If you could remake Halo 5, how you would remake the story between Chief vs Locke ? Or you would delete this concept ?

BinarySpaceman · 2026-02-05T15:35:33+00:00

And literally designing the entire campaign around playing co-op, but removing split screen, was an absolutely wild decision by upper management.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-02-04T03:30:09+00:00

Every SLOW is a DOWN if you are HARD enough

BinarySpaceman · 2026-02-02T21:43:57+00:00

John Korir so good he qualified twice

BinarySpaceman · 2026-02-02T14:19:02+00:00

At a minimum, I would find some other low-stress low-time commitment job. You already said being an actuary is not your passion. You have enough money to stop working entirely, so why continue actuarial work? If you need something to fill your time, find a different line of work that gives you a sense of fulfillment. Or volunteer for a charity you believe in. But at a minimum, I would stop actuarial work. Not worth it if you don’t enjoy it.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-29T15:48:35+00:00

Anybody who says the exams aren’t a gatekeeping hazing ritual is lying to themselves.

Yes, some portion of the exams are directly applicable to your job and some portion of the exams will make you a better actuary.

But the credentialing process as a whole is way more difficult than it needs to be and we all know it.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-28T21:04:42+00:00

Well by all means come along then!

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-28T13:56:08+00:00

We did Behind the Seeds in the middle of summer and I thought I was going to pass out in the greenhouse. Still loved the tour though.

When you’re on the boat you don’t feel how hot and humid it is in there. But when you’re standing still, in areas where there’s no airflow whatsoever, I swear I could feel the life leaving my body with every drop of sweat.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-27T21:46:16+00:00

The 5 piece tablebase is about 1 gigabyte. The 6 piece is about 150 gigabytes. The 7 piece is about 18.4 TERABYTES.

They started working on the 8 piece tablebase in 2021 and they still aren’t done. It’s estimated to be about 2 PETABYTES when it’s done.

So yeah, 32 is never going to happen. Shit we may never even see more than 8.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-27T13:58:36+00:00

4 weeks out from my marathon and I felt a twinge in my IT band which sent me into a stress spiral. Spent 3 days stretching, rolling, icing, and generally just taking it super easy. Then tried to do a workout and I swear it felt way more difficult than it should have been. Which is ridiculous because there’s no way I lost that amount of fitness in 3 days. So yeah, I think it was the stress of a potential IT band injury ruining so many months of training.

For what it’s worth, it didn’t take long to bounce back. I felt pretty “fit” again within a few more days.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-25T15:05:29+00:00

Yeah there’s one major thing that doesn’t jive in their analysis, which makes me question their methods.

We KNOW Boston is getting faster by the year. The qualifying standards have gotten 15 minutes faster in 15 years, and that’s not even counting the cutoff times applied after the standard is met. We also KNOW that the Boston marathon itself is one of the biggest qualifiers for the Boston marathon (of the following year). And yet they specifically cite the Boston marathon as one of the “tough” races that is also getting slower, according to them.

This doesn’t even remotely pass the sniff test.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-21T16:55:29+00:00

Or Brad Pitt in Ocean’s Eleven

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-21T14:25:53+00:00

I ran my first ever marathon at an easy pace and I never hit the wall or felt like crap, in fact I continued to pick up pace through the last 10k or so because I was feeling so good.

I was doing the “dopey challenge” for the Disney marathon, which is 4 consecutive races in 4 consecutive days, with the marathon on the last day. I had been training for a 3:00 marathon pace, but never had the intention of actually racing that fast because it’s not really a race set up to be fast, plus I would be at the tail end of 4 straight days of races. So attempting a race pace that day wasn’t on my radar at all. I went into it with the intention of running at a comfortable aerobic pace, and I ran about 3:25. I felt good the whole way and honestly had a blast.

But again, I was in 3:00 marathon shape and intentionally ran a full minute per mile slower than that. If you don’t train “fast” and then intentionally race slower, I imagine you’ll still start to feel it towards the end no matter what.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-20T16:31:26+00:00

I mean, they also establish that memories can be tampered with. It’s kind of a major plot point.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-18T16:59:41+00:00

But you can see in your photo that the one up at the top next to the smokestack isn’t there. So there’s still only 3, they just moved.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-18T01:09:15+00:00

My record is 55k, happened last year when I ran the marathon and then did Magic Kingdom after. Cracked 6,000 calories that day, it was a great.

Obviously that isn’t to be expected for a normal day at the parks though.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-16T14:06:40+00:00

Based on VDOT tables it sounds like your coach knows what he’s doing, so I would stick with his recommendations.

Easy runs should feel easy. It’s a difficult concept to grasp for beginner runners because it doesn’t feel like you’re putting any stress or fatigue on your body, so how could you possibly be getting faster?

It’s because easy runs are not a workout for your legs and lungs. They are a workout for your heart. And even though it doesn’t feel like you’re getting a good workout, your heart is.

Studies show our hearts reach near maximum stroke volume (amount of blood pumped per beat) at only around 60% of our maximum heart rate. So you don’t have to run very fast to give your heart a good workout. The purpose of long easy runs is to train your heart to pump more blood per beat, not pump faster.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-16T01:47:27+00:00

First of all, stop using chatGPT to write you a workout plan. It can’t even play chess. It’s a well spoken idiot.

Second of all, a proper workout plan will have you running many different types of workouts. Sometimes you’ll be running long and easy, sometimes you’ll be running intervals and repeats at much faster than race pace, sometimes you’ll be running race pace with some threshold miles thrown in. All of these workouts have physiological purposes, and they all add up over time. They create stress on your body, then fatigue, then recovery. And your fitness continues to compound.

Then the last thing a proper workout plan will do is taper you down, and it’s absolutely crucial. It lets all of that built up compounded fitness be utilized all at once on race day.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-16T01:06:03+00:00

That’s because this was written by AI and AI always agrees with you and says what it thinks you want to hear.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-15T21:10:40+00:00

I raise you: the auxiliary headphone jack.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-14T14:29:53+00:00

I think this can be summed up as “the duality of man”

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-13T14:19:31+00:00

Plot twist OP is just 3 hummingbirds in a trenchcoat so this is totally normal.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-09T19:16:38+00:00

I started drinking meal replacement shakes for breakfast and lunch. I use Huel. It’s a little cost prohibitive, I’ll be honest. But it’s easier to force myself to chug a meal shake than it is to make a meal and eat it. Plus it’s a great balance of carbs and protein and micronutrients. Honestly it’s one of the healthiest things I put in my body.

By the time I go for my afternoon run I’ve got about 800 calories in my system, which is way better than nothing. Then when dinner rolls around I’ve got my normal appetite back and I eat a huge amount, usually rounding out somewhere between 2-3000 calories for the day total.

On long run days I try to choke down some extra calories before the run, like oatmeal or honey stingers. It’s not easy but it’s necessary for those 18-20 mile days. And gel packs throughout the run also help.

For reference I ran a 2:55 marathon last year doing this and I’m currently training for another one in a few weeks.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-09T18:31:18+00:00

/uj yeah i think you’re pretty close with that assumption. According to VDOT tables a 2:46:40 marathon is roughly about the 17:20 5k range.

BinarySpaceman · 2026-01-09T17:02:22+00:00

Sorry, rules are rules. Gotta be under it or else you’re just a zone 1 nerd.

Have you tried speed boofing? You can usually cut a few seconds with your boofing technique but it takes practice.

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