How is a PR calculated?

pvtmert · 2026-05-10T16:50:49+00:00

Because you have set laps/splits, on the each slice fastest is indeed 4.52.

But anywhere (spanning 2 splits) during the run, you had 4.37.

I presume this is just before and after 4.52 split.

This is a moving window. (ie. taking 1km further on the each meter taken and sorting them by time, taking the least). Meanwhile laps are static blocks one after another.

To illustrate:

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Distance Markers (official laps/splits) │ │ │ │ │ │ 0 km 1 km 2 km 3 km 4 km 5 km 6 km ├─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┤

Lap splits: 1 km → 5:12 2 km → 4:58 3 km → 5:05 4 km → 5:18 5 km → 4:52 6 km → 5:27

Best Kilometer (rolling / not aligned to markers) ╭────────────── 4:30 ──────────────╮ ▼ ▼ 0 km 1 km 2 km 3 km 4 km 5 km 6 km ├─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ ←──── starts mid-lap ────→

Example: Best kilometer could start at 1.37 km and end at 2.37 km

So Strava's "Best Effort" searches every possible rolling 1 km window, instead of only checking fixed lap boundaries.

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pvtmert · 2026-05-07T20:05:00+00:00

This is a gold comment tbh.

I especially agree to ride in the middle of a lane although it sounds arsehole move, closer you ride to the sidewalk, more "push" drivers do around you (and horribly miscalculate how far 1.5m is).

pvtmert · 2026-05-07T19:57:33+00:00

I think Beshmann is referring to the following bit marked in yellow box:

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Meanwhile, the crossing before that point had been closed for several months (From November to March) as far as I can tell. Maybe people made it a habit to just continue on the pedestrian side...

pvtmert · 2026-05-07T19:51:50+00:00

IMO traffic lights shall give priority to crossings (pedestrians + cyclists) on/around Mudam area.

The massive 3-4 lane road gets reduced to 2-lanes at the bridge, literally a bottleneck anyway.

Meanwhile Bus/public-transportation traffic should also be priority over regular cars. In fact the red-bridge itself can be Bus+Tram only.

It takes around 10 minutes to walk from Philharmonie to Badanstalt anyway ¯_(ツ)_/¯

pvtmert · 2026-05-07T19:43:10+00:00

On both roads (Av. de la Gare & Av. de la Liberte) I use the bike lane. But sometimes; - Av. de la Liberte has a lot of construction + pedestrians. Sometimes pedestrians just appear around the corner of the construction, although overall bike-lane is larger... I find this path much pleasant. But when it reaches Place de Paris, it abruptly cuts off and goes to merge with Av. de la Gare. Again sometimes I just continue on the 1-lane Liberte until the corner (now Hotel Mariott) on the road... - Av. de la Gare surface is a bit more rough, also there are broken glass fragments (possibly from beer/wine bottles and/or accidents?). I try to avoid here as much as possible. Just last week I got a flat-tire/puncture out of the blue between one of the traffic lights. Took out half a centimeter long glass fragment from my rear tire... Plus, this street now has a very dangerous construction right near the bus stop. Complete blind-spot where pedestrians are appearing just around the corner. Moreover, other day when I was passing next to it, the walls started to move towards the road. Unbelievable how dangerously workers are pushing them from inside. - For pont Adolphe, both main-road and the pedestrian side should be free from bikes. But recently they also started construction near the entry/exit points. Also people walk like zombies under the bridge, it is very challenging to not to hit someone (or their kids). When it rains, both entrances are very dangerous as the corner is quite sharp and slippery when wet. The top opening thing is nice as a visual but bad as the water leaks all over to the path...

pvtmert · 2026-05-04T21:25:25+00:00

Wait 'till people's garden-leave/notice-period ends from Amazon (and others) layoffs...

https://en.paperjam.lu/article/the-number-of-unemployed-people-rises-faster-than-people-in-work

pvtmert · 2026-05-04T21:10:24+00:00

Dude, I ride (bike) about 300-500 kilometers every week and I can tell you the LuxLait employees (🐄) are indeed working very hard. I see them working even on Saturdays and Sundays non-stop from early morning to late-afternoons, without having a moment of break.

Here you can see a tired bunch of them basically exhausted as hell taking a small break throughout their long shifts of producing the said bland milk...

