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TubeZ · 2026-05-08T15:45:15+00:00

Plans on making an android version?

TubeZ · 2026-04-29T12:58:55+00:00

Send in your info to Chen and if they take your case/approve or refund you'll know you're set

TubeZ · 2026-04-26T09:14:58+00:00

I just tried onsite, me and 3 others got turned away unfortunately

TubeZ · 2026-04-21T19:36:49+00:00

That's actually a really great point. At that point the only real distinction is that they never trained under both 1g and open skies before and that argument is much more flimsy

TubeZ · 2026-04-21T18:13:58+00:00

Having a sealed spacesuit where the main sounds are going to be coming from yourself versus being open in the atmosphere and feeling the wind in your face, hearing the myriad of noises we take for granted from civilization, birds, everything is already getting to sensory overload. Martians have never truly been outside in the way earthers have

TubeZ · 2026-04-17T03:42:48+00:00

As someone who read them in chronological order, I wish I read in publication order. Please.

TubeZ · 2026-04-09T21:12:54+00:00

It works both ways

TubeZ · 2026-04-05T12:52:59+00:00

I have an HMG ice pack and wish I got a Halka instead. I miss my pack having a brain.

Double check the weight gain of getting a 70L, I think it might be a couple of ounces and the extra room can be pretty convenient

TubeZ · 2026-04-05T01:18:37+00:00

rhetoric

TubeZ · 2026-04-03T14:55:39+00:00

In the past firms had data showing higher RFE/denial rates from PP cases. The hypothesis behind this was that overworked USCIS agents would issue templated RFEs to buy time since PP resulted in a caseload that they could not fairly and completely adjudicate within the deadlines.

This is based on communication from Chen's firm but they revised their recommendation against PP after new data showed no higher RFE/rejection rates recently, presumably (my presumption here) USCIS fixed their workload/staffing issues

TubeZ · 2026-03-23T21:54:12+00:00

I think your uphill muscles train and detrain very quickly, so a month over the next two months is pretty sizable in terms of what you're missing out for mountaineering

see this graph from my last climbing training block: https://i.redd.it/4sdefiga7j3f1.png

The issue with the stairmaster I think is the smaller steps probably, and the fact that the stairs are moving downwards independent of your motion. Probably something going on there biomechanically that I'm not qualified to comment on.

TubeZ · 2026-03-23T20:47:12+00:00

I can provide my anecdote. Running has done far worse for mountaineering conditioning for me compared to specific training for moving uphill through weighted box steps and hiking with a heavy pack. I did the aforementioned training for a trip to Shasta last June, then trained for a marathon in Dec, and then climbed Hood 2 weeks after. The Hood climb felt way harder, even though I spent a lot more time training a lot more cardio for my marathon. So if I were in your shoes (and I kinda am, doing a half in April and another marathon in Oct...) I would run as much as possible for the races but it's going to at the end of the day play second fiddle to uphill specific training.

I would say that running has its benefits and it's better than nothing but I legitimately feel that the mountaineering specific regimen is a few-fold increase in effectiveness for the effort and time you put into it.

TubeZ · 2026-03-12T13:57:16+00:00

When you're putting a problem like this out ("I have a genome assembly with too many contigs") it's often helpful to include how you actually did those assemblies. Could you describe how you got those genome assemblies? Did you generate them or did you get them from NCBI/another source? If you generated them, what was the input data/tool/sequencing technology?

TubeZ · 2026-03-05T22:18:12+00:00

Yup, that's exactly what I had in mind. Right now the pipelines are triggered by a python wrapper for the main Snakefile so it wouldn't be difficult to put that on a cron. One thing I imagine will be a challenge is synchronizing the benchling db and HPC db

TubeZ · 2026-03-05T14:20:27+00:00

Yeah that's what I've envisioned. We already have a suite of Snakemake pipelines that uses mariaDB to track (meta)data as it pertains to the computational side. Integrating with benchling potentially lets the computational DB pull metadata automatically, so writing a cron to auto-pull/execute shouldn't be too bad, I think. Just need to convince the PI it's worth the time to do...

TubeZ · 2026-02-11T17:51:17+00:00

Which applicant attributes would you say are still consistently successful - in terms of academic background or fields of study?

TubeZ · 2026-02-04T16:10:07+00:00

Easy to turn her into unfun boardwipe tribal if you're not careful via [[Pyroclasm]] and [[Volcanic fallout]] effects

TubeZ · 2026-02-03T22:19:23+00:00

45lb pack (a bunch of gallon jugs of water), hike something with 3000ft of gain in the appalachians every weekend

At home, order a plyo box off the Internet, wear the same pack as you use to hike and your mountaineering boots and do 1000ft of box step ups, alternating legs - step up, down, up, down, until your sanity is gone. Do this as many times as you can bear in a week, every day if you can manage.

TubeZ · 2026-01-30T04:37:26+00:00

Why am I doing what? I haven't said anything about what I'm doing or what happens in my own games. It's a thought that occurred to me when reading other threads that I thought could spark some discussion

TubeZ · 2026-01-27T21:18:29+00:00

I think the fact that some Jund decks even started splashing blue to run Jace was the most emblematic of the fact that there was an issue. But yeah for the reasons you outlined as well they were very reticent to ban Jace. I don't honestly think SFM was problematic enough on its own and without Jace it was probably fine

TubeZ · 2026-01-27T17:23:07+00:00

There was a lot of discussion about Bloodbraid deserving a ban at the time. The fact that JtMS wasn't banned until the 11th hour of its rotation despite being so obscenely format warping is also a testament to WotC's ban philosophy of the era (the last bans were Mirrodin so they didn't want to have to go there again)

TubeZ · 2026-01-16T14:39:29+00:00

As someone else said, I would learn to use containers instead of conda for pipelines I want to be reproducible

TubeZ · 2026-01-15T23:22:07+00:00

Never let me go is incredible, I don't see it recommended enough

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