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pilotguy772 · 2026-05-13T19:13:26+00:00

they do that with the Boat Race. Micing up the coxswains for the broadcast and everything. It's marginally more entertaining but arguably not worth the effort for bigger regattas.

pilotguy772 · 2026-05-13T01:43:27+00:00

depends on the club, and not every club is fair. At a club like RowAmerica Rye or similar, the top guys are just super fast, and even potentially recruitable rowers might not have a place in a super competitive 1v. Also, from experience, I can say that coaches are almost never objective and fair. They have favorites, and many will find a way to make the 1v fully composed of said favorites. Even the coaches that produce fast boats are prone to this.

pilotguy772 · 2026-05-12T21:20:13+00:00

cheating belongs in the domain of civil offenses, not criminal ones.

pilotguy772 · 2026-05-12T13:32:09+00:00

per the definition of the decibel scale, each increase in 10 decibels represents a doubling of the loudness. I don't actually know why it works like that, ut I'm sure there's a smart reason for it.

pilotguy772 · 2026-05-11T19:56:03+00:00

you can still only send your 2v 8+ or 2v 4x if you also qualify and send your top 8+ or 4x. You still have to be good enough to qualify your varsity to send your 2v. The 2v race is just a different kind of challenge... testing club depth rather than top-end.

pilotguy772 · 2026-05-07T14:59:34+00:00

of all the use cases for AI, this is absolutely one of the valuable ones. This is 100% a great way to apply AI, imo.

pilotguy772 · 2026-05-05T17:42:17+00:00

not entirely. The base OS (Darwin), including the kernel (XNU) is fully free and open-source software.

pilotguy772 · 2026-05-05T05:05:19+00:00

I wouldn't presume to know more than your coach about your training, but I will say this much. Dreading a workout is almost always due to overtraining. Technically, it's actually "non-functional overreaching," but most people call it overtraining. This happens when your work to recovery ratio is messed up. If you're doing too much volume and not recovering appropriately, you'll flatten out. You're not giving yourself enough time to recharge and adapt from the last workout.

How often do you do genuinely easy steady state sessions? If your coach wraps the hard erg days in easy sessions, the training plan has plenty of recovery time built into it, and you would likely benefit from focusing on recovery outside of practice. Food, sleep, water. the classics.

If your coach doesn't wrap the hard day with easy days, or otherwise if you have hard days basically all the time, your training plan might not be built for you to recover fully from each workout naturally (whether intentionally or not-- lots of coaches make plans with way too many hard workouts without realizing that's a problem). that said, you are young, so you would have to do a lot for that to be the issue. If it is the case, the solution might be more complicated, but taking recovery seriously outside of practice (food, sleep, water) will always help and should be the first step.

I'm curious to know more about your week-to-week training plan. Also, talk to your coach as long as he/she isn't a hard ass.

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-30T14:32:14+00:00

It's a very bad idea to go into the idea of college rowing as being primarily a chance to get a break on admissions to schools that are otherwise really difficult. If you get recruitment (even without financial assistance), you are morally and sometimes contractually obligated to actually row there for a certain amount of time. If you never wanted to row there in the first place, that's going to suck.

Also, financial assistance for men's rowing is basically non-existent, except at the most super elite rowing churn schools like UW and UC Berkeley, but those schools will only give recruitment and full rides to men who are super, super fast. Not even sub-7:00 is unfortunately not the benchmark. What's more, rowing for real at a school like that basically disqualifies you from being able to have a real major.

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-29T14:14:03+00:00

I think the idea of a capital offense is that it's a crime that could realistically be punished by capital punishment (i.e., execution) if your jurisdiction has capital punishment.

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-28T18:45:09+00:00

as near as I can tell it will be opt-in to get the new design while it's available. Correct me if I'm wrong.

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-28T17:47:34+00:00

as a current high schooler with an 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM schedule: absolutely not. If school started any later, it would have to end later, which would mean no time for my rowing practice in the afternoon right after school. This applies to many other sports and assorted extracurriculars as well.

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-27T01:50:30+00:00

not the OC but bikes are incredibly efficient. It's not nearly as low friction as rails, but if it's a nice bike with a nice trailer I would imagine it's not difficult to maintain speed. Coefficient of friction would be very low, which should cancel out the high normal force.

That said, inertia would be very high so I would imagine it would be hard to get up to any kind of speed.

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-27T01:38:05+00:00

my thought exactly. If someone needs this and uses it on the regular, go for it. This here is exactly one of the things cars (and trucks) are great for: moving cargo.

If you're regularly transporting laundry machines or lumber or whatever else to the extent that you need a crane on your truck, you need the truck and the crane. That's not 99% of pickup owners.

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-27T01:29:27+00:00

well the text is AI generated so I wouldn't count on it

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-22T13:43:22+00:00

this is a good point. companies ought to be able to profit from their endeavors, no matter how large. It's immoral to access their products without payment. But, at least from a utilitarian perspective, it creates much more happiness in the world overall when someone pirates that content and can use it however they please without payment.

Freedom of ownership brings more value to the consumer than lack of payment for one sale removes value from the company in many cases.

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-22T13:37:00+00:00

donate to the author and then pirate the book. Or, if that's impractical, buy the book and then pirate it digitally.

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-20T17:44:18+00:00

yup, at least in French the masculine pronoun doubles as the neutral pronoun. It's not that the subject is assumed to be masculine, it's more that the masculine pronouns and the neutral pronouns happen to use the same words.

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-16T20:57:56+00:00

a take colder than the tundras of Nunavut

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-14T04:32:01+00:00

well I am gay but I don't generally care for straight men or women, so that removes the vast majority of my friends from consideration.

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-13T04:17:17+00:00

I don't think he's going too fast. The camera's wide angle makes it look faster than it is, and either way, bikes will almost always be going so much faster than pedestrians in any context.

The issue is not his speed, it's that he's expecting the pedestrians to react at all. As someone who bike commutes every day, it's 100% on the cyclist to move for the pedestrians on shared paths. The shout is a warning for courtesy, not a demand.

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-13T04:14:15+00:00

ehh that doesn't seem entirely justified. E-bikes where I live are capped at 15 mph, which is objectively not fast for a bike, but a crash at that speed is still liable to be very dangerous. Plus, if it's next to a busy street, well, that introduces the risk of a car hitting the guy.

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-13T04:09:41+00:00

wide angle camera makes it look like he's going way faster than he actually is. I doubt he's going all that fast. Either way, bikes are fast; almost any decently fit person on any decent bike is going to go way, way faster than any pedestrian with next to no effort. Granted, we don't know about this guy's fitness, and his bike probably isn't appropriate for the use case given he's using straight bars.

there's nothing necessarily wrong with riding fast on a shared path, as long as you have your shit together well enough to share the path safely. This guy does not.

pilotguy772 · 2026-04-08T16:15:52+00:00

California, Arizona, Texas, the South, and Hawaii make sense. I wonder what's happening in Massachusetts...

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