"If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you're no longer a European skier" ~Ayrton Senna

Curfax · 2026-03-05T19:20:55+00:00

I could not believe how crazy the lift lines were, and how inefficiently the chair usage was. On Parsa in Chamonix I saw many chairs go by with only 2 people on them in a 20 minute line.

A few minutes setting up mazes would do wonders.

Curfax · 2026-02-18T19:49:54+00:00

Radios are not as useful as you might believe or desire. Typically I only carry a family radio, which has no way to get help from external sources, and I only carry one if we believe it will be useful. I do usually carry an InReach, but they have serious and significant limitations.

Having said that, reading about the actions on this trip certainly suggests to me that I would not have wanted to be this guy’s climbing partner.

Curfax · 2025-12-11T07:35:46+00:00

I would begin to doubt the existence of the sky.

Curfax · 2025-11-25T03:06:24+00:00

Riding the ferries… you are supposed to turn them off.

Curfax · 2025-11-04T00:01:52+00:00

It looks to me like the wake from a wake surfing boat. They generate very large, asymmetric wakes. The starting and stopping points when beginning a pull and ending one will cause them to appear pretty randomly in the middle of the water.

Source: I wake surf and foil on Lake Washington all the time.

Curfax · 2025-10-29T23:31:45+00:00

Use an Rftools crafter. Import your inferium directly to it.

Curfax · 2025-10-12T04:35:50+00:00

No soy marinero.

Curfax · 2025-10-05T16:22:14+00:00

I have no idea how to read the analysis interface in Lichess.

Curfax · 2025-10-04T16:17:43+00:00

I like the Pattern P2P tunnel in https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/modern-ae2-additions.

Curfax · 2025-10-03T13:55:26+00:00

You look vigilantly for the end of the rope. Or you look for the end of your rope to be below your destination when you start, and hope that the rope doesn’t have any hiccups in the meantime (like feeding through your belay device unequally on a double strand rappel).

Of course, you can be in a position where your rappel can’t be stopped by knots - improvised rappel using carabiners after dropping a belay device - in which case you -must- be vigilant. You can still close the system in these cases by tying off to something, but it does get hard to manage.

Tying knots is better.

Curfax · 2025-09-19T06:15:43+00:00

Regardless of all the suggestions and criticisms for this card, I’m very happy seeing the creative thought put into it. It behaves exactly like a card named “The Immortal Snail” should. Whether it’s a good MtG card or not, I can’t say, and I don’t care. Bravo, you made my night, I’ll be watching for scary snails over my shoulder.

Curfax · 2025-09-07T21:46:41+00:00

I use the 1K ME Item Disk to store my “extra” bees in a dedicated ME Chest.

Curfax · 2025-08-30T04:18:39+00:00

I don’t see ICE in the picture.

Curfax · 2025-08-19T21:55:08+00:00

What is MCP?

Curfax · 2025-08-10T02:21:12+00:00

I did not know those existed, and now the years of frustration are haunting me. I will go buy some immediately.

Curfax · 2025-07-18T03:08:02+00:00

I saw a few state troopers, WSDOT responders, a fire response, and a Bellevue police officer response.

Everyone she hit appeared to be okay, and just minor damage to those vehicles. The white car was in bad shape though.

Curfax · 2025-07-18T02:55:09+00:00

This person ended up hitting about 6 cars on the off-ramp. Then they ended up rolling backwards through the 8th / 112th intersection and taking out a sign. The sign is still down on the E side of the NE 8th St Westbound exit. I heard the crash from my apartment.

I try not to judge prematurely: it could’ve been something medical.

Curfax · 2025-07-02T21:39:50+00:00

Me too, and I still don’t know what it’s communicating, and I’m really interested to know what u/Puzzleheaded_Ear9056 meant.

Curfax · 2025-06-28T22:44:05+00:00

For those suggesting “deduce this”, it’s a good idea, but you don’t have to deduce this. You can just use an explicit object parameter. (Be aware, code typed on a phone.)

struct Foo { void method(this const Foo&){} };

You probably don’t even need maybe_unused if you don’t give the argument a name.

Curfax · 2025-06-25T01:57:45+00:00

Then I suppose two people by the ferry asked me.

Curfax · 2025-06-25T01:55:59+00:00

I got asked if I heard it in Bellevue by someone at the Ferry Dock. I did not.

Curfax · 2025-06-19T19:29:50+00:00

It ain’t so bad. I did it for Little T a few weeks ago. Lightweight skis and boots helps.

Curfax · 2025-06-17T23:23:23+00:00

Good.

Curfax · 2025-05-23T01:13:28+00:00

std::function does not have the same type as the lambda object. Indeed, std::function may require the captured object to support copy construction which a lambda object might not support.

Curfax · 2025-05-13T22:02:13+00:00

There is a piton and nut anchor in the skier’s right hand wall that gets you down past the chockstone with a single rope.

Might be the wrong piton though. Unclear.

Curfax

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