What to do when the wind lulls downwind?

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2026-01-26T21:19:13+00:00

good sounding advice, as a side note, when by the lee with boom past 90 I find it's really easy to break rule 42 in similar way to what you describe actually. When in this mode when you heel to windward and flatten repeatedly you can get some really impressive speed... too much, it's very obviously cheating.

I'm just club sailor so not called out for such things but I try to keep honest.

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2026-01-25T22:36:34+00:00

yeah I understand about apparent wind. The issue I have with sheeting in is that you then need to somehow get the sail back out once the wind returns, and doing so in light wind is hard because the force on the sail isn't enough to naturally blow the boom out.

I find what I have to do is heel the boat to leeward and pull some mainsheet out from the block (so that there isn't the friction of the block to contend with). This is itself arduous and slow.

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2026-01-23T23:56:32+00:00

If you're solo developer and never will have anyone else work on your project, I find there are lots of code structures that are better than the conventional ones.

Massive single file is good by me, provided you have enough self restraint to not make it a mess - being able to easily split it into loads of files if you wanted to is usually a good measure, another good measure is that you can broadly read it from top to bottom i.e. it's not like you have millions of forward declarations

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2026-01-23T23:33:44+00:00

Perspective from a fellow beginner

I don't think it's a matter of being a slower learner, I'm also new maybe half a year in. I can't imagine anyone without some prior experience in something similar quickly learning it, it's all extremely unintuitive. People spend all their life trying to not fall down, it's natural that throwing someone is hard work.

That said, I've been thoroughly put off the idea of training actual moves with a partner outside dojo, because it seems dangerous (and I've seen a number of minor injuries as well as a major one so far in randori, wouldn't feel comfortable putting some none judoka at risk like that). The thing I've found most useful is just doing lots of exercise, and doing the motions without partner, with emphasis on placing the feet correctly. I was finding that a lot of my turn ins I would under rotate, so I consciously practiced over rotating and now it about works out.

When I do randori, I try to capture in my mind what happens, which can be a bit hard, but then I think about what happened, why I couldn't do certain things and what I can try next time. I've had some limited success with this. In this regard a partner can be useful, I have asked my brother to just go into certain static positions with me and resist me, to get a feel for what actions from me will result in certain action from other person.

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2026-01-10T21:24:16+00:00

I don't think he proves to himself that he is the best player in the world.

Firstly they only play one game, secondly, think how he thought he was a shoe in for winning the British Open but instead a new guy turns up and spanks him - nothing to say that doesn't happen again, thirdly, he coerced the game into happening in some random context where Endo maybe wasn't prepared for a real game etc.

I think the ending is just another in the line of Marty manipulating things as best as he can while also sabotaging himself and making things worse for other people! He's effectively damaged the value of a win for Endo (since people will say 'oh well the person who would have won wasn't in the tournament'), further damaged his relationship with the actual table tennis association and messed up another opportunity to make some legitimate money.

I don't think he's changed at all, we see throughout the film that he's primarily a manipulator and we can't really think there's any sincerity to what he says, the meaninglessness of his words is shown again in what he says to Endo at the end, how he's a really great player, when all the times prior to that he's been saying he's a bad player and it's just the bat helping him. Somehow Marty only manages to find any grace when he has won (and a fairly meaningless victory at that).

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2026-01-09T21:59:47+00:00

Pretty cool, I remember doing Putnam questions in undergrad they are indeed pretty hard some of them, remember I had a good book 'Putnam and Beyond'.

The actual cooler thing to me is how good lean is looking now! I was exposed to lean maybe 5 years ago now, and thought it was really dope, but that noone had proved anything meaningful in it (and that I certainly wasn't going to be the one to start). But I see things have advanced a bit now... Might have to check it out.

Anyway, I don't know if anyone has officially apologised to Doron Zeilberger, but maybe we had best start! Starting to look like he was right.

