289643

>Next week, the open weights of Qwen3.8-Max will be released, and Qwen3.8-27B is also going open-weights to meet you all!

I'm just curious about this because I just moved to another city, and I remember seeing some matches in my previous city with some profiles, and in this new city, the same person, opens matches as well. Weird. But then I saw that several of these profiles (some with AI generated images) are opening matches in different cities at the same time. Often, these profiles have no matches, or less than 2, despite being there for months if not 1+ years. Usually nobody enters those matches.

What's the end game here? are these baits trying to attract people to play a match and then the fake profile abandons the match one day before?

I'm looking for a smartwatch with a rectangularish shape (I don't like them circulars) and I'm hoping to be able to run my own custom apps into it. I'd like something with gps, microphone, ability to pay (use my credit card).

Do you have any recommendation? The AI is sending me towards a Amazfit Active (Zepp OS) or Garmin Venu Sq 2 (Connect IQ) but I've no idea if there are other models with my requirements. I use Android on my main phone.

Thanks!

When I buy in person I am able to see the weight. I want one around 365 grams but I have read stories online of people getting rackets above 370 and below 360 as well. A big margin. Online, they seem to sell rackets outside the manufacturer expected weight even. So, defective ones that somehow make it to the market without discounts or disclaimers. What would my best approach be here?

There aren't stores near my home now. Spain.

Qwen 3.6 27B and Qwen 3.6 35B 3A I can only run in q4 quants and I feel that they are not very good when context gets big. These models just need a higher quant by what I read.

I just started trying Gemma 4 26B 4A QAT which only occupies 15GB of Vram so there's plenty of room for context and it's going fast and good so far, and even fast thanks to MoE. I'm working on a HTML game.

How did it work for you?

If I had 32gb of vram I would probably go with the Qwens yes. But I have 32gb of unified, and only 20 to 24 gb available.

Buenas. Ando necesitando instalar Wifi con fibra, y pensé en Vodafone, pero en Vigo centro ofrecen cobertura con un modem 5G.

Qué empresa recomiendan que tenga fibra, alta velocidad y baja latencia sin problemas? o todas son así con un modem 5G?

Gracias!

I'm not an expert on this but this is what I do. I have an old macbook with 32gb of unified ram so my definition of usable is 10 to 15 t/s. I know some of you want more than 50 t/s+ but many of us are not in that territory yet :)

1. Play around with quants. Although we have to know we are using a dumber version of the model, so be careful.

2. Trying MTP, MLX (if mac), Unsloth models, and other speculative decoding methods. Can't wait to try DSpark when it's available btw.

3. Disabling reasoning.

4. Using KV cache quantization (set to Q8).

5. Not setting up a big context if not needed.

What else are you doing? I read you! thanks.

I'm used to either Cursor or IntelliJ IDEA. I don't like text/terminal type of harnesses.

Which one have you found success with? these harnesses tend to fail with smaller models.

So my idea is. Let's say that you have equipment to run AI locally. You spent 5K, 10K, who knows. We all have different setups. But definitely there is an investment.

Then, we are using free open source models. Let's say you are running Qwen 3.6 27B at full capacity or something even bigger maybe quantized a bit. But you wish there was a great model of size 70B, 100B, that could perform almost as good as a flagship. We know some companies such as Qwen have better models, they are not releasing them as open source.

What if we could just pay for them (50, 100 usd, and use them forever, even with some updates). Will this happen in the near future? or is piracy a problem that they won't be able to manage, so they will just prefer to sell us the inference per token accessed remotely as they do now?

For those thinking you wouldn't pay for a model. Well you already invested thousands on equipment, and electricity as well, it's not unreasonable to expect these companies to sell the models or make a profit.

Let's keep making tournaments under the sun, 40 degrees and wind with players vomiting and suffering. It's very good for Padel, sure.

That was unwatchable. No player performed close to 70% of their capabilities.

Let's say me and my friends spend 5K building some local AI capacity, and at the same time, it's idle 90% of the time (the reality in many cases).

Is there any way to share the inference capacity with my friends so that they can use it when I am not using it and viceversa?

Can a model be loaded in different shared hardware? Aka 4 computers with 64gb of unified memory running a model that requires 256gb of ram to be loaded?

If so how? I imagine most of us have our equipment idle most of the day so it makes sense to share.