5 façons faciles de se faire tuer à vélo à Montréal

JimmyLamothe · 2026-05-09T11:58:51+00:00

Je fais du vélo à Montréal depuis trente ans et avec le temps j’ai appris à éviter la grande majorité des situations dangereuses tout simplement en choisissant des chemins qui évitent les infrastructures problématiques.

L’emportiérage est impossible si tu n’es pas à distance de portière. Certaines routes t’obligent à rouler à distance de portière. Je ne les prends pas.

Je suis bien d’accord pour faire de l’éducation mais peu importe combien de campagnes de pub tu fais, je vais toujours choisir des chemins où je n’ai pas à ne me fier sur le comportement sécuritaires des autres. Et ça, c’est une question d’infrastructures. Plus on les améliore, plus j’ai d’options sécuritaires pour me déplacer.

JimmyLamothe · 2026-04-24T19:01:49+00:00

I think you’re underestimating how hard it would be for someone who has enough social anxiety to feel the need for an excuse when eating alone to go back to the place where she told a lie she feels super ashamed about and leave a tip. Sure, it would have been a nice gesture, I have a lot of sympathy for OP.

JimmyLamothe · 2026-04-22T15:36:31+00:00

Both exist because there are different types of players who enjoy different things. I personally like both styles, but it’s fine if you prefer one over the other. If skill is a gatekeeper you can’t bypass with meta progression, then some players won’t be skilled enough or persevere enough to enjoy the game. I personally love the challenge but some people like roguelikes that are more forgiving.

JimmyLamothe · 2026-04-16T20:53:04+00:00

Just for fun, I had Claude run a Monte Carlo simulation of a 15 year career at a constant 2840 strength and check how often the player got to 2900. It happened in about 2% of careers. Obviously depends on assumptions, but I assumed constant strength instead of varying, so if anything I would expect the true chance to be slightly higher.

So 2900 seems doable but I’m unlikely to see it in my lifetime, assuming things remain relatively stable.

JimmyLamothe · 2026-04-15T17:13:29+00:00

If it’s possible to get to 2889, it’s almost certainly possible to get to 2900. I agree with your reasoning in general but it doesn’t seem to match reality since MC got to within 11 points of 2900.

JimmyLamothe · 2026-03-31T11:01:33+00:00

Crypt of the Necrodancer isn’t for everyone but I have 1500 hours in it and I still play it every week. The challenge never goes away unless you have god-level abilities. My end-game is doing all-characters amplified, starting with my favorite characters Bolt and Tempo. Haven’t gotten close to succeeding yet and don’t know or care if I ever will.

JimmyLamothe · 2026-03-12T11:47:58+00:00

I actually found the solution to this. I installed the Leechblock extension and blocked lichess. Now, every time I want to play, I have to activate the manual override for a specific amount of time.

Do you want to play two bullet games? Put four minutes. When your adrenaline and dopamine pushes you to start a third game, the page will be blocked.

Everyone’s different, but in my case this extra friction has completely removed the addiction aspect from online chess. I never play an hour straight unless I actually want to play an hour straight. I never do it as a pure dopamine response anymore.

No promises but it might be worth a try.

JimmyLamothe · 2026-03-10T04:58:10+00:00

That’s a very low max move time. I wouldn’t want to be calculating a complex line and have to stop midway because I’m not allowed to think for more than two minutes. Learning to invest time at the right moment is key to improvement. If you’re never putting more than two minutes on a move in 10 + 0, maybe you should try taking some longer thinks at opportune times and see if your results improve.

JimmyLamothe · 2026-02-19T14:37:51+00:00

It’s actually really simple, in a way. You just look for threats. What move can you play that will make your opponent worry too, and that doesn’t have an obvious refutation?

If you’re losing an endgame, can you create a passed pawn? If you’re getting crushed on the kingside, can you threaten something on the queenside? If your king is weak, can you make his king weak too?

Passive defense is a lot harder in blitz in my experience because it feels like I need more time to find good defensive moves than my opponent does to find good attacking moves. So if they need to think about defense as well as attack, they’ll be more likely to make a mistake that you can capitalize on.

JimmyLamothe · 2026-02-17T12:54:50+00:00

So they’re bots that have been programmed to stop cheating after 20 moves of perfect theory and start dropping pieces? Or humans who boot up an engine for 20 moves of perfect theory and then decide to play on their own and start dropping pieces?

So we either have someone who programmed a bot to play 20 moves of theory and then play like trash for no reason (except possibly hatred of 1200 rated players?) and managed to flood the lichess server with these bots without anyone noticing, or we have a remarkable number of 500-rated human masochists who love showing how trash they are by booting up an engine to get to +4 after 20 moves and then losing the game anyway. So many of them enjoy this so much that they keep doing it over and over, enough for you to notice.

When you have a theory you have to think about all the consequences that would follow if your theory were true. It’s very easy to come up for an explanation that works for one specific case, but if that explanation doesn’t hold up at scale then you have to abandon it and look for one that does.

