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Creating a Disc Golf picker upper

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Re: Creating a Disc Golf picker upper

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Disc golf is so much fun! I'm in Finland and the ground is full of snow, and I'm still going to skip the work today and go to the forest throwing.

Shit I’ve never played in the snow, seems like it’d be real easy to lose your discs!

You tape a meter long piece of easily visible string to the middle of the disc underside. (e.g. that shiny packet-wrap thing you use for christmas presents). Then your disc will be under the snow but at the end of the string.

Re: Creating a Disc Golf picker upper

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Here's a disc golf app idea: Film yourself in slow motion from front and back angles throwing a disc, upload the video to the app. App then overlays you with different pros so you can see what you're doing right and wrong. You can compare angles of arms, torso, etc. I would pay for an app like this.

This is a great idea. Single-video pose estimation has just become decent hasn't it? I guess the problem is the "matching" of the two pose animations to give the minimum difference.

Re: Creating a Disc Golf picker upper

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Author's about page says they don't know the English name for Escalopes de veau à la milanaise . It is commonly known as just "Veal Milanese" or occasionally "Veal alla Milanese" in English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veal_milanese

Screw anglicization! That's a goddamn cotoletta , it ain't that hard to pronounce... (It's better alla bolognese though, with plenty of cheese and ham to increase your heart-attack chances.)

I'm sure there are some Austrian's rolling their eyes at Italians saying Wiener Schnitzel should be called cotoletta.

Re: Creating a Disc Golf picker upper

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I love disc golf. My interests have truly intersected on this post. In addition to clinics and practice ranges, this would be useful for folks that throw a lot in the field if it’s made a bit smaller and at a lower price point. I often throw 50-70 discs at a time and they’re annoying to pick up :)

Do you know how to do woodworking? You can probably build it from scratch... we pushed it by hand at first... but I think you can make a bike/ATV mountable version (and I mean bicycle)

Interesting! Good point. Might give it a shot :)

Re: Creating a Disc Golf picker upper

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Screw anglicization! That's a goddamn cotoletta , it ain't that hard to pronounce... (It's better alla bolognese though, with plenty of cheese and ham to increase your heart-attack chances.)

I'm sure there are some Austrian's rolling their eyes at Italians saying Wiener Schnitzel should be called cotoletta .

Maybe so, but if Milano or Bologna are explicitly referenced, surely the Italian word should be used.
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