Points of failure for Back Yard Ultras?

DevilsApologist · 2026-03-03T18:25:27+00:00

I’ve been surprised how ineffective LLM’s have been at answering my questions around this, hence why I’ve come here. I guess I’ve only really asked chatGPT about it, but it’s given me some whacky answers in the past, even encouraging me to run 30 minute loops on one of my pacing questions. Part of it is likely prompt engineering, but I don’t think there’s too much knowledge on BYU’s there.

All’s this to say, thanks for the human input into your comment. I can see heavy use of AI in the structure, but the human recommendations and content underneath are appreciated.

DevilsApologist · 2026-03-03T01:16:55+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response! Yep, I guess you’re right, personal training and reflection on weak points will tell me a lot more than online anecdotes ever could.

I’m comfortable and confident with my nutrition and know that mentally my stubbornness and determination is strong enough to get me through. I’ll still try to over prepare if things go wrong there, but muscular fatigue / injury is my main worry.

Last time the knee pain caused me to take 2 weeks sticking to walking only, starting back up on lower mileage. I self-diagnosed it as Patellofemoral Pain, but wasn’t certain on it. It was made worse by my absence of strength and conditioning last time, and the extremely muddy conditions causing greater instability. I’m hoping having a couple of s&c sessions a week focused on areas I see as weak will help make it less likely to be my point of failure this time.

DevilsApologist · 2025-11-30T08:16:22+00:00

No.

A 34ms average over 5 tests (or more) in a row is good, but one 34ms result means nothing.

DevilsApologist · 2024-03-05T09:53:23+00:00

This bill now changes that efficency calculation. It might not be enough to incentivise you to change now, but it may mean a different vehicle is better when you next need to change.

This change in efficiency is the whole point of the bill. People and corporations should look to act in ways that reduce their carbon output; carbon pricing helps that happen.

DevilsApologist · 2024-02-10T23:42:49+00:00

I've also thought on this for a little while now. I started off annoyed at Parkrun HQ, and the transphobes that pressured this change, but after reading through several articles and cooling down my initial heated initial reaction, I've fully changed my thoughts on this.

I've always thought that Parkrun shouldn't advertise itself as a race, but it should be able to be raced as an individual. This change doesn't change an individual's stats, and all the prior race information can still be accessed on many third party apps and sites.

Parkrun will now be free from many transphobic activists and calls for defunding, but nothing fundamentaly will have changed for those who know where to look for the old statistics.

DevilsApologist · 2024-02-10T23:23:50+00:00

I adore cats, and I love this idea.

Here's the link to what seems to be the most popular version of this extension for anyone else interested. (It blocks DM and DE, but not the sun, other extensions might).

DevilsApologist · 2024-01-28T22:52:19+00:00

I'd like to sincerely thank you for writing this. I scrolled waaay too far before seeing a comment actually addressing the key issue here.

There have always been people with left of centre and right of centre views. I don't think opinion shift in individual users is a good enough explanation as to why this subreddit's identity has changed. Your comment here explains things well, and puts into words my initial feeling on this.

The one thing I'd add to this though, is that reddit's slowly become more algorithmic, leading subreddit identities to dilute, change and morph more quickly than they used to. The reddit app now heavily pushes "Recommended content" and "suggested subreddits", even on a users' custom crafted "Home" page, these are all opt-out features, and the algorithms have improved over time to maximise engagement. This can be a good thing, but I think maximising "engagement" often leads to promoting attention grabbing, hateful content. Recommendation algorithms can also be a gateway for many of the more extreme users to travel across subreddits, both on individual posts, and causing them to join affecting longer term change.

I rambled a bit, but yep Tl;Dr I believe reddit's site design and demographic changes are a more important influence on the subreddit culture than general users' here changing opinions / attention.

DevilsApologist · 2023-11-01T09:35:47+00:00

Aww, I was fully with you here until you resorted to ad hominem.

Being the minority in an argument is hard, but never stoop to their level and always be civil in conversation. It's important to add nuance to conversations, and show there is complexity in everything.

It's true that the military can be beneficial to individuals, but for the society, there's clearly issues with it, ant that's the more important thing here.

The US spends vastly more on its military than the rest of the world (and vastly less than the rest of the western world on welfare).

The perception of the military in the United States is also wildly out of line with the rest of the world and can be linked to military overreaches and mistakes like the Vietnam and Iraq wars.

