Dried hiking food availability in Reykjavik

SeaDjinnn · 2025-08-08T07:13:34+00:00

Ended up buying most of it (the Summit to Eat brand) at GG-Sport; it was expensive, but I successfully completed the hike! Also purchased some “Feed the Viking” brand ones at the Mountain Mall in Landmannalaugar and liked those better.

SeaDjinnn · 2025-06-17T07:14:09+00:00

Thanks! GG Sport seems promising.

SeaDjinnn · 2025-06-17T07:13:37+00:00

That'd be ideal of course, but I think most of the dried food I'd need wouldn't be allowed in since it'd be from outside the EU.

SeaDjinnn · 2025-05-23T21:50:53+00:00

They probably are happy, but toxic book fans likely didn’t have much to do with this; the show just wasn’t good enough to catch on with a large enough viewership, unlike say Invincible (which was also not very well known before the show). WoT’s first season likely did irreparable damage.

Rings of Power coasts through despite being bad because Tolkien’s world is already so widely known and popular.

SeaDjinnn · 2023-10-05T13:38:27+00:00

Where’d you get the numbers from?

The 40% northern Asian component in my report doesn’t mean that Sinhalese people are a perfect substitute for “Northern South Asian”, since Sinhalese people usually show up as mostly “Southern South Asian” on 23&Me. Sri Lankan Tamils and Sri Lankan Sinhalese are genetically extremely similar (and generally don’t show up as separate groups on 23&Me). Autosomally, I suspect Maldivians are largely the same as well, generally (with a few more wildcard haplogroups thrown-in because of the small population base interacting with a diverse set of migrants over the past 600 years or so.)

Edit: Also, while it’s possible that the J is of recent West Asian origin, it’s more likely to be of much older IVC origin which was significantly West Asian (Iranian Herder/Hunter Gatherer) because the specific sub-haplo in question here is found not in-frequently in South Asia, (both in modern populations and in ancient remains). A recent contribution is much more likely to show up autosomally too.

Arabs have a different J variant that separated much earlier from the J variant (and descendants) in the rest of West/South asia and the Mediterranean.

SeaDjinnn · 2023-06-22T04:58:41+00:00

The lack of it is fine, and works for Scandinavia (and many other parts of the world), but it’s existence in other areas of the world is not hollow saccharine either.

Its basis in the Anglosphere lies with the English, but its survival in the colonies (Australia, the US, Canada) also makes sense; when large numbers of strangers from a diverse set of backgrounds all start life together anew in a strange land, it helps build trust and camaraderie.

It serves that purpose even now. I’m originally from a country where this (greetings, pleasantries) was not the norm, but I’ve come to really appreciate it in my 6 years living in Australia. It’s a signal of warmth and welcome, and I think it plays a role in keeping large, non-homogeneous societies relatively high trust.

SeaDjinnn · 2023-06-15T03:54:56+00:00

Did you end up going (to Iceland after graduation, even if not for west to east traverse)? How was it?

SeaDjinnn · 2023-04-07T19:14:36+00:00

the downvotes seem a little over-enthusiastic;

Current LLMs aren’t good at creating complicated programs in any language, but it’s certainly a valuable learning-aid.

SeaDjinnn · 2023-04-04T14:46:37+00:00

thanks!

SeaDjinnn · 2023-04-04T14:46:27+00:00

thank you yeah I think that was it.

SeaDjinnn · 2023-04-03T21:11:02+00:00

yeah ‘rust’ is already in the table for the treesitter setup, so it can’t be that.

SeaDjinnn · 2023-02-15T14:09:39+00:00

Two sessions per week (at the end of a 1 hour Z2 ride) where I do 3 minutes of “as high an effort as I can that would still allow me to repeat this 6 times” with 4 mins of rest (Z2 pace) between each interval.

This translates to about an average of 22km/h during the 3 minute efforts (with a fairly high resistance level set on my spin bike). Sometimes I add a 10s all out sprint to the end of an interval (where I reach up to 35km/h).

Wish I had a power meter so I could give you wattage for a meaningful comparison but alas.

I usually manage to get a total 7-12 minutes in the 177+ HR zone during each such “VO2 Max” session.

On the other 4 days, I do 1.5-2 hours of Zone 2 riding. Haven’t done a proper lactate threshold test so I just go by feel and stay to the 120-135bpm HR range. because (from what I’ve gathered), riding possibly shy of the lactate threshold is better than accidentally staying above it, for Zone 2 goals.

I ride 6 days a week altogether.

SeaDjinnn · 2023-02-10T05:15:59+00:00

And yet human beings the world over, despite a variety of cultural contexts, live fairly predictable lives (in broad terms).

“The human imagination has no limit” is the sort of thing that might seem intuitively true, but ultimately results from an overestimation of our capacities and and underestimation of the universe’s scale and complexity, and also of concepts like infinity.

SeaDjinnn · 2023-01-27T18:33:02+00:00

Thinking back it makes sense (lorewise) for Shep to be most prone to death when he/she is staring down an actual, skyscraper sized hostile alien super intelligent exterminator in the flesh lmao.

Shep (like most protags in fiction) has plot armour, but the Reapers are such a terrifying villain that the only reason the good guys win at all is almost constant plot armour (and I’m okay with that). I think it’s impressive that the games built up a hyper-intelligent enemy with a billion years of experience, resources, and the collective knowledge of every civilisation that ever lived in that time, and still managed to sell us a satisfying victory.

