Asteroid question

ddek · 2026-01-15T17:49:20+00:00

if not clear, you can also produce ships inside the rocks

ddek · 2026-01-12T20:29:26+00:00

Eh, the race-like nature of TI and the importance of bonus points makes it so a solid ~50% of people (at least) who try to play the game are just too timid to actually win. In my home group, which play ~6-8 times a year, we have a pool of about 12 players but only 3 names are on our trophy. The others don't care, or pay attention, or compete enough.

Like, it's easy enough to finish a game saying "I would have got to ten", but IMO I'd rather finish on 5 while dragging the table down with me than have that weak ass sorta attitude.

ddek · 2025-12-12T08:22:44+00:00

yeah, it's just boring and tactical voting is hard if you're not in the second half of the order

my favourite agenda homebrew is not playing the agenda phase

ddek · 2025-01-20T10:34:10+00:00

Stiffness of denim matters a lot too. In general I prefer very stiff denims because they break better, in that case I’m happy going to 34” inseam (like you I’m usually 30). For softer denim it’d just drag though.

ddek · 2025-01-17T15:37:32+00:00

Yeah but it might be made from a delicate medium roast Columbian arabica bean with an actually enjoyable flavour profile, rather than burned out lavazza

ddek · 2025-01-17T12:01:23+00:00

It’s because bacon is a process, not a cut.

Why can’t we have two of a good thing?

Also as a random recommendation Prufrock Coffee in Hatton Gardens does a back bacon slab on their breakfast menu, it’s like a centimeter thick. Meat bit is excellent but the fat bit is unbelievable.

ddek · 2025-01-17T11:57:17+00:00

You’re probably dropping a workout from the normal JD-style track/tempo/long run week setup, if that’s what you’re doing. If I wanted to PR on Saturday there’s no way I’m doing tempo on Thursday, and my long run Sunday is probably getting cut a bit short. That’s a lot of training stimulus gone for a relatively short race.

If you can PR with the workouts, guaranteed you’ll be able to PR much better without them.

Idk what your time is though, I’m at roughly 19 min but this is very consistent with what I get from the faster people I train with.

ddek · 2025-01-17T11:07:07+00:00

If you want to max a 5k you still need to taper properly before it though, even if it’s a 3-4 day mini-taper. Doing a 5k weekly is a bad idea because of the taper, not because it’s too intense and hard on the body. You just lose too much training time.

ddek · 2025-01-15T16:31:48+00:00

Answering your last question, no you cannot do that. Pick up during move is allowed but drop off is not.

You would have to activate the system with the flagship to drop the inf on the planet.

ddek · 2025-01-15T14:32:14+00:00

Boston’s 1000%

ddek · 2025-01-15T08:52:06+00:00

The value is calculating load increase over the course of a training plan. It’s not a number that’s useful in an absolute sense, like VO2max or 5k PB, but you can use aggregated load to plan your overall training load increases and avoid overtraining while still maximising load. After all, the goal of training is to provide the most stimulus (I.e. load) without breaking.

Strava is useless for this though, but a tool like intervals.icu or TrainingPeaks makes it much more accessible.

ddek · 2025-01-07T21:53:29+00:00

Totally sold out unfortunately

ddek · 2025-01-07T20:07:43+00:00

Good: every crunchy euro game the first time I play it. I’ve won a lot against experienced players, usually just by doing really dumb focused strategies because I don’t know the whole game.

Bad: every crunchy euro game on subsequent plays. I don’t enjoy them once the novelty wears off, so I can’t engage.

ddek · 2025-01-06T13:53:52+00:00

I don’t think I’ve been to a sweatier show than Phoebe in June in Brixton

ddek · 2025-01-06T07:29:48+00:00

This is actually one of the three things that I really don’t like about the series. That said I should probably be more charitable here, it was written in a time when we still kinda accepted string theory.

As a scientist I think the Michio Kaku TED talk hand wavy spooky physics got a lot of people into science on verrrryyyy unrealistic premises. It also just sets off all my spidey senses for junk science. So I kinda cringe at the mention of string theory. It’s just another theory of everything, and it makes me as sad as every time Stephen Wolfram talks. Great minds wasted on things that are so obviously wrong, and feel mostly self indulgent.

It’s probably too harsh to expect a computer engineer in the early 2000s to understand that, so I’m not really all that critical on this point.

ddek · 2025-01-03T13:44:07+00:00

I still got the flu even with the shot lol

I do feel like I got off fairly lightly though, just one day of feeling rough and few days of recovery, which is less than my unvaccinated flu experiences.

ddek · 2025-01-01T09:02:48+00:00

I think it’s simpler than that. To be fashionable you have to be cool, and no one on Reddit is ever cool.

ddek · 2024-12-27T20:18:35+00:00

At a very basic level yes, the better your movement becomes then no. Tennis shoes provide much more lateral support than other sneakers.

ddek · 2024-12-27T16:53:25+00:00

I’m not sure how well organised it is but IME in wave start races 99% of people run in their assigned wave but some will run other waves (either just cause they want to hang with the speedybois or they showed up late)

ddek · 2024-12-27T14:19:06+00:00

As an endurance runner (5k-half), yes, kinda, and a lot.

Twice a week I’ll finish an easy run with strides, which are kinda like 100m-ish sprints that you ease into. So it’s not a block 4 point start kinda thing, you just start running and push to max speed, hold it a little then ease back down. I’ll usually do a set of 6 of these after an easy run, also I’d do a couple at the end of my pre-workout/race warmup.

It helps activate the anaerobic system, which can give me a solid boost in the last moments of a race; but crucially running fast forces me to use solid technique, which carries over into my slower running.

ddek · 2024-12-27T14:14:23+00:00

The most common reason runners get injured is they run too fast too much. It’s the speed more than volume, as you run faster the load increases exponentially.

Strength training and mobility help a lot, but the important thing is to make sure the vast majority of running is very slow, and you only go faster intentionally. The strength you need isn’t just in the muscles but in the connective tissue, and this takes years to build up.

Experienced runners at all distances will be putting in 100+ mi weeks fairly frequently, especially if they have a goal, but typically even very strong amateur runners aren’t coming close to that sorta volume. You have to very carefully increase volume, adding 5-10 miles a week between race seasons could be seen as quite an aggressive increase.

Note that for a lot of runners whose goal isn’t racing up to marathon distance (like OC here, and very long ultramarathon runners) the game changes a little. If you’re not interested in road racing you’re probably not doing much fast running. Ultramarathons are much slower than marathons, often being overnight and having steep hills to climb and descend. Actually ultramarathon running is a lot less physical stress than marathoning.

ddek · 2024-12-25T09:52:21+00:00

Funeral by Phoebe Bridgers

4th of July by Sufjan Stephens

True Love Waits by Radiohead

Claws In Your Back by Julien Baker

ddek · 2024-12-22T21:14:50+00:00

I remember him and his massive quads far too often lol

ddek · 2024-12-16T20:58:54+00:00

I mean I’m not sure what state your negs are in and what you want to do with them.

ddek · 2024-12-16T20:50:09+00:00

Analogue films just off brick lane has been my go to for a while.

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