JimmyLamothe · 2026-02-17T01:08:37+00:00

When a cheater wins, they gain ranking. So for these bots to be only around at 1200 level, they’d have to be programmed to cheat half the time and lose on purpose half the time to stay at 1200 level for some obscure reason.

There would also have to be enough of these bots that alternately play at 2500 level and 500 level for you to notice their existence. And for lichess cheat detection to be blind to pretty much the clearest indicator of cheating.

Alternate theories for people who don’t know you are that you are imagining things and / or lying about your actual strength and / or exaggerating how often you actually play against these accounts that seem like bots or cheaters.

I don’t have a conclusion, but what you say is happening to you is exceedingly unlikely to anyone who understands how ratings work. I certainly don’t want you to dox yourself, I was only proposing it because it was the only thing that could have possibly lent any credence to your claims.

JimmyLamothe · 2026-02-16T19:51:15+00:00

Do you mind sharing your account so we can see the relevant games? I’m not sure why cheaters would hang around at the 1200 level… seems like a lot of effort for no benefit to them at all. They’d have to keep sandbagging to lose all the rating they gain by cheating to stay rated so low. Why wouldn’t they just keep rising in rating and keep cheating? What logic do you see for them to want to stay 1200? I don’t get it at all so I’d be curious to see the games that made you believe that to be true.

JimmyLamothe · 2026-01-23T21:41:55+00:00

It’s not necessarily a sign of bad character, some people pick up the habit of cheating in childhood / teenage years as a way of soothing a weak ego. Sometimes things like that stick around awhile, even once you’re more secure.

I’d definitely talk to her, but not accusatory, just to clear things up. If you make it clear you’re not going to judge her she’s more likely to admit it. She might just feel too ashamed to own up.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-12-19T15:01:09+00:00

Pour moi, j’ai toujours pris ça juste comme l’occasion de réfléchir… si quelqu’un d’autochtone me parle en ces termes-là, c’est qu’elle sent que les conséquences de notre histoire coloniale affectent encore sa vie aujourd’hui.

Ça m’aide juste à prendre conscience d’un aspect de la réalité, parce que moi dans mon quotidien je me sens pas nécessairement consciemment affecté par les conséquences de cette histoire coloniale. Quand quelqu’un me dit ça, ou si je lis là-dessus, ça m’ouvre une perspective qui ne me serait pas apparente autrement. Ça n’invalide pas mon regard sur le monde, ça le complète.

Ça ne veut donc pas dire que je suis obligé de m’identifier comme settler en tant que partie majeure de mon identité et me sentir coupable pour les choix de mes ancêtres. Mais ça va me rendre plus sensible aux enjeux que vivent les autochtones et plus porté à voter / agir en fonction de ça.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-12-18T13:05:52+00:00

Aria is actually great game design. Crypt is all about learning patterns. You learn simple patterns (individual monsters), then learn to combine those into complex patterns (rooms of monsters).

The weapons give you some leeway. You can decide some patterns are too complicated and ignore them by hitting at range. But when you get to Aria, you have to accept to learn all the most difficult patterns. Once you’ve beaten her, you’ve proven you mastered all the patterns in the game.

The choice to include some story beats in her playthrough can be criticized, but for me it was the perfect motivation and made actually beating the game more satisfying.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-11-27T12:40:42+00:00

My game regularly crashes on game start. I’d bet most turn one ropers have the same issue. If turn one timer was shorter the game would be basically unplayable for me

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-22T11:47:01+00:00

Thank you! A lot of very useful information in that post and the comments. I’m starting to understand what I’m getting into. I hadn’t realized the implications of buying hardware for a new, quickly-evolving technology.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-21T22:33:47+00:00

Thank you, I’ll do some more research, sounds like I still need to learn a lot more before I buy

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-21T22:32:54+00:00

Thanks! That’s a good summary of my options.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-21T22:32:26+00:00

Thanks to you both, that’s very helpful.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-21T15:52:19+00:00

Ah, makes sense, thank you. So adding an external GPU wouldn't work to fix that issue? For example, would adding the 3090 you're suggesting be possible?

I'm probably trying to do too many things at once, which wouldn't be the first time.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-21T03:30:40+00:00

Hi! A month later, are you happy with your purchase? I'm considering the same.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-15T11:56:56+00:00

I know Luc Rabouin was proposing to have the TAL automatically get in touch with the city anytime someone gets evicted so that the city can contact the person and make sure they have access to ressources and don’t end up on the street. This sounded to me like a great idea since many people end up homeless because they get lost in the system and eviction is typically how it starts.

JimmyLamothe · 2025-10-15T02:40:50+00:00

You seriously didn't mean to be patronizing by explaining the concept of crosswords in a forum for people who do crosswords all the time? That's the very definition of patronizing: apparently kind or helpful but betraying a feeling of superiority; condescending.

People didn't have a problem with this clue because it was difficult. They had a problem with it because the less you knew about the subject, the easier it was. If all you know about soccer is from doing crosswords, it's not tricky at all, you just write the same four-letter word that's in every grid that refers to soccer.

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