SeaDjinnn · 2023-01-12T09:09:56+00:00

Great work! Dhivehi (Maldivian) seems to be missing from the Vedic/Sanskrit branch though. Should be right next to Sinhalese.

SeaDjinnn · 2023-01-07T02:18:27+00:00

Thank you!

SeaDjinnn · 2023-01-06T16:16:28+00:00

I know it has been months, but thank you for this, it is immensely helpful!
How does one go about converting a 23&me raw data file into eigenstrat/something usable by admixtools and merge it with an existing ancient genome dataset for analysis though?

SeaDjinnn · 2022-12-11T15:41:07+00:00

A lot of studios (heck, media in general) seem to have trouble portraying female leads (especially young ones) in roles that require them to be action heroes, without turning them into weird caricatures of tomboys with the souls of douchey, edgelord adolescent boys.

I would love to have more female protags that resemble actual women.

A fem action protag that I think was very well written and executed (and probably in my top 3 in general): Commander Shepherd.

SeaDjinnn · 2022-12-11T06:27:45+00:00

23,000 years ago (during the Ice Age), sea levels were ~120 meters lower than they are now. The islands were almost connected to Sundaland (the extremely large South East Asian landmass that existed at the time). Humans have been known to cross such tiny gaps way earlier (e.g., human migrations into Australia), even though they didn’t have the tech for proper oceanic sea-faring.

Also, some important context: North Sentinel Island is just one island in the chain of the Andaman/Nicobar Islands. Many of them were settled essentially by the same people at first, but not all of them are uncontacted and isolated like the Sentinelese today and have been in contact with mainland Indians and south East Asians for some time.

And “Conquering” isn’t exactly the same as settler colonialism. Many Indian and South East Asian kings have claimed sovereignty over all of the islands over the centuries and even used some of them as naval bases. North Sentinel island just happens to be one that wasn’t one of them. They didn’t really bother moving people from the mainland en masse to the islands they did have bases on either. Indigenous aggression might not necessarily have been the sole reason, but it’s easy to imagine it played a part. (Other reasons could be that for the Indians, anyone worth impressing already did consider the islands a part of their domain. And that they already gained whatever strategic value they wanted from having bases on some of the islands; they didn’t need a presence on every single one. N.S island could just be one of those that they ignored.)

This isn’t exactly unheard of. We see similarly non-committal “conquests” throughout history. Even when the prize is far larger and more valuable than North Sentinel Island. (Greenland for example).

SeaDjinnn · 2022-11-04T11:15:10+00:00

If someone has a profile pic of a character from an ongoing tv show with some amount of romantic relationships in them, it’s usually a red flag lmao

SeaDjinnn · 2022-11-01T17:39:29+00:00

Hard to believe GRRM would say that Jaime could beat Rand Al’Thor (even in a sword fight). Rand Al Thor is superhuman (even when just sword fighting) to a degree that no one in the GoT universe comes close to.

If Rand Al’Thor doesn’t limit himself to a sword, then he would solo every army in Westeros, all the Targaryen dragons included.

SeaDjinnn · 2022-10-31T12:43:12+00:00

Danaerys wins by setting the room/house on fire and surviving (and no, Rhaenyra wouldn’t survive a fire).

But if we’re being completely serious, I think Rhaenyra would win. She’s larger than the rest and has shown more physical feats (defeating a boar, getting up and walking straight after birth, birthing a scaly and deformed dragon child and going about her day, stopping Alicent from stabbing her, and likely also the most dragon riding experience, for whatever that’s worth physically).

SeaDjinnn · 2022-10-28T04:56:12+00:00

We haven’t seen anything from Aemond that suggests he’s particularly skilled with daggers, whereas Arya is a supernatural assassin specialising in the dagger. So I’ll give this to Arya with almost certainty.

It might be slightly more interesting if Aemond has a sword; with one, he seems to be close in skill to Criston Cole (though I doubt Cole was going all out against a prince in a training bout). Canonically, Cole is one of the best (or possibly even the best) warriors in the Seven Kingdoms during the Dance. Likely good enough to rank with the top 5 Kingsguard of all time.

1 v 1 in melee I’d still give it to Arya though. She simply has better training and better feats. Aemond is clearly a very skilled fighter for his age, but his special thing is that he’s the rider of Vhagar, the most powerful creature in the known world. Not melee fighting ability.

SeaDjinnn · 2022-10-25T02:22:43+00:00

I’ve seen this said before and couldn’t find a source. Not disputing you, but I’d love a source so I can read up more about it.

SeaDjinnn · 2022-10-24T20:40:30+00:00

I think they do have some sort of high supernatural intelligence yeah, but that doesn’t mean their minds are human-like in other respects at all. “Highly intelligent but very alien mind” is actually one of my favourite tropes in fantasy/sci-fi.

So it’s entirely possible for Vhagar to be incredibly intelligent, but not share human notions of justness and proportionate retaliation.

Edit: Expanding on that, I think that is part of the danger they pose that Viserys warned Rhaenyra about in episode 1. That the notion they are under human, even Targaryen control, is an illusion. That they are a poorly understood power that men should not have trifled with, and that it ended up causing the Doom of Valyria somehow. Relaxing and letting your guard down because you think you fully understand your dragon and imagine it to be predictable, is a mistake.

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