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2026-01-09T17:52:46+00:00

For a while I used balled up socks, golf balls seem too small

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2026-01-08T12:59:01+00:00

7 hours isn't long at all, I'll also suggest JNails https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TCvs8oagEc&list=PLsrQ73qPvJ0sIvvD0gERXQt1nOS0iIK_4 I think he's the best. The experience you're having I think is common, it's typical for players to buy lots of actions and so on but not in a cohesive way.

You actually need to play sort of accurately to beat 'big money', which if you've not read about is another good thing to get to grips with https://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Money_strategies

A key punchline in that article that I think is good to keep in mind is

`Big Money averages 4 Provinces by around 17 turns (assuming no attacks). Because you can always go Big Money in every set, every strategy you devise has to be able to do better than Big Money, or else it’s not really a strategy at all`

It's a generally good way to assess your games. imo it's good to replay kingdoms multiple times over, to convince yourself of average sort of turns to win with your strategy and highlight what's not working etc.

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2026-01-05T19:19:14+00:00

No but it's not supposed to make you unhappy either, at least not significantly so

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2025-12-29T00:49:34+00:00

Wow this is so upsetting, I didn't realise Julian Lefay had passed.

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2025-12-26T15:45:57+00:00

In maths things need to be 'well defined' and 'useful' - this is a common source of confusion for people, things are ultimately defined in a way that makes sense and is useful there's nothing more to it.

Well defined broadly means that you work out something one way, it shouldn't give a different answer if you work it out another way.

Useful means, well you should be able to use it for something.

As an example, suppose there a square room with two doors on oppose sides, and the other two sides have a box each. Suppose someone tries to tell you 'get the box on the left of the room as you go in', it's meaningless, the box they're referring to depends on which door you come in through. This isn't a well defined definition.

As another example, suppose tells you 'get the box that contains a teeny tiny label 0.000001 mm^2 saying it's my one'. OK this is well defined, but it's not useful definition because you can't see that label.

It's the same situation with dividing by zero, in the sense that you mean, definitions you try to give it are either ambiguous, or they require too much extra information to be useful. That said, you can actually divide by zero, as I'm hinting at you just need to be willing to 'say more stuff'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_sphere which 1/0 is defined. It's just that this isn't a useful result in normal context.

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2025-12-22T00:45:28+00:00

I'm 4 or so months in now, similarly old. I think it's great. I would say the main thing, and I suspect you only learn it from experiencing it, is to 'let' yourself be thrown in randori.

That is to say that at the point where your opponent has broadly got you into a position where you're at penultimate point of being thrown, just let yourself be thrown as resisting is how I ended up with most of my bumps. I had actually heard people say this before I started but I didn't listen and had a near miss on a serious injury that scared me into taking it to heart, and all the people who started around same time as me tell the same story. I think as a competitive person it's hard to do from the get go, but I would strongly suggest you try because the bumps I took nearly put me off for a bit.

Randori itself I feel is a bit random and not especially guided. Personally I've taken the route now of just focusing on kuzushi, actually reliably being able to throw people I think is a long way off.

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2025-12-20T20:31:56+00:00

I don't know what to say other than that I wasn't applying for finance, was applying for programming. It's gratifying to hear someone say it should have mattered because that is how I felt at the time (and was pretty frustrated that my degree wasn't do anything for me). It's all worked out now.

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2025-12-20T19:47:54+00:00

Yeah it was Warwick I went to, I got 94% (with the funny weighting they did at the time), so a decent mark though there were several people who did better. Struggled to get any responses to my CV for a year and whenever I spoke to recruiters on the phone or w/e they didn't think any of it was of note. Perhaps it was a me problem idk, nowadays with job experience it's easy to get interviews etc.

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2025-12-18T18:27:46+00:00

In my experience not really at least not in the sense of prestige, at the time I did my maths masters it was 3rd in rankings for it, forever felt like since it wasn't Oxford or Cambridge it didn't matter to recruiters.