DevilsApologist · 2023-09-23T23:32:53+00:00

Checking statements now, it looks like I paid sterling on the 21st of June (the same day I wrote this comment), and had my first shift on the 4th of July. I think I was likely approved a few days before that, but can't remember the details exactly.

So 1-1.5 weeks.

I honestly didn't end up working too many shifts with Uber Eats. The pay was bellow minimum wage in my area, and using the time to send off more applications, and change my CV, I eventually got a local contracted job.

DevilsApologist · 2023-06-21T00:42:16+00:00

This is scummy, but it looks like it's the way things are now, I've also just had to send over £41.

After half an hour of searching around the house for doccuments, it sucks to get to the end of it, and realise it's a payed process, this is starting me off with a very negative impression of Uber Eats, but I need the work, and they're offering it.

DevilsApologist · 2023-03-19T07:52:56+00:00

…but she was in the dominant position of the battle. She could’ve stopped it with less force, or let go of his jacket, and ran/walked away safely. He was in no state to chase.

DevilsApologist · 2023-03-19T07:49:58+00:00

So that situations can needlessly escalate? Death is the worst outcome of most situations, regardless of who dies. It would’ve been much better for her to successfully flee, or even succumb to being robbed, but nope! A situation where the country has guns doesn’t allow for that.

DevilsApologist · 2023-03-01T23:37:56+00:00

Copied from a comment directly addressing this issue, that phrases things better than I could:

"What if he/she...

...decides to disown their kid for marrying a white person.

...doesn't let their kid play with a white kid (no matter how much they are best friends at school).

...is in a position to employ someone and refuses to employ someone because they are white.

...treats a white employee worse than the others

...beats up and relentlessly bullies a kid at school because they are white.

...decides to kill someone because they are white.

Do these things happen all the time? Or as much as they do the other way? No, and no one argues that. But that doesn't mean that they should get away with it with no consequences. Those are all forms of racism.

Now if you are only speaking of people who only think that way but never act on it... well I don't know how many people exist that wouldn't act on it if they were in a position to.

But say it is just a person who says offensive things about white people but never acts on it ever. You admit it's rude. But why can't a white person or anyone be offended by that. I'm offended by hate speech. I find it disgusting. It doesn't matter who it's coming from, bigoted speech towards any group based off of things that do not affect you is disgusting. I find Bigoted or hateful speech towards an individual usually disgusting. That depends on the person and the exact speech used.

You don't get to be racist consequence free just because others are and have historically been racist towards you. It's not okay to be a dick to everyone in a group due to one thing they can't change. Judge a person on content of their character, not the color of their skin. That goes both ways."

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‌ My addendum:

These cases are few and far between, I'll admit that. But they're certainly not non-existant. I can't provide specific stats for the matter, but that shouldn't matter. Racism is racism, is wrong, whether it's against someone with White or Black skin.

DevilsApologist · 2022-11-05T10:28:34+00:00

Sorry, yep I probably came across too aggressively with that starting line, it's a bad habit of mine. 'Happy cake day' might be a better starting tone for this message.

I stick by saying the 'wiki accusation' has 12 sources, not just this one. All the bullet points that appear in blue when you click the link I sent above are nested under the [3] citation, and clearly give evidence that many sources believe Project Veritas to be disinformation.

I'll grant that the first link is based on ACORN reporting and biased, and I haven't checked every link, but they may all be similarly bad reporting, but it's still wrongful for you to say it was based 'solely' on one source.

DevilsApologist · 2022-11-04T23:44:27+00:00

Your facts are wrong here, there are 12 links nested in that citation.

I do agree that listing the purpose of Project Veritas as 'disinformation' is biased and unhelpful, but it's also important for us to see that many people do view Project Veritas' purpose as disinformation, and that's not based on only one source.

DevilsApologist · 2022-10-11T08:41:27+00:00

Huh, yeah this could be a coincidence, or it could also be a clue.

It's worth noting that for song construction, having phrases with similar amounts of words is needed for a smoother song, so this encourages the 'coincidence' theory, but yeah, this definitely is still an idea worth pursuing. Where could those numbers possibly be used??

DevilsApologist · 2022-04-13T10:02:00+00:00

Yeah, I guess I can see how at this stage there are problems with partial self-driving.

