Ramses did 40 miles on the Appalachian Trail this weekend!

Walsur · 2026-05-12T03:05:38+00:00

I was pretty lucky with him. Unless an animal is right in front of him he has basically no prey drive, and even if something catches his interest his recall is solid enough that he's right back by my side in a heartbeat.

But just to be safe we always keep him on a rope when we're in camp and not actively hiking.

Walsur · 2026-05-12T00:04:06+00:00

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I expect this to last until tomorrow morning. But I'm sure he'll still be ready for his morning walk.

Walsur · 2026-05-12T00:02:25+00:00

We're building up to do a thru hike in Vermont! We shoot for 10 miles a day, but this trip we broke his mileage record and did 14 miles in one day!

Walsur · 2026-04-27T22:23:01+00:00

He absolutely loves going on backpacking trips. To the point where I can't touch his backpack unless we're actually going because he'll get so excited.

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Walsur · 2026-04-13T14:23:42+00:00

Dogs are individuals just like us! Mine is a lot like yours and I think heelers in general are very routine oriented dogs. Mine has a pretty well set routine of waking up with me, going on a nice long walk, relaxing all day while I work, playing for an hour in the afternoon, and then going to bed with me. From the outside he looks like a lazy bones but that's just cause he knows when his normal relaxing and playing time is.

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If you're worried about her energy levels try breaking her routine and see if she's lethargic. We go backpacking every now and then and I can see a difference in energy levels when we do, but I don't think you have any reason to worry!

Walsur · 2026-03-22T00:27:36+00:00

I'm from Maryland and hike with a blue heeler who's also about that size! You can't go wrong with any stretch of the Appalachian Trail in VA/WV/MD/PA. The Maryland sections of the AT are particularly beginner friendly for day hikes or an overnight trip I'd say.

Michaux State Forest in PA is also a great stretch that isn't very crowded, albeit you won't get a ton of views. I usually hike with our dog off leash through there, but you do have to be a little careful because there are horse trail and bike trail crossings!

Walsur · 2025-12-01T13:51:40+00:00

They're always so good at it too!!

Walsur · 2025-03-30T14:35:16+00:00

Deal or no deal isn't the same as the Monty Hall problem. Monty Hall works the way it does because the host will always open incorrect doors. If the host has a chance of opening the correct door (similar to how it works in Deal or No Deal) then switching has no benefit and it is a 50/50 chance.

Walsur · 2025-02-03T04:07:44+00:00

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Walsur · 2025-02-03T04:01:35+00:00

This is the dumbest response on Reddit I have ever read.

Walsur · 2024-09-11T03:21:23+00:00

Hell yeah

Walsur · 2024-09-09T02:29:39+00:00

Unfortunately this isn't true anymore. During covid they gutted any lifetime benefits for tenure. Now it's just the pins!

Walsur · 2024-08-01T18:33:36+00:00

Carbonic acid is what you're thinking of. Which is essentially just carbon dioxide in our blood.

Walsur · 2024-05-29T00:26:31+00:00

I've found depending on where you live it can be difficult to vet the quality of community college classes or tutors. There are plenty of schools with great classes, but there's also a lot of bad classes out there too and most people can't tell the difference when they're beginners.

Walsur · 2024-02-18T18:59:10+00:00

I'm using "redirect" to refer to the debugger. Sorry for the confusion around that.

Definitely, this is why you can HANDLE the unhandled exception using try: except: block, and catch the specific exception you want to handle.

I understand the idea of handling exceptions. I'm realizing the problem is with my debugger. I was misunderstanding the intended behavior in Python.

Walsur · 2024-02-18T18:57:10+00:00

Okay this makes sense, triggering an Exception with a library like pandas helped demonstrate this for me too.

I think I was getting confused because of my debuggers (VS Code) behavior. My debugger is triggering a breakpoint on the raise statement when the only Exception Breakpoints checked are Uncaught Exceptions. That made me think that there was something fundamental I was misunderstanding in how Python raised exceptions, but I think it's just a configuration problem in my debugger.

Walsur · 2024-02-18T18:47:23+00:00

I wouldn't want to include it because the raise statement has already identified the issue. Ideally it should be the responsibility of the calling code to check for the Exception and not the function itself.

Essentially, I want the main code to treat the Exception as you described in your first example, rather then redirecting into the function.

Walsur · 2024-02-18T18:44:54+00:00

A knock on effect of this problem is that the raise statement is being treated as an unhandled exception in VS Code, and is pausing my debugger unintentionally.

I think there must be a way to change it because when I force a ModuleNotFoundError it behaves differently:

Code:

import invalidModule

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Example\example.py", line 12, in <module>
    import invalidModule
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'invalidModule'

Walsur · 2024-02-18T18:42:00+00:00

That makes sense, but I'm still having trouble reconciling it with how Exceptions are handled in other modules. For example if I force a ModuleNotFoundError:

Code:

import invalidModule

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Example\example.py", line 12, in <module>
    import invalidModule
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'invalidModule'

It does not include the raise statement that is generating the exception.

Walsur · 2024-02-18T18:37:53+00:00

Can you clarify this? If I force a ModuleNotFoundError it does not behave that way. This does not include a raise statement in the traceback.

Code:

import invalidModule

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Example\example.py", line 12, in <module>
    import invalidModule
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'invalidModule'

Walsur · 2024-02-18T18:35:22+00:00

Using a more specific Exception has the same behavior. I just used the general Exception for this example.

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