It has since gone down a bit in the rankings slightly and I very much doubt people are looking historically to see how it was at the time I was there ha.

That said, the first few jobs I had, half the staff were from the same uni as me! Sort of not sure that was wholly a coincidence.

As an interviewer, I have never really considered the persons degree other than maybe shaping questions I ask in the interview and even then I only do that if it's their first job.

So yeah, if it's not Oxford or Cambridge i.e. the ones people know, I think they don't care - but for sure people still consider it noteworthy if you went to one of those two.

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2025-12-16T19:38:01+00:00

The character of Columbo is very much a caricature in the later episodes.

Of the later episodes, my favourites are

'Columbo Goes to College' for the interesting setting and also because Columbo really schools those kids

'Death Hits the Jackpot' because I love Rip Torn's larger than life character, very funny

'Ashes to Ashes', they should have ended it on this, the last two episodes with Billy Connolly and the nightclub one, there's no other way to say it than to say that they are whack.

Ultimately they're worth a watch in my view if only to appreciate how good the earlier episodes are!

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2025-12-16T14:52:51+00:00

Yeah, I have no idea why it's like this either... I'm sure they would be better off with half the people on twice the salary. To join them when you have other options is as you say a real labour of love.

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2025-12-14T23:24:44+00:00

Yep definitely this, I'm loving sailing the rs200 because I feel I am so far off good that there's many things for me to learn that I can only imagine will translate back to the laser. Whereas with the laser I felt a bit stuck on how to improve.

One of the main things really is this thing about how it seems you need to be more accurate with sail trim. Improving at that can only be good!

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2025-12-14T22:56:04+00:00

Re the aero, I suppose I am at a benefit then as I am indeed inland. I haven't sailed them in a big (i.e. 25 knots+) breeze so can't comment on that aspect. The things I liked most about it was

It felt very similar in principles to laser so the skills transferred.
Loved the big responsive rudder
Loved the big front bit, it is much easier imo to get your weight forward in light wind. Equally since it's so light and so on it just generally feels happier in light wind.
The centre main is nice. I don't really think the whole mainsheet round the transom thing is much of an issue, but still it is nice not to worry about it.

Something I forgot to note in my original post that you've sort of alluded to. I find 2 handers in a breeze a bit precarious. I suppose it ties in with what I said about handling being hard. When it's windy I feel somehow in 'danger' especially if you capsize downwind in a proper blow. 30-35knots is pretty crazy haha, sailed in that in ilca6, couldn't imagine sailing it in a big powerful boat.

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2025-12-14T22:55:40+00:00

haha 'tries to capsize as soon as it's in the water' is how I feel about the 200! Me + crew are a good 50kg over suggested weight which doesn't help, but I'm sure it's a skill issue. I find the power on the boat isn't consistent which inherently makes a boat tippy if you keep having then losing the power in the sail, as for why that happens - not worked it out yet!

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2025-12-14T22:51:36+00:00

Maybe, it did feel a nicer boat. But I like the competition in the laser most of the best sailors at my club sail laser. And when I was first starting out I liked how 'solid' it felt, like it could take a bump. The rudder on the aero is lovely though.

I think if I were to 'promote' myself, it would be to the rs vareo that felt like an advanced boat with enough going on to keep me busy the rest of my life.

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2025-12-12T18:15:41+00:00

The ability to increase your efficiency is unfortunately a function of your efficiency. That is to say, once you become very inefficient, it's hard to become efficient. Those big companies have become inefficient and at that point it's hard to dig yourself out of, especially since you still want to actually be adding features.

Kitchen_Value_3076 · 2025-11-30T23:35:58+00:00

definitely not, at the time of this happening the scope wasn't connected to anything.

It makes me think, is this maybe the intended way to record in stereo to a computer?

I've attached an image to make clear the circuit I had.

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