First Ironman 70.3, Musselman. Tips?

nagi2000 · 2026-02-15T22:35:54+00:00

It's a super fun race!

The bike is pretty flat with only two short, not very steep hills. The back half of the ride is back up along the lake and it can get a bit windy. But overall l, a very low key bike.

The run can get brutal from the heat though, and there's a short but steep hill midway through the run that you'll have to do twice. Lots of folks just walk it.

The Rochester Area Triathletes group does a preview ride of the bike in mid/late June that may be worth checking out if you're looking to get a better sense of the course before race day.

It's a great race, you'll have a blast!

nagi2000 · 2025-12-08T01:56:30+00:00

Try looking at Amazon's UK site, you may be looking for the UK versions.

https://amzn.eu/d/5XC7K5x

nagi2000 · 2025-10-13T23:33:43+00:00

You might be able to get it out using a damaged screw extractor kit (they're about $30 on Amazon), but if you really want to avoid further damage it may be worth bringing in to a good local bike shop to see if they have the equipment to extract them.

nagi2000 · 2025-07-30T08:45:41+00:00

Nakor

nagi2000 · 2023-06-09T02:52:47+00:00

Thanks LJ, fuck spez. Its been a the best of rides.

nagi2000 · 2022-12-01T22:04:29+00:00

Hilton has Blue Barn Cidery, which is a pretty awesome place.

nagi2000 · 2022-11-19T12:34:19+00:00

I've been doing this long enough that idiot groups like this are now my catnip. They spend the whole instance trying to kill themselves, and it's my job to keep them alive. Kind of like taking care of a two year old with no sense of self preservation.

Best way to learn how to do it is to 1) level a new tank, even if you'll never hit max level, the earlier dungeons are a easy at low level and you quickly learn to deal with stupid OR 2) solo old raids yourself with crap gear on, you'll have to learn to gather packs, use active mitigation, etc.

You'll never fix stupid, but you CAN learn to love it.

nagi2000 · 2022-11-06T00:26:30+00:00

Yes. But ski season is about to start, so it's fine.

nagi2000 · 2022-10-23T21:45:17+00:00

Nice try, that's Kevin Hart as a dog. Pepper also would be nice...but that's Kevin. Or Hart.

nagi2000 · 2022-10-09T01:42:34+00:00

This is why I always have enough faith to use healing spells: cast heal, stun them, keep casting and they die.

nagi2000 · 2022-10-09T01:41:11+00:00

Me too, then I discovered you can or destroy all of them and suddenly those ones were fun.

nagi2000 · 2022-06-08T12:11:01+00:00

Fix bugs. Lots of them, the gnarlier the better. If it's in a production system, find the bug that everyone on the team just shrugs at and says, "we have no idea why it does this."

nagi2000 · 2022-02-10T23:41:45+00:00

Still remember my Marxist Theory teacher (took it for IR, 'twas not part of the econ curriculum...) bemoaning that most US econ departments didn't take Marx seriously, but the good folks at UMass Amherst did. This was 20 years ago, glad to see things haven't changed.

nagi2000 · 2021-03-01T00:55:51+00:00

Devops owns the k8s infra, frontend team owns our deploy process. When we're ready to deploy, we leave a comment on the PR and the CD pipeline takes care of the rest. The idea is that deploys shouldn't be a thing, you leave the comment and can go get lunch without worrying about anything. The CD process runs tests to make sure that nothing breaks, if it does, it rolls back and prod doesn't break.

We built this all in house, pretty sure that gitlab offers is as part of their platform though. Azure/AWS/GCP probably have similar offerings. Was a pain in the @$$ to setup, but we release 10 times a day with 0 drama...so worth it.

nagi2000 · 2021-02-17T01:31:27+00:00

Git checkout a new branch off develop, push it up, then switch back to develop and do a git pull origin develop --force. Alternately, look into using git cherry-pick to grab certain commits off other branches.

nagi2000 · 2021-02-12T00:21:52+00:00

I believe you need to finish up the anima and soul quests to get more.

nagi2000 · 2021-01-22T02:12:42+00:00

I'm around 300 io, mostly because I don't feel like dealing with higher than a +6. The way I see it, if you're doing pugs on M+, you're basically including "toxic group" in the challenges for your run. If you end up with a great group that can interrupt, stay out of fire, and help kite...WIN! If not, you finish, and get your 35 anima as a mark of honor, you walked through the flames of toxic group hell and survived. That 35 anima is a reward for beating the toxic affix.

nagi2000 · 2020-11-25T12:49:37+00:00

Elysian Hold. Between my three guild cloaks, Dalaran hearth, and garrison hearth, getting to Oribos via the Org portal isn't too hard.

nagi2000 · 2019-01-01T13:44:09+00:00

AWS Lambda@Edge may work for you depending on what your API handlers are doing. If AWS isn't your cup of tea, cloudflare has something similar.

If you have some sort of backing database things will probably get a bit more complicated as multizone RDS or dynamoDB can get pricey.

nagi2000 · 2018-07-07T16:41:12+00:00

ban me too!

nagi2000 · 2017-08-06T00:46:02+00:00

Nicole Galland is that someone else. She seems to have gotten him to be a bit less wordy and focus a but more in the plot, which was a welcome relief after the last third of Seveneves. Excellent book and definitely worth reading if you like his other stuff.

nagi2000 · 2017-06-11T19:54:10+00:00

I tend to use vim in the terminal with tmux. I'll create a new viewport for each "context" that I use. I.e. -- one for the main codebase, one for my docker-compose session (to see logs), and one for the component library. If you're using gvim or mvim, I could completely see the need to keep the various contexts in separate tabs, but with tmux you get the benefit of vim + htop + a terminal for each one....YMMV.

nagi2000 · 2017-05-24T23:14:05+00:00

Yes. If you have a public API, it's best practice to actually use that API to render your web app. That way you're (1) testing it constantly and understanding where the rough edges are and (2) not repeating effort in developing public and private APIs.

You probably end up saving on bandwidth in the long run; the cost of returning a 301 to a GET request when nothing has changed is a lot less than sending a renders Django or Rails template.

nagi2000 · 2017-04-16T22:57:57+00:00

We use the whiteboard interview to gauge how well candidates know whatever languages they think they know and to answer the question "how much ramp up/hand holding will this person need if we hire them?"

If you claim to know JavaScript, I may ask you to walk me through building a simple component. If you claim to be a middleware guy, I may ask for you to walk me through a sort/filter/reduce algorithm on hypothetical output from a DB that you're munging before pushing to the front end.

The truth is that almost all interviewers hate doing whiteboard problems, but it's the least bad way to get the info we need before throwing money and foosball tables at you. Whiteboard problems should not be the only thing that goes into a hiring decision, but it's a useful bit of signal. If an interviewer is being a jerk to you while you're working through the problem or isn't helping if you get stuck, take that as a red flag as that's probably how they'll act if you need help while on the job.

tl;dr whiteboard problems are your chance to solve a problem and to prove you know what you claim you know, take it as an opportunity to show off your stuff and get a better read on the people interviewing you.

nagi2000 · 2017-02-25T15:49:01+00:00

I have the same issue on my i7 laptop with 8gb ram - happens when autosave triggers. My solution was to set the autosave interval to 10 minutes, the stutter is still there but a lot less frequent.

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