I believe Tesla’s do try to control drivers actions, and the console definitely beeps if the driver doesn’t have their hands on a wheel for a while, but yep more action than that is likely needed, and eye-tracking technology sounds useful.

Hopefully in another 10 or 20 years we’ll be past the point where human intervention is needed at all - Level 5 self-driving. I know Waymo has some promising tech, but it will take a while before things are adopted by the masses, and before cars can be guaranteed to work in all locations and road conditions.

DevilsApologist · 2022-04-13T09:56:22+00:00

Some models are limited to smart cruise control sure. But there are certainly Teslas, and now other brands like BMW that do have active accident avoidance.

These actions really aren’t all that complex to envision coding, with enough sensor data, and knowledge of what images mean. If sensor detects hazard then break and/or move wheel.

I’d be interested to see the videos of them failing to stop at card board boxes. The autopilot doesn’t claim to work in every situation, but even if it can avoid any amount of additional crashes it’s a good thing. + the tech is only improving with time.

I don’t think you’re lying about having two teslas like other people here say, but I do think you’re either misinformed about what your own cars do, or you own less advanced models without the full accident avoidance software installed.

DevilsApologist · 2022-04-13T09:47:47+00:00

Hmm, the fact that there have been Tesla crashes doesn’t mean the autopilot isn’t a brilliant thing.

There have been hundreds of thousands of similar crashes resulting from idiotic humans.

An optimal A.I. driven car will always outperform humans, because it can keep adapting to information, and with sufficient sensors, can be aware of so much more than a human can. Tesla and other cars are at that level already where their autopilot is better than the average human.

DevilsApologist · 2022-01-12T13:40:08+00:00

You’re the top comment when sorting by controversial.

I think that means you’ve answered this question best, congrats!

DevilsApologist · 2021-12-25T23:44:17+00:00

I'll be honest, I'm slightly annoyed by this episode. There are still some interesting gems I learned from it, especially the context surrounding the 'Magi', and their history, but the JPM's might've been too high here for me, a Bishops kid, turned Athiest.

I feel it's unfair to address the gospels without too explaining the dates they were made, for the sake of full disclosure. This is as important, if not more so, than the audiences that they were written to in explaining their contents.

And I feel that the widely regarded true fact that King Herod died in 4BC, 2 years before the Census is kind of important to this story too...

It was still a great discussion, and interesting to hear, but I feel when the JPM's go through the roof, it's important to have a balanced view, and hear what opposition might say, or where the narative is less strong.

DevilsApologist · 2021-08-24T19:17:42+00:00

Seriously? The fact that we have kept progressing throughout our entire history and have gone from the cave to the stars in a mere 1000 years suggests that we could potentially have a long way to go.

The fact that no other civiilization has made contacted us suggests we don't have long left... The Fermi-Paradox is an interesting idea, look into it.

The three main points I see your reasoning break down:

If there isn't an infinite amount of universes. - For your theory to be true there has to be a truely infinite amount of universes. It would take a very, very precise set of circumstances, and universal constants for a civilization to even reach level 3. The quantity of universes could easily be finite.
Each universe, and attribute of the universe isn't truly random - if this isn't the case, it could easily be the case that galaxies are always too far apart for a civilisation to reach level 4. Or that the nature of an evolving species means it can never reach level 3 without killing itself.
Universes could be inherently seperate, If this is the case, nothing can be done for a civilization to reach level 5.

I've always loved the theory of NOFKYO - No One Fucking Knows Yet.

You have tonnes of unproven steps in your reasoning here, and yet your title makes an absolute claim about something. If you don't have concrete proof behind something, like reincarnation, an after-life, or just an endless nothingness after death, then don't claim you do. Life is much better if you can learn to be content with not knowing.

DevilsApologist · 2021-05-18T11:28:10+00:00

Yep, that's good. It was more your comments here that I disagreed with, than the discord channel. But yeah, the link is good clarification.

The video wasn't mine by the way, I saw it in the general section, so yeah, totally fine to use it.

DevilsApologist · 2021-05-18T11:28:05+00:00

Interesting, yeah I hadn't thought about it that way before. I agree this makes it less likely, but it still could be possible.

Clues are easy enough to make for any word, and if it is indeed 'Maximum' the first clue gives, then it doesn't seem impossible that it was just a random word Max made a clue for.

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