Carlton Supporters Club

Quote from: Thryleon – on March 02, 2026, 08:55:39 am

I refuse to use anything that is overly autonomous and needs to make decisions about my safety.  Computers are just too unreliable.  Reboot and all is well, but after the next batch of security updates, you might have a brick.

In my current Engineering R&D type job we have intrinsically safe and also high availability systems, none of them use a PC for hardware control, they are built on real-time hardware using industrial microcontrollers not a PC. We talk about MTBF measured in years of continuous service. PCs are used, but in the user interface not in hardware control.

The only way we get some semblance of reliability out of the PC based hardware control systems is to make sure they get a regular manual reboot whenever the opportunity arrives, which is usually at least once a week. Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD, it makes no difference. The longest genuine claim I have heard was about one year for a PC, but most were really talking of virtualisation of an OS on bare metal that itself gets cycled while the client OS gets a snapshot and resumes after the hardware reboots. I'm sure there will be users who have a Raspberry Pi or something like that sitting there running continuously doing mostly nothing, but that's a different story to operating continuously under genuine demand.

There is no way AI should be allowed anywhere near a robot or cobot.

Quote from: laj – on June 28, 2025, 10:53:05 pm

Easily Moir's best game. Plenty of touches, 17 of them and 4 goals. Encouraging.

Ben Campo's last half was terrific after a slow start.

I think we've all seen it with Moir.
It's one of those things were a player just looks a class above when he moves and with some of the things he does.
For those players with this X factor, sometimes the difficult looks effortless and just comes naturally.
The problem in the past has been that he's had trouble finding the ball.
That's improving.
It may not be time yet, but since he's been playing a bit on the ball he's looking like he could be the goods.
 

Still worried we are flat track bullies.

I suppose that is better than the alternative where we aren't even that.

Quote from: Professer E – on March 29, 2025, 08:46:27 am

How about our mental health...  Thirty years welded on to the most depressing relationship, supporting this f****d up exercise.
Joke coaching.
Joke list management.
Joke selections.
Joke fitness regime.
Keep wheeling out the same crap trucks who don't deliver week after week.
Same players making the same mistakes.

Supporting Carlton is an abusive relationship.

mate, I empathise whole heartedly.

All I can offer you is perspective.  People wonder  why do bad things happen to people.  Why do they get sick.  Why do people die young.

I think this is nature (or if you are religious Gods) way of teaching everyone perspective and how we should be greatful for the good, and recognise the bad for what they are.

It's just footy.

I attended a funeral of a 49 year old woman 2 weeks ago.  Her husband is a relative of mine.  His mum passed away at the same age when he was still a youngster.  He had the misfortune of finding his dad dead in bed a few years later.  So orphaned as a pre teen/teenager, he and his older brother were effectively raised by my uncle and aunty. 

If he can find the strength to continue living life in the face of adversity, then we must remember its just footy.

Whilst our players frustrate the hell out of me at times these are all young men, playing football.  If some of the fan noise and yelling I hear was said to a child of mine, I don't know how I'd react.

It's just footy.  It's been a hard time, but thats what made the last couple of seasons so worthwhile.   Stick fat the wheel will turn.

I too am impatient, but the one thing that I learned out of 2012 was that impatience can lead to catastrophe and sometimes understanding where you're at is more important than worrying about where you aren't.

Quote from: JonDorotich – on March 27, 2025, 08:12:04 pm

Moir makes most sense and after him I would have taken Binns before Evans,  even in Evans preferred position.

To be honest I just don’t get Evans based on current VFL form (bad) or past performances (bad)

Moir barely touched the ball and Binns was average in their VFL game.  Evans was excellent in the VFL in terms of the defensive pressure he applied … and that’s his job.

The forward structure is still a dog's breakfast.

Our disposal efficiency inside 50 is actually worse than last week at the moment.

A brief period of masochism. I watched the game again with a few mates. Watching us fall apart when under enthusiastic heat was revealing.. Where are our tough blokes, blokes with mental hardness, leadership and discipline? Fair dinkum,, apart from Nick Newman I cannot think of any other bloke I'd want to be in the trenches with. Yet watching the Dawks, they seemed blessed with hard at i t types. Our niceness is palpable but not a handy ingredient in a gladiatorial sport. We need an alchemist as a senior coach to give our blokes a persistent tenacious hardness/mongrel.

Play both Jack and Kemp in the backline or play Kemp as a high half forward in Elijah Hollands role because he was a good conduit last year and dont have one this year.
Moir looked good at VFL praccy today but his determination to defend and win contests goes amiss. But looks extremely classy with ball in hand.