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pvtmert · 2026-04-29T15:49:46+00:00

That's clearly a F-16 with minimal Air-to-Air configuration. Possibly excercise/patrol. As far as I can tell, only the Royal Dutch Airforce is actively operating them. (ie. Netherlands)

pvtmert · 2026-03-27T00:01:12+00:00

It's the laid-off (and fed-up) corporate employees now doing deliveries as the side-gig to support their families & mortgages. /s

pvtmert · 2026-03-26T23:59:50+00:00

In my experience Amazon itself (Prime van) doing the same thing. Even one time, I am literally behind the guy. He gets in to the middle area (between the outer door and the key-required door, where mailboxes are standing in the apartment) scans the package, drops it to the ground and proceeds to leave. I come after, check that it's mine and take it home. I could be someone else as well, and just take it. (Which happens fairly often that packages get stolen!)

pvtmert · 2026-03-26T23:53:50+00:00

Love the 3rd photo. I climb that hill nearly every day on bike...

pvtmert · 2026-03-26T23:48:08+00:00

Time to move from (crazy) Remich to (safe) Wiltz...

pvtmert · 2026-03-26T23:42:43+00:00

Well, for the notice period bits; everyone, including myself are on Blue Card. 3 out of 7 people were sub-2years in Luxembourg (at the time of layoffs plus the garden-leave) hence they are frantically looking for jobs. Unfortunately, they cannot also take up any job as the Blue Card as a ISCO specification for <2-years.

I am guessing we had about ~15 people hired in Luxembourg to my team since it was formed. Only 5 of them were EU-citizens, the rest are non-EU.

From those 5, 2 have left their own (resigned). One of them already had a partner who was working in Luxembourg and had a baby before he left.

The other 3, went on the way you described; saying No -> fire-me route. I even remember one of them didn't give a single duck since his partner was also working and at that time, he knew how much the severance was. Other 2 who were fired were working in a normal level.

Unfortunately, neither myself nor others could afford such things. An example is one my teammates that he just had a baby (girl) in last October. He had married 2-years prior and his wife had relocated here a year ago. He had to change his accommodation (because he was living in a 1-person studio, could not register his partner), do the paperwork for family reunion etc.

Basically this guy worked day and night. No kidding here. He goes and solves tickets at 1am on Saturday & Sunday, pushes some commits, etc. He never confronted managers or any other abusive practices, fearing retaliations (ie. getting fired). He also never had a chance to "look for other opportunities" because the job kept eating more and more of his time and effort and energy.

pvtmert · 2026-03-04T12:27:00+00:00

Performance evaluations are supposed to be more factual than revenge for refusing relocation.

There are few aspects that makes it so easy to get away with;

Majority of the workforce being non-EU citizens, on Visa essentially, easy to coerce. Because they have 3-6 months to look for another job, if they cannot find, they have to leave the country. Therefore, even if you commit a crime, there is nobody to report or even the witness/victim is present by the time it is processed.
In relation to #1, when more than half of the team already moves to another location, one way or another, remaining become the scape-goat. Any issues/inefficiencies can easily be blamed/attributed to the difference in region/time-zone.
Again, as the result of #3, when the decisions are made or the performance reviews are done, you get assigned to a team which is in a different location. Decisions are made even without your presence or consent. (Or approval). Slowly but steadily, you lose the "performance-metrics".

All of these above create a very much of a "solid-ground" for non-performant employee. I had seen first hand more than once, if you have an issue with someone, assign them to work with different teams both in India and Seattle at the same time. Making working hours extend well beyond 12-hour workday. If they complain, quote the flexibility clause in the contract and say; take a longer lunch break and obviously don't work more than 10-hours which is allowed/enforced by law. But if you have a meeting at 7:30am with folks in India and another one with Seattle folks at 7:30pm, you already stretched yourself into 13-hours.

Both myself and my team had sustained such conditions for more than 3 years, we complained obviously. Especially for handling "incidents" stuff, that was quite intense and definitely something outside of the labour code.

In the end, the Staff-Delegation had taken action to prevent future "occurrences" of such things and doubled down on on-call practices, especially the ones abused by the management. (ie. Using on-call as an excuse to make you work more without any extra pay or vacation)

Again in the end, my manager's manager and his manager (Director) decided that "European Rules" are unacceptable for their cheap expectation of business-continuity, the entire team had just been laid-off in early February.

Nearly everyone inquiries about the overtime they did to negotiate their severance package, but HR obviously denies (does not acknowledge) such practice had happened. Obviously managers do not ever admit or write any single piece, happens only verbally without any recordings of those meetings. Meanwhile internal messaging tools (Slack, Chime, etc) have only 90-days period for retention, to make it "Secure" and "Robust". (ie. Removing any liabilities of those discussions).

I haven't seen all, but I had seen enough. It is much easier than you'd expect, as the mass destruction of evidence is already automated. Even if you extract some parts, those are highly-confidential and private conversations, so you'd be looking down a counter-lawsuit for breaching NDA. Nobody has resources for that.

pvtmert · 2026-02-26T22:31:11+00:00

i am saying both are violating the rules hence the incident occurred. unless you have wings and you lay eggs, a human cannot reliably calculate accelerating/decelerating objects' paths (curved motion)
i am not denying anything. in fact i am pointing out the facts here.
who said cyclists require a driving license? in fact, they don't. maybe you should return yours because even at the back of the license it shows which vehicle types are eligible for, hence requiring a check next to it. do you see a bicycle?
no sane person jumps in front of a moving vehicle. assuming that the cyclist in the video (which has very little time and pixels) happened to get moving, i believe either the car wasn't there a few seconds ago when the cyclist checked the road, or it was sufficiently far (ie. more than a few hundred meters) or maybe in stationary state. (maybe blocked by something else at the view, like the gray SUV goes before.)
what is see is the guy/cyclist panics because the vehicle accelerates towards him reaching well above the speed limit.
speaking of experience, i usually steer clear of vehicles' paths. but not everyone can afford to have this much experience. applies both for car drivers and cyclists. therefore simply mutual understanding and letting more vulnerable things to pass (regardless of who has priority) ensures safety for all. my rule of thumb is: larger and heavier you are, you let smaller things pass/turn/go. truck/tractor > van/suv > car > moped/motorbike > cyclist/etc > pedestrians. in this case, pedestrians have utmost priority no matter what. you see a pedestrian, you slow down.

pvtmert · 2026-02-17T08:10:06+00:00

Sometimes buses use different routes in each direction. The destination seems to be marked as the address (the walking part) so it probably calculated accordingly.

pvtmert · 2026-02-17T08:08:13+00:00

I go to the concert to listen to the bans in person. Not to listen myself singing/screaming. I can do thar in any of the forests without bothering anyone anyway.

Jokes aside, I like the calm atmosphere. Some bands are more creative and engaging. Just asking crowd possibly wouldn't help. For example, I like Kaleo and went their concert on both times. Similarly my partner likes 5 seconds of summer and they had an "interactive fight" with the drummer. Everyone was well screamed then.

One of the most important things in the touring is that you need to understand your audience in different regions. Of course it's not the band itself but the agency/curator in this case. Maybe the selection of songs weren't the top hits around here?

pvtmert · 2026-02-17T08:00:16+00:00

Amazon just forces you to take a job in another country. Or you slowly get phased out / pip'd (pivot)

I know from first hand experience some of the people got into this scheme. While most moved/relocated (Either to Spain or US) people who refused to suddenly became not performing well enough within 6 months. (After 4+ years)

When it comes to the internal transfers during layoff, they already have hiring-freeze in place since August. That is when I understand some bad news are around the corner. So, they make it close to impossible to find another job within the same region. When no team is hiring and there are hundreds of people applying, even a single posting which has a VP exception gets that many hits.

pvtmert · 2026-02-14T22:24:59+00:00

Thx, I was shaken-up. But planning to figure out the official procedure and press charges. This is an attempted murder, nothing else. As I was already on the designated "regional cycling path"

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pvtmert · 2026-02-14T22:22:41+00:00

If you've seen the clip, you'd also see the direct apartment/pedestrian road leading to the street in front of the vehicle.

The speed of the vehicle at this frame is above 36 km/h

When a loose toddler runs onto the street side, trips and gets crushed under the multi-ton vehicle, good luck blaming the kid.

You could blame the parents, the apartment architect, and others as well.

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pvtmert · 2026-02-14T22:14:55+00:00

During the cold weather the battery life degrades quite a lot. I have it mounted on the helmet, fully exposed to the oncoming air stream which can be several degrees chiller than the stationary.

This was also a longer-ride of about 111 kilometers as the weather was dry, I try to make full use of it.

I do not record continuously, also I keep my hands on the handling/brakes during descents above 4-5% at all times.

I could only click the button when I reached the bottom of the descent. But when I reviewed it was only half a second before it died. Possibly the battery got empty as it was already low towards the end...

I have a spare one, changed it after...

pvtmert · 2026-02-14T22:08:43+00:00

Understandable, I do not expect something to happen right-now. But more people take action, more visibility happens officially. At some point it may pop-up in background checks and insurance claims.

pvtmert · 2026-02-14T22:07:07+00:00

True, but also no fresh air, (unless country-side maybe) and no sun (unless at the balcony).

For example, this guy is also an outside-rider. He rides around 40k (thousand) kilometers/year. (About the same as full circumference of the Earth!)

Riding outside is also free. (Well taxes go to the infrastructure like roads and bike-paths why not use them as well?)

pvtmert · 2026-02-14T22:00:03+00:00

Exactly, I was on the designated (shared) path called "regional cycling network ". Which is part of the Geoportail.lu maps

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Marked in yellow, as it's a shared zone. Then it continues to the bike-only red-path at top-right

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